Data-Driven Decision Making Job Trends

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 332 375
Rank change year-on-year +106 +43 +143
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 582 438 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.82% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.91% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 243 255 308
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,263 £34,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £56,275
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.50% -6.21%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Data-Driven Decision Making falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,315 48,345 50,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.62% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,473 23,469 38,401
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data-Driven Decision Making job vacancy trend in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making within the UK over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +76 441 £65,000 - 338
UK excluding London +134 400 £57,500 -4.17% 309
South East +91 157 £55,000 +1.62% 91
London +31 145 £72,500 -17.14% 80
Work from Home +53 102 £67,000 +3.08% 100
Scotland +60 76 £46,428 -44.15% 14
North of England +20 55 £60,000 -7.69% 59
Midlands +14 46 £57,500 -4.17% 52
West Midlands +16 42 £65,000 +8.33% 27
North West +14 30 £55,000 -15.38% 29
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 7
Yorkshire -5 19 £71,250 -13.64% 23
South West +8 17 £73,250 +17.20% 37
Wales +16 14 £43,750 -45.31% 11
East of England +23 13 £52,500 -44.44% 44
North East +8 6 - - 8
East Midlands -12 4 £39,449 -53.32% 24

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.75%) Confluence
2 13 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.55%) Apache
4 8 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.03%) SAS
6 5 (0.86%) CMS
6 5 (0.86%) IIS
7 4 (0.69%) Appian
7 4 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.52%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.34%) MTS
10 1 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 82 (14.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.55%) Trello
5 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.69%) Windchill
7 3 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 44 (7.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.41%) Shopify
3 7 (1.20%) SAP CO
3 7 (1.20%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.69%) Magento
5 4 (0.69%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.52%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (23.20%) Power Platform
2 79 (13.57%) SaaS
3 70 (12.03%) Azure
4 52 (8.93%) AWS
5 19 (3.26%) GCP
6 18 (3.09%) GitHub
7 17 (2.92%) Snowflake
8 14 (2.41%) Google Analytics
8 14 (2.41%) Serverless
9 13 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (2.06%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (1.55%) Asana
14 8 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
14 8 (1.37%) PaaS
15 7 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (1.03%) dbt
16 6 (1.03%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.03%) Wireless
2 1 (0.17%) 5G
2 1 (0.17%) ADSL
2 1 (0.17%) BGP
2 1 (0.17%) Broadband
2 1 (0.17%) DHCP
2 1 (0.17%) DNS
2 1 (0.17%) Firewall
2 1 (0.17%) Internet
2 1 (0.17%) LAN
2 1 (0.17%) Network Security
2 1 (0.17%) OSPF
2 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.17%) VLAN
2 1 (0.17%) VPN
2 1 (0.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (22.85%) Power BI
2 64 (11.00%) Tableau
3 44 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.95%) Metadata
5 22 (3.78%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.92%) Power Query
7 14 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (2.23%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.06%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
10 9 (1.55%) Looker
11 8 (1.37%) Big Data
11 8 (1.37%) Data Mining
11 8 (1.37%) SAP BW
11 8 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.20%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 61 (10.48%) JIRA
2 40 (6.87%) Git
3 26 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.72%) Postman
5 6 (1.03%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.86%) MSI
7 4 (0.69%) Toad
8 3 (0.52%) Vite
9 2 (0.34%) MLflow
10 1 (0.17%) GitLab
10 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 317 (54.47%) Social Skills
2 232 (39.86%) Analytical Skills
3 172 (29.55%) Finance
4 84 (14.43%) Marketing
5 40 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (5.84%) Law
7 33 (5.67%) Legal
7 33 (5.67%) Retail
8 28 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (4.47%) Public Sector
10 23 (3.95%) Manufacturing
11 22 (3.78%) Games
12 16 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.06%) Banking
15 8 (1.37%) Military
15 8 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.03%) Local Government
16 6 (1.03%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 97 (16.67%) Lead
2 82 (14.09%) Analyst
2 82 (14.09%) Senior
3 64 (11.00%) Innovation Manager
4 46 (7.90%) Senior Manager
5 42 (7.22%) Architect
6 33 (5.67%) Data Engineer
7 28 (4.81%) Data Analyst
8 20 (3.44%) Senior Architect
9 18 (3.09%) Developer
9 18 (3.09%) Product Manager
10 16 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 15 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (2.41%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.23%) Data Manager
14 12 (2.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 12 (2.06%) Digital Product Manager
14 12 (2.06%) Product Owner
15 10 (1.72%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 10 (1.72%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.58%) REST
2 12 (2.06%) React
3 11 (1.89%) OpenAPI
3 11 (1.89%) Swagger
4 10 (1.72%) Middleware
4 10 (1.72%) RESTful
4 10 (1.72%) Vue
5 9 (1.55%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.37%) AngularJS
6 8 (1.37%) JSON
6 8 (1.37%) Kafka
6 8 (1.37%) TensorFlow
7 7 (1.20%) CSS
7 7 (1.20%) scikit-learn
8 5 (0.86%) HTML
8 5 (0.86%) Pandas
8 5 (0.86%) Play Framework
9 4 (0.69%) Django
9 4 (0.69%) FastAPI
9 4 (0.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.70%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.50%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.55%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.55%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.55%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.55%) Social Media
9 7 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.86%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.86%) NHS
11 5 (0.86%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.69%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (0.69%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.55%) Windows
2 4 (0.69%) Unix
2 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.52%) Linux
4 2 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (77.32%) Decision-Making
2 271 (46.56%) Analytics
3 212 (36.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 167 (28.69%) Business Intelligence
5 156 (26.80%) AI
6 148 (25.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 125 (21.48%) Agile
7 125 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (18.56%) Data Modelling
9 95 (16.32%) Roadmaps
10 92 (15.81%) Customer Experience
11 88 (15.12%) Data Analysis
12 85 (14.60%) ERP
13 72 (12.37%) ETL
14 69 (11.86%) Visualisation
15 67 (11.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 66 (11.34%) Actionable Insight
17 64 (11.00%) Strategic Thinking
18 59 (10.14%) Data Governance
19 56 (9.62%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 133 (22.85%) SQL
2 90 (15.46%) Python
3 19 (3.26%) JavaScript
4 18 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.92%) R
6 11 (1.89%) Java
7 9 (1.55%) Bash
7 9 (1.55%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.03%) Scala
9 5 (0.86%) Go
9 5 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.69%) PHP
10 4 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.69%) VB
11 2 (0.34%) ABAP
11 2 (0.34%) COBOL
11 2 (0.34%) JCL
12 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.17%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 202 (34.71%) Degree
2 58 (9.97%) Master's Degree
3 44 (7.56%) MBA
4 35 (6.01%) Security Cleared
5 32 (5.50%) PMI Certification
6 31 (5.33%) PMP
7 12 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (1.89%) SC Cleared
9 7 (1.20%) ACCA
9 7 (1.20%) CIMA
9 7 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.86%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (17.18%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.53%) QA
3 26 (4.47%) Def Stans
4 24 (4.12%) GDPR
5 14 (2.41%) SLA
6 12 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.55%) PMO
8 6 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.34%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.17%) GAAP
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (2.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.03%) Terraform
3 4 (0.69%) Ansible
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (15.64%) SAP
2 72 (12.37%) Microsoft
3 31 (5.33%) Databricks
4 26 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.61%) Anaplan
5 21 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.44%) Genesys
6 20 (3.44%) Verint
7 18 (3.09%) Google
8 9 (1.55%) Oracle
9 8 (1.37%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.86%) BT
10 5 (0.86%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.69%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.69%) NEC
11 4 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.69%) Workday
12 3 (0.52%) Ariba
12 3 (0.52%) Mercator
12 3 (0.52%) Sage