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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 220 436
Rank change year-on-year -124 +216 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 513 716 591
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.59% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.72% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 370 313 419
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,186 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,775 £50,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +10.44% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,875 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.53% +9.42% -2.28%

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 69,167 41,647 89,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 92.28% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 47,650 22,422 63,265
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,145
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

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 22 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 16 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 22 June 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 -96 463 £60,000 -1.58% 324
UK excluding London -86 343 £53,171 -7.53% 229
North of England +8 145 £57,500 - 50
Work from Home -45 144 £58,750 +2.17% 134
London -128 125 £80,000 +6.67% 146
North West +46 118 £57,500 - 26
Midlands -33 82 £48,000 -16.52% 45
West Midlands -18 58 £49,928 -13.17% 23
South East -62 52 £50,000 -23.08% 66
East of England -10 29 £60,000 +37.93% 19
East Midlands -28 24 £37,500 -34.78% 21
Yorkshire -37 21 £51,250 -10.87% 17
South West -92 16 £70,000 +50.54% 31
Scotland -13 15 £32,500 -60.61% 9
Wales -41 6 £52,835 -33.96% 6
North East -47 6 £45,497 -20.87% 8

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 17 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.14%) CMS
3 10 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.56%) Apache
4 8 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.56%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.78%) nginx
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 42 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.78%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.95%) SAP PM
2 6 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.78%) Shopify
5 2 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.39%) Primavera
5 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) FastStats
6 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 102 (19.88%) Azure
2 89 (17.35%) Power Platform
3 60 (11.70%) AWS
4 34 (6.63%) GCP
5 33 (6.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (5.85%) SaaS
7 11 (2.14%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.95%) GitHub
8 10 (1.95%) Serverless
9 9 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (1.56%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.17%) dbt
12 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (1.17%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.17%) Broadband
2 4 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.58%) Intranet
3 3 (0.58%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) MQTT
4 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.19%) WebEx
4 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (17.35%) Power BI
2 52 (10.14%) Tableau
3 50 (9.75%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.70%) Metadata
5 19 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.53%) Power Query
7 12 (2.34%) BigQuery
8 11 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.14%) Star Schema
9 9 (1.75%) Looker
9 9 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.56%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.36%) Big Data
11 7 (1.36%) MySQL
12 6 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 21 (4.09%) Git
2 18 (3.51%) JIRA
3 16 (3.12%) Postman
4 6 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.78%) Vite
6 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 184 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 150 (29.24%) Analytical Skills
3 107 (20.86%) Finance
4 60 (11.70%) Law
5 52 (10.14%) Marketing
6 36 (7.02%) Legal
6 36 (7.02%) Telecoms
7 35 (6.82%) Public Sector
8 34 (6.63%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (5.07%) Military
10 25 (4.87%) Back Office
10 25 (4.87%) Manufacturing
11 23 (4.48%) Retail
12 19 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.95%) Banking
15 9 (1.75%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.75%) Billing
15 9 (1.75%) Games
16 4 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 93 (18.13%) Senior
2 91 (17.74%) Analyst
3 77 (15.01%) Lead
4 55 (10.72%) Data Engineer
5 37 (7.21%) Data Analyst
6 31 (6.04%) Developer
7 20 (3.90%) Architect
7 20 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 20 (3.90%) Product Owner
8 18 (3.51%) Performance Analyst
9 16 (3.12%) Data Manager
9 16 (3.12%) Senior Manager
10 15 (2.92%) Data Architect
10 15 (2.92%) Data Scientist
10 15 (2.92%) Microsoft Engineer
11 14 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (2.53%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (2.53%) Product Manager
13 11 (2.14%) Performance Manager
14 10 (1.95%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.68%) Kafka
2 18 (3.51%) .NET
3 14 (2.73%) OpenAPI
3 14 (2.73%) RESTful
3 14 (2.73%) Swagger
4 11 (2.14%) REST
5 10 (1.95%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.75%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.75%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.75%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.17%) Node.js
8 5 (0.97%) CSS
8 5 (0.97%) HTML
8 5 (0.97%) JSON
8 5 (0.97%) Spring
8 5 (0.97%) Vue
8 5 (0.97%) YAML
9 4 (0.78%) Laravel
9 4 (0.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.68%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.09%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.53%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.95%) Social Media
9 7 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.17%) Replication
10 6 (1.17%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.97%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (0.78%) IoT
12 4 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.95%) Linux
2 4 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (71.15%) Decision-Making
2 258 (50.29%) Analytics
3 127 (24.76%) Business Intelligence
4 121 (23.59%) Agile
5 116 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
6 106 (20.66%) AI
7 103 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 92 (17.93%) Roadmaps
9 89 (17.35%) Data Governance
10 87 (16.96%) Data Modelling
11 79 (15.40%) ETL
12 69 (13.45%) Visualisation
13 63 (12.28%) CI/CD
14 62 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
14 62 (12.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 59 (11.50%) Data Analysis
16 56 (10.92%) Actionable Insight
17 51 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 50 (9.75%) DevOps
18 50 (9.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 132 (25.73%) SQL
2 85 (16.57%) Python
3 21 (4.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 21 (4.09%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.73%) C#
5 12 (2.34%) R
5 12 (2.34%) T-SQL
6 11 (2.14%) Bash
6 11 (2.14%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.95%) Java
8 6 (1.17%) Scala
9 4 (0.78%) PHP
10 3 (0.58%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.58%) VBA
11 2 (0.39%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.39%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.19%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (10.72%) Degree
2 24 (4.68%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.34%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.95%) ACCA
4 10 (1.95%) CIMA
4 10 (1.95%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
6 5 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.58%) CSPO
8 3 (0.58%) MBA
9 2 (0.39%) HND
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.19%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (15.59%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.46%) GDPR
3 17 (3.31%) QA
4 12 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.17%) PMO
5 6 (1.17%) SLA
6 5 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (2.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.87%) Terraform
2 17 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.58%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.65%) SAP
3 25 (4.87%) Databricks
4 19 (3.70%) Google
5 11 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.36%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.17%) Botify
7 6 (1.17%) Foundry
8 5 (0.97%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.97%) Oracle
9 4 (0.78%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.58%) Pardot
10 3 (0.58%) Sage
10 3 (0.58%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.39%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.39%) Cognos
11 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.39%) NEC
11 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.39%) Splunk