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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 194 412
Rank change year-on-year -101 +218 +60
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 551 688 553
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.65% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.77% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 338 325 413
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -0.74%
75th Percentile £73,938 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,625 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -8.33%

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 65,473 38,805 81,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.33% 92.93% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40,444 22,598 59,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -113 458 £60,000 -4.00% 303
UK excluding London -68 350 £58,750 +2.17% 233
London -75 154 £70,000 -6.67% 107
Work from Home -43 138 £66,500 +15.65% 95
North of England -41 126 £60,000 +4.35% 68
North West -9 90 £60,000 +4.35% 35
Midlands -58 69 £57,500 - 37
South East -79 53 £50,000 -17.70% 57
West Midlands -46 50 £57,500 - 16
Scotland -32 36 £35,250 -67.95% 7
Yorkshire -51 27 £83,750 +45.65% 24
East of England -29 23 £60,000 +11.63% 27
East Midlands -52 19 £37,500 -34.78% 21
South West -80 19 £70,000 +38.61% 31
Northern Ireland - 18 £77,500 - 4
North East -27 9 £67,749 +17.82% 10
Wales -21 8 £42,500 -46.88% 7

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 21 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.36%) CMS
4 11 (2.00%) Apache
4 11 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.81%) Confluence
6 5 (0.91%) IIS
6 5 (0.91%) nginx
6 5 (0.91%) SAS
7 4 (0.73%) Appian
7 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
8 2 (0.36%) MTS
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 39 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.09%) Trello
4 5 (0.91%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.91%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.81%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.45%) Shopify
3 6 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.36%) Primavera
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 117 (21.23%) Power Platform
2 87 (15.79%) Azure
3 62 (11.25%) AWS
4 35 (6.35%) SaaS
5 27 (4.90%) GCP
6 24 (4.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (3.09%) GitHub
8 13 (2.36%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.81%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.63%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.45%) Asana
11 8 (1.45%) Google Analytics
11 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.45%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.45%) Serverless
12 7 (1.27%) dbt
13 6 (1.09%) Figma
13 6 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.09%) Broadband
1 6 (1.09%) Wireless
2 3 (0.54%) Modbus
2 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.36%) Intranet
4 1 (0.18%) ADSL
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (21.23%) Power BI
2 70 (12.70%) Tableau
3 43 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.54%) Metadata
5 23 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 20 (3.63%) Power Query
7 19 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (2.72%) Big Data
9 14 (2.54%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (2.00%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.81%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (1.63%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
13 9 (1.63%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.63%) Star Schema
14 7 (1.27%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (5.26%) JIRA
2 21 (3.81%) Git
2 21 (3.81%) Postman
3 7 (1.27%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.91%) MSI
4 5 (0.91%) Vite
5 4 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.36%) MLflow
6 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 217 (39.38%) Social Skills
2 209 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (21.60%) Finance
4 65 (11.80%) Law
4 65 (11.80%) Marketing
5 35 (6.35%) Legal
6 32 (5.81%) Retail
7 29 (5.26%) Games
7 29 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 28 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (4.72%) Military
9 26 (4.72%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.54%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (4.17%) Back Office
12 21 (3.81%) Manufacturing
13 17 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (2.72%) Banking
16 9 (1.63%) Billing
17 8 (1.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 113 (20.51%) Senior
2 93 (16.88%) Analyst
3 89 (16.15%) Lead
4 54 (9.80%) Data Engineer
5 38 (6.90%) Senior Manager
6 36 (6.53%) Data Analyst
7 32 (5.81%) Architect
8 23 (4.17%) Developer
9 20 (3.63%) Product Manager
9 20 (3.63%) Senior Architect
10 17 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 17 (3.09%) Data Manager
11 16 (2.90%) Innovation Manager
11 16 (2.90%) Performance Analyst
12 15 (2.72%) Data Scientist
13 13 (2.36%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.36%) Product Owner
14 12 (2.18%) Business Developer
15 10 (1.81%) Performance Manager
15 10 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.45%) OpenAPI
1 19 (3.45%) RESTful
1 19 (3.45%) Swagger
2 15 (2.72%) Kafka
3 14 (2.54%) REST
4 9 (1.63%) .NET
4 9 (1.63%) JSON
4 9 (1.63%) Node.js
5 8 (1.45%) CSS
5 8 (1.45%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.45%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.09%) HTML
6 6 (1.09%) React
6 6 (1.09%) scikit-learn
6 6 (1.09%) Vue
7 5 (0.91%) GraphQL
7 5 (0.91%) Laravel
7 5 (0.91%) LEMP Stack
7 5 (0.91%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 32 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.36%) Data Structures
4 22 (3.99%) Cloud Native
5 21 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (3.09%) Algorithms
8 14 (2.54%) Social Media
9 11 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.27%) NHS
12 7 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.09%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.91%) Replication
15 4 (0.73%) e-Learning
15 4 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.63%) Linux
2 7 (1.27%) Windows
3 2 (0.36%) zOS
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (77.50%) Decision-Making
2 288 (52.27%) Analytics
3 159 (28.86%) Business Intelligence
4 146 (26.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 130 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (22.50%) Agile
7 120 (21.78%) AI
8 93 (16.88%) ETL
9 91 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 87 (15.79%) Data Modelling
10 87 (15.79%) Roadmaps
11 85 (15.43%) Data Governance
12 81 (14.70%) Visualisation
13 74 (13.43%) Data Analysis
14 73 (13.25%) Actionable Insight
15 62 (11.25%) Data Science
16 55 (9.98%) CI/CD
16 55 (9.98%) Data Pipeline
17 53 (9.62%) Project Management
18 50 (9.07%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 154 (27.95%) SQL
2 103 (18.69%) Python
3 19 (3.45%) R
4 17 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (3.09%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.90%) Java
6 15 (2.72%) Bash
7 13 (2.36%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.63%) Scala
9 6 (1.09%) PHP
9 6 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.91%) Go
11 4 (0.73%) C#
12 3 (0.54%) VBA
13 2 (0.36%) COBOL
13 2 (0.36%) JCL
13 2 (0.36%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.18%) SHACL
14 1 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 91 (16.52%) Degree
2 29 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 28 (5.08%) PMP
4 16 (2.90%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.27%) MBA
9 6 (1.09%) ACCA
9 6 (1.09%) CIMA
10 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.91%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.91%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.54%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.36%) HND
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (15.43%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.90%) GDPR
2 16 (2.90%) QA
3 10 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.63%) SLA
5 8 (1.45%) PMO
6 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.54%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.54%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (2.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) RACF
Systems Management
1 19 (3.45%) Terraform
2 11 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.27%) Ansible
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Autotask
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 64 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.17%) Databricks
3 27 (4.90%) SAP
4 24 (4.36%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.81%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.63%) Genesys
6 20 (3.63%) Verint
7 18 (3.27%) Google
8 15 (2.72%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.00%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.09%) Botify
11 5 (0.91%) BT
11 5 (0.91%) Foundry
11 5 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.91%) Oracle
12 4 (0.73%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.54%) Informatica
13 3 (0.54%) Pardot
13 3 (0.54%) Sage
14 2 (0.36%) Mercator