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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 215 421
Rank change year-on-year -122 +206 +46
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 512 711 593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.59% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.71% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 366 312 422
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,093 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,550 £50,580 £46,435
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,743 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% +10.44% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.53% +9.42% -4.45%

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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £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 £92,000
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 19 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 19 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 -113 463 £60,000 -1.93% 261
UK excluding London -79 343 £53,171 -7.53% 175
North of England +8 143 £57,500 - 42
Work from Home -44 142 £57,500 - 132
London -136 125 £80,000 +6.67% 125
North West +46 118 £57,500 - 26
Midlands -24 82 £48,000 -16.52% 36
West Midlands -16 58 £49,928 -13.17% 20
South East -58 54 £50,000 -23.08% 49
East of England -12 29 £60,000 +37.93% 10
East Midlands -29 24 £37,500 -34.78% 16
Yorkshire -48 20 £47,500 -17.39% 11
South West -84 16 £70,000 +50.54% 26
Scotland -14 15 £32,500 -60.61% 5
Wales -43 6 £52,835 -33.96% 4
North East -40 5 £43,999 -23.48% 6

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 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.15%) 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 (0.20%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 42 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.78%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.95%) SAP PM
2 6 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.78%) Shopify
5 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.39%) Primavera
7 1 (0.20%) FastStats
7 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.20%) SAP BRIM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 103 (20.12%) Azure
2 89 (17.38%) Power Platform
3 61 (11.91%) AWS
4 34 (6.64%) GCP
5 33 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (5.86%) SaaS
7 10 (1.95%) Amazon S3
7 10 (1.95%) GitHub
8 9 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (1.76%) Serverless
9 8 (1.56%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.37%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.17%) dbt
11 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.17%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.17%) Broadband
2 4 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.59%) Intranet
3 3 (0.59%) Modbus
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) MQTT
4 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.20%) WebEx
4 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (17.38%) Power BI
2 53 (10.35%) Tableau
3 49 (9.57%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.71%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.71%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.52%) Metadata
7 13 (2.54%) Power Query
8 11 (2.15%) Star Schema
9 10 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.95%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.76%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.76%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.56%) Big Data
11 8 (1.56%) Looker
11 8 (1.56%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.37%) MySQL
13 6 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 21 (4.10%) Git
2 18 (3.52%) JIRA
3 16 (3.13%) Postman
4 6 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.78%) Vite
6 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 182 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 149 (29.10%) Analytical Skills
3 108 (21.09%) Finance
4 61 (11.91%) Law
5 55 (10.74%) Marketing
6 36 (7.03%) Telecoms
7 35 (6.84%) Legal
8 34 (6.64%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (6.64%) Public Sector
9 26 (5.08%) Military
10 25 (4.88%) Back Office
10 25 (4.88%) Manufacturing
11 22 (4.30%) Retail
12 19 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.95%) Banking
15 9 (1.76%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.76%) Billing
15 9 (1.76%) Games
16 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (18.36%) Senior
2 91 (17.77%) Analyst
3 77 (15.04%) Lead
4 55 (10.74%) Data Engineer
5 37 (7.23%) Data Analyst
6 31 (6.05%) Developer
7 20 (3.91%) Architect
7 20 (3.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 20 (3.91%) Product Owner
8 18 (3.52%) Performance Analyst
9 16 (3.13%) Data Manager
9 16 (3.13%) Senior Manager
10 15 (2.93%) Data Architect
10 15 (2.93%) Data Scientist
10 15 (2.93%) Microsoft Engineer
11 14 (2.73%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (2.54%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (2.54%) Product Manager
13 10 (1.95%) Business Developer
13 10 (1.95%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.69%) Kafka
2 18 (3.52%) .NET
3 14 (2.73%) OpenAPI
3 14 (2.73%) RESTful
3 14 (2.73%) Swagger
4 11 (2.15%) REST
5 10 (1.95%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.76%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.76%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.76%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.76%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.17%) Node.js
8 5 (0.98%) CSS
8 5 (0.98%) HTML
8 5 (0.98%) JSON
8 5 (0.98%) Spring
8 5 (0.98%) Vue
8 5 (0.98%) YAML
9 4 (0.78%) React
9 4 (0.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (7.42%) Product Ownership
2 36 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.10%) Data Structures
5 16 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.73%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.95%) Social Media
10 7 (1.37%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.17%) Replication
11 6 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.98%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.78%) IoT
13 4 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.95%) Linux
2 4 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (71.09%) Decision-Making
2 258 (50.39%) Analytics
3 127 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
4 121 (23.63%) Agile
5 118 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
6 107 (20.90%) AI
7 101 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 91 (17.77%) Roadmaps
9 87 (16.99%) Data Governance
10 85 (16.60%) Data Modelling
11 78 (15.23%) ETL
12 70 (13.67%) Visualisation
13 63 (12.30%) CI/CD
14 61 (11.91%) Data Pipeline
15 59 (11.52%) Data Analysis
15 59 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 57 (11.13%) Actionable Insight
17 50 (9.77%) DevOps
18 49 (9.57%) Mentoring
18 49 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 132 (25.78%) SQL
2 85 (16.60%) Python
3 21 (4.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 21 (4.10%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.73%) C#
4 14 (2.73%) R
5 12 (2.34%) T-SQL
6 11 (2.15%) Bash
6 11 (2.15%) Java
6 11 (2.15%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.37%) Scala
8 4 (0.78%) PHP
9 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.59%) VBA
10 2 (0.39%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.39%) Ruby
11 1 (0.20%) Bicep
11 1 (0.20%) C++
11 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (11.13%) Degree
2 23 (4.49%) Security Cleared
3 11 (2.15%) Master's Degree
3 11 (2.15%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.95%) ACCA
4 10 (1.95%) CIMA
5 7 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (0.98%) Azure Certification
6 5 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.78%) MBA
8 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.59%) CSPO
9 2 (0.39%) HND
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.20%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (15.43%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.27%) GDPR
3 17 (3.32%) QA
4 12 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.17%) PMO
5 6 (1.17%) SLA
6 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.59%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (2.54%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) IAG
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.88%) Terraform
2 17 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.59%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Autotask
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 74 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.66%) SAP
3 25 (4.88%) Databricks
4 18 (3.52%) Google
5 12 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.37%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.17%) Botify
7 6 (1.17%) Foundry
8 5 (0.98%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.98%) Oracle
9 4 (0.78%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.59%) Pardot
10 3 (0.59%) Sage
10 3 (0.59%) 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