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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 217 427
Rank change year-on-year -112 +210 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 523 706 552
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.60% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.72% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 355 319 405
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,745 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,823 £51,250 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £94,500 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,925 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.96% +9.42% -12.04%

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 67,959 41,142 82,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.29% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43,928 22,326 59,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,269 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +5.94% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -98 458 £60,000 -4.00% 273
UK excluding London -63 339 £52,925 -7.96% 195
London -105 137 £72,500 -3.33% 127
North of England -4 133 £60,000 +4.35% 52
Work from Home -32 128 £57,500 - 98
North West +34 102 £60,000 +4.35% 25
Midlands -36 74 £47,500 -17.39% 26
South East -51 54 £50,000 -17.70% 53
West Midlands -41 52 £48,500 -15.65% 11
East of England -7 31 £60,000 +14.29% 18
Yorkshire -49 24 £61,875 +7.61% 21
East Midlands -27 22 £37,500 -38.78% 15
Scotland -22 17 £32,500 -68.29% 11
South West -92 15 £73,750 +55.26% 27
Wales -17 12 £42,500 -46.88% 8
North East -36 7 £67,749 +17.82% 7
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 3

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 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.10%) CMS
4 10 (1.91%) Apache
4 10 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.96%) IIS
6 4 (0.76%) Confluence
6 4 (0.76%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.76%) nginx
7 2 (0.38%) Appian
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.76%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) SPSS
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.91%) SAP PM
2 5 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.96%) Shopify
3 4 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.19%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 108 (20.65%) Power Platform
2 94 (17.97%) Azure
3 63 (12.05%) AWS
4 34 (6.50%) SaaS
5 29 (5.54%) GCP
6 28 (5.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (2.29%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
8 10 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.72%) GitHub
9 9 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.53%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.34%) dbt
11 7 (1.34%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.34%) Serverless
12 5 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (0.96%) Figma
12 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.96%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.15%) Broadband
1 6 (1.15%) Wireless
2 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.57%) Modbus
4 2 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (20.65%) Power BI
2 71 (13.58%) Tableau
3 43 (8.22%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (4.02%) SQL Server
6 19 (3.63%) Metadata
7 15 (2.87%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.68%) Big Data
9 13 (2.49%) Power Query
10 12 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (2.10%) NoSQL
11 11 (2.10%) Star Schema
12 10 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (1.72%) Apache Iceberg
13 9 (1.72%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (1.53%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
14 8 (1.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (3.63%) Git
2 17 (3.25%) Postman
3 15 (2.87%) JIRA
4 5 (0.96%) MSI
5 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.76%) Vite
6 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.38%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 172 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 169 (32.31%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (21.22%) Finance
4 64 (12.24%) Law
5 56 (10.71%) Marketing
6 35 (6.69%) Telecoms
7 30 (5.74%) Legal
8 29 (5.54%) Games
9 26 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (4.97%) Military
10 25 (4.78%) Public Sector
11 23 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (4.40%) Retail
12 20 (3.82%) Back Office
13 19 (3.63%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.72%) Billing
17 8 (1.53%) Aerospace
18 7 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 113 (21.61%) Senior
2 87 (16.63%) Analyst
3 84 (16.06%) Lead
4 58 (11.09%) Data Engineer
5 38 (7.27%) Senior Manager
6 36 (6.88%) Data Analyst
7 34 (6.50%) Architect
8 25 (4.78%) Developer
9 20 (3.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 20 (3.82%) Senior Architect
10 15 (2.87%) Microsoft Engineer
11 14 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (2.68%) Product Owner
12 13 (2.49%) Data Scientist
12 13 (2.49%) Product Manager
13 12 (2.29%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.29%) Data Manager
13 12 (2.29%) Performance Analyst
13 12 (2.29%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (2.10%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.59%) Kafka
2 17 (3.25%) .NET
3 15 (2.87%) OpenAPI
3 15 (2.87%) RESTful
3 15 (2.87%) Swagger
4 12 (2.29%) REST
5 9 (1.72%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.53%) ASP.NET
6 8 (1.53%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (1.53%) ASP.NET Web API
6 8 (1.53%) Entity Framework
7 7 (1.34%) CSS
7 7 (1.34%) Node.js
8 6 (1.15%) Middleware
9 5 (0.96%) HTML
9 5 (0.96%) JSON
9 5 (0.96%) Play Framework
9 5 (0.96%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.96%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.54%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.35%) Management Information System
2 28 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.21%) Data Structures
4 20 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.87%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.29%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.91%) Social Media
10 7 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.15%) Replication
12 5 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.76%) IoT
13 4 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.72%) Linux
2 4 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (74.76%) Decision-Making
2 257 (49.14%) Analytics
3 150 (28.68%) Business Intelligence
4 128 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (24.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 121 (23.14%) Agile
7 99 (18.93%) AI
8 81 (15.49%) ETL
8 81 (15.49%) Roadmaps
9 79 (15.11%) Data Governance
9 79 (15.11%) Data Modelling
10 70 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 68 (13.00%) Visualisation
12 65 (12.43%) Actionable Insight
13 64 (12.24%) Data Analysis
14 61 (11.66%) CI/CD
15 56 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (9.94%) Data Science
17 50 (9.56%) DevOps
18 49 (9.37%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 134 (25.62%) SQL
2 95 (18.16%) Python
3 22 (4.21%) JavaScript
4 21 (4.02%) R
5 20 (3.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (3.06%) Java
7 14 (2.68%) Bash
8 13 (2.49%) T-SQL
9 12 (2.29%) C#
9 12 (2.29%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.91%) Scala
11 4 (0.76%) PHP
12 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.57%) VBA
13 2 (0.38%) Go
14 1 (0.19%) Bicep
14 1 (0.19%) C++
14 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.19%) SHACL
14 1 (0.19%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 74 (14.15%) Degree
2 22 (4.21%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.02%) PMI Certification
3 21 (4.02%) PMP
4 10 (1.91%) ACCA
4 10 (1.91%) CIMA
4 10 (1.91%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.34%) MBA
7 5 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.38%) HND
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (15.11%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.82%) GDPR
3 16 (3.06%) QA
4 10 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.53%) PMO
6 7 (1.34%) SLA
7 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.57%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.38%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 12 (2.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.78%) Terraform
2 17 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.96%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 64 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.35%) SAP
3 26 (4.97%) Databricks
4 24 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.82%) Anaplan
5 20 (3.82%) Genesys
5 20 (3.82%) Verint
6 17 (3.25%) Google
7 13 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.91%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.15%) Botify
9 6 (1.15%) Oracle
10 5 (0.96%) BT
11 4 (0.76%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.76%) Foundry
12 3 (0.57%) Freshdesk
12 3 (0.57%) Informatica
12 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.57%) Pardot
12 3 (0.57%) Sage