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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 210 399
Rank change year-on-year -120 +189 +91
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 598 768 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.55% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.73% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 422 336 327
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,939 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,490 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +8.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% - +10.00%

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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -84 548 £57,500 -4.17% 497
UK excluding London -92 400 £52,589 -4.38% 253
North of England +21 186 £52,500 -8.70% 69
Work from Home -55 155 £52,500 -8.70% 164
London -90 154 £75,000 - 293
North West +49 142 £55,000 -4.35% 35
Midlands -32 93 £51,356 -10.69% 38
South East -82 63 £50,000 -7.16% 73
West Midlands -32 56 £51,356 -10.69% 25
East Midlands -14 37 £52,500 -8.70% 13
Yorkshire -32 32 £42,500 -26.09% 22
East of England -20 30 £60,000 +37.93% 20
South West -92 14 £60,000 +31.15% 28
North East -43 12 £68,750 +19.57% 12
Scotland -60 8 £55,000 -21.43% 12
Wales -50 6 £53,171 -18.20% 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 8 (1.34%) CMS
1 8 (1.34%) Confluence
1 8 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.50%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.33%) Apache
4 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.17%) nginx
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.34%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.33%) Primavera
4 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.17%) FastStats
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 110 (18.39%) Power Platform
2 96 (16.05%) Azure
3 68 (11.37%) AWS
4 37 (6.19%) GCP
5 28 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 28 (4.68%) SaaS
6 20 (3.34%) Snowflake
7 15 (2.51%) Serverless
8 12 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (2.01%) GitHub
8 12 (2.01%) Google Analytics
8 12 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (1.84%) dbt
9 11 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.34%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.50%) Broadband
2 3 (0.50%) Intranet
2 3 (0.50%) Modbus
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.17%) MQTT
3 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.17%) WebEx
3 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (18.39%) Power BI
2 59 (9.87%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (8.86%) Tableau
4 23 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.51%) BigQuery
6 19 (3.18%) Looker
6 19 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (3.01%) Power Query
8 15 (2.51%) Relational Database
8 15 (2.51%) SQL Server
9 14 (2.34%) Metadata
10 12 (2.01%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.51%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.51%) Star Schema
13 7 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.84%) MySQL
14 5 (0.84%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 31 (5.18%) JIRA
2 16 (2.68%) Git
3 9 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.34%) Postman
5 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.50%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.50%) Selenium
6 3 (0.50%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 212 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 185 (30.94%) Analytical Skills
3 151 (25.25%) Finance
4 76 (12.71%) Marketing
5 61 (10.20%) Law
6 52 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 47 (7.86%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (6.69%) Telecoms
9 37 (6.19%) Legal
10 35 (5.85%) Retail
11 33 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 32 (5.35%) Back Office
12 32 (5.35%) Military
13 29 (4.85%) Manufacturing
14 18 (3.01%) Banking
15 15 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (2.17%) Aerospace
17 8 (1.34%) Billing
17 8 (1.34%) Games
17 8 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (18.73%) Analyst
1 112 (18.73%) Senior
2 87 (14.55%) Lead
3 41 (6.86%) Data Engineer
4 39 (6.52%) Data Analyst
5 26 (4.35%) Architect
6 24 (4.01%) Developer
7 23 (3.85%) Analytics Manager
8 22 (3.68%) Senior Manager
8 22 (3.68%) Software Engineer
9 21 (3.51%) Data Manager
9 21 (3.51%) Product Owner
10 19 (3.18%) Data Scientist
11 18 (3.01%) Data Architect
11 18 (3.01%) Performance Analyst
12 15 (2.51%) Performance Manager
12 15 (2.51%) Product Manager
13 14 (2.34%) Microsoft Engineer
13 14 (2.34%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (2.17%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.68%) Kafka
2 19 (3.18%) Spring
3 15 (2.51%) .NET
4 10 (1.67%) REST
5 9 (1.51%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.51%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.51%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.51%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.51%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.51%) Spring Boot
6 8 (1.34%) React
6 8 (1.34%) RESTful
7 6 (1.00%) Node.js
7 6 (1.00%) OpenAPI
7 6 (1.00%) Swagger
8 5 (0.84%) PyTorch
8 5 (0.84%) scikit-learn
8 5 (0.84%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.67%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.67%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 45 (7.53%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.68%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.84%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.51%) Blog
9 9 (1.51%) Social Media
10 8 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.34%) Replication
11 7 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.17%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.00%) IoT
12 6 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (1.00%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.84%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.84%) Linux
2 4 (0.67%) Windows
3 2 (0.33%) Android
3 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (73.24%) Decision-Making
2 284 (47.49%) Analytics
3 147 (24.58%) AI
4 140 (23.41%) Agile
5 138 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 138 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 130 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 100 (16.72%) Roadmaps
8 98 (16.39%) Data Governance
8 98 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 94 (15.72%) Visualisation
10 82 (13.71%) Data Modelling
11 71 (11.87%) Mentoring
12 69 (11.54%) Data Science
12 69 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 65 (10.87%) Machine Learning
14 62 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
14 62 (10.37%) CI/CD
15 57 (9.53%) Data Analysis
15 57 (9.53%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 132 (22.07%) SQL
2 83 (13.88%) Python
3 25 (4.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 23 (3.85%) Java
4 23 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.51%) R
5 15 (2.51%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.17%) C#
7 10 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.17%) Kotlin
9 6 (1.00%) Scala
10 4 (0.67%) VBA
11 3 (0.50%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.33%) Ruby
13 1 (0.17%) Bash
13 1 (0.17%) C++
13 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (12.54%) Degree
2 34 (5.69%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.68%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.67%) ACCA
6 10 (1.67%) CIMA
7 9 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.50%) CSPO
10 3 (0.50%) PhD
11 2 (0.33%) HND
12 1 (0.17%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.17%) MBA
12 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.69%) GDPR
3 23 (3.85%) QA
4 20 (3.34%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.51%) GRC
5 9 (1.51%) SLA
6 7 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.67%) PMO
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) GxP
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.01%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) IAG
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (3.51%) Terraform
2 16 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.33%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Autotask
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 87 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.02%) SAP
3 33 (5.52%) Google
4 26 (4.35%) Databricks
5 12 (2.01%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.17%) Foundry
7 6 (1.00%) Botify
7 6 (1.00%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.84%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.84%) Oracle
8 5 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.67%) Freshdesk
9 4 (0.67%) Splunk
10 3 (0.50%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.50%) Palantir
10 3 (0.50%) Pardot
10 3 (0.50%) Sage
11 2 (0.33%) Workday