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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 211 428
Rank change year-on-year -117 +217 +45
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 523 691 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.61% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.73% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 358 301 410
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,931 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,188 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,182 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +11.24% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,438 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -8.39% +9.42% -8.85%

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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 29 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 29 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 -105 459 £60,000 -4.00% 327
UK excluding London -65 344 £52,679 -8.39% 202
Work from Home -24 137 £57,500 - 116
North of England -15 135 £60,000 +4.35% 50
London -114 133 £71,121 -1.90% 170
North West +26 105 £60,000 +4.35% 25
Midlands -29 77 £47,500 -17.39% 31
West Midlands -38 54 £48,000 -16.52% 14
South East -60 54 £50,000 -21.88% 56
East of England -12 30 £60,000 +22.52% 20
East Midlands -32 23 £37,500 -34.78% 17
Yorkshire -60 22 £58,750 +2.17% 19
Scotland -25 17 £32,500 -60.61% 12
South West -84 16 £77,500 +63.16% 26
Wales -26 12 £42,500 -46.88% 7
North East -31 8 £45,497 -20.87% 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 19 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.10%) CMS
4 9 (1.72%) Apache
4 9 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.96%) IIS
6 4 (0.76%) Confluence
6 4 (0.76%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.76%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Appian
7 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%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.76%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
5 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
3 4 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.76%) Shopify
4 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.38%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 104 (19.89%) Power Platform
2 99 (18.93%) Azure
3 61 (11.66%) AWS
4 34 (6.50%) SaaS
5 31 (5.93%) GCP
6 30 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (2.10%) Amazon S3
8 9 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.72%) GitHub
9 8 (1.53%) Serverless
9 8 (1.53%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.34%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.15%) dbt
12 5 (0.96%) Figma
12 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.96%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.76%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.15%) Broadband
1 6 (1.15%) Wireless
2 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.57%) Intranet
3 3 (0.57%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (19.89%) Power BI
2 67 (12.81%) Tableau
3 42 (8.03%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 18 (3.44%) Metadata
6 15 (2.87%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.49%) Big Data
7 13 (2.49%) Power Query
8 12 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.29%) Star Schema
9 11 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.53%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (1.53%) Apache Iceberg
11 8 (1.53%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (1.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (3.82%) Git
2 17 (3.25%) Postman
3 14 (2.68%) JIRA
4 5 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.76%) MSI
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%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 165 (31.55%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (21.22%) Finance
4 64 (12.24%) Law
5 56 (10.71%) Marketing
6 36 (6.88%) Telecoms
7 32 (6.12%) Legal
8 29 (5.54%) Games
9 28 (5.35%) Public Sector
10 26 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (4.97%) Military
11 22 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (4.02%) Retail
13 20 (3.82%) Back Office
14 19 (3.63%) Manufacturing
15 15 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.72%) Billing
18 8 (1.53%) Aerospace
18 8 (1.53%) Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (21.80%) Senior
2 85 (16.25%) Analyst
3 83 (15.87%) Lead
4 58 (11.09%) Data Engineer
5 38 (7.27%) Senior Manager
6 36 (6.88%) Data Analyst
7 33 (6.31%) Architect
8 27 (5.16%) Developer
9 20 (3.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 20 (3.82%) Senior Architect
10 16 (3.06%) Data Scientist
11 15 (2.87%) Microsoft Engineer
11 15 (2.87%) Product Owner
12 14 (2.68%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (2.49%) Data Manager
13 13 (2.49%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (2.49%) Product Manager
14 12 (2.29%) Performance Analyst
15 11 (2.10%) Report Manager
16 10 (1.91%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.97%) Kafka
2 18 (3.44%) .NET
3 15 (2.87%) OpenAPI
3 15 (2.87%) RESTful
3 15 (2.87%) Swagger
4 12 (2.29%) REST
5 10 (1.91%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.72%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.72%) 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%) Vue
10 4 (0.76%) React
10 4 (0.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.74%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.35%) Management Information System
4 22 (4.21%) Data Structures
5 20 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.44%) Algorithms
6 18 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.91%) Social Media
9 8 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
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%) Enterprise Software
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
1 390 (74.57%) Decision-Making
2 255 (48.76%) Analytics
3 149 (28.49%) Business Intelligence
4 130 (24.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 126 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
6 119 (22.75%) Agile
7 99 (18.93%) AI
8 84 (16.06%) Roadmaps
9 80 (15.30%) ETL
10 79 (15.11%) Data Governance
11 77 (14.72%) Data Modelling
12 71 (13.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 68 (13.00%) Visualisation
14 64 (12.24%) Actionable Insight
15 62 (11.85%) CI/CD
15 62 (11.85%) Data Analysis
16 58 (11.09%) Data Pipeline
17 54 (10.33%) Data Science
18 49 (9.37%) DevOps
19 46 (8.80%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 135 (25.81%) SQL
2 97 (18.55%) Python
3 23 (4.40%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 19 (3.63%) R
6 16 (3.06%) Java
7 14 (2.68%) C#
8 13 (2.49%) Bash
9 12 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 12 (2.29%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.10%) Scala
11 4 (0.76%) PHP
12 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.57%) VBA
13 1 (0.19%) Bicep
13 1 (0.19%) C++
13 1 (0.19%) Go
13 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (14.34%) Degree
2 23 (4.40%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.82%) PMI Certification
3 20 (3.82%) PMP
4 11 (2.10%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.10%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.91%) ACCA
5 10 (1.91%) CIMA
6 8 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.34%) MBA
8 6 (1.15%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.38%) HND
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CBAP
12 1 (0.19%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (14.91%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.02%) GDPR
3 16 (3.06%) QA
4 10 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.53%) PMO
6 5 (0.96%) 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 24 (4.59%) Terraform
2 18 (3.44%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.76%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 69 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.35%) SAP
3 25 (4.78%) Databricks
4 24 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.82%) Anaplan
5 20 (3.82%) Genesys
5 20 (3.82%) Verint
6 15 (2.87%) Google
7 13 (2.49%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.91%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.15%) Botify
10 5 (0.96%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.96%) BT
10 5 (0.96%) Foundry
10 5 (0.96%) Oracle
11 4 (0.76%) Freshdesk
12 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.57%) Pardot
12 3 (0.57%) Sage
13 2 (0.38%) NEC