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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 286 405
Rank change year-on-year +11 +119 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 505 504 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.72% 1.06% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.14% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 269 267 369
10th Percentile £36,450 £43,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £88,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -12.50%

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 55,039 44,035 66,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.92% 92.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 32,968 22,033 51,326
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,487
25th Percentile £38,541 £45,651 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -16 392 £65,000 - 271
UK excluding London +33 311 £57,500 -4.17% 253
London -18 151 £71,028 -5.30% 77
Work from Home +6 123 £66,500 +9.48% 86
South East +21 75 £55,000 - 78
North of England -13 59 £59,375 -6.86% 50
Midlands -13 55 £60,000 - 47
Scotland +8 52 £35,250 -66.02% 14
West Midlands +1 46 £65,000 +8.33% 21
North West -16 29 £55,000 -20.00% 26
Yorkshire -26 24 £77,500 +27.59% 14
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 6
East of England +14 20 £72,500 +34.88% 23
South West -18 20 £77,500 +31.47% 29
Wales 0 10 £42,500 -46.88% 10
East Midlands -24 9 £39,449 -28.28% 25
North East -1 6 - - 10

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 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.77%) Confluence
3 12 (2.38%) Apache
3 12 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.39%) CMS
6 6 (1.19%) SAS
7 5 (0.99%) IIS
7 5 (0.99%) nginx
8 4 (0.79%) Appian
9 2 (0.40%) CICS
9 2 (0.40%) MTS
10 1 (0.20%) Drupal
10 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 61 (12.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.78%) Trello
3 8 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
6 5 (0.99%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.38%) Shopify
3 6 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.99%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.20%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 148 (29.31%) Power Platform
2 90 (17.82%) Azure
3 56 (11.09%) AWS
4 52 (10.30%) SaaS
5 24 (4.75%) GCP
6 21 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (3.76%) GitHub
8 14 (2.77%) Amazon S3
8 14 (2.77%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 10 (1.98%) Google Analytics
9 10 (1.98%) Serverless
10 9 (1.78%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (1.78%) Asana
10 9 (1.78%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.58%) PaaS
11 8 (1.58%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.19%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) Broadband
1 6 (1.19%) Wireless
2 1 (0.20%) 5G
2 1 (0.20%) ADSL
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (28.91%) Power BI
2 71 (14.06%) Tableau
3 52 (10.30%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (6.14%) Metadata
5 21 (4.16%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.76%) Power Query
7 18 (3.56%) SQL Server
8 16 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (2.77%) Big Data
11 13 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (2.18%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (1.98%) SAP BW
13 10 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (1.78%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (1.78%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.78%) Relational Database
15 8 (1.58%) Looker
15 8 (1.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (6.93%) JIRA
2 21 (4.16%) Git
3 20 (3.96%) Postman
4 8 (1.58%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.99%) MSI
5 5 (0.99%) Vite
6 2 (0.40%) MLflow
6 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.20%) Toad
General
1 232 (45.94%) Social Skills
2 208 (41.19%) Analytical Skills
3 136 (26.93%) Finance
4 72 (14.26%) Marketing
5 48 (9.50%) Law
6 31 (6.14%) Legal
6 31 (6.14%) Retail
7 28 (5.54%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (4.75%) Games
9 23 (4.55%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.76%) Telecoms
11 16 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (2.97%) Banking
13 14 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.77%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.57%) Military
15 8 (1.58%) Back Office
15 8 (1.58%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 96 (19.01%) Analyst
2 81 (16.04%) Senior
3 50 (9.90%) Lead
4 46 (9.11%) Data Engineer
5 44 (8.71%) Senior Manager
6 39 (7.72%) Data Analyst
7 34 (6.73%) Architect
8 32 (6.34%) Innovation Manager
9 21 (4.16%) Developer
9 21 (4.16%) Product Manager
10 20 (3.96%) Senior Architect
11 17 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
12 16 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 14 (2.77%) Data Manager
14 13 (2.57%) Business Analyst
15 12 (2.38%) Product Owner
16 11 (2.18%) Business Developer
16 11 (2.18%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 11 (2.18%) Digital Product Manager
17 9 (1.78%) Business Intelligence Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.96%) OpenAPI
1 20 (3.96%) Swagger
2 19 (3.76%) RESTful
3 15 (2.97%) REST
4 14 (2.77%) Kafka
5 12 (2.38%) JSON
6 8 (1.58%) CSS
6 8 (1.58%) React
6 8 (1.58%) Vue
7 7 (1.39%) Middleware
7 7 (1.39%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.39%) TensorFlow
8 6 (1.19%) HTML
8 6 (1.19%) Node.js
9 5 (0.99%) .NET
9 5 (0.99%) GraphQL
9 5 (0.99%) LEMP Stack
9 5 (0.99%) Play Framework
9 5 (0.99%) scikit-learn
9 5 (0.99%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.72%) Product Ownership
2 34 (6.73%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (4.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (4.36%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.57%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.38%) Cloud Native
7 11 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.18%) Social Media
8 9 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.58%) NHS
10 7 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.19%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.19%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.99%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.79%) Hackathon
13 4 (0.79%) IoT
13 4 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.78%) Windows
2 7 (1.39%) Linux
3 2 (0.40%) zOS
4 1 (0.20%) Android
4 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.20%) Unix
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (81.39%) Decision-Making
2 270 (53.47%) Analytics
3 184 (36.44%) Business Intelligence
4 167 (33.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 131 (25.94%) AI
6 129 (25.54%) Agile
7 117 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (22.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 100 (19.80%) Roadmaps
10 98 (19.41%) Data Modelling
10 98 (19.41%) ETL
11 83 (16.44%) Visualisation
12 82 (16.24%) Actionable Insight
13 79 (15.64%) Data Analysis
14 77 (15.25%) Data Governance
15 64 (12.67%) Customer Experience
16 62 (12.28%) Data Science
17 57 (11.29%) Data Engineering
18 56 (11.09%) Data Visualisation
19 55 (10.89%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 157 (31.09%) SQL
2 110 (21.78%) Python
3 21 (4.16%) R
4 17 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.97%) Bash
6 13 (2.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (2.57%) Java
7 9 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.39%) Scala
9 6 (1.19%) PHP
9 6 (1.19%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.99%) Go
11 3 (0.59%) VBA
12 2 (0.40%) C#
12 2 (0.40%) COBOL
12 2 (0.40%) JCL
13 1 (0.20%) Bicep
13 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.20%) SHACL
13 1 (0.20%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 124 (24.55%) Degree
2 32 (6.34%) PMI Certification
3 31 (6.14%) PMP
4 28 (5.54%) Master's Degree
5 19 (3.76%) MBA
6 15 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.18%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.19%) ACCA
9 6 (1.19%) CIMA
10 5 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.99%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (18.02%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.55%) GDPR
3 19 (3.76%) QA
4 12 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.78%) SLA
7 6 (1.19%) PMO
8 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.20%) GAAP
11 1 (0.20%) GMP
11 1 (0.20%) IFRS
11 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (3.56%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) RACF
Systems Management
1 12 (2.38%) Terraform
2 9 (1.78%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.32%) SAP
3 31 (6.14%) Databricks
4 25 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.16%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.96%) Genesys
6 20 (3.96%) Verint
7 14 (2.77%) Google
7 14 (2.77%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.57%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.39%) Oracle
10 6 (1.19%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.99%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.99%) BT
11 5 (0.99%) Foundry
12 4 (0.79%) Workday
13 3 (0.59%) Informatica
13 3 (0.59%) Mercator
14 2 (0.40%) Sage
14 2 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud