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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 234 375
Rank change year-on-year -97 +141 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 628 646 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.31% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.47% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 420 272 281
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,743
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -5.34% +15.59%
75th Percentile £72,813 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,125 £104,602
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year -5.45% -6.98% +21.91%

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 85,804 43,854 61,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.92% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,130 24,461 33,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -83 568 £55,000 -8.33% 985
UK excluding London -108 412 £52,000 -5.45% 467
North of England +37 186 £42,500 -26.09% 114
Work from Home +8 181 £50,000 -20.00% 407
London -37 167 £75,000 -6.25% 572
North West +20 119 £47,500 -17.39% 67
Midlands -26 86 £51,356 -10.69% 71
South East -142 65 £65,000 +23.81% 105
West Midlands -17 59 £51,356 -10.69% 40
Yorkshire +9 51 £42,500 -19.05% 36
East of England -17 32 £60,000 +39.26% 46
East Midlands -33 27 £52,500 -8.70% 31
South West -76 25 £70,000 +33.97% 51
North East -52 16 £52,500 -8.70% 11
Scotland -63 11 £55,000 +0.26% 41
Wales -59 7 £53,171 -11.38% 20

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 (3.03%) Confluence
2 7 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.48%) Apache
4 3 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 56 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.80%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.32%) Notion
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.96%) Actimize
3 4 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.64%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.64%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.48%) FastStats
5 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 128 (20.38%) Power Platform
2 87 (13.85%) Azure
3 62 (9.87%) AWS
4 36 (5.73%) GCP
4 36 (5.73%) SaaS
5 26 (4.14%) Snowflake
6 25 (3.98%) Google Analytics
7 24 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (3.18%) Serverless
9 16 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (2.55%) dbt
10 14 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (2.07%) GitHub
12 12 (1.91%) Copilot Studio
13 11 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.43%) Google Tag Manager
14 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.80%) TCP/IP
1 5 (0.80%) WebEx
2 4 (0.64%) DNS
2 4 (0.64%) Internet
2 4 (0.64%) SSL
2 4 (0.64%) VPN
3 3 (0.48%) Intranet
4 2 (0.32%) 5G
4 2 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) GoToMeeting
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (20.38%) Power BI
2 67 (10.67%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (7.17%) Tableau
4 27 (4.30%) BigQuery
4 27 (4.30%) Looker
5 21 (3.34%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.34%) Power Query
6 18 (2.87%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (2.23%) Metadata
10 13 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (1.91%) MongoDB
12 11 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.27%) Star Schema
14 7 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.96%) Redis
15 6 (0.96%) SQL Server
16 5 (0.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (6.53%) JIRA
2 20 (3.18%) Git
3 12 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.64%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.64%) Postman
4 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 212 (33.76%) Analytical Skills
2 206 (32.80%) Finance
3 197 (31.37%) Social Skills
4 83 (13.22%) Marketing
5 65 (10.35%) Public Sector
6 64 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 61 (9.71%) Influencing Skills
8 46 (7.32%) Law
9 42 (6.69%) Retail
10 35 (5.57%) Banking
11 31 (4.94%) Telecoms
12 29 (4.62%) Legal
13 24 (3.82%) Manufacturing
14 23 (3.66%) Back Office
15 22 (3.50%) Military
16 16 (2.55%) Aerospace
17 14 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (1.59%) Electronics
19 10 (1.59%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 124 (19.75%) Analyst
2 89 (14.17%) Senior
3 70 (11.15%) Lead
4 40 (6.37%) Data Analyst
5 32 (5.10%) Data Engineer
6 25 (3.98%) Analytics Manager
6 25 (3.98%) Developer
6 25 (3.98%) Senior Manager
6 25 (3.98%) Software Engineer
7 24 (3.82%) Product Owner
8 23 (3.66%) Architect
9 22 (3.50%) IT Manager
9 22 (3.50%) IT Services Manager
9 22 (3.50%) Service Manager
10 19 (3.03%) Data Architect
10 19 (3.03%) Performance Analyst
11 18 (2.87%) Data Manager
12 17 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
13 15 (2.39%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.89%) Kafka
2 24 (3.82%) Spring
3 21 (3.34%) Terraform
4 12 (1.91%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.43%) .NET
5 9 (1.43%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.43%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.43%) React
6 7 (1.11%) RESTful
7 6 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.96%) Keycloak
7 6 (0.96%) PyTorch
7 6 (0.96%) scikit-learn
7 6 (0.96%) TensorFlow
8 5 (0.80%) REST
9 4 (0.64%) Middleware
9 4 (0.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.96%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.59%) Replication
10 9 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.43%) Blog
10 9 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.27%) FMCG
12 7 (1.11%) Social Media
13 6 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (0.96%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.27%) Linux
2 4 (0.64%) Windows
3 3 (0.48%) Android
3 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (71.82%) Decision-Making
2 260 (41.40%) Analytics
3 169 (26.91%) AI
3 169 (26.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 153 (24.36%) Business Intelligence
5 152 (24.20%) Agile
6 141 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
7 134 (21.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 107 (17.04%) Roadmaps
9 98 (15.61%) Data Governance
10 96 (15.29%) Data Modelling
11 91 (14.49%) Mentoring
12 87 (13.85%) Visualisation
13 76 (12.10%) Actionable Insight
14 69 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 65 (10.35%) Data Science
16 62 (9.87%) Change Management
17 59 (9.39%) ETL
17 59 (9.39%) Workflow
18 58 (9.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 150 (23.89%) SQL
2 98 (15.61%) Python
3 27 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (3.98%) Java
5 20 (3.18%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.39%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.23%) R
8 11 (1.75%) C#
9 9 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.96%) Bash
10 6 (0.96%) Groovy
11 4 (0.64%) Scala
11 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.32%) C++
12 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 78 (12.42%) Degree
2 56 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 48 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.55%) ACCA
5 15 (2.39%) CIMA
6 14 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.64%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.48%) CSPO
13 3 (0.48%) PhD
13 3 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.32%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (14.97%) Data Quality
2 45 (7.17%) GDPR
3 41 (6.53%) QA
4 23 (3.66%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.75%) GRC
6 8 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.11%) SLA
8 6 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.48%) AQAP
10 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) GxP
12 1 (0.16%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.96%) Grafana
2 6 (0.96%) Prometheus
2 6 (0.96%) Rancher
3 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 92 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.69%) Google
3 31 (4.94%) SAP
4 23 (3.66%) Databricks
5 18 (2.87%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.59%) Oracle
7 10 (1.59%) Workday
8 8 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.11%) Foundry
10 6 (0.96%) YouTube
11 4 (0.64%) Cisco
11 4 (0.64%) Concur
11 4 (0.64%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.64%) Okta
11 4 (0.64%) Splunk
11 4 (0.64%) TikTok
12 3 (0.48%) NCR
12 3 (0.48%) Veritas