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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 320 382
Rank change year-on-year +91 +62 +119
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 582 453 438
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.93% 0.85% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.94% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 249 253 353
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,263 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.07% -8.25%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,920 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -16.67%

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 50,076 48,429 57,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.42% 91.10% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 29,566 23,408 43,853
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +72 452 £65,000 - 467
UK excluding London +112 391 £57,500 -4.17% 445
South East +100 156 £55,000 +1.62% 135
London +10 150 £71,028 -18.83% 89
Work from Home +58 109 £66,500 +4.31% 127
Scotland +41 64 £32,500 -65.79% 18
North of England 0 54 £60,000 -7.69% 81
Midlands +9 47 £61,250 +2.08% 73
West Midlands +14 44 £65,000 +8.33% 26
North West -1 29 £55,000 -15.38% 32
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 10
South West +11 19 £73,250 +24.68% 56
Yorkshire -12 19 £71,250 -13.64% 37
East of England +22 15 £52,500 -44.44% 61
Wales +18 14 £43,750 -45.31% 20
North East +3 6 - - 14
East Midlands -9 3 £39,449 -53.32% 45

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 17 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.75%) Confluence
3 12 (2.06%) Apache
4 11 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.03%) CMS
5 6 (1.03%) SAS
6 5 (0.86%) IIS
6 5 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.69%) Appian
7 4 (0.69%) nginx
7 4 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.34%) CICS
8 2 (0.34%) MTS
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
Applications
1 80 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.55%) Trello
5 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.69%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.69%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.69%) Windchill
7 3 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 43 (7.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.58%) Shopify
3 6 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.03%) SAP CO
3 6 (1.03%) SAP FI
3 6 (1.03%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.69%) Magento
4 4 (0.69%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 139 (23.88%) Power Platform
2 82 (14.09%) SaaS
3 78 (13.40%) Azure
4 58 (9.97%) AWS
5 22 (3.78%) GCP
6 19 (3.26%) GitHub
7 15 (2.58%) Serverless
7 15 (2.58%) Snowflake
8 14 (2.41%) Amazon S3
8 14 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (2.41%) Google Analytics
9 11 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.55%) Asana
12 8 (1.37%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.37%) PaaS
13 7 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.20%) Google Tag Manager
13 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.03%) Wireless
2 3 (0.52%) Broadband
3 1 (0.17%) 5G
3 1 (0.17%) ADSL
3 1 (0.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (23.54%) Power BI
2 66 (11.34%) Tableau
3 49 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (4.81%) Metadata
5 22 (3.78%) Data Lake
6 17 (2.92%) Power Query
7 16 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (2.41%) NoSQL
8 14 (2.41%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
11 10 (1.72%) Big Data
12 9 (1.55%) Looker
12 9 (1.55%) SAP BW
13 8 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
13 8 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.20%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 61 (10.48%) JIRA
2 44 (7.56%) Git
3 26 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.41%) Postman
5 6 (1.03%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.86%) MSI
7 4 (0.69%) Toad
7 4 (0.69%) Vite
8 2 (0.34%) MLflow
9 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.17%) GitLab
9 1 (0.17%) Selenium
9 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 308 (52.92%) Social Skills
2 218 (37.46%) Analytical Skills
3 173 (29.73%) Finance
4 82 (14.09%) Marketing
5 40 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (6.19%) Law
7 35 (6.01%) Legal
8 31 (5.33%) Retail
9 28 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (4.64%) Public Sector
11 23 (3.95%) Games
12 21 (3.61%) Manufacturing
13 15 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (2.41%) Telecoms
15 13 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (2.06%) Banking
17 8 (1.37%) Military
17 8 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (1.03%) Local Government
18 6 (1.03%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 100 (17.18%) Lead
2 86 (14.78%) Analyst
3 83 (14.26%) Senior
4 48 (8.25%) Innovation Manager
5 45 (7.73%) Senior Manager
6 43 (7.39%) Architect
7 37 (6.36%) Data Engineer
8 32 (5.50%) Data Analyst
9 21 (3.61%) Developer
9 21 (3.61%) Product Manager
10 20 (3.44%) Senior Architect
11 15 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (2.41%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 14 (2.41%) Product Owner
13 13 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 13 (2.23%) Data Manager
14 12 (2.06%) Digital Product Manager
15 11 (1.89%) Senior Data Engineer
16 10 (1.72%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.92%) REST
2 15 (2.58%) OpenAPI
2 15 (2.58%) Swagger
3 14 (2.41%) RESTful
4 13 (2.23%) Kafka
4 13 (2.23%) React
5 12 (2.06%) Vue
6 10 (1.72%) Middleware
7 9 (1.55%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.55%) JSON
7 9 (1.55%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.37%) TensorFlow
9 7 (1.20%) CSS
10 6 (1.03%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.86%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.86%) HTML
11 5 (0.86%) Node.js
11 5 (0.86%) Pandas
11 5 (0.86%) Play Framework
12 4 (0.69%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.73%) Product Ownership
2 33 (5.67%) Management Information System
3 27 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (3.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (2.58%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.55%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.55%) Social Media
10 9 (1.55%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.86%) NHS
12 5 (0.86%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.69%) Augmented Reality
13 4 (0.69%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.55%) Windows
2 6 (1.03%) Linux
3 4 (0.69%) Unix
3 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.34%) zOS
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (76.63%) Decision-Making
2 268 (46.05%) Analytics
3 202 (34.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 174 (29.90%) Business Intelligence
5 144 (24.74%) AI
6 136 (23.37%) Agile
7 132 (22.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 130 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
9 115 (19.76%) Data Modelling
10 104 (17.87%) Roadmaps
11 92 (15.81%) Data Analysis
12 85 (14.60%) ERP
13 81 (13.92%) ETL
14 78 (13.40%) Customer Experience
15 71 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 70 (12.03%) Actionable Insight
17 69 (11.86%) Visualisation
18 65 (11.17%) Data Governance
19 63 (10.82%) Strategic Thinking
20 57 (9.79%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 142 (24.40%) SQL
2 97 (16.67%) Python
3 20 (3.44%) JavaScript
4 17 (2.92%) R
5 16 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (2.23%) Bash
7 12 (2.06%) Java
8 8 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.03%) Scala
10 5 (0.86%) Go
10 5 (0.86%) PHP
10 5 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.69%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.69%) VB
12 2 (0.34%) COBOL
12 2 (0.34%) JCL
13 1 (0.17%) C#
13 1 (0.17%) C++
13 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 206 (35.40%) Degree
2 58 (9.97%) Master's Degree
3 44 (7.56%) MBA
4 37 (6.36%) Security Cleared
5 32 (5.50%) PMI Certification
6 31 (5.33%) PMP
7 14 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.89%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.03%) ACCA
10 6 (1.03%) CIMA
11 5 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.86%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (18.38%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.70%) QA
3 26 (4.47%) Def Stans
4 23 (3.95%) GDPR
5 14 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 14 (2.41%) SLA
6 9 (1.55%) PMO
7 6 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) GAAP
11 1 (0.17%) GMP
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (3.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (1.55%) Kubernetes
1 9 (1.55%) Terraform
2 5 (0.86%) Ansible
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (15.64%) SAP
2 73 (12.54%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.98%) Databricks
4 26 (4.47%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.61%) Anaplan
5 21 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.44%) Genesys
6 20 (3.44%) Verint
7 18 (3.09%) Google
8 9 (1.55%) HubSpot
8 9 (1.55%) Oracle
9 5 (0.86%) BT
9 5 (0.86%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.69%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.69%) NEC
10 4 (0.69%) Workday
11 3 (0.52%) Foundry
11 3 (0.52%) Informatica
11 3 (0.52%) Mercator
11 3 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud