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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 346 362
Rank change year-on-year +129 +16 +158
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 632 457 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 0.80% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.89% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 258 271 308
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,263 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,740 £51,188 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £100,750 £105,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -4.76%

All Process and 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 48,869 51,114 45,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.21% 89.15% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 28,622 26,047 34,927
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,952 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +4.76% -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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 +77 458 £62,500 -3.85% 344
UK excluding London +121 447 £57,500 -4.17% 305
South East +86 164 £55,000 +1.62% 79
London +40 144 £75,000 -16.67% 102
Scotland +75 105 £54,855 -34.01% 13
Work from Home +70 101 £67,500 +8.00% 93
North of England +21 64 £60,000 -7.69% 88
Midlands +12 42 £57,500 -4.17% 58
North West +26 39 £56,250 -10.00% 52
West Midlands +15 36 £65,000 +8.33% 41
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 6
Yorkshire -6 19 £75,000 -9.09% 25
South West +2 18 £65,000 +15.56% 26
East of England +29 17 £52,500 -44.44% 30
Wales +19 15 £47,500 -40.63% 9
North East +9 6 - - 13
East Midlands 0 6 £39,449 -52.18% 17

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 (2.69%) Confluence
2 13 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.95%) Apache
4 6 (0.95%) SAS
4 6 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.63%) Appian
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.47%) CMS
6 3 (0.47%) IIS
7 2 (0.32%) CICS
7 2 (0.32%) MTS
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 86 (13.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.42%) Trello
5 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.63%) Windchill
7 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 44 (6.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.90%) Shopify
3 7 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.11%) SAP CO
3 7 (1.11%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.63%) Magento
5 4 (0.63%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.63%) SAP WM
6 3 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.32%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 138 (21.84%) Power Platform
2 75 (11.87%) SaaS
3 70 (11.08%) Azure
4 46 (7.28%) AWS
5 20 (3.16%) GCP
6 18 (2.85%) GitHub
6 18 (2.85%) Snowflake
7 16 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (2.37%) Google Analytics
8 15 (2.37%) Serverless
9 11 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 11 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.42%) Asana
10 9 (1.42%) PaaS
11 8 (1.27%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
12 7 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.95%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.79%) Wireless
2 4 (0.63%) BGP
2 4 (0.63%) DHCP
2 4 (0.63%) DNS
2 4 (0.63%) Firewall
2 4 (0.63%) LAN
2 4 (0.63%) Network Security
2 4 (0.63%) OSPF
2 4 (0.63%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.63%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.63%) VLAN
2 4 (0.63%) VPN
2 4 (0.63%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) 5G
3 1 (0.16%) ADSL
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (21.52%) Power BI
2 62 (9.81%) Tableau
3 46 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (3.48%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.01%) Metadata
6 16 (2.53%) Power Query
7 12 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (1.90%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.58%) Looker
8 10 (1.58%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.42%) Big Data
10 8 (1.27%) SAP BW
11 7 (1.11%) Data Mining
11 7 (1.11%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.95%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 64 (10.13%) JIRA
2 36 (5.70%) Git
3 26 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.95%) Postman
4 6 (0.95%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.79%) MSI
6 4 (0.63%) Toad
7 1 (0.16%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 375 (59.34%) Social Skills
2 277 (43.83%) Analytical Skills
3 167 (26.42%) Finance
4 86 (13.61%) Marketing
5 40 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
6 38 (6.01%) Retail
7 30 (4.75%) Law
7 30 (4.75%) Legal
8 29 (4.59%) Manufacturing
9 28 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (4.11%) Public Sector
11 22 (3.48%) Games
12 18 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (2.37%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.74%) Banking
14 11 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.42%) Military
16 7 (1.11%) Advertising
16 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 96 (15.19%) Innovation Manager
1 96 (15.19%) Lead
2 91 (14.40%) Analyst
3 81 (12.82%) Senior
4 45 (7.12%) Architect
5 44 (6.96%) Senior Manager
6 33 (5.22%) Data Analyst
7 27 (4.27%) Data Engineer
8 20 (3.16%) Senior Architect
9 18 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 18 (2.85%) Developer
10 17 (2.69%) Product Manager
11 15 (2.37%) Business Analyst
11 15 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.06%) Data Manager
13 12 (1.90%) Product Owner
14 11 (1.74%) Digital Product Manager
15 10 (1.58%) Business Intelligence Manager
15 10 (1.58%) E-Commerce Manager
15 10 (1.58%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.53%) REST
2 13 (2.06%) React
3 11 (1.74%) Middleware
4 9 (1.42%) JSON
5 8 (1.27%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.27%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.27%) Vue
6 7 (1.11%) Node.js
6 7 (1.11%) OpenAPI
6 7 (1.11%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.11%) Swagger
6 7 (1.11%) TensorFlow
7 6 (0.95%) RESTful
8 5 (0.79%) CSS
8 5 (0.79%) Pandas
9 4 (0.63%) Django
9 4 (0.63%) FastAPI
9 4 (0.63%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.63%) HTML
9 4 (0.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.33%) Product Ownership
2 34 (5.38%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.42%) Social Media
8 8 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.27%) Low-Code
8 8 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.79%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (0.79%) NHS
10 5 (0.79%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.63%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.63%) FMCG
11 4 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.42%) Windows
2 4 (0.63%) Unix
2 4 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.32%) zOS
4 1 (0.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (77.53%) Decision-Making
2 304 (48.10%) Analytics
3 239 (37.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 184 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 181 (28.64%) AI
6 166 (26.27%) Business Intelligence
7 130 (20.57%) Customer Experience
8 123 (19.46%) Agile
9 116 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (16.61%) Data Modelling
11 91 (14.40%) Roadmaps
12 90 (14.24%) ERP
13 85 (13.45%) Data Analysis
14 71 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 71 (11.23%) Visualisation
15 65 (10.28%) Actionable Insight
15 65 (10.28%) ETL
16 63 (9.97%) Project Management
17 62 (9.81%) Strategic Thinking
18 55 (8.70%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 139 (21.99%) SQL
2 89 (14.08%) Python
3 21 (3.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (3.01%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.53%) R
6 9 (1.42%) Java
7 8 (1.27%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.11%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.95%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.79%) Go
11 4 (0.63%) Bash
11 4 (0.63%) Scala
11 4 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.63%) VB
12 2 (0.32%) ABAP
12 2 (0.32%) COBOL
12 2 (0.32%) JCL
12 2 (0.32%) PHP
13 1 (0.16%) Fortran
13 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 209 (33.07%) Degree
2 63 (9.97%) Master's Degree
3 42 (6.65%) MBA
4 36 (5.70%) PMI Certification
5 35 (5.54%) PMP
6 33 (5.22%) Security Cleared
7 15 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.58%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.11%) ACCA
10 7 (1.11%) CIMA
10 7 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.63%) CCIE
12 4 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.63%) CISSP
12 4 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (15.98%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.85%) QA
3 26 (4.11%) Def Stans
4 24 (3.80%) GDPR
5 14 (2.22%) SLA
6 12 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.11%) PMO
8 5 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.32%) IFRS
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.90%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (1.27%) Terraform
2 7 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.63%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 97 (15.35%) SAP
2 77 (12.18%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.85%) Databricks
4 25 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.48%) Google
6 21 (3.32%) Anaplan
7 20 (3.16%) Genesys
7 20 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 20 (3.16%) Verint
8 9 (1.42%) Oracle
9 8 (1.27%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.63%) Adobe
11 4 (0.63%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.63%) NEC
11 4 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.63%) Workday
12 3 (0.47%) Ariba
12 3 (0.47%) BT
12 3 (0.47%) Mercator