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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 306 397
Rank change year-on-year +56 +91 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 549 467 464
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.95% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.03% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 259 243 375
10th Percentile £39,682 £44,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -12.35%
75th Percentile £80,625 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £60,743 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.52% +21.49% -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 53,402 45,552 66,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.32% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 31,913 22,134 51,281
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,934 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 16 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 16 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 +19 415 £65,000 - 229
UK excluding London +94 351 £58,000 -4.52% 199
London -3 151 £71,028 -11.22% 73
Work from Home +21 122 £65,500 +7.38% 100
South East +62 105 £55,000 -4.35% 72
Scotland +41 68 £46,250 -55.42% 14
North of England -21 52 £60,000 -7.69% 27
Midlands -9 51 £60,000 - 39
West Midlands +5 45 £65,750 +9.58% 24
North West -7 25 £57,500 -16.36% 20
East of England +28 23 £52,500 -12.50% 17
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 5
South West -17 21 £69,500 +17.90% 19
Yorkshire -22 21 £77,500 +27.59% 3
Wales +6 11 £42,500 -46.88% 8
North East +2 6 - - 4
East Midlands -15 6 £39,449 -53.32% 14

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 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.55%) Confluence
3 12 (2.19%) Apache
3 12 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.09%) CMS
5 6 (1.09%) SAS
6 5 (0.91%) IIS
7 4 (0.73%) Appian
7 4 (0.73%) nginx
7 4 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.36%) CICS
8 2 (0.36%) MTS
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) GeoServer
Applications
1 71 (12.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.64%) Trello
4 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.73%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.73%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.18%) SPSS
8 1 (0.18%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 34 (6.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.19%) Shopify
3 6 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.73%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.18%) Magento
7 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.18%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (26.05%) Power Platform
2 91 (16.58%) Azure
3 72 (13.11%) SaaS
4 59 (10.75%) AWS
5 25 (4.55%) GCP
6 21 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (3.28%) GitHub
8 14 (2.55%) Amazon S3
8 14 (2.55%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.19%) Google Analytics
9 12 (2.19%) Serverless
10 11 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (1.64%) Asana
12 9 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.64%) PaaS
13 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.46%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.09%) Wireless
2 4 (0.73%) Broadband
3 1 (0.18%) 5G
3 1 (0.18%) ADSL
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
3 1 (0.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (25.68%) Power BI
2 66 (12.02%) Tableau
3 50 (9.11%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (5.83%) Metadata
5 22 (4.01%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.28%) Power Query
6 18 (3.28%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (2.55%) Big Data
9 13 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (2.00%) Apache Iceberg
10 11 (2.00%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (1.64%) Looker
12 9 (1.64%) SAP BW
13 7 (1.28%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (6.56%) JIRA
2 21 (3.83%) Git
3 18 (3.28%) Postman
4 7 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.91%) MSI
6 4 (0.73%) Toad
6 4 (0.73%) Vite
7 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.36%) MLflow
7 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.18%) GitLab
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 278 (50.64%) Social Skills
2 220 (40.07%) Analytical Skills
3 163 (29.69%) Finance
4 78 (14.21%) Marketing
5 41 (7.47%) Law
6 34 (6.19%) Legal
7 31 (5.65%) Retail
8 28 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (5.10%) Public Sector
9 23 (4.19%) Games
10 17 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 15 (2.73%) Banking
13 14 (2.55%) Manufacturing
14 13 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.46%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.46%) Military
15 8 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 92 (16.76%) Analyst
2 85 (15.48%) Senior
3 62 (11.29%) Lead
4 48 (8.74%) Innovation Manager
5 46 (8.38%) Senior Manager
6 43 (7.83%) Data Engineer
7 39 (7.10%) Architect
8 36 (6.56%) Data Analyst
9 22 (4.01%) Developer
9 22 (4.01%) Product Manager
10 20 (3.64%) Senior Architect
11 17 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
12 16 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 14 (2.55%) Business Analyst
13 14 (2.55%) Data Manager
14 11 (2.00%) Business Developer
14 11 (2.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 11 (2.00%) Digital Product Manager
15 10 (1.82%) Product Owner
15 10 (1.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.46%) OpenAPI
1 19 (3.46%) Swagger
2 18 (3.28%) RESTful
3 17 (3.10%) REST
4 14 (2.55%) Kafka
5 12 (2.19%) JSON
6 10 (1.82%) React
7 9 (1.64%) Middleware
7 9 (1.64%) Vue
8 7 (1.28%) CSS
8 7 (1.28%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.28%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.09%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.09%) Node.js
10 5 (0.91%) .NET
10 5 (0.91%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.91%) HTML
10 5 (0.91%) Play Framework
10 5 (0.91%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.73%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.29%) Product Ownership
2 37 (6.74%) Management Information System
3 28 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (3.83%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.37%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.00%) Social Media
8 10 (1.82%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.28%) NHS
11 7 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.09%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.09%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.91%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.91%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.73%) Hackathon
14 4 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.00%) Windows
2 6 (1.09%) Linux
3 4 (0.73%) Unix
3 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.36%) zOS
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (82.15%) Decision-Making
2 283 (51.55%) Analytics
3 186 (33.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 182 (33.15%) Business Intelligence
5 147 (26.78%) AI
6 135 (24.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 131 (23.86%) Agile
8 127 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (19.85%) Data Modelling
10 106 (19.31%) Roadmaps
11 95 (17.30%) ETL
12 86 (15.66%) Data Analysis
13 80 (14.57%) Customer Experience
14 79 (14.39%) Actionable Insight
15 74 (13.48%) Visualisation
16 71 (12.93%) Data Governance
17 59 (10.75%) ERP
18 58 (10.56%) Critical Thinking
18 58 (10.56%) Data Science
19 57 (10.38%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 153 (27.87%) SQL
2 104 (18.94%) Python
3 19 (3.46%) JavaScript
3 19 (3.46%) R
4 14 (2.55%) Bash
5 13 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (2.37%) Java
6 7 (1.28%) Scala
6 7 (1.28%) T-SQL
7 5 (0.91%) Go
7 5 (0.91%) PHP
7 5 (0.91%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.73%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.73%) VB
9 2 (0.36%) C#
9 2 (0.36%) COBOL
9 2 (0.36%) JCL
9 2 (0.36%) VBA
10 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 159 (28.96%) Degree
2 47 (8.56%) Master's Degree
3 37 (6.74%) MBA
4 32 (5.83%) PMI Certification
5 31 (5.65%) PMP
6 15 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.19%) Security Cleared
8 8 (1.46%) SC Cleared
8 8 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.09%) ACCA
10 6 (1.09%) CIMA
11 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (18.40%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.55%) GDPR
3 18 (3.28%) QA
4 14 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.19%) SLA
6 8 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.28%) PMO
8 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.55%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.55%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) GAAP
10 1 (0.18%) GMP
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) IFRS
10 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (3.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (2.00%) Terraform
2 9 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.91%) Ansible
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 69 (12.57%) SAP
3 31 (5.65%) Databricks
4 26 (4.74%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.83%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.64%) Genesys
6 20 (3.64%) Verint
7 17 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.91%) Google
9 13 (2.37%) HubSpot
10 9 (1.64%) Oracle
11 6 (1.09%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.91%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.91%) BT
13 4 (0.73%) Foundry
13 4 (0.73%) NEC
13 4 (0.73%) Workday
14 3 (0.55%) Informatica
14 3 (0.55%) Mercator
15 2 (0.36%) Sage