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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 205 407
Rank change year-on-year -136 +202 +94
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 540 775 564
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.57% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.74% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 390 333 382
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,902 £38,192
25th Percentile £43,188 £48,000 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,190 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% +6.67% +0.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £76,813
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £54,125
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% +3.10%

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 73,502 44,419 78,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 90.05% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 50,918 25,002 54,550
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -113 486 £60,000 -0.65% 309
UK excluding London -101 364 £53,171 -3.33% 195
North of England +19 161 £55,000 -4.35% 56
Work from Home -52 148 £52,500 -8.70% 87
North West +43 132 £57,000 -0.87% 28
London -127 124 £80,000 +6.67% 157
Midlands -30 87 £51,356 -10.69% 29
South East -60 57 £50,000 -11.11% 59
West Midlands -22 54 £51,356 -10.69% 17
East Midlands -18 33 £50,000 -13.04% 12
East of England -15 30 £60,000 +37.93% 18
Yorkshire -32 22 £47,500 -17.39% 19
South West -91 16 £60,000 +33.33% 19
Scotland -58 9 £63,500 -9.29% 7
North East -41 7 £48,999 -14.79% 9
Wales -50 6 £53,171 +1.16% 3

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 11 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.67%) Confluence
3 8 (1.48%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.74%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.56%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 50 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.59%) SAP PM
2 7 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.37%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) FastStats
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (18.15%) Azure
2 93 (17.22%) Power Platform
3 58 (10.74%) AWS
4 34 (6.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 33 (6.11%) GCP
6 30 (5.56%) SaaS
7 12 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.04%) Snowflake
9 10 (1.85%) dbt
9 10 (1.85%) GitHub
9 10 (1.85%) Serverless
10 9 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.48%) Google Analytics
11 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.48%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.30%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.74%) Broadband
1 4 (0.74%) Intranet
1 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.56%) Modbus
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.19%) MQTT
3 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.19%) WebEx
3 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (17.22%) Power BI
2 53 (9.81%) Tableau
3 51 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (4.07%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (3.33%) SQL Server
7 16 (2.96%) Metadata
8 14 (2.59%) Power Query
9 13 (2.41%) BigQuery
9 13 (2.41%) Looker
10 11 (2.04%) Star Schema
11 10 (1.85%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.48%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.30%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.93%) Big Data
14 5 (0.93%) GIS
14 5 (0.93%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 23 (4.26%) JIRA
2 16 (2.96%) Git
3 11 (2.04%) Postman
4 8 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.56%) Selenium
6 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.19%) Vite
General
1 200 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 164 (30.37%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (21.30%) Finance
4 62 (11.48%) Marketing
5 61 (11.30%) Law
6 44 (8.15%) Public Sector
7 41 (7.59%) Telecoms
8 40 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (7.41%) Legal
9 31 (5.74%) Back Office
9 31 (5.74%) Military
10 30 (5.56%) Manufacturing
11 26 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 25 (4.63%) Retail
13 14 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.67%) Banking
14 9 (1.67%) Billing
15 8 (1.48%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.48%) Games
16 7 (1.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 98 (18.15%) Analyst
2 95 (17.59%) Senior
3 75 (13.89%) Lead
4 47 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 37 (6.85%) Data Analyst
6 27 (5.00%) Developer
7 25 (4.63%) Architect
8 20 (3.70%) Data Manager
9 19 (3.52%) Data Scientist
9 19 (3.52%) Performance Analyst
10 18 (3.33%) Data Architect
10 18 (3.33%) Product Owner
11 16 (2.96%) Senior Manager
12 15 (2.78%) Performance Manager
13 14 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 14 (2.59%) Microsoft Engineer
13 14 (2.59%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (2.59%) Product Manager
14 13 (2.41%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (2.22%) Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.70%) Kafka
2 17 (3.15%) .NET
3 12 (2.22%) REST
4 10 (1.85%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.67%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.67%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.67%) OpenAPI
5 9 (1.67%) RESTful
5 9 (1.67%) Swagger
6 7 (1.30%) Spring
6 7 (1.30%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.93%) JSON
7 5 (0.93%) Node.js
8 4 (0.74%) CSS
8 4 (0.74%) HTML
8 4 (0.74%) Leaflet
8 4 (0.74%) Middleware
8 4 (0.74%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 38 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.96%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.41%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.04%) Social Media
9 8 (1.48%) IoT
10 7 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.30%) Replication
11 6 (1.11%) Blog
11 6 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.93%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.93%) Linux
2 4 (0.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (73.33%) Decision-Making
2 267 (49.44%) Analytics
3 127 (23.52%) Agile
3 127 (23.52%) AI
3 127 (23.52%) Business Intelligence
4 120 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 92 (17.04%) Data Governance
6 92 (17.04%) Roadmaps
7 84 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 82 (15.19%) Data Modelling
9 79 (14.63%) Visualisation
10 65 (12.04%) Mentoring
11 64 (11.85%) ETL
12 61 (11.30%) CI/CD
13 60 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
14 59 (10.93%) Data Pipeline
14 59 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 53 (9.81%) Data Analysis
15 53 (9.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 123 (22.78%) SQL
2 76 (14.07%) Python
3 22 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.59%) C#
6 12 (2.22%) Java
7 11 (2.04%) R
7 11 (2.04%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.85%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.30%) Scala
10 3 (0.56%) Bash
10 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.56%) VBA
11 2 (0.37%) Ruby
12 1 (0.19%) Bicep
12 1 (0.19%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 63 (11.67%) Degree
2 25 (4.63%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.41%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.85%) ACCA
4 10 (1.85%) CIMA
4 10 (1.85%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.56%) CSPO
8 3 (0.56%) MBA
9 2 (0.37%) HND
9 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) PhD
10 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.93%) GDPR
3 18 (3.33%) QA
4 14 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.48%) SLA
6 6 (1.11%) GRC
7 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.74%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (1.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.07%) Terraform
2 15 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.37%) Ansible
3 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 85 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.48%) SAP
3 28 (5.19%) Databricks
4 24 (4.44%) Google
5 13 (2.41%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.48%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.11%) Botify
8 5 (0.93%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.93%) Foundry
8 5 (0.93%) Oracle
9 4 (0.74%) Freshdesk
9 4 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.56%) Pardot
10 3 (0.56%) Sage
10 3 (0.56%) Splunk
11 2 (0.37%) NEC
11 2 (0.37%) SYSPRO