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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 216 411
Rank change year-on-year -113 +195 +94
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 574 751 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.52% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.70% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 407 334 331
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,915 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,875 £47,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +8.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £78,580
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +10.00%

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 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 29 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 29 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 -98 521 £59,866 -0.22% 301
UK excluding London -86 387 £53,171 -3.33% 160
North of England +22 176 £55,000 -4.35% 50
Work from Home -67 153 £52,500 -8.70% 115
London -92 140 £80,000 +6.67% 182
North West +39 138 £55,750 -3.04% 26
Midlands -30 92 £51,356 -10.69% 17
South East -74 62 £50,000 -9.09% 54
West Midlands -28 57 £51,356 -10.69% 14
East Midlands -23 35 £52,500 -8.70% 3
East of England -18 31 £60,000 +37.93% 9
Yorkshire -32 28 £47,085 -18.11% 16
South West -93 14 £60,000 +31.15% 15
North East -44 10 £68,750 +19.57% 8
Scotland -58 8 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Wales -55 6 £53,171 -18.20% 4

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 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.22%) CMS
2 7 (1.22%) Confluence
3 4 (0.70%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.17%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 55 (9.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.44%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.35%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.35%) Primavera
4 2 (0.35%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.17%) FastStats
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.17%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 102 (17.77%) Power Platform
2 95 (16.55%) Azure
3 64 (11.15%) AWS
4 35 (6.10%) GCP
5 30 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (5.05%) SaaS
7 16 (2.79%) Snowflake
8 13 (2.26%) Serverless
9 12 (2.09%) dbt
9 12 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (1.92%) GitHub
10 11 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (1.57%) Google Analytics
12 8 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.39%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.52%) Broadband
2 3 (0.52%) Intranet
2 3 (0.52%) Modbus
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.17%) MQTT
3 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.17%) WebEx
3 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (17.77%) Power BI
2 57 (9.93%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (9.06%) Tableau
4 22 (3.83%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 18 (3.14%) BigQuery
7 16 (2.79%) Looker
7 16 (2.79%) Power Query
7 16 (2.79%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.44%) Metadata
9 13 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.09%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.92%) Star Schema
12 10 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.57%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.87%) GIS
14 5 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.87%) SAP BW
15 4 (0.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (4.53%) JIRA
2 16 (2.79%) Git
3 10 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.57%) Postman
5 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.52%) Selenium
6 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 209 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 176 (30.66%) Analytical Skills
3 137 (23.87%) Finance
4 69 (12.02%) Marketing
5 62 (10.80%) Law
6 49 (8.54%) Public Sector
7 44 (7.67%) Influencing Skills
8 42 (7.32%) Telecoms
9 39 (6.79%) Legal
10 32 (5.57%) Back Office
10 32 (5.57%) Military
11 31 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (5.23%) Manufacturing
13 28 (4.88%) Retail
14 15 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.26%) Banking
16 11 (1.92%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.57%) Billing
18 8 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (1.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 106 (18.47%) Senior
2 103 (17.94%) Analyst
3 79 (13.76%) Lead
4 42 (7.32%) Data Engineer
5 39 (6.79%) Data Analyst
6 26 (4.53%) Architect
6 26 (4.53%) Developer
7 21 (3.66%) Data Manager
7 21 (3.66%) Product Owner
8 19 (3.31%) Data Scientist
8 19 (3.31%) Senior Manager
9 18 (3.14%) Analytics Manager
9 18 (3.14%) Data Architect
9 18 (3.14%) Performance Analyst
10 17 (2.96%) Software Engineer
11 15 (2.61%) Performance Manager
12 14 (2.44%) Microsoft Engineer
12 14 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (2.44%) Product Manager
13 13 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.18%) Kafka
2 16 (2.79%) .NET
3 15 (2.61%) Spring
4 11 (1.92%) REST
5 9 (1.57%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.57%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.57%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.57%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.57%) Entity Framework
6 8 (1.39%) RESTful
6 8 (1.39%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.22%) OpenAPI
7 7 (1.22%) React
7 7 (1.22%) Swagger
8 6 (1.05%) Node.js
9 5 (0.87%) CSS
9 5 (0.87%) HTML
10 4 (0.70%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.70%) Middleware
10 4 (0.70%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 44 (7.67%) Cloud Native
3 23 (4.01%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.57%) Social Media
9 8 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.39%) Blog
9 8 (1.39%) Replication
10 7 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.22%) IoT
10 7 (1.22%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.87%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.87%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.87%) Linux
2 4 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.17%) Android
3 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (73.87%) Decision-Making
2 274 (47.74%) Analytics
3 138 (24.04%) AI
4 134 (23.34%) Agile
4 134 (23.34%) Problem-Solving
5 131 (22.82%) Business Intelligence
6 121 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 97 (16.90%) Roadmaps
8 95 (16.55%) Data Governance
9 94 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 82 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 82 (14.29%) Visualisation
11 69 (12.02%) Mentoring
12 64 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 62 (10.80%) CI/CD
14 60 (10.45%) Machine Learning
15 59 (10.28%) Data Science
16 56 (9.76%) Actionable Insight
16 56 (9.76%) Data Analysis
17 55 (9.58%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 127 (22.13%) SQL
2 78 (13.59%) Python
3 24 (4.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 24 (4.18%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.48%) Java
5 14 (2.44%) R
5 14 (2.44%) TypeScript
6 13 (2.26%) C#
7 10 (1.74%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.05%) Scala
9 5 (0.87%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.70%) VBA
11 3 (0.52%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.35%) Ruby
13 1 (0.17%) Bash
13 1 (0.17%) C++
13 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (12.02%) Degree
2 31 (5.40%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.31%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.74%) ACCA
4 10 (1.74%) CIMA
5 9 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.57%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (0.70%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.52%) CSPO
9 2 (0.35%) HND
9 2 (0.35%) MBA
9 2 (0.35%) PhD
10 1 (0.17%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.27%) GDPR
3 22 (3.83%) QA
4 18 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.57%) SLA
6 8 (1.39%) GRC
7 7 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.70%) PMO
9 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) IAG
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.83%) Terraform
2 16 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.35%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Autotask
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 86 (14.98%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.10%) SAP
3 29 (5.05%) Google
4 26 (4.53%) Databricks
5 12 (2.09%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.39%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.05%) Botify
7 6 (1.05%) Foundry
8 5 (0.87%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.87%) Oracle
8 5 (0.87%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.70%) Freshdesk
9 4 (0.70%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.52%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.52%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.52%) Palantir
10 3 (0.52%) Pardot
10 3 (0.52%) Sage
10 3 (0.52%) Splunk
11 2 (0.35%) NEC