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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 220 421
Rank change year-on-year -104 +201 +49
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 521 683 556
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.60% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.72% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 356 296 410
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,931 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.53% +9.42% -8.85%

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 68,523 39,694 83,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.83% 93.27% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 44,541 20,818 60,168
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -98 456 £60,000 -4.00% 350
UK excluding London -51 341 £53,171 -7.53% 206
North of England -2 134 £60,000 +4.35% 49
London -113 133 £71,121 -1.90% 194
Work from Home -39 132 £57,500 - 136
North West +26 105 £60,000 +4.35% 25
Midlands -39 76 £47,292 -17.75% 30
South East -38 54 £50,000 -21.88% 60
West Midlands -44 54 £48,000 -16.52% 15
East of England -15 30 £60,000 +22.52% 22
East Midlands -30 22 £37,500 -38.78% 15
Yorkshire -55 22 £58,750 +2.17% 17
Scotland -24 17 £32,500 -60.61% 12
South West -90 15 £73,750 +63.89% 24
Wales -23 12 £42,500 -46.88% 9
North East -37 7 £67,749 +17.82% 8
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 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 21 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.11%) CMS
4 10 (1.92%) Apache
5 9 (1.73%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.96%) IIS
7 4 (0.77%) Confluence
7 4 (0.77%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.77%) nginx
8 2 (0.38%) Appian
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 39 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.77%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
5 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.92%) SAP PM
2 5 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.77%) Shopify
4 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.38%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 105 (20.15%) Power Platform
2 95 (18.23%) Azure
3 62 (11.90%) AWS
4 33 (6.33%) SaaS
5 29 (5.57%) GCP
6 28 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (2.30%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.54%) GitHub
10 8 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.54%) Snowflake
11 7 (1.34%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.34%) Serverless
12 6 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.15%) dbt
13 5 (0.96%) Figma
13 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.96%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.77%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.15%) Broadband
1 6 (1.15%) Wireless
2 4 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.58%) Modbus
4 2 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (20.15%) Power BI
2 68 (13.05%) Tableau
3 41 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.84%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.65%) Metadata
6 14 (2.69%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.50%) Big Data
7 13 (2.50%) Power Query
8 12 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (2.30%) Star Schema
9 11 (2.11%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (1.73%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (1.73%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (1.73%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.54%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (3.45%) Git
2 16 (3.07%) Postman
3 14 (2.69%) JIRA
4 5 (0.96%) MSI
5 4 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.77%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.77%) Vite
6 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.38%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 173 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 166 (31.86%) Analytical Skills
3 109 (20.92%) Finance
4 63 (12.09%) Law
5 56 (10.75%) Marketing
6 36 (6.91%) Telecoms
7 31 (5.95%) Legal
8 29 (5.57%) Games
9 26 (4.99%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (4.99%) Military
9 26 (4.99%) Public Sector
10 22 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (3.84%) Back Office
11 20 (3.84%) Retail
12 19 (3.65%) Manufacturing
13 14 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.73%) Billing
16 8 (1.54%) Aerospace
17 7 (1.34%) Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (21.69%) Senior
2 86 (16.51%) Analyst
3 82 (15.74%) Lead
4 57 (10.94%) Data Engineer
5 38 (7.29%) Senior Manager
6 36 (6.91%) Data Analyst
7 34 (6.53%) Architect
8 26 (4.99%) Developer
9 20 (3.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 20 (3.84%) Senior Architect
10 15 (2.88%) Microsoft Engineer
10 15 (2.88%) Product Owner
11 14 (2.69%) Data Scientist
11 14 (2.69%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (2.50%) Data Manager
12 13 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (2.50%) Product Manager
13 12 (2.30%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.30%) Performance Analyst
14 11 (2.11%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.80%) Kafka
2 18 (3.45%) .NET
3 14 (2.69%) OpenAPI
3 14 (2.69%) RESTful
3 14 (2.69%) Swagger
4 12 (2.30%) REST
5 10 (1.92%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.73%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.73%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.73%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.73%) Entity Framework
7 7 (1.34%) CSS
7 7 (1.34%) Node.js
8 6 (1.15%) Middleware
9 5 (0.96%) HTML
9 5 (0.96%) JSON
9 5 (0.96%) Play Framework
9 5 (0.96%) PyTorch
9 5 (0.96%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.57%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.37%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.03%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (3.26%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.92%) Social Media
9 9 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.34%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.15%) Replication
12 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.77%) IoT
13 4 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.73%) Linux
2 4 (0.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (74.47%) Decision-Making
2 255 (48.94%) Analytics
3 148 (28.41%) Business Intelligence
4 128 (24.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 126 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (23.03%) Agile
7 99 (19.00%) AI
8 81 (15.55%) Roadmaps
9 79 (15.16%) Data Governance
10 78 (14.97%) ETL
11 77 (14.78%) Data Modelling
12 70 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 68 (13.05%) Visualisation
14 65 (12.48%) Actionable Insight
15 61 (11.71%) Data Analysis
16 60 (11.52%) CI/CD
17 55 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
18 52 (9.98%) Data Science
19 49 (9.40%) DevOps
20 48 (9.21%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 130 (24.95%) SQL
2 94 (18.04%) Python
3 23 (4.41%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 19 (3.65%) R
6 16 (3.07%) Java
7 14 (2.69%) Bash
7 14 (2.69%) C#
8 13 (2.50%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.30%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.92%) Scala
11 4 (0.77%) PHP
12 3 (0.58%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.58%) VBA
13 2 (0.38%) Go
14 1 (0.19%) Bicep
14 1 (0.19%) C++
14 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.19%) SHACL
14 1 (0.19%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 73 (14.01%) Degree
2 23 (4.41%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.84%) PMI Certification
3 20 (3.84%) PMP
4 11 (2.11%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.92%) ACCA
5 10 (1.92%) CIMA
5 10 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.34%) MBA
8 5 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.38%) HND
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (15.16%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.03%) GDPR
3 16 (3.07%) QA
4 11 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.54%) PMO
7 6 (1.15%) SLA
8 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.58%) ISO 14001
9 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.38%) GRC
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 12 (2.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.80%) Terraform
2 18 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.96%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 68 (13.05%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.18%) SAP
3 25 (4.80%) Databricks
4 24 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 20 (3.84%) Anaplan
5 20 (3.84%) Genesys
5 20 (3.84%) Verint
6 15 (2.88%) Google
7 13 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.92%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.15%) Botify
10 5 (0.96%) BT
10 5 (0.96%) Foundry
10 5 (0.96%) Oracle
11 4 (0.77%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.77%) Freshdesk
12 3 (0.58%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.58%) Pardot
12 3 (0.58%) Sage
13 2 (0.38%) NEC