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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 339 371
Rank change year-on-year +122 +32 +168
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 613 446 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 0.82% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.91% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 239 262 303
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,386 £34,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £51,203 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,875 £90,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £100,500 £105,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%

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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +89 444 £65,000 - 246
UK excluding London +135 437 £57,500 -4.17% 153
South East +86 163 £55,000 +1.62% 57
London +29 138 £72,500 -19.44% 125
Scotland +70 105 £54,855 -34.01% 7
Work from Home +62 98 £67,000 +7.20% 110
North of England +16 58 £60,000 -7.69% 29
Midlands +7 44 £58,750 -2.08% 33
West Midlands +21 40 £65,750 +9.58% 27
North West +18 33 £55,000 -13.73% 19
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 -
Yorkshire -3 19 £76,250 -7.58% 9
South West +8 17 £67,000 +7.20% 9
East of England +25 15 £52,500 -44.44% 17
Wales +19 13 £45,000 -43.75% 4
North East +12 6 - - 2
East Midlands -4 4 £39,449 -53.32% 6

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 16 (2.61%) Confluence
2 12 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.31%) Apache
3 8 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.98%) SAS
5 5 (0.82%) CMS
5 5 (0.82%) IIS
6 4 (0.65%) Appian
6 4 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.49%) nginx
8 2 (0.33%) CICS
8 2 (0.33%) MTS
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 83 (13.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.47%) Trello
5 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.65%) Windchill
7 3 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.49%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 44 (7.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.28%) Shopify
3 7 (1.14%) SAP CO
3 7 (1.14%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.65%) Magento
5 4 (0.65%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (21.86%) Power Platform
2 77 (12.56%) SaaS
3 68 (11.09%) Azure
4 49 (7.99%) AWS
5 18 (2.94%) GCP
5 18 (2.94%) GitHub
6 17 (2.77%) Snowflake
7 14 (2.28%) Google Analytics
7 14 (2.28%) Serverless
8 13 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.47%) Asana
12 8 (1.31%) Google Tag Manager
12 8 (1.31%) PaaS
13 7 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (0.98%) Google Data Studio
14 6 (0.98%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.82%) Wireless
2 2 (0.33%) BGP
2 2 (0.33%) DHCP
2 2 (0.33%) DNS
2 2 (0.33%) Firewall
2 2 (0.33%) LAN
2 2 (0.33%) Network Security
2 2 (0.33%) OSPF
2 2 (0.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.33%) VLAN
2 2 (0.33%) VPN
2 2 (0.33%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) 5G
3 1 (0.16%) ADSL
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (21.53%) Power BI
2 65 (10.60%) Tableau
3 42 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (3.59%) Data Lake
4 22 (3.59%) Metadata
5 17 (2.77%) Power Query
6 13 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.12%) SQL Server
7 12 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (1.96%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.47%) Looker
9 8 (1.31%) Apache Iceberg
9 8 (1.31%) Big Data
9 8 (1.31%) Data Mining
9 8 (1.31%) SAP BW
10 7 (1.14%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 61 (9.95%) JIRA
2 40 (6.53%) Git
3 26 (4.24%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.47%) Postman
5 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.82%) MSI
7 4 (0.65%) Toad
8 3 (0.49%) Vite
9 1 (0.16%) GitLab
9 1 (0.16%) MLflow
9 1 (0.16%) Selenium
General
1 355 (57.91%) Social Skills
2 264 (43.07%) Analytical Skills
3 168 (27.41%) Finance
4 84 (13.70%) Marketing
5 39 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (5.55%) Retail
7 31 (5.06%) Law
8 30 (4.89%) Legal
9 28 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (4.24%) Public Sector
11 25 (4.08%) Manufacturing
12 22 (3.59%) Games
13 15 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.79%) Banking
16 8 (1.31%) Military
16 8 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.98%) Local Government
18 5 (0.82%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 97 (15.82%) Lead
2 96 (15.66%) Innovation Manager
3 88 (14.36%) Analyst
4 81 (13.21%) Senior
5 46 (7.50%) Senior Manager
6 42 (6.85%) Architect
7 34 (5.55%) Data Analyst
8 29 (4.73%) Data Engineer
9 20 (3.26%) Senior Architect
10 17 (2.77%) Developer
10 17 (2.77%) Product Manager
11 16 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 15 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
13 14 (2.28%) Business Analyst
14 13 (2.12%) Data Manager
15 12 (1.96%) Product Owner
16 11 (1.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 11 (1.79%) Digital Product Manager
17 10 (1.63%) Business Intelligence Manager
18 9 (1.47%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.45%) REST
2 13 (2.12%) React
3 10 (1.63%) Middleware
3 10 (1.63%) OpenAPI
3 10 (1.63%) Swagger
3 10 (1.63%) Vue
4 9 (1.47%) RESTful
5 8 (1.31%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.31%) JSON
5 8 (1.31%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.14%) CSS
6 7 (1.14%) Kafka
6 7 (1.14%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.14%) TensorFlow
7 5 (0.82%) HTML
7 5 (0.82%) Node.js
7 5 (0.82%) Pandas
7 5 (0.82%) Play Framework
8 4 (0.65%) FastAPI
8 4 (0.65%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.04%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.22%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.47%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.47%) Social Media
9 8 (1.31%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.82%) NHS
10 5 (0.82%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.65%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (0.65%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.65%) Hackathon
11 4 (0.65%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.47%) Windows
2 4 (0.65%) Unix
2 4 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.49%) Linux
4 2 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (77.98%) Decision-Making
2 296 (48.29%) Analytics
3 235 (38.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 184 (30.02%) AI
5 180 (29.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 162 (26.43%) Business Intelligence
7 124 (20.23%) Customer Experience
8 120 (19.58%) Agile
9 118 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (17.13%) Data Modelling
11 93 (15.17%) Roadmaps
12 86 (14.03%) Data Analysis
12 86 (14.03%) ERP
13 69 (11.26%) Visualisation
14 68 (11.09%) ETL
15 67 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 65 (10.60%) Actionable Insight
17 63 (10.28%) Strategic Thinking
18 58 (9.46%) Data Governance
19 56 (9.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (22.51%) SQL
2 87 (14.19%) Python
3 20 (3.26%) JavaScript
4 18 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.77%) R
6 11 (1.79%) Java
7 8 (1.31%) Bash
7 8 (1.31%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.98%) Scala
8 6 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.82%) Go
10 4 (0.65%) PHP
10 4 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.65%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.65%) VB
11 2 (0.33%) ABAP
11 2 (0.33%) COBOL
11 2 (0.33%) JCL
12 1 (0.16%) C#
12 1 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 204 (33.28%) Degree
2 59 (9.62%) Master's Degree
3 44 (7.18%) MBA
4 34 (5.55%) Security Cleared
5 33 (5.38%) PMI Certification
6 32 (5.22%) PMP
7 13 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.79%) SC Cleared
9 7 (1.14%) ACCA
9 7 (1.14%) CIMA
9 7 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.33%) CCIE
13 2 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (16.97%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.36%) QA
3 26 (4.24%) Def Stans
4 24 (3.92%) GDPR
5 14 (2.28%) SLA
6 12 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.14%) PMO
8 6 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.33%) IFRS
12 1 (0.16%) GAAP
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
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 14 (2.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (0.98%) Kubernetes
1 6 (0.98%) Terraform
2 4 (0.65%) Ansible
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (15.17%) SAP
2 71 (11.58%) Microsoft
3 37 (6.04%) Databricks
4 25 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.43%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.26%) Genesys
6 20 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.26%) Verint
7 18 (2.94%) Google
8 9 (1.47%) Oracle
9 8 (1.31%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.82%) BT
10 5 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.65%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.65%) NEC
11 4 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.65%) Workday
12 3 (0.49%) Ariba
12 3 (0.49%) Mercator
12 3 (0.49%) Sage