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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 242 368
Rank change year-on-year -93 +126 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 630 638 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.29% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.45% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 417 268 279
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,743
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -4.52% +15.59%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,875 £101,920
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.98% +21.28%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -65 570 £55,000 -8.33% 1,286
UK excluding London -117 412 £52,500 -4.55% 634
Work from Home 0 185 £52,000 -20.00% 517
North of England +21 184 £42,500 -24.44% 141
London -42 169 £78,750 -1.56% 754
North West +22 116 £47,500 -15.56% 75
Midlands -19 87 £51,356 -10.69% 88
South East -145 64 £65,000 +23.81% 155
West Midlands -26 59 £51,356 -10.69% 45
Yorkshire +3 51 £42,500 -19.05% 50
East of England -15 33 £60,000 +39.26% 68
East Midlands -29 28 £52,500 -8.70% 43
South West -69 26 £65,000 +24.40% 74
North East -52 17 £52,500 -8.70% 16
Scotland -54 11 £55,000 +0.26% 55
Wales -71 7 £53,171 -11.38% 37

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 20 (3.17%) Confluence
2 7 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.48%) Apache
4 3 (0.48%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 57 (9.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.79%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.63%) Notion
6 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.11%) Actimize
3 4 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.63%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.63%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.48%) FastStats
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 130 (20.63%) Power Platform
2 88 (13.97%) Azure
3 61 (9.68%) AWS
4 37 (5.87%) SaaS
5 36 (5.71%) GCP
6 26 (4.13%) Snowflake
7 25 (3.97%) Google Analytics
8 24 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (3.17%) Serverless
10 16 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.54%) dbt
11 14 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.06%) GitHub
13 12 (1.90%) Copilot Studio
14 11 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
15 9 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (1.43%) Google Tag Manager
15 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
1 5 (0.79%) WebEx
2 4 (0.63%) DNS
2 4 (0.63%) Internet
2 4 (0.63%) SSL
2 4 (0.63%) VPN
3 3 (0.48%) Intranet
4 2 (0.32%) 5G
4 2 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) GoToMeeting
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (20.63%) Power BI
2 69 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (7.14%) Tableau
4 27 (4.29%) BigQuery
4 27 (4.29%) Looker
5 22 (3.49%) Power Query
6 21 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 19 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 14 (2.22%) Metadata
11 13 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (1.90%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.27%) Star Schema
15 7 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.95%) Redis
16 6 (0.95%) SQL Server
17 5 (0.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (6.67%) JIRA
2 20 (3.17%) Git
3 12 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.63%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.63%) Postman
4 4 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 216 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
2 211 (33.49%) Finance
3 201 (31.90%) Social Skills
4 82 (13.02%) Marketing
5 67 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 65 (10.32%) Public Sector
7 62 (9.84%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (7.14%) Law
9 42 (6.67%) Retail
10 36 (5.71%) Banking
11 31 (4.92%) Telecoms
12 30 (4.76%) Legal
13 26 (4.13%) Manufacturing
14 23 (3.65%) Back Office
15 22 (3.49%) Military
16 17 (2.70%) Aerospace
17 15 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
19 11 (1.75%) Electronics
20 10 (1.59%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 126 (20.00%) Analyst
2 87 (13.81%) Senior
3 69 (10.95%) Lead
4 41 (6.51%) Data Analyst
5 31 (4.92%) Data Engineer
6 25 (3.97%) Analytics Manager
6 25 (3.97%) Developer
6 25 (3.97%) Senior Manager
6 25 (3.97%) Software Engineer
7 24 (3.81%) Architect
7 24 (3.81%) Product Owner
8 22 (3.49%) IT Manager
8 22 (3.49%) IT Services Manager
8 22 (3.49%) Service Manager
9 20 (3.17%) Data Architect
10 19 (3.02%) Performance Analyst
11 18 (2.86%) Data Manager
12 17 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
14 15 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.87%) Kafka
2 24 (3.81%) Spring
3 21 (3.33%) Terraform
4 12 (1.90%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.43%) .NET
5 9 (1.43%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.43%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.43%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.43%) React
6 7 (1.11%) RESTful
7 6 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.95%) Keycloak
7 6 (0.95%) PyTorch
7 6 (0.95%) scikit-learn
7 6 (0.95%) TensorFlow
8 5 (0.79%) REST
9 4 (0.63%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.94%) Product Ownership
2 40 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.59%) Replication
10 9 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.43%) Blog
10 9 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.27%) FMCG
12 7 (1.11%) Social Media
13 6 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (0.95%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.95%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.27%) Linux
2 4 (0.63%) Windows
3 3 (0.48%) Android
3 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (71.90%) Decision-Making
2 259 (41.11%) Analytics
3 173 (27.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 168 (26.67%) AI
5 154 (24.44%) Business Intelligence
6 153 (24.29%) Agile
7 142 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
8 136 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 109 (17.30%) Roadmaps
10 100 (15.87%) Data Governance
11 98 (15.56%) Data Modelling
12 92 (14.60%) Mentoring
13 88 (13.97%) Visualisation
14 79 (12.54%) Actionable Insight
15 68 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 64 (10.16%) Data Science
17 62 (9.84%) ETL
18 61 (9.68%) Change Management
19 59 (9.37%) Workflow
20 57 (9.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 153 (24.29%) SQL
2 98 (15.56%) Python
3 29 (4.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (3.97%) Java
5 20 (3.17%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.22%) R
8 11 (1.75%) C#
9 9 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.95%) Bash
10 6 (0.95%) Groovy
11 4 (0.63%) Scala
11 4 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.32%) C++
12 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (12.70%) Degree
2 56 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 48 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.54%) ACCA
5 15 (2.38%) CIMA
6 14 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.63%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.48%) CSPO
13 3 (0.48%) PhD
13 3 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.32%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.16%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 46 (7.30%) GDPR
3 41 (6.51%) QA
4 25 (3.97%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.75%) GRC
6 9 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.11%) SLA
8 6 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.48%) AQAP
10 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) GxP
12 1 (0.16%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.95%) Grafana
2 6 (0.95%) Prometheus
2 6 (0.95%) Rancher
3 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 94 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.67%) Google
3 31 (4.92%) SAP
4 23 (3.65%) Databricks
5 18 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.59%) Oracle
7 10 (1.59%) Workday
8 8 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.11%) Foundry
9 7 (1.11%) YouTube
10 4 (0.63%) Cisco
10 4 (0.63%) Concur
10 4 (0.63%) Freshdesk
10 4 (0.63%) Okta
10 4 (0.63%) Splunk
10 4 (0.63%) TikTok
11 3 (0.48%) Pinterest
11 3 (0.48%) Snapchat