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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 248 355
Rank change year-on-year -91 +107 +32
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 612 594 483
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.20% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.35% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 397 259 280
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,682 £41,263
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £51,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -6.40% +18.99%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £104,642
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +28.23%

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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 10 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 10 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 -64 550 £55,000 -8.33% 1,234
UK excluding London -111 390 £52,500 -4.55% 533
Work from Home -1 187 £52,500 -19.23% 473
London -23 172 £75,000 -6.25% 749
North of England +45 166 £42,500 -22.73% 103
North West +29 99 £47,500 -13.64% 64
Midlands -8 84 £51,356 -10.69% 94
South East -133 65 £65,000 +18.18% 132
West Midlands -21 55 £51,356 -10.69% 51
Yorkshire +10 51 £42,500 -19.05% 32
East of England -23 33 £60,000 +39.26% 64
East Midlands -26 29 £52,500 +12.90% 43
South West -69 24 £65,000 +13.54% 57
North East -56 16 £52,500 -8.70% 7
Scotland -59 11 £55,000 +0.26% 45
Wales -77 7 £53,171 -11.38% 26

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 19 (3.10%) Confluence
2 6 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (0.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.49%) Apache
3 3 (0.49%) CMS
4 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.33%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 55 (8.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.14%) Notion
4 5 (0.82%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.14%) Actimize
3 5 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.65%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.49%) FastStats
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 132 (21.57%) Power Platform
2 91 (14.87%) Azure
3 62 (10.13%) AWS
4 38 (6.21%) SaaS
5 36 (5.88%) GCP
6 26 (4.25%) Snowflake
7 25 (4.08%) Google Analytics
8 22 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (3.10%) Serverless
10 16 (2.61%) dbt
11 15 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (2.12%) GitHub
14 12 (1.96%) Copilot Studio
15 11 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
15 11 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (1.63%) Google Tag Manager
17 9 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
17 9 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.98%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.82%) DNS
2 5 (0.82%) Internet
2 5 (0.82%) SSL
2 5 (0.82%) VPN
2 5 (0.82%) WebEx
3 3 (0.49%) Intranet
4 2 (0.33%) 5G
4 2 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
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
1 132 (21.57%) Power BI
2 70 (11.44%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (6.21%) Tableau
4 28 (4.58%) BigQuery
5 27 (4.41%) Looker
6 21 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 21 (3.43%) Power Query
7 19 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 15 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (1.96%) Metadata
11 12 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.31%) Star Schema
14 7 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.98%) Redis
16 5 (0.82%) NoSQL
16 5 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 39 (6.37%) JIRA
2 19 (3.10%) Git
3 12 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.65%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.49%) Postman
5 3 (0.49%) Selenium
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 212 (34.64%) Finance
2 208 (33.99%) Analytical Skills
3 186 (30.39%) Social Skills
4 82 (13.40%) Marketing
5 73 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 67 (10.95%) Public Sector
7 63 (10.29%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (6.70%) Retail
9 37 (6.05%) Banking
10 36 (5.88%) Law
11 29 (4.74%) Legal
12 28 (4.58%) Manufacturing
13 22 (3.59%) Telecoms
14 16 (2.61%) Aerospace
14 16 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.12%) Back Office
15 13 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (1.96%) Electronics
16 12 (1.96%) Military
17 10 (1.63%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 111 (18.14%) Analyst
2 76 (12.42%) Senior
3 62 (10.13%) Lead
4 43 (7.03%) Data Analyst
5 29 (4.74%) Data Engineer
6 27 (4.41%) Developer
7 25 (4.08%) Analytics Manager
7 25 (4.08%) Architect
7 25 (4.08%) Software Engineer
8 24 (3.92%) Product Owner
9 23 (3.76%) Senior Manager
10 22 (3.59%) IT Manager
10 22 (3.59%) IT Services Manager
10 22 (3.59%) Service Manager
11 21 (3.43%) Data Architect
12 17 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (2.61%) Data Manager
13 16 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
14 15 (2.45%) Principal Engineer
15 14 (2.29%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (6.05%) Kafka
2 24 (3.92%) Spring
3 19 (3.10%) Terraform
4 12 (1.96%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.47%) .NET
5 9 (1.47%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.47%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.47%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.47%) React
6 7 (1.14%) RESTful
7 6 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.98%) Keycloak
8 5 (0.82%) PyTorch
8 5 (0.82%) scikit-learn
8 5 (0.82%) Streamlit
8 5 (0.82%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.65%) Node.js
9 4 (0.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.84%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 30 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.45%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.63%) Replication
9 9 (1.47%) Blog
9 9 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.31%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.31%) FMCG
11 7 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.14%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.14%) Social Media
12 6 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.14%) Linux
2 5 (0.82%) Windows
3 3 (0.49%) Android
3 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (73.04%) Decision-Making
2 250 (40.85%) Analytics
3 174 (28.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 173 (28.27%) AI
5 159 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
6 151 (24.67%) Agile
7 137 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 110 (17.97%) Roadmaps
9 96 (15.69%) Data Modelling
10 94 (15.36%) Mentoring
11 93 (15.20%) Data Governance
12 83 (13.56%) Visualisation
13 79 (12.91%) Actionable Insight
14 67 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 64 (10.46%) Change Management
16 62 (10.13%) Data Science
17 60 (9.80%) ETL
18 59 (9.64%) Machine Learning
18 59 (9.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 154 (25.16%) SQL
2 101 (16.50%) Python
3 30 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (4.08%) Java
5 20 (3.27%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.45%) R
6 15 (2.45%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.96%) C#
8 9 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 6 (0.98%) Bash
9 6 (0.98%) Groovy
10 4 (0.65%) Scala
11 2 (0.33%) C++
11 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.33%) Ruby
11 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (13.24%) Degree
2 59 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 51 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.29%) ACCA
4 14 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
5 13 (2.12%) CIMA
6 12 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.98%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.82%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.65%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.49%) CSPO
12 3 (0.49%) PhD
12 3 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.33%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.33%) HNC
13 2 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (15.85%) Data Quality
2 48 (7.84%) GDPR
3 40 (6.54%) QA
4 31 (5.07%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.80%) GRC
6 9 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.14%) SLA
8 6 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.49%) AQAP
10 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.33%) 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 15 (2.45%) Docker
2 4 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.33%) IAG
4 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.98%) Grafana
2 6 (0.98%) Prometheus
2 6 (0.98%) Rancher
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 99 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.86%) Google
3 31 (5.07%) SAP
4 23 (3.76%) Databricks
5 18 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.96%) Oracle
8 11 (1.80%) Workday
9 10 (1.63%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.31%) Foundry
10 8 (1.31%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.14%) YouTube
12 4 (0.65%) Cisco
12 4 (0.65%) Concur
12 4 (0.65%) Freshdesk
12 4 (0.65%) Okta
12 4 (0.65%) Splunk
12 4 (0.65%) TikTok
13 3 (0.49%) NCR
13 3 (0.49%) Veritas