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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 226 380
Rank change year-on-year -101 +154 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 629 681 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.39% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.57% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 429 282 276
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,256
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,372
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.76% +14.88%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,375 £82,813
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,125 £104,801
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.98% +18.25%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -76 572 £56,210 -6.11% 1,019
UK excluding London -122 414 £52,500 -4.55% 552
North of England +29 191 £42,700 -22.36% 132
Work from Home -16 174 £50,000 -16.67% 397
London -65 168 £82,500 +3.13% 553
North West +15 125 £49,250 -10.45% 79
Midlands -27 84 £51,356 -10.69% 96
South East -135 64 £65,000 +18.18% 120
West Midlands -34 58 £51,356 -10.69% 50
Yorkshire -10 50 £42,500 -19.05% 41
East of England -16 32 £60,000 +39.26% 54
East Midlands -26 26 £52,500 -8.70% 46
South West -76 25 £65,000 +30.00% 66
North East -51 16 £52,500 -8.70% 12
Scotland -62 11 £55,000 +0.26% 49
Wales -73 7 £53,171 -11.38% 20

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 (3.02%) Confluence
2 7 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.48%) Apache
3 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.48%) CMS
4 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 55 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.79%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.95%) Actimize
3 4 (0.64%) SAP PM
4 3 (0.48%) FastStats
4 3 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
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%) NetSuite
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
1 131 (20.83%) Power Platform
2 89 (14.15%) Azure
3 65 (10.33%) AWS
4 39 (6.20%) GCP
5 38 (6.04%) SaaS
6 25 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 25 (3.97%) Google Analytics
6 25 (3.97%) Snowflake
7 20 (3.18%) Serverless
8 17 (2.70%) dbt
9 16 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.38%) GitHub
11 13 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
12 12 (1.91%) Copilot Studio
13 11 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.64%) DNS
2 4 (0.64%) Internet
2 4 (0.64%) SSL
2 4 (0.64%) VPN
2 4 (0.64%) WebEx
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
1 131 (20.83%) Power BI
2 65 (10.33%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (7.47%) Tableau
4 28 (4.45%) BigQuery
4 28 (4.45%) Looker
5 22 (3.50%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.86%) Power Query
7 17 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (2.23%) Metadata
9 14 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 13 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (1.91%) MongoDB
12 11 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.27%) Star Schema
14 7 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.95%) Redis
15 6 (0.95%) SQL Server
16 5 (0.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (6.68%) JIRA
2 20 (3.18%) Git
3 12 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.64%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.64%) Postman
4 4 (0.64%) 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
1 207 (32.91%) Analytical Skills
2 198 (31.48%) Finance
2 198 (31.48%) Social Skills
3 80 (12.72%) Marketing
4 63 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 60 (9.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
7 47 (7.47%) Law
8 40 (6.36%) Retail
9 35 (5.56%) Banking
10 31 (4.93%) Telecoms
11 30 (4.77%) Legal
12 23 (3.66%) Back Office
12 23 (3.66%) Manufacturing
13 22 (3.50%) Military
14 14 (2.23%) Aerospace
14 14 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.59%) Electronics
17 9 (1.43%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 124 (19.71%) Analyst
2 94 (14.94%) Senior
3 75 (11.92%) Lead
4 40 (6.36%) Data Analyst
5 32 (5.09%) Data Engineer
6 25 (3.97%) Developer
6 25 (3.97%) Senior Manager
6 25 (3.97%) Software Engineer
7 24 (3.82%) Architect
7 24 (3.82%) Product Owner
8 23 (3.66%) Analytics Manager
9 22 (3.50%) IT Manager
9 22 (3.50%) IT Services Manager
9 22 (3.50%) Service Manager
10 19 (3.02%) Performance Analyst
11 18 (2.86%) Data Architect
12 17 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (2.54%) Data Manager
14 15 (2.38%) Delivery Manager
14 15 (2.38%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (5.88%) Kafka
2 24 (3.82%) Spring
3 21 (3.34%) Terraform
4 12 (1.91%) 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 (0.64%) Middleware
9 4 (0.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.59%) Replication
10 9 (1.43%) Blog
10 9 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.27%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.27%) FMCG
11 8 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.11%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.11%) Social Media
13 6 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.27%) Linux
2 5 (0.79%) Windows
3 3 (0.48%) Android
3 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (72.18%) Decision-Making
2 266 (42.29%) Analytics
3 170 (27.03%) AI
4 164 (26.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 156 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
6 151 (24.01%) Agile
7 140 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
8 128 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 108 (17.17%) Roadmaps
10 97 (15.42%) Data Governance
10 97 (15.42%) Data Modelling
11 91 (14.47%) Mentoring
12 84 (13.35%) Visualisation
13 78 (12.40%) Actionable Insight
14 72 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 65 (10.33%) Data Science
16 62 (9.86%) Change Management
17 61 (9.70%) ETL
18 60 (9.54%) Machine Learning
19 59 (9.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 148 (23.53%) SQL
2 97 (15.42%) Python
3 25 (3.97%) Java
4 24 (3.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (3.18%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.23%) R
8 11 (1.75%) C#
9 9 (1.43%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.95%) Bash
10 6 (0.95%) Groovy
10 6 (0.95%) Scala
11 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.32%) C++
12 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (12.24%) Degree
2 54 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 46 (7.31%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.54%) ACCA
5 15 (2.38%) CIMA
6 14 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
7 12 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.64%) CREST Certified
13 3 (0.48%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.48%) CSPO
13 3 (0.48%) PhD
13 3 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 2 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.32%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 43 (6.84%) GDPR
3 40 (6.36%) QA
4 23 (3.66%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.91%) GRC
6 7 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.11%) SLA
7 6 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.48%) AQAP
9 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.48%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (2.70%) Docker
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 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.95%) Grafana
2 6 (0.95%) Prometheus
2 6 (0.95%) Rancher
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 91 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.52%) Google
3 32 (5.09%) SAP
4 26 (4.13%) Databricks
5 18 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.59%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.27%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.27%) Oracle
7 8 (1.27%) Workday
8 7 (1.11%) Foundry
9 6 (0.95%) YouTube
10 4 (0.64%) Freshdesk
10 4 (0.64%) Splunk
10 4 (0.64%) TikTok
11 3 (0.48%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.48%) Cisco
11 3 (0.48%) Concur
11 3 (0.48%) HubSpot
11 3 (0.48%) NCR