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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 241 411
Rank change year-on-year -45 +170 +84
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 522 586 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.70% 1.34% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.44% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 301 296 389
10th Percentile £36,500 £44,375 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.18% -12.42%

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 57,853 40,823 73,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.60% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 35,092 22,156 55,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,366 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%
75th Percentile £76,674 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -55 420 £62,500 -3.85% 340
UK excluding London -10 314 £57,500 -4.17% 280
London -50 157 £70,000 -6.67% 116
Work from Home +8 135 £67,500 +12.50% 116
North of England -44 83 £60,000 -1.22% 66
Midlands -33 63 £57,500 -4.17% 55
South East -2 60 £50,000 -11.11% 85
North West -17 51 £60,000 -7.69% 33
West Midlands -13 48 £57,500 -4.17% 25
Scotland -15 35 £32,500 -68.67% 12
Yorkshire -38 25 £71,250 +18.75% 22
East of England +13 22 £65,000 +20.93% 21
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 7
South West -44 21 £73,750 +25.11% 30
East Midlands -27 15 £39,449 -28.28% 30
Wales 0 10 £42,500 -46.88% 8
North East -14 7 £45,497 -24.17% 11

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 22 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.49%) CMS
2 13 (2.49%) Confluence
3 12 (2.30%) Apache
3 12 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.15%) SAS
6 5 (0.96%) IIS
6 5 (0.96%) nginx
7 4 (0.77%) Appian
8 3 (0.57%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.38%) CICS
9 2 (0.38%) MTS
10 1 (0.19%) Drupal
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 52 (9.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.53%) Trello
3 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.96%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.30%) Shopify
2 10 (1.92%) SAP PM
3 7 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.19%) Primavera
7 1 (0.19%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 139 (26.63%) Power Platform
2 84 (16.09%) Azure
3 63 (12.07%) AWS
4 40 (7.66%) SaaS
5 26 (4.98%) GCP
6 20 (3.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (3.64%) GitHub
8 14 (2.68%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.30%) Snowflake
10 10 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (1.92%) Google Analytics
10 10 (1.92%) Serverless
11 9 (1.72%) Asana
11 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.53%) PaaS
13 7 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.15%) Broadband
1 6 (1.15%) Wireless
2 3 (0.57%) Modbus
2 3 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.19%) 5G
3 1 (0.19%) ADSL
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (26.25%) Power BI
2 72 (13.79%) Tableau
3 50 (9.58%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (5.94%) Metadata
5 20 (3.83%) Power Query
5 20 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 17 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (3.07%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (2.68%) Big Data
9 12 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.30%) NoSQL
10 11 (2.11%) Apache Iceberg
11 10 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.72%) Star Schema
13 8 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (1.34%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (6.32%) JIRA
2 21 (4.02%) Git
3 20 (3.83%) Postman
4 9 (1.72%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.96%) MSI
5 5 (0.96%) Vite
6 3 (0.57%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.38%) MLflow
7 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) GitLab
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 217 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 207 (39.66%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (24.14%) Finance
4 76 (14.56%) Marketing
5 52 (9.96%) Law
6 38 (7.28%) Retail
7 37 (7.09%) Legal
8 30 (5.75%) Games
9 29 (5.56%) Public Sector
10 27 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (4.60%) Manufacturing
12 22 (4.21%) Telecoms
13 18 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (3.07%) Military
15 15 (2.87%) Banking
16 14 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (2.49%) Back Office
18 8 (1.53%) Financial Institution
18 8 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 95 (18.20%) Senior
2 88 (16.86%) Analyst
3 64 (12.26%) Lead
4 51 (9.77%) Data Engineer
5 42 (8.05%) Senior Manager
6 38 (7.28%) Data Analyst
7 34 (6.51%) Architect
8 22 (4.21%) Developer
8 22 (4.21%) Product Manager
9 20 (3.83%) Senior Architect
10 16 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 16 (3.07%) Innovation Manager
11 15 (2.87%) Data Manager
11 15 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (2.68%) Product Owner
13 13 (2.49%) Business Analyst
14 12 (2.30%) Business Developer
14 12 (2.30%) Data Scientist
14 12 (2.30%) E-Commerce Manager
14 12 (2.30%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.64%) OpenAPI
1 19 (3.64%) RESTful
1 19 (3.64%) Swagger
2 15 (2.87%) Kafka
2 15 (2.87%) REST
3 12 (2.30%) JSON
4 9 (1.72%) .NET
5 8 (1.53%) CSS
5 8 (1.53%) Node.js
6 7 (1.34%) Middleware
6 7 (1.34%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.34%) React
6 7 (1.34%) TensorFlow
6 7 (1.34%) Vue
7 6 (1.15%) HTML
8 5 (0.96%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.96%) Laravel
8 5 (0.96%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (0.96%) scikit-learn
8 5 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.09%) Product Ownership
2 36 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 19 (3.64%) Algorithms
5 19 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (3.26%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.07%) Social Media
8 13 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.53%) NHS
11 8 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 5 (0.96%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.96%) Replication
14 4 (0.77%) e-Learning
14 4 (0.77%) Hackathon
14 4 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.53%) Windows
2 7 (1.34%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) zOS
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (78.35%) Decision-Making
2 274 (52.49%) Analytics
3 178 (34.10%) Business Intelligence
4 151 (28.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 132 (25.29%) Agile
6 120 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (22.41%) AI
8 103 (19.73%) Roadmaps
8 103 (19.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 96 (18.39%) ETL
10 92 (17.62%) Data Modelling
11 85 (16.28%) Visualisation
12 81 (15.52%) Data Analysis
13 80 (15.33%) Actionable Insight
14 79 (15.13%) Data Governance
15 65 (12.45%) Data Science
16 55 (10.54%) Data Engineering
16 55 (10.54%) Machine Learning
17 54 (10.34%) Data Visualisation
17 54 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 162 (31.03%) SQL
2 112 (21.46%) Python
3 23 (4.41%) R
4 17 (3.26%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.87%) Bash
5 15 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (2.87%) Java
6 12 (2.30%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.34%) Scala
8 6 (1.15%) PHP
8 6 (1.15%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.96%) Go
10 4 (0.77%) C#
11 3 (0.57%) VBA
12 2 (0.38%) COBOL
12 2 (0.38%) JCL
13 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.19%) SHACL
13 1 (0.19%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 102 (19.54%) Degree
2 31 (5.94%) PMI Certification
3 30 (5.75%) PMP
4 14 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.49%) Security Cleared
6 12 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.34%) MBA
9 6 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.96%) ACCA
10 5 (0.96%) CIMA
10 5 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.77%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.38%) HND
14 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (16.09%) Data Quality
2 20 (3.83%) QA
3 19 (3.64%) GDPR
4 11 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.11%) SLA
5 10 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.15%) PMO
7 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.57%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) GMP
10 1 (0.19%) GRC
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (3.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (3.07%) Terraform
2 9 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.96%) Ansible
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Autotask
5 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 72 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.56%) Databricks
3 27 (5.17%) SAP
4 26 (4.98%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.02%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.83%) Genesys
6 20 (3.83%) Verint
7 19 (3.64%) Google
8 15 (2.87%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.11%) HubSpot
10 8 (1.53%) Oracle
11 6 (1.15%) Alteryx
11 6 (1.15%) Botify
11 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.96%) BT
12 5 (0.96%) Foundry
13 3 (0.57%) Informatica
13 3 (0.57%) Mercator
13 3 (0.57%) Workday
14 2 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud