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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 196 429
Rank change year-on-year -117 +233 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 528 693 550
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.64% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.76% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 337 327 412
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £51,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -107 453 £60,000 -4.00% 277
UK excluding London -71 333 £55,000 -4.35% 166
London -103 151 £70,000 -6.67% 132
North of England -37 128 £60,000 +4.35% 44
Work from Home -49 126 £66,500 +15.65% 113
North West -3 93 £60,000 +4.35% 27
Midlands -53 68 £51,750 -10.00% 26
South East -58 50 £50,000 -13.04% 48
West Midlands -48 48 £56,250 -2.17% 13
East of England -16 27 £62,500 +19.05% 20
Yorkshire -60 27 £90,000 +56.52% 13
East Midlands -42 20 £37,500 -34.78% 13
Scotland -50 18 £32,500 -70.45% 5
South West -83 17 £73,750 +40.48% 18
Northern Ireland - 16 £77,500 - 1
Wales -20 11 £42,500 -46.88% 5
North East -32 8 £67,749 +17.82% 5

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 21 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.46%) CMS
3 11 (2.08%) Apache
3 11 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.33%) Confluence
5 5 (0.95%) IIS
5 5 (0.95%) nginx
6 4 (0.76%) Appian
6 4 (0.76%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.38%) CICS
7 2 (0.38%) MTS
8 1 (0.19%) Drupal
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 37 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (0.95%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) Trello
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.89%) SAP PM
2 7 (1.33%) Shopify
3 5 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.38%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.38%) Primavera
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 106 (20.08%) Power Platform
2 87 (16.48%) Azure
3 64 (12.12%) AWS
4 36 (6.82%) SaaS
5 26 (4.92%) GCP
6 24 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (2.65%) GitHub
8 13 (2.46%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.89%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (1.70%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.52%) Asana
12 8 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.52%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.52%) Serverless
13 7 (1.33%) dbt
14 6 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.14%) Broadband
1 6 (1.14%) Wireless
2 3 (0.57%) Modbus
2 3 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.38%) Intranet
4 1 (0.19%) ADSL
4 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (20.08%) Power BI
2 70 (13.26%) Tableau
3 43 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.55%) Metadata
5 21 (3.98%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (3.03%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.84%) Big Data
9 13 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (2.46%) Power Query
10 11 (2.08%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
11 10 (1.89%) Star Schema
12 9 (1.70%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (1.70%) Geospatial Data
12 9 (1.70%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.33%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.33%) MySQL
14 6 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 26 (4.92%) JIRA
2 21 (3.98%) Git
3 20 (3.79%) Postman
4 5 (0.95%) MSI
4 5 (0.95%) Vite
5 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.38%) MLflow
6 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) GitLab
7 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 190 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 183 (34.66%) Analytical Skills
3 116 (21.97%) Finance
4 68 (12.88%) Law
5 63 (11.93%) Marketing
6 32 (6.06%) Legal
7 29 (5.49%) Games
7 29 (5.49%) Telecoms
8 28 (5.30%) Influencing Skills
8 28 (5.30%) Retail
9 26 (4.92%) Military
10 24 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (4.36%) Public Sector
12 22 (4.17%) Back Office
13 20 (3.79%) Manufacturing
14 14 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.89%) Banking
17 9 (1.70%) Billing
18 8 (1.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 115 (21.78%) Senior
2 87 (16.48%) Lead
3 84 (15.91%) Analyst
4 57 (10.80%) Data Engineer
5 39 (7.39%) Senior Manager
6 34 (6.44%) Architect
7 31 (5.87%) Data Analyst
8 21 (3.98%) Developer
9 20 (3.79%) Product Manager
9 20 (3.79%) Senior Architect
10 15 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 15 (2.84%) Data Manager
11 14 (2.65%) Data Scientist
12 13 (2.46%) Business Analyst
12 13 (2.46%) Performance Analyst
13 12 (2.27%) Microsoft Engineer
13 12 (2.27%) Product Owner
14 11 (2.08%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (1.89%) Business Developer
15 10 (1.89%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.41%) OpenAPI
1 18 (3.41%) RESTful
1 18 (3.41%) Swagger
2 15 (2.84%) Kafka
3 14 (2.65%) REST
4 9 (1.70%) .NET
4 9 (1.70%) Node.js
5 8 (1.52%) CSS
5 8 (1.52%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.52%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.14%) HTML
6 6 (1.14%) JSON
6 6 (1.14%) Middleware
6 6 (1.14%) scikit-learn
6 6 (1.14%) Vue
7 5 (0.95%) Laravel
7 5 (0.95%) Play Framework
7 5 (0.95%) PySpark
7 5 (0.95%) React
7 5 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 30 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.36%) Cloud Native
5 21 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (3.03%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.08%) Social Media
9 10 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.70%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.14%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.14%) NHS
11 6 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.95%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.95%) Replication
13 4 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.70%) Linux
2 6 (1.14%) Windows
3 2 (0.38%) zOS
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (77.08%) Decision-Making
2 259 (49.05%) Analytics
3 146 (27.65%) Business Intelligence
4 136 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 131 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
6 123 (23.30%) Agile
7 102 (19.32%) AI
8 87 (16.48%) Roadmaps
9 86 (16.29%) Data Governance
9 86 (16.29%) ETL
10 83 (15.72%) Data Modelling
11 80 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 74 (14.02%) Visualisation
13 71 (13.45%) Data Analysis
14 70 (13.26%) Actionable Insight
15 61 (11.55%) Data Science
16 56 (10.61%) Data Pipeline
17 55 (10.42%) CI/CD
18 48 (9.09%) Project Management
19 47 (8.90%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 139 (26.33%) SQL
2 100 (18.94%) Python
3 20 (3.79%) R
4 17 (3.22%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.03%) Java
6 15 (2.84%) Bash
7 14 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.27%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.89%) Scala
10 6 (1.14%) PHP
11 5 (0.95%) Go
11 5 (0.95%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.76%) C#
13 3 (0.57%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.57%) VBA
14 2 (0.38%) COBOL
14 2 (0.38%) JCL
15 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.19%) SHACL
15 1 (0.19%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 84 (15.91%) Degree
2 29 (5.49%) PMI Certification
3 28 (5.30%) PMP
4 17 (3.22%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.70%) ACCA
6 9 (1.70%) CIMA
6 9 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.33%) MBA
9 6 (1.14%) SC Cleared
10 5 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.38%) HND
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (15.91%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.84%) GDPR
2 15 (2.84%) QA
3 10 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (1.70%) SLA
5 8 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.52%) PMO
6 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.57%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.38%) GRC
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 16 (3.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.38%) IAG
2 2 (0.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 19 (3.60%) Terraform
2 10 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.33%) 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 60 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.30%) Databricks
3 25 (4.73%) SAP
4 24 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.98%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.79%) Genesys
6 20 (3.79%) Verint
7 17 (3.22%) Google
8 14 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.08%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.14%) Botify
11 5 (0.95%) BT
11 5 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.95%) Oracle
12 4 (0.76%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.76%) Foundry
13 3 (0.57%) Informatica
13 3 (0.57%) Pardot
13 3 (0.57%) Sage
14 2 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud