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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 208 392
Rank change year-on-year -113 +184 +82
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 621 786 521
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.57% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.76% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 433 324 329
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,915 £40,010
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +8.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -94 567 £57,500 -4.17% 850
UK excluding London -102 418 £52,500 -4.55% 406
North of England +28 198 £50,000 -13.04% 108
Work from Home -42 158 £52,500 -8.70% 315
London -96 158 £80,000 +6.67% 536
North West +50 145 £55,000 -4.35% 67
Midlands -38 90 £51,356 -10.69% 49
South East -92 67 £50,000 -4.95% 114
West Midlands -29 54 £51,356 -8.70% 23
Yorkshire -13 39 £42,500 -26.09% 27
East Midlands -23 36 £52,500 -8.70% 26
East of England -16 29 £58,105 +36.72% 30
South West -84 17 £60,000 +37.58% 50
North East -45 14 £68,750 +19.57% 15
Scotland -51 11 £55,000 -21.43% 37
Wales -59 6 £53,171 -18.20% 10

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 9 (1.45%) Confluence
2 8 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.29%) CMS
2 8 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.48%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.32%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.16%) nginx
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 51 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (2.25%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.32%) Primavera
4 2 (0.32%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.16%) Actimize
5 1 (0.16%) FastStats
5 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 114 (18.36%) Power Platform
2 96 (15.46%) Azure
3 71 (11.43%) AWS
4 42 (6.76%) GCP
5 29 (4.67%) SaaS
6 28 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (3.38%) Google Analytics
7 21 (3.38%) Snowflake
8 17 (2.74%) Serverless
9 15 (2.42%) GitHub
10 13 (2.09%) dbt
11 12 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.45%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.13%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.48%) Broadband
2 3 (0.48%) Intranet
2 3 (0.48%) Modbus
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) GoToMeeting
3 1 (0.16%) MQTT
3 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.16%) WebEx
3 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (18.36%) Power BI
2 62 (9.98%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (8.70%) Tableau
4 25 (4.03%) BigQuery
4 25 (4.03%) Looker
5 23 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.06%) Relational Database
6 19 (3.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (2.74%) Power Query
8 15 (2.42%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.09%) Metadata
10 12 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 12 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (1.45%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (1.45%) Star Schema
12 5 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.81%) MySQL
12 5 (0.81%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 34 (5.48%) JIRA
2 16 (2.58%) Git
3 9 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.97%) Postman
5 4 (0.64%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.48%) Selenium
6 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 217 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 197 (31.72%) Analytical Skills
3 165 (26.57%) Finance
4 81 (13.04%) Marketing
5 61 (9.82%) Law
6 55 (8.86%) Public Sector
7 53 (8.53%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (6.60%) Retail
9 40 (6.44%) Telecoms
10 37 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (5.96%) Legal
11 33 (5.31%) Back Office
12 32 (5.15%) Military
13 30 (4.83%) Manufacturing
14 28 (4.51%) Banking
15 14 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (2.09%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.45%) Electronics
17 9 (1.45%) Games
17 9 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (19.00%) Analyst
1 118 (19.00%) Senior
2 91 (14.65%) Lead
3 41 (6.60%) Data Engineer
4 38 (6.12%) Data Analyst
5 27 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 26 (4.19%) Architect
7 24 (3.86%) Analytics Manager
8 23 (3.70%) Developer
8 23 (3.70%) Senior Manager
9 21 (3.38%) Product Owner
10 20 (3.22%) Data Scientist
11 19 (3.06%) Data Manager
11 19 (3.06%) Performance Analyst
12 18 (2.90%) Data Architect
13 16 (2.58%) Performance Manager
13 16 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 14 (2.25%) IT Analyst
14 14 (2.25%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (2.25%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.99%) Kafka
2 23 (3.70%) Spring
3 15 (2.42%) .NET
4 11 (1.77%) Spring Boot
5 9 (1.45%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.45%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.45%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.45%) Entity Framework
5 9 (1.45%) React
5 9 (1.45%) REST
6 8 (1.29%) RESTful
7 7 (1.13%) Node.js
8 6 (0.97%) PyTorch
8 6 (0.97%) scikit-learn
8 6 (0.97%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.64%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.64%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.64%) OpenAPI
9 4 (0.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (3.06%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.93%) Social Media
8 11 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.45%) Blog
9 9 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.29%) Replication
11 7 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.13%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.13%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.97%) IoT
12 6 (0.97%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.81%) Linux
2 3 (0.48%) Android
2 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (72.46%) Decision-Making
2 294 (47.34%) Analytics
3 154 (24.80%) AI
4 144 (23.19%) Agile
5 143 (23.03%) Business Intelligence
6 138 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 135 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (17.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 98 (15.78%) Data Governance
9 98 (15.78%) Roadmaps
10 96 (15.46%) Visualisation
11 83 (13.37%) Data Modelling
12 77 (12.40%) Mentoring
13 75 (12.08%) Data Science
14 70 (11.27%) Actionable Insight
15 69 (11.11%) Machine Learning
15 69 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 63 (10.14%) CI/CD
17 59 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
18 58 (9.34%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 136 (21.90%) SQL
2 86 (13.85%) Python
3 27 (4.35%) Java
4 25 (4.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (3.86%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.42%) R
8 13 (2.09%) C#
9 10 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.45%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.97%) Scala
12 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.48%) VBA
13 2 (0.32%) Ruby
14 1 (0.16%) Bash
14 1 (0.16%) C++
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (12.08%) Degree
2 37 (5.96%) Security Cleared
3 24 (3.86%) SC Cleared
4 15 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.61%) ACCA
6 10 (1.61%) CIMA
6 10 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.48%) CSPO
11 3 (0.48%) PhD
12 2 (0.32%) HND
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.60%) GDPR
3 24 (3.86%) QA
4 21 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.77%) GRC
6 9 (1.45%) SLA
7 7 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.64%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) GxP
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.54%) Terraform
2 17 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.32%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) Autotask
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 86 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.25%) Google
3 34 (5.48%) SAP
4 27 (4.35%) Databricks
5 12 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.13%) Foundry
6 7 (1.13%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.97%) Botify
8 5 (0.81%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.81%) Oracle
8 5 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.64%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.64%) Freshdesk
9 4 (0.64%) Splunk
10 3 (0.48%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.48%) Palantir
10 3 (0.48%) Pardot
10 3 (0.48%) Sage
10 3 (0.48%) TikTok