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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 219 420
Rank change year-on-year -110 +201 +52
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 504 707 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.59% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.71% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 365 308 415
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £50,580 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,731 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +10.42% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £77,955
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -7.53% +9.42% -4.45%

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 67,964 41,274 88,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.59% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46,731 22,044 62,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,525
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £91,991
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -113 455 £60,000 -1.22% 338
UK excluding London -68 336 £53,171 -7.53% 202
Work from Home -44 141 £58,750 +2.17% 144
North of England +1 137 £57,500 - 45
London -132 123 £80,000 +10.34% 163
North West +43 113 £57,500 - 31
Midlands -17 82 £48,000 -16.52% 44
West Midlands -23 58 £49,928 -13.17% 24
South East -51 54 £50,000 -23.08% 59
East of England -11 29 £60,000 +37.93% 17
East Midlands -26 24 £37,500 -34.78% 20
Yorkshire -46 19 £51,250 -10.87% 10
South West -84 16 £77,500 +66.67% 26
Scotland -23 14 £32,500 -60.61% 6
Wales -40 6 £52,835 -34.97% 5
North East -42 5 £43,999 -23.48% 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 18 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.18%) CMS
3 10 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.79%) Apache
5 8 (1.59%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.39%) Confluence
7 4 (0.79%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.79%) nginx
8 2 (0.40%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.79%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.98%) SAP PM
2 5 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.79%) Shopify
4 3 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.40%) Primavera
6 1 (0.20%) FastStats
6 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.20%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 99 (19.64%) Azure
2 87 (17.26%) Power Platform
3 61 (12.10%) AWS
4 33 (6.55%) GCP
5 32 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (5.95%) SaaS
7 11 (2.18%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.98%) GitHub
9 9 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.79%) Serverless
10 8 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (1.39%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.19%) dbt
12 6 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.19%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.19%) Broadband
2 4 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.60%) Intranet
3 3 (0.60%) Modbus
4 1 (0.20%) MQTT
4 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (17.26%) Power BI
2 53 (10.52%) Tableau
3 47 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (3.77%) Metadata
5 19 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.57%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.58%) Power Query
8 11 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.98%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.98%) Star Schema
10 9 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.79%) Big Data
10 9 (1.79%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.59%) Looker
11 8 (1.59%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 22 (4.37%) Git
2 17 (3.37%) Postman
3 16 (3.17%) JIRA
4 6 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.79%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.79%) Vite
6 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.40%) Selenium
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 176 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 144 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (20.83%) Finance
4 62 (12.30%) Law
5 54 (10.71%) Marketing
6 36 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 33 (6.55%) Legal
8 32 (6.35%) Public Sector
9 28 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (5.16%) Military
11 25 (4.96%) Back Office
12 22 (4.37%) Manufacturing
13 21 (4.17%) Retail
14 17 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (1.79%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.79%) Banking
16 9 (1.79%) Billing
16 9 (1.79%) Games
17 4 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 93 (18.45%) Senior
2 92 (18.25%) Analyst
3 78 (15.48%) Lead
4 57 (11.31%) Data Engineer
5 37 (7.34%) Data Analyst
6 30 (5.95%) Developer
7 20 (3.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 19 (3.77%) Product Owner
9 18 (3.57%) Performance Analyst
10 17 (3.37%) Architect
11 15 (2.98%) Data Manager
11 15 (2.98%) Data Scientist
11 15 (2.98%) Microsoft Engineer
11 15 (2.98%) Senior Manager
12 14 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (2.58%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (2.58%) Product Manager
14 12 (2.38%) Data Architect
15 10 (1.98%) Business Developer
15 10 (1.98%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.96%) Kafka
2 18 (3.57%) .NET
3 15 (2.98%) OpenAPI
3 15 (2.98%) RESTful
3 15 (2.98%) Swagger
4 11 (2.18%) REST
5 10 (1.98%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.79%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.79%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.19%) Node.js
8 5 (0.99%) CSS
8 5 (0.99%) HTML
8 5 (0.99%) JSON
8 5 (0.99%) Middleware
8 5 (0.99%) Spring
8 5 (0.99%) Vue
8 5 (0.99%) YAML
9 4 (0.79%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.55%) Cloud Native
1 33 (6.55%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.37%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.98%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.98%) Social Media
9 7 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.19%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.19%) Replication
10 6 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.79%) IoT
12 4 (0.79%) NHS
12 4 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.98%) Linux
2 4 (0.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (71.63%) Decision-Making
2 254 (50.40%) Analytics
3 125 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
4 119 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (23.02%) Agile
6 101 (20.04%) AI
7 96 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (17.06%) Data Governance
8 86 (17.06%) Roadmaps
9 79 (15.67%) Data Modelling
9 79 (15.67%) ETL
10 71 (14.09%) Visualisation
11 62 (12.30%) CI/CD
12 61 (12.10%) Data Analysis
12 61 (12.10%) Data Pipeline
13 57 (11.31%) Actionable Insight
14 52 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 51 (10.12%) Data Science
16 49 (9.72%) DevOps
17 48 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 132 (26.19%) SQL
2 88 (17.46%) Python
3 20 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 20 (3.97%) JavaScript
4 15 (2.98%) R
5 14 (2.78%) C#
6 12 (2.38%) Bash
6 12 (2.38%) Java
6 12 (2.38%) T-SQL
7 11 (2.18%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.59%) Scala
9 4 (0.79%) PHP
10 3 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.60%) VBA
11 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.20%) C++
12 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (10.32%) Degree
2 24 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.98%) ACCA
4 10 (1.98%) CIMA
5 9 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.99%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.79%) MBA
9 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.40%) CSPO
10 2 (0.40%) HND
10 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CBAP
11 1 (0.20%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (15.08%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.76%) GDPR
3 16 (3.17%) QA
4 11 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.19%) PMO
7 4 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.60%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (2.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) IAG
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.96%) Terraform
2 17 (3.37%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Autotask
4 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 70 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.56%) SAP
3 23 (4.56%) Databricks
4 17 (3.37%) Google
5 12 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.59%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.19%) Botify
8 5 (0.99%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.99%) Foundry
8 5 (0.99%) Oracle
9 4 (0.79%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.60%) Pardot
10 3 (0.60%) Sage
10 3 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.40%) BT
11 2 (0.40%) Cognos
11 2 (0.40%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.40%) NEC
11 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.40%) Splunk