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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 342 351
Rank change year-on-year +128 +9 +186
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 628 460 403
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.08% 0.79% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.89% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 257 274 309
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,263 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,486 £51,188 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £103,500 £105,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -4.76%

All Process and 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 48,535 51,647 46,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.52% 88.55% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28,396 26,504 35,505
10th Percentile £28,432 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,899
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.49% +4.37% -2.51%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +76 457 £62,500 -3.85% 792
UK excluding London +117 445 £57,500 -4.17% 754
South East +78 163 £55,000 +1.62% 194
London +51 144 £75,000 -16.67% 133
Scotland +84 105 £54,855 -34.01% 30
Work from Home +70 101 £67,500 +8.00% 427
North of England +21 63 £60,000 -5.88% 186
Midlands +14 43 £57,500 -4.17% 137
North West +25 39 £56,250 -10.00% 97
West Midlands +17 36 £65,000 +8.33% 80
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 14
South West +5 18 £65,000 +15.56% 84
Yorkshire 0 18 £75,000 -9.09% 72
East of England +27 17 £52,500 -44.44% 97
Wales +18 14 £48,812 -38.99% 24
East Midlands -2 7 £39,449 -52.18% 53
North East +6 6 - - 19

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 17 (2.71%) Confluence
2 13 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.96%) Apache
4 6 (0.96%) SAS
4 6 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.64%) Appian
5 4 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.48%) CMS
7 2 (0.32%) CICS
7 2 (0.32%) MTS
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 84 (13.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.43%) Trello
5 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.64%) Windchill
7 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 44 (7.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.91%) Shopify
3 7 (1.11%) SAP CO
3 7 (1.11%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.64%) Magento
5 4 (0.64%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.64%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.32%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (21.82%) Power Platform
2 73 (11.62%) SaaS
3 71 (11.31%) Azure
4 44 (7.01%) AWS
5 20 (3.18%) GCP
6 18 (2.87%) GitHub
7 17 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (2.71%) Snowflake
8 15 (2.39%) Google Analytics
8 15 (2.39%) Serverless
9 11 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.59%) PaaS
11 9 (1.43%) Asana
11 9 (1.43%) Google Tag Manager
12 8 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (0.96%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) BGP
1 4 (0.64%) DHCP
1 4 (0.64%) DNS
1 4 (0.64%) Firewall
1 4 (0.64%) LAN
1 4 (0.64%) Network Security
1 4 (0.64%) OSPF
1 4 (0.64%) SD-WAN
1 4 (0.64%) TCP/IP
1 4 (0.64%) VLAN
1 4 (0.64%) VPN
1 4 (0.64%) WAN
1 4 (0.64%) Wireless
2 1 (0.16%) 5G
2 1 (0.16%) ADSL
2 1 (0.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (21.50%) Power BI
2 60 (9.55%) Tableau
3 46 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (3.50%) Data Lake
5 19 (3.03%) Metadata
6 15 (2.39%) Power Query
7 12 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (1.75%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.59%) Looker
10 8 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.27%) SAP BW
11 7 (1.11%) Big Data
11 7 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.96%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.80%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.80%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 64 (10.19%) JIRA
2 36 (5.73%) Git
3 26 (4.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.96%) Postman
4 6 (0.96%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.64%) MSI
5 4 (0.64%) Toad
6 1 (0.16%) GitLab
6 1 (0.16%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.16%) MLflow
6 1 (0.16%) Selenium
6 1 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 377 (60.03%) Social Skills
2 275 (43.79%) Analytical Skills
3 165 (26.27%) Finance
4 85 (13.54%) Marketing
5 40 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
5 40 (6.37%) Retail
6 31 (4.94%) Law
7 30 (4.78%) Legal
8 29 (4.62%) Manufacturing
9 28 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (4.14%) Public Sector
11 22 (3.50%) Games
12 18 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.75%) Banking
14 11 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.27%) Advertising
15 8 (1.27%) Military
16 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 96 (15.29%) Innovation Manager
2 95 (15.13%) Lead
3 91 (14.49%) Analyst
4 79 (12.58%) Senior
5 46 (7.32%) Architect
6 42 (6.69%) Senior Manager
7 33 (5.25%) Data Analyst
8 27 (4.30%) Data Engineer
9 20 (3.18%) Senior Architect
10 18 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 18 (2.87%) Developer
11 17 (2.71%) Product Manager
12 15 (2.39%) Business Analyst
12 15 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (2.07%) Data Manager
14 12 (1.91%) Product Owner
15 11 (1.75%) Digital Product Manager
16 10 (1.59%) Business Intelligence Manager
16 10 (1.59%) E-Commerce Manager
16 10 (1.59%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.55%) REST
2 13 (2.07%) React
3 11 (1.75%) Middleware
4 9 (1.43%) JSON
5 8 (1.27%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.27%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.27%) Vue
6 7 (1.11%) Node.js
6 7 (1.11%) OpenAPI
6 7 (1.11%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.11%) Swagger
6 7 (1.11%) TensorFlow
7 6 (0.96%) RESTful
8 5 (0.80%) CSS
8 5 (0.80%) Pandas
9 4 (0.64%) Django
9 4 (0.64%) FastAPI
9 4 (0.64%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.64%) HTML
9 4 (0.64%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.53%) Product Ownership
2 33 (5.25%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 21 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.43%) Social Media
8 8 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.27%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.11%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.96%) Augmented Reality
10 6 (0.96%) FMCG
11 5 (0.80%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.80%) NHS
11 5 (0.80%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.64%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.64%) e-Learning
12 4 (0.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.43%) Windows
2 4 (0.64%) Unix
2 4 (0.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.32%) zOS
4 1 (0.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (77.23%) Decision-Making
2 301 (47.93%) Analytics
3 235 (37.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 183 (29.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 178 (28.34%) AI
6 163 (25.96%) Business Intelligence
7 130 (20.70%) Customer Experience
8 122 (19.43%) Agile
9 112 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (16.40%) Data Modelling
11 91 (14.49%) ERP
11 91 (14.49%) Roadmaps
12 83 (13.22%) Data Analysis
13 72 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 68 (10.83%) Visualisation
15 66 (10.51%) Project Management
16 63 (10.03%) ETL
17 61 (9.71%) Actionable Insight
18 60 (9.55%) Strategic Thinking
19 55 (8.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 136 (21.66%) SQL
2 85 (13.54%) Python
3 21 (3.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 19 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.07%) R
6 7 (1.11%) Java
6 7 (1.11%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.11%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.96%) PowerShell
8 5 (0.80%) Go
9 4 (0.64%) Bash
9 4 (0.64%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.64%) VB
10 2 (0.32%) ABAP
10 2 (0.32%) COBOL
10 2 (0.32%) JCL
10 2 (0.32%) PHP
10 2 (0.32%) Scala
11 1 (0.16%) C#
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 208 (33.12%) Degree
2 63 (10.03%) Master's Degree
3 40 (6.37%) MBA
4 37 (5.89%) PMI Certification
5 36 (5.73%) PMP
6 33 (5.25%) Security Cleared
7 15 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.59%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.11%) ACCA
10 7 (1.11%) CIMA
10 7 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.64%) CCIE
12 4 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.64%) CISSP
12 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.64%) PhD
13 3 (0.48%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (15.61%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.89%) QA
3 26 (4.14%) Def Stans
4 24 (3.82%) GDPR
5 14 (2.23%) SLA
6 12 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.11%) PMO
8 6 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.32%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.32%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (1.27%) Terraform
2 7 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.64%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 97 (15.45%) SAP
2 75 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.57%) Databricks
4 25 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 23 (3.66%) Google
6 21 (3.34%) Anaplan
7 20 (3.18%) Genesys
7 20 (3.18%) Verint
8 19 (3.03%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.43%) Oracle
10 7 (1.11%) HubSpot
11 5 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.64%) Adobe
12 4 (0.64%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.64%) NEC
12 4 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.64%) Workday
13 3 (0.48%) Ariba
13 3 (0.48%) Mercator
14 2 (0.32%) Intel