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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 213 407
Rank change year-on-year -137 +194 +79
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 537 764 588
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.55% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.72% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 388 333 406
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,599 £48,000 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,866 £60,394 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +9.81% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £76,813
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,835 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -6.37% +9.42% +0.10%

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 72,820 44,444 83,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 90.26% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 50,274 24,878 58,156
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 13 July 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 July 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 -103 481 £60,000 -1.18% 458
UK excluding London -94 359 £53,835 -6.37% 247
North of England +11 152 £57,500 - 67
Work from Home -48 148 £53,171 -7.53% 134
North West +27 125 £57,500 - 35
London -132 123 £80,000 +6.67% 256
Midlands -32 88 £50,000 -13.04% 49
West Midlands -22 57 £51,356 -10.69% 27
South East -64 56 £50,000 -21.88% 65
East of England -14 31 £60,000 +37.93% 23
East Midlands -29 31 £47,500 -17.39% 21
Yorkshire -44 20 £51,250 -10.87% 20
South West -92 17 £60,000 +33.33% 26
Scotland -49 12 £52,250 -36.67% 11
North East -47 7 £48,999 -14.79% 12
Wales -46 5 £53,171 -3.33% 4

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 14 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.68%) CMS
3 9 (1.68%) Confluence
4 8 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.93%) Apache
6 4 (0.74%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.37%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.37%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.86%) SAP PM
2 7 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.37%) Primavera
4 2 (0.37%) Shopify
5 1 (0.19%) FastStats
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.19%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 103 (19.18%) Azure
2 94 (17.50%) Power Platform
3 61 (11.36%) AWS
4 36 (6.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 35 (6.52%) GCP
6 30 (5.59%) SaaS
7 12 (2.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (2.05%) Serverless
9 10 (1.86%) GitHub
9 10 (1.86%) Snowflake
10 9 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.49%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.49%) dbt
11 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.49%) Power Automate
12 7 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.30%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.12%) Broadband
2 4 (0.74%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.56%) Intranet
3 3 (0.56%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) MQTT
4 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.19%) WebEx
4 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (17.50%) Power BI
2 54 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (9.31%) Tableau
4 22 (4.10%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (3.54%) Metadata
7 18 (3.35%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.42%) BigQuery
8 13 (2.42%) Power Query
9 12 (2.23%) Looker
10 11 (2.05%) Star Schema
11 9 (1.68%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.49%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.49%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.30%) Big Data
14 6 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.93%) GIS
15 5 (0.93%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 22 (4.10%) JIRA
2 18 (3.35%) Git
3 14 (2.61%) Postman
4 7 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.56%) Selenium
6 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.37%) Vite
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 196 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 157 (29.24%) Analytical Skills
3 112 (20.86%) Finance
4 58 (10.80%) Marketing
5 56 (10.43%) Law
6 44 (8.19%) Public Sector
7 40 (7.45%) Legal
8 38 (7.08%) Influencing Skills
9 37 (6.89%) Telecoms
10 29 (5.40%) Manufacturing
11 26 (4.84%) Military
12 25 (4.66%) Back Office
12 25 (4.66%) Retail
13 21 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.68%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.68%) Banking
15 9 (1.68%) Billing
15 9 (1.68%) Games
16 6 (1.12%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 97 (18.06%) Senior
2 95 (17.69%) Analyst
3 76 (14.15%) Lead
4 50 (9.31%) Data Engineer
5 36 (6.70%) Data Analyst
6 31 (5.77%) Developer
7 25 (4.66%) Architect
8 19 (3.54%) Data Architect
8 19 (3.54%) Data Manager
8 19 (3.54%) Data Scientist
8 19 (3.54%) Performance Analyst
8 19 (3.54%) Product Owner
9 17 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 16 (2.98%) Product Manager
10 16 (2.98%) Senior Manager
11 14 (2.61%) Microsoft Engineer
11 14 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (2.42%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.47%) Kafka
2 18 (3.35%) .NET
3 12 (2.23%) OpenAPI
3 12 (2.23%) REST
3 12 (2.23%) RESTful
3 12 (2.23%) Swagger
4 10 (1.86%) .NET Framework
5 9 (1.68%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.68%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
5 9 (1.68%) Entity Framework
6 8 (1.49%) Spring
7 7 (1.30%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.12%) Node.js
9 5 (0.93%) JSON
9 5 (0.93%) React
10 4 (0.74%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.74%) gRPC
10 4 (0.74%) OpenLayers
10 4 (0.74%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.01%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.26%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.66%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.35%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.61%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.05%) Social Media
8 8 (1.49%) IoT
9 7 (1.30%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.12%) Replication
10 6 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.93%) Blog
11 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.93%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.49%) Linux
2 4 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (73.00%) Decision-Making
2 267 (49.72%) Analytics
3 132 (24.58%) Agile
4 127 (23.65%) Business Intelligence
5 124 (23.09%) AI
6 116 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (21.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 97 (18.06%) Roadmaps
9 90 (16.76%) Data Governance
10 88 (16.39%) Data Modelling
11 78 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 73 (13.59%) ETL
12 73 (13.59%) Visualisation
13 64 (11.92%) CI/CD
14 63 (11.73%) Data Pipeline
14 63 (11.73%) Mentoring
15 60 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 59 (10.99%) Actionable Insight
17 55 (10.24%) DevOps
18 54 (10.06%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 129 (24.02%) SQL
2 82 (15.27%) Python
3 21 (3.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.61%) C#
6 13 (2.42%) Java
7 12 (2.23%) R
8 11 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.86%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.30%) Scala
11 6 (1.12%) Bash
12 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.56%) VBA
13 2 (0.37%) PHP
13 2 (0.37%) Ruby
14 1 (0.19%) Bicep
14 1 (0.19%) C++
Qualifications
1 61 (11.36%) Degree
2 25 (4.66%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.23%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.86%) ACCA
4 10 (1.86%) CIMA
4 10 (1.86%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.56%) CSPO
9 3 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.56%) MBA
10 2 (0.37%) HND
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) CBAP
11 1 (0.19%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (15.27%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.59%) GDPR
3 19 (3.54%) QA
4 13 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.30%) SLA
6 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.93%) GRC
7 4 (0.74%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.66%) Terraform
2 17 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Autotask
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 83 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.59%) SAP
3 28 (5.21%) Databricks
4 23 (4.28%) Google
5 10 (1.86%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.49%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.12%) Botify
7 6 (1.12%) Foundry
8 5 (0.93%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.93%) Oracle
9 4 (0.74%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (0.56%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.56%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.56%) Pardot
10 3 (0.56%) Sage
10 3 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.56%) Splunk
11 2 (0.37%) NEC
11 2 (0.37%) SYSPRO