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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 219 428
Rank change year-on-year -108 +209 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 511 701 571
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.58% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.71% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 360 308 409
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,652 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,962 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +10.84% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -8.39% +9.42% -4.54%

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 67,776 41,096 86,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 92.88% 82.94%
Number of salaries quoted 45,490 21,754 61,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 7 June 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 7 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 -98 453 £60,000 -1.93% 322
UK excluding London -65 340 £52,679 -8.39% 199
Work from Home -44 138 £57,500 - 118
North of England -4 137 £57,500 - 48
London -115 125 £70,561 -4.32% 166
North West +19 110 £57,500 - 27
Midlands -43 78 £47,500 -17.39% 38
West Midlands -28 55 £51,750 -10.00% 22
South East -54 54 £50,000 -22.48% 55
East of England -11 30 £60,000 +22.52% 16
East Midlands -28 23 £37,500 -38.78% 16
Yorkshire -52 20 £56,875 -1.09% 16
Scotland -19 16 £32,500 -60.61% 10
South West -82 15 £77,500 +63.16% 24
Wales -34 9 £52,500 -34.38% 8
North East -38 7 £43,999 -23.48% 7
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 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 17 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.15%) CMS
4 9 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.57%) Apache
6 6 (1.17%) Confluence
7 5 (0.98%) IIS
8 4 (0.78%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.78%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.78%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (0.78%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) SPSS
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.96%) SAP PM
2 5 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.78%) Shopify
4 2 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.39%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.20%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 98 (19.18%) Azure
2 94 (18.40%) Power Platform
3 61 (11.94%) AWS
4 33 (6.46%) SaaS
5 31 (6.07%) GCP
6 30 (5.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (1.96%) Amazon S3
8 9 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.76%) Snowflake
9 8 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
9 8 (1.57%) GitHub
9 8 (1.57%) Serverless
10 7 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.37%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.17%) dbt
12 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.98%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.78%) Figma
13 4 (0.78%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.17%) Broadband
2 4 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.59%) Intranet
3 3 (0.59%) Modbus
3 3 (0.59%) Wireless
4 1 (0.20%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (18.40%) Power BI
2 61 (11.94%) Tableau
3 43 (8.41%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (3.33%) Metadata
6 15 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 13 (2.54%) Big Data
7 13 (2.54%) Power Query
8 12 (2.35%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.35%) Star Schema
9 10 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.76%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.57%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.57%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (1.57%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
12 7 (1.37%) Looker
Development Applications
1 19 (3.72%) Git
2 16 (3.13%) Postman
3 15 (2.94%) JIRA
4 5 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.78%) Vite
6 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.39%) MSI
8 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Selenium
8 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 172 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 156 (30.53%) Analytical Skills
3 108 (21.14%) Finance
4 65 (12.72%) Law
5 55 (10.76%) Marketing
6 38 (7.44%) Telecoms
7 33 (6.46%) Legal
8 31 (6.07%) Public Sector
9 28 (5.48%) Military
10 26 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (4.89%) Back Office
12 20 (3.91%) Manufacturing
12 20 (3.91%) Retail
13 18 (3.52%) Games
14 17 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
17 9 (1.76%) Billing
18 8 (1.57%) Aerospace
18 8 (1.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (20.35%) Senior
2 92 (18.00%) Analyst
3 80 (15.66%) Lead
4 56 (10.96%) Data Engineer
5 36 (7.05%) Data Analyst
6 28 (5.48%) Developer
7 27 (5.28%) Senior Manager
8 22 (4.31%) Architect
9 20 (3.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 18 (3.52%) Performance Analyst
11 17 (3.33%) Product Owner
12 15 (2.94%) Data Scientist
12 15 (2.94%) Microsoft Engineer
13 14 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (2.54%) Data Manager
14 13 (2.54%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (2.54%) Product Manager
15 10 (1.96%) Business Analyst
15 10 (1.96%) Business Developer
15 10 (1.96%) Performance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.89%) Kafka
2 18 (3.52%) .NET
3 14 (2.74%) OpenAPI
3 14 (2.74%) RESTful
3 14 (2.74%) Swagger
4 11 (2.15%) REST
5 10 (1.96%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.76%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.76%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.76%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.76%) Entity Framework
7 6 (1.17%) CSS
7 6 (1.17%) Middleware
7 6 (1.17%) Node.js
8 5 (0.98%) HTML
8 5 (0.98%) JSON
8 5 (0.98%) Play Framework
8 5 (0.98%) Vue
9 4 (0.78%) .NET Core
9 4 (0.78%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.26%) Product Ownership
2 31 (6.07%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.89%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.11%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.52%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.54%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.96%) Social Media
9 8 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.37%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.17%) Replication
12 5 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.78%) IoT
13 4 (0.78%) NHS
13 4 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.76%) Linux
2 4 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Android
3 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (72.99%) Decision-Making
2 253 (49.51%) Analytics
3 134 (26.22%) Business Intelligence
4 122 (23.87%) Agile
5 120 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 98 (19.18%) AI
8 84 (16.44%) Data Governance
9 83 (16.24%) Roadmaps
10 79 (15.46%) ETL
11 77 (15.07%) Data Modelling
12 73 (14.29%) Visualisation
13 63 (12.33%) Actionable Insight
14 61 (11.94%) Data Analysis
14 61 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 59 (11.55%) CI/CD
15 59 (11.55%) Data Pipeline
16 54 (10.57%) Data Science
17 47 (9.20%) DevOps
17 47 (9.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 134 (26.22%) SQL
2 93 (18.20%) Python
3 21 (4.11%) JavaScript
4 20 (3.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 19 (3.72%) R
6 15 (2.94%) Java
7 14 (2.74%) C#
8 12 (2.35%) Bash
8 12 (2.35%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.15%) Scala
9 11 (2.15%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.78%) PHP
11 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.59%) VBA
12 1 (0.20%) Bicep
12 1 (0.20%) C++
12 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (12.33%) Degree
2 24 (4.70%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.35%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.96%) ACCA
4 10 (1.96%) CIMA
4 10 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.76%) PMI Certification
5 9 (1.76%) PMP
6 7 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.37%) MBA
7 5 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.39%) HND
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CBAP
10 1 (0.20%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.11%) GDPR
3 16 (3.13%) QA
4 10 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.57%) PMO
6 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.78%) SLA
7 3 (0.59%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.59%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) IAG
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.50%) Terraform
2 16 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.59%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Autotask
4 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 70 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.48%) SAP
3 24 (4.70%) Databricks
4 16 (3.13%) Google
5 13 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.76%) Anaplan
7 9 (1.76%) Genesys
7 9 (1.76%) HubSpot
7 9 (1.76%) Verint
8 6 (1.17%) Botify
9 5 (0.98%) Alteryx
9 5 (0.98%) BT
9 5 (0.98%) Foundry
9 5 (0.98%) Oracle
10 4 (0.78%) Freshdesk
11 3 (0.59%) Pardot
11 3 (0.59%) Sage
12 2 (0.39%) Ariba
12 2 (0.39%) Cognizant