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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 195 423
Rank change year-on-year -104 +228 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 543 692 547
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.65% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.78% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 335 328 414
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,154 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £51,250 £47,144
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -0.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,000 £102,500 £89,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,125 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.09% +4.55% -8.33%

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 66,065 38,941 81,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.85% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,765 22,745 59,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -110 450 £60,000 -4.00% 333
UK excluding London -76 344 £58,125 +1.09% 244
London -72 153 £70,000 -6.67% 125
Work from Home -39 132 £66,500 +15.65% 110
North of England -33 125 £60,000 +4.35% 70
North West -13 88 £60,000 +4.35% 37
Midlands -70 67 £57,500 - 41
South East -72 51 £50,000 -17.70% 57
West Midlands -49 48 £57,500 - 18
Scotland -22 35 £35,250 -67.95% 9
Yorkshire -60 28 £83,750 +45.65% 24
East of England -25 23 £60,000 +14.29% 28
East Midlands -44 19 £37,500 -34.78% 23
South West -81 18 £70,000 +33.33% 32
Northern Ireland - 18 £77,500 - 5
Wales -14 9 £42,500 -46.88% 7
North East -37 9 £67,749 +17.82% 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 21 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.39%) CMS
4 11 (2.03%) Apache
4 11 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.66%) Confluence
6 5 (0.92%) IIS
6 5 (0.92%) nginx
7 4 (0.74%) Appian
7 4 (0.74%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.37%) CICS
8 2 (0.37%) MTS
9 1 (0.18%) Drupal
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 37 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (0.92%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.92%) Trello
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.84%) SAP PM
2 8 (1.47%) Shopify
3 5 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.37%) Primavera
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 112 (20.63%) Power Platform
2 88 (16.21%) Azure
3 62 (11.42%) AWS
4 35 (6.45%) SaaS
5 26 (4.79%) GCP
6 25 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (2.95%) GitHub
8 13 (2.39%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.84%) Amazon Kinesis
9 10 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.66%) Snowflake
11 8 (1.47%) Asana
11 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 8 (1.47%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.47%) Serverless
12 7 (1.29%) dbt
12 7 (1.29%) Google Analytics
13 6 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.10%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.10%) Broadband
1 6 (1.10%) Wireless
2 3 (0.55%) Modbus
2 3 (0.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.37%) Intranet
4 1 (0.18%) ADSL
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (20.63%) Power BI
2 68 (12.52%) Tableau
3 42 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (4.42%) Metadata
5 23 (4.24%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.31%) Power Query
6 18 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (2.76%) Big Data
7 15 (2.76%) Data Lake
8 12 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (2.03%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
10 10 (1.84%) Star Schema
11 9 (1.66%) Amazon QuickSight
11 9 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (1.47%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.29%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (5.16%) JIRA
2 21 (3.87%) Git
2 21 (3.87%) Postman
3 6 (1.10%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.92%) MSI
4 5 (0.92%) Vite
5 4 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.37%) MLflow
6 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 210 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 201 (37.02%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (21.92%) Finance
4 66 (12.15%) Law
5 64 (11.79%) Marketing
6 35 (6.45%) Legal
7 29 (5.34%) Games
7 29 (5.34%) Telecoms
8 28 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (4.79%) Military
9 26 (4.79%) Retail
10 25 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (4.42%) Public Sector
12 23 (4.24%) Back Office
13 21 (3.87%) Manufacturing
14 17 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.84%) Banking
17 9 (1.66%) Billing
18 8 (1.47%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 112 (20.63%) Senior
2 88 (16.21%) Lead
3 85 (15.65%) Analyst
4 54 (9.94%) Data Engineer
5 37 (6.81%) Senior Manager
6 32 (5.89%) Architect
7 31 (5.71%) Data Analyst
8 22 (4.05%) Developer
9 20 (3.68%) Product Manager
9 20 (3.68%) Senior Architect
10 16 (2.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 16 (2.95%) Data Manager
10 16 (2.95%) Innovation Manager
11 15 (2.76%) Data Scientist
11 15 (2.76%) Performance Analyst
12 13 (2.39%) Business Analyst
12 13 (2.39%) Product Owner
13 11 (2.03%) Business Developer
14 10 (1.84%) Performance Manager
15 9 (1.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.50%) OpenAPI
1 19 (3.50%) RESTful
1 19 (3.50%) Swagger
2 15 (2.76%) Kafka
3 14 (2.58%) REST
4 9 (1.66%) .NET
4 9 (1.66%) Node.js
5 8 (1.47%) CSS
5 8 (1.47%) JSON
5 8 (1.47%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.47%) TensorFlow
6 6 (1.10%) HTML
6 6 (1.10%) React
6 6 (1.10%) scikit-learn
6 6 (1.10%) Vue
7 5 (0.92%) Laravel
7 5 (0.92%) Middleware
7 5 (0.92%) Play Framework
7 5 (0.92%) PySpark
7 5 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.81%) Management Information System
2 32 (5.89%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.42%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.24%) Cloud Native
5 22 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.95%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.39%) Social Media
9 11 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.29%) NHS
13 7 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.10%) Reference Data
15 5 (0.92%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.92%) Replication
16 4 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
16 4 (0.74%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.66%) Linux
2 7 (1.29%) Windows
3 2 (0.37%) zOS
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (77.16%) Decision-Making
2 279 (51.38%) Analytics
3 153 (28.18%) Business Intelligence
4 149 (27.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 132 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
6 121 (22.28%) Agile
7 119 (21.92%) AI
8 94 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 89 (16.39%) ETL
10 87 (16.02%) Roadmaps
11 85 (15.65%) Data Governance
11 85 (15.65%) Data Modelling
12 76 (14.00%) Visualisation
13 72 (13.26%) Data Analysis
14 70 (12.89%) Actionable Insight
15 62 (11.42%) Data Science
16 56 (10.31%) CI/CD
17 55 (10.13%) Data Pipeline
18 51 (9.39%) Project Management
19 48 (8.84%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 145 (26.70%) SQL
2 101 (18.60%) Python
3 19 (3.50%) R
4 17 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.95%) Java
6 15 (2.76%) Bash
6 15 (2.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (2.21%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.66%) Scala
9 6 (1.10%) PHP
9 6 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.92%) Go
11 4 (0.74%) C#
12 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.55%) VBA
13 2 (0.37%) COBOL
13 2 (0.37%) JCL
14 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.18%) SHACL
14 1 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 88 (16.21%) Degree
2 29 (5.34%) PMI Certification
3 28 (5.16%) PMP
4 16 (2.95%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.29%) MBA
9 6 (1.10%) ACCA
9 6 (1.10%) CIMA
10 5 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.92%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.37%) HND
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (15.47%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.95%) GDPR
2 16 (2.95%) QA
3 10 (1.84%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.66%) SLA
5 8 (1.47%) PMO
6 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.55%) ISO 14001
7 3 (0.55%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (2.95%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) RACF
3 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 19 (3.50%) Terraform
2 11 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.29%) Ansible
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Autotask
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 62 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.34%) Databricks
3 27 (4.97%) SAP
4 24 (4.42%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.87%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.68%) Genesys
6 20 (3.68%) Verint
7 17 (3.13%) Google
8 14 (2.58%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.03%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.10%) Botify
11 5 (0.92%) BT
11 5 (0.92%) Foundry
11 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.92%) Oracle
12 4 (0.74%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.55%) Informatica
13 3 (0.55%) Pardot
13 3 (0.55%) Sage
14 2 (0.37%) Mercator