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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 221 382
Rank change year-on-year -111 +161 +32
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 612 710 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.44% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.63% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 418 288 286
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,938 £41,263
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,210 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £97,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +15.00%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -98 558 £57,500 -2.43% 1,415
UK excluding London -116 406 £52,500 -4.55% 703
North of England +39 188 £47,500 -13.64% 148
Work from Home -28 162 £50,000 -16.67% 562
London -56 162 £82,500 - 852
North West +35 126 £50,000 -9.09% 88
Midlands -37 80 £51,356 -10.69% 109
South East -137 66 £62,500 +13.64% 155
West Midlands -28 54 £51,356 -10.69% 59
Yorkshire -10 47 £42,500 -19.05% 47
East of England -17 31 £60,000 +39.26% 82
East Midlands -27 26 £52,500 -8.70% 50
South West -82 24 £60,000 +31.15% 81
North East -49 15 £52,500 -8.70% 13
Scotland -64 10 £55,000 +0.26% 73
Wales -71 7 £53,171 -11.38% 28

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 19 (3.10%) Confluence
2 7 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.49%) Apache
3 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.33%) CMS
4 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (0.33%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.16%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 51 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.82%) Actimize
3 4 (0.65%) SAP PM
4 3 (0.49%) FastStats
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) Primavera
6 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BRIM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 121 (19.77%) Power Platform
2 90 (14.71%) Azure
3 65 (10.62%) AWS
4 39 (6.37%) GCP
5 37 (6.05%) SaaS
6 26 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (3.92%) Google Analytics
7 24 (3.92%) Snowflake
8 19 (3.10%) Serverless
9 17 (2.78%) dbt
10 15 (2.45%) GitHub
11 14 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (1.96%) Copilot Studio
13 12 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.31%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.65%) DNS
2 4 (0.65%) Internet
2 4 (0.65%) SSL
2 4 (0.65%) VPN
3 3 (0.49%) Intranet
3 3 (0.49%) WebEx
4 2 (0.33%) 5G
4 2 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) GoToMeeting
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (19.77%) Power BI
2 64 (10.46%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (7.35%) Tableau
4 27 (4.41%) Looker
5 26 (4.25%) BigQuery
6 22 (3.59%) Data Lake
7 17 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.61%) Power Query
9 15 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (2.29%) Metadata
11 13 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (1.96%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (1.31%) Star Schema
15 7 (1.14%) SQL Server
16 5 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (0.82%) NoSQL
16 5 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 42 (6.86%) JIRA
2 19 (3.10%) Git
3 11 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.65%) Claude Code
4 4 (0.65%) Postman
4 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.49%) Selenium
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 196 (32.03%) Analytical Skills
2 193 (31.54%) Social Skills
3 189 (30.88%) Finance
4 74 (12.09%) Marketing
5 59 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 55 (8.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (8.99%) Influencing Skills
7 47 (7.68%) Law
8 35 (5.72%) Retail
9 33 (5.39%) Banking
10 30 (4.90%) Telecoms
11 29 (4.74%) Legal
12 25 (4.08%) Manufacturing
13 23 (3.76%) Back Office
14 22 (3.59%) Military
15 14 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (2.12%) Aerospace
17 11 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (1.63%) Electronics
19 8 (1.31%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 119 (19.44%) Analyst
2 98 (16.01%) Senior
3 82 (13.40%) Lead
4 39 (6.37%) Data Analyst
5 34 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 26 (4.25%) Software Engineer
7 24 (3.92%) Analytics Manager
7 24 (3.92%) Architect
7 24 (3.92%) Product Owner
7 24 (3.92%) Senior Manager
8 23 (3.76%) Developer
9 19 (3.10%) Performance Analyst
10 18 (2.94%) Data Architect
11 17 (2.78%) Data Manager
11 17 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
12 15 (2.45%) IT Manager
12 15 (2.45%) IT Services Manager
12 15 (2.45%) Principal Engineer
12 15 (2.45%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.72%) Kafka
2 24 (3.92%) Spring
3 21 (3.43%) Terraform
4 12 (1.96%) Spring Boot
5 10 (1.63%) .NET
6 9 (1.47%) .NET Framework
6 9 (1.47%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (1.47%) Entity Framework
6 9 (1.47%) React
7 7 (1.14%) RESTful
8 6 (0.98%) PyTorch
8 6 (0.98%) scikit-learn
8 6 (0.98%) TensorFlow
9 5 (0.82%) Node.js
9 5 (0.82%) REST
10 4 (0.65%) AWS CDK
10 4 (0.65%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.17%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 27 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.47%) Blog
11 8 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.31%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.31%) Replication
12 7 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.14%) FMCG
12 7 (1.14%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.14%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (0.98%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.98%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.31%) Linux
2 5 (0.82%) Windows
3 3 (0.49%) Android
3 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (72.88%) Decision-Making
2 269 (43.95%) Analytics
3 166 (27.12%) AI
4 155 (25.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 145 (23.69%) Agile
5 145 (23.69%) Business Intelligence
6 135 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
7 123 (20.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 101 (16.50%) Roadmaps
9 97 (15.85%) Data Modelling
10 95 (15.52%) Data Governance
11 87 (14.22%) Mentoring
12 81 (13.24%) Visualisation
13 74 (12.09%) Actionable Insight
14 71 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 66 (10.78%) Data Science
16 61 (9.97%) ETL
17 60 (9.80%) Machine Learning
18 59 (9.64%) Workflow
19 57 (9.31%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (23.04%) SQL
2 91 (14.87%) Python
3 26 (4.25%) Java
4 22 (3.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 21 (3.43%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.45%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.12%) R
8 11 (1.80%) C#
9 9 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.98%) Scala
11 4 (0.65%) Bash
11 4 (0.65%) Groovy
11 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.33%) C++
12 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.33%) Ruby
13 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (12.09%) Degree
2 49 (8.01%) Security Cleared
3 41 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.29%) ACCA
4 14 (2.29%) CIMA
4 14 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.65%) CREST Certified
12 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.49%) CSPO
12 3 (0.49%) PhD
12 3 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (14.54%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.70%) GDPR
3 40 (6.54%) QA
4 23 (3.76%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.96%) GRC
6 7 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.98%) SLA
8 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.49%) AQAP
9 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.49%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (2.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) IAG
3 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.65%) Grafana
2 4 (0.65%) Prometheus
2 4 (0.65%) Rancher
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 88 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.70%) Google
3 30 (4.90%) SAP
4 26 (4.25%) Databricks
5 14 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.63%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.31%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.31%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.14%) Foundry
9 6 (0.98%) Oracle
9 6 (0.98%) Workday
9 6 (0.98%) YouTube
10 4 (0.65%) Freshdesk
10 4 (0.65%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.65%) Splunk
10 4 (0.65%) TikTok
11 3 (0.49%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.49%) NCR
11 3 (0.49%) Sage
11 3 (0.49%) Veritas