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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 194 413
Rank change year-on-year -92 +219 +74
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 554 674 548
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.64% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.76% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 340 311 403
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £51,250 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -0.74%
75th Percentile £73,813 £83,125 £77,955
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +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 64,219 38,320 79,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.73% 92.97% 86.04%
Number of salaries quoted 39,642 22,523 59,141
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
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 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.19% +6.60% -7.83%

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 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 13 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 -108 458 £60,000 -4.00% 272
UK excluding London -79 350 £58,000 +0.87% 214
London -67 155 £70,000 -5.08% 89
Work from Home -35 139 £67,000 +16.52% 79
North of England -43 124 £60,000 +4.35% 56
North West -13 89 £60,000 +4.35% 26
Midlands -60 68 £57,500 - 46
South East -60 55 £50,000 -9.09% 46
West Midlands -29 50 £57,500 - 20
Scotland -15 36 £35,250 -67.95% 12
Yorkshire -60 26 £83,750 +45.65% 21
East of England -24 22 £55,000 +2.33% 22
South West -70 19 £70,000 +39.30% 28
Northern Ireland - 19 £77,500 - 4
East Midlands -43 18 £48,616 -15.45% 26
Wales -20 9 £42,500 -46.88% 6
North East -25 9 £67,749 +17.82% 9

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 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.35%) CMS
4 12 (2.17%) Confluence
5 11 (1.99%) Apache
6 10 (1.81%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.90%) IIS
7 5 (0.90%) nginx
7 5 (0.90%) SAS
8 4 (0.72%) Appian
8 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.36%) CICS
9 2 (0.36%) MTS
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (7.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.62%) Trello
3 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.90%) Photoshop
4 5 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.81%) SAP PM
1 10 (1.81%) Shopify
2 6 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.36%) 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
1 123 (22.20%) Power Platform
2 89 (16.06%) Azure
3 63 (11.37%) AWS
4 38 (6.86%) SaaS
5 29 (5.23%) GCP
6 23 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (3.43%) GitHub
8 13 (2.35%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.99%) Google Analytics
10 10 (1.81%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (1.81%) Snowflake
11 9 (1.62%) Asana
11 9 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (1.44%) PaaS
12 8 (1.44%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.44%) Serverless
13 7 (1.26%) dbt
14 6 (1.08%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.26%) Broadband
2 6 (1.08%) Wireless
3 3 (0.54%) Modbus
3 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) ADSL
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (22.20%) Power BI
2 73 (13.18%) Tableau
3 41 (7.40%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.51%) Metadata
5 23 (4.15%) SQL Server
6 22 (3.97%) Power Query
7 19 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 15 (2.71%) Big Data
9 13 (2.35%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.99%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.81%) Apache Iceberg
12 10 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.62%) Amazon QuickSight
13 9 (1.62%) Geospatial Data
13 9 (1.62%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.26%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.26%) MySQL
14 7 (1.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (6.14%) JIRA
2 21 (3.79%) Git
2 21 (3.79%) Postman
3 9 (1.62%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.90%) MSI
4 5 (0.90%) Vite
5 4 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.36%) MLflow
6 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 222 (40.07%) Social Skills
2 212 (38.27%) Analytical Skills
3 118 (21.30%) Finance
4 68 (12.27%) Marketing
5 64 (11.55%) Law
6 35 (6.32%) Legal
7 31 (5.60%) Retail
8 30 (5.42%) Public Sector
8 30 (5.42%) Telecoms
9 29 (5.23%) Games
10 28 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (4.69%) Military
11 26 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (4.33%) Manufacturing
13 23 (4.15%) Back Office
14 18 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (2.71%) Banking
15 15 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.62%) Billing
17 8 (1.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 112 (20.22%) Senior
2 98 (17.69%) Analyst
3 88 (15.88%) Lead
4 53 (9.57%) Data Engineer
5 37 (6.68%) Senior Manager
6 35 (6.32%) Data Analyst
7 32 (5.78%) Architect
8 23 (4.15%) Developer
9 20 (3.61%) Product Manager
9 20 (3.61%) Senior Architect
10 18 (3.25%) Performance Analyst
11 17 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 16 (2.89%) Data Manager
12 16 (2.89%) Innovation Manager
13 15 (2.71%) Business Analyst
13 15 (2.71%) Data Scientist
14 13 (2.35%) Product Owner
15 12 (2.17%) Business Developer
16 10 (1.81%) E-Commerce Manager
16 10 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.43%) OpenAPI
1 19 (3.43%) RESTful
1 19 (3.43%) Swagger
2 15 (2.71%) Kafka
3 14 (2.53%) REST
4 11 (1.99%) JSON
5 9 (1.62%) .NET
5 9 (1.62%) Node.js
6 8 (1.44%) CSS
6 8 (1.44%) PyTorch
6 8 (1.44%) TensorFlow
7 6 (1.08%) HTML
7 6 (1.08%) React
7 6 (1.08%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.08%) Vue
8 5 (0.90%) GraphQL
8 5 (0.90%) Laravel
8 5 (0.90%) LEMP Stack
8 5 (0.90%) Tailwind CSS
8 5 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.50%) Management Information System
1 36 (6.50%) Product Ownership
2 22 (3.97%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.79%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 18 (3.25%) Algorithms
6 16 (2.89%) Social Media
7 11 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.44%) NHS
10 7 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.08%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.08%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.90%) Replication
13 4 (0.72%) Hackathon
13 4 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.62%) Linux
2 8 (1.44%) Windows
3 2 (0.36%) zOS
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (77.62%) Decision-Making
2 294 (53.07%) Analytics
3 164 (29.60%) Business Intelligence
4 145 (26.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 128 (23.10%) Agile
6 127 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (21.66%) AI
8 96 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 94 (16.97%) ETL
10 87 (15.70%) Data Modelling
10 87 (15.70%) Roadmaps
10 87 (15.70%) Visualisation
11 82 (14.80%) Data Governance
12 74 (13.36%) Actionable Insight
12 74 (13.36%) Data Analysis
13 62 (11.19%) Data Science
14 55 (9.93%) Machine Learning
15 54 (9.75%) Data Pipeline
15 54 (9.75%) Project Management
16 53 (9.57%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 153 (27.62%) SQL
2 103 (18.59%) Python
3 20 (3.61%) R
4 17 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 17 (3.07%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.89%) Java
6 15 (2.71%) Bash
7 13 (2.35%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.62%) Scala
9 6 (1.08%) PHP
9 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.90%) Go
11 4 (0.72%) C#
12 3 (0.54%) VBA
13 2 (0.36%) COBOL
13 2 (0.36%) JCL
14 1 (0.18%) Bicep
14 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.18%) SHACL
14 1 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 92 (16.61%) Degree
2 29 (5.23%) PMI Certification
3 28 (5.05%) PMP
4 16 (2.89%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (1.26%) MBA
9 6 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.90%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.90%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.72%) ACCA
11 4 (0.72%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.72%) CIMA
12 3 (0.54%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.36%) HND
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (14.80%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.25%) QA
3 17 (3.07%) GDPR
4 10 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.62%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.62%) SLA
6 8 (1.44%) PMO
7 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.54%) ISO 14001
8 3 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.36%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) GMP
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (2.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) RACF
Systems Management
1 19 (3.43%) Terraform
2 11 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.26%) Ansible
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Autotask
5 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 67 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.96%) Databricks
3 29 (5.23%) SAP
4 25 (4.51%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.79%) Anaplan
5 21 (3.79%) Google
6 20 (3.61%) Genesys
6 20 (3.61%) Verint
7 16 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.99%) HubSpot
9 8 (1.44%) Oracle
10 6 (1.08%) Botify
11 5 (0.90%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.90%) BT
11 5 (0.90%) Foundry
11 5 (0.90%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.54%) Informatica
12 3 (0.54%) Mercator
12 3 (0.54%) Pardot
12 3 (0.54%) Sage