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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 336 363
Rank change year-on-year +124 +27 +160
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 614 450 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.04% 0.81% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.91% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 240 265 302
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,758 £34,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £51,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £100,250 £105,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%

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 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +76 443 £63,500 -2.31% 921
UK excluding London +139 439 £57,500 -4.17% 786
South East +86 164 £55,000 +1.62% 206
London -3 135 £72,500 -19.44% 206
Scotland +81 105 £54,855 -34.01% 36
Work from Home +55 96 £67,000 +5.10% 455
North of England +22 61 £60,000 -7.69% 185
Midlands +6 42 £58,750 -2.08% 148
West Midlands +8 38 £65,750 +9.58% 85
North West +18 36 £55,000 -13.73% 110
Northern Ireland - 22 £77,500 - 10
Yorkshire -2 19 £76,250 -7.58% 66
South West +6 17 £67,000 +7.20% 82
East of England +25 15 £52,500 -44.44% 111
Wales +17 13 £45,000 -43.75% 18
North East +13 6 - - 10
East Midlands -11 4 £39,449 -53.32% 54

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 16 (2.61%) Confluence
2 11 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.14%) Apache
5 6 (0.98%) SAS
6 5 (0.81%) IIS
7 4 (0.65%) Appian
7 4 (0.65%) CMS
7 4 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.65%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.33%) CICS
8 2 (0.33%) MTS
8 2 (0.33%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) Drupal
Applications
1 83 (13.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.47%) Trello
5 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.65%) Windchill
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 44 (7.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.12%) Shopify
3 7 (1.14%) SAP CO
3 7 (1.14%) SAP FI
3 7 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.65%) Magento
5 4 (0.65%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.33%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.16%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (21.50%) Power Platform
2 77 (12.54%) SaaS
3 66 (10.75%) Azure
4 47 (7.65%) AWS
5 18 (2.93%) GCP
6 17 (2.77%) GitHub
6 17 (2.77%) Snowflake
7 14 (2.28%) Google Analytics
7 14 (2.28%) Serverless
8 13 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (1.63%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.47%) Asana
12 8 (1.30%) Google Tag Manager
12 8 (1.30%) PaaS
13 7 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (0.98%) Google Data Studio
14 6 (0.98%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.81%) Wireless
2 3 (0.49%) BGP
2 3 (0.49%) DHCP
2 3 (0.49%) DNS
2 3 (0.49%) Firewall
2 3 (0.49%) LAN
2 3 (0.49%) Network Security
2 3 (0.49%) OSPF
2 3 (0.49%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.49%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.49%) VLAN
2 3 (0.49%) VPN
2 3 (0.49%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) 5G
3 1 (0.16%) ADSL
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (21.17%) Power BI
2 64 (10.42%) Tableau
3 42 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (3.58%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.42%) Metadata
6 17 (2.77%) Power Query
7 13 (2.12%) SQL Server
8 12 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (1.95%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.47%) Looker
10 8 (1.30%) Big Data
10 8 (1.30%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.30%) SAP BW
11 7 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
11 7 (1.14%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 61 (9.93%) JIRA
2 38 (6.19%) Git
3 26 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.30%) Postman
5 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.81%) MSI
7 4 (0.65%) Toad
8 2 (0.33%) Vite
9 1 (0.16%) GitLab
9 1 (0.16%) MLflow
9 1 (0.16%) Selenium
General
1 359 (58.47%) Social Skills
2 265 (43.16%) Analytical Skills
3 169 (27.52%) Finance
4 85 (13.84%) Marketing
5 40 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (5.70%) Retail
7 30 (4.89%) Legal
8 29 (4.72%) Law
9 28 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (4.40%) Manufacturing
11 26 (4.23%) Public Sector
12 22 (3.58%) Games
13 15 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.79%) Banking
17 8 (1.30%) Military
17 8 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.98%) Local Government
19 5 (0.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 96 (15.64%) Innovation Manager
1 96 (15.64%) Lead
2 87 (14.17%) Analyst
3 81 (13.19%) Senior
4 46 (7.49%) Senior Manager
5 42 (6.84%) Architect
6 33 (5.37%) Data Analyst
7 28 (4.56%) Data Engineer
8 20 (3.26%) Senior Architect
9 17 (2.77%) Product Manager
10 16 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 16 (2.61%) Developer
11 15 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (2.28%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.12%) Data Manager
14 11 (1.79%) Digital Product Manager
14 11 (1.79%) Product Owner
15 10 (1.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 10 (1.63%) Business Intelligence Manager
16 9 (1.47%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.44%) REST
2 13 (2.12%) React
3 10 (1.63%) Middleware
4 9 (1.47%) OpenAPI
4 9 (1.47%) Swagger
4 9 (1.47%) Vue
5 8 (1.30%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.30%) JSON
5 8 (1.30%) PyTorch
5 8 (1.30%) RESTful
6 7 (1.14%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.14%) TensorFlow
7 6 (0.98%) CSS
7 6 (0.98%) Kafka
8 5 (0.81%) Node.js
8 5 (0.81%) Pandas
8 5 (0.81%) Play Framework
9 4 (0.65%) FastAPI
9 4 (0.65%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.86%) Product Ownership
2 32 (5.21%) Management Information System
3 23 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.47%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.47%) Social Media
9 8 (1.30%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.81%) NHS
10 5 (0.81%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.65%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.65%) Hackathon
11 4 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.65%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.47%) Windows
2 4 (0.65%) Unix
2 4 (0.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.33%) Linux
3 2 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (77.52%) Decision-Making
2 295 (48.05%) Analytics
3 236 (38.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 183 (29.80%) AI
5 181 (29.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 159 (25.90%) Business Intelligence
7 126 (20.52%) Customer Experience
8 119 (19.38%) Agile
9 118 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (16.78%) Data Modelling
11 91 (14.82%) Roadmaps
12 87 (14.17%) ERP
13 84 (13.68%) Data Analysis
14 68 (11.07%) Visualisation
15 66 (10.75%) ETL
15 66 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 65 (10.59%) Actionable Insight
17 63 (10.26%) Strategic Thinking
18 57 (9.28%) Project Management
19 56 (9.12%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 135 (21.99%) SQL
2 85 (13.84%) Python
3 19 (3.09%) JavaScript
4 18 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.77%) R
6 11 (1.79%) Java
7 8 (1.30%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.98%) Bash
8 6 (0.98%) Scala
8 6 (0.98%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.81%) Go
10 4 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.65%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.65%) VB
11 3 (0.49%) PHP
12 2 (0.33%) ABAP
12 2 (0.33%) COBOL
12 2 (0.33%) JCL
13 1 (0.16%) C#
13 1 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 205 (33.39%) Degree
2 60 (9.77%) Master's Degree
3 44 (7.17%) MBA
4 34 (5.54%) PMI Certification
4 34 (5.54%) Security Cleared
5 33 (5.37%) PMP
6 14 (2.28%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.79%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.14%) ACCA
8 7 (1.14%) CIMA
8 7 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.49%) CCIE
11 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.49%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (16.61%) Data Quality
2 38 (6.19%) QA
3 26 (4.23%) Def Stans
4 23 (3.75%) GDPR
5 14 (2.28%) SLA
6 12 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.14%) PMO
8 6 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.33%) IFRS
11 1 (0.16%) GAAP
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
11 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (2.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (0.98%) Kubernetes
1 6 (0.98%) Terraform
2 4 (0.65%) Ansible
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (15.31%) SAP
2 71 (11.56%) Microsoft
3 37 (6.03%) Databricks
4 25 (4.07%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.42%) Anaplan
6 20 (3.26%) Genesys
6 20 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.26%) Verint
7 18 (2.93%) Google
8 9 (1.47%) Oracle
9 8 (1.30%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.81%) BT
10 5 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.65%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.65%) NEC
11 4 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.65%) Workday
12 3 (0.49%) Ariba
12 3 (0.49%) Mercator
12 3 (0.49%) Sage