Data-Driven Decision Making Jobs

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 442 469
Rank change year-on-year +202 +27 +89
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 716 544 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 0.55% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.64% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 333 400 177
10th Percentile £40,186 £36,250 £39,931
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,990 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £90,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £59,744
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.04% +30.26%

All Process and 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 51,770 84,704 95,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.86% 85.53% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,375 59,701 56,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Salary trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 +176 632 £62,500 +13.64% 1,047
UK excluding London +183 393 £57,500 +9.42% 483
London +155 268 £73,750 +1.72% 704
Work from Home +171 196 £57,500 -8.00% 491
North of England +89 115 £58,750 +17.50% 116
South East +72 86 £57,500 +9.42% 200
North West +20 83 £65,000 +15.56% 72
Midlands +95 80 £57,500 +4.55% 63
West Midlands +79 62 £57,500 +4.55% 49
South West +139 45 £47,500 -24.00% 36
Scotland +111 42 £102,500 +85.11% 30
Yorkshire +81 28 £57,500 +15.00% 35
East of England +50 22 £53,471 +9.97% 36
East Midlands +45 18 £57,500 +15.00% 10
North East +39 4 £57,500 +15.00% 10
Wales +35 4 £80,000 +45.45% 5

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (3.21%) Jupyter
2 13 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.26%) Apache
4 6 (0.84%) IBM Domino
4 6 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.70%) Confluence
6 4 (0.56%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.42%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 149 (20.81%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.84%) Trello
4 4 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.14%) Notion
6 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 10 (1.40%) Raiser’s Edge
3 4 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 117 (16.34%) Power Platform
2 109 (15.22%) Azure
3 39 (5.45%) AWS
4 38 (5.31%) Google Analytics
5 34 (4.75%) SaaS
6 22 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (2.65%) GCP
8 18 (2.51%) Snowflake
9 17 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (2.09%) Google Ads
11 13 (1.82%) Google Sheets
12 9 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.26%) Miro
12 9 (1.26%) Serverless
13 8 (1.12%) Power Automate
14 7 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (0.84%) Datadog
15 6 (0.84%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.84%) SMS
2 5 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
2 5 (0.70%) Network Security
3 4 (0.56%) Firewall
3 4 (0.56%) Internet
3 4 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (0.56%) VPN
3 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Intranet
4 1 (0.14%) Modbus
4 1 (0.14%) MQTT
4 1 (0.14%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (15.92%) Power BI
2 61 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (5.45%) Tableau
4 37 (5.17%) SQL Server
5 35 (4.89%) Big Data
6 24 (3.35%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.26%) Data Hub
9 9 (1.26%) Metadata
10 7 (0.98%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.84%) Looker
11 6 (0.84%) Power Query
12 5 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.70%) MS Access
12 5 (0.70%) MySQL
13 4 (0.56%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.56%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (3.49%) JIRA
2 8 (1.12%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
4 5 (0.70%) Git
5 4 (0.56%) ERwin
5 4 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.42%) JUnit
7 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.14%) GitLab
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) TestNG
7 1 (0.14%) TestRail
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 400 (55.87%) Social Skills
2 278 (38.83%) Finance
3 216 (30.17%) Marketing
4 212 (29.61%) Analytical Skills
5 142 (19.83%) Legal
6 68 (9.50%) Law
7 53 (7.40%) Retail
8 38 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (4.05%) Banking
10 20 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.65%) Manufacturing
12 17 (2.37%) Advertising
12 17 (2.37%) Public Sector
13 12 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.40%) Front Office
14 10 (1.40%) Games
15 9 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.12%) Automotive
17 6 (0.84%) Agriculture
17 6 (0.84%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 123 (17.18%) Customer Executive
2 92 (12.85%) Lead
3 83 (11.59%) Senior
4 65 (9.08%) Analyst
5 46 (6.42%) Product Manager
6 40 (5.59%) Developer
7 32 (4.47%) Data Engineer
7 32 (4.47%) Data Scientist
7 32 (4.47%) Innovation Manager
8 24 (3.35%) Senior Data Scientist
9 22 (3.07%) SQL Developer
10 18 (2.51%) Data Analyst
10 18 (2.51%) Product Owner
11 16 (2.23%) Data Analytics Director
11 16 (2.23%) Database Developer
11 16 (2.23%) IT Manager
11 16 (2.23%) SQL Database Developer
12 14 (1.96%) Data Manager
13 13 (1.82%) Senior Manager
14 11 (1.54%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.40%) .NET
2 7 (0.98%) RESTful
3 6 (0.84%) EDI
3 6 (0.84%) HTML
3 6 (0.84%) NestJS
3 6 (0.84%) React
4 5 (0.70%) REST
4 5 (0.70%) XML
5 4 (0.56%) CSS
5 4 (0.56%) JSON
5 4 (0.56%) Node.js
6 3 (0.42%) Pandas
7 2 (0.28%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.28%) Pyramid
7 2 (0.28%) React Native
7 2 (0.28%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.28%) SOAP
7 2 (0.28%) Spring
7 2 (0.28%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 33 (4.61%) Social Media
3 32 (4.47%) FMCG
4 31 (4.33%) Algorithms
5 27 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (3.21%) Cyberattack
8 20 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.82%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.82%) IoT
10 12 (1.68%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.84%) Mobile Games
14 5 (0.70%) Credit Risk
14 5 (0.70%) Life Science
14 5 (0.70%) Operational Technology
15 4 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.70%) Linux
2 4 (0.56%) Unix
2 4 (0.56%) Windows
2 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (82.12%) Decision-Making
2 295 (41.20%) Analytics
3 196 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
4 163 (22.77%) Business Intelligence
5 149 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 145 (20.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 135 (18.85%) Business Development
8 127 (17.74%) Visualisation
9 126 (17.60%) Roadmaps
10 124 (17.32%) Contract Negotiation
11 111 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 104 (14.53%) Agile
13 102 (14.25%) Data Governance
14 98 (13.69%) Actionable Insight
14 98 (13.69%) Data Analysis
15 92 (12.85%) Project Management
16 86 (12.01%) Data Science
16 86 (12.01%) Machine Learning
17 80 (11.17%) Data Strategy
18 68 (9.50%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 142 (19.83%) SQL
2 101 (14.11%) Python
3 34 (4.75%) T-SQL
4 32 (4.47%) JavaScript
5 30 (4.19%) Java
6 11 (1.54%) R
7 6 (0.84%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.70%) C#
8 5 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (0.70%) VBA
9 4 (0.56%) PHP
9 4 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.42%) Scala
10 3 (0.42%) VB
11 2 (0.28%) C++
12 1 (0.14%) F#
12 1 (0.14%) Lisp
12 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.14%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 154 (21.51%) Degree
2 33 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (3.91%) DBS Check
4 27 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 25 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.84%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 5 (0.70%) ACCA
10 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.70%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.70%) PMP
11 3 (0.42%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.28%) CCAB
12 2 (0.28%) CIMA
12 2 (0.28%) CISSP
12 2 (0.28%) HND
12 2 (0.28%) MBA
12 2 (0.28%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.59%) GDPR
3 38 (5.31%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.51%) QA
5 9 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 35 (4.89%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 29 (4.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.56%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.42%) Ansible
4 2 (0.28%) Grafana
4 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Matomo
5 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 170 (23.74%) Salesforce
2 114 (15.92%) Microsoft
3 60 (8.38%) Google
4 27 (3.77%) SAP
5 24 (3.35%) Databricks
6 10 (1.40%) Informatica
7 7 (0.98%) HubSpot
7 7 (0.98%) Oracle
8 6 (0.84%) Adobe
9 5 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.70%) Workday
10 4 (0.56%) Fortinet
10 4 (0.56%) VMware
10 4 (0.56%) Xero
11 3 (0.42%) Ahrefs
11 3 (0.42%) IBM
12 2 (0.28%) Hotjar
12 2 (0.28%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.28%) Tealium
12 2 (0.28%) YouTube