Decision-Making Jobs

Decision-Making
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 51 63
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 +25
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 3,230 3,579 5,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.39% 4.65% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 5.24% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,245 2,343 2,213
10th Percentile £38,750 £25,500 £35,795
25th Percentile £49,140 £36,250 £45,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -13.93% +1.67%
75th Percentile £85,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,249 £54,882
% change year-on-year +32.60% -17.55% -0.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 55,992 68,309 104,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.42% 88.68% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25,152 50,933 63,892
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,485 £34,324
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

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 Decision-Making within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 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 +17 2,849 £67,500 +22.73% 2,432
UK excluding London +1 1,883 £60,000 +32.60% 1,189
London +37 1,190 £75,000 +4.17% 1,499
Work from Home -10 764 £65,000 +9.14% 1,228
North of England 0 459 £65,000 +30.00% 286
South East -15 389 £70,000 +27.27% 430
Midlands -15 328 £60,000 +40.12% 151
North West -7 288 £70,000 +47.37% 159
South West +51 243 £54,439 +0.73% 109
East of England +37 222 £65,000 +36.84% 117
West Midlands -30 193 £60,000 +33.33% 99
Scotland -34 193 £51,645 +106.58% 98
Yorkshire +8 147 £60,000 +6.19% 90
East Midlands 0 135 £58,350 +58.84% 50
Wales +28 45 £62,500 +47.06% 20
North East -13 25 £64,654 +43.28% 38
Northern Ireland +11 9 £88,500 +16.83% 10

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 65 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.05%) SAS
3 28 (0.87%) Jupyter
4 19 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.53%) CMS
6 17 (0.53%) Confluence
7 15 (0.46%) OpenEdge
8 13 (0.40%) Apache
8 13 (0.40%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.28%) Drupal
10 6 (0.19%) IBM Domino
11 3 (0.093%) Kinematics
11 3 (0.093%) Moodle
11 3 (0.093%) nginx
11 3 (0.093%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.062%) Appian
12 2 (0.062%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.062%) Umbraco
Applications
1 487 (15.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 229 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 165 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.43%) Trello
6 10 (0.31%) SPSS
7 9 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.28%) Weka
8 5 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.093%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.093%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.062%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.062%) Maya
10 2 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.031%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.031%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.031%) Blender
11 1 (0.031%) InDesign
11 1 (0.031%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 48 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 40 (1.24%) Infor LN
2 40 (1.24%) SAP BPC
3 33 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.74%) Ripple
4 24 (0.74%) Ripple XRP
5 10 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
6 9 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 6 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.19%) Shopify
9 5 (0.15%) CiviCRM
9 5 (0.15%) NEC Housing
9 5 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.062%) Adobe Campaign
10 2 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
10 2 (0.062%) Magento
10 2 (0.062%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.062%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 355 (10.99%) AWS
2 348 (10.77%) Power Platform
3 292 (9.04%) Azure
4 96 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (2.85%) Serverless
6 68 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
6 68 (2.11%) SaaS
7 67 (2.07%) GCP
8 58 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
8 58 (1.80%) ChatGPT
9 46 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 43 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (1.24%) Power Automate
12 37 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (1.15%) PowerApps
13 35 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
14 34 (1.05%) GitHub
15 30 (0.93%) Google Analytics
16 27 (0.84%) Amazon S3
16 27 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 41 (1.27%) Firewall
2 25 (0.77%) VLAN
3 21 (0.65%) TCP/IP
4 20 (0.62%) Broadband
5 18 (0.56%) BGP
5 18 (0.56%) Network Security
6 17 (0.53%) Intranet
6 17 (0.53%) VPN
7 13 (0.40%) DNS
8 11 (0.34%) Internet
8 11 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
9 9 (0.28%) DHCP
9 9 (0.28%) HSRP
9 9 (0.28%) OSPF
10 7 (0.22%) WAN
11 6 (0.19%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.15%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.15%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.12%) VoIP
13 4 (0.12%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (9.50%) Power BI
2 169 (5.23%) Tableau
3 112 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (1.73%) SQL Server
5 48 (1.49%) Big Data
6 33 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 31 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 30 (0.93%) Data Lake
8 30 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (0.90%) Power Query
10 28 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 22 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (0.68%) Data Mining
11 22 (0.68%) MySQL
12 21 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 20 (0.62%) Metadata
14 19 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
15 17 (0.53%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.46%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (1.58%) JIRA
2 44 (1.36%) Git
3 41 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
4 29 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.50%) Artifactory
6 11 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.22%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.19%) GitLab
9 5 (0.15%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.15%) Postman
9 5 (0.15%) Subversion
10 4 (0.12%) Selenium
11 3 (0.093%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.093%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.062%) ERwin
12 2 (0.062%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.062%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.031%) JUnit
13 1 (0.031%) LabVIEW
13 1 (0.031%) WebDriver
General
1 1,509 (46.72%) Social Skills
2 1,349 (41.76%) Finance
3 1,080 (33.44%) Analytical Skills
4 649 (20.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 544 (16.84%) Banking
6 455 (14.09%) Financial Institution
7 420 (13.00%) French Language
8 418 (12.94%) German Language
9 311 (9.63%) Marketing
10 230 (7.12%) Electronics
11 186 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
12 170 (5.26%) Legal
13 135 (4.18%) Law
14 109 (3.37%) Manufacturing
15 106 (3.28%) Retail
16 101 (3.13%) Public Sector
17 100 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
18 77 (2.38%) Games
19 71 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
20 54 (1.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 832 (25.76%) Analyst
2 491 (15.20%) Senior
3 423 (13.10%) Credit Analyst
4 415 (12.85%) Research Analyst
5 329 (10.19%) Lead
6 159 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
7 136 (4.21%) Product Manager
8 134 (4.15%) Software Engineer
9 130 (4.02%) Software Assurance Engineer
10 128 (3.96%) Business Manager
11 125 (3.87%) Architect
12 107 (3.31%) Development Manager
13 106 (3.28%) Business Development Manager
14 96 (2.97%) Data Analyst
15 92 (2.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 89 (2.76%) Senior Manager
17 86 (2.66%) Data Scientist
18 84 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
19 78 (2.41%) Developer
20 69 (2.14%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (3.07%) React
2 82 (2.54%) AngularJS
3 58 (1.80%) React Native
4 52 (1.61%) .NET
5 38 (1.18%) HTML
6 37 (1.15%) CSS
7 22 (0.68%) Pandas
7 22 (0.68%) RESTful
8 20 (0.62%) Node.js
9 19 (0.59%) ASP.NET
10 17 (0.53%) EDI
11 16 (0.50%) J2EE
11 16 (0.50%) PySpark
12 15 (0.46%) Vue
12 15 (0.46%) Web Services
13 13 (0.40%) .NET Core
14 12 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
15 11 (0.34%) scikit-learn
15 11 (0.34%) XGBoost
16 10 (0.31%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 454 (14.06%) Credit Risk
2 415 (12.85%) Fixed Income
3 231 (7.15%) Management Information System
4 147 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 104 (3.22%) Algorithms
6 99 (3.07%) Product Ownership
7 81 (2.51%) Cloud Native
8 60 (1.86%) Social Media
9 44 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 40 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 36 (1.11%) Data Centre
13 33 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
14 30 (0.93%) Blockchain
14 30 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
15 28 (0.87%) Cyberattack
16 25 (0.77%) Virtual Team
17 22 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (0.68%) Low-Code
18 21 (0.65%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 53 (1.64%) Windows
2 23 (0.71%) Linux
3 19 (0.59%) Windows Vista
4 18 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.19%) Android
6 6 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.15%) Unix
7 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.093%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.093%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.093%) Robot Operating System
9 3 (0.093%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.062%) Android TV
10 2 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.031%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
2 649 (20.09%) Risk Management
3 606 (18.76%) Business Strategy
4 589 (18.24%) Analytics
5 522 (16.16%) Business Intelligence
6 501 (15.51%) Risk Assessment
7 484 (14.98%) Asset Management
8 467 (14.46%) Financial Modelling
9 462 (14.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 460 (14.24%) Agile
11 441 (13.65%) Portfolio Management
12 431 (13.34%) Software Engineering
13 423 (13.10%) Artificial Intelligence
14 419 (12.97%) Roadmaps
15 417 (12.91%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 406 (12.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 369 (11.42%) Data Analysis
18 337 (10.43%) Machine Learning
18 337 (10.43%) Project Management
19 282 (8.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 486 (15.05%) Python
2 408 (12.63%) SQL
3 101 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 87 (2.69%) Java
5 67 (2.07%) R
6 55 (1.70%) C++
7 52 (1.61%) C#
8 31 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 25 (0.77%) TypeScript
10 24 (0.74%) VBA
11 22 (0.68%) Go
12 20 (0.62%) Scala
13 17 (0.53%) PowerShell
14 13 (0.40%) MATLAB
14 13 (0.40%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.37%) PHP
16 11 (0.34%) VB
17 8 (0.25%) Bash
18 6 (0.19%) Bicep
19 5 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,132 (35.05%) Degree
2 573 (17.74%) Master's Degree
3 416 (12.88%) CFA
4 261 (8.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 147 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 78 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 72 (2.23%) SC Cleared
8 69 (2.14%) ACCA
9 68 (2.11%) CIMA
10 52 (1.61%) DBS Check
11 50 (1.55%) CRISC
12 43 (1.33%) DV Cleared
13 39 (1.21%) CISSP
14 37 (1.15%) Chartered Engineer
15 28 (0.87%) PhD
16 25 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
17 23 (0.71%) PMI Certification
18 21 (0.65%) CCNP
18 21 (0.65%) MBA
19 20 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.39%) Data Quality
2 80 (2.48%) QA
3 70 (2.17%) GDPR
4 66 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 45 (1.39%) IFRS
6 43 (1.33%) COBIT
7 40 (1.24%) GAAP
8 35 (1.08%) PMO
9 34 (1.05%) NIST
10 32 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 22 (0.68%) SLA
12 15 (0.46%) ITGC
13 14 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.34%) GRC
16 10 (0.31%) WCAG
17 9 (0.28%) WAI
18 8 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
18 8 (0.25%) GLP
19 6 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 65 (2.01%) Docker
2 32 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.031%) Firmware
7 1 (0.031%) HDFS
7 1 (0.031%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (2.51%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.02%) Terraform
3 8 (0.25%) SCCM
4 7 (0.22%) Autotask
4 7 (0.22%) FortiGate
4 7 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.15%) Ansible
6 4 (0.12%) Kubeflow
6 4 (0.12%) Oozie
7 3 (0.093%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.062%) Kibana
8 2 (0.062%) Marathon
8 2 (0.062%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.031%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.031%) Consul
9 1 (0.031%) Nessus
9 1 (0.031%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.031%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.031%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.031%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 417 (12.91%) Bloomberg
2 324 (10.03%) Microsoft
3 144 (4.46%) SAP
4 115 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 80 (2.48%) Oracle
6 74 (2.29%) Google
7 59 (1.83%) TikTok
8 58 (1.80%) Databricks
9 45 (1.39%) Cognos
10 41 (1.27%) Infor
11 26 (0.80%) Adobe
11 26 (0.80%) Cisco
12 25 (0.77%) YouTube
13 23 (0.71%) VMware
14 21 (0.65%) IBM
14 21 (0.65%) Intel
15 18 (0.56%) ServiceNow
16 15 (0.46%) Facebook
17 12 (0.37%) Genesys
17 12 (0.37%) Verint