Decision-Making
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 57 65 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 +42 +41
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 2,566 5,749 4,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.84% 4.68% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 4.89% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 2,618 2,390
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £73,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.81% +0.95% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Decision-Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,863 117,613 122,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.11% 95.75% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,022 72,003 82,155
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,680 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Top 18 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 7 December 2023. 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 -2 2,028 £60,000 - 1,800
UK excluding London +10 1,625 £42,500 -19.81% 1,102
Work from Home +7 1,019 £60,000 - 899
London +8 763 £70,000 - 822
Scotland +61 365 £25,000 -58.33% 66
Midlands +39 335 £29,104 -46.10% 165
South East -30 302 £60,000 - 283
North of England +8 301 £54,000 +4.85% 293
West Midlands +45 249 £30,104 -42.66% 111
South West +5 211 £50,000 +5.22% 163
North West +64 142 £59,556 +18.55% 155
Yorkshire -10 133 £56,250 +2.27% 99
East Midlands +26 86 £28,000 -53.33% 53
East of England -25 74 £50,000 -23.08% 126
Wales +12 38 £35,000 -22.22% 31
North East +13 28 £40,000 - 51
Northern Ireland +27 21 £46,250 +19.26% 8
Channel Islands - 2 - - 1

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
1 106 (4.13%) SAS
2 72 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 44 (1.71%) Confluence
4 42 (1.64%) Apache
5 17 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 15 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 12 (0.47%) Anypoint
8 11 (0.43%) CMS
9 10 (0.39%) MS Exchange
10 9 (0.35%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.19%) IIS
11 5 (0.19%) Luigi
11 5 (0.19%) nginx
12 4 (0.16%) ArcSDE
12 4 (0.16%) Camunda
12 4 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.078%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.078%) Drupal
Applications
1 202 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 21 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 7 (0.27%) SPSS
9 5 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.12%) Trello
11 2 (0.078%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.078%) EViews
11 2 (0.078%) Simulink
11 2 (0.078%) SketchUp
12 1 (0.039%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.62%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.27%) Cloudability
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.16%) HFM
7 4 (0.16%) Primavera
8 3 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.12%) Hyperion Planning
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle AGIS
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 3 (0.12%) Oracle iProcurement
9 2 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.078%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 372 (14.50%) Azure
2 367 (14.30%) Power Platform
3 264 (10.29%) AWS
4 153 (5.96%) GCP
5 98 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
6 66 (2.57%) SaaS
7 54 (2.10%) Google Analytics
8 50 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (1.83%) PowerApps
10 46 (1.79%) Serverless
11 44 (1.71%) Google Sheets
12 40 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 34 (1.33%) IaaS
14 33 (1.29%) GitHub
15 32 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
16 31 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
16 31 (1.21%) Entra ID
17 28 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 26 (1.01%) PaaS
19 24 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 354 (13.80%) Broadband
2 49 (1.91%) Firewall
3 38 (1.48%) DNS
4 24 (0.94%) Network Security
5 23 (0.90%) DHCP
6 19 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (0.70%) Wireless
8 17 (0.66%) LAN
9 16 (0.62%) WAN
10 15 (0.58%) TCP/IP
11 14 (0.55%) VPN
12 10 (0.39%) BGP
12 10 (0.39%) Internet
12 10 (0.39%) MPLS
12 10 (0.39%) OSPF
12 10 (0.39%) VLAN
13 9 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
13 9 (0.35%) Multicast
13 9 (0.35%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (13.33%) Power BI
2 137 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (4.72%) Tableau
4 117 (4.56%) SQL Server
5 95 (3.70%) Big Data
6 67 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 58 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 56 (2.18%) Relational Database
9 54 (2.10%) NoSQL
10 46 (1.79%) Base SAS
11 41 (1.60%) Data Hub
12 40 (1.56%) Data Lake
12 40 (1.56%) Metadata
13 35 (1.36%) BigQuery
13 35 (1.36%) Hadoop
14 31 (1.21%) MongoDB
15 29 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 28 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (1.05%) GIS
Development Applications
1 84 (3.27%) JIRA
2 59 (2.30%) Git
3 52 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 18 (0.70%) Artifactory
5 7 (0.27%) Cypress.io
5 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
6 6 (0.23%) Appium
6 6 (0.23%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
7 5 (0.19%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 4 (0.16%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.16%) ERwin
8 4 (0.16%) Gradle
8 4 (0.16%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.16%) JMeter
8 4 (0.16%) Maven
8 4 (0.16%) Selenium
8 4 (0.16%) Travis CI
8 4 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 1,269 (49.45%) Social Skills
2 794 (30.94%) Finance
3 596 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
4 585 (22.80%) Retail
5 434 (16.91%) Local Government
6 433 (16.87%) Telecoms
7 340 (13.25%) Games
8 234 (9.12%) Banking
9 220 (8.57%) Marketing
10 205 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 166 (6.47%) Legal
12 131 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
13 114 (4.44%) Public Sector
14 102 (3.98%) Law
15 98 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
16 88 (3.43%) Manufacturing
17 72 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
18 53 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
19 51 (1.99%) Electronics
20 33 (1.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 489 (19.06%) Analyst
2 342 (13.33%) Senior
3 268 (10.44%) Consultant
4 222 (8.65%) Business Manager
5 208 (8.11%) Development Manager
6 205 (7.99%) Business Development Manager
7 177 (6.90%) Enterprise Consultant
8 166 (6.47%) Lead
9 144 (5.61%) Architect
10 134 (5.22%) Developer
11 97 (3.78%) Business Analyst
12 95 (3.70%) Data Analyst
13 84 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
14 83 (3.23%) Project Manager
15 77 (3.00%) Data Engineer
16 75 (2.92%) Senior Manager
17 68 (2.65%) Software Engineer
18 65 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
19 60 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
20 54 (2.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.88%) .NET
2 64 (2.49%) React
3 39 (1.52%) HTML
3 39 (1.52%) XML
4 27 (1.05%) Web Services
5 26 (1.01%) REST
6 25 (0.97%) Node.js
7 24 (0.94%) ASP.NET
7 24 (0.94%) CSS
7 24 (0.94%) Pandas
8 22 (0.86%) Kafka
9 20 (0.78%) AngularJS
9 20 (0.78%) ASP.NET MVC
10 19 (0.74%) Spring
11 17 (0.66%) RESTful
12 16 (0.62%) JSON
12 16 (0.62%) React Native
12 16 (0.62%) Spring Boot
13 15 (0.58%) .NET Framework
14 14 (0.55%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 150 (5.85%) Management Information System
2 133 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
3 102 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 77 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 67 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 58 (2.26%) Life Science
7 55 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 54 (2.10%) Public Cloud
9 39 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 39 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
10 35 (1.36%) Credit Risk
11 32 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 31 (1.21%) Data Centre
13 27 (1.05%) Cloud Native
14 26 (1.01%) NHS
15 25 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
16 24 (0.94%) IoT
17 23 (0.90%) Taxonomies
18 22 (0.86%) Low-Code
19 21 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 127 (4.95%) Windows
2 42 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 29 (1.13%) Linux
4 23 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 19 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (0.70%) Android
8 16 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.51%) Unix
10 12 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.23%) CentOS
12 6 (0.23%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.039%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.039%) Debian
14 1 (0.039%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.039%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 748 (29.15%) Agile
2 686 (26.73%) Problem-Solving
3 515 (20.07%) Analytics
4 507 (19.76%) Collaborative Working
5 455 (17.73%) Customer Experience
6 422 (16.45%) Business Intelligence
7 392 (15.28%) B2B
8 365 (14.22%) B2C
9 336 (13.09%) Project Management
10 293 (11.42%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 285 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 281 (10.95%) Business Development
13 263 (10.25%) Visualisation
14 256 (9.98%) Roadmaps
15 255 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
16 243 (9.47%) Data Analysis
17 225 (8.77%) Computer Science
18 220 (8.57%) Mentoring
19 212 (8.26%) DevOps
20 199 (7.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 436 (16.99%) SQL
2 335 (13.06%) Python
3 135 (5.26%) Java
4 92 (3.59%) JavaScript
5 91 (3.55%) C#
6 88 (3.43%) R
7 55 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 53 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 46 (1.79%) SAS Macro
10 41 (1.60%) TypeScript
11 28 (1.09%) Bash
12 27 (1.05%) T-SQL
13 22 (0.86%) Go
14 20 (0.78%) C
14 20 (0.78%) Scala
15 18 (0.70%) C++
16 17 (0.66%) PHP
17 16 (0.62%) VBA
18 13 (0.51%) Kotlin
19 12 (0.47%) BrightScript
Qualifications
1 550 (21.43%) Degree
2 246 (9.59%) Security Cleared
3 99 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 96 (3.74%) Master's Degree
5 81 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 45 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
7 32 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (1.21%) DBS Check
9 27 (1.05%) PMI Certification
10 25 (0.97%) PMP
11 23 (0.90%) CISSP
11 23 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (0.78%) HND
13 17 (0.66%) CFA
13 17 (0.66%) HNC
14 16 (0.62%) CISM
15 15 (0.58%) CCNA
15 15 (0.58%) MBA
16 14 (0.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 136 (5.30%) QA
3 55 (2.14%) GDPR
4 52 (2.03%) PMO
5 46 (1.79%) CDISC
6 45 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 42 (1.64%) Accessibility
8 33 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 31 (1.21%) SLA
10 21 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
11 20 (0.78%) NIST
12 9 (0.35%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.27%) GRC
14 6 (0.23%) COBIT
14 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.23%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.23%) NCSC
15 5 (0.19%) DO-178B
15 5 (0.19%) DO-254
15 5 (0.19%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 71 (2.77%) Active Directory
1 71 (2.77%) Docker
2 27 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 15 (0.58%) Firmware
5 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) vSphere
6 4 (0.16%) HDFS
7 3 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.039%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.039%) RACF
Systems Management
1 79 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 70 (2.73%) Terraform
3 26 (1.01%) Ansible
4 20 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.31%) Puppet
6 8 (0.31%) SCCM
7 7 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.19%) Cobbler
10 4 (0.16%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.12%) N-central
11 3 (0.12%) SCOM
12 2 (0.078%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.039%) Grafana
13 1 (0.039%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.039%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.039%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.039%) Oozie
13 1 (0.039%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 432 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 356 (13.87%) BT
3 173 (6.74%) Google
4 85 (3.31%) SAP
5 82 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 80 (3.12%) Oracle
7 47 (1.83%) Databricks
8 35 (1.36%) VMware
9 26 (1.01%) ServiceNow
10 24 (0.94%) Cisco
11 22 (0.86%) Bloomberg
11 22 (0.86%) Talend
12 21 (0.82%) Alteryx
13 20 (0.78%) IBM
13 20 (0.78%) Informatica
14 19 (0.74%) Citrix
15 18 (0.70%) MuleSoft
16 17 (0.66%) Intel
17 12 (0.47%) ESRI
17 12 (0.47%) Teradata