Data-Driven Decision Making Jobs in the West Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 214 254
Rank change year-on-year +83 +40 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 67 38 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.51% 0.52% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 0.63% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 47 35 4
10th Percentile £41,400 - £42,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £50,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £63,281
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -13.09% +40.62%
75th Percentile £64,375 £61,250 £75,569
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £76,878
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.37% +14.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,044 6,036 6,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 83.16% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,677 4,542 3,272
10th Percentile £29,150 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,713 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,125
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the West Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the West Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the West Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Birmingham +56 38 £57,500 +15.00% 17
Staffordshire - 17 £57,500 - 11
Dudley - 4 £35,000 -
Worcestershire +21 2 £69,000 +25.45% 4
Coventry 0 2 £72,000 +30.91% 3
Herefordshire - 2 £45,000 -
Walsall - 1 £42,000 -
Data-Driven Decision Making
England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (2.99%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 26 (38.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.99%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.88%) Power Platform
2 11 (16.42%) Azure
3 8 (11.94%) Miro
4 4 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.97%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.99%) Google Ads
5 2 (2.99%) Google Analytics
5 2 (2.99%) SaaS
5 2 (2.99%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.49%) AWS
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.49%) GCP
6 1 (1.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.99%) SMS
3 1 (1.49%) 5G
3 1 (1.49%) Internet
3 1 (1.49%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (1.49%) Modbus
3 1 (1.49%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) Power BI
2 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.48%) Big Data
4 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) JIRA
General
1 32 (47.76%) Social Skills
2 30 (44.78%) Finance
3 23 (34.33%) Marketing
4 18 (26.87%) Legal
5 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.96%) Law
7 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.48%) Retail
8 2 (2.99%) Automotive
8 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.49%) Local Government
9 1 (1.49%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Customer Executive
2 11 (16.42%) Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Product Owner
4 8 (11.94%) Agile Product Owner
5 7 (10.45%) Database Developer
5 7 (10.45%) SQL Database Developer
5 7 (10.45%) SQL Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Product Manager
7 5 (7.46%) Senior
8 4 (5.97%) Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Data Manager
8 4 (5.97%) Systems Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Technology Director
9 3 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Data Governance Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Data Governance Manager
9 3 (4.48%) Governance Manager
10 2 (2.99%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 2 (2.99%) Data Scientist
10 2 (2.99%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.45%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.99%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.99%) Smart Energy
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) FMCG
5 1 (1.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.49%) IoT
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.49%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (73.13%) Decision-Making
2 29 (43.28%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (37.31%) Analytics
4 21 (31.34%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (29.85%) Artificial Intelligence
6 18 (26.87%) Business Development
6 18 (26.87%) Contract Negotiation
7 17 (25.37%) Mentoring
8 16 (23.88%) Agile
9 15 (22.39%) Roadmaps
10 13 (19.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (19.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (16.42%) Critical Thinking
11 11 (16.42%) Visualisation
12 10 (14.93%) Backlog Management
12 10 (14.93%) Data Governance
12 10 (14.93%) Data Management
12 10 (14.93%) Product Backlog
13 9 (13.43%) ETL
14 8 (11.94%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) SQL
2 8 (11.94%) T-SQL
3 5 (7.46%) Python
4 3 (4.48%) Java
5 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Degree
2 7 (10.45%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.97%) HND
4 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) APMP
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.97%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (38.81%) Salesforce
2 18 (26.87%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.97%) Databricks
3 4 (5.97%) Zoho
4 3 (4.48%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) SAP