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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 210 248
Rank change year-on-year +80 +38 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 62 39 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.44% 0.53% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.64% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 42 35 5
10th Percentile £47,550 - £37,050
25th Percentile £48,000 £50,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £74,842
90th Percentile £99,375 £97,500 £76,587
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +18.18%

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 3,940 6,110 6,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.25% 82.77% 96.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 4,547 3,160
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 16 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 16 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 +63 37 £57,500 +15.00% 20
Staffordshire - 15 £57,500 - 12
Worcestershire +22 2 £69,000 +25.45% 2
Coventry -6 2 £72,000 +30.91% 2
Dudley - 2 £35,000 - 1
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 (3.23%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 26 (41.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.61%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.58%) Power Platform
2 11 (17.74%) Azure
3 8 (12.90%) Miro
4 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.23%) Google Ads
4 2 (3.23%) Google Analytics
4 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
4 2 (3.23%) SaaS
4 2 (3.23%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.61%) AWS
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.61%) GCP
5 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.23%) SMS
3 1 (1.61%) 5G
3 1 (1.61%) Internet
3 1 (1.61%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (1.61%) Modbus
3 1 (1.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.58%) Power BI
2 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.84%) Big Data
4 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.61%) Metadata
5 1 (1.61%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (17.74%) JIRA
General
1 29 (46.77%) Finance
2 28 (45.16%) Social Skills
3 23 (37.10%) Marketing
4 18 (29.03%) Legal
5 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.68%) Law
7 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.84%) Retail
8 2 (3.23%) Automotive
8 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.61%) Local Government
9 1 (1.61%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Customer Executive
2 9 (14.52%) Developer
2 9 (14.52%) Product Owner
3 8 (12.90%) Agile Product Owner
4 7 (11.29%) Database Developer
4 7 (11.29%) SQL Database Developer
4 7 (11.29%) SQL Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior
6 4 (6.45%) Data Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Product Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Technology Director
7 3 (4.84%) Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Data Governance Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Data Governance Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Governance Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.29%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.23%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.61%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.61%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (75.81%) Decision-Making
2 26 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (37.10%) Analytics
4 19 (30.65%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (29.03%) Artificial Intelligence
5 18 (29.03%) Business Development
5 18 (29.03%) Contract Negotiation
6 17 (27.42%) Mentoring
7 14 (22.58%) Agile
8 13 (20.97%) Roadmaps
8 13 (20.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (17.74%) Critical Thinking
11 10 (16.13%) Backlog Management
11 10 (16.13%) Data Management
11 10 (16.13%) Product Backlog
11 10 (16.13%) Visualisation
12 9 (14.52%) Data Governance
13 8 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (12.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) SQL
2 8 (12.90%) T-SQL
3 5 (8.06%) Python
4 3 (4.84%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) DBS Check
1 7 (11.29%) Degree
2 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.23%) HND
2 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) APMP
3 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (41.94%) Salesforce
2 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) Databricks
4 3 (4.84%) Google
5 2 (3.23%) Zoho
6 1 (1.61%) SAP