Decision-Making Job Trends in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 41 46
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +13
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 222 160 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.59% 5.37% 4.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 6.03% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 173 111 216
10th Percentile £39,000 £38,754 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% +37.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,000 £69,914
90th Percentile £92,407 £87,250 £93,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 6,262 2,652 6,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 72.99% 88.99% 81.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,789 1,527 4,664
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

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 Decision-Making within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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 -11 88 £57,500 +4.55% 74
Warwickshire +8 31 £42,500 -19.05% 26
Staffordshire -19 23 £55,000 +41.92% 14
Coventry -10 19 £42,500 -26.09% 8
Wolverhampton -9 16 £69,000 +6.15% 1
Worcestershire -16 15 £48,000 -17.60% 8
Shropshire -28 6 £55,000 +46.67% 10
Bilston - 4 £66,500 -
Walsall +2 3 £44,000 +4.76% 1
Solihull -1 3 £42,500 -29.17%
Herefordshire -18 3 - -
Halesowen - 2 £47,500 -
Rowley Regis - 1 £72,500 -
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.80%) CMS
2 4 (1.80%) Confluence
2 4 (1.80%) nginx
2 4 (1.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (15.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.80%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (1.80%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.80%) Shopify
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.45%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 55 (24.77%) Power Platform
2 31 (13.96%) Azure
3 18 (8.11%) AWS
4 15 (6.76%) SaaS
5 9 (4.05%) Power Automate
5 9 (4.05%) PowerApps
6 8 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.25%) GitHub
7 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.80%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (1.80%) GCP
8 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.80%) PaaS
8 4 (1.80%) Smartsheet
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.35%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.86%) Wireless
2 3 (1.35%) SSL
3 2 (0.90%) Internet
3 2 (0.90%) Network Security
4 1 (0.45%) DHCP
4 1 (0.45%) DNS
4 1 (0.45%) Firewall
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.45%) SNMP
4 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.45%) VLAN
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (22.97%) Power BI
2 11 (4.95%) Tableau
3 10 (4.50%) Power Query
4 7 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.70%) Metadata
5 6 (2.70%) Star Schema
6 5 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.80%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.80%) MySQL
7 4 (1.80%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.90%) Looker
9 2 (0.90%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.45%) Parquet
10 1 (0.45%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.95%) JIRA
2 8 (3.60%) Git
3 4 (1.80%) JUnit
3 4 (1.80%) Maven
3 4 (1.80%) Mockito
3 4 (1.80%) Vite
4 3 (1.35%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.90%) JMeter
5 2 (0.90%) Locust
5 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 79 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 66 (29.73%) Finance
3 48 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 23 (10.36%) Marketing
7 16 (7.21%) Retail
8 14 (6.31%) Manufacturing
9 13 (5.86%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (5.86%) Legal
10 8 (3.60%) Law
10 8 (3.60%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.70%) German Language
11 6 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.70%) Social Housing
12 5 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.80%) Local Government
14 3 (1.35%) Games
15 2 (0.90%) Spanish Language
16 1 (0.45%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 36 (16.22%) Analyst
2 24 (10.81%) Senior
3 18 (8.11%) Developer
4 17 (7.66%) Data Analyst
5 12 (5.41%) Lead
5 12 (5.41%) Support Engineer
5 12 (5.41%) Technical Engineer
5 12 (5.41%) Technical Support
5 12 (5.41%) Technical Support Engineer
6 11 (4.95%) Architect
6 11 (4.95%) Business Analyst
6 11 (4.95%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (4.50%) Business Manager
8 9 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 9 (4.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 9 (4.05%) Product Owner
9 8 (3.60%) Business Development Manager
9 8 (3.60%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.60%) Development Manager
10 7 (3.15%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.50%) REST
2 6 (2.70%) HTML
3 5 (2.25%) Vue
4 4 (1.80%) CSS
4 4 (1.80%) Laravel
4 4 (1.80%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (1.80%) PySpark
4 4 (1.80%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (1.80%) XML
4 4 (1.80%) YAML
5 3 (1.35%) JDBC
5 3 (1.35%) LDAP
5 3 (1.35%) SAML
5 3 (1.35%) Web Services
6 2 (0.90%) .NET
6 2 (0.90%) EDI
6 2 (0.90%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.90%) Middleware
6 2 (0.90%) OpenCV
6 2 (0.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.76%) Driving Licence
4 13 (5.86%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.70%) NHS
7 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.80%) Robotics
9 3 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.90%) CUDA
10 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.60%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Robot Operating System
2 2 (0.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.45%) Android
3 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (31.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 63 (28.38%) Analytics
2 63 (28.38%) Business Intelligence
3 61 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (18.47%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 38 (17.12%) Roadmaps
6 37 (16.67%) Agile
7 35 (15.77%) Data Modelling
8 30 (13.51%) AI
8 30 (13.51%) CRM
8 30 (13.51%) Risk Management
9 27 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (11.26%) Data Analysis
11 24 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (10.36%) Data Governance
13 20 (9.01%) Actionable Insight
13 20 (9.01%) Collaborative Working
14 19 (8.56%) Computer Science
14 19 (8.56%) Validation
15 18 (8.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 59 (26.58%) SQL
2 22 (9.91%) Python
3 15 (6.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (4.05%) R
5 8 (3.60%) Bash
5 8 (3.60%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.15%) Java
7 5 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.80%) C
8 4 (1.80%) PHP
8 4 (1.80%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.90%) C++
10 1 (0.45%) C#
10 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (15.77%) Degree
2 19 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.21%) CIMA
4 15 (6.76%) ACCA
5 13 (5.86%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.25%) CISSP
7 5 (2.25%) CITP
7 5 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.90%) PhD
9 2 (0.90%) PMP
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.45%) CBAP
10 1 (0.45%) CCAB
10 1 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.11%) QA
3 9 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.60%) GDPR
4 8 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.80%) PMO
6 3 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.35%) GRC
7 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.90%) NIST
7 2 (0.90%) P3O
7 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.90%) WCAG
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (4.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.70%) Terraform
3 4 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.90%) Grafana
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) Control-M
5 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 24 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.05%) Google
2 9 (4.05%) SAP
3 6 (2.70%) Databricks
3 6 (2.70%) Oracle
4 5 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.80%) Ariba
6 3 (1.35%) Cognos
6 3 (1.35%) Sage
7 2 (0.90%) NEC
7 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.45%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.45%) BMC
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco
8 1 (0.45%) Citrix
8 1 (0.45%) Epicor
8 1 (0.45%) Genesys
8 1 (0.45%) IBM
8 1 (0.45%) Informatica