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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 59 32
Rank change year-on-year +17 -27 +36
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 164 237 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.04% 3.93% 6.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 4.94% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 104 99 213
10th Percentile £38,754 £36,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £43,250 £41,254 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -19.05%
75th Percentile £69,875 £66,574 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,193 £75,000 £80,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,282 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -

All Process and 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 2,806 4,794 3,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.23% 79.52% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,784 2,513 2,756
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,822 £27,625
25th Percentile £35,688 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £66,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 -4 69 £55,000 -8.33% 51
Staffordshire +6 32 £42,500 -22.73% 26
Solihull +16 20 £67,500 - 8
Warwickshire +42 11 £62,500 +4.17% 24
Shropshire +1 5 £42,500 +9.68% 8
Walsall +5 4 £44,500 +18.67% 1
Worcestershire +14 3 £56,500 - 9
Coventry +13 3 £45,000 -18.18% 15
Wednesbury +6 3 £45,000 +20.00%
Herefordshire - 2 - - 2
Wolverhampton +1 1 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Decision-Making
England

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 8 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.22%) CMS
2 2 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (13.41%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (4.27%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.73%) Power Platform
2 26 (15.85%) Azure
3 13 (7.93%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (6.71%) PowerApps
5 10 (6.10%) Power Automate
6 9 (5.49%) PaaS
7 8 (4.88%) IaaS
8 6 (3.66%) AWS
9 4 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.44%) SaaS
9 4 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (2.44%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.83%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.22%) Network Security
2 1 (0.61%) 5G
2 1 (0.61%) ADSL2
2 1 (0.61%) BGP
2 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.61%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.61%) Modbus
2 1 (0.61%) MQTT
2 1 (0.61%) OSPF
2 1 (0.61%) SAN
2 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.61%) SMS
2 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.51%) Power BI
2 17 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (6.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (4.88%) Star Schema
6 7 (4.27%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.05%) Tableau
8 4 (2.44%) Metadata
9 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.22%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.22%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.22%) MySQL
10 2 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (4.88%) JIRA
1 8 (4.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (1.22%) DbUnit
2 2 (1.22%) Git
2 2 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.22%) jMock
2 2 (1.22%) JUnit
2 2 (1.22%) Maven
2 2 (1.22%) Mockito
2 2 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.61%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (47.56%) Finance
2 67 (40.85%) Social Skills
3 50 (30.49%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (19.51%) Marketing
5 20 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (11.59%) Law
6 19 (11.59%) Retail
7 18 (10.98%) Legal
8 16 (9.76%) Public Sector
9 10 (6.10%) Manufacturing
10 7 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (2.44%) Police
14 3 (1.83%) Billing
15 2 (1.22%) Local Government
16 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.61%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.61%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 29 (17.68%) Analyst
2 23 (14.02%) Senior
3 17 (10.37%) Developer
4 12 (7.32%) Lead
5 11 (6.71%) Customer Executive
6 10 (6.10%) Architect
6 10 (6.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 10 (6.10%) Project Engineer
7 9 (5.49%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.49%) Power BI Developer
8 8 (4.88%) Business Developer
8 8 (4.88%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.88%) ETL Developer
8 8 (4.88%) Product Specialist
8 8 (4.88%) Products Support Specialist
8 8 (4.88%) SQL BI Developer
8 8 (4.88%) SQL Developer
8 8 (4.88%) Support Specialist
9 6 (3.66%) Graduate
9 6 (3.66%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.05%) .NET
2 4 (2.44%) HTML
2 4 (2.44%) React
3 3 (1.83%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.83%) EDI
3 3 (1.83%) REST
3 3 (1.83%) Spring
3 3 (1.83%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.22%) Bootstrap
4 2 (1.22%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.22%) JPA
4 2 (1.22%) PowerMock
4 2 (1.22%) RESTful
4 2 (1.22%) SOAP
4 2 (1.22%) Spring Batch
4 2 (1.22%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (1.22%) Spring Integration
4 2 (1.22%) Web Services
5 1 (0.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.93%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.66%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.66%) Taxonomies
5 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.44%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.83%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.83%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.22%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.61%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (32.93%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (26.22%) Analytics
3 39 (23.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (19.51%) Agile
6 31 (18.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 28 (17.07%) Project Management
8 25 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (14.02%) CRM
10 20 (12.20%) Data Analysis
11 19 (11.59%) Risk Management
12 18 (10.98%) Actionable Insight
13 17 (10.37%) ETL
14 16 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (9.76%) DevOps
14 16 (9.76%) ITIL
15 15 (9.15%) Business Development
15 15 (9.15%) Process Improvement
15 15 (9.15%) Roadmaps
15 15 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 43 (26.22%) SQL
2 14 (8.54%) Python
3 8 (4.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (3.05%) R
5 4 (2.44%) C#
5 4 (2.44%) Java
6 3 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.83%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.83%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.61%) C++
8 1 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (15.24%) Degree
2 5 (3.05%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.05%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.44%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.83%) ACCA
4 3 (1.83%) CIMA
4 3 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.22%) CBAP
5 2 (1.22%) CISM
5 2 (1.22%) CISSP
5 2 (1.22%) CITP
5 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.22%) IIBA
5 2 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.61%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.93%) QA
3 12 (7.32%) SLA
4 10 (6.10%) PMO
5 8 (4.88%) GDPR
6 3 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.83%) GRC
7 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.22%) NCSC
8 1 (0.61%) COBIT
8 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.22%) Docker
1 2 (1.22%) Postfix
2 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.22%) Grafana
1 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.61%) Ansible
2 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.85%) Salesforce
3 12 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.27%) Databricks
5 5 (3.05%) Oracle
6 3 (1.83%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.83%) Google
7 2 (1.22%) Ahrefs
7 2 (1.22%) Ariba
7 2 (1.22%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.22%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.22%) Sage
7 2 (1.22%) SAP
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco
8 1 (0.61%) Dell
8 1 (0.61%) EMC
8 1 (0.61%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.61%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.61%) UiPath