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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 177 191 284
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.42% 5.69% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 6.26% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 126 139 202
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,650 £29,075
25th Percentile £46,104 £38,754 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72,000 £73,750 £69,914
90th Percentile £84,463 £87,300 £95,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -8.33%

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 5,511 3,051 5,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 75.48% 90.91% 83.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,184 1,701 4,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +7.38% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 5 April 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 5 April 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 73 £60,000 - 56
Warwickshire +11 16 £52,000 -0.95% 13
Coventry -12 15 £55,200 -20.86% 12
Staffordshire -37 15 £36,000 -7.11% 14
Wolverhampton - 14 £69,000 - 4
Shropshire -27 8 £55,000 +46.67% 7
Herefordshire -16 7 £60,000 +33.33% 1
Worcestershire -20 6 £48,000 -4.00% 9
Bilston - 5 £66,500 -
Walsall +8 3 £44,000 +4.76% 2
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Halesowen - 2 £47,500 - 1
Solihull -4 1 £95,000 +49.02% 6
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 12 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.82%) CMS
2 5 (2.82%) Confluence
2 5 (2.82%) nginx
3 4 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (19.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.82%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (2.82%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.13%) Trello
6 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Shopify
2 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.56%) Odoo
3 1 (0.56%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 51 (28.81%) Power Platform
2 33 (18.64%) Azure
3 18 (10.17%) AWS
4 12 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (5.65%) Power Automate
6 9 (5.08%) PowerApps
7 8 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (3.95%) SaaS
9 5 (2.82%) GCP
9 5 (2.82%) GitHub
9 5 (2.82%) Smartsheet
10 4 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.26%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.26%) PaaS
11 3 (1.69%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (1.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (27.12%) Power BI
2 11 (6.21%) Metadata
3 9 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (4.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (3.95%) Power Query
5 7 (3.95%) Tableau
6 6 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.82%) MySQL
7 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.69%) Looker
8 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.69%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.13%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 2 (1.13%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.13%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.13%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 13 (7.34%) JIRA
2 7 (3.95%) Git
3 5 (2.82%) Vite
4 4 (2.26%) JUnit
4 4 (2.26%) Maven
4 4 (2.26%) Mockito
5 3 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.13%) JMeter
6 2 (1.13%) Locust
6 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 76 (42.94%) Social Skills
2 68 (38.42%) Finance
3 57 (32.20%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 21 (11.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (11.86%) Manufacturing
6 18 (10.17%) Retail
7 15 (8.47%) Legal
8 10 (5.65%) Law
8 10 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (5.08%) Marketing
10 7 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.82%) Banking
13 4 (2.26%) Games
14 3 (1.69%) Spanish Language
14 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
15 2 (1.13%) Local Government
16 1 (0.56%) Billing
16 1 (0.56%) German Language
Job Titles
1 40 (22.60%) Analyst
2 25 (14.12%) Senior
3 17 (9.60%) Developer
4 16 (9.04%) Data Analyst
5 13 (7.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 13 (7.34%) Lead
6 12 (6.78%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (5.65%) Data Manager
8 9 (5.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 9 (5.08%) Consultant
8 9 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.52%) Governance Manager
10 7 (3.95%) Architect
10 7 (3.95%) Business Developer
10 7 (3.95%) Product Owner
11 6 (3.39%) Data Governance Analyst
11 6 (3.39%) Data Governance Manager
11 6 (3.39%) Technical Leader
12 5 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.08%) REST
2 7 (3.95%) HTML
3 6 (3.39%) Vue
4 5 (2.82%) CSS
4 5 (2.82%) Laravel
4 5 (2.82%) LEMP Stack
4 5 (2.82%) Tailwind CSS
4 5 (2.82%) YAML
5 3 (1.69%) JDBC
5 3 (1.69%) LDAP
5 3 (1.69%) PySpark
5 3 (1.69%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.69%) SAML
5 3 (1.69%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.69%) Web Services
6 2 (1.13%) EDI
6 2 (1.13%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.13%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.13%) React
6 2 (1.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.34%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.82%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.26%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.69%) PMI
8 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.13%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.13%) CUDA
9 2 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.13%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.08%) Linux
2 2 (1.13%) Robot Operating System
2 2 (1.13%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Android
3 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (33.33%) Analytics
2 58 (32.77%) Business Intelligence
3 56 (31.64%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (27.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (24.29%) Agile
5 43 (24.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 36 (20.34%) Data Modelling
7 30 (16.95%) Roadmaps
8 27 (15.25%) Actionable Insight
9 26 (14.69%) Data Analysis
10 25 (14.12%) Data Governance
11 23 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (12.43%) Computer Science
12 22 (12.43%) Project Management
12 22 (12.43%) Risk Management
13 20 (11.30%) AI
13 20 (11.30%) Visualisation
14 19 (10.73%) ETL
15 17 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
15 17 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 51 (28.81%) SQL
2 24 (13.56%) Python
3 13 (7.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.08%) Bash
4 9 (5.08%) R
5 8 (4.52%) Java
5 8 (4.52%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.95%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.82%) PHP
8 4 (2.26%) C
8 4 (2.26%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.13%) C++
9 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (17.51%) Degree
2 17 (9.60%) ACCA
3 16 (9.04%) CIMA
4 15 (8.47%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.21%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.82%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.13%) CISSP
9 2 (1.13%) CITP
9 2 (1.13%) PhD
9 2 (1.13%) PMP
10 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.56%) CBAP
10 1 (0.56%) CCAB
10 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.21%) Data Quality
2 20 (11.30%) QA
3 11 (6.21%) GDPR
4 10 (5.65%) PMO
5 9 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (4.52%) Accessibility
7 6 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (2.82%) NIST
9 4 (2.26%) COBIT
10 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (1.13%) GRC
10 2 (1.13%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.13%) P3O
10 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
10 2 (1.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (7.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.26%) Terraform
3 2 (1.13%) Grafana
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 24 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.08%) Google
3 8 (4.52%) Databricks
4 7 (3.95%) SAP
5 6 (3.39%) Sage
6 5 (2.82%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.26%) Oracle
8 2 (1.13%) Ariba
8 2 (1.13%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.56%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.56%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.56%) BMC
9 1 (0.56%) Foundry
9 1 (0.56%) Genesys
9 1 (0.56%) IBM
9 1 (0.56%) Informatica
9 1 (0.56%) Palantir
9 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.56%) Talend
9 1 (0.56%) Verint