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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 53 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -29 +37
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 160 210 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.05% 5.05% 6.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 5.52% 7.96%
Number of salaries quoted 97 127 204
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,754 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £29,708
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +93.55% -43.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -4.00%

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 4,314 3,806 3,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.45% 87.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,238 1,700 2,744
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -7 69 £67,500 +12.50% 43
Staffordshire -25 17 £42,500 +9.67% 21
Solihull +8 13 £58,750 -2.08% 3
Warwickshire +23 12 £61,250 -9.26% 15
Coventry +5 12 £63,750 +6.25% 9
Herefordshire -1 9 £60,000 +26.32%
Wolverhampton -7 4 - - 8
Shropshire -20 4 - - 28
Bilston - 3 £66,500 - 1
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Walsall - 2 £43,750 - 2
Worcestershire -14 1 £65,000 +62.50% 20
Wednesbury - 1 £55,000 - 2
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 4 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.88%) CMS
2 3 (1.88%) nginx
3 2 (1.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (16.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.88%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.88%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Shopify
2 2 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.63%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.50%) Power Platform
2 23 (14.38%) Azure
3 10 (6.25%) AWS
4 9 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.13%) Google Analytics
7 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.50%) GitHub
7 4 (2.50%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.88%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.88%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.88%) SaaS
9 2 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.25%) Asana
9 2 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) Serverless
9 2 (1.25%) Smartsheet
9 2 (1.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) BGP
1 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.63%) Firewall
1 1 (0.63%) Network Security
1 1 (0.63%) OSPF
1 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (21.88%) Power BI
2 8 (5.00%) Metadata
3 7 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.38%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (4.38%) Tableau
4 4 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.50%) Looker
4 4 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.88%) MySQL
5 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.25%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 2 (1.25%) Power Query
6 2 (1.25%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.63%) Big Data
7 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (2.50%) Git
2 4 (2.50%) JUnit
2 4 (2.50%) Maven
2 4 (2.50%) Mockito
3 3 (1.88%) Vite
4 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 51 (31.88%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (31.88%) Finance
3 22 (13.75%) Public Sector
4 21 (13.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (10.63%) Law
5 17 (10.63%) Manufacturing
6 16 (10.00%) Retail
7 15 (9.38%) Marketing
8 14 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (6.25%) Legal
10 6 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.13%) Banking
11 5 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.88%) Games
12 3 (1.88%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.63%) Back Office
13 1 (0.63%) German Language
13 1 (0.63%) Polish Language
13 1 (0.63%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 31 (19.38%) Senior
2 29 (18.13%) Analyst
3 13 (8.13%) Data Engineer
4 11 (6.88%) Lead
5 10 (6.25%) Architect
5 10 (6.25%) Project Engineer
6 9 (5.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 9 (5.63%) Developer
7 8 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.38%) Data Manager
9 6 (3.75%) Data Governance Analyst
9 6 (3.75%) Data Governance Manager
9 6 (3.75%) Governance Manager
9 6 (3.75%) Product Specialist
9 6 (3.75%) Products Support Specialist
9 6 (3.75%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.75%) Support Specialist
10 5 (3.13%) Electrical Engineer
10 5 (3.13%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.63%) HTML
2 6 (3.75%) REST
3 4 (2.50%) CSS
4 3 (1.88%) Laravel
4 3 (1.88%) LEMP Stack
4 3 (1.88%) React
4 3 (1.88%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (1.88%) Vue
4 3 (1.88%) YAML
5 2 (1.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.25%) JSON
5 2 (1.25%) PySpark
5 2 (1.25%) Spring
5 2 (1.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.63%) .NET
6 1 (0.63%) EDI
6 1 (0.63%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.63%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.88%) Security Posture
2 10 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.50%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.50%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.50%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.88%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.88%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.25%) SCADA
7 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.38%) Linux
2 3 (1.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.13%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (32.50%) Analytics
3 45 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
4 36 (22.50%) Agile
4 36 (22.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 33 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (20.00%) Project Management
7 22 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (13.13%) Actionable Insight
8 21 (13.13%) Data Analysis
9 19 (11.88%) Risk Management
9 19 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (10.63%) Data Modelling
11 16 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (10.00%) Time Management
11 16 (10.00%) Visualisation
12 14 (8.75%) Budgeting
12 14 (8.75%) DevOps
12 14 (8.75%) Strategic Thinking
13 13 (8.13%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.00%) SQL
2 23 (14.38%) Python
3 11 (6.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.63%) R
5 8 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.38%) Bash
6 7 (4.38%) Java
7 4 (2.50%) C
7 4 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.50%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.88%) PHP
9 2 (1.25%) C#
9 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (17.50%) Degree
2 13 (8.13%) ACCA
3 11 (6.88%) CIMA
4 10 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.25%) CISM
8 2 (1.25%) CISSP
8 2 (1.25%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.25%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.63%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.75%) QA
2 19 (11.88%) Data Quality
3 17 (10.63%) PMO
4 10 (6.25%) SLA
5 6 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.50%) COBIT
7 4 (2.50%) GDPR
7 4 (2.50%) NIST
8 3 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.88%) GRC
9 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (5.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.25%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) Control-M
3 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 9 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.00%) Sage
5 7 (4.38%) Oracle
6 6 (3.75%) SAP
7 5 (3.13%) Databricks
7 5 (3.13%) Google
8 2 (1.25%) Ariba
9 1 (0.63%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.63%) BMC
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco
9 1 (0.63%) Foundry
9 1 (0.63%) Genesys
9 1 (0.63%) IBM
9 1 (0.63%) Meraki
9 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.63%) Palantir
9 1 (0.63%) Talend
9 1 (0.63%) Verint