Decision-Making Jobs in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 47 55
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +23
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 167 353 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.12% 4.18% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 5.20% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 107 217 182
10th Percentile £38,754 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -20.75%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £87,350 £92,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% -0.79%

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 3,608 6,788 5,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.11% 80.40% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,710 4,602 3,165
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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 +3 79 £55,000 -4.03% 204
Staffordshire +4 30 £42,500 -20.93% 92
Solihull +7 16 £75,000 +94.81% 7
Warwickshire -16 12 £52,500 -12.50% 61
Shropshire +6 6 £37,500 -6.25% 74
Worcestershire +15 5 £58,250 +94.17% 38
Coventry +4 4 £45,000 -18.18% 48
Walsall +8 3 £44,000 +17.33% 8
Wednesbury +11 2 £45,000 +20.00%
Wolverhampton +9 1 £65,000 -3.70% 32
Herefordshire - 1 - -
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 10 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.20%) CMS
2 2 (1.20%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (14.97%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (11.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (5.99%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.80%) Shopify
3 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.60%) iTrent
3 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.16%) Power Platform
2 35 (20.96%) Azure
3 14 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (7.19%) PowerApps
5 11 (6.59%) Power Automate
6 10 (5.99%) IaaS
6 10 (5.99%) PaaS
7 7 (4.19%) AWS
7 7 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.99%) SaaS
9 3 (1.80%) Boomi
9 3 (1.80%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.20%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.20%) GCP
10 2 (1.20%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.20%) SMS
2 2 (1.20%) VLAN
2 2 (1.20%) WAN
3 1 (0.60%) 5G
3 1 (0.60%) ADSL2
3 1 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.60%) Modbus
3 1 (0.60%) MQTT
3 1 (0.60%) Network Security
3 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (21.56%) Power BI
2 15 (8.98%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (8.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (7.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (5.99%) Star Schema
6 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.40%) Big Data
7 4 (2.40%) Metadata
7 4 (2.40%) Tableau
8 3 (1.80%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.20%) Power Query
9 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (6.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (2.99%) JIRA
3 3 (1.80%) Git
4 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (1.20%) DbUnit
4 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) jMock
4 2 (1.20%) JUnit
4 2 (1.20%) Maven
4 2 (1.20%) Mockito
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.60%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Vite
5 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 104 (62.28%) Finance
2 70 (41.92%) Social Skills
3 48 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (23.95%) Marketing
5 26 (15.57%) Legal
6 16 (9.58%) Public Sector
7 15 (8.98%) Retail
8 11 (6.59%) Law
9 10 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (4.79%) Manufacturing
12 7 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (2.40%) Billing
14 4 (2.40%) Police
15 2 (1.20%) Automotive
15 2 (1.20%) Local Government
16 1 (0.60%) Advertising
16 1 (0.60%) General Ledger
16 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (18.56%) Analyst
2 20 (11.98%) Customer Executive
3 18 (10.78%) Developer
4 15 (8.98%) Business Analyst
5 12 (7.19%) Architect
5 12 (7.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 12 (7.19%) Senior
6 11 (6.59%) Business Developer
6 11 (6.59%) Power BI Developer
7 10 (5.99%) ETL Developer
7 10 (5.99%) Lead
7 10 (5.99%) SQL BI Developer
7 10 (5.99%) SQL Developer
7 10 (5.99%) Systems Analyst
8 8 (4.79%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 8 (4.79%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (4.19%) CRM Analyst
9 7 (4.19%) CRM Business Analyst
9 7 (4.19%) Finance Business Analyst
9 7 (4.19%) Financial Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.40%) React
2 3 (1.80%) .NET
2 3 (1.80%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.80%) EDI
2 3 (1.80%) REST
3 2 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (1.20%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.20%) CSS
3 2 (1.20%) Hibernate
3 2 (1.20%) HTML
3 2 (1.20%) JPA
3 2 (1.20%) PowerMock
3 2 (1.20%) RESTful
3 2 (1.20%) SOAP
3 2 (1.20%) Spring
3 2 (1.20%) Spring Batch
3 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.20%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (1.20%) Spring Integration
3 2 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.98%) Management Information System
2 12 (7.19%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.39%) Taxonomies
4 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.59%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.80%) NHS
8 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.20%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.20%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.60%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 1 (0.60%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.93%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (26.95%) Analytics
3 43 (25.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 41 (24.55%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (20.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (18.56%) Agile
7 30 (17.96%) CRM
8 29 (17.37%) Data Analysis
9 28 (16.77%) Actionable Insight
10 26 (15.57%) Artificial Intelligence
10 26 (15.57%) Business Development
10 26 (15.57%) Project Management
11 23 (13.77%) ETL
12 20 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.98%) Contract Negotiation
13 19 (11.38%) Roadmaps
14 18 (10.78%) Data Modelling
15 16 (9.58%) Data Governance
16 15 (8.98%) Process Improvement
16 15 (8.98%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.16%) SQL
2 18 (10.78%) Python
3 9 (5.39%) Java
4 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.80%) C++
5 3 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.80%) R
5 3 (1.80%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.80%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.20%) C#
6 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (14.37%) Degree
2 5 (2.99%) ACCA
2 5 (2.99%) CIMA
2 5 (2.99%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.40%) CBAP
3 4 (2.40%) IIBA
3 4 (2.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (1.80%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.20%) CITP
5 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.57%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.98%) GDPR
3 7 (4.19%) QA
4 6 (3.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (3.59%) PMO
5 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.20%) NCSC
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.40%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Postfix
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.20%) Grafana
1 2 (1.20%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (16.77%) Salesforce
2 19 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.79%) Alteryx
3 8 (4.79%) Databricks
4 5 (2.99%) SAP
5 3 (1.80%) Google
5 3 (1.80%) Informatica
5 3 (1.80%) Oracle
6 2 (1.20%) Ahrefs
6 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.20%) Avaya
6 2 (1.20%) Cisco
6 2 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.20%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.20%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.60%) Cognos
7 1 (0.60%) IBM
7 1 (0.60%) PeopleSoft