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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 50 28
Rank change year-on-year -15 -22 +37
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 155 236 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.99% 5.33% 7.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 5.91% 8.03%
Number of salaries quoted 99 128 194
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,754 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £29,104
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +88.98% -44.56%
75th Percentile £75,125 £73,750 £50,938
90th Percentile £90,500 £85,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -1.17%

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 4,320 3,990 2,791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.33% 90.19% 91.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,217 1,798 2,384
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,260 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £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 £63,750
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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -20 65 £67,500 +12.50% 32
Staffordshire -25 21 £42,500 +9.67% 7
Solihull +10 13 £58,750 -12.96% 4
Coventry +3 12 £63,750 +2.00% 7
Warwickshire +25 10 £52,500 -22.22% 16
Herefordshire -4 6 £60,000 +26.32%
Shropshire -21 4 - - 6
Walsall - 4 £44,500 - 2
Wolverhampton 0 3 - - 3
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Worcestershire -10 1 £65,000 +62.50% 4
Bilston - 1 £66,500 - 1
Wednesbury - 1 £55,000 - 1
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 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.29%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) nginx
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (16.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.10%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.29%) Trello
5 1 (0.65%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.65%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.29%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.65%) Odoo
2 1 (0.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.87%) Power Platform
2 22 (14.19%) Azure
3 9 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.87%) AWS
5 5 (3.23%) Google Analytics
5 5 (3.23%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.58%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (2.58%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.94%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.29%) Asana
8 2 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.29%) Serverless
8 2 (1.29%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) BGP
1 1 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.65%) Firewall
1 1 (0.65%) Network Security
1 1 (0.65%) OSPF
1 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.58%) Power BI
2 9 (5.81%) Metadata
2 9 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (5.16%) Tableau
4 7 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.58%) Looker
5 4 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.29%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 2 (1.29%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.29%) MySQL
7 2 (1.29%) Power Query
7 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.29%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.65%) Big Data
8 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (1.29%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) JUnit
3 1 (0.65%) Maven
3 1 (0.65%) Mockito
3 1 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.65%) Vite
General
1 68 (43.87%) Social Skills
2 52 (33.55%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (28.39%) Finance
4 22 (14.19%) Public Sector
5 21 (13.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (12.90%) Retail
7 17 (10.97%) Law
7 17 (10.97%) Manufacturing
8 15 (9.68%) Marketing
9 14 (9.03%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (5.81%) Legal
11 6 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (3.23%) Banking
12 5 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.94%) Games
13 3 (1.94%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.65%) Back Office
14 1 (0.65%) Billing
14 1 (0.65%) German Language
14 1 (0.65%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (18.71%) Senior
2 28 (18.06%) Analyst
3 14 (9.03%) Data Engineer
4 11 (7.10%) Architect
5 10 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 10 (6.45%) Project Engineer
6 9 (5.81%) Lead
6 9 (5.81%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (5.16%) Developer
7 8 (5.16%) Product Specialist
7 8 (5.16%) Products Support Specialist
7 8 (5.16%) Support Specialist
8 7 (4.52%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.52%) Data Manager
9 6 (3.87%) Data Governance Analyst
9 6 (3.87%) Data Governance Manager
9 6 (3.87%) Governance Manager
9 6 (3.87%) Graduate
10 5 (3.23%) Consultant
10 5 (3.23%) Senior Electrical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.52%) HTML
2 3 (1.94%) React
2 3 (1.94%) REST
3 2 (1.29%) .NET
3 2 (1.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.29%) CSS
3 2 (1.29%) JSON
3 2 (1.29%) PySpark
3 2 (1.29%) Spring
3 2 (1.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.65%) EDI
4 1 (0.65%) Laravel
4 1 (0.65%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.65%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.65%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.65%) Vue
4 1 (0.65%) XML
4 1 (0.65%) XSLT
4 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.10%) Security Posture
2 10 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.58%) Cyber Security Posture
6 4 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.58%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.58%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.94%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.94%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.29%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.29%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.29%) SCADA
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.94%) Windows
2 2 (1.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (34.84%) Analytics
2 53 (34.19%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (22.58%) Project Management
5 33 (21.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 31 (20.00%) Agile
7 30 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (15.48%) Data Analysis
10 22 (14.19%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (12.90%) Data Modelling
11 20 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (11.61%) Risk Management
12 18 (11.61%) Visualisation
13 17 (10.97%) ITIL
13 17 (10.97%) Time Management
14 16 (10.32%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (9.03%) Data Governance
15 14 (9.03%) DevOps
15 14 (9.03%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.81%) SQL
2 24 (15.48%) Python
3 12 (7.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.87%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.87%) R
5 4 (2.58%) Java
5 4 (2.58%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.94%) C#
6 3 (1.94%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.29%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) C
8 1 (0.65%) C++
8 1 (0.65%) PHP
8 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.65%) Scala
8 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (17.42%) Degree
2 8 (5.16%) ACCA
2 8 (5.16%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.87%) CIMA
3 6 (3.87%) TOGAF Certification
4 5 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.29%) CISM
7 2 (1.29%) CISSP
7 2 (1.29%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.65%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.55%) Data Quality
2 16 (10.32%) PMO
3 15 (9.68%) QA
4 12 (7.74%) SLA
5 6 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.23%) COBIT
6 5 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.58%) GDPR
7 4 (2.58%) NIST
8 3 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.94%) GRC
9 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (2.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.29%) Terraform
3 1 (0.65%) Ansible
3 1 (0.65%) Control-M
3 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.74%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.10%) Salesforce
4 8 (5.16%) Databricks
5 6 (3.87%) SAP
6 5 (3.23%) Google
6 5 (3.23%) Oracle
6 5 (3.23%) Sage
7 2 (1.29%) Ariba
8 1 (0.65%) Adaptive Insights
8 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.65%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.65%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.65%) BMC
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco
8 1 (0.65%) Genesys
8 1 (0.65%) IBM
8 1 (0.65%) Meraki
8 1 (0.65%) Workday