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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 51 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -30 +45
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 161 241 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.65% 4.46% 8.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.51% 5.40% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 105 104 232
10th Percentile £38,900 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,500 £37,307
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +56.81% -28.94%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £50,625
90th Percentile £89,000 £83,875 £70,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year - +0.75% -0.74%

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 2,924 4,464 3,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.51% 82.67% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 2,031 2,545
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,750 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 10 November 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 10 November 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 -8 64 £67,500 +12.50% 62
Staffordshire -17 26 £42,500 -21.51% 15
Solihull +14 18 £75,000 +3.45% 2
Warwickshire +48 10 £62,500 +6.38% 18
Coventry +10 10 £67,500 +56.98% 7
Herefordshire +1 6 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Shropshire -11 6 £61,250 +58.06% 6
Walsall - 4 £44,500 - 1
Worcestershire +8 3 £60,000 +50.00% 7
Wednesbury +1 2 £50,000 +33.33% 1
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Wolverhampton 0 1 £65,000 +8.33% 5
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 2 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.24%) CMS
1 2 (1.24%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.62%) SAS
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (16.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (9.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.62%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.88%) Power Platform
2 25 (15.53%) Azure
3 9 (5.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.11%) AWS
7 4 (2.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (2.48%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.86%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.86%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.86%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.24%) PaaS
9 2 (1.24%) SaaS
9 2 (1.24%) Serverless
9 2 (1.24%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) ADSL2
1 1 (0.62%) BGP
1 1 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.62%) Firewall
1 1 (0.62%) Network Security
1 1 (0.62%) OSPF
1 1 (0.62%) SAN
1 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.25%) Power BI
2 10 (6.21%) Metadata
3 9 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.59%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.11%) Tableau
6 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 2 (1.24%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.24%) MySQL
8 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.24%) Power Query
8 2 (1.24%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (6.21%) JIRA
2 2 (1.24%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (0.62%) DbUnit
3 1 (0.62%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) jMock
3 1 (0.62%) JUnit
3 1 (0.62%) Maven
3 1 (0.62%) Mockito
3 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 56 (34.78%) Finance
3 51 (31.68%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 21 (13.04%) Retail
7 19 (11.80%) Marketing
8 17 (10.56%) Manufacturing
9 16 (9.94%) Law
10 15 (9.32%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (8.70%) Legal
12 7 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (3.11%) Banking
14 4 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (1.24%) Local Government
16 1 (0.62%) Back Office
16 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.62%) German Language
16 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.62%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (15.53%) Analyst
2 23 (14.29%) Senior
3 14 (8.70%) Lead
4 12 (7.45%) Data Engineer
5 10 (6.21%) Architect
5 10 (6.21%) Project Engineer
6 9 (5.59%) Developer
7 8 (4.97%) Product Specialist
7 8 (4.97%) Products Support Specialist
7 8 (4.97%) Support Specialist
8 7 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (4.35%) Data Manager
9 6 (3.73%) Coordinator
9 6 (3.73%) Data Governance Analyst
9 6 (3.73%) Data Governance Manager
9 6 (3.73%) Governance Manager
9 6 (3.73%) Graduate
9 6 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Senior Electrical Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.73%) React
2 5 (3.11%) HTML
3 4 (2.48%) .NET
4 3 (1.86%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.86%) REST
4 3 (1.86%) Spring
4 3 (1.86%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.24%) CSS
6 1 (0.62%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.62%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.62%) EDI
6 1 (0.62%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.62%) JSON
6 1 (0.62%) PowerMock
6 1 (0.62%) SOAP
6 1 (0.62%) Spring Batch
6 1 (0.62%) Spring Integration
6 1 (0.62%) Web Services
6 1 (0.62%) XML
6 1 (0.62%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.83%) Security Posture
2 10 (6.21%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.48%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.48%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.48%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.86%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.86%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.86%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.86%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.24%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.24%) Linux
1 2 (1.24%) Windows
2 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (29.81%) Analytics
3 40 (24.84%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (21.12%) Project Management
5 33 (20.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 32 (19.88%) Agile
7 29 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (18.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (13.66%) Data Analysis
8 22 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (13.04%) Risk Management
10 19 (11.80%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (11.18%) AI
11 18 (11.18%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (11.18%) Data Modelling
12 16 (9.94%) ITIL
12 16 (9.94%) Time Management
13 15 (9.32%) DevOps
13 15 (9.32%) Mentoring
13 15 (9.32%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.22%) SQL
2 19 (11.80%) Python
3 12 (7.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.73%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.11%) C#
5 5 (3.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.11%) R
6 4 (2.48%) Java
7 3 (1.86%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.24%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.62%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (17.39%) Degree
2 8 (4.97%) ACCA
3 6 (3.73%) CIMA
3 6 (3.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.73%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (2.48%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.24%) CISM
6 2 (1.24%) CISSP
6 2 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.62%) City & Guilds
7 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.62%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.32%) PMO
3 14 (8.70%) QA
4 12 (7.45%) SLA
5 5 (3.11%) COBIT
5 5 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (3.11%) GDPR
5 5 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.48%) NIST
7 3 (1.86%) GRC
8 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (1.86%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.62%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.62%) Ansible
2 1 (0.62%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.62%) Grafana
2 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.07%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.83%) ServiceNow
4 10 (6.21%) Databricks
5 6 (3.73%) SAP
6 5 (3.11%) Sage
7 4 (2.48%) Oracle
8 2 (1.24%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.24%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.24%) Ariba
8 2 (1.24%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.62%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.62%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.62%) Dell
9 1 (0.62%) EMC
9 1 (0.62%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.62%) Meraki
9 1 (0.62%) UiPath
9 1 (0.62%) Workday