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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 54 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 -34 +50
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 147 239 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.57% 4.46% 7.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 5.42% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 99 103 238
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +58.67% -29.91%
75th Percentile £75,625 £73,125 £52,858
90th Percentile £90,500 £76,290 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 2,781 4,406 3,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.45% 82.14% 93.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,733 2,082 2,613
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,189 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,980 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 27 October 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 27 October 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 -9 58 £65,000 +8.33% 63
Staffordshire -21 23 £42,500 -22.73% 19
Solihull +11 19 £75,000 +3.45% 3
Warwickshire +38 10 £62,500 - 16
Shropshire -13 6 £47,500 +22.58% 9
Coventry +6 5 £48,750 +13.37% 17
Herefordshire +3 5 £60,000 +20.00% 5
Walsall +7 4 £44,500 +14.84%
Worcestershire +10 3 £60,000 +50.00% 10
Wednesbury +1 2 £50,000 +33.33%
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Wolverhampton +1 1 £65,000 +8.33% 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 2 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.36%) CMS
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.68%) SAS
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (13.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.37%) Power Platform
2 24 (16.33%) Azure
3 7 (4.76%) AWS
3 7 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.72%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (2.72%) PowerApps
5 4 (2.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (2.72%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.04%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.04%) Serverless
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.36%) PaaS
7 2 (1.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) Network Security
2 1 (0.68%) ADSL2
2 1 (0.68%) BGP
2 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) OSPF
2 1 (0.68%) SAN
2 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (17.01%) Power BI
2 9 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.72%) Tableau
6 3 (2.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.04%) Metadata
6 3 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.36%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.36%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.36%) MySQL
7 2 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.68%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.44%) JIRA
2 3 (2.04%) Git
3 2 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (1.36%) DbUnit
3 2 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.36%) jMock
3 2 (1.36%) JUnit
3 2 (1.36%) Maven
3 2 (1.36%) Mockito
3 2 (1.36%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.68%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (46.26%) Social Skills
2 50 (34.01%) Finance
3 43 (29.25%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (17.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 20 (13.61%) Marketing
7 19 (12.93%) Retail
8 17 (11.56%) Law
9 14 (9.52%) Manufacturing
10 11 (7.48%) Legal
10 11 (7.48%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.36%) Local Government
14 1 (0.68%) Banking
14 1 (0.68%) Billing
14 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.68%) German Language
14 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.68%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (16.33%) Analyst
1 24 (16.33%) Senior
2 12 (8.16%) Lead
3 11 (7.48%) Data Engineer
4 10 (6.80%) Developer
4 10 (6.80%) Project Engineer
5 9 (6.12%) Architect
6 8 (5.44%) Product Specialist
6 8 (5.44%) Products Support Specialist
6 8 (5.44%) Support Specialist
7 6 (4.08%) Graduate
7 6 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (3.40%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.40%) Electrical Engineer
8 5 (3.40%) Mechanical Engineer
8 5 (3.40%) Senior Electrical Engineer
8 5 (3.40%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
9 4 (2.72%) Digital Transformation Director
9 4 (2.72%) IT Director
9 4 (2.72%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.08%) React
2 5 (3.40%) .NET
2 5 (3.40%) HTML
3 4 (2.72%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.72%) REST
3 4 (2.72%) Spring
3 4 (2.72%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.36%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.36%) Bootstrap
4 2 (1.36%) CSS
4 2 (1.36%) EDI
4 2 (1.36%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.36%) JPA
4 2 (1.36%) PowerMock
4 2 (1.36%) RESTful
4 2 (1.36%) SOAP
4 2 (1.36%) Spring Batch
4 2 (1.36%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (1.36%) Spring Integration
4 2 (1.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.80%) Security Posture
2 8 (5.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.40%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.72%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.72%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.72%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.72%) Taxonomies
6 3 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.04%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.36%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.36%) NHS
7 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.04%) Linux
2 2 (1.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (24.49%) Analytics
3 33 (22.45%) Agile
3 33 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (21.77%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (20.41%) Project Management
6 27 (18.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 25 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (13.61%) Risk Management
8 20 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (12.93%) Data Analysis
10 16 (10.88%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (10.88%) AI
10 16 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (10.88%) DevOps
11 14 (9.52%) Data Modelling
11 14 (9.52%) ITIL
11 14 (9.52%) Mentoring
11 14 (9.52%) Roadmaps
11 14 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.49%) SQL
2 18 (12.24%) Python
3 8 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.08%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.08%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.40%) C#
5 5 (3.40%) Java
5 5 (3.40%) R
6 3 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) C++
8 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (17.01%) Degree
2 8 (5.44%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.76%) ACCA
4 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (3.40%) CIMA
6 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.36%) CISM
8 2 (1.36%) CISSP
8 2 (1.36%) CITP
8 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.36%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.68%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.20%) QA
2 14 (9.52%) PMO
3 12 (8.16%) SLA
4 11 (7.48%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.72%) COBIT
6 4 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.72%) NIST
7 3 (2.04%) GDPR
7 3 (2.04%) GRC
8 2 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (2.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.36%) Postfix
3 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.36%) Grafana
2 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (21.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.20%) Salesforce
3 11 (7.48%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.12%) Databricks
5 5 (3.40%) Oracle
6 4 (2.72%) Sage
6 4 (2.72%) SAP
7 2 (1.36%) Ahrefs
7 2 (1.36%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.36%) Ariba
7 2 (1.36%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.36%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.68%) Foundry
8 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.68%) Meraki
8 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.68%) Palantir
8 1 (0.68%) UiPath
8 1 (0.68%) Workday