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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 55 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 -26 +36
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 161 199 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.90% 4.89% 6.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 5.28% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 101 125 267
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,548 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,754 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +48.15% -14.74%
75th Percentile £74,000 £73,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £84,964
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -12.00%

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 4,479 3,769 4,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.73% 92.65% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 1,667 3,660
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £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 £82,625 £82,500 £76,825
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,425 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.46% +6.83% -8.00%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +3 71 £62,500 +4.17% 43
Staffordshire -25 17 £42,500 +9.67% 11
Solihull +9 13 £58,750 -2.08% 5
Coventry -2 13 £60,000 - 10
Warwickshire +17 11 £61,250 -9.26% 23
Herefordshire -3 7 £60,000 +26.32% 2
Shropshire -20 6 £55,000 +46.67% 7
Wolverhampton -5 5 £45,000 -25.00% 3
Bilston - 4 £66,500 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Worcestershire -10 1 £65,000 +62.50% 10
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 9 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.48%) CMS
2 4 (2.48%) nginx
2 4 (2.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.24%) Confluence
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (13.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.48%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.48%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Shopify
2 2 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.62%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 40 (24.84%) Power Platform
2 29 (18.01%) Azure
3 12 (7.45%) AWS
3 12 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 6 (3.73%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.11%) GitHub
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.48%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.86%) PaaS
9 3 (1.86%) SaaS
9 3 (1.86%) Serverless
10 2 (1.24%) Asana
10 2 (1.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
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%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.62%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (23.60%) Power BI
2 10 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (4.97%) Metadata
4 8 (4.97%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.11%) Tableau
6 4 (2.48%) Looker
6 4 (2.48%) MySQL
7 3 (1.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.24%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.24%) Power Query
8 2 (1.24%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.24%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.62%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.59%) JIRA
2 6 (3.73%) Git
3 4 (2.48%) JUnit
3 4 (2.48%) Maven
3 4 (2.48%) Mockito
3 4 (2.48%) Vite
4 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.62%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.62%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 50 (31.06%) Finance
3 48 (29.81%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 22 (13.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (11.18%) Law
6 18 (11.18%) Manufacturing
7 15 (9.32%) Retail
8 13 (8.07%) Marketing
9 12 (7.45%) Legal
9 12 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.11%) Banking
11 5 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.48%) Games
13 3 (1.86%) Spanish Language
14 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.62%) Back Office
15 1 (0.62%) German Language
15 1 (0.62%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (21.74%) Senior
2 27 (16.77%) Analyst
3 14 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 13 (8.07%) Developer
5 10 (6.21%) Project Engineer
6 9 (5.59%) Lead
7 8 (4.97%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (4.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 8 (4.97%) Data Analyst
7 8 (4.97%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (4.35%) Architect
8 7 (4.35%) Data Manager
9 6 (3.73%) Consultant
9 6 (3.73%) Data Governance Analyst
9 6 (3.73%) Data Governance Manager
9 6 (3.73%) Governance Manager
9 6 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.73%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.11%) Insight Analyst
10 5 (3.11%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.97%) HTML
2 7 (4.35%) REST
3 5 (3.11%) CSS
3 5 (3.11%) Vue
4 4 (2.48%) Laravel
4 4 (2.48%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (2.48%) React
4 4 (2.48%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (2.48%) YAML
5 3 (1.86%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.86%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.86%) Spring
5 3 (1.86%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.24%) EDI
6 2 (1.24%) JSON
6 2 (1.24%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.24%) PySpark
6 2 (1.24%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.62%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.62%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.83%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (5.59%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.59%) Security Posture
2 9 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.73%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (2.48%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.48%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.86%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.86%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.86%) PMI
6 3 (1.86%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.24%) Lidar
7 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.24%) Robotics
7 2 (1.24%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.97%) Linux
2 3 (1.86%) Windows
3 2 (1.24%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.62%) Android
4 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.54%) Analytics
2 50 (31.06%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (29.81%) Business Intelligence
4 41 (25.47%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 39 (24.22%) Agile
6 36 (22.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (19.25%) Project Management
8 23 (14.29%) Data Analysis
9 22 (13.66%) Risk Management
9 22 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (12.42%) Data Modelling
12 19 (11.80%) Actionable Insight
12 19 (11.80%) Roadmaps
13 18 (11.18%) Data Governance
14 17 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
15 16 (9.94%) DevOps
15 16 (9.94%) ETL
16 15 (9.32%) Mentoring
17 14 (8.70%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.22%) SQL
2 21 (13.04%) Python
3 9 (5.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 9 (5.59%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.97%) Bash
4 8 (4.97%) Java
5 5 (3.11%) R
6 4 (2.48%) C
6 4 (2.48%) PHP
6 4 (2.48%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.24%) C++
8 1 (0.62%) C#
8 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (17.39%) Degree
2 11 (6.83%) ACCA
2 11 (6.83%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.59%) CIMA
3 9 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.48%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.24%) PhD
8 1 (0.62%) CCIE
8 1 (0.62%) CCNP
8 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CITP
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.62%) PMP
8 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.15%) QA
2 22 (13.66%) Data Quality
3 16 (9.94%) PMO
4 8 (4.97%) GDPR
5 7 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (3.11%) SLA
7 4 (2.48%) COBIT
7 4 (2.48%) NIST
8 2 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.24%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.24%) P3O
8 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.62%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (6.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.86%) Terraform
3 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.62%) Ansible
4 1 (0.62%) Control-M
4 1 (0.62%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 30 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.35%) Oracle
3 6 (3.73%) Sage
3 6 (3.73%) SAP
3 6 (3.73%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.11%) Databricks
5 4 (2.48%) Google
5 4 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.24%) Ariba
7 1 (0.62%) Adaptive Insights
7 1 (0.62%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.62%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.62%) BMC
7 1 (0.62%) Cisco
7 1 (0.62%) Foundry
7 1 (0.62%) Genesys
7 1 (0.62%) IBM
7 1 (0.62%) Meraki
7 1 (0.62%) Talend
7 1 (0.62%) Workday