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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 57 34
Rank change year-on-year -4 -23 +32
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 158 189 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.73% 4.79% 5.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 5.15% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 102 123 247
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,399 £26,500
25th Percentile £51,375 £38,754 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,788 £60,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +36.36% -7.37%
75th Percentile £73,625 £73,750 £60,745
90th Percentile £92,250 £85,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -10.57%

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 4,633 3,672 4,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 79.96% 93.01% 86.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,448 1,637 3,777
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 £69,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

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 12 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 12 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 68 £62,500 +4.17% 53
Staffordshire -23 15 £42,500 +9.67% 11
Coventry -1 13 £60,000 - 12
Warwickshire +16 12 £52,000 -22.96% 29
Solihull +9 10 £92,500 +54.17% 6
Herefordshire -7 7 £60,000 +26.32% 3
Shropshire -25 6 £55,000 +46.67% 16
Wolverhampton -7 5 £45,000 -25.00% 4
Bilston - 4 £66,500 - 1
Worcestershire -15 3 £67,000 +22.94% 11
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Walsall - 1 £44,000 - 4
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 10 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.53%) CMS
2 4 (2.53%) nginx
2 4 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (15.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.53%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.53%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Shopify
2 3 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.63%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.63%) Odoo
4 1 (0.63%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.95%) Power Platform
2 29 (18.35%) Azure
3 12 (7.59%) AWS
3 12 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.06%) Power Automate
6 7 (4.43%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.16%) GitHub
8 4 (2.53%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.53%) Google Analytics
8 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.90%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.90%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.90%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) BGP
1 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.63%) Firewall
1 1 (0.63%) Network Security
1 1 (0.63%) OSPF
1 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (24.05%) Power BI
2 10 (6.33%) Metadata
3 9 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (5.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.16%) Tableau
6 4 (2.53%) Looker
6 4 (2.53%) MySQL
7 3 (1.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.90%) Power Query
7 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.27%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.27%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.27%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.63%) DB2
9 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.70%) JIRA
2 6 (3.80%) Git
3 4 (2.53%) JUnit
3 4 (2.53%) Maven
3 4 (2.53%) Mockito
3 4 (2.53%) Vite
4 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 71 (44.94%) Social Skills
2 53 (33.54%) Finance
3 49 (31.01%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.56%) Public Sector
5 22 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (9.49%) Law
6 15 (9.49%) Manufacturing
6 15 (9.49%) Retail
7 12 (7.59%) Legal
7 12 (7.59%) Marketing
8 11 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.16%) Banking
10 5 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.53%) Games
12 3 (1.90%) Spanish Language
13 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.63%) Billing
14 1 (0.63%) German Language
14 1 (0.63%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (20.25%) Senior
2 29 (18.35%) Analyst
3 13 (8.23%) Data Engineer
3 13 (8.23%) Developer
4 9 (5.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 9 (5.70%) Data Manager
4 9 (5.70%) Lead
5 8 (5.06%) Architect
5 8 (5.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 8 (5.06%) Data Analyst
5 8 (5.06%) Project Engineer
6 7 (4.43%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (3.80%) Consultant
7 6 (3.80%) Data Governance Analyst
7 6 (3.80%) Data Governance Manager
7 6 (3.80%) Governance Manager
7 6 (3.80%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (3.80%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.16%) Product Owner
8 5 (3.16%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.43%) HTML
1 7 (4.43%) REST
2 5 (3.16%) CSS
2 5 (3.16%) Vue
3 4 (2.53%) Laravel
3 4 (2.53%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (2.53%) React
3 4 (2.53%) Tailwind CSS
3 4 (2.53%) YAML
4 3 (1.90%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.90%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.90%) Spring
4 3 (1.90%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.27%) EDI
5 2 (1.27%) JSON
5 2 (1.27%) OpenCV
5 2 (1.27%) PySpark
5 2 (1.27%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.63%) HTML5 Canvas
6 1 (0.63%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.96%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.33%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.06%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.80%) Cyber Security Posture
7 4 (2.53%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.90%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.90%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.90%) PMI
8 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.27%) CUDA
9 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) Lidar
9 2 (1.27%) Robotics
9 2 (1.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.06%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Robot Operating System
2 2 (1.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (34.81%) Analytics
2 52 (32.91%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (31.65%) Business Intelligence
4 41 (25.95%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 40 (25.32%) Agile
6 36 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (18.35%) Project Management
8 23 (14.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (13.92%) Data Analysis
9 22 (13.92%) Data Modelling
9 22 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (13.29%) Data Governance
11 20 (12.66%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (12.66%) Risk Management
11 20 (12.66%) Roadmaps
12 17 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (10.76%) ETL
13 16 (10.13%) DevOps
13 16 (10.13%) Strategic Thinking
14 15 (9.49%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.68%) SQL
2 21 (13.29%) Python
3 9 (5.70%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.06%) Bash
4 8 (5.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (5.06%) Java
5 5 (3.16%) R
6 4 (2.53%) C
6 4 (2.53%) PHP
6 4 (2.53%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.27%) C++
8 1 (0.63%) C#
8 1 (0.63%) Scala
8 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.72%) Degree
2 12 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.96%) ACCA
4 10 (6.33%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.70%) CIMA
6 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.16%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.53%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.27%) PhD
10 2 (1.27%) PMP
11 1 (0.63%) CBAP
11 1 (0.63%) CCIE
11 1 (0.63%) CCNP
11 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.63%) CITP
11 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.82%) Data Quality
2 24 (15.19%) QA
3 15 (9.49%) PMO
4 9 (5.70%) GDPR
5 6 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.53%) COBIT
6 4 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.53%) NIST
7 3 (1.90%) SLA
8 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.27%) P3O
8 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (6.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.90%) Terraform
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.63%) Ansible
4 1 (0.63%) Control-M
4 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.43%) SAP
3 6 (3.80%) Oracle
3 6 (3.80%) Sage
4 5 (3.16%) Databricks
4 5 (3.16%) Google
4 5 (3.16%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.63%) Adaptive Insights
6 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.63%) Ariba
6 1 (0.63%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.63%) Foundry
6 1 (0.63%) Genesys
6 1 (0.63%) Meraki
6 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.63%) Palantir
6 1 (0.63%) Talend
6 1 (0.63%) Verint
6 1 (0.63%) Workday