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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 50 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 -22 +37
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 159 205 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.97% 4.99% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 5.43% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 98 126 211
10th Percentile £40,875 £36,623 -
25th Percentile £50,313 £38,754 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £58,750 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.51% +80.77% -37.50%
75th Percentile £78,438 £73,750 £53,875
90th Percentile £90,750 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.14% -4.71%

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 4,374 3,773 3,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.74% 91.91% 87.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,290 1,691 2,975
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £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 £63,059
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £76,250
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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -8 67 £66,250 +10.42% 43
Staffordshire -20 18 £42,500 +9.67% 26
Solihull +11 13 £58,750 -2.08% 2
Coventry 0 13 £60,000 - 10
Warwickshire +19 11 £61,250 -9.26% 16
Herefordshire -4 8 £60,000 +26.32%
Shropshire -22 5 £55,000 +46.67% 29
Wolverhampton -6 4 - - 4
Bilston - 4 £66,500 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Walsall - 2 £43,750 - 1
Worcestershire -16 1 £65,000 +62.50% 11
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 (2.52%) CMS
1 4 (2.52%) nginx
1 4 (2.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (15.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.52%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.52%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Shopify
2 2 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.26%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.63%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.27%) Power Platform
2 23 (14.47%) Azure
3 11 (6.92%) AWS
4 9 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.14%) GitHub
6 5 (3.14%) Google Analytics
7 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.52%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.89%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.89%) SaaS
9 2 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.26%) Asana
9 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.26%) Serverless
9 2 (1.26%) Smartsheet
9 2 (1.26%) Snowflake
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 36 (22.64%) Power BI
2 8 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (5.03%) Metadata
2 8 (5.03%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.14%) Tableau
5 4 (2.52%) Looker
5 4 (2.52%) MySQL
5 4 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.26%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.26%) Power Query
7 2 (1.26%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.66%) JIRA
2 5 (3.14%) Git
3 4 (2.52%) JUnit
3 4 (2.52%) Maven
3 4 (2.52%) Mockito
3 4 (2.52%) Vite
4 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 69 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 51 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (29.56%) Finance
4 21 (13.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 18 (11.32%) Law
6 17 (10.69%) Manufacturing
7 16 (10.06%) Retail
8 13 (8.18%) Marketing
8 13 (8.18%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (6.29%) Legal
10 6 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.14%) Banking
11 5 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.89%) Games
12 3 (1.89%) Spanish Language
13 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.63%) Billing
14 1 (0.63%) German Language
14 1 (0.63%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (19.50%) Senior
2 30 (18.87%) Analyst
3 13 (8.18%) Data Engineer
4 10 (6.29%) Lead
4 10 (6.29%) Project Engineer
5 9 (5.66%) Architect
5 9 (5.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 9 (5.66%) Developer
6 8 (5.03%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (4.40%) Data Analyst
7 7 (4.40%) Data Manager
8 6 (3.77%) Data Governance Analyst
8 6 (3.77%) Data Governance Manager
8 6 (3.77%) Governance Manager
8 6 (3.77%) Senior Developer
9 5 (3.14%) Insight Analyst
9 5 (3.14%) Mechanical Engineer
9 5 (3.14%) Product Owner
9 5 (3.14%) Product Specialist
9 5 (3.14%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.66%) HTML
2 7 (4.40%) REST
3 5 (3.14%) CSS
3 5 (3.14%) Vue
4 4 (2.52%) Laravel
4 4 (2.52%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (2.52%) React
4 4 (2.52%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (2.52%) YAML
5 3 (1.89%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.89%) Spring
6 2 (1.26%) EDI
6 2 (1.26%) JSON
6 2 (1.26%) PySpark
6 2 (1.26%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.26%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.26%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.63%) Flutter
7 1 (0.63%) gRPC
7 1 (0.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.29%) Product Ownership
1 10 (6.29%) Security Posture
2 9 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (3.77%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (2.52%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.52%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.89%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.26%) SCADA
8 1 (0.63%) CMDB
8 1 (0.63%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.63%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.03%) Linux
2 3 (1.89%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.63%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (34.59%) Analytics
2 49 (30.82%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (28.93%) Business Intelligence
4 38 (23.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 37 (23.27%) Agile
6 34 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (19.50%) Project Management
8 21 (13.21%) Actionable Insight
8 21 (13.21%) Risk Management
8 21 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (11.95%) Data Analysis
10 19 (11.95%) Data Modelling
11 18 (11.32%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (10.06%) Data Governance
12 16 (10.06%) Roadmaps
12 16 (10.06%) Strategic Thinking
13 15 (9.43%) DevOps
13 15 (9.43%) Time Management
14 14 (8.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.90%) SQL
2 22 (13.84%) Python
3 11 (6.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.03%) Bash
5 8 (5.03%) Java
6 7 (4.40%) R
7 4 (2.52%) C
7 4 (2.52%) PHP
7 4 (2.52%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.63%) C#
8 1 (0.63%) C++
8 1 (0.63%) Scala
8 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (15.72%) Degree
2 12 (7.55%) ACCA
3 10 (6.29%) CIMA
3 10 (6.29%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.03%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.26%) CISM
7 2 (1.26%) CISSP
7 2 (1.26%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.26%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) PMP
8 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.09%) QA
2 18 (11.32%) Data Quality
3 16 (10.06%) PMO
4 7 (4.40%) SLA
5 6 (3.77%) GDPR
5 6 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.52%) COBIT
7 4 (2.52%) NIST
8 3 (1.89%) GRC
9 2 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 11 (6.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.89%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) Control-M
3 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.03%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.40%) Databricks
3 7 (4.40%) Oracle
3 7 (4.40%) Sage
4 6 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.77%) SAP
5 5 (3.14%) Google
6 2 (1.26%) Ariba
7 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.63%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.63%) BMC
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco
7 1 (0.63%) Foundry
7 1 (0.63%) Genesys
7 1 (0.63%) IBM
7 1 (0.63%) Meraki
7 1 (0.63%) Palantir
7 1 (0.63%) Talend
7 1 (0.63%) Verint