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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 54 34
Rank change year-on-year -10 -20 +31
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 159 188 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.61% 4.98% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 5.31% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 106 127 237
10th Percentile £38,125 £36,697 £26,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,754 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +32.60% +0.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,500 £88,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -8.37%

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 4,804 3,538 4,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 78.82% 93.65% 86.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,593 1,632 3,830
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 £68,750 £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 24 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 24 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 -4 69 £62,500 +4.17% 55
Warwickshire +15 13 £44,000 -29.60% 17
Coventry -9 13 £60,000 - 7
Staffordshire -23 12 £36,000 -7.11% 10
Wolverhampton -2 9 £59,250 - 1
Solihull +5 8 £92,500 +54.17% 6
Herefordshire -9 7 £60,000 +26.32% 2
Shropshire -22 6 £55,000 +46.67% 9
Bilston - 5 £66,500 - 1
Worcestershire -17 3 £67,000 +22.94% 14
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Walsall - 2 £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 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.14%) CMS
2 5 (3.14%) nginx
3 4 (2.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (16.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.14%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (3.14%) Photoshop
3 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Shopify
2 3 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.26%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.63%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.63%) Odoo
4 1 (0.63%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 43 (27.04%) Power Platform
2 30 (18.87%) Azure
3 13 (8.18%) AWS
4 12 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.66%) Power Automate
6 8 (5.03%) PowerApps
7 6 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.77%) GitHub
8 4 (2.52%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.52%) Google Analytics
8 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.52%) SaaS
8 4 (2.52%) Smartsheet
9 3 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.16%) Power BI
2 10 (6.29%) Metadata
3 9 (5.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.14%) MySQL
5 5 (3.14%) Tableau
6 4 (2.52%) Looker
6 4 (2.52%) Power Query
7 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.26%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 2 (1.26%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.26%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.26%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.63%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (5.66%) JIRA
2 7 (4.40%) Git
3 5 (3.14%) Vite
4 4 (2.52%) JUnit
4 4 (2.52%) Maven
4 4 (2.52%) Mockito
5 2 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 72 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 56 (35.22%) Finance
3 50 (31.45%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (15.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (13.21%) Public Sector
6 17 (10.69%) Manufacturing
7 14 (8.81%) Law
7 14 (8.81%) Retail
8 13 (8.18%) Legal
9 10 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (5.03%) Marketing
11 5 (3.14%) Banking
11 5 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.52%) Games
13 3 (1.89%) Spanish Language
14 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.63%) Back Office
15 1 (0.63%) German Language
15 1 (0.63%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (19.50%) Analyst
2 29 (18.24%) Senior
3 16 (10.06%) Developer
4 12 (7.55%) Data Engineer
5 10 (6.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 10 (6.29%) Data Manager
5 10 (6.29%) Lead
6 9 (5.66%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 7 (4.40%) Architect
8 7 (4.40%) Consultant
8 7 (4.40%) Product Owner
8 7 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.77%) Data Governance Analyst
9 6 (3.77%) Data Governance Manager
9 6 (3.77%) Governance Manager
9 6 (3.77%) Project Engineer
9 6 (3.77%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.14%) Business Developer
10 5 (3.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.29%) REST
2 8 (5.03%) HTML
3 6 (3.77%) CSS
3 6 (3.77%) Vue
4 5 (3.14%) Laravel
4 5 (3.14%) LEMP Stack
4 5 (3.14%) Tailwind CSS
4 5 (3.14%) YAML
5 4 (2.52%) React
6 3 (1.89%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.89%) JDBC
6 3 (1.89%) LDAP
6 3 (1.89%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.89%) SAML
6 3 (1.89%) Spring
6 3 (1.89%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.89%) Web Services
7 2 (1.26%) EDI
7 2 (1.26%) JSON
7 2 (1.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.18%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (6.29%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.77%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.52%) Cyber Security Posture
6 4 (2.52%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.89%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.89%) PMI
7 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.26%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.26%) Lidar
8 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.66%) Linux
2 2 (1.26%) Robot Operating System
2 2 (1.26%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (34.59%) Analytics
2 52 (32.70%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (26.42%) Agile
5 41 (25.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 37 (23.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (15.72%) Data Modelling
8 24 (15.09%) Project Management
9 22 (13.84%) Data Governance
9 22 (13.84%) Roadmaps
9 22 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 21 (13.21%) Actionable Insight
10 21 (13.21%) Data Analysis
11 20 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (11.32%) Risk Management
13 17 (10.69%) Computer Science
13 17 (10.69%) ETL
14 16 (10.06%) AI
14 16 (10.06%) DevOps
14 16 (10.06%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 42 (26.42%) SQL
2 22 (13.84%) Python
3 10 (6.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 10 (6.29%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.66%) Bash
5 8 (5.03%) Java
6 7 (4.40%) R
7 5 (3.14%) PHP
8 4 (2.52%) C
8 4 (2.52%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.52%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.52%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.26%) C++
10 1 (0.63%) C#
10 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (16.35%) Degree
2 12 (7.55%) ACCA
2 12 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.29%) CIMA
3 10 (6.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.14%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.52%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.26%) PhD
8 2 (1.26%) PMP
9 1 (0.63%) CBAP
9 1 (0.63%) CITP
9 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.35%) Data Quality
2 23 (14.47%) QA
3 13 (8.18%) PMO
4 9 (5.66%) GDPR
5 6 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.52%) COBIT
6 4 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.52%) NIST
7 2 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.26%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.26%) P3O
7 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (7.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.26%) Terraform
4 1 (0.63%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.77%) Sage
2 6 (3.77%) SAP
2 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.14%) Databricks
3 5 (3.14%) Google
3 5 (3.14%) Oracle
4 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.63%) Adaptive Insights
5 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
5 1 (0.63%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.63%) BMC
5 1 (0.63%) Foundry
5 1 (0.63%) Genesys
5 1 (0.63%) IBM
5 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.63%) Palantir
5 1 (0.63%) Talend
5 1 (0.63%) Verint
5 1 (0.63%) Workday