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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 48 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 -22 +37
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 157 231 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.97% 5.25% 7.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 5.80% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 99 129 202
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £45,625 £38,754 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £29,708
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +85.14% -43.41%
75th Percentile £76,875 £73,750 £52,313
90th Percentile £90,500 £85,000 £70,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -1.93%

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 4,367 3,981 2,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.57% 90.42% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,256 1,785 2,535
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £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 £69,920 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
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 27 December 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 December 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 -20 65 £67,500 +12.50% 69
Staffordshire -27 21 £42,500 +9.67% 38
Solihull +8 13 £58,750 -12.96% 5
Coventry +4 12 £63,750 +6.25% 37
Warwickshire +20 11 £60,000 -11.11% 17
Herefordshire -3 7 £60,000 +26.32%
Shropshire -22 4 - - 59
Wolverhampton -4 3 - - 32
Walsall - 3 £45,000 - 2
Bilston - 2 £66,500 - 1
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Worcestershire -13 1 £65,000 +62.50% 40
Wednesbury - 1 £55,000 - 3
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 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.27%) CMS
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) nginx
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (15.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.01%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.27%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.27%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.27%) Shopify
2 1 (0.64%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.57%) Power Platform
2 22 (14.01%) Azure
3 9 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (4.46%) AWS
6 5 (3.18%) Google Analytics
6 5 (3.18%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.55%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.91%) GitHub
8 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.91%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.27%) SaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Serverless
9 2 (1.27%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) BGP
1 1 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.64%) Firewall
1 1 (0.64%) Network Security
1 1 (0.64%) OSPF
1 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (22.29%) Power BI
2 9 (5.73%) Metadata
3 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (4.46%) Tableau
5 4 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.55%) Looker
5 4 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.91%) MySQL
6 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.27%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 2 (1.27%) Power Query
7 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.27%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.64%) Big Data
8 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (7.01%) JIRA
2 3 (1.91%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) Vite
4 1 (0.64%) JUnit
4 1 (0.64%) Maven
4 1 (0.64%) Mockito
4 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (42.68%) Social Skills
2 52 (33.12%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (29.30%) Finance
4 22 (14.01%) Public Sector
5 21 (13.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (12.10%) Retail
7 17 (10.83%) Law
7 17 (10.83%) Manufacturing
8 15 (9.55%) Marketing
9 14 (8.92%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (5.73%) Legal
11 6 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (3.18%) Banking
12 5 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.91%) Games
13 3 (1.91%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.64%) Billing
14 1 (0.64%) German Language
14 1 (0.64%) Local Government
14 1 (0.64%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (18.47%) Senior
2 28 (17.83%) Analyst
3 14 (8.92%) Data Engineer
4 11 (7.01%) Architect
5 10 (6.37%) Lead
5 10 (6.37%) Project Engineer
6 9 (5.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 9 (5.73%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (5.10%) Product Specialist
7 8 (5.10%) Products Support Specialist
7 8 (5.10%) Support Specialist
8 7 (4.46%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.46%) Data Manager
8 7 (4.46%) Developer
9 6 (3.82%) Data Governance Analyst
9 6 (3.82%) Data Governance Manager
9 6 (3.82%) Governance Manager
9 6 (3.82%) Graduate
10 5 (3.18%) Mechanical Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.10%) HTML
2 3 (1.91%) CSS
2 3 (1.91%) React
2 3 (1.91%) REST
3 2 (1.27%) .NET
3 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.27%) JSON
3 2 (1.27%) Laravel
3 2 (1.27%) LEMP Stack
3 2 (1.27%) PySpark
3 2 (1.27%) Spring
3 2 (1.27%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.27%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (1.27%) Vue
3 2 (1.27%) YAML
4 1 (0.64%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.64%) EDI
4 1 (0.64%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.64%) XML
4 1 (0.64%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.01%) Security Posture
2 10 (6.37%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.55%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.55%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.55%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.91%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.91%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.91%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.27%) SCADA
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.91%) Linux
1 3 (1.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.12%) Analytics
1 52 (33.12%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (28.66%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (22.29%) Project Management
4 33 (21.02%) Agile
4 33 (21.02%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 31 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (14.01%) Data Analysis
8 21 (13.38%) Actionable Insight
8 21 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (11.46%) Data Modelling
9 18 (11.46%) Risk Management
10 17 (10.83%) ITIL
10 17 (10.83%) Visualisation
11 16 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (10.19%) Time Management
12 15 (9.55%) DevOps
13 14 (8.92%) Data Governance
13 14 (8.92%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.20%) SQL
2 23 (14.65%) Python
3 11 (7.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.82%) R
6 4 (2.55%) Java
6 4 (2.55%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.91%) Bash
7 3 (1.91%) C#
8 2 (1.27%) PHP
8 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.64%) C
9 1 (0.64%) C++
9 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.64%) Scala
9 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (17.83%) Degree
2 10 (6.37%) ACCA
3 8 (5.10%) CIMA
3 8 (5.10%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.82%) TOGAF Certification
5 5 (3.18%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.27%) CISM
8 2 (1.27%) CISSP
8 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.64%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) PMP
9 1 (0.64%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.74%) Data Quality
2 17 (10.83%) QA
3 16 (10.19%) PMO
4 12 (7.64%) SLA
5 6 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.18%) COBIT
6 5 (3.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (2.55%) GDPR
7 4 (2.55%) NIST
8 3 (1.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.91%) GRC
9 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (3.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
3 1 (0.64%) Control-M
3 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 32 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.64%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.01%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.82%) Databricks
4 6 (3.82%) Sage
4 6 (3.82%) SAP
5 5 (3.18%) Google
5 5 (3.18%) Oracle
6 2 (1.27%) Ariba
7 1 (0.64%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.64%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.64%) BMC
7 1 (0.64%) Cisco
7 1 (0.64%) Foundry
7 1 (0.64%) Genesys
7 1 (0.64%) IBM
7 1 (0.64%) Meraki
7 1 (0.64%) Palantir
7 1 (0.64%) Talend
7 1 (0.64%) Verint