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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 50 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 -27 +41
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 151 249 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.23% 4.99% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 5.71% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 99 126 207
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,754 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £30,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +80.33% -41.63%
75th Percentile £75,125 £73,750 £50,625
90th Percentile £90,500 £85,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £61,240 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.56% +5.83% -

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 3,904 4,360 3,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.62% 87.46% 92.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,123 1,988 2,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,175 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
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 £82,500 £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 10 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 10 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 -10 64 £67,500 +10.20% 61
Staffordshire -27 23 £42,500 - 25
Solihull +11 13 £58,750 -16.07% 4
Warwickshire +27 10 £52,500 -10.64% 18
Coventry +4 10 £67,500 -3.23% 22
Herefordshire 0 6 £60,000 +26.32% 1
Shropshire -17 4 - - 42
Walsall - 4 £44,500 - 3
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Wednesbury -3 1 £55,000 +46.67%
Wolverhampton -3 1 - - 24
Worcestershire -6 1 £65,000 +62.50% 26
Bilston - 1 £66,500 -
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 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) nginx
3 1 (0.66%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (17.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.32%) Trello
5 1 (0.66%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.66%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.66%) Odoo
2 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (23.18%) Power Platform
2 22 (14.57%) Azure
3 9 (5.96%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.31%) AWS
6 4 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.65%) Google Analytics
6 4 (2.65%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (2.65%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.99%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.32%) Asana
8 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.32%) GitHub
8 2 (1.32%) Serverless
8 2 (1.32%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) BGP
1 1 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.66%) Firewall
1 1 (0.66%) Network Security
1 1 (0.66%) OSPF
1 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.52%) Power BI
2 9 (5.96%) Metadata
2 9 (5.96%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.30%) Tableau
4 7 (4.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.99%) Looker
6 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.32%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 2 (1.32%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.32%) MySQL
7 2 (1.32%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.66%) Big Data
8 1 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (6.62%) JIRA
2 2 (1.32%) Git
3 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 67 (44.37%) Social Skills
2 52 (34.44%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (29.14%) Finance
4 22 (14.57%) Public Sector
5 21 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (12.58%) Retail
7 16 (10.60%) Law
7 16 (10.60%) Manufacturing
8 14 (9.27%) Marketing
8 14 (9.27%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (5.96%) Legal
10 5 (3.31%) Banking
10 5 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.32%) Games
12 2 (1.32%) Local Government
12 2 (1.32%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.66%) Back Office
13 1 (0.66%) Billing
13 1 (0.66%) German Language
Job Titles
1 26 (17.22%) Analyst
2 25 (16.56%) Senior
3 14 (9.27%) Data Engineer
4 11 (7.28%) Architect
5 10 (6.62%) Project Engineer
6 9 (5.96%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 9 (5.96%) Lead
7 8 (5.30%) Product Specialist
7 8 (5.30%) Products Support Specialist
7 8 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (5.30%) Support Specialist
8 7 (4.64%) Data Manager
8 7 (4.64%) Developer
9 6 (3.97%) Coordinator
9 6 (3.97%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.97%) Data Governance Analyst
9 6 (3.97%) Data Governance Manager
9 6 (3.97%) Governance Manager
9 6 (3.97%) Graduate
10 5 (3.31%) Senior Electrical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.97%) HTML
2 3 (1.99%) React
3 2 (1.32%) .NET
3 2 (1.32%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.32%) CSS
3 2 (1.32%) JSON
3 2 (1.32%) REST
3 2 (1.32%) Spring
3 2 (1.32%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.66%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.66%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.66%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.66%) Laravel
4 1 (0.66%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.66%) PySpark
4 1 (0.66%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.66%) Vue
4 1 (0.66%) XML
4 1 (0.66%) XSLT
4 1 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.28%) Security Posture
2 10 (6.62%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.65%) Cyber Security Posture
4 4 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.65%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.65%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.99%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.99%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.99%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.99%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.32%) NHS
6 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.66%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.32%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.10%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (33.11%) Analytics
3 44 (29.14%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (23.18%) Project Management
5 32 (21.19%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 30 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (18.54%) Agile
8 24 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (14.57%) Data Analysis
10 21 (13.91%) Actionable Insight
11 20 (13.25%) Data Modelling
11 20 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (11.92%) Visualisation
13 17 (11.26%) Risk Management
14 16 (10.60%) ITIL
14 16 (10.60%) Time Management
15 15 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
15 15 (9.93%) Data Governance
16 14 (9.27%) Data Visualisation
16 14 (9.27%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.50%) SQL
2 20 (13.25%) Python
3 12 (7.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.97%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.31%) R
6 4 (2.65%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.99%) C#
7 3 (1.99%) Java
7 3 (1.99%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.66%) Bash
8 1 (0.66%) C++
8 1 (0.66%) PHP
8 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (17.22%) Degree
2 8 (5.30%) ACCA
3 7 (4.64%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.97%) CIMA
4 6 (3.97%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.32%) CISM
7 2 (1.32%) CISSP
7 2 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.66%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.66%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 17 (11.26%) PMO
3 14 (9.27%) QA
4 12 (7.95%) SLA
5 5 (3.31%) COBIT
5 5 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.65%) GDPR
6 4 (2.65%) NIST
7 3 (1.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.99%) GRC
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (1.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.66%) Ansible
2 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.95%) ServiceNow
3 11 (7.28%) Salesforce
4 9 (5.96%) Databricks
5 6 (3.97%) SAP
6 5 (3.31%) Sage
7 4 (2.65%) Google
7 4 (2.65%) Oracle
8 2 (1.32%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.32%) Ariba
9 1 (0.66%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.66%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.66%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.66%) Cisco
9 1 (0.66%) Foundry
9 1 (0.66%) Meraki
9 1 (0.66%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.66%) Palantir
9 1 (0.66%) Verint
9 1 (0.66%) Workday