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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 44 40
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +23
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 166 200 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.51% 5.58% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 6.01% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 114 144 232
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,824 £26,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £40,626 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +22.34% +11.90%
75th Percentile £70,938 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £98,125 £89,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +25.45% -8.33%

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 5,144 3,330 5,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 77.85% 92.96% 85.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,839 1,714 4,181
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £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 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -2 73 £62,500 +4.17% 61
Staffordshire -35 16 £36,000 -7.11% 15
Coventry -11 14 £57,600 -7.84% 8
Warwickshire +5 13 £42,500 -20.93% 16
Wolverhampton - 9 £59,250 - 3
Herefordshire -12 7 £60,000 +26.32% 2
Shropshire -20 7 £55,000 +46.67% 8
Bilston - 5 £66,500 -
Walsall +10 3 £44,000 +4.76% 1
Worcestershire -22 3 £67,000 +22.94% 11
Solihull +1 2 £92,500 +45.10% 4
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Halesowen - 2 £47,500 - 1
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 11 (6.63%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.01%) CMS
2 5 (3.01%) nginx
3 4 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.20%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (20.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.01%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (3.01%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.20%) Trello
6 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Shopify
2 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.60%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.60%) Odoo
3 1 (0.60%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 49 (29.52%) Power Platform
2 30 (18.07%) Azure
3 16 (9.64%) AWS
4 11 (6.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (6.02%) Power Automate
6 9 (5.42%) PowerApps
7 8 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.22%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (4.22%) SaaS
9 6 (3.61%) GitHub
9 6 (3.61%) Smartsheet
10 4 (2.41%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.41%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.41%) PaaS
11 3 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.81%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (27.71%) Power BI
2 10 (6.02%) Metadata
3 9 (5.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (5.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.61%) Power Query
4 6 (3.61%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.01%) MySQL
5 5 (3.01%) Tableau
6 4 (2.41%) Looker
7 3 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.81%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.20%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
8 2 (1.20%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.20%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) JIRA
2 8 (4.82%) Git
3 5 (3.01%) Vite
4 4 (2.41%) JUnit
4 4 (2.41%) Maven
4 4 (2.41%) Mockito
5 3 (1.81%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.20%) JMeter
6 2 (1.20%) Locust
6 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 59 (35.54%) Finance
3 52 (31.33%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.86%) Public Sector
5 20 (12.05%) Manufacturing
6 19 (11.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (11.45%) Retail
7 15 (9.04%) Legal
8 10 (6.02%) Law
8 10 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (4.82%) Marketing
10 6 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (3.01%) Banking
11 5 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.41%) Games
13 3 (1.81%) Spanish Language
13 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.20%) Local Government
15 1 (0.60%) Billing
15 1 (0.60%) German Language
Job Titles
1 36 (21.69%) Analyst
2 21 (12.65%) Senior
3 16 (9.64%) Developer
4 14 (8.43%) Data Analyst
5 13 (7.83%) Lead
6 12 (7.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 11 (6.63%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.02%) Data Manager
9 8 (4.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (4.22%) Architect
10 7 (4.22%) Consultant
10 7 (4.22%) Product Owner
11 6 (3.61%) Business Developer
11 6 (3.61%) Data Governance Analyst
11 6 (3.61%) Data Governance Manager
11 6 (3.61%) Governance Manager
12 5 (3.01%) Insight Analyst
12 5 (3.01%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.02%) REST
2 8 (4.82%) HTML
3 6 (3.61%) CSS
3 6 (3.61%) Vue
4 5 (3.01%) Laravel
4 5 (3.01%) LEMP Stack
4 5 (3.01%) Tailwind CSS
4 5 (3.01%) YAML
5 4 (2.41%) React
6 3 (1.81%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.81%) JDBC
6 3 (1.81%) LDAP
6 3 (1.81%) PySpark
6 3 (1.81%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.81%) SAML
6 3 (1.81%) Spring
6 3 (1.81%) TensorFlow
6 3 (1.81%) Web Services
7 2 (1.20%) EDI
7 2 (1.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.23%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (3.01%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.41%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.81%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.81%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (1.81%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.81%) PMI
8 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.20%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.20%) Lidar
9 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.42%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Robot Operating System
2 2 (1.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (36.14%) Analytics
2 59 (35.54%) Business Intelligence
3 53 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (27.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (26.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 42 (25.30%) Agile
7 29 (17.47%) Data Modelling
8 24 (14.46%) Actionable Insight
8 24 (14.46%) Data Analysis
8 24 (14.46%) Project Management
9 23 (13.86%) Roadmaps
10 22 (13.25%) Data Governance
10 22 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (12.05%) Computer Science
11 20 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (10.84%) AI
12 18 (10.84%) Risk Management
13 17 (10.24%) DevOps
13 17 (10.24%) ETL
13 17 (10.24%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.71%) SQL
2 27 (16.27%) Python
3 13 (7.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (6.02%) Java
4 10 (6.02%) JavaScript
5 9 (5.42%) Bash
5 9 (5.42%) R
6 7 (4.22%) T-SQL
7 5 (3.01%) PHP
8 4 (2.41%) C
8 4 (2.41%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.41%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.20%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) C#
10 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (18.07%) Degree
2 14 (8.43%) ACCA
3 13 (7.83%) CIMA
3 13 (7.83%) Security Cleared
4 11 (6.63%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.01%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.20%) CITP
8 2 (1.20%) PhD
8 2 (1.20%) PMP
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CBAP
9 1 (0.60%) CCAB
9 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.60%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (18.07%) Data Quality
2 20 (12.05%) QA
3 12 (7.23%) PMO
4 10 (6.02%) GDPR
5 6 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.41%) COBIT
6 4 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.41%) NIST
7 2 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.20%) P3O
7 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (8.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (2.41%) Terraform
3 2 (1.20%) Grafana
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.60%) Control-M
Vendors
1 24 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.61%) Databricks
2 6 (3.61%) Sage
2 6 (3.61%) SAP
3 5 (3.01%) Google
3 5 (3.01%) Oracle
3 5 (3.01%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.60%) Adaptive Insights
4 1 (0.60%) Anaplan
4 1 (0.60%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.60%) BMC
4 1 (0.60%) Foundry
4 1 (0.60%) Genesys
4 1 (0.60%) IBM
4 1 (0.60%) Informatica
4 1 (0.60%) Palantir
4 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.60%) Talend
4 1 (0.60%) Verint
4 1 (0.60%) Workday