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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 47 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 -25 +46
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 164 257 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.52% 4.73% 8.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 5.66% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 108 121 226
10th Percentile £39,250 £36,995 -
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £26,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £36,917
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +55.75% -29.68%
75th Percentile £75,313 £73,750 £52,858
90th Percentile £88,250 £85,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.94% -0.74%

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 2,999 4,539 3,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.66% 83.61% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,007 2,052 2,504
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,997 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -11 64 £67,500 +10.20% 60
Staffordshire -16 26 £42,500 -5.56% 11
Solihull +12 18 £75,000 +7.14% 2
Coventry +9 11 £63,750 -17.21% 6
Warwickshire +38 10 £62,500 +6.38% 15
Herefordshire +2 6 £60,000 +20.00% 1
Shropshire -9 6 £61,250 +63.33% 11
Walsall - 4 £44,500 - 1
Worcestershire +11 3 £60,000 +50.00% 6
Wednesbury +1 2 £50,000 +33.33% 1
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £90,000 -
Bilston - 1 £66,500 - 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 3 (1.83%) CMS
1 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.22%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.61%) nginx
3 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (16.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (9.15%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.22%) Trello
5 1 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Shopify
2 2 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.22%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.61%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.51%) Power Platform
2 25 (15.24%) Azure
3 9 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.66%) AWS
6 5 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.44%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (2.44%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.83%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.83%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.83%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.22%) GitHub
9 2 (1.22%) PaaS
9 2 (1.22%) SaaS
9 2 (1.22%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) BGP
1 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.61%) Firewall
1 1 (0.61%) Network Security
1 1 (0.61%) OSPF
1 1 (0.61%) SAN
1 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.90%) Power BI
2 10 (6.10%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.49%) Metadata
4 8 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (3.05%) Tableau
7 4 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.83%) MySQL
8 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.22%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 2 (1.22%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.22%) Looker
9 2 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.22%) Power Query
9 2 (1.22%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.61%) Big Data
10 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (6.10%) JIRA
2 3 (1.83%) Git
3 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (0.61%) DbUnit
3 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.61%) jMock
3 1 (0.61%) JUnit
3 1 (0.61%) Maven
3 1 (0.61%) Mockito
3 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.61%) Vite
General
1 73 (44.51%) Social Skills
2 53 (32.32%) Finance
3 52 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.02%) Public Sector
5 22 (13.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (13.41%) Retail
6 20 (12.20%) Marketing
7 18 (10.98%) Manufacturing
8 16 (9.76%) Law
8 16 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (8.54%) Legal
10 8 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (3.05%) Banking
12 4 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.22%) Local Government
14 1 (0.61%) Billing
14 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.61%) Games
14 1 (0.61%) German Language
14 1 (0.61%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (17.07%) Analyst
2 23 (14.02%) Senior
3 13 (7.93%) Data Engineer
4 12 (7.32%) Lead
5 10 (6.10%) Architect
5 10 (6.10%) Project Engineer
6 9 (5.49%) Developer
7 8 (4.88%) Product Specialist
7 8 (4.88%) Products Support Specialist
7 8 (4.88%) Support Specialist
8 7 (4.27%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (4.27%) Data Manager
8 7 (4.27%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Coordinator
9 6 (3.66%) Data Governance Analyst
9 6 (3.66%) Data Governance Manager
9 6 (3.66%) Governance Manager
9 6 (3.66%) Graduate
10 5 (3.05%) Mechanical Engineer
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Electrical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.66%) HTML
1 6 (3.66%) React
2 4 (2.44%) .NET
3 3 (1.83%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.83%) CSS
3 3 (1.83%) REST
3 3 (1.83%) Spring
3 3 (1.83%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.61%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.61%) Laravel
4 1 (0.61%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (0.61%) PowerMock
4 1 (0.61%) PySpark
4 1 (0.61%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.61%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.61%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (0.61%) Spring Integration
4 1 (0.61%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.61%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.71%) Security Posture
2 10 (6.10%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.44%) Cyber Security Posture
5 4 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.44%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.83%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.83%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.22%) NHS
7 2 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.22%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (33.54%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (29.88%) Analytics
3 41 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (21.34%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 34 (20.73%) Project Management
6 33 (20.12%) Agile
7 29 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (12.80%) Data Analysis
9 21 (12.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 19 (11.59%) Actionable Insight
10 19 (11.59%) Risk Management
11 18 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (10.37%) Data Modelling
13 16 (9.76%) AI
13 16 (9.76%) ITIL
13 16 (9.76%) Time Management
14 15 (9.15%) Data Governance
14 15 (9.15%) Mentoring
14 15 (9.15%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.17%) SQL
2 19 (11.59%) Python
3 12 (7.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (3.66%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.66%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.05%) C#
5 5 (3.05%) R
6 4 (2.44%) Java
7 3 (1.83%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.61%) Bash
9 1 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.61%) PHP
9 1 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (16.46%) Degree
2 8 (4.88%) ACCA
3 6 (3.66%) CIMA
3 6 (3.66%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.66%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.22%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.22%) CISM
6 2 (1.22%) CISSP
6 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.61%) City & Guilds
7 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.80%) Data Quality
2 16 (9.76%) PMO
2 16 (9.76%) QA
3 12 (7.32%) SLA
4 5 (3.05%) COBIT
4 5 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.05%) GDPR
4 5 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.44%) NIST
6 3 (1.83%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (2.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.61%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (1.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.61%) Ansible
2 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.61%) Grafana
2 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.93%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.71%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.49%) Databricks
5 6 (3.66%) SAP
6 5 (3.05%) Sage
7 4 (2.44%) Oracle
8 3 (1.83%) Google
9 2 (1.22%) Ahrefs
9 2 (1.22%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.22%) Ariba
9 2 (1.22%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.61%) Adaptive Insights
10 1 (0.61%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.61%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.61%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.61%) Meraki
10 1 (0.61%) SonicWALL
10 1 (0.61%) UiPath
10 1 (0.61%) Workday