Decision-Making Jobs in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 46 60
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +22
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 160 323 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.89% 4.13% 5.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 5.08% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 111 216 170
10th Percentile £38,754 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +37.50% -25.23%
75th Percentile £72,000 £69,914 £55,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £93,125 £67,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% -0.79%

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 3,753 6,362 5,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 81.41% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 4,664 3,160
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,592
25th Percentile £36,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 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 29 May 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 +7 82 £55,000 -4.03% 84
Staffordshire +20 27 £38,754 -26.18% 64
Solihull +9 14 £60,000 +55.84% 13
Warwickshire -23 9 £52,500 -12.50% 54
Coventry -8 6 £57,500 +4.55% 18
Worcestershire +16 5 £58,250 +94.17% 14
Shropshire +10 5 £37,500 -5.06% 20
Wolverhampton +10 1 £65,000 -3.70% 4
Wednesbury +9 1 £45,000 - 2
Walsall +3 1 £42,000 +12.00% 1
Herefordshire - 1 - - 2
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.25%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
Applications
1 21 (13.13%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (6.25%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.25%) Shopify
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) iTrent
3 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.13%) Power Platform
2 33 (20.63%) Azure
3 13 (8.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (6.88%) PowerApps
5 10 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 10 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 9 (5.63%) IaaS
6 9 (5.63%) PaaS
7 7 (4.38%) AWS
8 4 (2.50%) SaaS
9 3 (1.88%) Boomi
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.25%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.25%) GCP
10 2 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.25%) Route 53
10 2 (1.25%) Serverless
10 2 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.25%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.25%) SMS
2 2 (1.25%) VLAN
2 2 (1.25%) WAN
3 1 (0.63%) 5G
3 1 (0.63%) ADSL2
3 1 (0.63%) Internet
3 1 (0.63%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.63%) Modbus
3 1 (0.63%) MQTT
3 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (22.50%) Power BI
2 14 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (8.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (8.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (5.63%) Star Schema
5 6 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.50%) Big Data
6 4 (2.50%) Power Query
7 3 (1.88%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.88%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.88%) Metadata
7 3 (1.88%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.25%) Tableau
9 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (2.50%) JIRA
3 3 (1.88%) Git
4 2 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (1.25%) DbUnit
4 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.25%) jMock
4 2 (1.25%) JUnit
4 2 (1.25%) Maven
4 2 (1.25%) Mockito
4 2 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.63%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.63%) Vite
5 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 97 (60.63%) Finance
2 65 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 44 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (22.50%) Marketing
5 20 (12.50%) Legal
6 19 (11.88%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.88%) Law
8 10 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (5.00%) Manufacturing
9 8 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (5.00%) Police
9 8 (5.00%) Retail
10 4 (2.50%) Billing
10 4 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.63%) Local Government
12 1 (0.63%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 30 (18.75%) Analyst
2 18 (11.25%) Customer Executive
3 16 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 15 (9.38%) Developer
5 13 (8.13%) Architect
6 12 (7.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 12 (7.50%) Lead
7 11 (6.88%) Power BI Developer
8 10 (6.25%) Business Developer
8 10 (6.25%) Senior
8 10 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
9 9 (5.63%) Data Scientist
9 9 (5.63%) ETL Developer
9 9 (5.63%) SQL BI Developer
9 9 (5.63%) SQL Developer
10 8 (5.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
10 8 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (4.38%) CRM Business Analyst
11 7 (4.38%) Finance Business Analyst
11 7 (4.38%) Financial Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.88%) AngularJS
1 3 (1.88%) EDI
1 3 (1.88%) REST
2 2 (1.25%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (1.25%) Bootstrap
2 2 (1.25%) Hibernate
2 2 (1.25%) JPA
2 2 (1.25%) PowerMock
2 2 (1.25%) RESTful
2 2 (1.25%) SOAP
2 2 (1.25%) Spring
2 2 (1.25%) Spring Batch
2 2 (1.25%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.25%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (1.25%) Spring Integration
2 2 (1.25%) Web Services
3 1 (0.63%) .NET
3 1 (0.63%) CSS
3 1 (0.63%) HTML
3 1 (0.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.00%) Taxonomies
4 6 (3.75%) Marketing Technology
4 6 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.25%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.25%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.25%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.63%) IoT
7 1 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (30.63%) Analytics
3 41 (25.63%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (25.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 40 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (22.50%) Data Analysis
6 33 (20.63%) Actionable Insight
7 28 (17.50%) CRM
8 27 (16.88%) Agile
8 27 (16.88%) Artificial Intelligence
9 24 (15.00%) Project Management
10 21 (13.13%) ETL
11 20 (12.50%) Business Development
12 19 (11.88%) Roadmaps
13 18 (11.25%) Contract Negotiation
13 18 (11.25%) Requirements Gathering
14 17 (10.63%) Data Governance
15 16 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (10.00%) Data Security
15 16 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.00%) SQL
2 23 (14.38%) Python
3 11 (6.88%) Java
4 7 (4.38%) C++
4 7 (4.38%) R
5 4 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (18.75%) Degree
2 6 (3.75%) CBAP
2 6 (3.75%) IIBA
2 6 (3.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 5 (3.13%) ACCA
3 5 (3.13%) CIMA
3 5 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.88%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.25%) CITP
5 2 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.13%) GDPR
3 6 (3.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (3.13%) PMO
4 5 (3.13%) QA
5 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.25%) NCSC
6 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (2.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (1.25%) Grafana
1 2 (1.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (15.63%) Salesforce
2 21 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.38%) Databricks
3 7 (4.38%) SAP
4 6 (3.75%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.88%) Google
5 3 (1.88%) Informatica
5 3 (1.88%) Oracle
6 2 (1.25%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.25%) Avaya
6 2 (1.25%) Cisco
6 2 (1.25%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.25%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.25%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.63%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.63%) Cognos
7 1 (0.63%) IBM
7 1 (0.63%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow