Decision-Making Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Decision-Making
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 43 53
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -34
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 100 63 108
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 3.01% 5.07% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 5.34% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 57 44 79
10th Percentile £32,160 £25,313 £37,199
25th Percentile £38,772 £40,938 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £54,250 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -3.98% +2.95%
75th Percentile £82,500 £63,750 £71,725
90th Percentile £97,500 £80,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.45% +4.55% +1.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,320 1,180 2,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.90% 95.01% 85.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 700 1,873
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,313 £28,050
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,875 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in West Yorkshire

Decision-Making
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Leeds -16 82 £59,800 +1.79% 62
Wakefield -3 4 £40,750 -49.06% 8
Bradford -15 4 £67,500 +26.17% 3
Pontefract - 2 - -
Pudsey - 2 - -
Halifax +7 1 £55,000 +55.75% 1
Huddersfield - 1 £31,000 - 1
Castleford - 1 £55,000 -
Dewsbury - 1 - - 1
Ossett - 1 - -
Decision-Making
Yorkshire

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.00%) Apache
2 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (17.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.00%) Power Platform
2 12 (12.00%) SaaS
3 11 (11.00%) Azure
4 10 (10.00%) AWS
5 5 (5.00%) GitHub
6 4 (4.00%) GCP
6 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.00%) Serverless
7 3 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.00%) Azure App Service
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.00%) IaaS
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.00%) PaaS
9 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.00%) Broadband
2 2 (2.00%) BGP
2 2 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (2.00%) Firewall
2 2 (2.00%) LAN
2 2 (2.00%) MPLS
2 2 (2.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.00%) OSPF
2 2 (2.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.00%) Power BI
2 9 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (7.00%) Tableau
5 5 (5.00%) Metadata
6 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.00%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.00%) Power Query
7 2 (2.00%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.00%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) JIRA
1 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.00%) Finance
3 22 (22.00%) Games
4 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.00%) Marketing
5 11 (11.00%) Retail
6 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.00%) Legal
8 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Advertising
9 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.00%) Law
10 1 (1.00%) Local Government
10 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (20.00%) Analyst
2 13 (13.00%) Lead
3 12 (12.00%) Senior
4 10 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 10 (10.00%) Engineering Manager
5 7 (7.00%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.00%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.00%) Senior Manager
7 5 (5.00%) Business Development Executive
7 5 (5.00%) Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Architect
8 4 (4.00%) HR Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) HR Data Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Portfolio Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.00%) Head of Product Management
9 3 (3.00%) Head of Retail Systems
9 3 (3.00%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Product Manager
9 3 (3.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) PySpark
2 3 (3.00%) CSS
2 3 (3.00%) Flask
2 3 (3.00%) HTML
2 3 (3.00%) OAuth
2 3 (3.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (3.00%) OpenID
2 3 (3.00%) Vue
3 1 (1.00%) FHIR
3 1 (1.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.00%) Mobile App
1 21 (21.00%) Onboarding
2 9 (9.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.00%) Marketing Technology
3 6 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.00%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.00%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.00%) PKI
6 3 (3.00%) PMI
7 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
7 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) NHS
7 2 (2.00%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (2.00%) Social Media
7 2 (2.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.00%) Android
1 21 (21.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (40.00%) Agile
2 37 (37.00%) Mentoring
2 37 (37.00%) Roadmaps
3 36 (36.00%) AI
4 30 (30.00%) Analytics
5 29 (29.00%) CI/CD
6 26 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (24.00%) Project Management
8 22 (22.00%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (21.00%) Backends for Frontends
9 21 (21.00%) Budgeting
9 21 (21.00%) Incident Management
9 21 (21.00%) Observability
10 18 (18.00%) Data Governance
11 16 (16.00%) Coaching
11 16 (16.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (14.00%) Business Analysis
13 14 (14.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.00%) SQL
2 10 (10.00%) Python
3 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Degree
2 7 (7.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.00%) ACCA
4 4 (4.00%) CIMA
4 4 (4.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.00%) CBAP
5 2 (2.00%) CISM
5 2 (2.00%) CISSP
5 2 (2.00%) CRISC
5 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.00%) IIBA
6 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.00%) Accessibility
2 16 (16.00%) Data Quality
3 8 (8.00%) GDPR
4 7 (7.00%) QA
5 2 (2.00%) GRC
5 2 (2.00%) P3O
5 2 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.00%) NCSC
6 1 (1.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Databricks
3 3 (3.00%) Google
4 2 (2.00%) Adobe
4 2 (2.00%) Cisco
4 2 (2.00%) Juniper
4 2 (2.00%) Planon
5 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.00%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.00%) Foundry
5 1 (1.00%) Genesys
5 1 (1.00%) Informatica
5 1 (1.00%) Palantir
5 1 (1.00%) SAP
5 1 (1.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.00%) Verint