Decision-Making
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 67 80
Rank change year-on-year +22 +13 +35
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 4,963 4,752 6,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.01% 4.69% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 4.90% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,613 1,970 3,040
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,983
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,762 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,471 £81,250
90th Percentile £94,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Decision-Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
England +13 4,005 £55,000 -8.33% 1,664
UK excluding London +16 3,424 £50,000 -4.76% 1,027
Work from Home +6 1,955 £55,000 -8.33% 672
London +42 1,297 £67,500 -3.01% 658
South East +43 923 £45,802 -23.34% 255
North of England -10 721 £52,014 -2.78% 258
Scotland +63 702 £45,543 -24.10% 46
Midlands +4 455 £54,700 +21.56% 198
North West +48 417 £50,000 -8.26% 144
West Midlands +9 305 £55,000 +34.71% 120
East of England +24 291 £47,500 -17.39% 106
South West -45 263 £50,000 - 143
Yorkshire -28 221 £55,000 +2.80% 85
East Midlands -5 141 £45,001 -18.18% 78
North East +3 83 £45,249 -13.81% 34
Wales +9 58 £42,500 -23.86% 35
Northern Ireland +32 14 £30,000 -33.33% 14
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 180 (3.63%) Apache Spark
2 100 (2.01%) Apache
3 70 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.27%) FileNet
5 60 (1.21%) SAS
6 51 (1.03%) Confluence
7 39 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
7 39 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 26 (0.52%) CMS
9 20 (0.40%) Camunda
10 17 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
11 13 (0.26%) ArcGIS
12 12 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 11 (0.22%) CICS
13 11 (0.22%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.16%) Drupal
15 7 (0.14%) Jupyter
15 7 (0.14%) nginx
16 6 (0.12%) IBM Notes
16 6 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 907 (18.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 234 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 135 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.32%) SPSS
8 7 (0.14%) Sketch
9 6 (0.12%) InVision
10 5 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.081%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.081%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.081%) Siemens NX
11 4 (0.081%) Simulink
11 4 (0.081%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.060%) Trello
13 2 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 41 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.36%) iTrent
3 16 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (0.26%) Primavera
5 11 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 10 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 8 (0.16%) NEC Housing
8 7 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.14%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.10%) SAP MM
10 5 (0.10%) SAP PP
10 5 (0.10%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.10%) SAP WM
11 4 (0.081%) SAP APO
11 4 (0.081%) SAP SCM
12 3 (0.060%) Endur
12 3 (0.060%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 611 (12.31%) AWS
2 480 (9.67%) Azure
3 458 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 172 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
5 156 (3.14%) GCP
6 147 (2.96%) SaaS
7 127 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 82 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
9 76 (1.53%) Serverless
10 66 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
11 63 (1.27%) GitHub
12 51 (1.03%) PowerApps
13 48 (0.97%) IaaS
14 47 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 45 (0.91%) Power Automate
16 40 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
17 39 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
17 39 (0.79%) Snowflake
18 38 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 467 (9.41%) Broadband
2 61 (1.23%) Firewall
3 46 (0.93%) WAN
4 40 (0.81%) DNS
5 33 (0.66%) VoIP
6 26 (0.52%) LAN
7 23 (0.46%) Network Security
8 22 (0.44%) Unified Communications
9 21 (0.42%) VPN
10 19 (0.38%) Internet
11 18 (0.36%) DSL
11 18 (0.36%) Kerberos
12 17 (0.34%) DHCP
12 17 (0.34%) Intranet
13 16 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
14 14 (0.28%) Wireless
15 13 (0.26%) TCP/IP
15 13 (0.26%) VLAN
16 9 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (8.52%) Power BI
2 267 (5.38%) Tableau
3 167 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 155 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
5 143 (2.88%) Big Data
6 140 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 103 (2.08%) Hadoop
8 94 (1.89%) BigQuery
9 91 (1.83%) Relational Database
10 80 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
11 75 (1.51%) Data Lake
12 65 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 65 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
13 58 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 48 (0.97%) DB2
15 45 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
16 44 (0.89%) MySQL
17 38 (0.77%) Apache Hive
18 36 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 34 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 119 (2.40%) Jenkins
2 117 (2.36%) Git
3 100 (2.01%) JIRA
4 87 (1.75%) JUnit
5 62 (1.25%) Jasmine
6 45 (0.91%) Mockito
7 32 (0.64%) Artifactory
7 32 (0.64%) Maven
8 25 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 23 (0.46%) JMeter
9 23 (0.46%) Selenium
10 21 (0.42%) WebDriver
11 20 (0.40%) Cypress.io
11 20 (0.40%) Gradle
11 20 (0.40%) Travis CI
12 18 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 17 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
13 17 (0.34%) Protractor
14 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
15 11 (0.22%) ChangeMan
General
1 2,174 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 2,033 (40.96%) Finance
3 1,561 (31.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1,061 (21.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 696 (14.02%) Marketing
6 694 (13.98%) Law
7 606 (12.21%) Influencing Skills
8 459 (9.25%) Legal
9 397 (8.00%) Retail
10 226 (4.55%) Public Sector
11 225 (4.53%) Banking
12 180 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
13 142 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
14 111 (2.24%) Manufacturing
15 95 (1.91%) Investment Banking
16 92 (1.85%) Games
16 92 (1.85%) Telecoms
17 66 (1.33%) Front Office
18 52 (1.05%) Automotive
19 43 (0.87%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,247 (25.13%) Analyst
2 991 (19.97%) Senior
3 504 (10.16%) Software Engineer
4 464 (9.35%) Lead
5 330 (6.65%) Senior Analyst
6 284 (5.72%) Project Manager
7 241 (4.86%) Architect
8 223 (4.49%) Java Engineer
9 217 (4.37%) Java Software Engineer
10 209 (4.21%) Data Scientist
11 192 (3.87%) Senior Manager
12 190 (3.83%) Business Analyst
13 185 (3.73%) Data Analyst
13 185 (3.73%) Financial Analyst
14 174 (3.51%) Developer
15 158 (3.18%) Commercial Analyst
16 150 (3.02%) Development Manager
17 132 (2.66%) Consultant
18 129 (2.60%) Full Stack Engineer
18 129 (2.60%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (4.69%) Spring
2 229 (4.61%) React
3 162 (3.26%) AngularJS
4 128 (2.58%) .NET
5 127 (2.56%) Kafka
6 122 (2.46%) J2EE
7 103 (2.08%) Spring Boot
8 98 (1.97%) HTML
9 96 (1.93%) PySpark
10 95 (1.91%) GraphQL
11 93 (1.87%) Hibernate
12 85 (1.71%) CSS
13 76 (1.53%) REST
14 68 (1.37%) Pandas
15 63 (1.27%) Spring Integration
16 62 (1.25%) Node.js
17 53 (1.07%) TensorFlow
18 52 (1.05%) RESTful
19 45 (0.91%) JSON
20 43 (0.87%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 385 (7.76%) Management Information System
2 277 (5.58%) Algorithms
3 276 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 228 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
5 211 (4.25%) Product Ownership
6 152 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 108 (2.18%) Driving Licence
8 104 (2.10%) Onboarding
9 99 (1.99%) Data Structures
10 70 (1.41%) Credit Risk
11 60 (1.21%) Social Media
12 55 (1.11%) Data Centre
13 54 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
13 54 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 52 (1.05%) IoT
15 51 (1.03%) NHS
15 51 (1.03%) Taxonomies
16 44 (0.89%) PMI
17 35 (0.71%) Client/Server
17 35 (0.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 177 (3.57%) Windows
2 86 (1.73%) Linux
3 46 (0.93%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.77%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.56%) Unix
6 26 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 25 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.34%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.26%) Android
11 12 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 12 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.22%) Windows Vista
13 8 (0.16%) VME
14 3 (0.060%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
14 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.040%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.040%) VMS
16 1 (0.020%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,879 (37.86%) Agile
2 1,530 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
3 1,141 (22.99%) Mentoring
4 834 (16.80%) Actionable Insight
5 759 (15.29%) Software Engineering
6 748 (15.07%) Coaching
7 742 (14.95%) Project Management
8 720 (14.51%) Analytics
9 646 (13.02%) Business Case
10 600 (12.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 599 (12.07%) Machine Learning
12 569 (11.46%) Data Analysis
13 560 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
14 552 (11.12%) SDLC
15 531 (10.70%) Computer Science
16 530 (10.68%) CI/CD
17 527 (10.62%) Budgeting
18 506 (10.20%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 488 (9.83%) Risk Management
20 466 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 925 (18.64%) SQL
2 698 (14.06%) Python
3 617 (12.43%) Java
4 150 (3.02%) C#
5 140 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 113 (2.28%) Scala
7 110 (2.22%) R
8 89 (1.79%) TypeScript
9 65 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 60 (1.21%) T-SQL
11 51 (1.03%) PowerShell
12 44 (0.89%) C
13 43 (0.87%) C++
14 42 (0.85%) Go
15 36 (0.73%) Bash
15 36 (0.73%) PHP
16 26 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 25 (0.50%) Ruby
18 23 (0.46%) PL/1
19 19 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1,143 (23.03%) Degree
2 478 (9.63%) ACCA
3 465 (9.37%) CIMA
4 290 (5.84%) Security Cleared
5 212 (4.27%) Master's Degree
6 169 (3.41%) SC Cleared
7 148 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 112 (2.26%) DBS Check
9 73 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 69 (1.39%) CISSP
11 60 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 49 (0.99%) PhD
13 46 (0.93%) HNC
14 39 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 38 (0.77%) CISM
16 37 (0.75%) APMP
17 36 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
18 35 (0.71%) MBA
19 33 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
20 32 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 171 (3.45%) QA
3 131 (2.64%) SLA
4 106 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 95 (1.91%) PMO
6 94 (1.89%) GDPR
7 75 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 72 (1.45%) NIST
9 44 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
10 26 (0.52%) GRC
11 24 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.36%) ISO 9001
13 16 (0.32%) NCSC
14 15 (0.30%) IFRS
15 14 (0.28%) PCI DSS
16 13 (0.26%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 9 (0.18%) COBIT
19 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
20 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 96 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.85%) Docker
3 52 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.34%) HDFS
6 15 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
9 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.081%) Firmware
11 4 (0.081%) NFS
12 1 (0.020%) KVM
12 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 223 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 97 (1.95%) Terraform
3 27 (0.54%) SCCM
4 22 (0.44%) Ansible
5 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.18%) Grafana
8 7 (0.14%) Graphite
9 6 (0.12%) Autotask
9 6 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.10%) Puppet
11 4 (0.081%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.060%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.060%) SCOM
13 2 (0.040%) Dell DRAC
14 1 (0.020%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 1 (0.020%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.020%) Kiali
14 1 (0.020%) Plesk
Vendors
1 1,083 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 200 (4.03%) Oracle
3 159 (3.20%) Databricks
3 159 (3.20%) Google
4 100 (2.01%) SAP
5 80 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 71 (1.43%) VMware
7 59 (1.19%) Alteryx
8 41 (0.83%) IBM
9 33 (0.66%) ServiceNow
10 27 (0.54%) Cisco
11 26 (0.52%) Adobe
11 26 (0.52%) Pega
12 22 (0.44%) Cognos
13 18 (0.36%) CA
13 18 (0.36%) Capita
13 18 (0.36%) Sybase
14 17 (0.34%) Cloudera
14 17 (0.34%) F5
15 16 (0.32%) Splunk