Data-Driven Decision Making Jobs

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data-Driven Decision Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 484 552
Rank change year-on-year +44 +68 +104
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 552 607 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.64% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 405 174 257
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,829 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,990 £50,953 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,550 £59,487 £46,232
% change year-on-year -11.66% +28.67% -7.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data-Driven 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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +22 474 £55,000 -15.38% 281
UK excluding London -79 336 £52,550 -11.66% 155
London +145 188 £72,500 +11.54% 144
Work from Home -98 145 £62,500 -16.67% 118
South East +42 111 £52,550 -19.15% 58
North of England -109 81 £50,000 +11.11% 41
North West +60 62 £53,750 +19.44% 25
Midlands +20 51 £55,000 -4.35% 25
Scotland -37 45 £55,372 -17.97% 4
West Midlands +33 40 £55,000 - 19
South West -16 25 £62,500 -9.19% 14
East of England -17 14 £48,625 -25.19% 13
Yorkshire -115 12 £50,000 +17.65% 12
East Midlands 0 11 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Wales +15 9 £55,000 +22.22% 3
North East - 7 £50,000 - 4

Data-Driven 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 19 (3.44%) Confluence
2 9 (1.63%) CMS
3 8 (1.45%) Apache
3 8 (1.45%) SAS
4 7 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.27%) WordPress
5 3 (0.54%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
Applications
1 51 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.18%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.18%) InDesign
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.27%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.72%) SAP APO
3 4 (0.72%) SAP MM
3 4 (0.72%) SAP PP
3 4 (0.72%) SAP SD
3 4 (0.72%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.54%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.54%) Shopify
5 2 (0.36%) Endur
6 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.18%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 121 (21.92%) Power Platform
2 82 (14.86%) Azure
3 68 (12.32%) AWS
4 35 (6.34%) GCP
5 22 (3.99%) Snowflake
6 16 (2.90%) SaaS
7 15 (2.72%) Amazon S3
7 15 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (2.36%) Google Analytics
9 12 (2.17%) Serverless
10 11 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.99%) dbt
11 9 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.91%) Collibra
13 5 (0.91%) GitHub
13 5 (0.91%) Zapier
14 4 (0.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.63%) DNS
1 9 (1.63%) Firewall
1 9 (1.63%) Internet
1 9 (1.63%) SNMP
1 9 (1.63%) TCP/IP
1 9 (1.63%) tcpdump
2 4 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (0.72%) WebEx
3 1 (0.18%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (20.83%) Power BI
2 90 (16.30%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (12.68%) Tableau
4 33 (5.98%) SQL Server
5 19 (3.44%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.26%) MySQL
7 16 (2.90%) Looker
8 12 (2.17%) Big Data
9 11 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.81%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.63%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.45%) Metadata
13 6 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (1.09%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.09%) Data Mining
13 6 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.53%) JIRA
2 12 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.91%) Git
4 3 (0.54%) GitLab
5 2 (0.36%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.18%) ERwin
6 1 (0.18%) JUnit
6 1 (0.18%) Maven
6 1 (0.18%) Moq
6 1 (0.18%) NUnit
6 1 (0.18%) Selenium
6 1 (0.18%) Sourcetree
General
1 207 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 194 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
3 129 (23.37%) Finance
4 95 (17.21%) Marketing
5 56 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (9.96%) Retail
7 45 (8.15%) Law
8 26 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
10 19 (3.44%) Games
10 19 (3.44%) Legal
11 15 (2.72%) Military
12 13 (2.36%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.81%) Banking
15 8 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.27%) Advertising
17 6 (1.09%) Public Sector
18 5 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 123 (22.28%) Senior
2 86 (15.58%) Analyst
3 64 (11.59%) Developer
4 51 (9.24%) Lead
5 43 (7.79%) Data Analyst
6 36 (6.52%) Data Engineer
7 33 (5.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 33 (5.98%) Product Manager
8 27 (4.89%) Data Scientist
9 25 (4.53%) Data Manager
9 25 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
9 25 (4.53%) Software Engineer
10 24 (4.35%) Software Engineering Director
11 20 (3.62%) Product Owner
12 18 (3.26%) Power BI Developer
13 16 (2.90%) Python Engineer
13 16 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
13 16 (2.90%) Senior Data Scientist
14 15 (2.72%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.72%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.53%) .NET
2 16 (2.90%) React
3 9 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (1.63%) YAML
4 7 (1.27%) Node.js
5 6 (1.09%) ASP.NET
5 6 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (0.91%) React Native
7 4 (0.72%) Web Services
7 4 (0.72%) XML
8 3 (0.54%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.54%) HTML
8 3 (0.54%) Pandas
9 2 (0.36%) Apache Beam
9 2 (0.36%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.36%) Great Expectations
9 2 (0.36%) Handlebars
9 2 (0.36%) HTML5
9 2 (0.36%) Kafka
9 2 (0.36%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.06%) Product Ownership
2 48 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 35 (6.34%) Algorithms
4 31 (5.62%) Cloud Native
5 23 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.08%) Social Media
8 13 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.17%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.63%) Clustering
10 9 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.63%) Taxonomies
11 6 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (0.91%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.91%) Semantic Web
13 4 (0.72%) Blog
13 4 (0.72%) IoT
13 4 (0.72%) Media Streaming
13 4 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.06%) Windows
2 26 (4.71%) Linux
3 18 (3.26%) Windows 10
3 18 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
3 18 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 17 (3.08%) Windows 7
4 17 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (0.91%) Android
5 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.91%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (70.83%) Decision-Making
2 199 (36.05%) Analytics
3 180 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
4 142 (25.72%) Business Intelligence
5 135 (24.46%) Agile
6 133 (24.09%) Visualisation
7 110 (19.93%) Computer Science
8 101 (18.30%) Data Analysis
9 100 (18.12%) Machine Learning
10 90 (16.30%) Data Modelling
11 89 (16.12%) Data Governance
12 88 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 86 (15.58%) Artificial Intelligence
13 86 (15.58%) Roadmaps
14 84 (15.22%) Data Analytics
15 83 (15.04%) Data Science
15 83 (15.04%) ETL
16 79 (14.31%) Data Visualisation
17 78 (14.13%) Data Management
18 76 (13.77%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 168 (30.43%) SQL
2 118 (21.38%) Python
3 44 (7.97%) C#
4 29 (5.25%) Java
4 29 (5.25%) PowerShell
5 28 (5.07%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.17%) R
7 15 (2.72%) C
7 15 (2.72%) C++
7 15 (2.72%) Haskell
7 15 (2.72%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.63%) Bash
9 9 (1.63%) Perl
10 7 (1.27%) Scala
11 5 (0.91%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.72%) VBA
13 3 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 147 (26.63%) Degree
2 44 (7.97%) Master's Degree
3 43 (7.79%) Security Cleared
4 39 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.08%) HNC
6 12 (2.17%) MBA
7 11 (1.99%) PhD
8 8 (1.45%) CSPO
9 7 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (1.27%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.27%) SC Cleared
10 5 (0.91%) PMP
11 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.72%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.54%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.18%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.23%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.71%) QA
3 19 (3.44%) GDPR
4 18 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (1.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.27%) NIST
9 6 (1.09%) GRC
9 6 (1.09%) NCSC
9 6 (1.09%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.36%) SLA
11 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (3.99%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.54%) Docker
4 9 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.36%) Firmware
6 1 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.08%) SCCM
1 17 (3.08%) Terraform
2 9 (1.63%) Ansible
2 9 (1.63%) Grafana
2 9 (1.63%) Graphite
2 9 (1.63%) HAProxy
2 9 (1.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.63%) Nagios
2 9 (1.63%) Puppet
2 9 (1.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.17%) Google
3 19 (3.44%) SAP
4 17 (3.08%) VMware
5 15 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.81%) Alteryx
6 10 (1.81%) Databricks
6 10 (1.81%) Oracle
7 8 (1.45%) Xero
8 7 (1.27%) Apple
8 7 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.91%) Facebook
9 5 (0.91%) Twitter
10 4 (0.72%) Cognos
10 4 (0.72%) Computacenter
10 4 (0.72%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.72%) IBM
10 4 (0.72%) Infor
10 4 (0.72%) Pardot
10 4 (0.72%) Sage