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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 65 80
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 +37
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 4,973 4,863 6,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.05% 4.70% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 4.91% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,625 2,027 3,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £36,758
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,962
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,627 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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%

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 4 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 4 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 +14 4,005 £55,000 -8.33% 1,676
UK excluding London +15 3,432 £50,000 -5.66% 1,057
Work from Home +6 1,977 £56,500 -5.83% 677
London +39 1,299 £67,500 -3.01% 649
South East +44 920 £50,000 -16.67% 272
North of England -10 726 £52,500 -0.94% 274
Scotland +60 708 £45,543 -24.15% 50
Midlands +6 447 £53,600 +19.11% 187
North West +50 420 £50,000 -8.26% 150
West Midlands +3 299 £55,000 +30.18% 114
East of England +28 292 £47,500 -17.39% 118
South West -38 267 £50,000 - 141
Yorkshire -30 223 £56,500 +6.10% 94
East Midlands -3 140 £45,001 -18.18% 72
North East +4 83 £45,249 -13.81% 35
Wales +18 59 £42,500 -25.12% 33
Northern Ireland +33 16 £30,000 -33.33% 18
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
1 184 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 104 (2.09%) Apache
3 72 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.27%) FileNet
5 58 (1.17%) SAS
6 53 (1.07%) Confluence
7 39 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
8 38 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
9 26 (0.52%) CMS
10 20 (0.40%) Camunda
11 17 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
12 13 (0.26%) ArcGIS
13 12 (0.24%) Anypoint
13 12 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (0.22%) CICS
14 11 (0.22%) OpenStack
15 8 (0.16%) Drupal
16 7 (0.14%) Jupyter
16 7 (0.14%) nginx
17 6 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 904 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 228 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 129 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 15 (0.30%) SPSS
8 7 (0.14%) Sketch
9 6 (0.12%) InVision
10 5 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.080%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.080%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.080%) Siemens NX
11 4 (0.080%) Simulink
11 4 (0.080%) 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 42 (0.84%) 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
7 8 (0.16%) 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 (0.080%) SAP APO
11 4 (0.080%) SAP SCM
12 3 (0.060%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.060%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 614 (12.35%) AWS
2 485 (9.75%) Azure
3 462 (9.29%) Power Platform
4 176 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
5 160 (3.22%) GCP
6 150 (3.02%) SaaS
7 128 (2.57%) Amazon S3
8 81 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
9 77 (1.55%) Serverless
10 67 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
11 65 (1.31%) GitHub
12 54 (1.09%) PowerApps
13 51 (1.03%) IaaS
14 49 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
15 47 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 47 (0.95%) Power Automate
16 42 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
17 39 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
18 38 (0.76%) Snowflake
19 37 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 467 (9.39%) Broadband
2 64 (1.29%) Firewall
3 44 (0.88%) DNS
4 43 (0.86%) WAN
5 33 (0.66%) VoIP
6 25 (0.50%) 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%) DHCP
11 18 (0.36%) DSL
11 18 (0.36%) Kerberos
12 17 (0.34%) Intranet
12 17 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (0.30%) Wireless
14 14 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
14 14 (0.28%) VLAN
15 13 (0.26%) TCP/IP
16 9 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (8.61%) Power BI
2 266 (5.35%) Tableau
3 168 (3.38%) SQL Server
4 158 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
5 147 (2.96%) Big Data
6 140 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 106 (2.13%) Hadoop
8 96 (1.93%) BigQuery
9 95 (1.91%) Relational Database
10 80 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
11 77 (1.55%) Data Lake
12 69 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 65 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
14 59 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 48 (0.97%) DB2
16 47 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
17 45 (0.90%) MySQL
18 40 (0.80%) Apache Hive
19 37 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 34 (0.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 123 (2.47%) Jenkins
2 109 (2.19%) Git
3 103 (2.07%) JIRA
4 87 (1.75%) JUnit
5 62 (1.25%) Jasmine
6 45 (0.90%) Mockito
7 34 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 32 (0.64%) Maven
9 25 (0.50%) CircleCI
10 24 (0.48%) JMeter
10 24 (0.48%) Selenium
11 22 (0.44%) WebDriver
12 21 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 20 (0.40%) Gradle
13 20 (0.40%) Travis CI
14 18 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 17 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
15 17 (0.34%) Protractor
16 15 (0.30%) LabVIEW
17 11 (0.22%) ChangeMan
General
1 2,177 (43.78%) Social Skills
2 2,042 (41.06%) Finance
3 1,571 (31.59%) Analytical Skills
4 1,056 (21.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 697 (14.02%) Marketing
6 696 (14.00%) Law
7 603 (12.13%) Influencing Skills
8 459 (9.23%) Legal
9 396 (7.96%) Retail
10 241 (4.85%) Banking
11 237 (4.77%) Public Sector
12 182 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
13 143 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
14 110 (2.21%) Manufacturing
15 97 (1.95%) Telecoms
16 95 (1.91%) Investment Banking
17 94 (1.89%) Games
18 65 (1.31%) Front Office
19 51 (1.03%) Automotive
20 43 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,250 (25.14%) Analyst
2 990 (19.91%) Senior
3 502 (10.09%) Software Engineer
4 467 (9.39%) Lead
5 335 (6.74%) Senior Analyst
6 284 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 251 (5.05%) Architect
8 223 (4.48%) Java Engineer
9 217 (4.36%) Java Software Engineer
10 203 (4.08%) Data Scientist
11 193 (3.88%) Business Analyst
12 191 (3.84%) Senior Manager
13 187 (3.76%) Data Analyst
13 187 (3.76%) Financial Analyst
14 176 (3.54%) Developer
15 158 (3.18%) Commercial Analyst
16 142 (2.86%) Development Manager
17 140 (2.82%) Consultant
18 129 (2.59%) Full Stack Engineer
18 129 (2.59%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (4.69%) Spring
2 228 (4.58%) React
3 161 (3.24%) AngularJS
4 129 (2.59%) Kafka
5 125 (2.51%) .NET
6 124 (2.49%) J2EE
7 103 (2.07%) Spring Boot
8 97 (1.95%) HTML
9 95 (1.91%) GraphQL
10 93 (1.87%) Hibernate
11 90 (1.81%) PySpark
12 84 (1.69%) CSS
13 76 (1.53%) REST
14 65 (1.31%) Node.js
15 63 (1.27%) Pandas
15 63 (1.27%) Spring Integration
16 51 (1.03%) RESTful
17 47 (0.95%) TensorFlow
18 46 (0.92%) JSON
19 38 (0.76%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 383 (7.70%) Management Information System
2 276 (5.55%) Cloud Native
3 272 (5.47%) Algorithms
4 228 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 210 (4.22%) Product Ownership
6 152 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 107 (2.15%) Driving Licence
8 106 (2.13%) Onboarding
9 98 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 69 (1.39%) Credit Risk
11 61 (1.23%) Social Media
12 56 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 55 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
13 55 (1.11%) IoT
14 54 (1.09%) Data Centre
15 51 (1.03%) Taxonomies
16 50 (1.01%) NHS
17 44 (0.88%) PMI
18 37 (0.74%) Tandem
19 35 (0.70%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 176 (3.54%) Windows
2 83 (1.67%) Linux
3 46 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 37 (0.74%) Windows 10
5 28 (0.56%) Unix
6 25 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 23 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 17 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (0.32%) Windows 7
10 12 (0.24%) Android
10 12 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.22%) Windows Vista
12 7 (0.14%) VME
13 3 (0.060%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.040%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.040%) VMS
15 1 (0.020%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,905 (38.31%) Agile
2 1,528 (30.73%) Problem-Solving
3 1,141 (22.94%) Mentoring
4 850 (17.09%) Actionable Insight
5 759 (15.26%) Software Engineering
6 742 (14.92%) Coaching
7 738 (14.84%) Project Management
8 732 (14.72%) Analytics
9 649 (13.05%) Business Case
10 597 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 593 (11.92%) Machine Learning
12 570 (11.46%) Data Analysis
13 567 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
14 553 (11.12%) SDLC
15 535 (10.76%) CI/CD
16 531 (10.68%) Computer Science
17 530 (10.66%) Budgeting
18 504 (10.13%) Risk Management
19 502 (10.09%) Budgeting and Forecasting
20 470 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 917 (18.44%) SQL
2 699 (14.06%) Python
3 619 (12.45%) Java
4 146 (2.94%) C#
5 137 (2.75%) JavaScript
6 115 (2.31%) Scala
7 111 (2.23%) R
8 88 (1.77%) TypeScript
9 67 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 62 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 49 (0.99%) PowerShell
12 44 (0.88%) C
12 44 (0.88%) Go
13 41 (0.82%) C++
14 37 (0.74%) Bash
14 37 (0.74%) PHP
15 26 (0.52%) PL/SQL
16 25 (0.50%) Ruby
17 23 (0.46%) PL/1
18 19 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,139 (22.90%) Degree
2 477 (9.59%) ACCA
3 465 (9.35%) CIMA
4 287 (5.77%) Security Cleared
5 205 (4.12%) Master's Degree
6 167 (3.36%) SC Cleared
7 149 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 107 (2.15%) 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 44 (0.88%) HNC
14 39 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 38 (0.76%) CISM
16 37 (0.74%) APMP
16 37 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
17 35 (0.70%) MBA
18 32 (0.64%) DV Cleared
19 31 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (4.18%) Data Quality
2 169 (3.40%) QA
3 130 (2.61%) SLA
4 106 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 94 (1.89%) PMO
6 93 (1.87%) GDPR
7 73 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 70 (1.41%) NIST
9 53 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
10 26 (0.52%) GRC
11 22 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.36%) ISO 9001
13 16 (0.32%) NCSC
14 14 (0.28%) IFRS
14 14 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 13 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 9 (0.18%) COBIT
17 9 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 99 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 93 (1.87%) Docker
3 54 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.34%) HDFS
5 17 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.080%) Firmware
10 4 (0.080%) NFS
11 1 (0.020%) KVM
11 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 224 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 102 (2.05%) Terraform
3 25 (0.50%) SCCM
4 22 (0.44%) Ansible
5 20 (0.40%) 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 (0.080%) 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 1,076 (21.64%) Microsoft
2 200 (4.02%) Oracle
3 162 (3.26%) Google
4 154 (3.10%) Databricks
5 100 (2.01%) SAP
6 94 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.47%) VMware
8 60 (1.21%) Alteryx
9 41 (0.82%) IBM
10 33 (0.66%) ServiceNow
11 27 (0.54%) Cisco
12 26 (0.52%) Adobe
12 26 (0.52%) Pega
13 22 (0.44%) Cognos
14 18 (0.36%) CA
14 18 (0.36%) Sybase
15 17 (0.34%) Cloudera
15 17 (0.34%) F5
16 16 (0.32%) Capita
16 16 (0.32%) Splunk