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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 482 534
Rank change year-on-year +44 +52 +138
Permanent jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 552 581 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.59% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.62% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 406 177 257
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,829 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,435 £50,854 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,550 £57,654 £46,232
% change year-on-year -8.85% +24.71% -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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 23 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 23 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 +37 474 £55,000 -8.33% 248
UK excluding London -49 338 £52,550 -8.85% 148
London +150 187 £72,500 +11.54% 102
Work from Home -95 145 £62,500 -16.67% 102
South East +47 112 £52,550 -12.42% 47
North of England -101 81 £50,000 +14.29% 44
North West +57 62 £53,750 -10.42% 25
Midlands +20 51 £55,000 -4.35% 25
Scotland -32 45 £55,372 -17.97% 6
West Midlands +29 40 £55,000 -2.22% 19
South West -4 26 £61,250 -11.00% 14
East of England -5 14 £48,625 -25.19% 11
Yorkshire -110 12 £50,000 +17.65% 14
East Midlands +2 11 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Wales +17 9 £55,000 +22.22% 3
North East - 7 £50,000 - 5

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 18 (3.26%) Confluence
2 9 (1.63%) CMS
3 8 (1.45%) Apache
3 8 (1.45%) SAS
4 7 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.27%) WordPress
5 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.54%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) Luigi
Applications
1 51 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.18%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.18%) CapCut
6 1 (0.18%) InDesign
6 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
1 119 (21.56%) Power Platform
2 83 (15.04%) Azure
3 69 (12.50%) AWS
4 36 (6.52%) GCP
5 21 (3.80%) Snowflake
6 15 (2.72%) Amazon S3
6 15 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.54%) SaaS
8 13 (2.36%) Google Analytics
9 12 (2.17%) Serverless
10 11 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.81%) dbt
12 9 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.91%) Collibra
14 5 (0.91%) Zapier
15 4 (0.72%) Entra ID
15 4 (0.72%) GitHub
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
3 3 (0.54%) WebEx
4 1 (0.18%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (20.47%) Power BI
2 88 (15.94%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (12.50%) Tableau
4 33 (5.98%) SQL Server
5 20 (3.62%) Data Lake
6 18 (3.26%) MySQL
7 15 (2.72%) Looker
8 13 (2.36%) 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%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.27%) Metadata
14 6 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (1.09%) Data Mining
14 6 (1.09%) Hadoop
14 6 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
15 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (4.17%) JIRA
2 12 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.72%) 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
1 210 (38.04%) Social Skills
2 197 (35.69%) Analytical Skills
3 131 (23.73%) Finance
4 95 (17.21%) Marketing
5 56 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (9.78%) Retail
7 44 (7.97%) Law
8 26 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (3.08%) Games
10 17 (3.08%) Legal
11 15 (2.72%) Military
12 13 (2.36%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.99%) Banking
14 11 (1.99%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.27%) Advertising
17 6 (1.09%) Public Sector
18 5 (0.91%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 121 (21.92%) Senior
2 85 (15.40%) Analyst
3 62 (11.23%) Developer
4 53 (9.60%) Lead
5 43 (7.79%) Data Analyst
6 37 (6.70%) Data Engineer
7 34 (6.16%) Product Manager
8 31 (5.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 27 (4.89%) Data Scientist
10 25 (4.53%) Software Engineer
11 24 (4.35%) Data Manager
11 24 (4.35%) Software Engineering Director
12 23 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
13 19 (3.44%) Product Owner
14 17 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
15 16 (2.90%) Power BI Developer
15 16 (2.90%) Python Engineer
16 15 (2.72%) Project Manager
16 15 (2.72%) Python Software Engineer
16 15 (2.72%) Senior Data Scientist
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%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.36%) Apache Beam
9 2 (0.36%) Great Expectations
9 2 (0.36%) Handlebars
9 2 (0.36%) HTML5
9 2 (0.36%) JSON
9 2 (0.36%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.88%) Product Ownership
2 48 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 35 (6.34%) Algorithms
4 31 (5.62%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.08%) Social Media
8 13 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.36%) Mobile App
9 12 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
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
14 3 (0.54%) 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
1 393 (71.20%) Decision-Making
2 197 (35.69%) Analytics
3 180 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 135 (24.46%) Agile
6 131 (23.73%) Visualisation
7 112 (20.29%) Computer Science
8 101 (18.30%) Data Analysis
8 101 (18.30%) Machine Learning
9 92 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 87 (15.76%) Data Governance
10 87 (15.76%) Data Modelling
10 87 (15.76%) Roadmaps
11 86 (15.58%) Artificial Intelligence
12 83 (15.04%) Data Analytics
13 82 (14.86%) Data Science
13 82 (14.86%) ETL
14 80 (14.49%) Data Management
15 77 (13.95%) Data Visualisation
16 74 (13.41%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 164 (29.71%) SQL
2 117 (21.20%) 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 11 (1.99%) 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
1 148 (26.81%) Degree
2 45 (8.15%) Master's Degree
3 43 (7.79%) Security Cleared
4 40 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.08%) HNC
6 12 (2.17%) MBA
7 11 (1.99%) PhD
8 8 (1.45%) CSPO
8 8 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.45%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.27%) SC Cleared
10 6 (1.09%) 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 66 (11.96%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.71%) QA
3 18 (3.26%) GDPR
4 17 (3.08%) 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%) Nagios
2 9 (1.63%) Puppet
2 9 (1.63%) vCenter Server
3 8 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 83 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.99%) Google
3 19 (3.44%) SAP
4 17 (3.08%) VMware
5 15 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.81%) Databricks
6 10 (1.81%) Oracle
7 9 (1.63%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.45%) Xero
9 7 (1.27%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.09%) Apple
11 5 (0.91%) Twitter
12 4 (0.72%) Cognos
12 4 (0.72%) Computacenter
12 4 (0.72%) Epicor
12 4 (0.72%) Facebook
12 4 (0.72%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.72%) Infor
12 4 (0.72%) Pardot
12 4 (0.72%) Sage