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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 67 79
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 +38
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 4,967 4,738 6,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.01% 4.69% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 4.91% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,615 1,968 3,052
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £37,182
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,697 £45,625
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 £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 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +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%

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 10 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 10 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 +12 4,008 £55,000 -8.33% 1,686
UK excluding London +15 3,426 £50,000 -4.76% 1,067
Work from Home +6 1,956 £55,000 -8.33% 709
London +42 1,299 £67,500 -3.01% 649
South East +46 926 £45,802 -22.03% 271
North of England -11 722 £52,014 -2.78% 272
Scotland +65 702 £45,543 -24.10% 51
Midlands 0 453 £54,700 +21.56% 189
North West +45 418 £50,000 -6.54% 159
West Midlands +11 303 £55,000 +34.71% 113
East of England +23 290 £47,500 -17.39% 111
South West -42 263 £50,000 - 151
Yorkshire -30 221 £55,000 +1.49% 84
East Midlands -8 141 £45,001 -18.18% 76
North East +5 83 £45,249 -13.81% 34
Wales +14 59 £42,500 -23.86% 39
Northern Ireland +28 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 (3.62%) 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
1 909 (18.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 236 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
3 137 (2.76%) 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 (12.30%) AWS
2 481 (9.68%) Azure
3 457 (9.20%) Power Platform
4 171 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
5 156 (3.14%) GCP
6 147 (2.96%) SaaS
7 127 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 81 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
9 76 (1.53%) Serverless
10 66 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
11 63 (1.27%) GitHub
12 51 (1.03%) PowerApps
13 49 (0.99%) 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%) Snowflake
18 38 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
18 38 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 467 (9.40%) Broadband
2 60 (1.21%) Firewall
3 45 (0.91%) WAN
4 41 (0.83%) DNS
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%) 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
15 13 (0.26%) VLAN
15 13 (0.26%) Wireless
16 12 (0.24%) TCP/IP
17 9 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (8.50%) Power BI
2 267 (5.38%) Tableau
3 168 (3.38%) SQL Server
4 156 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 143 (2.88%) Big Data
6 140 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 103 (2.07%) 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 59 (1.19%) 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 37 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 34 (0.68%) 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 2,175 (43.79%) Social Skills
2 2,038 (41.03%) Finance
3 1,563 (31.47%) Analytical Skills
4 1,061 (21.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 697 (14.03%) Marketing
6 694 (13.97%) Law
7 606 (12.20%) Influencing Skills
8 460 (9.26%) Legal
9 399 (8.03%) Retail
10 226 (4.55%) Public Sector
11 225 (4.53%) Banking
12 181 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
13 141 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
14 112 (2.25%) 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 1,249 (25.15%) Analyst
2 992 (19.97%) Senior
3 504 (10.15%) Software Engineer
4 464 (9.34%) Lead
5 331 (6.66%) Senior Analyst
6 283 (5.70%) Project Manager
7 239 (4.81%) 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 (3.72%) Data Analyst
13 185 (3.72%) Financial Analyst
14 175 (3.52%) Developer
15 158 (3.18%) Commercial Analyst
16 152 (3.06%) Development Manager
17 131 (2.64%) Consultant
18 130 (2.62%) Business Manager
19 129 (2.60%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (4.69%) Spring
2 230 (4.63%) React
3 161 (3.24%) AngularJS
4 129 (2.60%) .NET
5 127 (2.56%) Kafka
6 122 (2.46%) J2EE
7 103 (2.07%) 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
1 386 (7.77%) Management Information System
2 277 (5.58%) Algorithms
3 276 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 227 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 209 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 152 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 107 (2.15%) Driving Licence
8 104 (2.09%) 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
12 55 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 54 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
14 53 (1.07%) IoT
15 51 (1.03%) NHS
15 51 (1.03%) Taxonomies
16 44 (0.89%) PMI
17 35 (0.70%) Client/Server
17 35 (0.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 178 (3.58%) Windows
2 86 (1.73%) Linux
3 45 (0.91%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.77%) Windows 10
5 29 (0.58%) 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 1,878 (37.81%) Agile
2 1,530 (30.80%) Problem-Solving
3 1,139 (22.93%) Mentoring
4 834 (16.79%) Actionable Insight
5 759 (15.28%) Software Engineering
6 748 (15.06%) Coaching
7 742 (14.94%) Project Management
8 721 (14.52%) Analytics
9 646 (13.01%) Business Case
10 601 (12.10%) Artificial Intelligence
11 599 (12.06%) Machine Learning
12 569 (11.46%) Data Analysis
13 560 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
14 552 (11.11%) SDLC
15 533 (10.73%) Computer Science
16 530 (10.67%) CI/CD
17 527 (10.61%) Budgeting
18 507 (10.21%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 488 (9.82%) Risk Management
20 466 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 927 (18.66%) SQL
2 699 (14.07%) Python
3 617 (12.42%) Java
4 150 (3.02%) C#
5 140 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 113 (2.28%) Scala
7 110 (2.21%) 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 37 (0.74%) Bash
16 36 (0.72%) PHP
17 26 (0.52%) PL/SQL
18 25 (0.50%) Ruby
19 23 (0.46%) PL/1
20 19 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1,144 (23.03%) Degree
2 478 (9.62%) ACCA
3 465 (9.36%) CIMA
4 290 (5.84%) Security Cleared
5 211 (4.25%) Master's Degree
6 168 (3.38%) SC Cleared
7 148 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 112 (2.25%) DBS Check
9 73 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 68 (1.37%) 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 (0.74%) APMP
17 36 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
18 35 (0.70%) MBA
19 33 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
20 32 (0.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 171 (3.44%) QA
3 130 (2.62%) SLA
4 106 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 95 (1.91%) PMO
6 94 (1.89%) GDPR
7 76 (1.53%) 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
18 9 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 96 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 92 (1.85%) Docker
3 53 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 17 (0.34%) HDFS
6 16 (0.32%) 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 1,084 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 200 (4.03%) Oracle
3 159 (3.20%) Databricks
3 159 (3.20%) Google
4 99 (1.99%) SAP
5 80 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 72 (1.45%) VMware
7 59 (1.19%) Alteryx
8 41 (0.83%) IBM
9 32 (0.64%) 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