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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 65 80
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 +36
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 4,957 4,870 6,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.03% 4.69% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.85% 4.91% 4.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 2,033 3,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,500 £37,091
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £46,250
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 £52,775 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -4.05% +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 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £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 £82,500 £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 2 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 2 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 3,989 £55,000 -8.33% 1,542
UK excluding London +19 3,432 £50,000 -5.26% 968
Work from Home +6 1,970 £56,468 -5.89% 647
London +40 1,284 £67,850 -2.79% 612
South East +45 924 £50,000 -16.67% 266
North of England -11 724 £52,500 -3.67% 243
Scotland +68 708 £45,543 -24.15% 48
Midlands +5 446 £53,600 +19.11% 162
North West +50 416 £50,000 -9.09% 139
West Midlands +5 298 £55,000 +31.49% 102
East of England +33 292 £47,500 -20.83% 106
South West -42 265 £50,000 - 132
Yorkshire -26 225 £56,500 +5.61% 82
East Midlands -7 140 £47,500 -17.39% 59
North East +4 83 £45,249 -13.81% 29
Wales +18 60 £42,500 -25.61% 30
Northern Ireland +41 16 £30,000 -33.33% 19
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 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 105 (2.12%) Apache
3 73 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 63 (1.27%) FileNet
5 58 (1.17%) SAS
6 53 (1.07%) Confluence
7 40 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 38 (0.77%) 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
1 902 (18.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 227 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 127 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.28%) 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 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
12 3 (0.061%) Trello
13 2 (0.040%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.040%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 42 (0.85%) 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 (0.081%) SAP APO
11 4 (0.081%) SAP SCM
12 3 (0.061%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.061%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 614 (12.39%) AWS
2 487 (9.82%) Azure
3 464 (9.36%) Power Platform
4 177 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 160 (3.23%) GCP
6 150 (3.03%) SaaS
7 128 (2.58%) Amazon S3
8 79 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
9 77 (1.55%) Serverless
10 67 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
11 65 (1.31%) GitHub
12 55 (1.11%) 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 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
17 40 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
18 38 (0.77%) Snowflake
19 37 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 467 (9.42%) Broadband
2 64 (1.29%) Firewall
3 45 (0.91%) DNS
4 44 (0.89%) WAN
5 33 (0.67%) VoIP
6 26 (0.52%) LAN
7 23 (0.46%) Network Security
8 22 (0.44%) Unified Communications
8 22 (0.44%) VPN
9 19 (0.38%) Internet
10 18 (0.36%) DHCP
10 18 (0.36%) DSL
10 18 (0.36%) Intranet
10 18 (0.36%) Kerberos
11 17 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (0.30%) Wireless
13 14 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
14 13 (0.26%) TCP/IP
14 13 (0.26%) VLAN
15 9 (0.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 429 (8.65%) Power BI
2 259 (5.22%) Tableau
3 168 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 157 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 148 (2.99%) Big Data
6 141 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 106 (2.14%) Hadoop
8 96 (1.94%) BigQuery
9 95 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 80 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
11 77 (1.55%) Data Lake
12 68 (1.37%) 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 (0.91%) MySQL
18 40 (0.81%) Apache Hive
19 37 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 34 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 123 (2.48%) Jenkins
2 104 (2.10%) JIRA
3 102 (2.06%) Git
4 87 (1.76%) JUnit
5 62 (1.25%) Jasmine
6 45 (0.91%) Mockito
7 34 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 32 (0.65%) 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 2,164 (43.66%) Social Skills
2 2,040 (41.15%) Finance
3 1,574 (31.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1,055 (21.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 698 (14.08%) Marketing
6 697 (14.06%) Law
7 602 (12.14%) Influencing Skills
8 459 (9.26%) Legal
9 395 (7.97%) Retail
10 240 (4.84%) Banking
11 233 (4.70%) Public Sector
12 180 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
13 145 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
14 110 (2.22%) Manufacturing
15 97 (1.96%) Telecoms
16 95 (1.92%) Investment Banking
17 94 (1.90%) Games
18 65 (1.31%) Front Office
19 51 (1.03%) Automotive
20 42 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,250 (25.22%) Analyst
2 981 (19.79%) Senior
3 502 (10.13%) Software Engineer
4 466 (9.40%) Lead
5 334 (6.74%) Senior Analyst
6 283 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 252 (5.08%) Architect
8 223 (4.50%) Java Engineer
9 217 (4.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 196 (3.95%) Data Scientist
11 193 (3.89%) Business Analyst
12 191 (3.85%) Senior Manager
13 187 (3.77%) Data Analyst
13 187 (3.77%) Financial Analyst
14 176 (3.55%) Developer
15 158 (3.19%) Commercial Analyst
16 141 (2.84%) Consultant
17 137 (2.76%) Development Manager
18 129 (2.60%) Full Stack Engineer
18 129 (2.60%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (4.70%) Spring
2 228 (4.60%) React
3 161 (3.25%) AngularJS
4 130 (2.62%) Kafka
5 125 (2.52%) .NET
6 124 (2.50%) J2EE
7 103 (2.08%) Spring Boot
8 97 (1.96%) HTML
9 95 (1.92%) GraphQL
10 93 (1.88%) Hibernate
11 84 (1.69%) CSS
11 84 (1.69%) PySpark
12 77 (1.55%) REST
13 65 (1.31%) Node.js
14 63 (1.27%) Spring Integration
15 57 (1.15%) Pandas
16 51 (1.03%) RESTful
17 46 (0.93%) JSON
18 40 (0.81%) TensorFlow
19 38 (0.77%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 379 (7.65%) Management Information System
2 276 (5.57%) Cloud Native
3 265 (5.35%) Algorithms
4 227 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 210 (4.24%) Product Ownership
6 152 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 108 (2.18%) Driving Licence
8 105 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 98 (1.98%) Data Structures
10 69 (1.39%) Credit Risk
11 60 (1.21%) Social Media
12 56 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 55 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
13 55 (1.11%) IoT
14 53 (1.07%) Data Centre
15 51 (1.03%) NHS
15 51 (1.03%) Taxonomies
16 44 (0.89%) PMI
17 37 (0.75%) Tandem
18 35 (0.71%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 179 (3.61%) Windows
2 84 (1.69%) Linux
3 47 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 38 (0.77%) 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 (0.061%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.040%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.040%) VMS
15 1 (0.020%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,906 (38.45%) Agile
2 1,528 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
3 1,139 (22.98%) Mentoring
4 842 (16.99%) Actionable Insight
5 759 (15.31%) Software Engineering
6 740 (14.93%) Coaching
7 734 (14.81%) Project Management
8 730 (14.73%) Analytics
9 649 (13.09%) Business Case
10 590 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
11 586 (11.82%) Machine Learning
12 569 (11.48%) Data Analysis
13 567 (11.44%) Business Intelligence
14 553 (11.16%) SDLC
15 535 (10.79%) CI/CD
16 530 (10.69%) Computer Science
17 528 (10.65%) Budgeting
18 501 (10.11%) Budgeting and Forecasting
19 499 (10.07%) Risk Management
20 469 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 911 (18.38%) SQL
2 694 (14.00%) Python
3 620 (12.51%) Java
4 146 (2.95%) C#
5 137 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 115 (2.32%) Scala
7 111 (2.24%) R
8 88 (1.78%) TypeScript
9 67 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 62 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 49 (0.99%) PowerShell
12 44 (0.89%) C
12 44 (0.89%) Go
13 41 (0.83%) C++
14 37 (0.75%) Bash
14 37 (0.75%) 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 1,129 (22.78%) Degree
2 477 (9.62%) ACCA
3 465 (9.38%) CIMA
4 288 (5.81%) Security Cleared
5 197 (3.97%) Master's Degree
6 168 (3.39%) SC Cleared
7 148 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 101 (2.04%) DBS Check
9 72 (1.45%) PMI Certification
10 69 (1.39%) CISSP
11 59 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 49 (0.99%) PhD
13 44 (0.89%) HNC
14 39 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 38 (0.77%) CISM
16 37 (0.75%) APMP
17 36 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
18 34 (0.69%) MBA
19 32 (0.65%) DV Cleared
20 30 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (4.20%) Data Quality
2 168 (3.39%) QA
3 131 (2.64%) SLA
4 105 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 95 (1.92%) PMO
6 94 (1.90%) GDPR
7 72 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 70 (1.41%) NIST
9 53 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (0.50%) GRC
11 23 (0.46%) 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
18 8 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 7 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 101 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 93 (1.88%) 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 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.081%) Firmware
10 4 (0.081%) NFS
11 1 (0.020%) KVM
11 1 (0.020%) RACF
Systems Management
1 224 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 103 (2.08%) Terraform
3 25 (0.50%) 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 (0.061%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.061%) SCOM
13 2 (0.040%) Dell DRAC
14 1 (0.020%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 1 (0.020%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.020%) Kiali
14 1 (0.020%) Plesk
Vendors
1 1,075 (21.69%) Microsoft
2 200 (4.03%) Oracle
3 162 (3.27%) Google
4 148 (2.99%) Databricks
5 100 (2.02%) SAP
6 94 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 73 (1.47%) VMware
8 60 (1.21%) Alteryx
9 41 (0.83%) IBM
10 33 (0.67%) 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%) Splunk
17 14 (0.28%) Informatica