Decision-Making Contracts in England

Decision-Making
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited 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 60 93 80
Rank change year-on-year +33 -13 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,237 1,234 2,168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.40% 2.56% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 2.84% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 757 1,329
10th Percentile £284 £338 £330
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.65%
75th Percentile £637 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £540
% change year-on-year -2.55% -0.23% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 54 99
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.00 £15.84
25th Percentile £14.54 £22.22 £25.57
Median hourly rate £18.00 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.11% +5.56% +60.60%
75th Percentile £37.50 £64.69 £51.75
90th Percentile £51.00 £65.75 £57.55
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £43.86 £45.00
% change year-on-year -55.83% -2.53% +52.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Decision-Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in England.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in England.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the England region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +24 546 £525 -12.50% 797
South East +31 184 £550 +9.78% 378
North of England +46 174 £515 - 301
North West +43 132 £469 -6.25% 169
South West +26 123 £550 - 160
Midlands +42 118 £425 -19.05% 207
West Midlands +28 79 £450 -14.29% 132
East of England +21 59 £513 +7.89% 100
East Midlands +30 38 £270 -43.16% 75
Yorkshire -1 34 £550 +5.77% 102
North East +15 8 £533 -9.36% 35
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.62%) Confluence
3 15 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.57%) Apache
5 6 (0.49%) CMS
6 5 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.40%) govService
6 5 (0.40%) SAS
7 4 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.32%) WordPress
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.081%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.081%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.081%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 113 (9.14%) Microsoft Office
2 91 (7.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.78%) Spreadsheet
5 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.89%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.32%) SPSS
8 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.16%) Revit
8 2 (0.16%) Trello
9 1 (0.081%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.081%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.081%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.081%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.57%) Loan IQ
2 7 (0.57%) Primavera
3 6 (0.49%) Shopify
4 5 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.16%) Endur
7 2 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.16%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.16%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.081%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.081%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.081%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 148 (11.96%) Azure
2 106 (8.57%) AWS
3 99 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 43 (3.48%) SaaS
5 42 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (2.43%) GCP
7 29 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (2.02%) Snowflake
9 20 (1.62%) PaaS
9 20 (1.62%) Taleo
10 17 (1.37%) Serverless
11 15 (1.21%) Google Analytics
12 12 (0.97%) GitHub
12 12 (0.97%) Google Workspace
13 11 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (0.81%) IaaS
15 9 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.51%) Firewall
2 30 (2.43%) WAN
3 22 (1.78%) LAN
4 21 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (1.29%) VoIP
6 12 (0.97%) DNS
6 12 (0.97%) Network Security
6 12 (0.97%) SAN
6 12 (0.97%) VPN
7 11 (0.89%) DHCP
7 11 (0.89%) MPLS
8 9 (0.73%) VLAN
9 8 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
10 7 (0.57%) 4G
10 7 (0.57%) 5G
10 7 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (0.57%) Internet
10 7 (0.57%) PBX
10 7 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (7.60%) Power BI
2 69 (5.58%) Tableau
3 46 (3.72%) SQL Server
4 44 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.86%) Big Data
6 21 (1.70%) Data Mining
7 18 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.13%) Looker
8 14 (1.13%) Metadata
9 13 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 12 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.81%) Power Query
12 9 (0.73%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.65%) MySQL
14 7 (0.57%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 53 (4.28%) JIRA
2 29 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.02%) Cucumber
3 25 (2.02%) Selenium
3 25 (2.02%) SonarQube
4 24 (1.94%) REST Assured
5 19 (1.54%) GitLab
6 15 (1.21%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (1.13%) Git
8 7 (0.57%) RStudio
9 6 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.32%) Maven
12 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.16%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.081%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.081%) GoCD
13 1 (0.081%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.081%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 541 (43.73%) Social Skills
2 330 (26.68%) Finance
3 296 (23.93%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 108 (8.73%) Presentation Skills
6 74 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
7 66 (5.34%) Marketing
8 59 (4.77%) Retail
9 58 (4.69%) Banking
10 54 (4.37%) Telecoms
11 51 (4.12%) Legal
12 47 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (2.43%) Local Government
14 28 (2.26%) Law
15 26 (2.10%) Manufacturing
15 26 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.70%) Front Office
16 21 (1.70%) Police
17 20 (1.62%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 193 (15.60%) Analyst
2 131 (10.59%) Project Manager
3 114 (9.22%) Architect
3 114 (9.22%) Senior
4 106 (8.57%) Lead
5 66 (5.34%) Developer
6 59 (4.77%) Consultant
7 54 (4.37%) Business Analyst
8 49 (3.96%) Data Analyst
9 40 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
10 36 (2.91%) IT Manager
11 32 (2.59%) Data Engineer
11 32 (2.59%) Senior Manager
12 25 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (1.94%) Support Engineer
14 20 (1.62%) Product Manager
14 20 (1.62%) Senior Project Manager
15 19 (1.54%) Business Manager
15 19 (1.54%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.15%) REST
2 25 (2.02%) .NET
2 25 (2.02%) Java EE
3 12 (0.97%) .NET Core
3 12 (0.97%) ARM Templates
4 11 (0.89%) Node.js
4 11 (0.89%) RESTful
5 10 (0.81%) AngularJS
5 10 (0.81%) Kafka
5 10 (0.81%) scikit-learn
5 10 (0.81%) YAML
6 9 (0.73%) Pandas
6 9 (0.73%) React
7 7 (0.57%) Middleware
7 7 (0.57%) TensorFlow
8 6 (0.49%) CSS
8 6 (0.49%) HTML
8 6 (0.49%) Web Services
9 5 (0.40%) LDAP
9 5 (0.40%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (6.31%) Management Information System
2 51 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 30 (2.43%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (1.62%) Clustering
6 18 (1.46%) Credit Risk
6 18 (1.46%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (1.29%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.29%) Life Science
8 16 (1.29%) NHS
9 12 (0.97%) Mobile App
10 11 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (0.89%) Driving Licence
10 11 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 10 (0.81%) Client/Server
12 9 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.65%) FMCG
13 8 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 83 (6.71%) Windows
2 37 (2.99%) Windows 10
3 29 (2.34%) Linux
4 20 (1.62%) Unix
5 13 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.40%) Android
9 5 (0.40%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) zOS
11 1 (0.081%) CentOS
11 1 (0.081%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.081%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (33.55%) Problem-Solving
2 285 (23.04%) Agile
3 251 (20.29%) Project Management
4 171 (13.82%) Analytics
5 160 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 146 (11.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 141 (11.40%) Time Management
8 128 (10.35%) Data Analysis
9 116 (9.38%) Roadmaps
10 115 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
11 112 (9.05%) DevOps
12 111 (8.97%) Visualisation
13 110 (8.89%) Change Management
14 109 (8.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 102 (8.25%) PRINCE2
16 96 (7.76%) Actionable Insight
17 94 (7.60%) Project Delivery
18 91 (7.36%) Risk Management
19 90 (7.28%) Migration
20 89 (7.19%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 135 (10.91%) SQL
2 84 (6.79%) Python
3 56 (4.53%) Java
4 28 (2.26%) C#
4 28 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 19 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (0.81%) R
8 9 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.65%) Bicep
9 8 (0.65%) Swift
10 6 (0.49%) Go
10 6 (0.49%) VBA
11 5 (0.40%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.32%) Ruby
13 3 (0.24%) Bash
13 3 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.24%) Perl
13 3 (0.24%) Scala
13 3 (0.24%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 248 (20.05%) Security Cleared
2 225 (18.19%) Degree
3 187 (15.12%) SC Cleared
4 77 (6.22%) DV Cleared
5 46 (3.72%) PMI Certification
6 45 (3.64%) PMP
7 42 (3.40%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.10%) CISM
8 26 (2.10%) HND
8 26 (2.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 25 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (1.94%) CISSP
11 18 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.21%) HNC
13 14 (1.13%) CCNP
14 13 (1.05%) PhD
15 11 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.65%) ACCA
16 8 (0.65%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 45 (3.64%) QA
3 42 (3.40%) PMO
4 26 (2.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 24 (1.94%) SLA
6 21 (1.70%) GDPR
7 20 (1.62%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.13%) NIST
9 12 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.49%) COBIT
13 5 (0.40%) GMP
13 5 (0.40%) GRC
14 4 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
14 4 (0.32%) GxP
14 4 (0.32%) MiFID
14 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 42 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.51%) Docker
3 28 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) KVM
6 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.081%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.081%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 37 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 32 (2.59%) Ansible
2 32 (2.59%) Terraform
3 17 (1.37%) SCCM
4 12 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (0.97%) Podman
5 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (0.65%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (0.65%) Nagios
6 8 (0.65%) Nessus
6 8 (0.65%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.49%) Autotask
7 6 (0.49%) VxRail
8 3 (0.24%) MOM
9 2 (0.16%) Grafana
9 2 (0.16%) SCOM
9 2 (0.16%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 214 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 44 (3.56%) SAP
3 40 (3.23%) Google
4 37 (2.99%) VMware
5 36 (2.91%) Cisco
6 30 (2.43%) Oracle
7 29 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.02%) Juniper
9 23 (1.86%) Alteryx
9 23 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.70%) Informatica
11 19 (1.54%) Nokia
12 18 (1.46%) IBM
13 16 (1.29%) Databricks
14 14 (1.13%) Adobe
15 12 (0.97%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.81%) Citrix
17 9 (0.73%) Okta
18 8 (0.65%) Facebook
18 8 (0.65%) Instagram