Decision-Making Contracts in the Midlands

Decision-Making
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 38 80 74
Rank change year-on-year +42 -6 -14
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 118 82 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.38% 2.50% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.34% 2.84% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 54 107
10th Percentile £253 £350 £277
25th Percentile £274 £431 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £541 £613 £574
90th Percentile £608 £684 £630
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £14.15
25th Percentile £18.00 £11.25 £15.49
Median hourly rate £23.13 £12.50 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +85.00% -28.49% -22.31%
75th Percentile £28.88 £13.75 £21.92
90th Percentile - - £27.67
England median hourly rate £18.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -62.11% +5.56% +60.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,210 2,891 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.14% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,028 3,224
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +21.83% +13.27%
75th Percentile £33.25 £32.77 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +28 79 £450 -14.29% 132
East Midlands +30 38 £270 -43.16% 75
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.69%) Confluence
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.39%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.25%) Azure
2 12 (10.17%) AWS
2 12 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (9.32%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.47%) SaaS
5 5 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.69%) IaaS
6 2 (1.69%) PaaS
6 2 (1.69%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.69%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon MSK
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.85%) GCP
7 1 (0.85%) OCI
7 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) VPN
2 3 (2.54%) Firewall
2 3 (2.54%) LAN
2 3 (2.54%) VLAN
2 3 (2.54%) VoIP
2 3 (2.54%) WAN
2 3 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.85%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.85%) IPsec
3 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.32%) Power BI
2 4 (3.39%) Data Mining
3 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.69%) Power Query
4 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.85%) GIS
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata
5 1 (0.85%) MS Access
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (7.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.85%) GitLab
General
1 52 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 36 (30.51%) Finance
3 20 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.47%) Legal
6 9 (7.63%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.54%) Automotive
9 3 (2.54%) Banking
9 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.54%) Marketing
10 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.69%) Law
10 2 (1.69%) Local Government
10 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.85%) Retail
11 1 (0.85%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (12.71%) Analyst
1 15 (12.71%) IT Manager
2 14 (11.86%) Senior
3 10 (8.47%) Project Manager
4 9 (7.63%) Business Manager
4 9 (7.63%) Delivery Manager
4 9 (7.63%) Service Delivery Manager
4 9 (7.63%) Service Manager
5 8 (6.78%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 8 (6.78%) IT Services Manager
6 7 (5.93%) Change Manager
6 7 (5.93%) Senior Manager
7 6 (5.08%) Architect
7 6 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Senior Project Manager
7 6 (5.08%) Test Manager
8 5 (4.24%) Consultant
8 5 (4.24%) Lead
8 5 (4.24%) Production Manager
8 5 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) Middleware
2 3 (2.54%) .NET
3 2 (1.69%) ADO
4 1 (0.85%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.85%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.85%) BREW
4 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.85%) gRPC
4 1 (0.85%) JMS
4 1 (0.85%) Kafka
4 1 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.85%) RAML
4 1 (0.85%) REST
4 1 (0.85%) RESTful
4 1 (0.85%) SOAP
4 1 (0.85%) Web Services
4 1 (0.85%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.93%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.08%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.24%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.24%) SCADA
3 5 (4.24%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.39%) PMI
5 3 (2.54%) Clustering
5 3 (2.54%) NHS
6 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.78%) Apple iOS
2 6 (5.08%) Windows
3 5 (4.24%) Unix
4 4 (3.39%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.54%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.07%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (26.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (21.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (19.49%) People Management
5 22 (18.64%) Project Management
6 20 (16.95%) Agile
6 20 (16.95%) Change Management
7 17 (14.41%) Service Management
7 17 (14.41%) Time Management
8 16 (13.56%) Critical Thinking
9 15 (12.71%) Conflict Management
10 14 (11.86%) Asset Management
10 14 (11.86%) Data Analysis
10 14 (11.86%) User Experience
11 13 (11.02%) Computer Science
12 12 (10.17%) ERP
12 12 (10.17%) Service Delivery
12 12 (10.17%) Visualisation
13 11 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (9.32%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.78%) SQL
1 8 (6.78%) Swift
2 5 (4.24%) Python
3 4 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.85%) C#
4 1 (0.85%) Java
4 1 (0.85%) R
4 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (17.80%) Degree
2 15 (12.71%) HNC
2 15 (12.71%) HND
3 12 (10.17%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.24%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.24%) PMP
5 5 (4.24%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) ACCA
6 2 (1.69%) CIMA
6 2 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.85%) CBAP
7 1 (0.85%) CIPD
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) CRISC
7 1 (0.85%) ISEB
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) QA
2 7 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.54%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) IFRS
5 1 (0.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.24%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.54%) Autotask
1 3 (2.54%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (2.54%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.54%) SCCM
2 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.69%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.85%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.78%) Okta
3 6 (5.08%) VMware
4 5 (4.24%) BMC
5 4 (3.39%) Informatica
5 4 (3.39%) Oracle
6 3 (2.54%) Apple
6 3 (2.54%) Datto
7 2 (1.69%) Facebook
7 2 (1.69%) Instagram
7 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Anaplan
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.85%) Civica
8 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.85%) Sage