Decision-Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 51 84 63
Rank change year-on-year +33 -21 +12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 742 674 1,116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.66% 2.93% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 3.27% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 442 727
10th Percentile £269 £275 £317
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £540
% change year-on-year -2.55% -0.23% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 48 99
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.57 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.47 £20.10 £25.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £51.09 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.57% +13.53% +62.28%
75th Percentile £31.94 £64.06 £51.60
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.23 £57.89
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +31 184 £550 +9.78% 380
North of England +46 174 £515 - 302
North West +43 132 £469 -6.25% 170
South West +26 123 £550 - 160
Midlands +42 118 £425 -19.05% 207
West Midlands +28 79 £450 -14.29% 132
Scotland -10 77 £435 -13.09% 49
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
Wales +8 8 £415 -11.70% 47
Northern Ireland +2 5 £640 +293.85% 16
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.21%) Confluence
4 6 (0.81%) SAS
5 4 (0.54%) WordPress
6 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 83 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (4.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.02%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) SPSS
8 2 (0.27%) Trello
9 1 (0.13%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.13%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.13%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.08%) Primavera
2 5 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.27%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 71 (9.57%) Azure
2 70 (9.43%) AWS
3 47 (6.33%) Power Platform
4 30 (4.04%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (2.83%) SaaS
6 20 (2.70%) Taleo
7 13 (1.75%) PaaS
8 10 (1.35%) Serverless
9 8 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (0.94%) npm
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.67%) GCP
11 5 (0.67%) IaaS
11 5 (0.67%) OCI
11 5 (0.67%) Smartsheet
12 4 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.37%) WAN
2 23 (3.10%) Firewall
2 23 (3.10%) LAN
3 16 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (1.75%) VoIP
5 12 (1.62%) SAN
6 11 (1.48%) Network Security
7 9 (1.21%) VPN
8 8 (1.08%) DHCP
8 8 (1.08%) DNS
8 8 (1.08%) MPLS
9 7 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (0.94%) PBX
10 6 (0.81%) 4G
10 6 (0.81%) 5G
10 6 (0.81%) Internet
10 6 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
10 6 (0.81%) SDH
10 6 (0.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.93%) Power BI
2 43 (5.80%) Tableau
3 18 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (2.43%) SQL Server
4 12 (1.62%) Big Data
4 12 (1.62%) Data Mining
5 11 (1.48%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.40%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.40%) MySQL
9 3 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.40%) Power Query
9 3 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.27%) Looker
10 2 (0.27%) Metadata
10 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (4.72%) JIRA
2 29 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.64%) Cucumber
3 27 (3.64%) Selenium
4 25 (3.37%) SonarQube
5 24 (3.23%) REST Assured
6 16 (2.16%) GitLab
7 15 (2.02%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.40%) Git
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) ERwin
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 343 (46.23%) Social Skills
2 170 (22.91%) Finance
3 167 (22.51%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.49%) Presentation Skills
6 51 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
7 46 (6.20%) Legal
8 40 (5.39%) Marketing
8 40 (5.39%) Telecoms
9 33 (4.45%) Retail
10 26 (3.50%) Law
11 25 (3.37%) Banking
11 25 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (3.23%) Manufacturing
12 24 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
13 21 (2.83%) Police
14 17 (2.29%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.75%) Local Government
16 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (17.39%) Analyst
2 86 (11.59%) Lead
3 70 (9.43%) Architect
4 67 (9.03%) Project Manager
5 60 (8.09%) Senior
6 33 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
7 30 (4.04%) Consultant
7 30 (4.04%) Developer
8 27 (3.64%) Data Analyst
9 25 (3.37%) IT Manager
10 24 (3.23%) Business Analyst
11 23 (3.10%) Java Engineer
12 19 (2.56%) Support Engineer
13 18 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
14 14 (1.89%) Business Manager
14 14 (1.89%) Delivery Manager
14 14 (1.89%) Software Engineer
15 13 (1.75%) IT Analyst
15 13 (1.75%) Service Analyst
15 13 (1.75%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.39%) REST
2 25 (3.37%) Java EE
3 16 (2.16%) AngularJS
4 12 (1.62%) ARM Templates
4 12 (1.62%) Spring
5 10 (1.35%) HTML
6 9 (1.21%) CSS
6 9 (1.21%) JPA
6 9 (1.21%) Spring Boot
7 6 (0.81%) Middleware
7 6 (0.81%) RESTful
8 5 (0.67%) .NET
9 4 (0.54%) React
10 3 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.27%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.27%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.27%) JSON
11 2 (0.27%) React Native
11 2 (0.27%) Swagger
11 2 (0.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.87%) Management Information System
2 29 (3.91%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.23%) Credit Risk
4 21 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.16%) Clustering
6 14 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 13 (1.75%) Life Science
8 12 (1.62%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.62%) NHS
9 10 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.08%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.08%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.94%) Blackberry
12 7 (0.94%) PMI
12 7 (0.94%) SCADA
13 5 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 73 (9.84%) Windows
2 36 (4.85%) Windows 10
3 16 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.02%) Unix
5 11 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.48%) Linux
6 10 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.08%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.40%) Android
11 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (35.04%) Problem-Solving
2 136 (18.33%) Project Management
3 131 (17.65%) Agile
4 112 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 110 (14.82%) Time Management
6 95 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 89 (11.99%) Analytics
8 62 (8.36%) Change Management
9 60 (8.09%) Roadmaps
10 57 (7.68%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 55 (7.41%) Data Analysis
11 55 (7.41%) Data Protection
12 54 (7.28%) Actionable Insight
13 53 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
13 53 (7.14%) Software Engineering
14 51 (6.87%) DevOps
15 50 (6.74%) Migration
15 50 (6.74%) PRINCE2
15 50 (6.74%) Risk Management
16 48 (6.47%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (8.89%) SQL
2 42 (5.66%) Java
3 30 (4.04%) Python
4 22 (2.96%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.02%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.08%) Swift
7 7 (0.94%) R
8 6 (0.81%) C#
8 6 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.40%) Perl
9 3 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.27%) VBA
11 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 169 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 145 (19.54%) Degree
3 118 (15.90%) SC Cleared
4 59 (7.95%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.50%) HND
6 21 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.83%) CISM
7 20 (2.70%) Master's Degree
8 18 (2.43%) CISSP
8 18 (2.43%) PMI Certification
9 16 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (2.16%) PMP
10 15 (2.02%) HNC
11 14 (1.89%) CCNP
12 13 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.21%) CISA
14 9 (1.21%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.08%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.58%) Data Quality
1 34 (4.58%) Disclosure Scotland
2 30 (4.04%) PMO
3 26 (3.50%) QA
4 20 (2.70%) SLA
5 12 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.48%) GDPR
7 9 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.08%) NIST
9 5 (0.67%) GMP
10 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.27%) GxP
12 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.16%) Docker
4 9 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.54%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 30 (4.04%) Ansible
2 23 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.43%) SCCM
3 18 (2.43%) Terraform
4 12 (1.62%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (1.62%) Podman
5 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.35%) NetBackup
6 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (1.08%) Nagios
7 7 (0.94%) Nessus
8 6 (0.81%) Autotask
8 6 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.54%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.54%) VxRail
10 3 (0.40%) MOM
11 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 156 (21.02%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.99%) Cisco
2 37 (4.99%) VMware
3 28 (3.77%) Alteryx
4 26 (3.50%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.23%) Juniper
6 18 (2.43%) SAP
7 17 (2.29%) Nokia
8 16 (2.16%) IBM
9 15 (2.02%) Informatica
10 14 (1.89%) Oracle
11 13 (1.75%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.62%) Palo Alto
13 10 (1.35%) Google
14 9 (1.21%) Databricks
14 9 (1.21%) Dell
15 8 (1.08%) Adobe
15 8 (1.08%) Apple
15 8 (1.08%) Hitachi
15 8 (1.08%) NetApp