Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data-Driven Decision Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data-Driven 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 398 598 625
Rank change year-on-year +200 +27 +30
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 173 89 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.17% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 71 175
10th Percentile £401 £343 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £484 £450
% change year-on-year +8.53% +7.50% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £58.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -22.76% +223.68%
75th Percentile £63.31 £48.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £70.49 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data-Driven 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making within the UK 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
England +185 155 £525 -8.70% 284
London +134 79 £538 -6.52% 146
UK excluding London +101 77 £525 +8.53% 157
Work from Home +138 75 £500 - 120
North of England +60 31 £525 +23.53% 41
South East +39 24 £450 - 59
North West +41 22 £525 +44.83% 25
Midlands +21 9 £450 -29.41% 25
West Midlands +25 8 £450 -28.00% 19
Yorkshire +19 6 £525 +10.53% 12
Scotland +44 4 £626 +27.01% 4
South West +10 4 £575 +132.32% 14
East of England +4 3 £550 +4.76% 14
North East - 3 £533 - 4
Wales - 2 £465 - 3
East Midlands +10 1 £225 -65.38% 6

Data-Driven 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 8 (4.62%) Confluence
2 5 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.31%) govService
4 3 (1.73%) CMS
5 2 (1.16%) Apache
5 2 (1.16%) SAS
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.16%) SPSS
4 2 (1.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.58%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.58%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.58%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.58%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.58%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.28%) Azure
2 39 (22.54%) Power Platform
3 13 (7.51%) AWS
4 11 (6.36%) GCP
5 10 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (4.05%) SaaS
8 5 (2.89%) Smartsheet
9 4 (2.31%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.31%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.73%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.73%) GitHub
11 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.16%) Google Data Studio
11 2 (1.16%) Google Sheets
11 2 (1.16%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.16%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.58%) 3G
2 1 (0.58%) 4G
2 1 (0.58%) 5G
2 1 (0.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (22.54%) Power BI
2 27 (15.61%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (13.87%) Tableau
4 16 (9.25%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.36%) Big Data
6 9 (5.20%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.62%) QlikView
8 7 (4.05%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (3.47%) Metadata
10 5 (2.89%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.31%) Looker
11 4 (2.31%) MySQL
12 3 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.73%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.73%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.73%) HBase
12 3 (1.73%) KDB
12 3 (1.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.36%) JIRA
2 6 (3.47%) Git
3 4 (2.31%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.16%) JUnit
4 2 (1.16%) Selenium
5 1 (0.58%) ERwin
5 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.58%) RStudio
General
1 97 (56.07%) Social Skills
2 65 (37.57%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (19.65%) Finance
4 16 (9.25%) Retail
5 14 (8.09%) Marketing
6 12 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (6.94%) Telecoms
7 11 (6.36%) Legal
7 11 (6.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (6.36%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.47%) Banking
8 6 (3.47%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.31%) Automotive
11 3 (1.73%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.16%) French Language
12 2 (1.16%) Publishing
13 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (16.18%) Analyst
2 21 (12.14%) Developer
3 20 (11.56%) Lead
4 19 (10.98%) Data Analyst
5 18 (10.40%) Architect
6 14 (8.09%) Data Engineer
7 13 (7.51%) Consultant
8 12 (6.94%) Senior
9 11 (6.36%) Product Manager
10 10 (5.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (5.20%) Business Analyst
12 8 (4.62%) Product Owner
13 7 (4.05%) Data Consultant
13 7 (4.05%) Data Governance Consultant
13 7 (4.05%) Governance Consultant
13 7 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
14 6 (3.47%) Data Manager
14 6 (3.47%) Power BI Developer
14 6 (3.47%) Qlik Developer
14 6 (3.47%) Qlik Sense Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.89%) JSON
2 4 (2.31%) Kafka
3 2 (1.16%) REST
3 2 (1.16%) Swagger
3 2 (1.16%) YAML
4 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.58%) ODBC
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.98%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.31%) Life Science
4 4 (2.31%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.73%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.73%) FMCG
5 3 (1.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.73%) NHS
6 2 (1.16%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.16%) Social Media
6 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (67.05%) Decision-Making
2 80 (46.24%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (36.99%) Analytics
4 58 (33.53%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (30.06%) Agile
6 48 (27.75%) Data Modelling
7 39 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.39%) ETL
8 37 (21.39%) Visualisation
9 35 (20.23%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (19.65%) Data Governance
11 30 (17.34%) Mentoring
12 29 (16.76%) Data Analysis
13 25 (14.45%) Data Analytics
13 25 (14.45%) Data Integration
13 25 (14.45%) Project Management
14 24 (13.87%) Data Visualisation
15 22 (12.72%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (12.72%) Roadmaps
16 21 (12.14%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.70%) SQL
2 25 (14.45%) Python
3 10 (5.78%) Scala
4 5 (2.89%) Java
5 4 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.31%) R
6 2 (1.16%) C#
6 2 (1.16%) Perl
6 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (19.08%) Degree
2 8 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.47%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.89%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.89%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.73%) CSPO
5 3 (1.73%) Postgraduate
5 3 (1.73%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.16%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.16%) MBA
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.70%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.78%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.73%) QA
5 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.16%) PSD2
6 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.58%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (13.87%) Informatica
2 16 (9.25%) Databricks
3 14 (8.09%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.20%) Oracle
4 9 (5.20%) SAP
5 8 (4.62%) Facebook
5 8 (4.62%) Instagram
6 6 (3.47%) Google
7 4 (2.31%) Adobe
8 3 (1.73%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.73%) Brio
8 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.16%) Citrix
9 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Aprimo
10 1 (0.58%) Marketo
10 1 (0.58%) Symantec
10 1 (0.58%) Talend
10 1 (0.58%) Varonis
10 1 (0.58%) VMware