Decision-Making Contracts

Decision-Making
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 93 78
Rank change year-on-year +34 -15 +20
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,442 1,564 2,787
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.34% 2.65% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 2.95% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 976 1,788
10th Percentile £275 £341 £338
25th Percentile £408 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £747 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 71 129
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.98 £15.84
25th Percentile £14.54 £21.73 £25.28
Median hourly rate £19.38 £47.50 £44.73
Median % change year-on-year -59.21% +6.20% +42.66%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.75 £56.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £52.21 £45.00
% change year-on-year -69.24% +16.03% +57.89%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
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% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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 +39 1,280 £525 -4.55% 1,987
UK excluding London +33 760 £500 - 1,162
London +25 573 £525 -11.02% 872
Work from Home +34 477 £525 - 788
North of England +48 190 £481 -3.75% 289
South East +25 188 £550 +10.00% 322
North West +45 142 £463 -7.50% 164
South West +37 126 £550 - 143
Midlands +46 118 £425 -15.00% 196
West Midlands +24 79 £450 -14.29% 117
Scotland -19 75 £438 -12.92% 57
East of England +24 54 £513 +10.81% 132
Yorkshire +6 40 £550 +5.26% 95
East Midlands +34 38 £270 -43.16% 78
Wales +5 11 £498 +27.56% 36
North East +19 9 £529 -29.50% 35
Northern Ireland +4 4 £640 +293.85% 21

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 35 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.53%) Confluence
3 18 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.69%) Apache
5 7 (0.49%) SAS
6 6 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.42%) CMS
7 5 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.35%) govService
8 4 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.28%) WordPress
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.069%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.069%) Mule
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 130 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
2 103 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.76%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.42%) SPSS
8 4 (0.28%) Trello
9 3 (0.21%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.14%) Revit
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.069%) Blender
11 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.069%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.069%) Houdini
11 1 (0.069%) Maya
11 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.97%) Primavera
3 8 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.35%) Shopify
5 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.28%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.14%) JDE OneWorld
7 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.069%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 157 (10.89%) Azure
2 124 (8.60%) AWS
3 114 (7.91%) Power Platform
4 49 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (3.19%) SaaS
6 36 (2.50%) GCP
7 32 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (2.22%) Snowflake
8 23 (1.60%) PaaS
9 20 (1.39%) Taleo
10 18 (1.25%) Google Analytics
10 18 (1.25%) Serverless
11 15 (1.04%) GitHub
12 13 (0.90%) Google Workspace
12 13 (0.90%) Power Automate
13 10 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (0.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (0.69%) IaaS
13 10 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.91%) Firewall
2 30 (2.08%) WAN
3 26 (1.80%) LAN
4 23 (1.60%) Network Security
5 21 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (1.25%) VPN
7 16 (1.11%) DNS
8 15 (1.04%) DHCP
8 15 (1.04%) VoIP
9 14 (0.97%) SAN
10 12 (0.83%) VLAN
11 11 (0.76%) MPLS
12 10 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
12 10 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
12 10 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
13 9 (0.62%) HTTP
14 8 (0.55%) TCP/IP
14 8 (0.55%) Wireless
15 7 (0.49%) PBX
15 7 (0.49%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (7.49%) Power BI
2 79 (5.48%) Tableau
3 55 (3.81%) SQL Server
4 47 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (2.01%) Big Data
6 22 (1.53%) Data Mining
7 19 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.25%) Looker
9 16 (1.11%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.04%) Data Lake
11 14 (0.97%) Metadata
12 13 (0.90%) BigQuery
13 11 (0.76%) Power Query
14 9 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (0.62%) GIS
15 8 (0.55%) Hadoop
15 8 (0.55%) MongoDB
15 8 (0.55%) MySQL
15 8 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (4.30%) JIRA
2 32 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.73%) Cucumber
3 25 (1.73%) Selenium
3 25 (1.73%) SonarQube
4 24 (1.66%) REST Assured
5 22 (1.53%) GitLab
6 16 (1.11%) Git
7 15 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.42%) RStudio
10 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.28%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.28%) Maven
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.069%) ERwin
14 1 (0.069%) Oracle Forms
14 1 (0.069%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.069%) VisualWorks
General
1 627 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 371 (25.73%) Finance
3 359 (24.90%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 137 (9.50%) Presentation Skills
6 99 (6.87%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (5.34%) Banking
8 65 (4.51%) Marketing
9 61 (4.23%) Legal
10 59 (4.09%) Telecoms
11 58 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
12 53 (3.68%) Retail
13 32 (2.22%) Local Government
14 31 (2.15%) Manufacturing
15 29 (2.01%) Law
16 25 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 24 (1.66%) Police
18 22 (1.53%) Military
19 20 (1.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 227 (15.74%) Analyst
2 150 (10.40%) Project Manager
3 133 (9.22%) Architect
3 133 (9.22%) Lead
4 125 (8.67%) Senior
5 73 (5.06%) Developer
6 70 (4.85%) Consultant
7 65 (4.51%) Data Analyst
8 61 (4.23%) Business Analyst
9 47 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
11 36 (2.50%) Data Engineer
12 35 (2.43%) Senior Manager
13 34 (2.36%) IT Manager
14 28 (1.94%) Support Engineer
15 26 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
16 24 (1.66%) Data Scientist
16 24 (1.66%) Java Engineer
17 20 (1.39%) Product Manager
17 20 (1.39%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.68%) REST
2 25 (1.73%) .NET
2 25 (1.73%) Java EE
3 23 (1.60%) AngularJS
4 22 (1.53%) HTML
5 21 (1.46%) CSS
6 16 (1.11%) Spring
7 15 (1.04%) .NET Core
7 15 (1.04%) React
8 14 (0.97%) Node.js
8 14 (0.97%) Pandas
9 13 (0.90%) RESTful
10 12 (0.83%) ARM Templates
11 11 (0.76%) Kafka
11 11 (0.76%) scikit-learn
11 11 (0.76%) Spring Boot
12 10 (0.69%) YAML
13 9 (0.62%) JPA
13 9 (0.62%) NumPy
14 7 (0.49%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 91 (6.31%) Management Information System
2 57 (3.95%) Product Ownership
3 39 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 26 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (1.80%) Credit Risk
5 26 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 23 (1.60%) Clustering
7 21 (1.46%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.04%) Life Science
10 14 (0.97%) Driving Licence
11 13 (0.90%) NHS
12 12 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.69%) Client/Server
14 10 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
14 10 (0.69%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 99 (6.87%) Windows
2 36 (2.50%) Windows 10
3 33 (2.29%) Linux
4 26 (1.80%) Unix
5 19 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.69%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.35%) Android
11 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.14%) zOS
13 1 (0.069%) CentOS
13 1 (0.069%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (33.56%) Problem-Solving
2 354 (24.55%) Agile
3 286 (19.83%) Project Management
4 195 (13.52%) Analytics
5 189 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 169 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 157 (10.89%) Time Management
8 152 (10.54%) Data Analysis
9 144 (9.99%) Roadmaps
10 131 (9.08%) Business Intelligence
11 122 (8.46%) DevOps
12 119 (8.25%) Change Management
12 119 (8.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 119 (8.25%) Visualisation
13 116 (8.04%) Actionable Insight
14 113 (7.84%) Project Delivery
14 113 (7.84%) Risk Management
15 109 (7.56%) PRINCE2
16 105 (7.28%) Migration
17 101 (7.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 172 (11.93%) SQL
2 106 (7.35%) Python
3 73 (5.06%) Java
4 31 (2.15%) C#
4 31 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 23 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.46%) TypeScript
7 14 (0.97%) R
8 13 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.55%) Bicep
9 8 (0.55%) Swift
10 7 (0.49%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.42%) Go
11 6 (0.42%) Perl
11 6 (0.42%) Ruby
11 6 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.35%) PHP
12 5 (0.35%) VBA
13 4 (0.28%) Bash
13 4 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 299 (20.74%) Security Cleared
2 262 (18.17%) Degree
3 227 (15.74%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.88%) PMP
6 51 (3.54%) PMI Certification
7 46 (3.19%) Master's Degree
8 33 (2.29%) CISM
9 32 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (2.08%) CISSP
11 29 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 26 (1.80%) HND
13 25 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 21 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (1.04%) HNC
16 14 (0.97%) CCNP
16 14 (0.97%) PhD
17 11 (0.76%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.69%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 54 (3.74%) PMO
3 53 (3.68%) QA
4 39 (2.70%) SLA
5 33 (2.29%) Disclosure Scotland
6 29 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.66%) GDPR
8 21 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (1.11%) NIST
10 12 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.49%) GRC
12 6 (0.42%) COBIT
13 5 (0.35%) GMP
14 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
14 4 (0.28%) GxP
14 4 (0.28%) MiFID
14 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 49 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (2.22%) Docker
4 12 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (0.42%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.28%) vSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) HDFS
8 2 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.14%) NFS
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.069%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 42 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.70%) Terraform
3 34 (2.36%) Ansible
4 20 (1.39%) SCCM
5 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (0.83%) Podman
7 10 (0.69%) NetBackup
8 8 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.55%) Nagios
8 8 (0.55%) Nessus
8 8 (0.55%) VxRail
9 6 (0.42%) Autotask
10 4 (0.28%) Grafana
10 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.28%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.21%) MOM
12 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 245 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 57 (3.95%) SAP
3 46 (3.19%) Google
3 46 (3.19%) VMware
4 45 (3.12%) Cisco
5 39 (2.70%) Oracle
6 31 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 28 (1.94%) Alteryx
7 28 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.80%) Juniper
9 21 (1.46%) Informatica
10 19 (1.32%) Nokia
11 18 (1.25%) Databricks
12 17 (1.18%) IBM
13 16 (1.11%) Dell
14 15 (1.04%) Adobe
15 12 (0.83%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.76%) Citrix
17 10 (0.69%) Ericsson
18 9 (0.62%) Apple