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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 91 79
Rank change year-on-year +30 -12 +17
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,376 1,491 2,757
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.21% 2.65% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 2.95% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 853 942 1,754
10th Percentile £269 £325 £338
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.69% +0.93% +10.20%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 61 116
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.81 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £20.47 £25.44
Median hourly rate £19.38 £43.86 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.83% -2.53% +58.26%
75th Percentile £40.00 £60.55 £51.75
90th Percentile £51.45 £65.75 £57.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £41.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -61.07% -8.33% +66.91%

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 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +34 1,221 £525 -4.55% 1,833
UK excluding London +35 737 £500 - 1,150
London +23 537 £525 -11.02% 709
Work from Home +17 430 £525 -2.33% 759
South East +20 181 £550 +9.78% 285
North of England +47 178 £515 -0.96% 294
North West +52 135 £463 -12.53% 177
Midlands +38 119 £425 -19.05% 196
South West +23 119 £550 - 170
West Midlands +18 80 £450 -14.29% 129
Scotland -10 76 £437 -12.70% 70
East of England +26 56 £526 +13.68% 124
East Midlands +29 38 £270 -43.16% 67
Yorkshire 0 34 £550 +5.77% 95
North East +15 9 £533 +1.43% 24
Wales +6 9 £380 -19.15% 38
Northern Ireland +5 5 £640 +293.85% 11

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 33 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.60%) Confluence
3 17 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.65%) Apache
4 9 (0.65%) SAS
5 6 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.44%) CMS
6 5 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.36%) govService
7 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.29%) WordPress
8 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.073%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.073%) Mule
10 1 (0.073%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 116 (8.43%) Microsoft Office
2 102 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.73%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.51%) SPSS
8 4 (0.29%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.15%) Revit
9 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.073%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.073%) Sketch
10 1 (0.073%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.51%) Primavera
3 6 (0.44%) Shopify
4 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.29%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) JDE OneWorld
7 2 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 162 (11.77%) Azure
2 127 (9.23%) AWS
3 122 (8.87%) Power Platform
4 45 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (3.13%) SaaS
6 38 (2.76%) GCP
7 32 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 28 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.67%) PaaS
10 20 (1.45%) Taleo
11 17 (1.24%) Google Analytics
12 16 (1.16%) Serverless
13 15 (1.09%) GitHub
14 13 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 12 (0.87%) Google Workspace
16 11 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
16 11 (0.80%) Power Automate
16 11 (0.80%) PowerApps
17 10 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (0.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.13%) Firewall
2 30 (2.18%) WAN
3 27 (1.96%) LAN
4 21 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (1.31%) Network Security
5 18 (1.31%) VPN
6 17 (1.24%) DNS
7 16 (1.16%) VoIP
8 15 (1.09%) DHCP
9 14 (1.02%) SAN
10 13 (0.94%) VLAN
11 11 (0.80%) MPLS
12 9 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
13 8 (0.58%) Internet
13 8 (0.58%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.58%) Wireless
14 7 (0.51%) 3G
14 7 (0.51%) PBX
14 7 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (8.43%) Power BI
2 85 (6.18%) Tableau
3 54 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 47 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (1.89%) Big Data
6 25 (1.82%) Data Mining
7 19 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.16%) Looker
9 15 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.02%) Metadata
11 12 (0.87%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.87%) Power Query
12 10 (0.73%) MySQL
13 9 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.65%) Hadoop
13 9 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (4.14%) JIRA
2 31 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.96%) Cucumber
3 27 (1.96%) Selenium
4 24 (1.74%) REST Assured
4 24 (1.74%) SonarQube
5 22 (1.60%) GitLab
6 18 (1.31%) Git
7 15 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.58%) RStudio
9 5 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) Maven
12 1 (0.073%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.073%) ERwin
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.073%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.073%) Visual LANSA
General
1 596 (43.31%) Social Skills
2 353 (25.65%) Finance
3 340 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (10.32%) Presentation Skills
5 141 (10.25%) Public Sector
6 102 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (5.31%) Marketing
8 64 (4.65%) Banking
9 61 (4.43%) Retail
10 57 (4.14%) Legal
11 56 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
11 56 (4.07%) Telecoms
12 33 (2.40%) Local Government
13 28 (2.03%) Law
13 28 (2.03%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 22 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
15 21 (1.53%) Front Office
15 21 (1.53%) Police
16 20 (1.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 219 (15.92%) Analyst
2 142 (10.32%) Project Manager
3 126 (9.16%) Architect
4 125 (9.08%) Lead
5 121 (8.79%) Senior
6 76 (5.52%) Developer
7 67 (4.87%) Consultant
8 64 (4.65%) Data Analyst
9 55 (4.00%) Business Analyst
10 48 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
11 36 (2.62%) IT Manager
12 35 (2.54%) Senior Manager
13 34 (2.47%) Data Engineer
14 30 (2.18%) Support Engineer
15 28 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
16 24 (1.74%) Java Engineer
17 22 (1.60%) Business Manager
17 22 (1.60%) Senior Project Manager
18 21 (1.53%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.78%) REST
2 28 (2.03%) .NET
3 25 (1.82%) Java EE
4 24 (1.74%) AngularJS
5 18 (1.31%) CSS
5 18 (1.31%) HTML
5 18 (1.31%) Spring
6 14 (1.02%) React
7 13 (0.94%) .NET Core
8 12 (0.87%) ARM Templates
8 12 (0.87%) RESTful
9 11 (0.80%) Spring Boot
10 10 (0.73%) Kafka
10 10 (0.73%) Node.js
10 10 (0.73%) Pandas
10 10 (0.73%) scikit-learn
11 9 (0.65%) JPA
11 9 (0.65%) YAML
12 7 (0.51%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.51%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.32%) Management Information System
2 53 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 38 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.62%) Data Centre
5 26 (1.89%) Credit Risk
6 23 (1.67%) Clustering
7 21 (1.53%) Algorithms
7 21 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.24%) NHS
10 14 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 14 (1.02%) Life Science
10 14 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 13 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (0.94%) Virtual Team
12 12 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (0.87%) Public Cloud
12 12 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 104 (7.56%) Windows
2 38 (2.76%) Windows 10
3 34 (2.47%) Linux
4 25 (1.82%) Unix
5 22 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.44%) Android
9 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.36%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
13 1 (0.073%) CentOS
13 1 (0.073%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.073%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (32.78%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (23.33%) Agile
3 270 (19.62%) Project Management
4 197 (14.32%) Analytics
5 168 (12.21%) Time Management
6 162 (11.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 161 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 144 (10.47%) Data Analysis
9 137 (9.96%) Business Intelligence
10 126 (9.16%) Visualisation
11 124 (9.01%) Actionable Insight
11 124 (9.01%) Roadmaps
12 117 (8.50%) DevOps
13 114 (8.28%) Change Management
13 114 (8.28%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 106 (7.70%) Risk Management
15 105 (7.63%) PRINCE2
16 101 (7.34%) Migration
16 101 (7.34%) Project Delivery
17 95 (6.90%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 173 (12.57%) SQL
2 104 (7.56%) Python
3 71 (5.16%) Java
4 33 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 30 (2.18%) C#
6 20 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.45%) R
7 19 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.58%) Swift
10 7 (0.51%) Bicep
10 7 (0.51%) Go
11 6 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.44%) VBA
12 5 (0.36%) Perl
12 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.29%) Ruby
14 3 (0.22%) Bash
14 3 (0.22%) Scala
14 3 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 261 (18.97%) Degree
2 257 (18.68%) Security Cleared
3 195 (14.17%) SC Cleared
4 72 (5.23%) DV Cleared
5 51 (3.71%) PMP
6 49 (3.56%) Master's Degree
7 48 (3.49%) PMI Certification
8 36 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (2.18%) CISM
10 29 (2.11%) CISSP
11 26 (1.89%) HND
12 24 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 21 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.09%) HNC
15 13 (0.94%) CCNP
16 12 (0.87%) CISA
16 12 (0.87%) PhD
17 11 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
17 11 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.23%) Data Quality
2 56 (4.07%) QA
3 51 (3.71%) PMO
4 34 (2.47%) Disclosure Scotland
5 27 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.82%) GDPR
6 25 (1.82%) SLA
7 16 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (1.09%) NIST
9 13 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.36%) COBIT
10 5 (0.36%) GMP
11 4 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.29%) MiFID
12 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.22%) GRC
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.22%) NCSC
12 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (3.71%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (2.11%) Docker
4 14 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.29%) HDFS
8 4 (0.29%) vSphere
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) KVM
9 2 (0.15%) NFS
9 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.073%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 40 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.62%) Terraform
3 35 (2.54%) Ansible
4 20 (1.45%) SCCM
5 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (0.87%) Podman
7 10 (0.73%) NetBackup
8 9 (0.65%) Nagios
9 8 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
9 8 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
9 8 (0.58%) Nessus
9 8 (0.58%) VxRail
10 6 (0.44%) Autotask
11 4 (0.29%) Grafana
11 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.22%) MOM
13 2 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 236 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.78%) SAP
3 47 (3.42%) Google
4 46 (3.34%) VMware
5 44 (3.20%) Cisco
6 37 (2.69%) Oracle
7 32 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 32 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 31 (2.25%) Alteryx
9 24 (1.74%) Juniper
10 21 (1.53%) Informatica
11 19 (1.38%) Nokia
12 18 (1.31%) IBM
13 17 (1.24%) Databricks
14 16 (1.16%) Dell
15 15 (1.09%) Adobe
16 11 (0.80%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.73%) Apple
17 10 (0.73%) Citrix
17 10 (0.73%) Instagram