Decision-Making Contracts in England

Decision-Making
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 94 81
Rank change year-on-year +39 -13 +21
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,293 1,295 2,188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.50% 2.56% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 2.84% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 784 1,350
10th Percentile £278 £340 £325
25th Percentile £413 £439 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +13.29%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £638
90th Percentile £736 £775 £736
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 64 115
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £22.35 £24.25
Median hourly rate £18.25 £51.57 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.61% +21.33% +44.07%
75th Percentile £37.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.75 £55.59
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £47.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -59.21% +11.76% +29.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +33 582 £525 -10.75% 620
North of England +43 192 £488 -2.50% 231
South East +28 186 £550 +10.00% 247
North West +36 143 £463 -7.50% 130
South West +30 126 £550 +4.76% 121
Midlands +44 123 £425 -15.00% 138
West Midlands +37 82 £450 -14.29% 89
East of England +22 50 £526 +10.68% 100
Yorkshire +3 41 £550 +4.76% 69
East Midlands +34 39 £270 -43.16% 49
North East +20 9 £529 -29.50% 37
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.55%) Confluence
3 17 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.77%) Apache
5 6 (0.46%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.46%) CMS
6 5 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.39%) govService
6 5 (0.39%) SAS
7 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.31%) WordPress
8 3 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 1 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.077%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.077%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.077%) Luigi
Applications
1 123 (9.51%) Microsoft Office
2 93 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (3.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.77%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.31%) SPSS
8 3 (0.23%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.15%) Revit
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.077%) Blender
10 1 (0.077%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.077%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.077%) Houdini
10 1 (0.077%) Maya
10 1 (0.077%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.077%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 21 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.08%) Primavera
3 8 (0.62%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.46%) Shopify
5 4 (0.31%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.23%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.23%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.23%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.077%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.077%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.077%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.077%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 152 (11.76%) Azure
2 113 (8.74%) AWS
3 101 (7.81%) Power Platform
4 49 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (3.48%) SaaS
6 32 (2.47%) GCP
7 29 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (1.93%) Snowflake
9 20 (1.55%) PaaS
9 20 (1.55%) Taleo
10 19 (1.47%) Serverless
11 17 (1.31%) Google Analytics
12 13 (1.01%) GitHub
12 13 (1.01%) Google Workspace
13 11 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (0.85%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (0.77%) IaaS
15 9 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.55%) Firewall
2 31 (2.40%) WAN
3 23 (1.78%) LAN
4 20 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (1.47%) Network Security
6 15 (1.16%) VoIP
7 13 (1.01%) VPN
8 12 (0.93%) DNS
8 12 (0.93%) SAN
9 11 (0.85%) DHCP
9 11 (0.85%) MPLS
9 11 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
10 9 (0.70%) HTTP
11 8 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
11 8 (0.62%) VLAN
12 7 (0.54%) 4G
12 7 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (0.54%) PBX
12 7 (0.54%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (7.27%) Power BI
2 68 (5.26%) Tableau
3 45 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (3.48%) SQL Server
4 27 (2.09%) Big Data
5 20 (1.55%) Data Mining
5 20 (1.55%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.24%) Looker
6 16 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.08%) Metadata
8 12 (0.93%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.77%) BigQuery
9 10 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.77%) Power Query
10 9 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.62%) GIS
11 8 (0.62%) MySQL
12 6 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.46%) Hadoop
12 6 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (4.02%) JIRA
2 30 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.93%) Cucumber
3 25 (1.93%) Selenium
3 25 (1.93%) SonarQube
4 24 (1.86%) REST Assured
5 20 (1.55%) GitLab
6 15 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (1.08%) Git
8 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.46%) RStudio
9 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.39%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.31%) Maven
11 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.077%) ERwin
13 1 (0.077%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.077%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.077%) VisualWorks
General
1 561 (43.39%) Social Skills
2 334 (25.83%) Finance
3 323 (24.98%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 106 (8.20%) Presentation Skills
6 75 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 63 (4.87%) Banking
8 60 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
9 59 (4.56%) Telecoms
10 52 (4.02%) Legal
11 50 (3.87%) Marketing
12 45 (3.48%) Retail
13 31 (2.40%) Local Government
14 29 (2.24%) Law
15 27 (2.09%) Manufacturing
16 26 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
17 24 (1.86%) Police
18 22 (1.70%) Military
19 21 (1.62%) Front Office
20 20 (1.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 199 (15.39%) Analyst
2 137 (10.60%) Project Manager
3 122 (9.44%) Architect
4 118 (9.13%) Senior
5 104 (8.04%) Lead
6 65 (5.03%) Consultant
7 64 (4.95%) Developer
8 54 (4.18%) Business Analyst
9 52 (4.02%) Data Analyst
10 40 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
11 39 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 35 (2.71%) IT Manager
13 33 (2.55%) Data Engineer
13 33 (2.55%) Senior Manager
14 26 (2.01%) Support Engineer
15 24 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (1.62%) Data Scientist
17 19 (1.47%) Product Manager
17 19 (1.47%) Programme Manager
17 19 (1.47%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.25%) REST
2 25 (1.93%) Java EE
3 21 (1.62%) .NET
4 14 (1.08%) Node.js
5 13 (1.01%) Pandas
6 12 (0.93%) .NET Core
6 12 (0.93%) ARM Templates
7 11 (0.85%) HTML
7 11 (0.85%) Kafka
7 11 (0.85%) React
7 11 (0.85%) RESTful
7 11 (0.85%) scikit-learn
8 10 (0.77%) AngularJS
8 10 (0.77%) YAML
9 9 (0.70%) CSS
10 8 (0.62%) Middleware
10 8 (0.62%) NumPy
11 7 (0.54%) TensorFlow
12 6 (0.46%) Web Services
13 5 (0.39%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 83 (6.42%) Management Information System
2 52 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 32 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 22 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.55%) Clustering
7 18 (1.39%) Credit Risk
8 17 (1.31%) Algorithms
8 17 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.24%) Life Science
10 14 (1.08%) NHS
10 14 (1.08%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 11 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (0.85%) Driving Licence
13 10 (0.77%) Client/Server
14 9 (0.70%) Derivative
14 9 (0.70%) Fixed Income
14 9 (0.70%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.62%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 86 (6.65%) Windows
2 38 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 31 (2.40%) Linux
4 22 (1.70%) Unix
5 12 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.62%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.31%) Android
9 4 (0.31%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
11 1 (0.077%) CentOS
11 1 (0.077%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (35.19%) Problem-Solving
2 308 (23.82%) Agile
3 257 (19.88%) Project Management
4 181 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 177 (13.69%) Analytics
6 158 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 141 (10.90%) Data Analysis
8 134 (10.36%) Roadmaps
9 129 (9.98%) Time Management
10 116 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
11 113 (8.74%) Change Management
11 113 (8.74%) DevOps
12 112 (8.66%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 109 (8.43%) Visualisation
14 107 (8.28%) Project Delivery
15 102 (7.89%) PRINCE2
16 98 (7.58%) Data Modelling
17 94 (7.27%) Risk Management
18 93 (7.19%) Actionable Insight
19 91 (7.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 142 (10.98%) SQL
2 93 (7.19%) Python
3 63 (4.87%) Java
4 28 (2.17%) C#
4 28 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.62%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (0.93%) R
7 9 (0.70%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.62%) Bicep
8 8 (0.62%) Swift
9 6 (0.46%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.39%) Go
10 5 (0.39%) PHP
10 5 (0.39%) Ruby
10 5 (0.39%) VBA
11 4 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.23%) Perl
12 3 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 286 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 233 (18.02%) Degree
3 217 (16.78%) SC Cleared
4 78 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 50 (3.87%) PMP
6 49 (3.79%) PMI Certification
7 40 (3.09%) Master's Degree
8 27 (2.09%) CISM
9 26 (2.01%) HND
10 25 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 22 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (1.62%) CISSP
13 20 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.16%) HNC
15 14 (1.08%) CCNP
15 14 (1.08%) PhD
16 11 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.70%) CISA
17 9 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 44 (3.40%) PMO
2 44 (3.40%) QA
3 32 (2.47%) SLA
4 26 (2.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 20 (1.55%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.47%) GDPR
7 14 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.01%) NIST
9 10 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.46%) GRC
12 5 (0.39%) COBIT
12 5 (0.39%) GMP
13 4 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.31%) GxP
13 4 (0.31%) ISO 31000
13 4 (0.31%) MiFID
13 4 (0.31%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.63%) Docker
3 30 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.15%) Firmware
6 2 (0.15%) KVM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.077%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 40 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.94%) Terraform
3 32 (2.47%) Ansible
4 19 (1.47%) SCCM
5 14 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (0.93%) Podman
7 8 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (0.62%) Nagios
7 8 (0.62%) Nessus
7 8 (0.62%) NetBackup
8 6 (0.46%) Autotask
8 6 (0.46%) VxRail
9 3 (0.23%) MOM
10 2 (0.15%) Grafana
10 2 (0.15%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.15%) SCOM
10 2 (0.15%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 216 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 46 (3.56%) Google
2 46 (3.56%) SAP
3 39 (3.02%) VMware
4 38 (2.94%) Cisco
5 31 (2.40%) Oracle
6 29 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.17%) Juniper
8 26 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.70%) Alteryx
10 21 (1.62%) Informatica
11 20 (1.55%) Nokia
12 17 (1.31%) Databricks
12 17 (1.31%) IBM
13 15 (1.16%) Adobe
14 13 (1.01%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.93%) Citrix
16 11 (0.85%) Ericsson
17 9 (0.70%) Avaya
17 9 (0.70%) Pega