Decision-Making Contracts in the Midlands

Decision-Making
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 83 74
Rank change year-on-year +45 -9 -11
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 123 89 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.51% 2.58% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.48% 2.92% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 58 111
10th Percentile £254 £350 £282
25th Percentile £275 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £636
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - £11.70 £14.15
25th Percentile £18.00 £12.38 £15.49
Median hourly rate £23.13 £14.50 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +59.48% -17.05% -22.31%
75th Percentile £28.88 £16.38 £21.92
90th Percentile - £16.90 £27.67
England median hourly rate £18.25 £51.57 £42.50
% change year-on-year -64.61% +21.33% +45.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,243 3,047 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.47% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,126 3,298
10th Percentile £238 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 152
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +35 82 £450 -14.29% 98
East Midlands +35 39 £270 -43.16% 54
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.25%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.63%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.26%) Azure
2 14 (11.38%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (9.76%) AWS
4 11 (8.94%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.13%) SaaS
6 4 (3.25%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.63%) IaaS
7 2 (1.63%) PaaS
7 2 (1.63%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.81%) GCP
8 1 (0.81%) OCI
8 1 (0.81%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) Network Security
1 4 (3.25%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (3.25%) VPN
2 3 (2.44%) Firewall
2 3 (2.44%) LAN
2 3 (2.44%) VLAN
2 3 (2.44%) VoIP
2 3 (2.44%) WAN
2 3 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.81%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.81%) IPsec
3 1 (0.81%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) Power BI
2 5 (4.07%) GIS
3 4 (3.25%) QGIS
4 3 (2.44%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.63%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.63%) Power Query
5 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.81%) Metadata
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) MS Access
6 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) JIRA
2 2 (1.63%) GitLab
3 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
General
1 55 (44.72%) Social Skills
2 31 (25.20%) Finance
3 21 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.13%) Legal
6 9 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.07%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.44%) Automotive
9 3 (2.44%) Banking
9 3 (2.44%) Law
10 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Local Government
11 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (12.20%) Analyst
1 15 (12.20%) IT Manager
1 15 (12.20%) Senior
2 10 (8.13%) Delivery Manager
2 10 (8.13%) Project Manager
3 9 (7.32%) Service Delivery Manager
3 9 (7.32%) Service Manager
4 8 (6.50%) IT Services Delivery Manager
4 8 (6.50%) IT Services Manager
5 7 (5.69%) Senior Manager
6 6 (4.88%) Architect
6 6 (4.88%) Business Manager
6 6 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (4.88%) Senior Project Manager
6 6 (4.88%) Test Manager
7 5 (4.07%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.07%) Consultant
7 5 (4.07%) Lead
7 5 (4.07%) Production Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.88%) Middleware
2 3 (2.44%) .NET
3 2 (1.63%) ADO
4 1 (0.81%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.81%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.81%) gRPC
4 1 (0.81%) JMS
4 1 (0.81%) Kafka
4 1 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.81%) RAML
4 1 (0.81%) REST
4 1 (0.81%) RESTful
4 1 (0.81%) SOAP
4 1 (0.81%) Web Services
4 1 (0.81%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.88%) Data Centre
1 6 (4.88%) Management Information System
1 6 (4.88%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.07%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.07%) SCADA
2 5 (4.07%) Virtual Team
3 4 (3.25%) PACS
3 4 (3.25%) PMI
4 3 (2.44%) Clustering
4 3 (2.44%) NHS
5 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.50%) Apple iOS
2 7 (5.69%) Windows
3 5 (4.07%) Unix
3 5 (4.07%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.44%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (47.15%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (25.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (21.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (19.51%) Project Management
5 23 (18.70%) People Management
6 20 (16.26%) Change Management
7 19 (15.45%) Agile
7 19 (15.45%) Service Management
8 17 (13.82%) Time Management
9 16 (13.01%) Asset Management
9 16 (13.01%) Critical Thinking
10 15 (12.20%) Conflict Management
11 14 (11.38%) Data Analysis
12 13 (10.57%) Computer Science
13 12 (9.76%) Project Delivery
13 12 (9.76%) Service Delivery
14 11 (8.94%) Business Analysis
14 11 (8.94%) DevOps
14 11 (8.94%) ITIL
14 11 (8.94%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.50%) Swift
2 6 (4.88%) SQL
3 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.44%) Python
5 1 (0.81%) C#
5 1 (0.81%) Java
5 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Degree
2 18 (14.63%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.20%) HNC
3 15 (12.20%) HND
4 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.07%) PMP
6 2 (1.63%) ACCA
6 2 (1.63%) CIMA
6 2 (1.63%) CIPD
6 2 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.81%) CBAP
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
7 1 (0.81%) CRISC
7 1 (0.81%) ISEB
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.13%) QA
2 7 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) IFRS
4 1 (0.81%) PMO
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.44%) Autotask
2 3 (2.44%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (2.44%) SCCM
3 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.63%) Terraform
3 2 (1.63%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.81%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.50%) Okta
3 6 (4.88%) VMware
4 5 (4.07%) BMC
5 4 (3.25%) Ericsson
5 4 (3.25%) ESRI
5 4 (3.25%) Greenplum
5 4 (3.25%) Informatica
5 4 (3.25%) Mapinfo
5 4 (3.25%) Pega
6 3 (2.44%) Apple
6 3 (2.44%) Datto
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle
7 2 (1.63%) Facebook
7 2 (1.63%) Instagram
7 2 (1.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.81%) Civica
8 1 (0.81%) Red Hat