Decision-Making Contracts in the North of England

Decision-Making
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 88 62
Rank change year-on-year +48 -26 +4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 187 144 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.98% 2.52% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 2.78% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 88 167
10th Percentile £328 £288 £314
25th Percentile £425 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.87%
75th Percentile £578 £641 £631
90th Percentile £689 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 9 36
10th Percentile - £35.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £10.95 £37.50 £18.94
Median hourly rate £15.00 £56.40 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year -73.40% +76.89% +48.30%
75th Percentile £16.06 £65.00 £49.00
90th Percentile - - £54.14
England median hourly rate £18.25 £51.00 £44.82
% change year-on-year -64.22% +13.78% +55.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +43 140 £463 -7.50% 147
Yorkshire +14 40 £550 +5.26% 77
North East +17 8 £533 -29.00% 32
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (2.14%) WordPress
2 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 69 (36.90%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (6.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.67%) Primavera
2 3 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.07%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.53%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.70%) Taleo
2 17 (9.09%) Azure
3 11 (5.88%) AWS
4 9 (4.81%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.74%) Serverless
6 5 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.14%) MailChimp
7 4 (2.14%) npm
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.60%) IaaS
8 3 (1.60%) PaaS
8 3 (1.60%) SaaS
9 2 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) PPP
2 4 (2.14%) HTTP
2 4 (2.14%) Network Security
3 3 (1.60%) Firewall
3 3 (1.60%) LAN
3 3 (1.60%) VLAN
3 3 (1.60%) VoIP
3 3 (1.60%) VPN
3 3 (1.60%) WAN
3 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.53%) RTP
4 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.81%) Power BI
3 7 (3.74%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.21%) Tableau
5 5 (2.67%) Big Data
5 5 (2.67%) Data Mining
6 4 (2.14%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.14%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.60%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.07%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.53%) MySQL
9 1 (0.53%) Navicat
9 1 (0.53%) OLAP
9 1 (0.53%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.53%) Git
3 1 (0.53%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 72 (38.50%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.79%) Finance
3 23 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.95%) Banking
6 9 (4.81%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.21%) Billing
7 6 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.14%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Front Office
9 3 (1.60%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.60%) Legal
10 2 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Marketing
10 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Retail
11 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 34 (18.18%) Analyst
2 18 (9.63%) Architect
3 15 (8.02%) Lead
4 13 (6.95%) Service Analyst
4 13 (6.95%) Service Desk Analyst
5 12 (6.42%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.35%) Business Analyst
7 9 (4.81%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
7 9 (4.81%) IT Support
7 9 (4.81%) Senior
8 7 (3.74%) Data Architect
8 7 (3.74%) Data Scientist
9 6 (3.21%) Commercial Manager
9 6 (3.21%) Consultant
9 6 (3.21%) Contracts Manager
9 6 (3.21%) Developer
9 6 (3.21%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.67%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.14%) Azure Data Engineer
11 4 (2.14%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.14%) AngularJS
1 4 (2.14%) RESTful
2 2 (1.07%) JSON
2 2 (1.07%) React Native
2 2 (1.07%) REST
2 2 (1.07%) Swagger
2 2 (1.07%) YAML
3 1 (0.53%) Kafka
3 1 (0.53%) Middleware
3 1 (0.53%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.35%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.74%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.14%) Clustering
4 4 (2.14%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.14%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (2.14%) NHS
4 4 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.14%) Taxonomies
4 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.60%) Life Science
6 2 (1.07%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.07%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.07%) PKI
6 2 (1.07%) SCADA
7 1 (0.53%) Blog
7 1 (0.53%) CMDB
7 1 (0.53%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.11%) Windows
2 29 (15.51%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.07%) Android
5 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.53%) Linux
6 1 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.16%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (17.65%) Agile
4 29 (15.51%) Time Management
5 28 (14.97%) Customer Service
6 26 (13.90%) Data Protection
7 23 (12.30%) Project Management
8 22 (11.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 20 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (10.16%) Analytics
11 18 (9.63%) Data Analysis
11 18 (9.63%) Data Governance
12 15 (8.02%) Visualisation
13 14 (7.49%) Data Modelling
13 14 (7.49%) Use Case
14 13 (6.95%) Data Integration
14 13 (6.95%) Risk Management
14 13 (6.95%) Scrum
15 12 (6.42%) Machine Learning
15 12 (6.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.56%) SQL
2 7 (3.74%) Python
3 4 (2.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (2.14%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.07%) C#
4 2 (1.07%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 37 (19.79%) SC Cleared
1 37 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.58%) Degree
3 20 (10.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (5.35%) CISSP
5 9 (4.81%) CISM
6 6 (3.21%) CISA
6 6 (3.21%) DBS Check
6 6 (3.21%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.21%) MBA
7 5 (2.67%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.67%) PMP
8 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.53%) CRISC
8 1 (0.53%) MCSE
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.90%) Disclosure Scotland
2 15 (8.02%) SLA
3 7 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.60%) GDPR
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (1.60%) NIST
4 3 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.60%) PMO
5 2 (1.07%) QA
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) GMP
6 1 (0.53%) GxP
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.60%) Hyper-V
1 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.60%) Autotask
1 3 (1.60%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.60%) SCCM
2 1 (0.53%) Control-M
Vendors
1 75 (40.11%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.90%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.81%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.28%) Databricks
4 8 (4.28%) SAP
5 5 (2.67%) Informatica
5 5 (2.67%) VMware
6 4 (2.14%) Hootsuite
7 3 (1.60%) Apple
7 3 (1.60%) Brio
7 3 (1.60%) Datto
8 2 (1.07%) Adobe
8 2 (1.07%) Citrix
8 2 (1.07%) Facebook
8 2 (1.07%) Instagram
8 2 (1.07%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.07%) Teradata
9 1 (0.53%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle
9 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto