Decision-Making Contracts in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 41 64 79
Rank change year-on-year +23 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 129 89 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.83% 3.03% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.54% 3.31% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 54 53
10th Percentile £344 £275 £326
25th Percentile £425 £371 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% +10.05%
75th Percentile £669 £581 £619
90th Percentile £725 £657 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile - £47.25 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £50.63 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.78 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.42% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £54.40 £69.05 -
South East median hourly rate £24.97 £22.16 £43.50
% change year-on-year +12.69% -49.06% +71.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,690 3,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.16% 91.56% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,868 2,093
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +32 92 £575 +17.65% 39
Buckinghamshire +18 32 £588 +40.72% 27
Oxfordshire +3 5 £450 -43.75% 37
Decision-Making
South East

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (2.33%) SAS
2 2 (1.55%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.78%) SPSS
4 1 (0.78%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.60%) Snowflake
2 19 (14.73%) AWS
3 18 (13.95%) Azure
4 6 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.88%) Smartsheet
6 2 (1.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.55%) SurveyMonkey
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.78%) Figma
7 1 (0.78%) GCP
7 1 (0.78%) OCI
7 1 (0.78%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.78%) PaaS
7 1 (0.78%) SaaS
7 1 (0.78%) Serverless
7 1 (0.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) Firewall
2 9 (6.98%) Network Security
3 7 (5.43%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (5.43%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (4.65%) 3G
4 6 (4.65%) 4G
4 6 (4.65%) 5G
4 6 (4.65%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (1.55%) VPN
6 1 (0.78%) DMZ
6 1 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.60%) Tableau
2 6 (4.65%) Power BI
3 4 (3.10%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.78%) Big Data
5 1 (0.78%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.78%) Impala
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.78%) PowerCenter
5 1 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 26 (20.16%) Jenkins
2 25 (19.38%) Cucumber
2 25 (19.38%) Selenium
2 25 (19.38%) SonarQube
3 24 (18.60%) REST Assured
4 17 (13.18%) JIRA
5 13 (10.08%) GitLab
6 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.78%) ERwin
6 1 (0.78%) Maven
General
1 66 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 63 (48.84%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (17.83%) Finance
4 21 (16.28%) Legal
5 20 (15.50%) Law
6 15 (11.63%) Telecoms
7 14 (10.85%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (10.08%) Police
9 8 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
11 4 (3.10%) Marketing
12 3 (2.33%) Aviation
12 3 (2.33%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.33%) Military
12 3 (2.33%) Retail
13 2 (1.55%) Banking
14 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.78%) Automotive
14 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (27.91%) Analyst
2 30 (23.26%) Lead
3 19 (14.73%) Senior
4 17 (13.18%) Java Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Data Analyst
6 13 (10.08%) Project Manager
7 9 (6.98%) Consultant
8 6 (4.65%) Architect
8 6 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Lead Data Analyst
8 6 (4.65%) Network Analyst
8 6 (4.65%) Network Security Analyst
8 6 (4.65%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Security Analyst
8 6 (4.65%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) HR Manager
9 5 (3.88%) Performance Specialist
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Java Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.38%) Java EE
1 25 (19.38%) REST
2 12 (9.30%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.78%) D3.js
3 1 (0.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.40%) Credit Risk
2 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.88%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.33%) Life Science
3 3 (2.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.55%) CSOC
4 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.55%) PMI
4 2 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.78%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (0.78%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.78%) FMCG
5 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Windows
1 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
1 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (51.16%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (28.68%) Technical Leadership
3 32 (24.81%) Analytics
4 30 (23.26%) Agile
5 28 (21.71%) Test Automation
6 27 (20.93%) DevOps
7 26 (20.16%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (19.38%) Actionable Insight
8 25 (19.38%) Software Architecture
9 23 (17.83%) Software Engineering
10 22 (17.05%) Project Management
11 16 (12.40%) Dashboard Development
11 16 (12.40%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 15 (11.63%) Roadmaps
13 13 (10.08%) Configuration Management
13 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (9.30%) Containerisation
14 12 (9.30%) Customer Experience
15 11 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (8.53%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.16%) Java
2 11 (8.53%) SQL
3 4 (3.10%) Python
4 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.78%) R
5 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (36.43%) Security Cleared
2 33 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 27 (20.93%) Degree
4 19 (14.73%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.43%) CCNP
5 7 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.65%) CISM
7 5 (3.88%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.33%) PMP
9 2 (1.55%) MBA
10 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.10%) PMO
2 4 (3.10%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) ISO 31000
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (10.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (19.38%) Ansible
2 13 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.08%) Terraform
3 12 (9.30%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (9.30%) Podman
4 7 (5.43%) Nessus
5 2 (1.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (17.05%) Alteryx
2 9 (6.98%) Juniper
3 7 (5.43%) Cisco
3 7 (5.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.43%) Palo Alto
3 7 (5.43%) ScienceLogic
4 6 (4.65%) Informatica
5 3 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.33%) Facebook
5 3 (2.33%) Instagram
6 2 (1.55%) AlgoSec
6 2 (1.55%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.78%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.78%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.78%) Databricks
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat