Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data-Driven Decision Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 420 438
Rank change year-on-year +101 +18 -20
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 75 31 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.13% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 25 56
10th Percentile £401 £373 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £625 £538
90th Percentile £669 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £72.22 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £61.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% -22.76% +223.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data-Driven 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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 of England +59 29 £523 +22.94% 39
South East +31 25 £450 -7.22% 47
North West +41 20 £520 +43.45% 24
Midlands +23 9 £450 -28.00% 17
West Midlands +18 8 £450 -28.00% 10
Yorkshire +23 6 £525 +10.53% 13
Scotland - 4 £626 - 4
South West +20 3 £575 +132.32% 20
East of England +16 3 £550 +10.00% 11
North East - 3 £533 - 2
Wales - 2 £465 - 6
East Midlands +19 1 £225 -65.38% 7
Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.67%) SAS
4 1 (1.33%) Apache
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.33%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.33%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.33%) Azure
2 12 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (9.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (6.67%) Smartsheet
5 3 (4.00%) AWS
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.67%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.33%) dbt
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) SaaS
7 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) 3G
1 1 (1.33%) 4G
1 1 (1.33%) 5G
1 1 (1.33%) Broadband
1 1 (1.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (18.67%) Data Lake
3 12 (16.00%) Power BI
4 8 (10.67%) Tableau
5 7 (9.33%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.67%) Big Data
7 4 (5.33%) MySQL
8 3 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (4.00%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.00%) HBase
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.33%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.33%) Impala
10 1 (1.33%) Metadata
10 1 (1.33%) Navicat
10 1 (1.33%) PowerCenter
10 1 (1.33%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.33%) ERwin
3 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (54.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (34.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Legal
4 7 (9.33%) Marketing
5 6 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.67%) Finance
6 5 (6.67%) Retail
7 4 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.00%) Health Technology
8 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.67%) Banking
9 2 (2.67%) French Language
9 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.33%) Automotive
10 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (14.67%) Data Engineer
1 11 (14.67%) Lead
2 7 (9.33%) Analyst
3 6 (8.00%) Data Analyst
3 6 (8.00%) Developer
3 6 (8.00%) Product Manager
4 5 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (6.67%) Consultant
4 5 (6.67%) HR Manager
4 5 (6.67%) Product Owner
4 5 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 5 (6.67%) Senior
4 5 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Architect
5 4 (5.33%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Category Manager
5 4 (5.33%) Data Governance Consultant
5 4 (5.33%) Data Scientist
5 4 (5.33%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (2.67%) JSON
2 2 (2.67%) REST
2 2 (2.67%) Swagger
2 2 (2.67%) YAML
3 1 (1.33%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.67%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.33%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.00%) FMCG
4 3 (4.00%) Life Science
4 3 (4.00%) NHS
5 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.67%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (73.33%) Decision-Making
2 26 (34.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (32.00%) Agile
5 23 (30.67%) Data Governance
6 21 (28.00%) Analytics
7 19 (25.33%) Data Modelling
8 17 (22.67%) Visualisation
9 15 (20.00%) ETL
10 14 (18.67%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (17.33%) Data Lineage
12 12 (16.00%) Data Integration
12 12 (16.00%) Use Case
13 11 (14.67%) Data Engineering
13 11 (14.67%) Roadmaps
14 10 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (13.33%) Data Science
15 9 (12.00%) Matrix Organization
15 9 (12.00%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.33%) SQL
2 12 (16.00%) Python
3 5 (6.67%) Java
4 4 (5.33%) Scala
5 3 (4.00%) R
6 2 (2.67%) C#
6 2 (2.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.67%) MBA
3 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.33%) CSPO
4 1 (1.33%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (30.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) PMO
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Informatica
2 7 (9.33%) Facebook
2 7 (9.33%) Instagram
2 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.00%) Databricks
4 5 (6.67%) Oracle
5 3 (4.00%) Brio
6 2 (2.67%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.33%) SAP
7 1 (1.33%) VMware