Decision-Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

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 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 48 79 66
Rank change year-on-year +31 -13 +12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 750 697 1,119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.65% 2.97% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 3.31% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 456 738
10th Percentile £267 £273 £315
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £666
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 53 101
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.27 £20.47 £25.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £52.30 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.29% +16.21% +60.06%
75th Percentile £28.88 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.60 £56.70
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -59.21% +5.56% +41.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £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 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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

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

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

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

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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

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 Decision-Making within the UK excluding London 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 of England +48 187 £500 - 256
South East +20 187 £550 +10.00% 269
North West +43 140 £463 -7.50% 150
South West +30 125 £550 - 134
Midlands +40 118 £425 -15.00% 193
West Midlands +27 79 £450 -14.29% 119
Scotland -16 73 £435 -13.52% 44
East of England +13 52 £525 +13.51% 110
Yorkshire +14 40 £550 +5.26% 78
East Midlands +34 38 £270 -43.16% 74
Wales +10 10 £460 +17.95% 33
North East +17 8 £533 -29.00% 33
Northern Ireland +4 4 £640 +293.85% 17
Decision-Making
UK

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 15 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.07%) Confluence
4 6 (0.80%) SAS
5 4 (0.53%) WordPress
6 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 91 (12.13%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) SPSS
8 2 (0.27%) Trello
9 1 (0.13%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.13%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.13%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.60%) Primavera
2 5 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.27%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 69 (9.20%) Azure
2 68 (9.07%) AWS
3 43 (5.73%) Power Platform
4 30 (4.00%) Snowflake
5 22 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (2.93%) SaaS
6 20 (2.67%) Taleo
7 13 (1.73%) PaaS
8 10 (1.33%) Serverless
9 6 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (0.80%) npm
10 5 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.67%) GCP
10 5 (0.67%) IaaS
10 5 (0.67%) Smartsheet
11 4 (0.53%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.47%) WAN
2 24 (3.20%) Firewall
2 24 (3.20%) LAN
3 16 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (2.00%) Network Security
5 13 (1.73%) VoIP
6 12 (1.60%) SAN
7 10 (1.33%) VPN
8 9 (1.20%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (1.07%) DHCP
9 8 (1.07%) DNS
9 8 (1.07%) MPLS
10 7 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (0.93%) PBX
11 6 (0.80%) 3G
11 6 (0.80%) 4G
11 6 (0.80%) Internet
11 6 (0.80%) SDH
11 6 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.73%) Tableau
2 41 (5.47%) Power BI
3 18 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.47%) Big Data
5 11 (1.47%) Data Mining
6 9 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (0.53%) GIS
9 3 (0.40%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.40%) Power Query
9 3 (0.40%) QGIS
9 3 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 34 (4.53%) JIRA
2 29 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 25 (3.33%) Cucumber
3 25 (3.33%) Selenium
3 25 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 24 (3.20%) REST Assured
5 16 (2.13%) GitLab
6 15 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.40%) Git
8 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) ERwin
9 1 (0.13%) Maven
9 1 (0.13%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 347 (46.27%) Social Skills
2 175 (23.33%) Finance
3 170 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.13%) Presentation Skills
6 50 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 46 (6.13%) Legal
8 42 (5.60%) Telecoms
9 33 (4.40%) Banking
10 32 (4.27%) Marketing
11 28 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (3.60%) Law
13 25 (3.33%) Manufacturing
13 25 (3.33%) Retail
14 23 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 21 (2.80%) Police
16 17 (2.27%) Aerospace
17 14 (1.87%) Billing
17 14 (1.87%) Local Government
18 13 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 131 (17.47%) Analyst
2 87 (11.60%) Lead
3 69 (9.20%) Architect
3 69 (9.20%) Project Manager
4 62 (8.27%) Senior
5 32 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
6 30 (4.00%) Consultant
7 27 (3.60%) Business Analyst
7 27 (3.60%) Developer
8 25 (3.33%) Data Analyst
9 24 (3.20%) IT Manager
10 23 (3.07%) Java Engineer
11 19 (2.53%) Support Engineer
12 18 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
14 14 (1.87%) Software Engineer
15 13 (1.73%) Commercial Manager
15 13 (1.73%) Contracts Manager
15 13 (1.73%) Service Analyst
15 13 (1.73%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.33%) REST
2 25 (3.33%) Java EE
3 15 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 12 (1.60%) ARM Templates
5 11 (1.47%) Spring
6 10 (1.33%) HTML
7 9 (1.20%) CSS
7 9 (1.20%) JPA
7 9 (1.20%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.80%) .NET
8 6 (0.80%) Middleware
8 6 (0.80%) RESTful
9 3 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.40%) React
10 2 (0.27%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.27%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.27%) JSON
10 2 (0.27%) React Native
10 2 (0.27%) Swagger
10 2 (0.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.33%) Management Information System
2 30 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.20%) Credit Risk
4 22 (2.93%) Public Cloud
4 22 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.13%) Clustering
7 12 (1.60%) Driving Licence
7 12 (1.60%) Life Science
7 12 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.47%) NHS
9 8 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.07%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (0.93%) Blackberry
10 7 (0.93%) Mobile App
10 7 (0.93%) PMI
10 7 (0.93%) SCADA
10 7 (0.93%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (9.47%) Windows
2 34 (4.53%) Windows 10
3 15 (2.00%) Unix
3 15 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.20%) Linux
7 8 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.40%) Android
11 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (35.47%) Problem-Solving
2 146 (19.47%) Agile
3 134 (17.87%) Project Management
4 117 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 104 (13.87%) Time Management
6 91 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (11.47%) Analytics
8 67 (8.93%) Roadmaps
9 59 (7.87%) Change Management
9 59 (7.87%) Data Analysis
10 55 (7.33%) Data Protection
10 55 (7.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 54 (7.20%) Risk Management
12 53 (7.07%) Software Engineering
13 52 (6.93%) Actionable Insight
13 52 (6.93%) DevOps
13 52 (6.93%) Migration
14 50 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
15 49 (6.53%) PRINCE2
16 45 (6.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 62 (8.27%) SQL
2 40 (5.33%) Java
3 31 (4.13%) Python
4 22 (2.93%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.00%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.07%) Swift
7 6 (0.80%) C#
7 6 (0.80%) R
8 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.40%) Perl
10 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.27%) VBA
11 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 180 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 147 (19.60%) Degree
3 124 (16.53%) SC Cleared
4 59 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.47%) HND
6 21 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.80%) CISM
7 18 (2.40%) CISSP
7 18 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.40%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.40%) PMP
8 16 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (2.00%) HNC
10 14 (1.87%) CCNP
11 13 (1.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (1.20%) CISA
13 9 (1.20%) DBS Check
14 8 (1.07%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.67%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 31 (4.13%) PMO
4 29 (3.87%) SLA
5 27 (3.60%) QA
6 12 (1.60%) GDPR
6 12 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.07%) NIST
9 5 (0.67%) GMP
10 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.27%) GxP
12 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.13%) Docker
4 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (1.07%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.53%) vSphere
7 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 30 (4.00%) Ansible
2 23 (3.07%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.40%) SCCM
3 18 (2.40%) Terraform
4 12 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (1.60%) Podman
5 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.33%) NetBackup
7 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (1.07%) Nagios
8 7 (0.93%) Nessus
9 6 (0.80%) Autotask
9 6 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.53%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.53%) VxRail
11 3 (0.40%) MOM
12 2 (0.27%) Grafana
12 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 155 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.07%) Cisco
2 38 (5.07%) VMware
3 28 (3.73%) Alteryx
4 26 (3.47%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.33%) Juniper
6 19 (2.53%) SAP
7 17 (2.27%) Nokia
8 16 (2.13%) IBM
9 15 (2.00%) Informatica
10 13 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.60%) Oracle
11 12 (1.60%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.33%) Ericsson
12 10 (1.33%) Google
13 9 (1.20%) Databricks
13 9 (1.20%) Dell
14 8 (1.07%) Adobe
14 8 (1.07%) Instagram
14 8 (1.07%) Okta