Critical Success Factor Contracts

Critical Success Factors
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Critical Success Factor skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Critical Success Factor over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 670 771
Rank change year-on-year +97 +101 -163
Contract jobs citing Critical Success Factor 13 37 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.065% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.073% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 28
10th Percentile £321 £413 £358
25th Percentile £498 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% +7.32% +20.59%
75th Percentile £684 £619 £632
90th Percentile £926 £725 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £525 £487
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.80% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Critical Success Factor 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,645 50,890 79,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,625 35,239 56,102
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,674 1,897
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +41.73% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Critical Success Factor
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Critical Success Factor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Success Factor in the UK

Critical Success Factor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Critical Success Factor.

Daily rate trend for Critical Success Factor in the UK

Critical Success Factor
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Success Factor over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Success Factor in the UK

Critical Success Factor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Critical Success Factor.

Hourly rate trend for Critical Success Factor in the UK

Critical Success Factor
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Success Factor within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +79 12 £625 +13.64% 14
UK excluding London +29 7 £625 +19.05% 12
Work from Home +110 5 £565 +5.61% 2
London +90 5 £610 -12.86% 4
South East - 4 £625 - 4
Midlands +20 2 £500 +11.11% 1
North of England +34 1 £900 +67.44% 4
Yorkshire +16 1 £900 +89.47%
East Midlands +15 1 £350 -42.86% 1
West Midlands +15 1 £650 +44.44%

Critical Success Factor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (7.69%) NetSuite
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Programme Director
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Change Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Support Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ERP
1 4 (30.77%) Migration
1 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Business Continuity
3 2 (15.38%) Business Development
3 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
3 2 (15.38%) Business Transformation
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
3 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (15.38%) Information Governance
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
3 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Anaplan
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow