Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 633 632
Rank change year-on-year +206 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 171 86 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 68 169
10th Percentile £401 £406 £369
25th Percentile £425 £491 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £636 £691 £638
90th Percentile £775 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +12.43% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile - - £29.68
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £34.44
Median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +7.34% +132.89%
75th Percentile £61.50 £48.75 £55.44
90th Percentile £69.91 - £61.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +201 153 £525 -8.70% 232
London +134 83 £525 -16.00% 113
Work from Home +166 76 £475 -17.39% 102
UK excluding London +106 72 £520 +12.43% 130
North of England +57 28 £520 +22.35% 39
South East +36 24 £450 - 29
North West +32 18 £518 +42.76% 26
Midlands +20 9 £450 -28.00% 25
West Midlands +30 8 £450 -28.00% 13
Yorkshire +25 7 £525 +10.53% 12
Scotland +37 5 £626 - 6
East of England +18 3 £550 +10.00% 13
North East - 3 £533 - 2
Wales - 2 £465 - 8
South West +22 1 £600 +142.42% 14
East Midlands +15 1 £225 -65.38% 12

Data-Driven Decision Making
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.51%) Confluence
2 5 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.34%) govService
4 3 (1.75%) CMS
5 2 (1.17%) Apache
5 2 (1.17%) SAS
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.17%) SPSS
4 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 2 (1.17%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.17%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.17%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.58%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.58%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.58%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 37 (21.64%) Azure
3 12 (7.02%) AWS
4 10 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.85%) GCP
5 8 (4.68%) SaaS
6 6 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.92%) Smartsheet
8 4 (2.34%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (2.34%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.75%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.75%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.17%) dbt
10 2 (1.17%) GitHub
10 2 (1.17%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.17%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.58%) 3G
2 1 (0.58%) 4G
2 1 (0.58%) 5G
2 1 (0.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (22.22%) Power BI
2 25 (14.62%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (14.62%) Tableau
3 11 (6.43%) Big Data
3 11 (6.43%) Data Lake
4 9 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.68%) QlikView
6 6 (3.51%) Looker
6 6 (3.51%) Metadata
6 6 (3.51%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (2.34%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.34%) MySQL
7 4 (2.34%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.75%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.75%) HBase
8 3 (1.75%) PostHog
9 2 (1.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (5.26%) JIRA
2 6 (3.51%) Git
3 3 (1.75%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.17%) JUnit
4 2 (1.17%) Selenium
5 1 (0.58%) ERwin
5 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.58%) RStudio
General
1 100 (58.48%) Social Skills
2 66 (38.60%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (18.13%) Finance
4 18 (10.53%) Retail
5 15 (8.77%) Marketing
6 13 (7.60%) Legal
7 12 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (6.43%) Telecoms
9 10 (5.85%) Public Sector
10 8 (4.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (3.51%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.34%) Automotive
12 4 (2.34%) Banking
13 3 (1.75%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.17%) Publishing
15 1 (0.58%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 26 (15.20%) Analyst
2 20 (11.70%) Architect
2 20 (11.70%) Data Analyst
3 19 (11.11%) Developer
3 19 (11.11%) Lead
4 15 (8.77%) Data Engineer
5 13 (7.60%) Consultant
6 12 (7.02%) Senior
7 11 (6.43%) Product Manager
8 8 (4.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (4.09%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.09%) Data Consultant
9 7 (4.09%) Data Governance Consultant
9 7 (4.09%) Governance Consultant
9 7 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.51%) Data Scientist
10 6 (3.51%) Informatica Architect
10 6 (3.51%) Product Owner
10 6 (3.51%) Qlik Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Qlik Sense Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.34%) JSON
1 4 (2.34%) Kafka
2 2 (1.17%) REST
2 2 (1.17%) Swagger
2 2 (1.17%) YAML
3 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.58%) CSS
3 1 (0.58%) CSS3
3 1 (0.58%) HTML
3 1 (0.58%) HTML5
3 1 (0.58%) ODBC
3 1 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.43%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.34%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.75%) FMCG
5 3 (1.75%) Life Science
5 3 (1.75%) NHS
6 2 (1.17%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.17%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.17%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (69.59%) Decision-Making
2 81 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (38.01%) Analytics
4 53 (30.99%) Business Intelligence
5 47 (27.49%) Data Modelling
6 44 (25.73%) Agile
7 38 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (21.05%) Data Governance
9 34 (19.88%) Visualisation
10 32 (18.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (18.13%) ETL
12 29 (16.96%) Data Analysis
12 29 (16.96%) Mentoring
13 25 (14.62%) Data Analytics
13 25 (14.62%) Project Management
14 23 (13.45%) Actionable Insight
14 23 (13.45%) Data Integration
15 22 (12.87%) Data Visualisation
15 22 (12.87%) Roadmaps
16 21 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.39%) SQL
2 29 (16.96%) Python
3 10 (5.85%) Scala
4 6 (3.51%) Java
4 6 (3.51%) R
5 4 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.75%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.17%) C#
7 2 (1.17%) Perl
8 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (16.96%) Degree
2 8 (4.68%) SC Cleared
2 8 (4.68%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.92%) SAP Certification
6 3 (1.75%) CSPO
6 3 (1.75%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.17%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.17%) MBA
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.92%) GDPR
4 3 (1.75%) QA
5 2 (1.17%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.17%) PSD2
6 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.58%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (14.04%) Informatica
2 17 (9.94%) Databricks
3 16 (9.36%) Microsoft
4 12 (7.02%) SAP
5 8 (4.68%) Facebook
5 8 (4.68%) Instagram
5 8 (4.68%) Oracle
6 5 (2.92%) Google
6 5 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.34%) Adobe
8 3 (1.75%) Brio
9 2 (1.17%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.17%) Citrix
9 2 (1.17%) Marketo
9 2 (1.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Okta
10 1 (0.58%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.58%) Snowplow
10 1 (0.58%) Varonis