Decision-Making Contracts

Decision-Making
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 59 89 78
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 +20
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,455 1,589 2,807
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.36% 2.66% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 2.95% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 934 994 1,793
10th Percentile £275 £340 £338
25th Percentile £409 £440 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £636 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 74 138
10th Percentile £10.95 £17.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £22.16 £24.44
Median hourly rate £19.38 £47.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.21% +11.76% +29.89%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.75 £55.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £53.43 £42.50
% change year-on-year -69.94% +25.71% +44.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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 +39 1,293 £525 -4.55% 1,478
UK excluding London +29 761 £500 - 915
London +33 582 £525 -10.75% 620
Work from Home +34 473 £525 - 599
North of England +43 192 £488 -2.50% 231
South East +28 186 £550 +10.00% 247
North West +36 143 £463 -7.50% 130
South West +30 126 £550 +4.76% 121
Midlands +44 123 £425 -15.00% 138
West Midlands +37 82 £450 -14.29% 89
Scotland -22 75 £438 -13.27% 53
East of England +22 50 £526 +10.68% 100
Yorkshire +3 41 £550 +4.76% 69
East Midlands +34 39 £270 -43.16% 49
Wales +6 11 £525 +34.62% 31
North East +20 9 £529 -29.50% 37
Northern Ireland +5 4 £640 +293.85% 22

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 36 (2.47%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.44%) Confluence
3 19 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.69%) Apache
5 7 (0.48%) SAS
6 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.41%) CMS
7 5 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.34%) govService
8 4 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.27%) WordPress
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.21%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.14%) Camunda
11 1 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.069%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.069%) Luigi
Applications
1 131 (9.00%) Microsoft Office
2 106 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.41%) SPSS
8 4 (0.27%) Trello
9 3 (0.21%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.14%) Revit
11 1 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.069%) Blender
11 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.069%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.069%) Houdini
11 1 (0.069%) Maya
11 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.96%) Primavera
3 8 (0.55%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.41%) Shopify
5 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.21%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.14%) JDE OneWorld
7 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 165 (11.34%) Azure
2 131 (9.00%) AWS
3 116 (7.97%) Power Platform
4 51 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (3.09%) SaaS
6 39 (2.68%) GCP
7 35 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.20%) Snowflake
9 23 (1.58%) PaaS
10 20 (1.37%) Taleo
11 19 (1.31%) Serverless
12 18 (1.24%) Google Analytics
13 15 (1.03%) GitHub
14 13 (0.89%) Google Workspace
14 13 (0.89%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (0.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.02%) Firewall
2 31 (2.13%) WAN
3 27 (1.86%) LAN
4 26 (1.79%) Network Security
5 21 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (1.31%) VPN
7 16 (1.10%) DNS
8 15 (1.03%) DHCP
8 15 (1.03%) VoIP
9 14 (0.96%) SAN
10 12 (0.82%) VLAN
11 11 (0.76%) MPLS
11 11 (0.76%) Radio Access Network
12 10 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
12 10 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
13 9 (0.62%) HTTP
14 8 (0.55%) TCP/IP
14 8 (0.55%) Wireless
15 7 (0.48%) PBX
15 7 (0.48%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (7.49%) Power BI
2 79 (5.43%) Tableau
3 55 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 47 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (1.99%) Big Data
6 22 (1.51%) Data Mining
7 20 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.24%) Looker
9 16 (1.10%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.96%) Metadata
11 13 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 11 (0.76%) Power Query
13 10 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (0.69%) GIS
13 10 (0.69%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.55%) Hadoop
14 8 (0.55%) MySQL
14 8 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (4.19%) JIRA
2 33 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 25 (1.72%) Selenium
3 25 (1.72%) SonarQube
4 24 (1.65%) REST Assured
5 23 (1.58%) GitLab
6 16 (1.10%) Git
7 15 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.41%) RStudio
10 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.34%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.27%) Maven
12 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.069%) ERwin
13 1 (0.069%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.069%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.069%) VisualWorks
General
1 631 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 373 (25.64%) Finance
3 367 (25.22%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 137 (9.42%) Presentation Skills
6 99 (6.80%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (5.09%) Banking
8 64 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
9 60 (4.12%) Telecoms
10 59 (4.05%) Legal
11 55 (3.78%) Marketing
12 48 (3.30%) Retail
13 32 (2.20%) Local Government
14 31 (2.13%) Manufacturing
15 29 (1.99%) Law
16 26 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.65%) Police
19 22 (1.51%) Military
20 21 (1.44%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 230 (15.81%) Analyst
2 150 (10.31%) Project Manager
3 135 (9.28%) Architect
4 130 (8.93%) Lead
5 127 (8.73%) Senior
6 73 (5.02%) Consultant
7 71 (4.88%) Developer
8 67 (4.60%) Data Analyst
9 60 (4.12%) Business Analyst
10 47 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
11 40 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
12 36 (2.47%) Data Engineer
13 35 (2.41%) IT Manager
14 34 (2.34%) Senior Manager
15 28 (1.92%) Support Engineer
16 26 (1.79%) Senior Analyst
17 25 (1.72%) Data Scientist
18 24 (1.65%) Java Engineer
19 21 (1.44%) Programme Manager
20 20 (1.37%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.64%) REST
2 25 (1.72%) Java EE
3 24 (1.65%) .NET
4 23 (1.58%) AngularJS
5 22 (1.51%) HTML
6 20 (1.37%) CSS
7 16 (1.10%) Spring
8 15 (1.03%) React
9 14 (0.96%) .NET Core
9 14 (0.96%) Node.js
9 14 (0.96%) Pandas
10 13 (0.89%) RESTful
11 12 (0.82%) ARM Templates
12 11 (0.76%) Kafka
12 11 (0.76%) scikit-learn
12 11 (0.76%) Spring Boot
13 10 (0.69%) YAML
14 9 (0.62%) JPA
14 9 (0.62%) NumPy
15 8 (0.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 93 (6.39%) Management Information System
2 55 (3.78%) Product Ownership
3 41 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 35 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 26 (1.79%) Credit Risk
5 26 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 25 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.58%) Clustering
8 21 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.17%) Virtual Team
10 16 (1.10%) Life Science
11 14 (0.96%) Driving Licence
11 14 (0.96%) NHS
12 11 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.69%) Client/Server
13 10 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.69%) Mobile App
13 10 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.94%) Windows
2 38 (2.61%) Windows 10
3 34 (2.34%) Linux
4 27 (1.86%) Unix
5 19 (1.31%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.27%) Android
9 4 (0.27%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.14%) zOS
11 1 (0.069%) CentOS
11 1 (0.069%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (34.30%) Problem-Solving
2 363 (24.95%) Agile
3 285 (19.59%) Project Management
4 199 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 198 (13.61%) Analytics
6 177 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 153 (10.52%) Data Analysis
8 151 (10.38%) Time Management
9 149 (10.24%) Roadmaps
10 132 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
11 126 (8.66%) DevOps
12 121 (8.32%) Change Management
12 121 (8.32%) Visualisation
13 119 (8.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 118 (8.11%) Project Delivery
15 113 (7.77%) Actionable Insight
16 112 (7.70%) Risk Management
17 108 (7.42%) PRINCE2
18 105 (7.22%) Migration
19 101 (6.94%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 174 (11.96%) SQL
2 108 (7.42%) Python
3 75 (5.15%) Java
4 31 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 30 (2.06%) C#
6 23 (1.58%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.37%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.10%) R
9 13 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.55%) Bicep
10 8 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.55%) Swift
11 6 (0.41%) Go
11 6 (0.41%) Perl
11 6 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.34%) PHP
12 5 (0.34%) Ruby
12 5 (0.34%) VBA
13 4 (0.27%) Bash
13 4 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 309 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 268 (18.42%) Degree
3 234 (16.08%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.36%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.85%) PMP
6 51 (3.51%) PMI Certification
7 45 (3.09%) Master's Degree
8 35 (2.41%) CISM
9 31 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.99%) CISSP
11 26 (1.79%) HND
12 25 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 24 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.03%) HNC
15 14 (0.96%) CCNP
15 14 (0.96%) PhD
16 12 (0.82%) CISA
17 11 (0.76%) DBS Check
17 11 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 54 (3.71%) PMO
2 54 (3.71%) QA
3 39 (2.68%) SLA
4 33 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
5 28 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 24 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.51%) GDPR
8 16 (1.10%) NIST
9 13 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.48%) GRC
12 6 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.34%) COBIT
13 5 (0.34%) GMP
14 4 (0.27%) GxP
14 4 (0.27%) ISO 31000
14 4 (0.27%) MiFID
14 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (2.34%) Docker
4 12 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.55%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.27%) vSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) HDFS
8 2 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.14%) NFS
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.069%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 45 (3.09%) Terraform
2 43 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.34%) Ansible
4 21 (1.44%) SCCM
5 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (0.82%) Podman
7 10 (0.69%) NetBackup
8 8 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.55%) Nagios
8 8 (0.55%) Nessus
8 8 (0.55%) VxRail
9 6 (0.41%) Autotask
10 4 (0.27%) Grafana
10 4 (0.27%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.21%) MOM
12 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 244 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.19%) SAP
3 51 (3.51%) Google
4 48 (3.30%) VMware
5 47 (3.23%) Cisco
6 39 (2.68%) Oracle
7 31 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 29 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 28 (1.92%) Alteryx
9 28 (1.92%) Juniper
10 21 (1.44%) Informatica
11 20 (1.37%) Nokia
12 19 (1.31%) Databricks
13 17 (1.17%) IBM
14 16 (1.10%) Adobe
14 16 (1.10%) Dell
15 13 (0.89%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.82%) Citrix
17 11 (0.76%) Ericsson
18 9 (0.62%) Avaya