Decision-Making Contracts with Work from Home Options

Decision-Making
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 63 95 82
Rank change year-on-year +32 -13 +6
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 470 624 1,382
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.11% 2.48% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 2.77% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 433 975
10th Percentile £324 £350 £338
25th Percentile £421 £450 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £631
90th Percentile £712 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 22
10th Percentile £26.71 £16.98 £16.24
25th Percentile £27.81 £19.00 £25.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.16 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.94% -47.86% +43.87%
75th Percentile £44.41 £37.50 £48.71
90th Percentile £51.50 £57.50 £54.65
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Decision-Making
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Decision-Making trend for jobs with a WFH option

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Decision-Making.

Decision-Making daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Decision-Making daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Decision-Making.

Decision-Making hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Decision-Making hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.64%) CMS
2 3 (0.64%) Confluence
3 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.43%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.43%) SAS
4 1 (0.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.21%) Mule
Applications
1 32 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.64%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.43%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.43%) Revit
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.21%) Sketch
8 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.49%) Primavera
3 4 (0.85%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.85%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.64%) MIS ActiveH
4 3 (0.64%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.64%) Shopify
5 2 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.43%) JDE OneWorld
5 2 (0.43%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.21%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.21%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 54 (11.49%) Azure
2 41 (8.72%) Power Platform
3 38 (8.09%) AWS
4 15 (3.19%) GCP
5 13 (2.77%) SaaS
6 12 (2.55%) Google Analytics
7 7 (1.49%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.28%) Google Workspace
8 6 (1.28%) IaaS
8 6 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.28%) npm
8 6 (1.28%) PaaS
8 6 (1.28%) Serverless
9 5 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.06%) GitHub
9 5 (1.06%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.06%) Smartsheet
10 3 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.64%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.64%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.77%) Firewall
2 9 (1.91%) VPN
3 8 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.49%) HTTP
4 7 (1.49%) Network Security
5 6 (1.28%) DNS
6 5 (1.06%) 3G
6 5 (1.06%) 4G
6 5 (1.06%) 5G
6 5 (1.06%) DHCP
6 5 (1.06%) PPP
6 5 (1.06%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.85%) Junos
7 4 (0.85%) SDH
7 4 (0.85%) SNA
7 4 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.85%) VLAN
7 4 (0.85%) WAN
8 3 (0.64%) BGP
8 3 (0.64%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.30%) Power BI
2 23 (4.89%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (3.62%) Tableau
5 10 (2.13%) Looker
6 9 (1.91%) Big Data
6 9 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.70%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.70%) Data Mining
8 6 (1.28%) Metadata
9 4 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.85%) MySQL
9 4 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.64%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.64%) PostHog
10 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 22 (4.68%) JIRA
2 12 (2.55%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.34%) GitLab
4 8 (1.70%) Cucumber
4 8 (1.70%) REST Assured
4 8 (1.70%) Selenium
4 8 (1.70%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.85%) RStudio
6 3 (0.64%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.43%) Git
7 2 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.21%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.21%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.21%) Storybook
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.21%) VisualWorks
General
1 212 (45.11%) Social Skills
2 134 (28.51%) Finance
3 106 (22.55%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 48 (10.21%) Presentation Skills
6 40 (8.51%) Banking
7 37 (7.87%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (4.26%) Retail
9 19 (4.04%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.19%) Billing
11 13 (2.77%) Front Office
11 13 (2.77%) Legal
12 12 (2.55%) Marketing
13 9 (1.91%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.70%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.70%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.70%) Law
14 8 (1.70%) Military
14 8 (1.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 58 (12.34%) Project Manager
2 54 (11.49%) Architect
3 52 (11.06%) Analyst
4 51 (10.85%) Senior
5 37 (7.87%) Developer
6 36 (7.66%) Lead
7 30 (6.38%) Consultant
8 21 (4.47%) Business Analyst
9 19 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.40%) Senior Manager
11 14 (2.98%) Data Analyst
12 13 (2.77%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.55%) Commercial Manager
13 12 (2.55%) Contracts Manager
13 12 (2.55%) Java Developer
13 12 (2.55%) Software Engineer
14 11 (2.34%) Business Architect
14 11 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
15 10 (2.13%) Senior Project Manager
16 9 (1.91%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.19%) REST
2 10 (2.13%) AngularJS
3 9 (1.91%) .NET
4 8 (1.70%) ARM Templates
4 8 (1.70%) Java EE
5 6 (1.28%) RESTful
5 6 (1.28%) Spring
6 4 (0.85%) CSS
6 4 (0.85%) GraphQL
6 4 (0.85%) LDAP
6 4 (0.85%) React
7 3 (0.64%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.64%) HTML
7 3 (0.64%) Node.js
7 3 (0.64%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.43%) jQuery
8 2 (0.43%) Murex MxML
8 2 (0.43%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.43%) Spring MVC
8 2 (0.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 20 (4.26%) Product Ownership
3 14 (2.98%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.91%) NHS
6 8 (1.70%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (1.70%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.70%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.28%) FMCG
8 6 (1.28%) Replication
9 5 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.85%) Blog
10 4 (0.85%) Derivative
10 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.26%) Windows
2 15 (3.19%) Linux
3 6 (1.28%) Unix
4 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.43%) Android
5 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.43%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.43%) zOS
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
2 136 (28.94%) Agile
3 93 (19.79%) Project Management
4 74 (15.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (13.19%) Analytics
6 57 (12.13%) Data Analysis
6 57 (12.13%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 54 (11.49%) Roadmaps
8 52 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (10.21%) Business Intelligence
9 48 (10.21%) Migration
9 48 (10.21%) PRINCE2
10 47 (10.00%) Data Governance
10 47 (10.00%) Visualisation
11 45 (9.57%) Project Delivery
11 45 (9.57%) Risk Management
12 40 (8.51%) Actionable Insight
13 38 (8.09%) Change Management
14 37 (7.87%) Data Modelling
15 36 (7.66%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 60 (12.77%) SQL
2 40 (8.51%) Python
3 30 (6.38%) Java
4 10 (2.13%) C#
5 7 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (1.49%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.49%) R
6 6 (1.28%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.28%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.06%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.64%) VBA
9 2 (0.43%) Bash
9 2 (0.43%) Go
9 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.43%) Perl
9 2 (0.43%) PHP
9 2 (0.43%) Ruby
9 2 (0.43%) Scala
9 2 (0.43%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 102 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 99 (21.06%) Degree
3 82 (17.45%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.11%) Master's Degree
4 24 (5.11%) PMP
5 22 (4.68%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.04%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.55%) CISSP
7 12 (2.55%) PhD
8 11 (2.34%) CISM
8 11 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 8 (1.70%) APMP
12 6 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.06%) CCNP
14 4 (0.85%) CCNA
14 4 (0.85%) HND
14 4 (0.85%) JNCIA
14 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.45%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.04%) PMO
3 18 (3.83%) SLA
4 17 (3.62%) QA
5 12 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.28%) GDPR
7 6 (1.28%) NIST
8 5 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.85%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.85%) MiFID
10 3 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.43%) NCSC
11 2 (0.43%) P3O
12 1 (0.21%) IFRS
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (3.19%) Docker
2 10 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.85%) vSphere
5 2 (0.43%) HDFS
5 2 (0.43%) NFS
6 1 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 17 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.98%) Terraform
3 10 (2.13%) Ansible
4 8 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
4 8 (1.70%) Podman
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.43%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.43%) VxRail
6 1 (0.21%) Matomo
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) Nessus
6 1 (0.21%) SCOM
Vendors
1 58 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.32%) SAP
3 19 (4.04%) Google
4 13 (2.77%) Oracle
5 12 (2.55%) Informatica
5 12 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.34%) Cisco
7 9 (1.91%) VMware
8 8 (1.70%) Dell
9 6 (1.28%) Facebook
9 6 (1.28%) Instagram
9 6 (1.28%) Juniper
9 6 (1.28%) Nokia
10 5 (1.06%) IBM
10 5 (1.06%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.85%) Brio
11 4 (0.85%) Ciena
11 4 (0.85%) Databricks
11 4 (0.85%) Splunk