Decision-Making Contracts in Edinburgh

Decision-Making
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 42 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 -6
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 32 30 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.12% 3.68% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 4.17% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 87
10th Percentile £308 £178 £434
25th Percentile £413 £415 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £482 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -6.14% +2.60%
75th Percentile £542 £644 £562
90th Percentile £610 £675 £603
Scotland median daily rate £475 £438 £505
% change year-on-year +8.45% -13.27% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.87 -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.60 £22.26 £59.79
% change year-on-year -29.90% -62.78% +25.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Decision-Making falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 6 (18.75%) Snowflake
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.13%) Azure
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 4 (12.50%) Tableau
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) OLAP
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Banking
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.50%) Tech for Good
5 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Retail
5 3 (9.38%) Retail Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.13%) Front Office
7 1 (3.13%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Data Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Insight Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Performance Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Insight Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Support Officer
4 2 (6.25%) Tableau Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) User Researcher
5 1 (3.13%) CRM Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Designer
5 1 (3.13%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.13%) Software Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Unix
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (28.13%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) Data Analysis
3 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (21.88%) Data Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Analytics
5 6 (18.75%) Visualisation
6 5 (15.63%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (15.63%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (12.50%) Change Management
7 4 (12.50%) CRM
7 4 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (12.50%) Programme Management
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (9.38%) Data Migration
8 3 (9.38%) Migration
8 3 (9.38%) Predictive Modelling
8 3 (9.38%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (9.38%) Scrum
8 3 (9.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) Perl
3 1 (3.13%) R
3 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) PhD
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
1 1 (3.13%) KVM
1 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Grafana
1 1 (3.13%) HAProxy
1 1 (3.13%) Nagios
1 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) Commvault
2 1 (3.13%) NetApp
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
2 1 (3.13%) Red Hat