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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 40 44
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 20 37 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.05% 4.42% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 5.19% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 49
10th Percentile £330 £136 £410
25th Percentile £405 £334 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £444 £515
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -13.79% +5.10%
75th Percentile £564 £553 £575
90th Percentile £590 £646 £620
Scotland median daily rate £467 £438 £515
% change year-on-year +6.62% -14.95% +5.10%

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 620 713 1,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.51% 85.19% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 396 704
10th Percentile £265 £208 £213
25th Percentile £413 £355 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £537 £540 £538
90th Percentile £589 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £467 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 4
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £21.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.00 £34.23
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -63.16% +111.58%
75th Percentile £41.44 £23.89 £55.94
90th Percentile £62.38 £36.62 £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
% change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -31.75%

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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 3 August 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 2 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) MQTT
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Insight Analyst
2 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Senior
2 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Business Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (5.00%) IT Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (5.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Resource Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.00%) Node.js
1 1 (5.00%) PySpark
1 1 (5.00%) React
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Analytics
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Coaching
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (10.00%) Emotional Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Predictive Modelling
6 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.00%) Storage Management
6 2 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Perl
3 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) KVM
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) HAProxy
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.00%) Fluentd
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) logstash
3 1 (5.00%) Nagios
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Commvault
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) NetApp
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto