Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in England

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven 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 273 387 574
Rank change year-on-year +114 +187 +16
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 222 156 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.91% 0.42% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.48% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 109 63
10th Percentile £305 £413 £406
25th Percentile £403 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £688
90th Percentile £685 £779 £868
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 1
10th Percentile £18.74 - -
25th Percentile £29.03 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% +7.34%
75th Percentile £55.25 £61.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.91 -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% +7.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data-Driven 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +82 130 £550 +4.76% 570
North of England +24 33 £455 -12.50% 87
North West +23 24 £455 -12.08% 58
South East +44 22 £294 -34.72% 154
Midlands +30 17 £400 -11.11% 45
West Midlands +21 15 £400 -11.11% 31
South West +56 11 £513 -14.58% 45
Yorkshire +9 8 £475 -9.52% 23
East of England +31 4 £475 -13.64% 34
East Midlands +11 2 £396 +76.00% 8
North East -2 1 £525 -1.41% 6
Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.05%) Apache
3 8 (3.60%) IBM Domino
4 5 (2.25%) Confluence
5 4 (1.80%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.90%) Appian
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.90%) SAS
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 18 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.90%) Trello
4 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.45%) Maximo
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.82%) Power Platform
2 37 (16.67%) Azure
3 29 (13.06%) AWS
4 12 (5.41%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.50%) GCP
6 8 (3.60%) SaaS
6 8 (3.60%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 7 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.25%) dbt
9 5 (2.25%) Serverless
10 4 (1.80%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.80%) Collibra
11 3 (1.35%) Alation
11 3 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.90%) AWS CodeCommit
12 2 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.90%) OCI
12 2 (0.90%) Social Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.45%) 5G
1 1 (0.45%) Internet
1 1 (0.45%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (0.45%) Modbus
1 1 (0.45%) MQTT
1 1 (0.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (19.82%) Power BI
2 30 (13.51%) Tableau
3 20 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.95%) Metadata
5 8 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.15%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.25%) Big Data
7 5 (2.25%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.25%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.25%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.80%) Looker
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.35%) MySQL
10 2 (0.90%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.90%) Power Query
10 2 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (4.95%) JIRA
2 4 (1.80%) Appium
2 4 (1.80%) ERwin
2 4 (1.80%) JUnit
2 4 (1.80%) Selenium
3 3 (1.35%) Git
3 3 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.45%) Gatling
4 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) JMeter
4 1 (0.45%) Maven
4 1 (0.45%) TestDirector
General
1 113 (50.90%) Social Skills
2 93 (41.89%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (28.83%) Finance
4 43 (19.37%) Marketing
5 22 (9.91%) Public Sector
6 18 (8.11%) Legal
6 18 (8.11%) Retail
7 16 (7.21%) Banking
8 13 (5.86%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (4.05%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.70%) Retail Banking
11 5 (2.25%) Local Government
11 5 (2.25%) Police
11 5 (2.25%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.80%) Advertising
12 4 (1.80%) Front Office
12 4 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (13.51%) Analyst
2 27 (12.16%) Data Engineer
3 21 (9.46%) Senior
4 20 (9.01%) Lead
5 17 (7.66%) Product Manager
6 16 (7.21%) Developer
7 15 (6.76%) Architect
7 15 (6.76%) Data Analyst
8 13 (5.86%) Business Analyst
8 13 (5.86%) Data Architect
9 10 (4.50%) Consultant
10 9 (4.05%) Coordinator
10 9 (4.05%) Data Scientist
10 9 (4.05%) Python Data Engineer
10 9 (4.05%) Python Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) CRM Coordinator
11 8 (3.60%) Customer Executive
11 8 (3.60%) Senior Manager
11 8 (3.60%) Technical Coordinator
12 7 (3.15%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.50%) Kafka
2 9 (4.05%) PySpark
3 7 (3.15%) Apache NiFi
4 5 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (2.25%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.80%) CSS
5 4 (1.80%) HTML
6 3 (1.35%) Pandas
6 3 (1.35%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.35%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.90%) Jinja
7 2 (0.90%) RESTful
7 2 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.45%) EDI
8 1 (0.45%) Flash
8 1 (0.45%) NumPy
8 1 (0.45%) OpenCV
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.45%) React
8 1 (0.45%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.95%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.80%) IoT
5 4 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.80%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.80%) Replication
5 4 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.35%) Equities
7 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.90%) Derivative
7 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Android
2 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (82.43%) Decision-Making
2 94 (42.34%) Analytics
3 69 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (24.77%) Data Modelling
5 52 (23.42%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (19.37%) Data Analysis
8 42 (18.92%) Data Governance
8 42 (18.92%) Visualisation
9 38 (17.12%) Actionable Insight
10 35 (15.77%) Agile
11 31 (13.96%) Roadmaps
12 30 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
13 28 (12.61%) Data Visualisation
14 27 (12.16%) Data Science
14 27 (12.16%) ETL
15 26 (11.71%) Data Management
15 26 (11.71%) Project Management
16 24 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (10.81%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.13%) SQL
2 52 (23.42%) Python
3 15 (6.76%) R
4 5 (2.25%) Bash
4 5 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.90%) C++
5 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.45%) ABAP
6 1 (0.45%) Go
6 1 (0.45%) Groovy
6 1 (0.45%) Java
6 1 (0.45%) Perl
6 1 (0.45%) PHP
6 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.45%) Ruby
6 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (12.16%) Degree
2 25 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.25%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.45%) CSPO
8 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) ISEB
8 1 (0.45%) MBA
8 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.45%) PMP
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.86%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 16 (7.21%) GDPR
4 10 (4.50%) QA
5 5 (2.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.45%) NCSC
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.25%) Ansible
2 5 (2.25%) Terraform
3 4 (1.80%) Kibana
3 4 (1.80%) logstash
4 3 (1.35%) Grafana
5 2 (0.90%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.90%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.66%) Salesforce
2 16 (7.21%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.86%) Databricks
4 11 (4.95%) Oracle
5 9 (4.05%) Google
6 6 (2.70%) SAP
7 5 (2.25%) Adobe
7 5 (2.25%) Informatica
8 4 (1.80%) Foundry
8 4 (1.80%) Palantir
9 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.90%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.90%) Brio
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco
10 2 (0.90%) Dell
10 2 (0.90%) Marketo
10 2 (0.90%) Nokia
10 2 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Splunk
10 2 (0.90%) Veritas