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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 386 547
Rank change year-on-year +94 +161 +35
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 208 160 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.83% 0.42% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.50% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 117 69
10th Percentile £325 £401 £393
25th Percentile £406 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £656 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.10% -3.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 1
10th Percentile £19.61 £33.50 -
25th Percentile £30.58 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £34.44 £42.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.96% -10.53% -22.76%
75th Percentile £59.56 £61.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.08 £69.91 -
UK median hourly rate £34.44 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.96% -10.53% -22.76%

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 22,796 32,164 42,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.36% 85.21% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,738 20,790 29,638
10th Percentile £300 £302 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,088 2,402 1,537
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.75 £38.06 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.72% +7.97% +37.27%
75th Percentile £55.25 £61.48 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +84 116 £550 +2.33% 1,867
North of England +11 27 £465 -12.68% 508
Midlands +23 21 £410 -8.89% 332
South East +42 20 £400 -11.11% 458
North West +8 19 £455 -13.33% 282
West Midlands +18 16 £466 +3.50% 205
South West +45 13 £513 -10.87% 212
Yorkshire +6 7 £463 -15.91% 187
East of England +30 6 £475 -9.52% 231
East Midlands +9 5 £390 +73.33% 125
North East 0 1 £525 -1.41% 39
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 11 (5.29%) IBM Domino
2 10 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.85%) Apache
4 7 (3.37%) Confluence
5 4 (1.92%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.96%) SAS
7 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (10.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Shopify
2 2 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.48%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 46 (22.12%) Power Platform
2 29 (13.94%) Azure
3 25 (12.02%) AWS
4 11 (5.29%) GCP
4 11 (5.29%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.85%) SaaS
6 7 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (2.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 5 (2.40%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.92%) Collibra
9 4 (1.92%) dbt
9 4 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.92%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.44%) Alation
10 3 (1.44%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.44%) BigCommerce
10 3 (1.44%) GitHub
10 3 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.96%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.48%) 5G
1 1 (0.48%) Internet
1 1 (0.48%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (0.48%) Modbus
1 1 (0.48%) MQTT
1 1 (0.48%) Network Security
1 1 (0.48%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (20.67%) Power BI
2 29 (13.94%) Tableau
3 17 (8.17%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.73%) Metadata
5 7 (3.37%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.37%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.88%) Big Data
6 6 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.40%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.40%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.40%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.92%) Power Query
8 4 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.44%) Looker
9 3 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.96%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.48%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 11 (5.29%) JIRA
2 4 (1.92%) ERwin
3 2 (0.96%) Git
General
1 109 (52.40%) Social Skills
2 90 (43.27%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (31.73%) Finance
4 31 (14.90%) Marketing
5 23 (11.06%) Public Sector
6 18 (8.65%) Legal
7 16 (7.69%) Banking
8 15 (7.21%) Retail
9 12 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.85%) Police
11 7 (3.37%) Investment Banking
11 7 (3.37%) Local Government
12 6 (2.88%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (2.88%) Retail Banking
13 5 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.92%) Advertising
14 4 (1.92%) Front Office
14 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.44%) Military
15 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (20.19%) Analyst
2 24 (11.54%) Senior
3 23 (11.06%) Data Engineer
4 22 (10.58%) Data Analyst
5 18 (8.65%) Lead
6 15 (7.21%) Business Analyst
6 15 (7.21%) Developer
7 13 (6.25%) Architect
8 11 (5.29%) Data Architect
9 9 (4.33%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.85%) Coordinator
10 8 (3.85%) CRM Coordinator
10 8 (3.85%) Customer Executive
10 8 (3.85%) Data Scientist
10 8 (3.85%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.85%) Technical Coordinator
11 7 (3.37%) Consultant
11 7 (3.37%) Product Manager
12 6 (2.88%) Business Manager
12 6 (2.88%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.77%) Kafka
2 8 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (3.37%) PySpark
4 6 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.40%) TensorFlow
6 4 (1.92%) Pandas
6 4 (1.92%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.44%) Jinja
7 3 (1.44%) VML
8 2 (0.96%) CSS
8 2 (0.96%) HTML
8 2 (0.96%) RESTful
9 1 (0.48%) EDI
9 1 (0.48%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.48%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.48%) REST
9 1 (0.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (5.77%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.29%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.40%) Replication
7 4 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.44%) Equities
8 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.96%) FMCG
9 2 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.96%) Life Science
9 2 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.96%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.96%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.48%) Android
2 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (86.06%) Decision-Making
2 83 (39.90%) Analytics
3 61 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (26.92%) Data Modelling
5 50 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (20.67%) Visualisation
7 41 (19.71%) Data Analysis
8 39 (18.75%) Data Governance
9 36 (17.31%) Actionable Insight
9 36 (17.31%) Agile
10 30 (14.42%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (13.46%) Data Management
12 25 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (12.02%) Data Visualisation
12 25 (12.02%) ETL
12 25 (12.02%) Machine Learning
13 24 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
13 24 (11.54%) CRM
13 24 (11.54%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.29%) SQL
2 48 (23.08%) Python
3 14 (6.73%) R
4 6 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (2.40%) Bash
6 2 (0.96%) C++
6 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.48%) LookML
7 1 (0.48%) PHP
7 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.13%) Degree
3 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.44%) ACCA
6 3 (1.44%) CIMA
6 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.48%) APMG
8 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.48%) ISEB
8 1 (0.48%) MBA
8 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PMP
8 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.17%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.29%) GDPR
4 3 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.44%) PMO
5 2 (0.96%) QA
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.40%) Grafana
2 5 (2.40%) Kibana
2 5 (2.40%) logstash
3 4 (1.92%) Ansible
4 3 (1.44%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.44%) Terraform
5 2 (0.96%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.96%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (8.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 11 (5.29%) Databricks
4 10 (4.81%) Oracle
5 9 (4.33%) SAP
6 5 (2.40%) Google
6 5 (2.40%) Informatica
7 4 (1.92%) Adobe
7 4 (1.92%) Foundry
7 4 (1.92%) Palantir
7 4 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.44%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.44%) Splunk
9 2 (0.96%) Dell
9 2 (0.96%) Hyperion
9 2 (0.96%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.96%) Sparx
9 2 (0.96%) Veritas
10 1 (0.48%) Ariba
10 1 (0.48%) IBM