Decision-Making Contracts in England

Decision-Making
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 93 81
Rank change year-on-year +38 -12 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,261 1,259 2,163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.43% 2.57% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 2.85% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 805 764 1,336
10th Percentile £284 £340 £325
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +13.17%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £642
90th Percentile £727 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 60 103
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.00 £14.65
25th Percentile £14.54 £22.35 £25.50
Median hourly rate £18.25 £51.57 £44.73
Median % change year-on-year -64.61% +15.29% +55.03%
75th Percentile £37.25 £65.00 £51.60
90th Percentile £50.88 £65.75 £57.34
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £47.50 £44.96
% change year-on-year -59.21% +5.65% +43.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

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 Decision-Making within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +27 566 £525 -11.02% 654
South East +27 187 £550 +9.89% 272
North of England +44 180 £500 -2.91% 275
North West +43 134 £463 -10.19% 160
South West +32 126 £550 +2.33% 151
Midlands +44 118 £425 -15.00% 191
West Midlands +25 79 £450 -14.29% 114
East of England +26 53 £525 +10.53% 112
East Midlands +39 38 £270 -43.16% 77
Yorkshire +4 38 £550 +5.77% 86
North East +18 8 £533 -23.93% 34
Decision-Making
UK

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 29 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.43%) Confluence
3 16 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.63%) Apache
5 6 (0.48%) CMS
6 5 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.40%) govService
6 5 (0.40%) SAS
7 4 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.32%) WordPress
8 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.079%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.079%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.079%) Mule
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 118 (9.36%) Microsoft Office
2 91 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.87%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.32%) SPSS
8 3 (0.24%) Trello
9 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.16%) Revit
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.079%) Blender
10 1 (0.079%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.079%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.079%) Houdini
10 1 (0.079%) Maya
10 1 (0.079%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.079%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.71%) Primavera
3 8 (0.63%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.48%) Shopify
5 5 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.32%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.16%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.079%) Cloudability
9 1 (0.079%) OPENHousing
9 1 (0.079%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.079%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.079%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 147 (11.66%) Azure
2 105 (8.33%) AWS
3 99 (7.85%) Power Platform
4 45 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (3.57%) SaaS
5 30 (2.38%) GCP
6 29 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (1.98%) Snowflake
8 20 (1.59%) PaaS
8 20 (1.59%) Taleo
9 17 (1.35%) Serverless
10 15 (1.19%) Google Analytics
11 13 (1.03%) Google Workspace
12 12 (0.95%) GitHub
13 10 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (0.79%) IaaS
13 10 (0.79%) Power Automate
14 9 (0.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.54%) Firewall
2 31 (2.46%) WAN
3 23 (1.82%) LAN
4 21 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (1.27%) VoIP
6 14 (1.11%) Network Security
7 13 (1.03%) VPN
8 12 (0.95%) DNS
8 12 (0.95%) SAN
9 11 (0.87%) DHCP
9 11 (0.87%) MPLS
10 9 (0.71%) VLAN
11 8 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
11 8 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
12 7 (0.56%) 3G
12 7 (0.56%) 4G
12 7 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (0.56%) HTTP
12 7 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (7.45%) Power BI
2 68 (5.39%) Tableau
3 45 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 44 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.90%) Big Data
6 20 (1.59%) Data Mining
7 18 (1.43%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.11%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.11%) Looker
8 14 (1.11%) Metadata
9 13 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.79%) Power Query
11 9 (0.71%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.63%) MySQL
13 7 (0.56%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 5 (0.40%) GIS
15 5 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (0.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 51 (4.04%) JIRA
2 29 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.98%) Cucumber
3 25 (1.98%) Selenium
3 25 (1.98%) SonarQube
4 24 (1.90%) REST Assured
5 19 (1.51%) GitLab
6 15 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (1.11%) Git
8 6 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.48%) RStudio
9 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.24%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.16%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.079%) ERwin
13 1 (0.079%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.079%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.079%) VisualWorks
General
1 551 (43.70%) Social Skills
2 335 (26.57%) Finance
3 307 (24.35%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 108 (8.56%) Presentation Skills
6 75 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (5.08%) Marketing
8 61 (4.84%) Banking
9 56 (4.44%) Telecoms
10 53 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (4.20%) Retail
11 52 (4.12%) Legal
12 31 (2.46%) Local Government
13 29 (2.30%) Law
14 26 (2.06%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.82%) Police
17 21 (1.67%) Front Office
18 20 (1.59%) Aerospace
19 19 (1.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 196 (15.54%) Analyst
2 135 (10.71%) Project Manager
3 117 (9.28%) Architect
3 117 (9.28%) Senior
4 104 (8.25%) Lead
5 63 (5.00%) Developer
6 58 (4.60%) Consultant
7 55 (4.36%) Business Analyst
8 50 (3.97%) Data Analyst
9 39 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (3.01%) Delivery Manager
11 35 (2.78%) IT Manager
11 35 (2.78%) Senior Manager
12 33 (2.62%) Data Engineer
13 25 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
13 25 (1.98%) Support Engineer
14 20 (1.59%) Product Manager
14 20 (1.59%) Senior Project Manager
15 19 (1.51%) Business Manager
16 18 (1.43%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.17%) REST
2 25 (1.98%) Java EE
3 23 (1.82%) .NET
4 12 (0.95%) .NET Core
4 12 (0.95%) ARM Templates
4 12 (0.95%) Node.js
5 11 (0.87%) RESTful
6 10 (0.79%) AngularJS
6 10 (0.79%) Kafka
6 10 (0.79%) Pandas
6 10 (0.79%) scikit-learn
6 10 (0.79%) YAML
7 9 (0.71%) React
8 7 (0.56%) CSS
8 7 (0.56%) HTML
8 7 (0.56%) Middleware
8 7 (0.56%) TensorFlow
9 6 (0.48%) Web Services
10 5 (0.40%) ADO
10 5 (0.40%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.50%) Management Information System
2 53 (4.20%) Product Ownership
3 30 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 30 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (1.59%) Clustering
5 19 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (1.43%) Credit Risk
6 18 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 16 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 16 (1.27%) NHS
8 15 (1.19%) Life Science
9 13 (1.03%) Virtual Team
10 11 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 10 (0.79%) Client/Server
11 10 (0.79%) Mobile App
11 10 (0.79%) Public Cloud
12 9 (0.71%) Derivative
12 9 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 83 (6.58%) Windows
2 36 (2.85%) Windows 10
3 29 (2.30%) Linux
4 20 (1.59%) Unix
5 13 (1.03%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.40%) Android
9 5 (0.40%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.16%) zOS
11 1 (0.079%) CentOS
11 1 (0.079%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.079%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (33.86%) Problem-Solving
2 293 (23.24%) Agile
3 255 (20.22%) Project Management
4 170 (13.48%) Analytics
5 168 (13.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 153 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 136 (10.79%) Time Management
8 135 (10.71%) Data Analysis
9 123 (9.75%) Roadmaps
10 116 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
11 113 (8.96%) Change Management
12 111 (8.80%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 111 (8.80%) DevOps
13 109 (8.64%) Visualisation
14 102 (8.09%) PRINCE2
15 99 (7.85%) Project Delivery
16 95 (7.53%) Actionable Insight
17 94 (7.45%) Data Modelling
18 93 (7.38%) Migration
18 93 (7.38%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (10.71%) SQL
2 86 (6.82%) Python
3 58 (4.60%) Java
4 28 (2.22%) C#
4 28 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 19 (1.51%) JavaScript
6 12 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (0.71%) R
7 9 (0.71%) TypeScript
8 8 (0.63%) Bicep
8 8 (0.63%) Swift
9 6 (0.48%) Go
10 5 (0.40%) Ruby
10 5 (0.40%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.40%) VBA
11 3 (0.24%) Bash
11 3 (0.24%) Perl
11 3 (0.24%) PHP
11 3 (0.24%) Scala
12 2 (0.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 266 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 223 (17.68%) Degree
3 200 (15.86%) SC Cleared
4 78 (6.19%) DV Cleared
5 47 (3.73%) PMP
6 46 (3.65%) PMI Certification
7 42 (3.33%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.06%) HND
9 25 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.98%) CISM
9 25 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 23 (1.82%) CISSP
10 23 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.19%) HNC
13 14 (1.11%) CCNP
13 14 (1.11%) PhD
14 11 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.63%) ACCA
15 8 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 44 (3.49%) PMO
2 44 (3.49%) QA
3 28 (2.22%) SLA
4 26 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
5 22 (1.74%) GDPR
6 20 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 14 (1.11%) NIST
8 12 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.79%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.48%) COBIT
12 5 (0.40%) GMP
12 5 (0.40%) GRC
13 4 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.32%) GxP
13 4 (0.32%) MiFID
13 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.24%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.46%) Docker
3 29 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.16%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) KVM
6 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.079%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.079%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 37 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 33 (2.62%) Terraform
3 32 (2.54%) Ansible
4 18 (1.43%) SCCM
5 12 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (0.95%) Podman
6 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (0.63%) Nagios
7 8 (0.63%) Nessus
7 8 (0.63%) NetBackup
8 6 (0.48%) Autotask
8 6 (0.48%) VxRail
9 3 (0.24%) MOM
10 2 (0.16%) Grafana
10 2 (0.16%) SCOM
10 2 (0.16%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 218 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 45 (3.57%) SAP
3 41 (3.25%) Google
4 38 (3.01%) VMware
5 37 (2.93%) Cisco
6 30 (2.38%) Oracle
7 29 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.06%) Juniper
9 23 (1.82%) Alteryx
9 23 (1.82%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.67%) Informatica
11 19 (1.51%) Nokia
12 18 (1.43%) IBM
13 16 (1.27%) Databricks
14 15 (1.19%) Adobe
15 12 (0.95%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.87%) Citrix
17 9 (0.71%) Okta
18 8 (0.63%) Dell
18 8 (0.63%) Instagram