Decision-Making Contracts in England

Decision-Making
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 49 55 92
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 -12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,106 1,304 1,300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.54% 3.51% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 4.05% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 843 786
10th Percentile £348 £277 £341
25th Percentile £411 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £737 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.19% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 125 64
10th Percentile £20.26 £10.95 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £14.54 £22.35
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £51.57
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% -64.12% +21.33%
75th Percentile £58.30 £40.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.96 £50.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £19.38 £47.50
% change year-on-year +60.39% -59.21% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +16 585 £550 +4.76% 2,386
North of England +3 169 £499 +2.26% 506
South East -2 109 £500 -9.09% 761
Midlands +5 95 £450 +5.88% 294
North West -5 93 £490 +5.95% 350
West Midlands +2 67 £425 -5.56% 171
South West -6 62 £550 - 207
Yorkshire +21 55 £450 -18.18% 114
East of England +22 42 £563 +6.99% 189
East Midlands 0 26 £450 +66.67% 102
North East +10 19 £550 +4.02% 48
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 39 (3.53%) Confluence
2 32 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.45%) Apache
3 16 (1.45%) CMS
4 15 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 14 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.99%) Headless CMS
7 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.72%) IBM Domino
8 8 (0.72%) SAS
9 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.27%) Appian
11 2 (0.18%) IIS
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.090%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.090%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.090%) nginx
12 1 (0.090%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.090%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
Applications
1 69 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (3.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.63%) Trello
8 4 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.090%) Fusion 360
10 1 (0.090%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.090%) Siemens NX
10 1 (0.090%) Sketch
10 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 35 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.90%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.45%) iTrent
4 5 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.36%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.18%) Actimize
7 2 (0.18%) Maximo
7 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.18%) Shopify
7 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (15.19%) Azure
2 150 (13.56%) AWS
3 142 (12.84%) Power Platform
4 58 (5.24%) GCP
5 36 (3.25%) Snowflake
6 31 (2.80%) SaaS
7 23 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (1.90%) Amazon S3
9 19 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (1.36%) Serverless
11 14 (1.27%) dbt
12 13 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (1.08%) GitHub
13 12 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (0.90%) Entra ID
16 9 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.54%) Network Security
2 16 (1.45%) Firewall
3 11 (0.99%) WAN
4 10 (0.90%) VPN
5 7 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 7 (0.63%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.63%) Wireless
6 6 (0.54%) BGP
6 6 (0.54%) DNS
6 6 (0.54%) HTTP
6 6 (0.54%) IPsec
6 6 (0.54%) OSPF
6 6 (0.54%) SSL
7 5 (0.45%) 5G
7 5 (0.45%) MPLS
8 4 (0.36%) 4G
8 4 (0.36%) Internet
8 4 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (12.39%) Power BI
2 89 (8.05%) Tableau
3 61 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (2.71%) Big Data
5 22 (1.99%) Hadoop
5 22 (1.99%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.63%) Metadata
7 18 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 18 (1.63%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (1.36%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.36%) Power Query
10 14 (1.27%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (1.18%) Looker
12 12 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (0.81%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 92 (8.32%) JIRA
2 27 (2.44%) Git
3 22 (1.99%) GitLab
4 21 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.99%) Selenium
6 11 (0.99%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.81%) ERwin
7 9 (0.81%) REST Assured
8 8 (0.72%) JUnit
9 7 (0.63%) Maven
10 6 (0.54%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.45%) Jasmine
12 4 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.36%) DbUnit
12 4 (0.36%) jMock
12 4 (0.36%) Mockito
13 3 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 480 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 336 (30.38%) Finance
3 321 (29.02%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 96 (8.68%) Banking
6 72 (6.51%) Marketing
7 64 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
8 57 (5.15%) Legal
9 46 (4.16%) Retail
10 41 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 38 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
12 37 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (3.07%) Manufacturing
14 31 (2.80%) Investment Banking
14 31 (2.80%) Telecoms
15 29 (2.62%) Local Government
16 21 (1.90%) Front Office
16 21 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.45%) Retail Banking
18 14 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 211 (19.08%) Analyst
2 130 (11.75%) Architect
3 117 (10.58%) Senior
4 106 (9.58%) Business Analyst
5 102 (9.22%) Developer
6 98 (8.86%) Lead
7 63 (5.70%) Project Manager
8 62 (5.61%) Data Analyst
9 50 (4.52%) Data Engineer
10 48 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
11 46 (4.16%) Consultant
12 26 (2.35%) Data Scientist
12 26 (2.35%) Product Manager
13 25 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
14 23 (2.08%) Senior Developer
15 22 (1.99%) Data Architect
16 18 (1.63%) Programme Manager
17 17 (1.54%) Python Developer
17 17 (1.54%) Senior Analyst
18 16 (1.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.62%) REST
2 28 (2.53%) TensorFlow
3 25 (2.26%) PyTorch
4 24 (2.17%) Kafka
4 24 (2.17%) Pandas
5 22 (1.99%) NumPy
6 21 (1.90%) scikit-learn
7 17 (1.54%) AngularJS
7 17 (1.54%) PySpark
8 16 (1.45%) Matplotlib
8 16 (1.45%) React
9 14 (1.27%) RESTful
9 14 (1.27%) Seaborn
10 12 (1.08%) Next.js
10 12 (1.08%) SOAP
10 12 (1.08%) Vue
11 11 (0.99%) Spring Boot
12 10 (0.90%) CSS
12 10 (0.90%) HTML
12 10 (0.90%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.42%) Management Information System
2 51 (4.61%) Algorithms
3 48 (4.34%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.81%) Data Centre
6 20 (1.81%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.18%) IoT
10 10 (0.90%) Equities
10 10 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (0.81%) Life Science
11 9 (0.81%) NHS
11 9 (0.81%) Public Cloud
11 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.72%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.26%) Linux
2 21 (1.90%) Windows
3 7 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.36%) Unix
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.090%) Android
7 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.090%) Solaris
7 1 (0.090%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (34.72%) Problem-Solving
2 269 (24.32%) Agile
3 268 (24.23%) Analytics
4 225 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 183 (16.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 180 (16.27%) Project Management
7 179 (16.18%) Data Analysis
8 178 (16.09%) Business Intelligence
9 159 (14.38%) Visualisation
10 138 (12.48%) Risk Management
11 135 (12.21%) Roadmaps
12 130 (11.75%) Data Modelling
13 123 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (9.58%) Actionable Insight
15 105 (9.49%) Artificial Intelligence
16 98 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 97 (8.77%) Change Management
18 96 (8.68%) Data Visualisation
19 93 (8.41%) Data Governance
20 87 (7.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 200 (18.08%) SQL
2 181 (16.37%) Python
3 49 (4.43%) R
4 48 (4.34%) Java
5 23 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.27%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.18%) Bash
9 12 (1.08%) T-SQL
10 10 (0.90%) Scala
11 8 (0.72%) C
11 8 (0.72%) C++
11 8 (0.72%) VBA
12 7 (0.63%) Go
13 6 (0.54%) Embedded C
14 5 (0.45%) C#
14 5 (0.45%) Perl
14 5 (0.45%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 176 (15.91%) Degree
2 162 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 115 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 40 (3.62%) Master's Degree
5 35 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.62%) PMI Certification
7 29 (2.62%) PMP
8 16 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.45%) CISM
9 15 (1.36%) PhD
10 13 (1.18%) CISSP
11 10 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.81%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.63%) CCNP
13 7 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.54%) CCA
14 6 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 45 (4.07%) QA
4 44 (3.98%) GDPR
5 37 (3.35%) PMO
6 22 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.54%) NCSC
8 10 (0.90%) SLA
9 9 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.81%) NIST
10 6 (0.54%) GRC
10 6 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.36%) WCAG
12 3 (0.27%) COBIT
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.27%) P3O
13 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.18%) EMIR
13 2 (0.18%) IFRS
System Software
1 47 (4.25%) Docker
2 16 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.54%) Firmware
4 6 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.36%) Postfix
6 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.18%) RACF
7 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.090%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 33 (2.98%) Terraform
3 24 (2.17%) Ansible
4 9 (0.81%) Kibana
5 7 (0.63%) Grafana
5 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.54%) MOM
6 6 (0.54%) Podman
7 5 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.36%) logstash
9 3 (0.27%) Packer
10 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.18%) NetApp OnCommand
10 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.18%) vMotion
10 2 (0.18%) WSUS
11 1 (0.090%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 131 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.33%) SAP
3 40 (3.62%) Salesforce
4 36 (3.25%) Google
4 36 (3.25%) Oracle
4 36 (3.25%) ServiceNow
5 34 (3.07%) Databricks
6 17 (1.54%) Cisco
7 13 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 11 (0.99%) NEC
9 10 (0.90%) Ariba
9 10 (0.90%) VMware
10 9 (0.81%) Adobe
11 8 (0.72%) Fortinet
11 8 (0.72%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.72%) Splunk
11 8 (0.72%) Workday
12 7 (0.63%) Foundry
12 7 (0.63%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.63%) Siemens