Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the North of England

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 155 209
Rank change year-on-year +20 +54 +22
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 29 31 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.87% 0.67% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.78% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 3
10th Percentile £347 £408 £303
25th Percentile £431 £444 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £516 £575 £463
90th Percentile £637 £585 £478
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% -22.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,980 3,974 5,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.50% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,916 2,420 3,486
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 365 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £25.43 £17.72 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +43.51% -36.67% +47.71%
75th Percentile £56.76 £45.00 £44.13
90th Percentile £81.55 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the North of England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the North of England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the North of England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the North of England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West +11 21 £455 -13.33% 62
Yorkshire +18 7 £463 -11.90% 33
North East -7 1 £525 -1.41% 10
Data-Driven Decision Making
England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 8 (27.59%) IBM Domino
2 3 (10.34%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
3 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.90%) Lucidchart
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Tableau
2 4 (13.79%) Power BI
3 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.45%) Mixpanel
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (51.72%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Marketing
6 2 (6.90%) Legal
6 2 (6.90%) Retail
6 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Games
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Military
7 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Coordinator
1 8 (27.59%) CRM Coordinator
1 8 (27.59%) Technical Coordinator
2 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Technical Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Customer Executive
4 2 (6.90%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Planning Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (3.45%) PySpark
1 1 (3.45%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.45%) Shiny
1 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
1 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) Decision-Making
2 17 (58.62%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (37.93%) Data Management
4 9 (31.03%) CRM
5 8 (27.59%) Customer Segmentation
5 8 (27.59%) Strategic Thinking
6 7 (24.14%) Analytics
6 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (20.69%) Visualisation
8 5 (17.24%) Agile
8 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis
8 5 (17.24%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (17.24%) Project Management
8 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (13.79%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (13.79%) Data Integration
9 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) Dell
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.90%) Veritas
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Brio
3 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Hotjar
3 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle