Decision-Making Contracts in Sheffield

Decision-Making
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 33 46 39
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 17 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.33% 2.37% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.57% 2.56% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 12
10th Percentile £135 £502 -
25th Percentile £365 £556 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £570 £538
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +6.05% -2.27%
75th Percentile £500 £595 £650
90th Percentile £529 £875 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £560 £538
% change year-on-year -28.57% +4.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Looker
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
6 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) IT Manager
4 2 (11.76%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.88%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
1 9 (52.94%) Data Analysis
1 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (23.53%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) Data Governance
5 3 (17.65%) Data Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (17.65%) ETL
5 3 (17.65%) ETL Development
5 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
5 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Debt
6 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
1 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (11.76%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.88%) Veeam