Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the South East

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 137 181 208
Rank change year-on-year +44 +27 +34
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 22 24 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.73% 0.43% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.51% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 11
10th Percentile £231 £413 £406
25th Percentile £281 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £294 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -34.72% - -
75th Percentile £455 £525 £590
90th Percentile £560 £655 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% +7.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire +36 11 £288 -57.41% 19
Thames Valley +29 5 £505 +12.22% 23
Surrey +20 5 £275 -45.00% 11
Berkshire +23 2 - - 5
Buckinghamshire +13 2 £540 +35.00% 13
Kent +7 1 £775 +14.81% 5
Oxfordshire +2 1 £400 -11.11% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (9.09%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
4 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.55%) AWS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Appium
1 4 (18.18%) JUnit
1 4 (18.18%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Marketing
3 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Digital Executive
1 7 (31.82%) E-Commerce Executive
2 5 (22.73%) Product Manager
3 4 (18.18%) QA Manager
3 4 (18.18%) QA Test Manager
3 4 (18.18%) Strategy Manager
3 4 (18.18%) Test Strategy Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Coordinator
6 1 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Data Insight Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Insight Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Insight Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Analytics
2 9 (40.91%) Decision-Making
2 9 (40.91%) Digital Marketing
3 8 (36.36%) CRM
3 8 (36.36%) E-Commerce
3 8 (36.36%) Email Marketing
3 8 (36.36%) Psychology
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
5 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
5 5 (22.73%) Product Management
6 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Scrum
6 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 4 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) R
3 1 (4.55%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) MBA
2 1 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Blue Prism
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) Nokia
1 2 (9.09%) Rakuten
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow