Decision-Making Contracts in the South East

Decision-Making
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 58 56 81
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 -4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 109 188 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.62% 3.38% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 3.99% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 112 96
10th Percentile £360 £334 £245
25th Percentile £409 £425 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £641
90th Percentile £773 £724 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 16
10th Percentile £42.80 £18.20 £17.41
25th Percentile £59.87 £19.55 £19.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £24.97 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +146.25% +12.69% -50.45%
75th Percentile £74.87 £45.69 £55.04
90th Percentile £89.50 £51.50 £60.63
England median hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £51.57
% change year-on-year +62.16% -64.12% +21.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the South East

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the South East

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the South East

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the South East

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the South East

Decision-Making
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 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
Thames Valley +1 70 £550 - 150
Berkshire +4 64 £501 -12.96% 90
Hampshire +31 21 £464 -2.37% 84
Surrey +10 7 £409 -28.29% 55
Kent +7 5 £663 +1.92% 25
West Sussex +4 4 £525 - 17
Buckinghamshire -10 4 £575 -2.13% 39
Oxfordshire +2 2 £400 -11.11% 47
East Sussex -10 1 £400 - 21
Home Counties - 1 - -
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
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 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.75%) Apache
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) Appian
4 1 (0.92%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) FastStats
2 1 (0.92%) FastStats PeopleStage
2 1 (0.92%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.52%) Azure
2 22 (20.18%) AWS
3 13 (11.93%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.67%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.67%) SaaS
6 3 (2.75%) GCP
6 3 (2.75%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.83%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.92%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.92%) GitHub
8 1 (0.92%) IaaS
8 1 (0.92%) OCI
8 1 (0.92%) PaaS
8 1 (0.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) Firewall
1 5 (4.59%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.83%) 3G
2 2 (1.83%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.83%) 4G
2 2 (1.83%) 5G
2 2 (1.83%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 2 (1.83%) LTE
2 2 (1.83%) MVNO
2 2 (1.83%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.92%) DMS-100
3 1 (0.92%) ISUP
3 1 (0.92%) Network Security
3 1 (0.92%) VoIP
3 1 (0.92%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.93%) Power BI
2 5 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.67%) Tableau
4 3 (2.75%) Big Data
4 3 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.83%) GIS
5 2 (1.83%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.83%) Power Query
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.92%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.92%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.92%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) JIRA
2 10 (9.17%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.26%) Cucumber
3 9 (8.26%) GitLab
3 9 (8.26%) REST Assured
3 9 (8.26%) Selenium
4 6 (5.50%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.67%) Git
6 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.92%) DbUnit
6 1 (0.92%) jMock
6 1 (0.92%) JUnit
6 1 (0.92%) Maven
6 1 (0.92%) Mockito
General
1 43 (39.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.09%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.34%) Finance
6 6 (5.50%) Law
6 6 (5.50%) Legal
7 5 (4.59%) Military
7 5 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.83%) Back Office
9 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.83%) Marketing
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Billing
10 1 (0.92%) Games
10 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Local Government
10 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (23.85%) Architect
2 23 (21.10%) Senior
3 12 (11.01%) Analyst
4 11 (10.09%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (8.26%) Lead
6 8 (7.34%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 7 (6.42%) Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Security Specialist
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Security Specialist
9 5 (4.59%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) Information Security Specialist
9 5 (4.59%) Information Specialist
9 5 (4.59%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Information Security Specialist
9 5 (4.59%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.67%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.17%) REST
2 9 (8.26%) Java EE
3 5 (4.59%) ARM Templates
3 5 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.59%) JBoss Seam
4 2 (1.83%) NumPy
4 2 (1.83%) Pandas
4 2 (1.83%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.92%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.92%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.92%) Kafka
5 1 (0.92%) PowerMock
5 1 (0.92%) PySpark
5 1 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.92%) Spring Batch
5 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.92%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Spring Integration
5 1 (0.92%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.92%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.51%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.34%) Algorithms
3 7 (6.42%) IoT
4 6 (5.50%) Device Driver
4 6 (5.50%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.67%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.75%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.75%) SCADA
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.83%) PMI
7 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.02%) Agile
1 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (19.27%) Analytics
3 19 (17.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (16.51%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (16.51%) Project Management
4 18 (16.51%) Risk Management
5 17 (15.60%) DevOps
6 15 (13.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 15 (13.76%) Data Analysis
6 15 (13.76%) Risk Assessment
6 15 (13.76%) Roadmaps
6 15 (13.76%) Security Architecture
7 14 (12.84%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 13 (11.93%) Visualisation
9 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (9.17%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (9.17%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.60%) SQL
2 12 (11.01%) Python
3 10 (9.17%) Java
4 6 (5.50%) Embedded C
5 5 (4.59%) C
6 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.75%) R
8 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.92%) ABAP
9 1 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (33.94%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.35%) DV Cleared
3 19 (17.43%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.09%) Degree
5 6 (5.50%) CISM
6 4 (3.67%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.75%) PMP
8 2 (1.83%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.92%) CISA
9 1 (0.92%) CISSP
9 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.92%) HNC
9 1 (0.92%) ISEB
9 1 (0.92%) MCSE
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.92%) PhD
9 1 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.92%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (10.09%) NCSC
2 5 (4.59%) GDPR
2 5 (4.59%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) PMO
4 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.75%) P3O
5 2 (1.83%) NIST
6 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.92%) GLP
6 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Docker
1 6 (5.50%) Firmware
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.92%) Postfix
3 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.59%) Ansible
2 5 (4.59%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (4.59%) Podman
2 5 (4.59%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.92%) Grafana
3 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (11.01%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.59%) Darktrace
3 5 (4.59%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.59%) SAP
3 5 (4.59%) VMware
4 4 (3.67%) Databricks
5 3 (2.75%) Cisco
5 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.83%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.83%) Google
6 2 (1.83%) IBM
6 2 (1.83%) Nokia
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle
6 2 (1.83%) Rakuten
7 1 (0.92%) Apteco
7 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto