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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 57 73
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 98 182 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.31% 3.24% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.89% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 103 98
10th Percentile £359 £333 £274
25th Percentile £416 £419 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +7.32% -2.84%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 17
10th Percentile £38.75 £18.20 £17.72
25th Percentile £59.44 £19.55 £19.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £24.97 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +146.25% +12.69% -53.35%
75th Percentile £81.19 £45.69 £54.56
90th Percentile £90.00 £51.50 £67.85
England median hourly rate £31.20 £19.38 £47.50
% change year-on-year +61.03% -59.21% +5.74%

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 2,705 4,674 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.35% 83.26% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,737 2,697 3,437
10th Percentile £250 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 448 218
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -5 62 £525 -4.55% 120
Berkshire 0 59 £538 -4.44% 70
Hampshire +43 20 £500 +8.70% 73
Surrey +13 6 £368 -35.53% 52
West Sussex +7 4 £525 - 18
Kent 0 4 £775 +19.23% 23
Oxfordshire -1 2 £400 -11.11% 29
East Sussex -7 1 £400 - 27
Buckinghamshire -15 1 - - 25
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 3 (3.06%) Apache
1 3 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.02%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.02%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.59%) Azure
2 19 (19.39%) AWS
3 10 (10.20%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.08%) SaaS
5 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.06%) GCP
5 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.02%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.02%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.02%) GitHub
7 1 (1.02%) IaaS
7 1 (1.02%) OCI
7 1 (1.02%) PaaS
7 1 (1.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) Firewall
1 6 (6.12%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.04%) 5G
2 2 (2.04%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.02%) DMS-100
3 1 (1.02%) ISUP
3 1 (1.02%) Network Security
3 1 (1.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.20%) Power BI
2 3 (3.06%) Big Data
2 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.06%) Tableau
3 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.04%) GIS
3 2 (2.04%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.02%) Power Query
4 1 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.02%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.02%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (13.27%) JIRA
2 10 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.18%) Cucumber
3 9 (9.18%) GitLab
3 9 (9.18%) REST Assured
3 9 (9.18%) Selenium
4 6 (6.12%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.06%) Git
6 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.02%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.02%) jMock
6 1 (1.02%) JUnit
6 1 (1.02%) Maven
6 1 (1.02%) Mockito
6 1 (1.02%) Toad
6 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.18%) Finance
5 6 (6.12%) Law
5 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.10%) Legal
6 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.06%) Local Government
7 3 (3.06%) Military
8 2 (2.04%) Back Office
8 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.04%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Billing
9 1 (1.02%) Games
9 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (22.45%) Architect
2 18 (18.37%) Senior
3 12 (12.24%) Analyst
4 10 (10.20%) Lead
4 10 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (7.14%) Developer
6 5 (5.10%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.10%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.10%) Java Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.08%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.08%) Security Advisor
8 3 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 3 (3.06%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.06%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.06%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (3.06%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) REST
2 9 (9.18%) Java EE
3 6 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (6.12%) JBoss Seam
4 5 (5.10%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.04%) NumPy
5 2 (2.04%) Pandas
5 2 (2.04%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.02%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.02%) JPA
6 1 (1.02%) Kafka
6 1 (1.02%) PowerMock
6 1 (1.02%) RESTful
6 1 (1.02%) Spring Batch
6 1 (1.02%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.02%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Spring Integration
6 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.02%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.12%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.10%) IoT
4 4 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.08%) Device Driver
4 4 (4.08%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.06%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.06%) SCADA
6 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) PMI
7 1 (1.02%) CESG
7 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.02%) NB-IoT
7 1 (1.02%) PKI
7 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Linux
2 3 (3.06%) Windows
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (19.39%) DevOps
4 18 (18.37%) Agile
4 18 (18.37%) Analytics
5 17 (17.35%) Risk Management
6 15 (15.31%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (15.31%) Data Analysis
7 13 (13.27%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (13.27%) Risk Assessment
7 13 (13.27%) Security Architecture
8 12 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (12.24%) Project Management
8 12 (12.24%) Roadmaps
8 12 (12.24%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 11 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (11.22%) Visualisation
10 10 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (9.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.31%) SQL
2 10 (10.20%) Java
2 10 (10.20%) Python
3 4 (4.08%) Embedded C
4 3 (3.06%) C
4 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.06%) R
5 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.02%) Korn
6 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.02%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 19 (19.39%) DV Cleared
4 11 (11.22%) Degree
5 4 (4.08%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.06%) CISM
6 3 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.06%) PMP
7 2 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.02%) CISA
8 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.02%) HNC
8 1 (1.02%) ISEB
8 1 (1.02%) MBA
8 1 (1.02%) MCSE
8 1 (1.02%) PgMP
8 1 (1.02%) PhD
8 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.18%) NCSC
2 8 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.12%) PMO
3 6 (6.12%) QA
4 5 (5.10%) GDPR
5 3 (3.06%) P3O
6 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.04%) NIST
7 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.02%) GLP
7 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Docker
2 4 (4.08%) Firmware
3 3 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.02%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.10%) Ansible
2 5 (5.10%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (5.10%) Podman
2 5 (5.10%) Terraform
3 1 (1.02%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.02%) Grafana
3 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.12%) Darktrace
2 6 (6.12%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.10%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.08%) SAP
5 3 (3.06%) Databricks
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle
5 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.06%) VMware
6 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.04%) Google
6 2 (2.04%) IBM
7 1 (1.02%) Ariba
7 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.02%) ESRI
7 1 (1.02%) EXASOL
7 1 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.02%) NEC
7 1 (1.02%) Niku