Decision-Making Contracts in the South East

Decision-Making
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 79 79
Rank change year-on-year +25 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 184 154 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.36% 2.74% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.07% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 96 156
10th Percentile £334 £259 £331
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -4.67% +12.30%
75th Percentile £656 £641 £638
90th Percentile £725 £794 £687
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 15
10th Percentile £18.20 £17.41 £33.05
25th Percentile £19.55 £19.00 £39.50
Median hourly rate £24.97 £22.16 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.69% -53.35% +95.71%
75th Percentile £45.69 £54.56 £53.63
90th Percentile £51.50 £60.11 £61.26
England median hourly rate £18.00 £47.50 £44.73
% change year-on-year -62.11% +6.20% +59.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Decision-Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,612 5,017 6,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.31% 89.18% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,686 3,488 4,679
10th Percentile £250 £248 £226
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 220 281
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +127.90% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%

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

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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 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for 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 Decision-Making in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024. 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 +25 131 £550 +15.79% 137
Berkshire +30 94 £575 +17.95% 56
Buckinghamshire +23 32 £588 +23.68% 42
Surrey +12 14 £570 -4.95% 36
Hampshire -19 13 £468 +84.60% 51
West Sussex +9 11 £525 -30.00% 17
East Sussex +7 8 £400 -38.46% 8
Kent +8 6 £650 +20.37% 12
Oxfordshire +6 5 £450 -43.75% 39
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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 (2.17%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) SAS
2 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.09%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.54%) FileZilla
5 1 (0.54%) SPSS
5 1 (0.54%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.54%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (3.26%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.59%) AWS
2 24 (13.04%) Azure
2 24 (13.04%) Snowflake
3 13 (7.07%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.72%) Smartsheet
5 3 (1.63%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.09%) CloudFront
6 2 (1.09%) GitHub
6 2 (1.09%) Serverless
6 2 (1.09%) SurveyMonkey
7 1 (0.54%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.54%) Figma
7 1 (0.54%) GCP
7 1 (0.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.35%) Firewall
2 7 (3.80%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (3.80%) Cisco ISE
2 7 (3.80%) Network Security
3 6 (3.26%) 3G
3 6 (3.26%) 4G
3 6 (3.26%) 5G
3 6 (3.26%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (2.17%) LAN
4 4 (2.17%) WAN
5 3 (1.63%) Internet
6 2 (1.09%) SAN
7 1 (0.54%) DMZ
7 1 (0.54%) FTP
7 1 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.67%) Tableau
2 11 (5.98%) Power BI
3 4 (2.17%) Big Data
3 4 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.63%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.09%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.54%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.54%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.54%) Impala
6 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.54%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.54%) Power Query
6 1 (0.54%) QlikView
6 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (14.13%) Jenkins
2 25 (13.59%) Cucumber
2 25 (13.59%) Selenium
2 25 (13.59%) SonarQube
3 24 (13.04%) REST Assured
4 17 (9.24%) JIRA
5 13 (7.07%) GitLab
6 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) ERwin
6 1 (0.54%) Maven
General
1 96 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 76 (41.30%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (22.83%) Finance
4 26 (14.13%) Legal
5 21 (11.41%) Law
6 20 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (8.70%) Police
8 15 (8.15%) Telecoms
9 14 (7.61%) Public Sector
10 11 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (4.89%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (3.80%) Marketing
13 6 (3.26%) Local Government
13 6 (3.26%) Retail
14 5 (2.72%) Manufacturing
15 4 (2.17%) Military
16 3 (1.63%) Aviation
17 2 (1.09%) Back Office
17 2 (1.09%) Electronics
17 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 41 (22.28%) Analyst
2 39 (21.20%) Lead
3 25 (13.59%) Senior
4 19 (10.33%) Project Manager
5 17 (9.24%) Java Engineer
6 15 (8.15%) Data Analyst
7 13 (7.07%) Consultant
8 12 (6.52%) Architect
9 9 (4.89%) Developer
10 6 (3.26%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) Lead Data Analyst
10 6 (3.26%) Network Analyst
10 6 (3.26%) Network Security Analyst
10 6 (3.26%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) Security Analyst
10 6 (3.26%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.72%) HR Manager
11 5 (2.72%) Performance Consultant
11 5 (2.72%) Performance Specialist
11 5 (2.72%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.59%) Java EE
1 25 (13.59%) REST
2 12 (6.52%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.09%) LDAP
3 2 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.54%) D3.js
4 1 (0.54%) Node.js
4 1 (0.54%) Prisma
4 1 (0.54%) PySpark
4 1 (0.54%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.54%) React
4 1 (0.54%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.54%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.70%) Credit Risk
2 7 (3.80%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.72%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.17%) NHS
6 3 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.63%) Life Science
7 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.09%) PMI
7 2 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.54%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (0.54%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.54%) FMCG
8 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.54%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.26%) Windows
2 4 (2.17%) Linux
3 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (23.91%) Analytics
3 39 (21.20%) Agile
3 39 (21.20%) Project Management
4 37 (20.11%) Technical Leadership
5 29 (15.76%) DevOps
6 28 (15.22%) Actionable Insight
7 26 (14.13%) Continuous Integration
7 26 (14.13%) Software Engineering
7 26 (14.13%) Test Automation
8 25 (13.59%) Software Architecture
9 24 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (10.33%) Time Management
11 18 (9.78%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 17 (9.24%) Dashboard Development
12 17 (9.24%) Programme Management
13 16 (8.70%) Project Delivery
13 16 (8.70%) Roadmaps
14 15 (8.15%) Budget Management
14 15 (8.15%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.13%) Java
2 17 (9.24%) SQL
3 7 (3.80%) Python
4 2 (1.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.54%) C#
5 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.54%) R
5 1 (0.54%) Scala
5 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 38 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 37 (20.11%) Degree
4 23 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.80%) CCNP
5 7 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (3.80%) CISM
5 7 (3.80%) Master's Degree
6 6 (3.26%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.17%) PMP
7 4 (2.17%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (1.09%) ACCA
9 2 (1.09%) CIMA
9 2 (1.09%) MBA
9 2 (1.09%) PhD
10 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.54%) CIPD
10 1 (0.54%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.98%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.43%) PMO
3 5 (2.72%) GDPR
4 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.09%) QA
6 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 31000
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (7.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (13.59%) Ansible
2 17 (9.24%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.07%) Terraform
4 12 (6.52%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.52%) Podman
5 7 (3.80%) Nessus
6 3 (1.63%) MOM
7 2 (1.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (11.96%) Alteryx
2 14 (7.61%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.98%) Cisco
4 7 (3.80%) Juniper
4 7 (3.80%) Palo Alto
4 7 (3.80%) ScienceLogic
5 6 (3.26%) Informatica
6 4 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.63%) Facebook
7 3 (1.63%) Instagram
7 3 (1.63%) Palantir
8 2 (1.09%) Foundry
8 2 (1.09%) Oracle
8 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.09%) VMware
9 1 (0.54%) BT
9 1 (0.54%) Dell
9 1 (0.54%) EMC
9 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.54%) SAP