Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the South West

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 100 156 166
Rank change year-on-year +56 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 11 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.031% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.038% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £478 £550 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £248
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +142.42% -34.00%
75th Percentile £553 £650 £259
90th Percentile £566 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Devon - 6 - - 9
Bristol - 3 £513 - 13
Dorset - 1 - - 7
Data-Driven Decision Making
England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (18.18%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 8 (72.73%) Legal
3 6 (54.55%) Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Customer Executive
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Business Transformation Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Decision-Making
2 6 (54.55%) Business Development
2 6 (54.55%) Contract Negotiation
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Business Transformation
4 2 (18.18%) CRM
4 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) Due Diligence
4 2 (18.18%) High Availability
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Post-Merger Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) R
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kibana
1 2 (18.18%) logstash
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Salesforce
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Foundry
3 1 (9.09%) Palantir