Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data-Driven Decision Making
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 119 127
Rank change year-on-year +21 +8 +36
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 3 19 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.72% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.83% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 12
10th Percentile £421 £411 £406
25th Percentile £451 £416 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -7.22% -6.73%
75th Percentile £529 £494 £631
90th Percentile £542 £525 £650
South East median daily rate £294 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -34.72% - -6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £42.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,361 2,278 2,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.90% 86.35% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 1,253 1,759
10th Percentile £300 £220 £313
25th Percentile £407 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £501
% change year-on-year -2.15% +2.10% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 167 69
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.17 £17.25
25th Percentile £14.51 £19.25 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% -17.52% +213.20%
75th Percentile £62.44 £63.85 £73.59
90th Percentile £78.75 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.10
% change year-on-year -41.31% -8.83% +137.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Berkshire +18 1 £550 +10.00% 145
Buckinghamshire +9 1 £505 +26.25% 44
Oxfordshire -1 1 £400 -11.11% 24
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce