Decision-Making Contracts in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 39 40 65
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 +18
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 70 130 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.63% 4.84% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 5.56% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 67 54
10th Percentile £385 £347 £275
25th Percentile £438 £425 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% -10.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £581
90th Percentile £722 £725 £657
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £59.87 - £47.25
25th Percentile £60.75 £22.61 £50.63
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -22.42% -
75th Percentile £81.19 £43.75 £61.63
90th Percentile £90.00 £54.40 £69.05
South East median hourly rate £61.50 £24.97 £22.16
% change year-on-year +146.25% +12.69% -50.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for 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 Decision-Making in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for 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 Decision-Making in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
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 Decision-Making within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +4 64 £501 -12.96% 132
Buckinghamshire -10 4 £575 -2.13% 81
Oxfordshire +2 2 £400 -11.11% 68
Decision-Making
South East

Decision-Making
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.29%) Apache
3 2 (2.86%) Appian
4 1 (1.43%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (32.86%) Azure
2 15 (21.43%) AWS
3 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.29%) GCP
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.43%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.43%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub
6 1 (1.43%) IaaS
6 1 (1.43%) PaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Route 53
6 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.14%) Firewall
1 5 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (2.86%) 3G
2 2 (2.86%) 3GPP
2 2 (2.86%) 4G
2 2 (2.86%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (2.86%) HTTP
2 2 (2.86%) LTE
2 2 (2.86%) MVNO
3 1 (1.43%) 5G
3 1 (1.43%) DMS-100
3 1 (1.43%) ISUP
3 1 (1.43%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.43%) VoIP
3 1 (1.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Power BI
2 3 (4.29%) Big Data
2 3 (4.29%) Tableau
3 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.43%) GIS
4 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.43%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.43%) Power Query
4 1 (1.43%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.43%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) JIRA
2 10 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.86%) Cucumber
3 9 (12.86%) GitLab
3 9 (12.86%) REST Assured
3 9 (12.86%) Selenium
4 6 (8.57%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.29%) Git
6 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.43%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.43%) jMock
6 1 (1.43%) JUnit
6 1 (1.43%) Maven
6 1 (1.43%) Mockito
General
1 22 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.14%) Law
5 5 (7.14%) Military
6 4 (5.71%) Finance
6 4 (5.71%) Legal
7 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.86%) Back Office
8 2 (2.86%) Retail
9 1 (1.43%) Billing
9 1 (1.43%) Games
9 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Local Government
9 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Architect
2 15 (21.43%) Senior
3 8 (11.43%) Lead
3 8 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (10.00%) Developer
5 6 (8.57%) Analyst
5 6 (8.57%) Security Specialist
5 6 (8.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 6 (8.57%) Senior Security Specialist
6 5 (7.14%) Information Security Specialist
6 5 (7.14%) Information Specialist
6 5 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Senior Information Security Specialist
6 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Security Advisor
8 3 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) REST
2 9 (12.86%) Java EE
3 5 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 5 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (7.14%) JBoss Seam
4 2 (2.86%) NumPy
4 2 (2.86%) Pandas
4 2 (2.86%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.43%) ADO
5 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.43%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.43%) JDBC
5 1 (1.43%) JPA
5 1 (1.43%) Kafka
5 1 (1.43%) PowerMock
5 1 (1.43%) RESTful
5 1 (1.43%) SOAP
5 1 (1.43%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.43%) Spring Integration
5 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.86%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.29%) Operational Technology
2 3 (4.29%) SCADA
3 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) PMI
3 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) CESG
4 1 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) IoT
4 1 (1.43%) PKI
4 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
1 16 (22.86%) Risk Management
2 15 (21.43%) DevOps
2 15 (21.43%) Risk Assessment
3 14 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 14 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 12 (17.14%) Roadmaps
5 11 (15.71%) Agile
5 11 (15.71%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (15.71%) Visualisation
6 10 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (12.86%) Configuration Management
7 9 (12.86%) Information Assurance
7 9 (12.86%) Software Architecture
7 9 (12.86%) Software Engineering
7 9 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (12.86%) Test Automation
8 8 (11.43%) Data Analysis
8 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.29%) Java
2 9 (12.86%) SQL
3 7 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (1.43%) ABAP
4 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.43%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.86%) DV Cleared
3 14 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.57%) CISM
5 5 (7.14%) Degree
6 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.86%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.43%) CISA
7 1 (1.43%) CISSP
7 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.43%) ISEB
7 1 (1.43%) MCSE
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.43%) PgMP
7 1 (1.43%) PhD
7 1 (1.43%) PMP
7 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) NCSC
2 9 (12.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.71%) QA
4 2 (2.86%) GDPR
4 2 (2.86%) NIST
5 1 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.43%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (8.57%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.43%) Postfix
3 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Ansible
2 5 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (7.14%) Podman
2 5 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.43%) Grafana
3 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.14%) Darktrace
3 5 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 5 (7.14%) VMware
4 4 (5.71%) SAP
5 3 (4.29%) Cisco
6 2 (2.86%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.86%) Blue Prism
6 2 (2.86%) Databricks
6 2 (2.86%) Google
6 2 (2.86%) Nokia
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle
6 2 (2.86%) Rakuten
7 1 (1.43%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.43%) ESRI
7 1 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow