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

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 36 58
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 +12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 60 133 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.11% 5.07% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 5.83% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 68 58
10th Percentile £381 £330 £304
25th Percentile £425 £422 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +15.79% -9.95%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £619
90th Percentile £725 £740 £715
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £503
% change year-on-year -9.05% +9.34% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £59.70 - £47.87
25th Percentile £60.75 £22.61 £52.17
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -22.10% -
75th Percentile £87.50 £43.75 £59.42
90th Percentile £90.50 £54.40 £68.17
South East median hourly rate £61.50 £24.97 £22.16
% change year-on-year +146.25% +12.69% -53.35%

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 1,357 2,281 2,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.88% 86.96% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 1,263 1,774
10th Percentile £300 £213 £315
25th Percentile £402 £373 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £505
% change year-on-year -0.20% -0.79% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 168 65
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.28 £19.25 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% -14.29% +208.82%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.55 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.68 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.05 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.06% -5.00% +132.56%

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 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the Thames Valley

Decision-Making
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

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 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 24 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 -1 57 £550 -4.35% 736
Oxfordshire 0 2 £400 -11.11% 176
Buckinghamshire -14 1 - - 244
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 3 (5.00%) Apache
1 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.67%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) AWS
3 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.67%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub
6 1 (1.67%) IaaS
6 1 (1.67%) PaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Route 53
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) Firewall
1 5 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.67%) 5G
2 1 (1.67%) DMS-100
2 1 (1.67%) ISUP
2 1 (1.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Big Data
2 3 (5.00%) Tableau
3 2 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) GIS
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Power Query
4 1 (1.67%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.67%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) JIRA
2 10 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 9 (15.00%) GitLab
3 9 (15.00%) REST Assured
3 9 (15.00%) Selenium
4 6 (10.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.00%) Git
6 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.67%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.67%) jMock
6 1 (1.67%) JUnit
6 1 (1.67%) Maven
6 1 (1.67%) Mockito
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.33%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Law
5 4 (6.67%) Legal
5 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.00%) Local Government
6 3 (5.00%) Military
7 2 (3.33%) Back Office
7 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Billing
8 1 (1.67%) Games
8 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Architect
2 11 (18.33%) Senior
3 8 (13.33%) Lead
3 8 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (11.67%) Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Java Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Security Advisor
8 3 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Automation Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Information Security Specialist
9 2 (3.33%) SAP Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Security Specialist
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) REST
2 9 (15.00%) Java EE
3 5 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 5 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.33%) JBoss Seam
4 2 (3.33%) NumPy
4 2 (3.33%) Pandas
4 2 (3.33%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.67%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.67%) JPA
5 1 (1.67%) Kafka
5 1 (1.67%) PowerMock
5 1 (1.67%) RESTful
5 1 (1.67%) Spring
5 1 (1.67%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.67%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (5.00%) SCADA
3 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) PMI
4 1 (1.67%) CESG
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) IoT
4 1 (1.67%) NB-IoT
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) PKI
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) DevOps
1 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (21.67%) Risk Management
3 12 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 11 (18.33%) Security Architecture
4 11 (18.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 10 (16.67%) Agile
5 10 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 9 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 9 (15.00%) Software Architecture
6 9 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 9 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 9 (15.00%) Visualisation
7 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (11.67%) Data Analysis
8 7 (11.67%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Java
2 8 (13.33%) SQL
3 6 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) Degree
5 3 (5.00%) CISM
6 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.67%) CISA
7 1 (1.67%) CISSP
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) ISEB
7 1 (1.67%) MCSE
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.67%) PgMP
7 1 (1.67%) PhD
7 1 (1.67%) PMP
7 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) NCSC
2 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.00%) QA
4 2 (3.33%) GDPR
4 2 (3.33%) NIST
5 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) Ansible
2 5 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
2 5 (8.33%) Podman
2 5 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.33%) Darktrace
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) OpenAI
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.33%) Google
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.67%) Ariba
5 1 (1.67%) Databricks
5 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.67%) ESRI
5 1 (1.67%) IBM
5 1 (1.67%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow