Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 229 327 431
Rank change year-on-year +98 +104 +17
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 107 72 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.35% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.41% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 53 24
10th Percentile £265 £400 £367
25th Percentile £300 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £463
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +12.43% +2.78%
75th Percentile £502 £585 £625
90th Percentile £625 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £17.36 - -
25th Percentile £25.19 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £31.64 £61.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.13% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.98 £72.22 -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% +7.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +24 33 £455 -12.50% 87
North West +23 24 £455 -12.08% 58
South East +44 22 £294 -34.72% 154
Scotland +27 19 £464 -25.86% 25
Midlands +30 17 £400 -11.11% 45
West Midlands +21 15 £400 -11.11% 31
South West +56 11 £513 -14.58% 45
Yorkshire +9 8 £475 -9.52% 23
East of England +31 4 £475 -13.64% 34
East Midlands +11 2 £396 +76.00% 8
North East -2 1 £525 -1.41% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 5
Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (7.48%) Apache
1 8 (7.48%) IBM Domino
2 6 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.74%) Confluence
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.87%) Appian
5 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.80%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.63%) Power Platform
2 17 (15.89%) Azure
3 9 (8.41%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (7.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 6 (5.61%) Snowflake
6 5 (4.67%) AWS
7 4 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.87%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.87%) dbt
9 2 (1.87%) GCP
9 2 (1.87%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.87%) SaaS
9 2 (1.87%) Serverless
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.93%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.93%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) 5G
2 1 (0.93%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.93%) Modbus
2 1 (0.93%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.82%) Power BI
2 12 (11.21%) Tableau
3 9 (8.41%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.80%) MySQL
5 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.87%) Big Data
6 2 (1.87%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.87%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.93%) Looker
7 1 (0.93%) Metadata
7 1 (0.93%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.93%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.48%) JIRA
2 4 (3.74%) Appium
2 4 (3.74%) JUnit
2 4 (3.74%) Selenium
3 2 (1.87%) Git
3 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 57 (53.27%) Social Skills
2 33 (30.84%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (28.04%) Finance
4 21 (19.63%) Marketing
5 15 (14.02%) Banking
6 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
7 12 (11.21%) Investment Banking
8 10 (9.35%) Legal
9 7 (6.54%) Retail
10 4 (3.74%) Local Government
10 4 (3.74%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.80%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.87%) Games
12 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.93%) Advertising
13 1 (0.93%) Front Office
13 1 (0.93%) Military
13 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.95%) Analyst
2 13 (12.15%) Data Engineer
3 12 (11.21%) Python Engineer
4 10 (9.35%) Data Analyst
5 9 (8.41%) Coordinator
6 8 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) CRM Coordinator
6 8 (7.48%) Customer Executive
6 8 (7.48%) JavaScript Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) Technical Coordinator
7 7 (6.54%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.54%) Digital Executive
7 7 (6.54%) E-Commerce Executive
7 7 (6.54%) Senior
8 6 (5.61%) Product Manager
8 6 (5.61%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.67%) Developer
10 4 (3.74%) QA Manager
10 4 (3.74%) Strategy Manager
10 4 (3.74%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (5.61%) PySpark
3 4 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.87%) Kafka
4 2 (1.87%) Node.js
4 2 (1.87%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.87%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.93%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.74%) Replication
5 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.87%) PKI
6 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.87%) Windows
1 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (79.44%) Decision-Making
2 45 (42.06%) Analytics
3 38 (35.51%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (21.50%) Data Analysis
5 22 (20.56%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (18.69%) CRM
7 19 (17.76%) Data Modelling
7 19 (17.76%) Visualisation
8 18 (16.82%) Actionable Insight
8 18 (16.82%) Agile
9 17 (15.89%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (15.89%) Machine Learning
9 17 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (14.95%) Data Science
11 15 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (14.02%) Data Security
12 12 (11.21%) CI/CD
12 12 (11.21%) Risk Management
12 12 (11.21%) Statistical Analysis
12 12 (11.21%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.10%) Python
2 24 (22.43%) SQL
3 9 (8.41%) Java
3 9 (8.41%) JavaScript
3 9 (8.41%) TypeScript
4 8 (7.48%) R
5 1 (0.93%) ABAP
5 1 (0.93%) Bash
5 1 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.54%) Degree
3 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) MBA
6 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.95%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.61%) QA
4 3 (2.80%) GDPR
5 2 (1.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Kibana
1 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.74%) logstash
2 2 (1.87%) Ansible
2 2 (1.87%) Grafana
2 2 (1.87%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.87%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.87%) SCCM
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) Microsoft
1 9 (8.41%) Salesforce
2 7 (6.54%) Databricks
3 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.87%) Blue Prism
4 2 (1.87%) Brio
4 2 (1.87%) Cisco
4 2 (1.87%) Dell
4 2 (1.87%) Nokia
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle
4 2 (1.87%) Rakuten
4 2 (1.87%) Veritas
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe
5 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.93%) Foundry
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) Hotjar
5 1 (0.93%) Infoblox
5 1 (0.93%) Palantir
5 1 (0.93%) SAP