Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data-Driven Decision Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 428 445
Rank change year-on-year +107 +17 -36
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 72 31 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 24 53
10th Percentile £400 £367 £315
25th Percentile £425 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £585 £625 £538
90th Percentile £680 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £72.22 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year -10.53% +7.34% +132.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 +53 28 £520 +22.35% 43
South East +28 24 £450 - 36
North West +40 18 £518 +42.76% 28
Midlands +25 9 £450 -28.00% 21
West Midlands +28 8 £450 -28.00% 12
Yorkshire +28 7 £525 +10.53% 14
Scotland +39 5 £626 - 6
East of England +14 3 £550 +10.00% 13
North East - 3 £533 - 2
Wales - 2 £465 - 12
East Midlands +19 1 £225 -65.38% 9
South West +12 1 £600 +142.42% 13
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 4 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) SAS
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.39%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.39%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.39%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (6.94%) Smartsheet
4 3 (4.17%) AWS
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.39%) dbt
6 1 (1.39%) GCP
6 1 (1.39%) SaaS
6 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) 3G
1 1 (1.39%) 4G
1 1 (1.39%) 5G
1 1 (1.39%) Broadband
1 1 (1.39%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (16.67%) Power BI
3 10 (13.89%) Data Lake
4 8 (11.11%) Tableau
5 7 (9.72%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.94%) Big Data
7 4 (5.56%) MySQL
8 3 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (4.17%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.17%) HBase
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.39%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.39%) Impala
10 1 (1.39%) Metadata
10 1 (1.39%) Navicat
10 1 (1.39%) PowerCenter
10 1 (1.39%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.39%) ERwin
3 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (56.94%) Social Skills
2 24 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Legal
4 7 (9.72%) Marketing
5 6 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.94%) Finance
6 5 (6.94%) Retail
7 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Health Technology
8 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.78%) Banking
9 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.39%) Automotive
10 1 (1.39%) French Language
10 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (15.28%) Data Engineer
1 11 (15.28%) Lead
2 7 (9.72%) Analyst
2 7 (9.72%) Data Analyst
3 5 (6.94%) Consultant
3 5 (6.94%) Developer
3 5 (6.94%) HR Manager
3 5 (6.94%) Product Manager
3 5 (6.94%) Project Manager
3 5 (6.94%) Senior
3 5 (6.94%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) Architect
4 4 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (5.56%) Category Manager
4 4 (5.56%) Data Consultant
4 4 (5.56%) Data Governance Consultant
4 4 (5.56%) Data Scientist
4 4 (5.56%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) Kafka
2 2 (2.78%) JSON
2 2 (2.78%) REST
2 2 (2.78%) Swagger
2 2 (2.78%) YAML
3 1 (1.39%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 8 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.17%) FMCG
2 3 (4.17%) Life Science
2 3 (4.17%) NHS
3 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.78%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.78%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (76.39%) Decision-Making
2 24 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 23 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (31.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (30.56%) Analytics
5 21 (29.17%) Agile
6 17 (23.61%) Data Modelling
7 14 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (19.44%) Visualisation
8 13 (18.06%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (18.06%) Data Lineage
8 13 (18.06%) ETL
9 12 (16.67%) Data Integration
9 12 (16.67%) Use Case
10 10 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (12.50%) Data Analysis
11 9 (12.50%) Data Analytics
11 9 (12.50%) Data Engineering
12 8 (11.11%) Data Science
12 8 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.83%) SQL
2 14 (19.44%) Python
3 5 (6.94%) Java
4 4 (5.56%) Scala
5 3 (4.17%) R
6 2 (2.78%) C#
6 2 (2.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.78%) MBA
3 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.39%) CSPO
4 1 (1.39%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (31.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Informatica
2 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.72%) Databricks
3 7 (9.72%) Facebook
3 7 (9.72%) Instagram
4 5 (6.94%) Oracle
5 3 (4.17%) Brio
6 2 (2.78%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.39%) SAP
7 1 (1.39%) Snowplow
7 1 (1.39%) VMware