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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 314 405
Rank change year-on-year +77 +91 +39
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 107 76 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.38% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.44% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 57 27
10th Percentile £265 £401 £384
25th Percentile £300 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £531 £585 £625
90th Percentile £628 £635 £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% -22.76%

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 11,649 17,108 20,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.43% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 10,200 14,248
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,053 1,261
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.31 £10.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +16 29 £465 -11.43% 104
South East +48 21 £300 -33.33% 172
North West +7 21 £455 -13.33% 64
Scotland +25 20 £495 -20.86% 29
Midlands +22 17 £400 -11.11% 60
West Midlands +18 15 £400 -11.11% 47
South West +50 12 £513 -10.87% 32
Yorkshire +15 7 £463 -11.90% 31
East of England +27 5 £475 -13.64% 34
Northern Ireland - 3 £625 - 9
East Midlands +10 2 £396 +76.00% 9
North East -3 1 £525 -1.41% 11
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%) IBM Domino
2 7 (6.54%) Apache
3 5 (4.67%) Confluence
4 4 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.69%) Power Platform
2 15 (14.02%) Azure
3 10 (9.35%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (7.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 5 (4.67%) AWS
5 5 (4.67%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.80%) GCP
8 2 (1.87%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.87%) SaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.93%) Datadog
9 1 (0.93%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) 5G
1 1 (0.93%) Internet
1 1 (0.93%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (0.93%) Modbus
1 1 (0.93%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.76%) Power BI
2 11 (10.28%) Tableau
3 8 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.87%) Big Data
6 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.87%) MySQL
6 2 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.93%) Metadata
7 1 (0.93%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
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 1 (0.93%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (57.94%) Social Skills
2 34 (31.78%) Finance
3 33 (30.84%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (19.63%) Marketing
5 18 (16.82%) Banking
6 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
7 12 (11.21%) Investment Banking
8 11 (10.28%) Legal
9 6 (5.61%) Retail
10 5 (4.67%) Local Government
11 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.80%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.87%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.87%) Games
13 1 (0.93%) Advertising
13 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
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%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 9 (8.41%) Coordinator
5 9 (8.41%) JavaScript Engineer
6 8 (7.48%) CRM Coordinator
6 8 (7.48%) Customer Executive
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 4 (3.74%) Architect
9 4 (3.74%) Developer
9 4 (3.74%) Strategy Manager
9 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
5 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.93%) Shiny
5 1 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.74%) Replication
5 3 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.93%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) NB-IoT
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) SCADA
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (79.44%) Decision-Making
2 45 (42.06%) Analytics
3 39 (36.45%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (21.50%) Business Intelligence
5 22 (20.56%) Data Analysis
6 20 (18.69%) CRM
6 20 (18.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (16.82%) Agile
8 17 (15.89%) Actionable Insight
8 17 (15.89%) Data Modelling
8 17 (15.89%) Machine Learning
8 17 (15.89%) Visualisation
9 16 (14.95%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (14.95%) Data Security
10 15 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence
10 15 (14.02%) Data Science
11 12 (11.21%) Critical Thinking
11 12 (11.21%) Risk Management
11 12 (11.21%) Statistical Analysis
12 11 (10.28%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.17%) Python
2 22 (20.56%) SQL
3 10 (9.35%) Java
3 10 (9.35%) JavaScript
3 10 (9.35%) TypeScript
4 8 (7.48%) R
5 1 (0.93%) ABAP
5 1 (0.93%) Bash
5 1 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (11.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.67%) Degree
4 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) APMG
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 14 (13.08%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.61%) QA
4 3 (2.80%) GDPR
5 2 (1.87%) WCAG
6 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Kibana
1 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.74%) logstash
2 3 (2.80%) Grafana
3 2 (1.87%) Ansible
3 2 (1.87%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (1.87%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Salesforce
2 10 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.61%) Databricks
4 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.87%) Cisco
5 2 (1.87%) Dell
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle
5 2 (1.87%) Splunk
5 2 (1.87%) Veritas
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Brio
6 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.93%) Foundry
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.93%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.93%) Palantir
6 1 (0.93%) SAP