Decision-Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 43 50 79
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 -20
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 594 764 727
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.65% 3.68% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 4.34% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 454 474
10th Percentile £313 £267 £272
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £685
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.19% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 103 56
10th Percentile £18.28 £10.95 £15.78
25th Percentile £22.14 £11.47 £21.09
Median hourly rate £27.13 £16.06 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +68.90% -69.94% +20.06%
75th Percentile £58.30 £28.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.46 £50.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £31.08 £19.38 £47.50
% change year-on-year +60.39% -59.21% +11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 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 +3 169 £499 +2.26% 1,086
South East -2 109 £500 -9.09% 1,382
Scotland +22 97 £475 +8.45% 244
Midlands +5 95 £450 +5.88% 823
North West -5 93 £490 +5.95% 616
West Midlands +2 67 £425 -5.56% 456
South West -6 62 £550 - 534
Yorkshire +21 55 £450 -18.18% 358
East of England +22 42 £563 +6.99% 612
East Midlands 0 26 £450 +66.67% 312
North East +10 19 £550 +4.02% 118
Wales +1 11 £331 -36.92% 112
Northern Ireland -3 9 £613 -4.30% 87
Channel Islands - 1 £463 - 1
Decision-Making
UK

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 24 (4.04%) Apache Spark
1 24 (4.04%) Confluence
2 13 (2.19%) Apache
3 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.35%) IBM Domino
6 7 (1.18%) SAS
7 4 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.51%) Appian
9 2 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.34%) CMS
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (3.03%) MS Visio
5 13 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.84%) Trello
8 3 (0.51%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.17%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.17%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.17%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 26 (4.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.51%) SAP BPC
2 3 (0.51%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.17%) FastStats
4 1 (0.17%) FastStats PeopleStage
4 1 (0.17%) iTrent
4 1 (0.17%) Maximo
4 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 88 (14.81%) Azure
2 81 (13.64%) AWS
3 64 (10.77%) Power Platform
4 24 (4.04%) GCP
5 22 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 22 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
6 16 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.36%) OpenShift
7 14 (2.36%) Snowflake
8 11 (1.85%) SaaS
9 7 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.18%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.01%) Cohesity
10 6 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (0.84%) Azure AI
11 5 (0.84%) Serverless
12 4 (0.67%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (0.67%) AWS KMS
12 4 (0.67%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.85%) SAN
2 10 (1.68%) Firewall
2 10 (1.68%) NAS
3 8 (1.35%) Network Security
4 6 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (1.01%) VPN
5 5 (0.84%) 5G
5 5 (0.84%) WAN
6 4 (0.67%) 4G
6 4 (0.67%) BGP
6 4 (0.67%) DNS
6 4 (0.67%) Internet
6 4 (0.67%) OSPF
6 4 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.51%) DHCP
7 3 (0.51%) HTTP
7 3 (0.51%) MPLS
7 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.61%) Power BI
2 46 (7.74%) Tableau
3 25 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.20%) Big Data
4 19 (3.20%) Hadoop
5 11 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.52%) Power Query
7 8 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.35%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.18%) Metadata
8 7 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.01%) Looker
10 5 (0.84%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.84%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.84%) GIS
10 5 (0.84%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 60 (10.10%) JIRA
2 26 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.21%) Git
4 16 (2.69%) GitLab
5 11 (1.85%) Selenium
6 9 (1.52%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.52%) REST Assured
6 9 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.84%) Maven
8 4 (0.67%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.67%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.67%) jMock
8 4 (0.67%) JUnit
8 4 (0.67%) Mockito
9 3 (0.51%) Xcode
10 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.34%) ERwin
10 2 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.34%) Toad
10 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 265 (44.61%) Social Skills
2 165 (27.78%) Finance
3 164 (27.61%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.07%) Banking
6 34 (5.72%) Legal
7 28 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (4.04%) Marketing
9 22 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 21 (3.54%) Telecoms
11 20 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (2.69%) Retail
15 15 (2.53%) Investment Banking
15 15 (2.53%) Local Government
16 14 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.68%) Military
18 9 (1.52%) Retail Banking
19 8 (1.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 103 (17.34%) Analyst
2 66 (11.11%) Senior
3 65 (10.94%) Architect
4 55 (9.26%) Developer
5 49 (8.25%) Lead
6 46 (7.74%) Business Analyst
7 34 (5.72%) Project Manager
8 30 (5.05%) Data Engineer
9 28 (4.71%) Data Analyst
10 27 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.53%) Python Engineer
12 14 (2.36%) Data Science Developer
12 14 (2.36%) Designer
13 13 (2.19%) Consultant
13 13 (2.19%) Senior Developer
14 12 (2.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (2.02%) Programme Manager
15 11 (1.85%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
16 10 (1.68%) Delivery Manager
16 10 (1.68%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.54%) TensorFlow
2 20 (3.37%) PyTorch
2 20 (3.37%) REST
3 16 (2.69%) NumPy
3 16 (2.69%) Pandas
3 16 (2.69%) scikit-learn
4 14 (2.36%) Matplotlib
4 14 (2.36%) Seaborn
5 11 (1.85%) Kafka
5 11 (1.85%) PySpark
6 9 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (1.52%) Java EE
7 8 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (1.01%) ARM Templates
8 6 (1.01%) RESTful
8 6 (1.01%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.84%) Akka
9 5 (0.84%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.84%) JBoss Seam
9 5 (0.84%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.92%) Management Information System
2 36 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 27 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.68%) Credit Risk
8 10 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.52%) IoT
9 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 8 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.18%) PMI
12 6 (1.01%) CMDB
12 6 (1.01%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.01%) Device Driver
12 6 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
12 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.55%) Windows
2 16 (2.69%) Linux
2 16 (2.69%) Windows Server
3 12 (2.02%) Unix
4 4 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.51%) Android
5 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.17%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (38.22%) Problem-Solving
2 152 (25.59%) Agile
3 123 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 115 (19.36%) Analytics
5 98 (16.50%) Data Analysis
6 90 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
7 87 (14.65%) Project Management
8 85 (14.31%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 81 (13.64%) Visualisation
10 79 (13.30%) Risk Management
11 65 (10.94%) Artificial Intelligence
11 65 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 56 (9.43%) Roadmaps
14 55 (9.26%) DevOps
15 52 (8.75%) Change Management
16 51 (8.59%) Data Science
17 49 (8.25%) Data Modelling
18 47 (7.91%) Business Analysis
18 47 (7.91%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 99 (16.67%) Python
2 88 (14.81%) SQL
3 31 (5.22%) Java
4 26 (4.38%) R
5 16 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 14 (2.36%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.02%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.52%) Scala
10 6 (1.01%) Embedded C
11 5 (0.84%) C
12 4 (0.67%) VBA
13 3 (0.51%) Bash
13 3 (0.51%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.51%) Swift
13 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.34%) Perl
14 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 87 (14.65%) Degree
3 60 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 32 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 29 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.69%) PhD
7 15 (2.53%) PMI Certification
8 14 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.36%) PMP
9 12 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.85%) CISM
11 6 (1.01%) CCA
11 6 (1.01%) CISSP
12 5 (0.84%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.67%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.67%) CCNP
13 4 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.51%) CCIE
14 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.59%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.70%) PMO
3 19 (3.20%) QA
4 18 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.19%) GDPR
6 13 (2.19%) NCSC
7 8 (1.35%) SLA
8 6 (1.01%) GRC
9 5 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.67%) NIST
10 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.51%) P3O
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.34%) IFRS
12 2 (0.34%) WCAG
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
13 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (4.04%) Docker
2 14 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.01%) Firmware
5 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.67%) Postfix
7 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.53%) Ansible
3 14 (2.36%) Terraform
4 11 (1.85%) NetBackup
5 10 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
6 9 (1.52%) Kibana
7 7 (1.18%) Grafana
8 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.01%) MOM
8 6 (1.01%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (0.84%) Podman
10 4 (0.67%) logstash
11 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.34%) NetApp OnCommand
12 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.34%) vMotion
12 2 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.73%) SAP
3 19 (3.20%) ServiceNow
4 16 (2.69%) Google
4 16 (2.69%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.53%) Oracle
6 13 (2.19%) Atlassian
6 13 (2.19%) Databricks
7 12 (2.02%) Cisco
8 11 (1.85%) Veritas
8 11 (1.85%) VMware
9 7 (1.18%) Ariba
9 7 (1.18%) Siemens
10 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.01%) Rockwell
11 5 (0.84%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.84%) Darktrace
11 5 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.67%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.67%) Proofpoint