Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 419 618
Rank change year-on-year +128 +199 +16
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 258 174 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.40% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.46% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 125 68
10th Percentile £323 £401 £406
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £640 £688
90th Percentile £676 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £520 £463
% change year-on-year -13.46% +12.43% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 1
10th Percentile £18.74 - -
25th Percentile £29.03 £35.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% -22.76%
75th Percentile £55.25 £61.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.91 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £61.00 -
% change year-on-year -48.13% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,628 37,452 53,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.86% 86.33% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,163 24,130 36,930
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,083 2,454 1,752
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +115 218 £500 -4.76% 903
London +85 128 £550 - 600
UK excluding London +101 106 £450 -13.46% 421
Work from Home +39 72 £450 -7.69% 456
North of England +23 33 £455 -12.50% 96
North West +21 24 £455 -12.08% 66
South East +36 21 £294 -34.72% 173
Scotland +27 19 £464 -25.86% 28
Midlands +22 17 £400 -11.11% 47
West Midlands +23 15 £400 -11.11% 33
South West +49 11 £513 -12.77% 36
Yorkshire +13 8 £475 -9.52% 25
East of England +36 4 £475 -13.64% 37
East Midlands +13 2 £396 +76.00% 9
North East -3 1 £525 -1.41% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 6

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.49%) Apache
3 8 (3.10%) Confluence
3 8 (3.10%) IBM Domino
4 6 (2.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.78%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) Appian
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 18 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.49%) Trello
3 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.39%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.39%) Maximo
3 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.39%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (19.77%) Power Platform
2 49 (18.99%) Azure
3 33 (12.79%) AWS
4 14 (5.43%) Snowflake
5 12 (4.65%) GCP
6 10 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (3.10%) SaaS
8 8 (3.10%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 7 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.94%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.94%) Collibra
10 5 (1.94%) dbt
10 5 (1.94%) Figma
10 5 (1.94%) Miro
10 5 (1.94%) Serverless
11 4 (1.55%) Alation
11 4 (1.55%) GitHub
12 3 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) 5G
2 1 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.39%) Modbus
2 1 (0.39%) MQTT
2 1 (0.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.60%) Power BI
2 34 (13.18%) Tableau
3 24 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.43%) Metadata
5 8 (3.10%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.71%) Big Data
6 7 (2.71%) Data Mining
6 7 (2.71%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.33%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.33%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.55%) Looker
10 3 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.16%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.16%) MySQL
10 3 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.16%) Power Query
10 3 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (7.75%) JIRA
2 4 (1.55%) Appium
2 4 (1.55%) ERwin
2 4 (1.55%) Git
2 4 (1.55%) JUnit
2 4 (1.55%) Selenium
2 4 (1.55%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.39%) Gatling
3 1 (0.39%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) JMeter
3 1 (0.39%) Maven
3 1 (0.39%) TestDirector
General
1 131 (50.78%) Social Skills
2 100 (38.76%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (29.46%) Finance
4 40 (15.50%) Marketing
5 36 (13.95%) Public Sector
6 27 (10.47%) Banking
7 20 (7.75%) Investment Banking
7 20 (7.75%) Retail
8 19 (7.36%) Legal
9 13 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.10%) Corporate Banking
10 8 (3.10%) Retail Banking
11 7 (2.71%) Police
12 5 (1.94%) Front Office
12 5 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.94%) Local Government
13 4 (1.55%) Advertising
13 4 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (13.95%) Analyst
2 30 (11.63%) Data Engineer
3 22 (8.53%) Senior
4 21 (8.14%) Lead
4 21 (8.14%) Product Manager
5 19 (7.36%) Developer
6 17 (6.59%) Data Analyst
6 17 (6.59%) Python Engineer
7 16 (6.20%) Architect
7 16 (6.20%) Business Analyst
8 14 (5.43%) Data Architect
9 11 (4.26%) Consultant
9 11 (4.26%) Data Scientist
10 10 (3.88%) Coordinator
11 9 (3.49%) Python Data Engineer
12 8 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.10%) CRM Coordinator
12 8 (3.10%) Customer Executive
12 8 (3.10%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.10%) Technical Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.26%) Kafka
1 11 (4.26%) PySpark
2 7 (2.71%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (2.71%) TensorFlow
3 5 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (1.94%) Pandas
3 5 (1.94%) scikit-learn
4 4 (1.55%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.78%) CSS
5 2 (0.78%) HTML
5 2 (0.78%) Jinja
5 2 (0.78%) JSON
5 2 (0.78%) Node.js
5 2 (0.78%) RESTful
5 2 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.39%) EDI
6 1 (0.39%) Flash
6 1 (0.39%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.39%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.20%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.81%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (5.43%) Data Structures
4 13 (5.04%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 12 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.55%) Replication
7 4 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.16%) Equities
8 3 (1.16%) IoT
8 3 (1.16%) Life Science
8 3 (1.16%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.78%) Linux
1 2 (0.78%) Windows
1 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.39%) Android
2 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (82.95%) Decision-Making
2 102 (39.53%) Analytics
3 81 (31.40%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (24.03%) Data Modelling
5 61 (23.64%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (21.32%) Agile
7 47 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 47 (18.22%) Visualisation
8 46 (17.83%) Data Analysis
9 45 (17.44%) Data Governance
10 44 (17.05%) Actionable Insight
11 41 (15.89%) Data Science
12 39 (15.12%) Machine Learning
13 37 (14.34%) Roadmaps
14 34 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
15 33 (12.79%) Artificial Intelligence
16 30 (11.63%) ETL
17 29 (11.24%) Data Security
17 29 (11.24%) Data Visualisation
18 28 (10.85%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (27.52%) Python
2 67 (25.97%) SQL
3 17 (6.59%) R
4 10 (3.88%) Java
4 10 (3.88%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.49%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.94%) Bash
6 5 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.78%) C++
7 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.39%) ABAP
8 1 (0.39%) Go
8 1 (0.39%) Groovy
8 1 (0.39%) Perl
8 1 (0.39%) PHP
8 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (12.02%) Degree
2 26 (10.08%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.39%) CSPO
8 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) ISEB
8 1 (0.39%) MBA
8 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.39%) PhD
8 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.39%) PMP
8 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.57%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.69%) Accessibility
3 15 (5.81%) GDPR
4 8 (3.10%) QA
5 4 (1.55%) PMO
6 3 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.16%) WCAG
7 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.39%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (3.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (2.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.94%) Ansible
2 5 (1.94%) Terraform
3 4 (1.55%) Kibana
3 4 (1.55%) logstash
4 3 (1.16%) Grafana
5 2 (0.78%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.78%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.78%) SCCM
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (6.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.81%) Salesforce
3 13 (5.04%) Databricks
4 11 (4.26%) Oracle
5 10 (3.88%) Google
6 6 (2.33%) Informatica
6 6 (2.33%) SAP
7 5 (1.94%) Foundry
7 5 (1.94%) Palantir
8 3 (1.16%) Adobe
8 3 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.78%) Brio
9 2 (0.78%) Dell
9 2 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Sparx
9 2 (0.78%) Splunk
9 2 (0.78%) Veritas
10 1 (0.39%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.39%) Rakuten
10 1 (0.39%) Talend