Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 15 October 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 15 October 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Decision-Making
UK
6 months to
15 Oct 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 130 166 149
Rank change year-on-year +36 -17 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,676 1,718 1,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.96% 1.67% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.92% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 1,035 1,091
UK median daily rate £475 £464 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.43% +3.06% +5.88%
10th Percentile £321 £300 £280
90th Percentile £650 £662 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £420
% change year-on-year +5.88% +1.19% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 48 60
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £25.00 £14.20
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +52.00% +76.06% -16.47%
10th Percentile £15.67 £10.82 £11.71
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.75 £50.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £23.65 £13.86
% change year-on-year +62.83% +70.60% -25.08%

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,720 89,488 84,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.42% 86.80% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 48,365 58,981 56,111
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%
10th Percentile £300 £300 £278
90th Percentile £650 £638 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,257 2,446 2,074
UK median hourly rate £23.93 £20.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +16.71% -18.00% +11.11%
10th Percentile £11.80 £11.17 £11.25
90th Percentile £53.00 £50.00 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +6.38%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 15 October 2019.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 15 October 2019.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 October 2019. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +35 1,512 £475 - 503
UK excluding London +21 879 £450 +5.88% 361
London +48 764 £503 +0.50% 186
South East +50 324 £450 -5.26% 82
North of England +17 184 £450 +5.88% 86
South West +35 133 £500 -2.44% 40
Scotland +15 100 £450 +5.88% 27
North West +4 95 £450 +5.88% 51
Yorkshire +40 74 £450 +5.88% 29
Midlands -33 59 £425 +9.68% 66
East of England +3 41 £450 - 44
Wales +14 37 £309 -26.05% 14
West Midlands -33 37 £413 +3.13% 47
East Midlands +5 20 £433 +15.33% 19
North East +7 16 £625 +47.06% 6
Channel Islands - 2 £450 -
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 3
Isle of Man - 1 - -

For the 6 months to 15 October 2019, IT contractor jobs citing Decision-Making also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Decision-Making.

1 648 (38.66%) Agile Software Development
2 479 (28.58%) Finance
3 368 (21.96%) Analytical Skills
4 339 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
5 262 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 259 (15.45%) Project Management
7 236 (14.08%) Analytics
8 232 (13.84%) Microsoft
9 230 (13.72%) Security Cleared
10 226 (13.48%) Degree
11 195 (11.63%) Public Sector
12 192 (11.46%) AWS
13 189 (11.28%) SQL
14 176 (10.50%) Python
15 171 (10.20%) Azure
16 164 (9.79%) DevOps
17 161 (9.61%) Windows
18 159 (9.49%) Scrum
19 150 (8.95%) Java
19 150 (8.95%) SC Cleared
20 148 (8.83%) Project Delivery
21 146 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
22 133 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
23 132 (7.88%) Web Services
24 127 (7.58%) Management Information System
25 115 (6.86%) Change Management
26 112 (6.68%) Microsoft Office
27 111 (6.62%) Migration
28 109 (6.50%) User Experience
29 106 (6.32%) Kubernetes

Decision-Making
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.45%) Confluence
3 24 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.07%) IIS
5 16 (0.95%) MS Exchange
6 15 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (0.89%) SAS
7 13 (0.78%) CMS
8 12 (0.72%) Skype for Business
9 11 (0.66%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.60%) JBoss
11 9 (0.54%) Apache
12 7 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
13 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.24%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.24%) CICS
13 4 (0.24%) IBM Notes
13 4 (0.24%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
14 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 133 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (6.68%) Microsoft Office
3 80 (4.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (2.45%) MS Visio
5 36 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.66%) Sketch
6 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.54%) InVision
8 8 (0.48%) SPSS
9 5 (0.30%) Marvel
9 5 (0.30%) UserZoom
10 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.18%) Zeplin
11 2 (0.12%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.12%) Stata
11 2 (0.12%) Windchill
12 1 (0.060%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.060%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 24 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 9 (0.54%) SessionCam
4 8 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.48%) SAP SRM
5 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.24%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.24%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.24%) thinkFolio
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
7 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.18%) Primavera
8 2 (0.12%) FINCAD Analytics
8 2 (0.12%) Magento
8 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.12%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 192 (11.46%) AWS
2 171 (10.20%) Azure
3 77 (4.59%) Serverless
4 72 (4.30%) Power Platform
5 66 (3.94%) Amazon S3
5 66 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
6 65 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
7 58 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
8 55 (3.28%) OpenShift
9 53 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (2.80%) Office 365
11 42 (2.51%) GCP
12 35 (2.09%) GitHub
13 27 (1.61%) PaaS
14 23 (1.37%) Azure Active Directory
15 21 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
16 20 (1.19%) IaaS
17 18 (1.07%) Google Analytics
18 13 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.91%) DNS
1 32 (1.91%) WAN
2 29 (1.73%) LAN
2 29 (1.73%) SAN
3 20 (1.19%) HTTP
3 20 (1.19%) Wireless
4 13 (0.78%) BGP
4 13 (0.78%) Ethernet
4 13 (0.78%) HSRP
4 13 (0.78%) MPLS
4 13 (0.78%) Skype
5 12 (0.72%) Internet
5 12 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (0.66%) 802.11
6 11 (0.66%) EIGRP
6 11 (0.66%) Firewall
6 11 (0.66%) Spanning Tree
6 11 (0.66%) WLAN
7 10 (0.60%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.54%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 86 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 69 (4.12%) Power BI
4 66 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
5 65 (3.88%) Big Data
6 60 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 32 (1.91%) Hadoop
9 31 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (1.25%) SQL Server 2008
11 19 (1.13%) NoSQL
12 18 (1.07%) Data Mining
12 18 (1.07%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.95%) MySQL
13 16 (0.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 14 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
14 14 (0.84%) Data Lake
15 11 (0.66%) GIS
15 11 (0.66%) SAP BW
16 9 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 73 (4.36%) JIRA
2 65 (3.88%) Git (software)
3 50 (2.98%) Artifactory
4 44 (2.63%) RStudio
5 32 (1.91%) Jenkins
6 29 (1.73%) Visual Studio
7 11 (0.66%) Axure RP
7 11 (0.66%) gulp
8 9 (0.54%) NUnit
8 9 (0.54%) PVCS
8 9 (0.54%) Selenium
8 9 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 8 (0.48%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
9 8 (0.48%) webpack
10 7 (0.42%) jspm
10 7 (0.42%) Maven
11 6 (0.36%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.36%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 479 (28.58%) Finance
2 195 (11.63%) Public Sector
3 102 (6.09%) Telecoms
4 89 (5.31%) Banking
5 76 (4.53%) Front Office
6 73 (4.36%) Marketing
7 67 (4.00%) Retail
8 53 (3.16%) Legal
9 44 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 21 (1.25%) Games
12 19 (1.13%) Electronics
13 18 (1.07%) Publishing
14 17 (1.01%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.01%) Law
15 16 (0.95%) Military
16 12 (0.72%) Local Government
17 11 (0.66%) Advertising
18 9 (0.54%) German Language
18 9 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 235 (14.02%) Analyst
2 227 (13.54%) Developer
3 189 (11.28%) Architect
4 134 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 103 (6.15%) Business Analyst
6 74 (4.42%) User Researcher
7 51 (3.04%) Consultant
7 51 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
8 50 (2.98%) Senior Developer
9 49 (2.92%) Designer
10 48 (2.86%) AWS Developer
10 48 (2.86%) Data Analyst
11 43 (2.57%) IT Manager
12 42 (2.51%) Lead Developer
13 36 (2.15%) React Developer
14 35 (2.09%) Java Developer
15 34 (2.03%) AWS Architect
15 34 (2.03%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 32 (1.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 30 (1.79%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (7.88%) Web Services
2 81 (4.83%) React
3 70 (4.18%) .NET
4 66 (3.94%) AngularJS
5 60 (3.58%) HTML
6 52 (3.10%) Node.js
7 51 (3.04%) CSS
8 34 (2.03%) Vue.js
9 30 (1.79%) REST
9 30 (1.79%) RESTful
10 29 (1.73%) J2EE
11 27 (1.61%) Middleware
11 27 (1.61%) OAuth
12 26 (1.55%) JSON
13 24 (1.43%) XML
14 23 (1.37%) .NET Framework
14 23 (1.37%) WCF
15 20 (1.19%) Kafka
15 20 (1.19%) Sass
16 19 (1.13%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 368 (21.96%) Analytical Skills
2 127 (7.58%) Management Information System
3 109 (6.50%) User Experience
4 69 (4.12%) Fixed Income
5 57 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
7 40 (2.39%) Data Centre
8 26 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 24 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.37%) Equities
11 22 (1.31%) Derivative
12 21 (1.25%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.19%) Blog
13 20 (1.19%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 15 (0.89%) Virtual Team
16 13 (0.78%) PMI
17 12 (0.72%) Driving Licence
18 11 (0.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 161 (9.61%) Windows
2 92 (5.49%) Linux
3 34 (2.03%) Unix
4 29 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.89%) Android
6 15 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.66%) Solaris
8 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
9 10 (0.60%) CentOS
10 6 (0.36%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.24%) Debian
11 4 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.18%) AIX
12 3 (0.18%) HPUX
12 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (38.66%) Agile Software Development
2 339 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
3 262 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 259 (15.45%) Project Management
5 236 (14.08%) Analytics
6 164 (9.79%) DevOps
7 159 (9.49%) Scrum
8 148 (8.83%) Project Delivery
9 146 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
10 115 (6.86%) Change Management
11 111 (6.62%) Migration
12 106 (6.32%) ITIL
13 105 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
14 104 (6.21%) Coaching
15 94 (5.61%) User Stories
16 90 (5.37%) PRINCE2
17 89 (5.31%) Service Management
18 87 (5.19%) Data Analysis
19 86 (5.13%) Business Analysis
20 85 (5.07%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 189 (11.28%) SQL
2 176 (10.50%) Python
3 150 (8.95%) Java
4 100 (5.97%) JavaScript
5 61 (3.64%) C#
6 59 (3.52%) C
7 53 (3.16%) R
8 48 (2.86%) T-SQL
9 23 (1.37%) C++
10 21 (1.25%) TypeScript
11 20 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.13%) PowerShell
13 17 (1.01%) Perl
13 17 (1.01%) Scala
14 11 (0.66%) Bash Shell
14 11 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.66%) VBA
15 10 (0.60%) ES6
16 7 (0.42%) PHP
16 7 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 230 (13.72%) Security Cleared
2 226 (13.48%) Degree
3 150 (8.95%) SC Cleared
4 37 (2.21%) DV Cleared
5 36 (2.15%) ISEB
6 30 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.37%) PMI Certification
8 22 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 19 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.84%) CISSP
11 14 (0.84%) PMP
12 12 (0.72%) HND
13 11 (0.66%) APMP
13 11 (0.66%) CCNP
13 11 (0.66%) PhD
13 11 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 10 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.15%) QA
2 75 (4.47%) PMO
3 40 (2.39%) Data Quality
4 19 (1.13%) GDPR
4 19 (1.13%) SLA
5 10 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.36%) MiFID
6 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.30%) EMIR
7 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.24%) WCAG
9 3 (0.18%) GMP
9 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.18%) NEBOSH
10 2 (0.12%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.12%) P3O
10 2 (0.12%) PMBOK
10 2 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 91 (5.43%) Docker
2 72 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 51 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.60%) vSphere
5 9 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
7 5 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.30%) XenApp
8 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 3 (0.18%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.18%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.12%) Ceph
10 2 (0.12%) NFS
10 2 (0.12%) vCloud
10 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 106 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.12%) Terraform
3 23 (1.37%) Ansible
4 14 (0.84%) SCCM
5 13 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.72%) Puppet
6 12 (0.72%) WSUS
7 9 (0.54%) Avamar
7 9 (0.54%) Grafana
8 8 (0.48%) vRealize
9 7 (0.42%) Graphite
9 7 (0.42%) MIIS
9 7 (0.42%) Packer
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.24%) Opscode Chef
11 4 (0.24%) SCOM
12 3 (0.18%) Nagios
12 3 (0.18%) Norton AntiVirus
12 3 (0.18%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 232 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.91%) SAP
3 71 (4.24%) VMware
4 58 (3.46%) Oracle
5 48 (2.86%) Cisco
5 48 (2.86%) Google
6 33 (1.97%) Tableau
7 30 (1.79%) Salesforce.com
8 26 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.43%) Greenplum
10 20 (1.19%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.19%) Citrix
11 19 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 16 (0.95%) HP
13 15 (0.89%) EMC
14 14 (0.84%) Adobe
14 14 (0.84%) Remedy
15 13 (0.78%) Workday
16 11 (0.66%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.66%) Dell
552 Decision-Making job vacancies Nationwide