Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 17 August 2018

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 17 August 2018 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
17 Aug 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 154 151 159
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,845 1,690 1,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 1.77% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.06% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,014 1,138
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £435
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.92% +3.45% +8.75%
10th Percentile £300 £281 £260
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £415 £400
% change year-on-year +2.41% +3.75% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 60 63
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £14.35 £18.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +67.25% -22.43% -0.11%
10th Percentile £11.17 £11.72 £11.72
90th Percentile £52.58 £42.50 £47.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £13.86 £18.50
% change year-on-year +58.73% -25.08% -0.11%

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 88,862 81,893 92,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 85.55% 84.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 58,641 53,667 60,922
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £300 £275 £263
90th Percentile £638 £625 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,390 2,076 2,301
UK median hourly rate £21.02 £24.86 £23.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -15.45% +5.79% +8.60%
10th Percentile £11.18 £11.41 £11.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £50.25 £48.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% +10.34%

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 17 August 2018.

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 17 August 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

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 Decision-Making within the UK over the 6 months to 17 August 2018. 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 -6 1,658 £475 +5.56% 487
UK excluding London +3 1,018 £425 +2.41% 332
London -7 788 £518 +3.50% 190
South East -9 294 £453 +6.47% 76
North of England +21 267 £425 +9.68% 88
Midlands -16 154 £388 -8.82% 52
North West +14 144 £425 +17.24% 48
Scotland +11 129 £400 -3.03% 20
East of England +12 99 £470 +8.67% 50
West Midlands -13 95 £413 +3.13% 27
Yorkshire 0 75 £425 - 31
East Midlands -24 59 £388 -22.50% 24
North East +16 53 £455 +20.93% 9
South West -37 52 £525 +26.51% 31
Wales -8 25 £400 +1.27% 13
Northern Ireland +26 4 £650 +62.50% 2

For the 6 months to 17 August 2018, 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.

1 703 (38.10%) Agile Software Development
2 555 (30.08%) Finance
3 453 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
4 437 (23.69%) Analytical Skills
5 352 (19.08%) Project Management
6 278 (15.07%) Degree
7 275 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 254 (13.77%) Analytics
9 233 (12.63%) Scrum
10 212 (11.49%) Microsoft
11 203 (11.00%) Security Cleared
12 195 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 175 (9.49%) SQL
14 160 (8.67%) ITIL
14 160 (8.67%) SC Cleared
14 160 (8.67%) Mentoring
15 148 (8.02%) Coaching
16 142 (7.70%) Risk Management
17 141 (7.64%) Change Management
17 141 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
18 140 (7.59%) Java
19 139 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
19 139 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
20 136 (7.37%) Windows
21 126 (6.83%) Oracle
22 124 (6.72%) Service Management
23 120 (6.50%) User Stories
24 119 (6.45%) Banking
25 112 (6.07%) Continuous Integration
26 111 (6.02%) Migration

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 52 (2.82%) Apache Spark
2 48 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.38%) Confluence
4 42 (2.28%) SAS
5 24 (1.30%) Skype for Business
6 22 (1.19%) CMS
7 18 (0.98%) Apache
8 16 (0.87%) IIS
8 16 (0.87%) MS Exchange
9 14 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2010
9 14 (0.76%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.60%) Tomcat
11 9 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.49%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.49%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.38%) nginx
12 7 (0.38%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.27%) Commerce Server
14 5 (0.27%) JBoss
Applications
1 141 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 139 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (2.66%) Microsoft Project
4 42 (2.28%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.33%) SPSS
7 4 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.16%) 3ds Max
8 3 (0.16%) Maya
9 2 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.11%) Stata
10 1 (0.054%) InDesign
10 1 (0.054%) Open Workbench
10 1 (0.054%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 14 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.27%) Primavera
2 5 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 4 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (0.22%) Magento
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle BRM
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.16%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.16%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.16%) PolarLake
4 3 (0.16%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.16%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.16%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.16%) Summit
5 2 (0.11%) CODA-Financials
Cloud Services
1 91 (4.93%) Amazon AWS
2 88 (4.77%) Microsoft Azure
3 64 (3.47%) Office 365
4 44 (2.38%) SaaS
5 23 (1.25%) GitHub
6 19 (1.03%) PaaS
7 18 (0.98%) Slack
8 15 (0.81%) Force.com
8 15 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 13 (0.70%) Google Analytics
9 13 (0.70%) IaaS
10 12 (0.65%) Google Cloud Platform
11 10 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (0.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (0.43%) BlazeMeter
13 8 (0.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (0.38%) Serverless
15 6 (0.33%) Mimecast
15 6 (0.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.66%) Firewall
2 43 (2.33%) WAN
3 40 (2.17%) LAN
4 36 (1.95%) DNS
5 35 (1.90%) SMS
6 32 (1.73%) Network Security
7 29 (1.57%) Internet
8 22 (1.19%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.14%) SAN
10 20 (1.08%) Skype
11 18 (0.98%) Unified Communications
12 17 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
13 16 (0.87%) DHCP
14 15 (0.81%) HTTP
15 13 (0.70%) VPN
16 12 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 12 (0.65%) Kerberos
17 11 (0.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 11 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
18 9 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.64%) SQL Server
2 88 (4.77%) Big Data
3 74 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 56 (3.04%) Hadoop
6 42 (2.28%) Power BI
7 28 (1.52%) MySQL
8 26 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 26 (1.41%) Oracle Database
9 24 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
9 24 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 24 (1.30%) Data Mining
10 19 (1.03%) Apache Hive
11 17 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (0.81%) HBase
14 14 (0.76%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 12 (0.65%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 94 (5.09%) JIRA
2 52 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.60%) Git (software)
4 19 (1.03%) Visual Studio
5 18 (0.98%) Selenium
6 17 (0.92%) LoadRunner
7 14 (0.76%) PVCS
8 13 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.65%) JMeter
10 11 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.60%) Subversion
11 9 (0.49%) Maven
12 8 (0.43%) The Grinder
12 8 (0.43%) Zephyr
13 7 (0.38%) Axure RP
13 7 (0.38%) Hudson
13 7 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
13 7 (0.38%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.38%) Visual Studio Team System
14 6 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 555 (30.08%) Finance
2 119 (6.45%) Banking
3 108 (5.85%) Marketing
4 92 (4.99%) Legal
5 90 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 69 (3.74%) Retail
7 49 (2.66%) Games
8 39 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 31 (1.68%) Front Office
10 30 (1.63%) Law
11 21 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 18 (0.98%) Advertising
13 17 (0.92%) Publishing
14 16 (0.87%) Electronics
14 16 (0.87%) Investment Banking
14 16 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.60%) Back Office
15 11 (0.60%) Local Government
15 11 (0.60%) Retail Banking
15 11 (0.60%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 289 (15.66%) Analyst
2 235 (12.74%) Project Manager
3 181 (9.81%) Architect
4 166 (9.00%) Developer
5 119 (6.45%) User Researcher
6 114 (6.18%) Business Analyst
7 84 (4.55%) Scrum Master
8 61 (3.31%) IT Manager
9 60 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (2.87%) Consultant
11 48 (2.60%) Data Analyst
11 48 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
12 45 (2.44%) IT Project Manager
12 45 (2.44%) Programme Manager
13 40 (2.17%) Service Manager
14 39 (2.11%) Senior Manager
15 32 (1.73%) Infrastructure Manager
16 31 (1.68%) Infrastructure Project Manager
17 29 (1.57%) Designer
18 27 (1.46%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.47%) .NET
1 64 (3.47%) Web Services
2 56 (3.04%) XML
3 54 (2.93%) HTML
4 51 (2.76%) REST
5 47 (2.55%) Kafka
6 44 (2.38%) CSS
7 29 (1.57%) SOAP
8 26 (1.41%) Middleware
8 26 (1.41%) Node.js
8 26 (1.41%) RESTful
8 26 (1.41%) Velocity
9 24 (1.30%) Spring
10 23 (1.25%) AngularJS
11 22 (1.19%) J2EE
12 21 (1.14%) JSON
13 19 (1.03%) Spring Boot
14 16 (0.87%) HTML5
15 15 (0.81%) ASP.NET
16 12 (0.65%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 437 (23.69%) Analytical Skills
2 111 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
3 109 (5.91%) Management Information System
4 104 (5.64%) User Experience
5 57 (3.09%) Computer Science
5 57 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.33%) Blog
7 36 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 34 (1.84%) Credit Risk
9 31 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.14%) Clustering
10 21 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 16 (0.87%) Algorithms
12 16 (0.87%) NHS
13 15 (0.81%) PMI
13 15 (0.81%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.65%) Mainframe
14 12 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
15 11 (0.60%) Fintech
Operating Systems
1 136 (7.37%) Windows
2 102 (5.53%) Linux
3 57 (3.09%) Unix
4 33 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 25 (1.36%) Android
6 25 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.25%) Windows 7
8 20 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.54%) Mac OS X
10 9 (0.49%) Windows 8
11 8 (0.43%) Solaris
12 6 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.22%) AIX
14 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.16%) HPUX
15 3 (0.16%) SUSE
15 3 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 2 (0.11%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (38.10%) Agile Software Development
2 453 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
3 352 (19.08%) Project Management
4 275 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 254 (13.77%) Analytics
6 233 (12.63%) Scrum
7 195 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 160 (8.67%) ITIL
8 160 (8.67%) Mentoring
9 148 (8.02%) Coaching
10 142 (7.70%) Risk Management
11 141 (7.64%) Change Management
12 139 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
13 124 (6.72%) Service Management
14 120 (6.50%) User Stories
15 112 (6.07%) Continuous Integration
16 111 (6.02%) Migration
16 111 (6.02%) PRINCE2
17 107 (5.80%) Programme Management
17 107 (5.80%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 175 (9.49%) SQL
2 140 (7.59%) Java
3 105 (5.69%) Python
4 67 (3.63%) JavaScript
5 57 (3.09%) C#
6 50 (2.71%) R
7 36 (1.95%) C
8 19 (1.03%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.03%) PowerShell
9 18 (0.98%) VBA
10 15 (0.81%) Bash Shell
10 15 (0.81%) Perl
10 15 (0.81%) Scala
10 15 (0.81%) T-SQL
11 12 (0.65%) Ruby
12 9 (0.49%) Apex Code
12 9 (0.49%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.43%) Java 8
13 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 278 (15.07%) Degree
2 203 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 160 (8.67%) SC Cleared
4 30 (1.63%) PMP
5 28 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 25 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 21 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.03%) CISSP
11 18 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 15 (0.81%) APMP
13 15 (0.81%) CCIE
14 14 (0.76%) APMG
14 14 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.70%) CCNP
15 13 (0.70%) CISM
16 12 (0.65%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (5.91%) QA
2 84 (4.55%) PMO
3 47 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.33%) GDPR
5 17 (0.92%) SLA
6 8 (0.43%) JSP 440
6 8 (0.43%) P3O
6 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.22%) GCP
8 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.16%) COBIT
9 3 (0.16%) PSD2
9 3 (0.16%) SEPA
9 3 (0.16%) WCAG
10 2 (0.11%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.11%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 49 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.63%) Docker
3 28 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.60%) HDFS
6 10 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 10 (0.54%) BitLocker
6 10 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.54%) XenApp
7 9 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.43%) XenDesktop
9 7 (0.38%) Apache Flume
10 6 (0.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 5 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.11%) Firmware
14 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 26 (1.41%) Ansible
2 19 (1.03%) SCCM
3 17 (0.92%) Kubernetes
4 14 (0.76%) Puppet
5 12 (0.65%) Hadoop YARN
5 12 (0.65%) Terraform
6 8 (0.43%) McAfee ePO
6 8 (0.43%) Opscode Chef
6 8 (0.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.33%) Norton AntiVirus
9 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.22%) WSUS
10 3 (0.16%) Grafana
10 3 (0.16%) Nessus
10 3 (0.16%) Netcool
10 3 (0.16%) NSN NetAct
10 3 (0.16%) OpenView
10 3 (0.16%) SCOM
10 3 (0.16%) TeMIP
Vendors
1 212 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 126 (6.83%) Oracle
3 76 (4.12%) SAP
4 57 (3.09%) Tableau
5 47 (2.55%) Cisco
6 39 (2.11%) Salesforce.com
7 36 (1.95%) VMware
8 35 (1.90%) IBM
9 33 (1.79%) Google
10 29 (1.57%) HP
11 22 (1.19%) ServiceNow
12 21 (1.14%) Citrix
12 21 (1.14%) McAfee
13 19 (1.03%) Alteryx
14 18 (0.98%) Informatica
14 18 (0.98%) Remedy
15 17 (0.92%) CheckPoint
16 16 (0.87%) Adobe
16 16 (0.87%) Juniper
17 15 (0.81%) F5
532 Decision-Making job vacancies Nationwide