Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 24 October 2020

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 24 October 2020 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
24 Oct 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 82 133 169
Rank change year-on-year +51 +36 -21
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 907 1,666 1,739
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.85% 1.97% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.28% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 1,000 1,043
Median daily rate £500 £475 £455
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.40% +1.11%
10th Percentile £312 £320 £300
90th Percentile £675 £650 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -0.64% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 78 48
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -7.89% +52.00% +76.40%
10th Percentile £15.75 £16.70 £10.82
90th Percentile £57.50 £49.88 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £38.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year - +41.28% +96.61%

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 27,501 73,139 90,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 86.58% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,379 48,033 59,493
Median daily rate £475 £475 £455
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +4.40% +1.11%
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
90th Percentile £663 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £438 £425
% change year-on-year -0.57% +2.94% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 981 2,277 2,433
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +45.83% +14.29% -14.26%
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.88 £11.18
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £20.34
% change year-on-year +22.22% +10.65% -18.66%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 24 October 2020.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 24 October 2020.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Top 17 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 24 October 2020. 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 +52 772 £513 +7.89% 284
UK excluding London +64 453 £447 -0.64% 212
London +42 383 £550 +7.84% 95
Work from Home +6 143 £450 -5.26% 52
South East +44 118 £475 +5.56% 42
North of England +44 95 £432 -3.98% 54
Midlands +116 85 £420 -4.55% 42
Scotland +43 65 £475 +5.56% 13
West Midlands +85 54 £520 +26.06% 28
North West +44 54 £394 -12.56% 32
South West +45 53 £450 -5.26% 25
Yorkshire +42 32 £441 -1.99% 16
East Midlands +62 30 £350 -20.45% 14
Wales +28 23 £425 +31.27% 7
East of England +56 12 £538 +20.79% 24
North East +29 9 £455 -27.20% 6
Northern Ireland +11 2 £363 - 6

For the 6 months to 24 October 2020, 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.

1 425 (46.86%) Agile Software Development
2 279 (30.76%) Finance
3 178 (19.63%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (19.51%) DevOps
4 177 (19.51%) Security Cleared
5 166 (18.30%) AWS
6 165 (18.19%) Python
7 158 (17.42%) Java
8 154 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
9 147 (16.21%) Azure
10 143 (15.77%) Asset Management
11 141 (15.55%) Web Services
12 138 (15.21%) Public Sector
13 134 (14.77%) Front Office
14 133 (14.66%) Software Engineering
14 133 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
15 123 (13.56%) Project Management
16 120 (13.23%) Derivative
16 120 (13.23%) SC Cleared
17 119 (13.12%) Fixed Income
18 117 (12.90%) Equities
19 116 (12.79%) JavaScript
20 109 (12.02%) Microsoft
21 108 (11.91%) Analytics
22 106 (11.69%) Business Analysis
23 99 (10.92%) Banking
23 99 (10.92%) React
24 98 (10.80%) Scrum
25 96 (10.58%) Degree
26 93 (10.25%) AngularJS

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 39 (4.30%) Confluence
2 30 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.21%) SAS
4 9 (0.99%) Jupyter
5 7 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.77%) CMS
6 5 (0.55%) Apache
7 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 3 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.22%) IIS
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.11%) MS Project Server
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 64 (7.06%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.44%) Adobe Captivate
6 4 (0.44%) SPSS
7 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.33%) Simulink
7 3 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.11%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.11%) InVision
9 1 (0.11%) Marvel
9 1 (0.11%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.11%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.11%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) Stata
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.66%) Primavera
3 5 (0.55%) Sentinel
4 4 (0.44%) BASE24
5 3 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.22%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle iRecruitment
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 166 (18.30%) AWS
2 147 (16.21%) Azure
3 80 (8.82%) GCP
4 61 (6.73%) Serverless
5 60 (6.62%) OpenShift
6 59 (6.50%) Amazon S3
7 57 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (6.17%) Amazon SQS
9 55 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 54 (5.95%) Power Platform
11 53 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
12 51 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (3.53%) Office 365
14 17 (1.87%) PaaS
15 15 (1.65%) Google Analytics
16 13 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (1.43%) SaaS
17 11 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
18 9 (0.99%) Google Tag Manager
19 8 (0.88%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.54%) Network Security
2 13 (1.43%) Firewall
3 11 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 11 (1.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 8 (0.88%) SAN
5 7 (0.77%) iSCSI
5 7 (0.77%) WAN
6 6 (0.66%) ATM
6 6 (0.66%) LAN
7 5 (0.55%) HTTP
7 5 (0.55%) Internet
7 5 (0.55%) Skype
7 5 (0.55%) Wireless
8 4 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
9 3 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.33%) DNS
9 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.22%) OSPF
10 2 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
2 50 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (5.40%) Power BI
4 42 (4.63%) SQL Server
5 34 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (3.53%) Tableau
7 26 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 21 (2.32%) Big Data
9 19 (2.09%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.87%) MySQL
10 17 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (1.21%) Hadoop
13 10 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.10%) Data Lake
13 10 (1.10%) Data Mining
13 10 (1.10%) MongoDB
13 10 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 9 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.99%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 81 (8.93%) RStudio
2 62 (6.84%) Artifactory
3 53 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 51 (5.62%) JIRA
5 22 (2.43%) Git (software)
6 10 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.99%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.66%) Gradle
9 6 (0.66%) JUnit
9 6 (0.66%) Maven
10 5 (0.55%) GitLab
10 5 (0.55%) MSTest
10 5 (0.55%) NUnit
10 5 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.44%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.44%) VersaTest
General
1 279 (30.76%) Finance
2 138 (15.21%) Public Sector
3 134 (14.77%) Front Office
4 99 (10.92%) Banking
5 62 (6.84%) Investment Banking
6 39 (4.30%) Marketing
7 34 (3.75%) Telecoms
8 28 (3.09%) Legal
9 20 (2.21%) Electronics
10 18 (1.98%) Law
11 17 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.32%) Local Government
12 12 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
13 11 (1.21%) Publishing
14 10 (1.10%) Police
15 7 (0.77%) Retail
16 5 (0.55%) German Language
16 5 (0.55%) Military
17 4 (0.44%) Games
18 3 (0.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 161 (17.75%) Developer
2 119 (13.12%) Analyst
3 86 (9.48%) AWS Engineer
4 79 (8.71%) Architect
4 79 (8.71%) AWS Developer
5 57 (6.28%) Project Manager
6 51 (5.62%) User Researcher
7 43 (4.74%) Java Developer
8 39 (4.30%) Python Engineer
9 36 (3.97%) Java Engineer
10 35 (3.86%) Business Analyst
11 34 (3.75%) Python Developer
12 33 (3.64%) Data Analyst
13 31 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
14 30 (3.31%) JavaScript Developer
15 29 (3.20%) JavaScript Engineer
16 27 (2.98%) Consultant
17 25 (2.76%) Software Engineer
18 24 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (15.55%) Web Services
2 99 (10.92%) React
3 93 (10.25%) AngularJS
4 75 (8.27%) Node.js
5 60 (6.62%) J2EE
6 58 (6.39%) Vue.js
7 42 (4.63%) J2SE
8 38 (4.19%) CSS
9 33 (3.64%) .NET
10 21 (2.32%) Redux
11 20 (2.21%) HTML
12 14 (1.54%) RESTful
13 11 (1.21%) .NET Core
13 11 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (1.21%) Spring
14 10 (1.10%) RxJS
15 9 (0.99%) JSON
16 8 (0.88%) .NET Framework
16 8 (0.88%) Middleware
16 8 (0.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 178 (19.63%) Analytical Skills
2 120 (13.23%) Derivative
3 119 (13.12%) Fixed Income
4 117 (12.90%) Equities
5 71 (7.83%) Hedge funds
6 66 (7.28%) Management Information System
7 58 (6.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 54 (5.95%) User Experience
9 44 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (2.87%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.87%) NHS
11 17 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
11 17 (1.87%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.76%) Blog
12 16 (1.76%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.76%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.65%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.99%) CMDB
14 9 (0.99%) Cyberthreat
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.17%) Linux
2 53 (5.84%) Windows
3 14 (1.54%) Unix
4 13 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.21%) CentOS
6 5 (0.55%) Solaris
6 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.33%) Android
9 2 (0.22%) AIX
9 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.22%) HPUX
9 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.11%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (46.86%) Agile Software Development
2 177 (19.51%) DevOps
3 154 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
4 143 (15.77%) Asset Management
5 133 (14.66%) Software Engineering
5 133 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 123 (13.56%) Project Management
7 108 (11.91%) Analytics
8 106 (11.69%) Business Analysis
9 98 (10.80%) Scrum
10 93 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
12 81 (8.93%) Portfolio Management
12 81 (8.93%) Risk Management
13 77 (8.49%) Project Delivery
14 76 (8.38%) Business Case
15 72 (7.94%) Investment Management
16 61 (6.73%) Coaching
17 59 (6.50%) Programme Management
18 58 (6.39%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 165 (18.19%) Python
2 158 (17.42%) Java
3 116 (12.79%) JavaScript
4 82 (9.04%) SQL
5 72 (7.94%) R
6 31 (3.42%) C#
7 29 (3.20%) C
8 26 (2.87%) C++
9 16 (1.76%) Bash Shell
10 14 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.10%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.10%) VBA
12 8 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.88%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.44%) Java 8
13 4 (0.44%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.44%) Scala
14 3 (0.33%) DataFlex
14 3 (0.33%) PHP
15 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 177 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 120 (13.23%) SC Cleared
3 96 (10.58%) Degree
4 45 (4.96%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.32%) CISSP
7 14 (1.54%) GIAC
8 11 (1.21%) PhD
9 8 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.77%) CISM
11 6 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.66%) EXIN
11 6 (0.66%) HND
11 6 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.55%) CEH
12 5 (0.55%) CISA
12 5 (0.55%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.75%) QA
2 20 (2.21%) PMO
3 16 (1.76%) WCAG
4 15 (1.65%) COBIT
5 14 (1.54%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.32%) GDPR
7 9 (0.99%) NIST
8 8 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.88%) SLA
9 6 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.44%) IFRS
11 4 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.33%) NCSC
12 3 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) CDISC
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) IFRS 9
13 1 (0.11%) JTAG
System Software
1 79 (8.71%) Docker
2 18 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.77%) NFS
5 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.55%) vSphere
6 4 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.22%) vCloud
8 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.11%) HDFS
8 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) XenApp
8 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 81 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 59 (6.50%) Terraform
3 16 (1.76%) Ansible
4 11 (1.21%) Puppet
5 8 (0.88%) Consul
5 8 (0.88%) Opscode Chef
5 8 (0.88%) Packer
6 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.44%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.33%) Kibana
8 3 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 3 (0.33%) vRealize
9 2 (0.22%) Avamar
9 2 (0.22%) Grafana
9 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.22%) SCCM
10 1 (0.11%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 83 (9.15%) Google
3 40 (4.41%) Oracle
4 25 (2.76%) SAP
5 18 (1.98%) Atlassian
6 17 (1.87%) Cisco
7 13 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.32%) CheckPoint
8 12 (1.32%) F5
8 12 (1.32%) VMware
9 11 (1.21%) Salesforce.com
10 10 (1.10%) Splunk
11 9 (0.99%) Informatica
12 8 (0.88%) Adobe
12 8 (0.88%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.66%) IBM
14 5 (0.55%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.55%) Capita
14 5 (0.55%) Cloudera
14 5 (0.55%) NetApp
320 Decision-Making job vacancies Nationwide