Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 January 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 20 January 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
20 Jan 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 120 158 141
Rank change year-on-year +38 -17 +12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,478 1,713 1,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 2.05% 1.75% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.00% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,053 1,116
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £473
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +0.48% +11.24%
10th Percentile £311 £313 £300
90th Percentile £675 £645 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £438
% change year-on-year - +2.86% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 36 34
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £33.58 £25.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +7.21% +34.32% +56.25%
10th Percentile £13.20 £18.03 £10.58
90th Percentile £51.75 £64.25 £58.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +40.00% +59.08%

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 61,620 85,595 85,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.28% 87.31% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 40,114 56,511 57,294
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
10th Percentile £285 £300 £281
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £425 £405
% change year-on-year +1.18% +4.94% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,051 2,152 2,026
UK median hourly rate £22.85 £23.34 £23.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -2.10% +1.48% -1.18%
10th Percentile £12.02 £11.29 £11.25
90th Percentile £53.28 £50.00 £49.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £22.37 £23.88
% change year-on-year -6.10% -6.32% +6.11%

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 20 January 2020.

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 20 January 2020.

Contractor 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 20 January 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 +41 1,331 £485 +2.11% 483
UK excluding London +24 760 £450 - 348
London +53 679 £525 +5.00% 168
South East +48 295 £462 +2.61% 81
North of England +6 155 £425 -5.56% 105
Scotland +43 92 £450 +16.50% 18
South West +25 91 £463 +2.78% 33
North West +5 88 £425 - 64
East of England +36 57 £409 -13.95% 39
Yorkshire +21 52 £438 -2.78% 29
Midlands -39 47 £430 +1.18% 58
West Midlands -30 28 £431 +1.47% 36
Wales +3 23 £480 +3.78% 13
East Midlands +7 19 £430 +1.18% 21
North East -8 15 £325 -27.78% 12
Channel Islands - 2 £450 -
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 2

For the 6 months to 20 January 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.

1 552 (37.35%) Agile Software Development
2 444 (30.04%) Finance
3 354 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
4 346 (23.41%) Analytical Skills
5 225 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 223 (15.09%) Project Management
7 222 (15.02%) Analytics
8 205 (13.87%) SQL
9 201 (13.60%) Microsoft
10 200 (13.53%) Degree
11 191 (12.92%) AWS
12 183 (12.38%) Azure
13 179 (12.11%) Python
14 157 (10.62%) Java
15 146 (9.88%) DevOps
16 142 (9.61%) Security Cleared
17 141 (9.54%) Web Services
17 141 (9.54%) Scrum
17 141 (9.54%) Public Sector
18 137 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
19 128 (8.66%) Windows
20 121 (8.19%) Asset Management
21 120 (8.12%) JavaScript
22 119 (8.05%) Software Engineering
23 118 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
24 113 (7.65%) Front Office
25 110 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
26 108 (7.31%) Fixed Income
27 107 (7.24%) Project Delivery
28 103 (6.97%) Change Management

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 53 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 44 (2.98%) Confluence
3 16 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.01%) CMS
5 13 (0.88%) IIS
6 12 (0.81%) SAS
7 7 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.34%) JBoss
9 5 (0.34%) MS Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (0.27%) IBM Notes
10 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.20%) Apache
11 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.20%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 118 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 110 (7.44%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.50%) MS Visio
5 30 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (1.35%) InVision
7 18 (1.22%) Sketch
8 9 (0.61%) Photoshop
8 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.47%) SPSS
10 4 (0.27%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
11 3 (0.20%) Marvel
11 3 (0.20%) Windchill
12 2 (0.14%) InfoPath
12 2 (0.14%) Simulink
12 2 (0.14%) Stata
Business Applications
1 11 (0.74%) SessionCam
2 10 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.54%) Endur
4 7 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 4 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.27%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.27%) SAP SRM
6 4 (0.27%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.27%) thinkFolio
7 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.20%) FINCAD Analytics
7 3 (0.20%) Magento
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.20%) PolarLake
7 3 (0.20%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 191 (12.92%) AWS
2 183 (12.38%) Azure
3 69 (4.67%) GCP
3 69 (4.67%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.13%) OpenShift
5 60 (4.06%) Amazon S3
5 60 (4.06%) Serverless
6 58 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
10 48 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (2.71%) Office 365
12 20 (1.35%) Google Analytics
13 16 (1.08%) GitHub
14 14 (0.95%) PaaS
15 13 (0.88%) Azure Active Directory
15 13 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (0.81%) SaaS
17 10 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.30%) WAN
2 31 (2.10%) LAN
3 26 (1.76%) DNS
4 22 (1.49%) HTTP
5 19 (1.29%) BGP
6 18 (1.22%) MPLS
7 17 (1.15%) DHCP
8 16 (1.08%) Wireless
9 15 (1.01%) HSRP
9 15 (1.01%) SAN
10 14 (0.95%) Ethernet
11 13 (0.88%) Internet
12 12 (0.81%) 802.11
12 12 (0.81%) EIGRP
12 12 (0.81%) Spanning Tree
12 12 (0.81%) WLAN
13 10 (0.68%) TCP/IP
14 9 (0.61%) IGRP
14 9 (0.61%) OSPF
15 8 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.53%) Power BI
3 65 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 64 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
6 42 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 34 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 32 (2.17%) Big Data
9 23 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 22 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 22 (1.49%) SQL Server 2008
11 16 (1.08%) MySQL
11 16 (1.08%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 15 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 14 (0.95%) GIS
14 13 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.88%) Relational Database
14 13 (0.88%) SQL Server 2012
15 11 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 63 (4.26%) JIRA
2 61 (4.13%) Artifactory
3 60 (4.06%) Git (software)
4 57 (3.86%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.50%) RStudio
6 18 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 13 (0.88%) Axure RP
7 13 (0.88%) gulp
8 11 (0.74%) Selenium
8 11 (0.74%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.54%) jspm
9 8 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.47%) NUnit
10 7 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.41%) Maven
11 6 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.34%) PowerBuilder
12 5 (0.34%) ProC
12 5 (0.34%) PVCS
12 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 444 (30.04%) Finance
2 141 (9.54%) Public Sector
3 113 (7.65%) Front Office
4 89 (6.02%) Telecoms
5 68 (4.60%) Banking
6 48 (3.25%) Marketing
7 39 (2.64%) Retail
8 36 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.30%) Legal
10 23 (1.56%) Local Government
11 20 (1.35%) Law
12 18 (1.22%) Military
13 16 (1.08%) Electronics
13 16 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 16 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 15 (1.01%) Games
15 13 (0.88%) Publishing
16 10 (0.68%) Advertising
16 10 (0.68%) Billing
17 9 (0.61%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 213 (14.41%) Analyst
2 188 (12.72%) Developer
3 134 (9.07%) Architect
4 115 (7.78%) Project Manager
5 102 (6.90%) Business Analyst
6 59 (3.99%) User Researcher
7 48 (3.25%) Designer
8 44 (2.98%) AWS Developer
9 43 (2.91%) Consultant
10 42 (2.84%) Data Analyst
11 41 (2.77%) Java Developer
11 41 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
12 37 (2.50%) IT Manager
13 36 (2.44%) Senior Developer
14 35 (2.37%) Lead Developer
15 34 (2.30%) Software Engineer
16 31 (2.10%) Data Engineer
17 30 (2.03%) Product Manager
18 28 (1.89%) AWS Engineer
18 28 (1.89%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (9.54%) Web Services
2 96 (6.50%) React
3 95 (6.43%) AngularJS
4 83 (5.62%) .NET
5 76 (5.14%) Node.js
6 50 (3.38%) HTML
7 47 (3.18%) CSS
8 45 (3.04%) Vue.js
9 44 (2.98%) J2EE
10 37 (2.50%) J2SE
11 29 (1.96%) REST
12 25 (1.69%) .NET Core
13 24 (1.62%) Middleware
14 20 (1.35%) JSON
14 20 (1.35%) OAuth
15 19 (1.29%) Kafka
16 16 (1.08%) GraphQL
16 16 (1.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 15 (1.01%) .NET Framework
17 15 (1.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 346 (23.41%) Analytical Skills
2 108 (7.31%) Fixed Income
3 102 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 93 (6.29%) User Experience
5 84 (5.68%) Derivative
6 80 (5.41%) Equities
7 74 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
8 52 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (3.32%) Blog
10 40 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 39 (2.64%) Data Centre
12 31 (2.10%) Hedge funds
13 25 (1.69%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.56%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.56%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.49%) Mobile App
16 21 (1.42%) Algorithms
17 18 (1.22%) NHS
18 13 (0.88%) Equity Derivative
19 11 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (8.66%) Windows
2 78 (5.28%) Linux
3 35 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.56%) Unix
5 14 (0.95%) Android
6 13 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.47%) Solaris
10 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.34%) CentOS
11 5 (0.34%) OpenVMS
11 5 (0.34%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.27%) Debian
12 4 (0.27%) HPUX
12 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.14%) AIX
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (37.35%) Agile Software Development
2 354 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
3 225 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 223 (15.09%) Project Management
5 222 (15.02%) Analytics
6 146 (9.88%) DevOps
7 141 (9.54%) Scrum
8 137 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
9 121 (8.19%) Asset Management
10 119 (8.05%) Software Engineering
11 107 (7.24%) Project Delivery
12 103 (6.97%) Change Management
13 90 (6.09%) Business Analysis
14 88 (5.95%) ITIL
15 86 (5.82%) Data Analysis
16 85 (5.75%) User Stories
17 83 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 79 (5.35%) PRINCE2
19 78 (5.28%) Coaching
20 77 (5.21%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 205 (13.87%) SQL
2 179 (12.11%) Python
3 157 (10.62%) Java
4 120 (8.12%) JavaScript
5 90 (6.09%) C#
6 89 (6.02%) R
7 49 (3.32%) C++
8 46 (3.11%) C
9 38 (2.57%) T-SQL
10 32 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 32 (2.17%) TypeScript
11 27 (1.83%) Scala
12 23 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.08%) Perl
13 16 (1.08%) VBA
14 14 (0.95%) PHP
15 12 (0.81%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.74%) Ruby
17 10 (0.68%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.47%) Bash Shell
Qualifications
1 200 (13.53%) Degree
2 142 (9.61%) Security Cleared
3 99 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 23 (1.56%) ISEB
5 17 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 14 (0.95%) PMI Certification
8 13 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (0.88%) PMP
9 11 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.68%) CCNP
10 10 (0.68%) HND
10 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (0.54%) IIBA
11 8 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (0.47%) CCNA
12 7 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.41%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.36%) QA
2 45 (3.04%) PMO
3 40 (2.71%) Data Quality
4 26 (1.76%) GDPR
5 14 (0.95%) SLA
6 6 (0.41%) WCAG
7 5 (0.34%) RMADS
8 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.27%) MiFID
9 3 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.20%) NEBOSH
9 3 (0.20%) P3O
9 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.14%) COBIT
10 2 (0.14%) GMP
10 2 (0.14%) GxP
10 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.068%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (6.77%) Docker
2 61 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 41 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.68%) vSphere
6 8 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
6 8 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.34%) XenApp
8 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.14%) LXC
10 2 (0.14%) vCloud
11 1 (0.068%) Oracle Clusterware
11 1 (0.068%) Tivoli Directory Server
11 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.068%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 92 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 62 (4.19%) Terraform
3 15 (1.01%) SCCM
4 14 (0.95%) Ansible
5 9 (0.61%) WSUS
6 8 (0.54%) MIIS
6 8 (0.54%) SCOM
6 8 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.47%) Avamar
7 7 (0.47%) Packer
8 6 (0.41%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.34%) HP SIM
10 4 (0.27%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.27%) Opscode Chef
10 4 (0.27%) vRealize
11 3 (0.20%) McAfee ePO
11 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 3 (0.20%) Norton AntiVirus
11 3 (0.20%) Puppet
11 3 (0.20%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 201 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 78 (5.28%) SAP
3 61 (4.13%) VMware
4 54 (3.65%) Oracle
5 49 (3.32%) Cisco
6 48 (3.25%) Google
7 31 (2.10%) Tableau
8 19 (1.29%) Salesforce.com
9 17 (1.15%) Adobe
9 17 (1.15%) Citrix
10 15 (1.01%) Atlassian
10 15 (1.01%) HP
11 14 (0.95%) Cognos
12 12 (0.81%) IBM
13 11 (0.74%) Hotjar
13 11 (0.74%) Remedy
14 10 (0.68%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.68%) EMC
14 10 (0.68%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.61%) Dell
517 Decision-Making job vacancies Nationwide