Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 October 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 20 October 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
20 Oct 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 165 144 167
Rank change year-on-year -21 +23 -8
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,727 1,856 1,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.69% 1.87% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.18% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,115 1,069
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £300 £280 £256
90th Percentile £659 £644 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £423 £415
% change year-on-year +0.59% +1.81% +7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 61 63
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £14.20 £17.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +76.06% -16.47% -8.21%
10th Percentile £10.94 £11.72 £11.72
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £46.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £13.86 £18.50
% change year-on-year +76.77% -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 88,242 85,195 90,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 85.74% 85.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 58,214 56,472 59,717
UK median daily rate £451 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +0.11% +5.88% +3.16%
10th Percentile £300 £280 £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 2,044 2,454
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £24.93 £22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -15.75% +10.78% +3.45%
10th Percentile £11.18 £11.25 £11.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £48.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.17 £25.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -19.32% +8.70% +4.55%

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 October 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 20 October 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 20 October 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 -26 1,522 £475 +5.56% 557
UK excluding London -16 961 £425 +0.59% 382
London -37 724 £500 +0.10% 210
South East -31 273 £475 +7.04% 97
North of England -21 215 £425 +1.19% 113
Midlands -33 155 £388 -1.27% 57
Scotland +23 125 £425 +6.25% 23
North West -24 116 £425 +4.29% 54
West Midlands -9 109 £400 +5.26% 35
East of England +23 79 £450 - 39
South West -17 73 £500 +21.80% 42
Yorkshire -19 67 £425 -11.46% 36
Wales +3 47 £426 - 8
East Midlands -23 45 £375 -6.25% 22
North East +8 32 £429 +14.33% 23
Northern Ireland +36 2 £441 +9.57% 4

For the 6 months to 20 October 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.

1 634 (36.71%) Agile Software Development
2 524 (30.34%) Finance
3 454 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
4 389 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
5 355 (20.56%) Project Management
6 279 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 245 (14.19%) Analytics
8 225 (13.03%) Degree
9 204 (11.81%) Scrum
10 202 (11.70%) Microsoft
11 176 (10.19%) SQL
12 175 (10.13%) Security Cleared
13 172 (9.96%) Coaching
14 166 (9.61%) ITIL
15 158 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 152 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
17 148 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
18 141 (8.16%) Risk Management
19 140 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
20 133 (7.70%) SC Cleared
21 126 (7.30%) Windows
22 125 (7.24%) Banking
22 125 (7.24%) Mentoring
23 124 (7.18%) Service Management
24 122 (7.06%) QA
25 120 (6.95%) Java
26 119 (6.89%) Change Management
27 116 (6.72%) Programme Management
28 114 (6.60%) JIRA
28 114 (6.60%) Microsoft Azure

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 65 (3.76%) Confluence
2 44 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.49%) Apache Spark
4 38 (2.20%) SAS
5 20 (1.16%) Apache
5 20 (1.16%) CMS
6 16 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 15 (0.87%) IIS
8 14 (0.81%) Gunicorn
8 14 (0.81%) MS Exchange
8 14 (0.81%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2010
10 8 (0.46%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
12 5 (0.29%) nginx
13 4 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.23%) Drupal
13 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 152 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (3.65%) MS Visio
4 60 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 53 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.58%) SPSS
7 8 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.17%) 3ds Max
8 3 (0.17%) Maya
8 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.058%) Open Workbench
10 1 (0.058%) Simulink
10 1 (0.058%) Stata
Business Applications
1 10 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.52%) Primavera
3 5 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.23%) SAP GTS
5 3 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.17%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.17%) SessionCam
5 3 (0.17%) WebTrends
6 2 (0.12%) BASE24
6 2 (0.12%) CODA-Financials
6 2 (0.12%) Global One
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.12%) PolarLake
6 2 (0.12%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.12%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 114 (6.60%) Microsoft Azure
2 93 (5.39%) Amazon AWS
3 66 (3.82%) Office 365
4 42 (2.43%) SaaS
5 21 (1.22%) GitHub
6 20 (1.16%) Google Cloud Platform
7 19 (1.10%) IaaS
7 19 (1.10%) PaaS
8 15 (0.87%) Google Analytics
8 15 (0.87%) Slack
9 14 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (0.69%) Serverless
11 11 (0.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 10 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (0.58%) Force.com
13 9 (0.52%) BlazeMeter
14 8 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (0.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 7 (0.41%) Adobe Analytics
16 6 (0.35%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.18%) WAN
2 49 (2.84%) LAN
3 41 (2.37%) Firewall
4 28 (1.62%) DNS
5 26 (1.51%) Internet
6 24 (1.39%) Network Security
7 23 (1.33%) SAN
8 22 (1.27%) SMS
9 18 (1.04%) Skype
10 17 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
10 17 (0.98%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.98%) Wireless
11 15 (0.87%) Unified Communications
12 13 (0.75%) DHCP
12 13 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 13 (0.75%) HTTP
12 13 (0.75%) OSPF
12 13 (0.75%) SNMP
13 12 (0.69%) Wireshark
14 11 (0.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 73 (4.23%) Big Data
3 62 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (3.07%) Power BI
5 46 (2.66%) Hadoop
6 39 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 33 (1.91%) MySQL
7 33 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 27 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
8 27 (1.56%) MongoDB
9 25 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 22 (1.27%) Oracle Database
12 21 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 19 (1.10%) Data Lake
14 17 (0.98%) RDBMS
15 16 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
16 15 (0.87%) QlikView
17 14 (0.81%) Apache Hive
18 13 (0.75%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 114 (6.60%) JIRA
2 52 (3.01%) Git (software)
3 51 (2.95%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.62%) Selenium
5 17 (0.98%) LoadRunner
6 16 (0.93%) JMeter
6 16 (0.93%) Visual Studio
7 14 (0.81%) Gatling
7 14 (0.81%) Robot Framework
8 13 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.69%) PVCS
10 10 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.52%) TeamCity
11 9 (0.52%) The Grinder
11 9 (0.52%) Zephyr
12 8 (0.46%) Maven
13 7 (0.41%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.41%) Subversion
14 6 (0.35%) Hudson
General
1 524 (30.34%) Finance
2 125 (7.24%) Banking
3 109 (6.31%) Marketing
4 78 (4.52%) Telecoms
5 76 (4.40%) Legal
6 71 (4.11%) Retail
7 35 (2.03%) Manufacturing
8 33 (1.91%) Law
9 30 (1.74%) Games
10 25 (1.45%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.16%) Investment Banking
11 20 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 18 (1.04%) Retail Banking
13 17 (0.98%) Publishing
14 16 (0.93%) Spanish Language
15 14 (0.81%) Front Office
16 12 (0.69%) Advertising
16 12 (0.69%) Electronics
17 10 (0.58%) French Language
17 10 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 294 (17.02%) Analyst
2 213 (12.33%) Project Manager
3 161 (9.32%) Architect
4 120 (6.95%) Developer
5 114 (6.60%) Business Analyst
6 109 (6.31%) User Researcher
7 71 (4.11%) Scrum Master
8 55 (3.18%) Consultant
9 50 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
10 48 (2.78%) IT Manager
11 46 (2.66%) Data Analyst
12 44 (2.55%) Senior Manager
13 41 (2.37%) Service Manager
14 37 (2.14%) Delivery Manager
14 37 (2.14%) Programme Manager
15 32 (1.85%) IT Project Manager
16 26 (1.51%) Data Engineer
16 26 (1.51%) Network Engineer
17 25 (1.45%) Infrastructure Manager
18 24 (1.39%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (3.71%) .NET
2 57 (3.30%) HTML
3 51 (2.95%) CSS
4 45 (2.61%) Web Services
5 40 (2.32%) Kafka
5 40 (2.32%) REST
6 35 (2.03%) Node.js
7 30 (1.74%) Middleware
8 29 (1.68%) XML
9 27 (1.56%) Velocity
10 21 (1.22%) SOAP
11 20 (1.16%) AngularJS
11 20 (1.16%) RESTful
12 19 (1.10%) HTML5
12 19 (1.10%) J2EE
13 18 (1.04%) JSON
14 15 (0.87%) ASP.NET
14 15 (0.87%) Django
15 14 (0.81%) Flask
15 14 (0.81%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 389 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
2 97 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 88 (5.10%) User Experience
4 83 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (3.18%) Computer Science
6 52 (3.01%) Data Centre
7 42 (2.43%) Virtual Team
8 40 (2.32%) Blog
9 32 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.39%) Clustering
10 24 (1.39%) Credit Risk
10 24 (1.39%) NHS
11 21 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.04%) Mobile App
13 17 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
14 16 (0.93%) CMDB
15 15 (0.87%) Fintech
16 14 (0.81%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.81%) PMI
17 12 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (7.30%) Windows
2 80 (4.63%) Linux
3 37 (2.14%) Unix
4 27 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 23 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.27%) Android
6 22 (1.27%) Windows 7
7 19 (1.10%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.69%) Solaris
9 11 (0.64%) Mac OS X
9 11 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.41%) Windows 8
12 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.23%) MVS
14 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.058%) CentOS
16 1 (0.058%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (36.71%) Agile Software Development
2 454 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
3 355 (20.56%) Project Management
4 279 (16.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 245 (14.19%) Analytics
6 204 (11.81%) Scrum
7 172 (9.96%) Coaching
8 166 (9.61%) ITIL
9 158 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 141 (8.16%) Risk Management
11 140 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
12 125 (7.24%) Mentoring
13 124 (7.18%) Service Management
14 119 (6.89%) Change Management
15 116 (6.72%) Programme Management
16 112 (6.49%) PRINCE2
16 112 (6.49%) User Stories
17 109 (6.31%) Business Analysis
18 102 (5.91%) DevOps
18 102 (5.91%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 176 (10.19%) SQL
2 120 (6.95%) Java
3 100 (5.79%) Python
4 78 (4.52%) JavaScript
5 50 (2.90%) C#
6 35 (2.03%) PowerShell
7 30 (1.74%) R
8 26 (1.51%) C
9 23 (1.33%) Bash Shell
10 22 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.10%) ES6
12 18 (1.04%) VBA
13 17 (0.98%) Go
13 17 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 16 (0.93%) Ruby
15 15 (0.87%) Perl
16 13 (0.75%) MATLAB
17 12 (0.69%) Scala
18 11 (0.64%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 225 (13.03%) Degree
2 175 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 133 (7.70%) SC Cleared
4 29 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (1.56%) PMP
6 24 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.33%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 17 (0.98%) ISEB
12 13 (0.75%) APMP
12 13 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 11 (0.64%) APMG
13 11 (0.64%) MCSA
14 10 (0.58%) CCNP
14 10 (0.58%) HND
14 10 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (7.06%) QA
2 92 (5.33%) PMO
3 42 (2.43%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.03%) GDPR
5 18 (1.04%) SLA
6 15 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (0.75%) COBIT
8 8 (0.46%) JSP 440
9 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.29%) P3O
11 4 (0.23%) SEPA
11 4 (0.23%) WCAG
12 3 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.17%) IFRS
13 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.12%) ISO 13485
13 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 51 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.26%) Docker
3 32 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.75%) HDFS
5 10 (0.58%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 9 (0.52%) FreeRADIUS
6 9 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.46%) XenApp
8 7 (0.41%) Apache Flume
8 7 (0.41%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
9 6 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.29%) Firmware
10 5 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.29%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 33 (1.91%) Ansible
2 28 (1.62%) SCCM
3 22 (1.27%) Terraform
4 19 (1.10%) Kubernetes
5 15 (0.87%) Puppet
6 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.41%) Mesos
7 7 (0.41%) Opscode Chef
8 6 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
8 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.29%) Hadoop YARN
10 4 (0.23%) OpenView Configuration Management
10 4 (0.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.17%) CA Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.17%) Netcool
11 3 (0.17%) OpenView
11 3 (0.17%) SCOM
11 3 (0.17%) TeMIP
11 3 (0.17%) ThinApp
11 3 (0.17%) vMotion
Vendors
1 202 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 110 (6.37%) Oracle
3 70 (4.05%) SAP
4 54 (3.13%) Tableau
5 45 (2.61%) Google
6 43 (2.49%) VMware
7 38 (2.20%) Cisco
8 35 (2.03%) HP
9 33 (1.91%) Salesforce.com
9 33 (1.91%) ServiceNow
10 24 (1.39%) Adobe
10 24 (1.39%) Splunk
11 19 (1.10%) Citrix
12 18 (1.04%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.04%) CheckPoint
12 18 (1.04%) McAfee
13 17 (0.98%) AppDynamics
14 16 (0.93%) F5
15 14 (0.81%) Alteryx
15 14 (0.81%) Remedy
602 Decision-Making job vacancies Nationwide