Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 13 December 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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 162 142 157
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,800 1,932 1,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 1.87% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.18% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 1,163 1,024
UK median daily rate £470 £455 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +3.30% +7.06% +3.03%
10th Percentile £300 £297 £272
90th Percentile £650 £644 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £413
% change year-on-year - +3.03% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 41 62
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £15.22
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +20.00% +64.23% -17.81%
10th Percentile £15.47 £11.25 £11.72
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.88 £46.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £14.73
% change year-on-year +33.33% +52.75% -20.46%

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 91,392 88,694 87,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.72% 85.90% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 60,516 59,163 57,746
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% +2.41%
10th Percentile £300 £278 £263
90th Percentile £638 £638 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,345 2,083 2,479
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £24.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +2.27%
10th Percentile £11.18 £11.25 £11.05
90th Percentile £50.19 £49.24 £48.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.62 £24.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -14.07% +6.67% -1.45%

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 13 December 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 13 December 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 13 December 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 -18 1,617 £475 +1.06% 578
UK excluding London -18 979 £425 - 387
London -21 785 £511 +2.25% 232
South East -9 298 £450 - 97
North of England -22 227 £425 -2.86% 114
Midlands -25 156 £413 +4.43% 53
North West -31 121 £410 -8.89% 61
West Midlands -16 112 £425 +12.58% 23
Scotland -1 99 £395 -1.25% 24
South West -31 77 £450 - 37
East of England +10 73 £460 -1.60% 45
Yorkshire -10 68 £456 -4.50% 37
Wales -4 50 £463 +8.19% 15
East Midlands -27 43 £400 - 30
North East +3 38 £441 +17.67% 16
Northern Ireland +32 3 £422 +4.84% 2

For the 6 months to 13 December 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.

1 714 (39.67%) Agile Software Development
2 530 (29.44%) Finance
3 432 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 398 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
5 371 (20.61%) Project Management
6 286 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 254 (14.11%) Analytics
8 245 (13.61%) Degree
9 217 (12.06%) Microsoft
10 212 (11.78%) Scrum
11 211 (11.72%) Security Cleared
12 203 (11.28%) SQL
13 179 (9.94%) ITIL
14 167 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
15 161 (8.94%) SC Cleared
16 160 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
17 159 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 156 (8.67%) Microsoft Azure
19 154 (8.56%) Coaching
20 148 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
21 137 (7.61%) Python
22 134 (7.44%) JIRA
23 133 (7.39%) Java
24 132 (7.33%) Risk Management
25 128 (7.11%) Mentoring
26 126 (7.00%) Windows
27 124 (6.89%) Change Management
28 123 (6.83%) DevOps
29 119 (6.61%) Service Delivery
29 119 (6.61%) Programme 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 68 (3.78%) Confluence
2 58 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.72%) SAS
5 30 (1.67%) Skype for Business
6 25 (1.39%) MS Exchange
7 20 (1.11%) Exchange Server 2010
8 18 (1.00%) Apache
9 17 (0.94%) Gunicorn
10 16 (0.89%) CMS
11 15 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
12 10 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2007
13 9 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.50%) IIS
14 7 (0.39%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.39%) WebLogic
14 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.33%) IBM Notes
15 6 (0.33%) nginx
16 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 167 (9.28%) Microsoft Office
2 160 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 74 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (3.72%) MS Visio
5 58 (3.22%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.78%) SPSS
7 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.39%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.22%) InVision
10 3 (0.17%) 3ds Max
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.17%) Maya
10 3 (0.17%) Open Workbench
11 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.11%) InfoPath
11 2 (0.11%) Simulink
11 2 (0.11%) Stata
12 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.056%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 12 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.56%) Primavera
3 9 (0.50%) SAP GTS
4 5 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.17%) SessionCam
6 3 (0.17%) WebTrends
7 2 (0.11%) BASE24
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.11%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.11%) PolarLake
7 2 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.11%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.11%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 156 (8.67%) Microsoft Azure
2 107 (5.94%) Amazon AWS
3 80 (4.44%) Office 365
4 43 (2.39%) SaaS
5 24 (1.33%) Google Cloud Platform
6 18 (1.00%) IaaS
6 18 (1.00%) PaaS
7 16 (0.89%) GitHub
8 15 (0.83%) Google Analytics
9 13 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (0.72%) Slack
10 11 (0.61%) G Suite
10 11 (0.61%) npm
10 11 (0.61%) Serverless
11 9 (0.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (0.44%) Force.com
12 8 (0.44%) OneDrive
13 7 (0.39%) Azure Functions
13 7 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.00%) WAN
2 47 (2.61%) LAN
3 41 (2.28%) Firewall
4 36 (2.00%) Skype
5 34 (1.89%) DNS
6 27 (1.50%) Internet
7 24 (1.33%) Network Security
8 18 (1.00%) DHCP
8 18 (1.00%) TCP/IP
9 17 (0.94%) Wireless
10 16 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
10 16 (0.89%) SAN
10 16 (0.89%) Unified Communications
11 15 (0.83%) OSPF
12 14 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 14 (0.78%) HTTP
12 14 (0.78%) SNMP
13 13 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
13 13 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (5.06%) Big Data
2 74 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 73 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (3.33%) Power BI
5 50 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 44 (2.44%) Hadoop
7 37 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 37 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 36 (2.00%) MongoDB
9 34 (1.89%) NoSQL
10 32 (1.78%) MySQL
11 31 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 25 (1.39%) Oracle Database
13 21 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
13 21 (1.17%) Data Lake
14 17 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
14 17 (0.94%) RDBMS
15 15 (0.83%) Apache Hive
15 15 (0.83%) Data Mining
16 14 (0.78%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 134 (7.44%) JIRA
2 83 (4.61%) Git (software)
3 64 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.72%) Selenium
5 17 (0.94%) Gatling
5 17 (0.94%) Robot Framework
6 16 (0.89%) JMeter
7 15 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 14 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.72%) Visual Studio
10 12 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 12 (0.67%) Maven
11 10 (0.56%) ERwin
11 10 (0.56%) Subversion
11 10 (0.56%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
14 7 (0.39%) PVCS
General
1 530 (29.44%) Finance
2 115 (6.39%) Banking
3 109 (6.06%) Marketing
4 83 (4.61%) Telecoms
5 80 (4.44%) Retail
6 66 (3.67%) Legal
7 31 (1.72%) Law
8 29 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 23 (1.28%) Games
10 22 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.11%) Investment Banking
12 17 (0.94%) French Language
13 15 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
13 15 (0.83%) Retail Banking
13 15 (0.83%) Spanish Language
14 14 (0.78%) Front Office
14 14 (0.78%) Publishing
15 12 (0.67%) German Language
16 8 (0.44%) Advertising
16 8 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 303 (16.83%) Analyst
2 192 (10.67%) Project Manager
3 172 (9.56%) Architect
4 150 (8.33%) Developer
5 130 (7.22%) Business Analyst
6 94 (5.22%) User Researcher
7 63 (3.50%) Consultant
8 57 (3.17%) Scrum Master
9 49 (2.72%) Data Analyst
10 46 (2.56%) Senior Manager
11 42 (2.33%) Programme Manager
12 39 (2.17%) IT Manager
13 38 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
14 36 (2.00%) Service Manager
15 35 (1.94%) Data Engineer
15 35 (1.94%) Delivery Manager
16 31 (1.72%) Network Engineer
17 30 (1.67%) Data Scientist
18 29 (1.61%) Senior Analyst
19 28 (1.56%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (4.00%) HTML
2 68 (3.78%) CSS
3 54 (3.00%) .NET
4 50 (2.78%) Web Services
5 48 (2.67%) Node.js
6 45 (2.50%) REST
7 38 (2.11%) Kafka
8 34 (1.89%) AngularJS
9 32 (1.78%) React
9 32 (1.78%) RESTful
10 27 (1.50%) HTML5
11 26 (1.44%) Velocity
12 25 (1.39%) JSON
12 25 (1.39%) Middleware
12 25 (1.39%) XML
13 24 (1.33%) Django
14 23 (1.28%) Flask
14 23 (1.28%) SOAP
15 17 (0.94%) CSS3
15 17 (0.94%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 398 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
2 108 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 102 (5.67%) User Experience
4 67 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
5 45 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.39%) Virtual Team
7 36 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 34 (1.89%) Blog
9 28 (1.56%) NHS
10 25 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (1.22%) Credit Risk
11 22 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.06%) Clustering
12 19 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 18 (1.00%) CMDB
13 18 (1.00%) Mobile App
14 17 (0.94%) Fintech
15 16 (0.89%) PMI
16 15 (0.83%) Data Structures
17 14 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 126 (7.00%) Windows
2 82 (4.56%) Linux
3 34 (1.89%) Unix
4 31 (1.72%) Apple iOS
5 30 (1.67%) Android
6 28 (1.56%) Windows 10
7 27 (1.50%) Windows Server
8 25 (1.39%) Windows 7
9 16 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (0.61%) Mac OS X
12 9 (0.50%) Windows 8
12 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
14 7 (0.39%) Solaris
15 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.22%) MVS
15 4 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.11%) AIX
17 1 (0.056%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (39.67%) Agile Software Development
2 432 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 371 (20.61%) Project Management
4 286 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 254 (14.11%) Analytics
6 212 (11.78%) Scrum
7 179 (9.94%) ITIL
8 159 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 154 (8.56%) Coaching
10 148 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
11 132 (7.33%) Risk Management
12 128 (7.11%) Mentoring
13 124 (6.89%) Change Management
14 123 (6.83%) DevOps
15 119 (6.61%) Programme Management
15 119 (6.61%) Service Delivery
16 117 (6.50%) Migration
16 117 (6.50%) Service Management
17 116 (6.44%) Test Automation
18 111 (6.17%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 203 (11.28%) SQL
2 137 (7.61%) Python
3 133 (7.39%) Java
4 112 (6.22%) JavaScript
5 50 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 48 (2.67%) C#
7 40 (2.22%) R
8 37 (2.06%) T-SQL
9 35 (1.94%) Bash Shell
10 29 (1.61%) C
11 26 (1.44%) Ruby
12 21 (1.17%) Perl
13 20 (1.11%) ES6
13 20 (1.11%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.00%) Go
14 18 (1.00%) VBA
15 16 (0.89%) Scala
16 15 (0.83%) MATLAB
17 13 (0.72%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.39%) C++
Qualifications
1 245 (13.61%) Degree
2 211 (11.72%) Security Cleared
3 161 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 32 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.56%) ISEB
8 25 (1.39%) PMP
9 24 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 24 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 19 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 16 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (0.72%) MCSA
14 12 (0.67%) CCNP
14 12 (0.67%) MCSE
15 11 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 10 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
17 9 (0.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (6.33%) QA
2 81 (4.50%) PMO
3 44 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.61%) GDPR
5 20 (1.11%) SLA
6 16 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.83%) COBIT
8 9 (0.50%) JSP 440
9 7 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.39%) P3O
10 5 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.28%) IFRS
10 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.22%) SEPA
11 4 (0.22%) WCAG
12 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.11%) GAAP
13 2 (0.11%) GLP
System Software
1 61 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.00%) Docker
3 35 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.72%) HDFS
5 9 (0.50%) FreeRADIUS
5 9 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.50%) XenApp
6 8 (0.44%) Apache Flume
6 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
7 7 (0.39%) BitLocker
7 7 (0.39%) Firmware
7 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.33%) XenDesktop
9 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.22%) Samba
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 44 (2.44%) Ansible
2 36 (2.00%) SCCM
3 29 (1.61%) Kubernetes
4 24 (1.33%) Terraform
5 18 (1.00%) Puppet
6 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.39%) Mesos
7 7 (0.39%) Opscode Chef
8 6 (0.33%) McAfee ePO
8 6 (0.33%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.28%) OpenView Configuration Management
9 5 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.22%) ArcSight ESM
11 3 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
11 3 (0.17%) Kibana
11 3 (0.17%) logstash
11 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (0.17%) ThinApp
11 3 (0.17%) vMotion
Vendors
1 217 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.94%) Oracle
3 61 (3.39%) SAP
3 61 (3.39%) Tableau
4 52 (2.89%) Cisco
5 45 (2.50%) Google
5 45 (2.50%) VMware
6 42 (2.33%) HP
7 31 (1.72%) Salesforce.com
8 29 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 23 (1.28%) Adobe
10 22 (1.22%) Splunk
11 20 (1.11%) CheckPoint
12 19 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 18 (1.00%) F5
14 17 (0.94%) McAfee
15 16 (0.89%) Citrix
15 16 (0.89%) IBM
16 14 (0.78%) Remedy
17 12 (0.67%) Talend
624 Decision-Making job vacancies Nationwide