Decision-Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 80 60
Rank change year-on-year +33 -20 +17
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 749 692 1,127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.66% 2.94% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 3.29% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 455 738
10th Percentile £269 £273 £314
25th Percentile £400 £411 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £660
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% +13.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 49 102
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.47 £20.47 £25.33
Median hourly rate £16.06 £52.13 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.19% +15.84% +62.28%
75th Percentile £31.94 £63.75 £51.45
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.15 £57.65
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £46.25 £44.96
% change year-on-year -58.11% +2.87% +51.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Jobs
South East +25 188 £550 +9.89% 292
North of England +35 179 £508 -1.46% 269
North West +44 133 £463 -8.87% 157
South West +30 126 £550 +2.33% 160
Midlands +42 118 £425 -17.07% 200
West Midlands +24 79 £450 -14.29% 117
Scotland -17 74 £435 -14.03% 51
East of England +25 58 £525 +10.53% 113
East Midlands +38 38 £270 -43.16% 83
Yorkshire +7 38 £550 +5.77% 85
North East +16 8 £533 -18.08% 32
Wales +9 8 £415 +6.41% 44
Northern Ireland +3 4 £640 +293.85% 14
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.07%) Confluence
4 6 (0.80%) SAS
5 4 (0.53%) WordPress
6 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.27%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 86 (11.48%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) SPSS
8 2 (0.27%) Trello
9 1 (0.13%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.13%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.13%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (1.20%) Primavera
2 5 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.27%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 70 (9.35%) Azure
2 69 (9.21%) AWS
3 43 (5.74%) Power Platform
4 30 (4.01%) Snowflake
5 22 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (2.94%) SaaS
6 20 (2.67%) Taleo
7 13 (1.74%) PaaS
8 10 (1.34%) Serverless
9 7 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.80%) npm
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.67%) GCP
11 5 (0.67%) IaaS
11 5 (0.67%) Smartsheet
12 4 (0.53%) MailChimp
12 4 (0.53%) OCI
12 4 (0.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.47%) WAN
2 24 (3.20%) Firewall
2 24 (3.20%) LAN
3 16 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (1.74%) Network Security
4 13 (1.74%) VoIP
5 12 (1.60%) SAN
6 10 (1.34%) VPN
7 8 (1.07%) DHCP
7 8 (1.07%) DNS
7 8 (1.07%) MPLS
8 7 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.93%) PBX
8 7 (0.93%) Radio Access Network
9 6 (0.80%) 3G
9 6 (0.80%) 4G
9 6 (0.80%) 5G
9 6 (0.80%) Internet
9 6 (0.80%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.74%) Tableau
2 41 (5.47%) Power BI
3 18 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.47%) Big Data
5 11 (1.47%) Data Mining
6 10 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.40%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.40%) MySQL
9 3 (0.40%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.40%) Power Query
9 3 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.27%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.27%) Looker
10 2 (0.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 34 (4.54%) JIRA
2 29 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.60%) Cucumber
3 27 (3.60%) Selenium
4 25 (3.34%) SonarQube
5 24 (3.20%) REST Assured
6 16 (2.14%) GitLab
7 15 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.40%) Git
9 2 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) ERwin
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 349 (46.60%) Social Skills
2 173 (23.10%) Finance
3 170 (22.70%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.28%) Presentation Skills
6 50 (6.68%) Organisational Skills
7 46 (6.14%) Legal
8 42 (5.61%) Telecoms
9 41 (5.47%) Marketing
10 32 (4.27%) Retail
11 28 (3.74%) Banking
11 28 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (3.60%) Law
13 24 (3.20%) Manufacturing
14 23 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 21 (2.80%) Police
16 17 (2.27%) Aerospace
17 14 (1.87%) Local Government
18 13 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 11 (1.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 129 (17.22%) Analyst
2 86 (11.48%) Lead
3 69 (9.21%) Architect
4 68 (9.08%) Project Manager
5 63 (8.41%) Senior
6 32 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
7 30 (4.01%) Consultant
8 27 (3.60%) Developer
9 25 (3.34%) Business Analyst
9 25 (3.34%) Data Analyst
10 24 (3.20%) IT Manager
11 23 (3.07%) Java Engineer
12 19 (2.54%) Support Engineer
13 18 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
14 15 (2.00%) Delivery Manager
15 14 (1.87%) Software Engineer
16 13 (1.74%) Business Manager
16 13 (1.74%) Senior Manager
16 13 (1.74%) Service Analyst
16 13 (1.74%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.34%) REST
2 25 (3.34%) Java EE
3 15 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 12 (1.60%) ARM Templates
5 11 (1.47%) Spring
6 10 (1.34%) HTML
7 9 (1.20%) CSS
7 9 (1.20%) JPA
7 9 (1.20%) Spring Boot
8 6 (0.80%) Middleware
8 6 (0.80%) RESTful
9 5 (0.67%) .NET
10 3 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.40%) React
11 2 (0.27%) ADO
11 2 (0.27%) Kafka
11 2 (0.27%) React Native
11 2 (0.27%) Swagger
11 2 (0.27%) Web Services
11 2 (0.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.34%) Management Information System
2 29 (3.87%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.20%) Credit Risk
4 22 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.14%) Clustering
8 12 (1.60%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.60%) Life Science
8 12 (1.60%) NHS
8 12 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.07%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.93%) Blackberry
10 7 (0.93%) Mobile App
10 7 (0.93%) PMI
10 7 (0.93%) SCADA
10 7 (0.93%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (9.48%) Windows
2 34 (4.54%) Windows 10
3 15 (2.00%) Unix
3 15 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.47%) Linux
5 10 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.07%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.40%) Android
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (35.11%) Problem-Solving
2 138 (18.42%) Agile
3 135 (18.02%) Project Management
4 115 (15.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 110 (14.69%) Time Management
6 95 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (11.48%) Analytics
8 65 (8.68%) Roadmaps
9 62 (8.28%) Change Management
10 57 (7.61%) Data Analysis
11 55 (7.34%) Data Protection
11 55 (7.34%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 53 (7.08%) Software Engineering
13 52 (6.94%) Actionable Insight
13 52 (6.94%) Migration
14 51 (6.81%) DevOps
14 51 (6.81%) Risk Management
15 50 (6.68%) Business Intelligence
16 49 (6.54%) PRINCE2
17 47 (6.28%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 63 (8.41%) SQL
2 42 (5.61%) Java
3 30 (4.01%) Python
4 22 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.00%) TypeScript
6 8 (1.07%) Swift
7 6 (0.80%) C#
7 6 (0.80%) R
8 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (0.40%) Perl
10 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.27%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.27%) VBA
11 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 175 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 143 (19.09%) Degree
3 120 (16.02%) SC Cleared
4 59 (7.88%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.47%) HND
6 21 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.80%) CISM
7 19 (2.54%) Master's Degree
8 18 (2.40%) CISSP
8 18 (2.40%) PMI Certification
8 18 (2.40%) PMP
9 16 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (2.00%) HNC
11 14 (1.87%) CCNP
12 13 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 11 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.20%) CISA
14 9 (1.20%) DBS Check
15 8 (1.07%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.67%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.41%) Disclosure Scotland
3 31 (4.14%) PMO
4 26 (3.47%) QA
5 25 (3.34%) SLA
6 12 (1.60%) GDPR
6 12 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.07%) NIST
9 5 (0.67%) GMP
10 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.27%) GxP
12 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.14%) Docker
4 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (1.07%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.53%) vSphere
7 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 30 (4.01%) Ansible
2 23 (3.07%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.40%) SCCM
3 18 (2.40%) Terraform
4 12 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (1.60%) Podman
5 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (1.34%) NetBackup
7 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (1.07%) Nagios
8 7 (0.93%) Nessus
9 6 (0.80%) Autotask
9 6 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
9 6 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.53%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.53%) VxRail
11 3 (0.40%) MOM
12 2 (0.27%) Grafana
12 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 156 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.07%) Cisco
2 38 (5.07%) VMware
3 28 (3.74%) Alteryx
4 26 (3.47%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.34%) Juniper
6 19 (2.54%) SAP
7 17 (2.27%) Nokia
8 16 (2.14%) IBM
9 15 (2.00%) Informatica
10 13 (1.74%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.60%) Oracle
11 12 (1.60%) Palo Alto
12 10 (1.34%) Google
13 9 (1.20%) Databricks
13 9 (1.20%) Dell
14 8 (1.07%) Adobe
14 8 (1.07%) Ericsson
14 8 (1.07%) Facebook
14 8 (1.07%) NetApp