Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data-Driven Decision Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 606 618
Rank change year-on-year +193 +12 +23
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 172 90 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.17% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 71 178
10th Percentile £401 £406 £393
25th Percentile £425 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £626 £681 £663
90th Percentile £750 £800 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £58.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -22.76% +223.68%
75th Percentile £63.31 £48.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £70.49 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data-Driven 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK

Data-Driven 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 Data-Driven Decision Making within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +175 154 £525 -8.70% 269
London +121 80 £525 -12.50% 127
UK excluding London +111 75 £525 +10.53% 147
Work from Home +146 74 £488 -2.50% 114
North of England +47 29 £523 +22.94% 42
South East +26 25 £450 -7.22% 48
North West +42 20 £520 +43.45% 26
Midlands +29 9 £450 -28.00% 20
West Midlands +23 8 £450 -28.00% 12
Yorkshire +24 6 £525 +10.53% 14
Scotland - 4 £626 - 5
South West +19 3 £575 +132.32% 19
East of England +8 3 £550 +4.76% 10
North East - 3 £533 - 2
Wales - 2 £465 - 3
East Midlands +20 1 £225 -65.38% 8

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (4.65%) Confluence
2 5 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.33%) govService
4 3 (1.74%) CMS
5 2 (1.16%) Apache
5 2 (1.16%) SAS
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.58%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.16%) SPSS
4 2 (1.16%) Trello
5 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.16%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.58%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.58%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.58%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.58%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.58%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (23.26%) Azure
2 39 (22.67%) Power Platform
3 12 (6.98%) AWS
4 10 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.81%) GCP
5 8 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (4.65%) SaaS
6 5 (2.91%) Smartsheet
7 4 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
7 4 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.74%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.74%) GitHub
9 2 (1.16%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.16%) Google Data Studio
9 2 (1.16%) Google Sheets
9 2 (1.16%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.16%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.58%) 3G
2 1 (0.58%) 4G
2 1 (0.58%) 5G
2 1 (0.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (22.67%) Power BI
2 28 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (13.95%) Tableau
4 15 (8.72%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.40%) Big Data
6 9 (5.23%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.65%) QlikView
8 7 (4.07%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (3.49%) Metadata
10 5 (2.91%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.33%) Looker
11 4 (2.33%) MySQL
12 3 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.74%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.74%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.74%) HBase
12 3 (1.74%) KDB
12 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.40%) JIRA
2 6 (3.49%) Git
3 4 (2.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.16%) JUnit
4 2 (1.16%) Selenium
5 1 (0.58%) ERwin
5 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.58%) RStudio
General
1 97 (56.40%) Social Skills
2 67 (38.95%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (19.19%) Finance
4 16 (9.30%) Retail
5 15 (8.72%) Marketing
6 12 (6.98%) Legal
6 12 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (6.98%) Telecoms
7 11 (6.40%) Public Sector
8 10 (5.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.49%) Banking
9 6 (3.49%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.33%) Automotive
12 3 (1.74%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.16%) French Language
13 2 (1.16%) Publishing
14 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (16.86%) Analyst
2 20 (11.63%) Data Analyst
2 20 (11.63%) Developer
2 20 (11.63%) Lead
3 18 (10.47%) Architect
4 15 (8.72%) Data Engineer
5 12 (6.98%) Consultant
5 12 (6.98%) Senior
6 11 (6.40%) Product Manager
7 9 (5.23%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (4.65%) Product Owner
9 7 (4.07%) Data Consultant
9 7 (4.07%) Data Governance Consultant
9 7 (4.07%) Governance Consultant
9 7 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Data Manager
10 6 (3.49%) Informatica Architect
10 6 (3.49%) Qlik Developer
10 6 (3.49%) Qlik Sense Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.91%) JSON
2 4 (2.33%) Kafka
3 2 (1.16%) REST
3 2 (1.16%) Swagger
3 2 (1.16%) YAML
4 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.58%) CSS
4 1 (0.58%) CSS3
4 1 (0.58%) HTML
4 1 (0.58%) HTML5
4 1 (0.58%) ODBC
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.05%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.40%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.33%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.74%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.74%) FMCG
5 3 (1.74%) Life Science
5 3 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.74%) NHS
6 2 (1.16%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.16%) Social Media
6 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (66.86%) Decision-Making
2 79 (45.93%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (37.21%) Analytics
4 58 (33.72%) Business Intelligence
5 50 (29.07%) Agile
6 48 (27.91%) Data Modelling
7 40 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.51%) ETL
8 37 (21.51%) Visualisation
9 36 (20.93%) Data Governance
10 35 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (17.44%) Data Analysis
11 30 (17.44%) Mentoring
12 26 (15.12%) Data Analytics
12 26 (15.12%) Data Integration
13 24 (13.95%) Data Visualisation
14 23 (13.37%) Data Pipeline
14 23 (13.37%) Project Management
15 22 (12.79%) Actionable Insight
15 22 (12.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.84%) SQL
2 26 (15.12%) Python
3 10 (5.81%) Scala
4 6 (3.49%) Java
5 4 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.33%) R
6 2 (1.16%) C#
6 2 (1.16%) Perl
6 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (18.02%) Degree
2 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.49%) Master's Degree
3 6 (3.49%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.49%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.74%) CSPO
4 3 (1.74%) Postgraduate
4 3 (1.74%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.16%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (1.16%) MBA
6 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.91%) GDPR
4 4 (2.33%) QA
5 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.16%) PSD2
6 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.58%) GRC
6 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (13.95%) Informatica
2 16 (9.30%) Databricks
3 15 (8.72%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.81%) SAP
5 9 (5.23%) Oracle
6 8 (4.65%) Facebook
6 8 (4.65%) Instagram
7 5 (2.91%) Google
8 4 (2.33%) Adobe
9 3 (1.74%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.74%) Brio
9 3 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.16%) Citrix
10 2 (1.16%) Marketo
10 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Aprimo
11 1 (0.58%) Symantec
11 1 (0.58%) Talend
11 1 (0.58%) Varonis
11 1 (0.58%) VMware