Decision-Making Contracts

Decision-Making
UK

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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 88 77
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 +21
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,397 1,516 2,786
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.28% 2.65% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 2.95% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 880 953 1,770
10th Percentile £275 £338 £338
25th Percentile £401 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +0.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £719 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 60 121
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £21.09 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.38 £43.43 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.39% -3.49% +55.98%
75th Percentile £35.00 £59.41 £51.48
90th Percentile £50.50 £65.08 £56.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -64.31% - +66.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the UK

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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 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 +34 1,236 £525 -4.55% 1,989
UK excluding London +33 745 £500 - 1,287
London +24 542 £525 -12.50% 840
Work from Home +26 441 £525 -2.33% 867
South East +21 185 £550 +9.78% 409
North of England +43 177 £515 - 312
North West +37 136 £463 -8.87% 174
South West +27 123 £550 -2.22% 160
Midlands +36 118 £425 -19.05% 212
West Midlands +26 79 £450 -14.29% 141
Scotland -9 78 £435 -13.09% 57
East of England +28 57 £525 +10.53% 102
East Midlands +33 38 £270 -43.16% 71
Yorkshire +2 33 £550 +5.77% 106
North East +15 8 £533 -9.36% 37
Wales +10 8 £415 -11.70% 47
Northern Ireland +1 5 £640 +293.85% 18

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 34 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.57%) Confluence
3 17 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.50%) Apache
4 7 (0.50%) SAS
5 6 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 6 (0.43%) CMS
6 5 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.36%) govService
7 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.29%) WordPress
8 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.21%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.072%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.072%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.072%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.072%) Mule
10 1 (0.072%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 119 (8.52%) Microsoft Office
2 104 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.43%) SPSS
8 4 (0.29%) Trello
9 3 (0.21%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.14%) Revit
11 1 (0.072%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.072%) FileZilla
11 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.072%) Sketch
11 1 (0.072%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 20 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.57%) Primavera
3 7 (0.50%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.43%) Shopify
5 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.21%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.21%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.21%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.21%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.14%) Endur
8 2 (0.14%) JDE OneWorld
8 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.14%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 162 (11.60%) Azure
2 126 (9.02%) AWS
3 118 (8.45%) Power Platform
4 45 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (3.08%) SaaS
6 39 (2.79%) GCP
7 32 (2.29%) Snowflake
8 31 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.72%) PaaS
10 20 (1.43%) Taleo
11 17 (1.22%) Google Analytics
11 17 (1.22%) Serverless
12 15 (1.07%) GitHub
13 14 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (0.86%) Google Workspace
15 11 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (0.72%) Power Automate
16 10 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.08%) Firewall
2 30 (2.15%) WAN
3 27 (1.93%) LAN
4 22 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (1.36%) Network Security
6 18 (1.29%) VPN
7 16 (1.15%) DNS
7 16 (1.15%) VoIP
8 15 (1.07%) DHCP
9 14 (1.00%) SAN
10 13 (0.93%) VLAN
11 11 (0.79%) MPLS
12 10 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
12 10 (0.72%) Structured Cabling
13 8 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (0.57%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.57%) Wireless
14 7 (0.50%) 3G
14 7 (0.50%) Internet
14 7 (0.50%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.02%) Power BI
2 83 (5.94%) Tableau
3 56 (4.01%) SQL Server
4 46 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (1.86%) Big Data
6 23 (1.65%) Data Mining
7 18 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.15%) Looker
9 15 (1.07%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.00%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.00%) Metadata
11 12 (0.86%) NoSQL
11 12 (0.86%) Power Query
12 10 (0.72%) MySQL
13 9 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.50%) Hadoop
14 7 (0.50%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 63 (4.51%) JIRA
2 32 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.93%) Cucumber
3 27 (1.93%) Selenium
4 25 (1.79%) SonarQube
5 24 (1.72%) REST Assured
6 22 (1.57%) GitLab
7 16 (1.15%) Git
8 15 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
9 9 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.50%) RStudio
11 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.29%) Maven
12 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.14%) Eclipse
14 1 (0.072%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.072%) Oracle Forms
14 1 (0.072%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.072%) VisualWorks
General
1 609 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 365 (26.13%) Finance
3 342 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (10.16%) Presentation Skills
5 141 (10.09%) Public Sector
6 102 (7.30%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (5.30%) Marketing
8 69 (4.94%) Banking
9 61 (4.37%) Retail
10 57 (4.08%) Legal
11 55 (3.94%) Telecoms
12 50 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (2.22%) Local Government
14 29 (2.08%) Manufacturing
15 28 (2.00%) Law
16 24 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (1.50%) Front Office
18 21 (1.50%) Police
19 20 (1.43%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 224 (16.03%) Analyst
2 140 (10.02%) Project Manager
3 131 (9.38%) Lead
4 127 (9.09%) Architect
5 121 (8.66%) Senior
6 77 (5.51%) Developer
7 66 (4.72%) Consultant
8 62 (4.44%) Data Analyst
9 59 (4.22%) Business Analyst
10 48 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
11 36 (2.58%) IT Manager
12 35 (2.51%) Data Engineer
13 33 (2.36%) Senior Manager
14 30 (2.15%) Support Engineer
15 27 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
16 24 (1.72%) Java Engineer
17 21 (1.50%) Business Manager
17 21 (1.50%) Data Scientist
17 21 (1.50%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.58%) REST
2 29 (2.08%) .NET
3 25 (1.79%) Java EE
4 24 (1.72%) AngularJS
5 18 (1.29%) CSS
5 18 (1.29%) HTML
6 17 (1.22%) Spring
7 15 (1.07%) .NET Core
7 15 (1.07%) React
8 13 (0.93%) RESTful
9 12 (0.86%) ARM Templates
10 11 (0.79%) Node.js
10 11 (0.79%) Spring Boot
11 10 (0.72%) Kafka
11 10 (0.72%) Pandas
11 10 (0.72%) scikit-learn
11 10 (0.72%) YAML
12 9 (0.64%) JPA
13 7 (0.50%) LDAP
13 7 (0.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.16%) Management Information System
2 54 (3.87%) Product Ownership
3 38 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 26 (1.86%) Credit Risk
6 23 (1.65%) Clustering
7 19 (1.36%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.29%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.15%) NHS
9 16 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.07%) Life Science
10 15 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 14 (1.00%) Mobile App
12 11 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 103 (7.37%) Windows
2 39 (2.79%) Windows 10
3 34 (2.43%) Linux
4 25 (1.79%) Unix
5 21 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.43%) Android
9 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.36%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.14%) zOS
13 1 (0.072%) CentOS
13 1 (0.072%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.072%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (33.14%) Problem-Solving
2 339 (24.27%) Agile
3 278 (19.90%) Project Management
4 193 (13.82%) Analytics
5 169 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 167 (11.95%) Time Management
7 159 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 140 (10.02%) Data Analysis
9 134 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
10 126 (9.02%) Roadmaps
10 126 (9.02%) Visualisation
11 122 (8.73%) DevOps
12 118 (8.45%) Actionable Insight
12 118 (8.45%) Change Management
13 116 (8.30%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 111 (7.95%) Risk Management
15 107 (7.66%) PRINCE2
16 103 (7.37%) Migration
17 101 (7.23%) Project Delivery
18 92 (6.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 170 (12.17%) SQL
2 100 (7.16%) Python
3 71 (5.08%) Java
4 32 (2.29%) C#
5 31 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 22 (1.57%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.50%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (0.93%) R
10 8 (0.57%) Bicep
10 8 (0.57%) Swift
11 7 (0.50%) Go
12 6 (0.43%) Perl
12 6 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.43%) VBA
13 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.29%) Bash
14 4 (0.29%) Ruby
14 4 (0.29%) Scala
15 3 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 271 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 258 (18.47%) Degree
3 204 (14.60%) SC Cleared
4 77 (5.51%) DV Cleared
5 52 (3.72%) PMP
6 49 (3.51%) PMI Certification
7 47 (3.36%) Master's Degree
8 34 (2.43%) CISM
8 34 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (2.29%) CISSP
10 29 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.86%) HND
12 25 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 22 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (1.07%) HNC
15 14 (1.00%) CCNP
16 13 (0.93%) PhD
17 11 (0.79%) CISA
17 11 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
18 9 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 54 (3.87%) PMO
2 54 (3.87%) QA
3 34 (2.43%) Disclosure Scotland
4 30 (2.15%) SLA
5 28 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 23 (1.65%) GDPR
7 18 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (1.22%) NIST
9 13 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.43%) COBIT
11 6 (0.43%) GRC
12 5 (0.36%) GMP
13 4 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.29%) GxP
13 4 (0.29%) MiFID
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 51 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (2.22%) Docker
4 14 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.57%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (0.43%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.29%) vSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Firmware
8 2 (0.14%) HDFS
8 2 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.14%) NFS
8 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.072%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.072%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 40 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.51%) Terraform
3 34 (2.43%) Ansible
4 20 (1.43%) SCCM
5 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (0.86%) Podman
7 10 (0.72%) NetBackup
8 8 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
8 8 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.57%) Nagios
8 8 (0.57%) Nessus
8 8 (0.57%) VxRail
9 6 (0.43%) Autotask
10 4 (0.29%) Grafana
10 4 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.21%) MOM
12 2 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 239 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.01%) SAP
3 47 (3.36%) Google
4 46 (3.29%) VMware
5 45 (3.22%) Cisco
6 38 (2.72%) Oracle
7 31 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 29 (2.08%) Alteryx
9 27 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 25 (1.79%) Juniper
11 21 (1.50%) Informatica
12 19 (1.36%) Nokia
13 18 (1.29%) Databricks
13 18 (1.29%) IBM
14 16 (1.15%) Dell
15 15 (1.07%) Adobe
16 12 (0.86%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.72%) Citrix
17 10 (0.72%) Facebook
17 10 (0.72%) Instagram