Decision-Making Contracts in England

Decision-Making
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 92 81
Rank change year-on-year +32 -11 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,212 1,217 2,154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.28% 2.56% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 2.85% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 755 1,331
10th Percentile £275 £338 £325
25th Percentile £408 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £546
% change year-on-year -6.55% +0.69% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 52 87
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £22.16 £25.50
Median hourly rate £19.38 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.21% +5.56% +69.94%
75th Percentile £40.00 £64.06 £51.75
90th Percentile £51.50 £68.45 £57.87
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £43.86 £45.00
% change year-on-year -55.83% -2.53% +58.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +26 529 £525 -11.02% 791
South East +20 182 £550 +5.77% 269
North of England +41 179 £525 +0.96% 278
North West +50 136 £463 -13.95% 176
Midlands +42 123 £425 -19.05% 181
South West +21 113 £550 - 155
West Midlands +24 83 £450 -15.29% 109
East of England +18 55 £525 +16.67% 111
East Midlands +29 39 £270 -43.16% 72
Yorkshire +9 34 £550 +5.77% 78
North East +14 9 £533 +15.14% 28
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.57%) Confluence
3 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.74%) Apache
5 8 (0.66%) SAS
6 6 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.50%) CMS
7 5 (0.41%) govService
8 4 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.33%) WordPress
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.083%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.083%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.083%) Mule
10 1 (0.083%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.083%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 106 (8.75%) Microsoft Office
2 86 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.41%) SPSS
7 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.17%) Revit
7 2 (0.17%) Trello
8 1 (0.083%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.083%) FileZilla
8 1 (0.083%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.083%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.50%) Primavera
2 6 (0.50%) Shopify
3 5 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.25%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.25%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 2 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.17%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.083%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.083%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.083%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.083%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.083%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 149 (12.29%) Azure
2 107 (8.83%) AWS
3 104 (8.58%) Power Platform
4 45 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (3.55%) SaaS
6 28 (2.31%) GCP
7 26 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (2.06%) Snowflake
9 20 (1.65%) Taleo
10 19 (1.57%) PaaS
11 15 (1.24%) Google Analytics
11 15 (1.24%) Serverless
12 12 (0.99%) GitHub
12 12 (0.99%) Google Workspace
13 11 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (0.83%) IaaS
14 10 (0.83%) Power Automate
14 10 (0.83%) PowerApps
15 9 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.56%) Firewall
2 30 (2.48%) WAN
3 23 (1.90%) LAN
4 21 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (1.32%) VoIP
6 13 (1.07%) DNS
7 12 (0.99%) SAN
7 12 (0.99%) VPN
8 11 (0.91%) DHCP
8 11 (0.91%) MPLS
8 11 (0.91%) Network Security
9 9 (0.74%) VLAN
10 8 (0.66%) Internet
10 8 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
11 7 (0.58%) 3G
11 7 (0.58%) 4G
11 7 (0.58%) 5G
11 7 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (0.58%) PBX
11 7 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (8.17%) Power BI
2 73 (6.02%) Tableau
3 48 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (3.63%) SQL Server
5 22 (1.82%) Big Data
5 22 (1.82%) Data Mining
6 21 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.16%) Looker
8 13 (1.07%) Metadata
9 11 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.83%) Power Query
11 9 (0.74%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.66%) MySQL
12 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.58%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.58%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (3.88%) JIRA
2 28 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.06%) Cucumber
3 25 (2.06%) Selenium
4 24 (1.98%) REST Assured
4 24 (1.98%) SonarQube
5 21 (1.73%) GitLab
6 17 (1.40%) Git
7 15 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.66%) RStudio
9 5 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.25%) Maven
11 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.083%) ERwin
12 1 (0.083%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.083%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.083%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.083%) Visual LANSA
General
1 530 (43.73%) Social Skills
2 319 (26.32%) Finance
3 299 (24.67%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 109 (8.99%) Presentation Skills
6 73 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (5.28%) Marketing
8 60 (4.95%) Retail
9 55 (4.54%) Telecoms
10 53 (4.37%) Banking
11 51 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (4.04%) Legal
13 30 (2.48%) Local Government
14 27 (2.23%) Law
15 25 (2.06%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.82%) Front Office
17 21 (1.73%) Police
18 20 (1.65%) Aerospace
19 19 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
20 16 (1.32%) Military
Job Titles
1 193 (15.92%) Analyst
2 124 (10.23%) Project Manager
3 113 (9.32%) Architect
3 113 (9.32%) Senior
4 98 (8.09%) Lead
5 67 (5.53%) Developer
6 59 (4.87%) Consultant
7 54 (4.46%) Business Analyst
8 53 (4.37%) Data Analyst
9 40 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
11 33 (2.72%) IT Manager
12 31 (2.56%) Data Engineer
12 31 (2.56%) Senior Manager
13 26 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (1.98%) Support Engineer
15 20 (1.65%) Business Manager
15 20 (1.65%) Senior Project Manager
16 18 (1.49%) Java Engineer
16 18 (1.49%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.38%) REST
2 25 (2.06%) Java EE
3 23 (1.90%) .NET
4 12 (0.99%) ARM Templates
5 11 (0.91%) Node.js
5 11 (0.91%) RESTful
6 10 (0.83%) AngularJS
6 10 (0.83%) Kafka
6 10 (0.83%) scikit-learn
7 9 (0.74%) .NET Core
8 8 (0.66%) Pandas
8 8 (0.66%) React
8 8 (0.66%) YAML
9 7 (0.58%) Middleware
9 7 (0.58%) TensorFlow
10 6 (0.50%) CSS
10 6 (0.50%) HTML
10 6 (0.50%) Spring
11 5 (0.41%) ADO
11 5 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (6.27%) Management Information System
2 48 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (1.65%) Clustering
6 19 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 18 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (1.49%) Credit Risk
7 18 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.40%) NHS
9 12 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (0.99%) Life Science
9 12 (0.99%) Mobile App
10 11 (0.91%) Driving Licence
11 10 (0.83%) Client/Server
11 10 (0.83%) FMCG
12 9 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (0.74%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
14 7 (0.58%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.10%) Windows
2 36 (2.97%) Windows 10
3 29 (2.39%) Linux
4 20 (1.65%) Unix
5 13 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.66%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.41%) Android
9 5 (0.41%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.17%) zOS
11 1 (0.083%) CentOS
11 1 (0.083%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.083%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 267 (22.03%) Agile
3 233 (19.22%) Project Management
4 176 (14.52%) Analytics
5 146 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 145 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 142 (11.72%) Time Management
8 136 (11.22%) Data Analysis
9 121 (9.98%) Business Intelligence
10 115 (9.49%) Roadmaps
10 115 (9.49%) Visualisation
11 110 (9.08%) DevOps
12 105 (8.66%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 104 (8.58%) Actionable Insight
14 100 (8.25%) Change Management
15 93 (7.67%) PRINCE2
15 93 (7.67%) Project Delivery
16 89 (7.34%) Data Modelling
17 86 (7.10%) Migration
17 86 (7.10%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 145 (11.96%) SQL
2 93 (7.67%) Python
3 56 (4.62%) Java
4 30 (2.48%) PowerShell
5 25 (2.06%) C#
6 18 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.40%) R
8 13 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.66%) Swift
10 7 (0.58%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.50%) Bicep
11 6 (0.50%) Go
11 6 (0.50%) VBA
12 5 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.33%) Ruby
14 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.25%) Scala
14 3 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.17%) Bash
15 2 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 235 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 228 (18.81%) Degree
3 176 (14.52%) SC Cleared
4 73 (6.02%) DV Cleared
5 46 (3.80%) Master's Degree
5 46 (3.80%) PMI Certification
6 45 (3.71%) PMP
7 30 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.15%) HND
9 19 (1.57%) CISM
9 19 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 18 (1.49%) CISSP
11 17 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.24%) HNC
13 13 (1.07%) CCNP
14 12 (0.99%) PhD
15 11 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.83%) MBA
16 10 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 50 (4.13%) QA
3 37 (3.05%) PMO
4 26 (2.15%) Disclosure Scotland
5 22 (1.82%) GDPR
6 20 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.65%) SLA
7 11 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.66%) NIST
10 5 (0.41%) GMP
11 4 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.33%) MiFID
12 3 (0.25%) COBIT
12 3 (0.25%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.25%) NCSC
12 3 (0.25%) P3O
12 3 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 39 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.48%) Docker
3 28 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.17%) Firmware
7 2 (0.17%) HDFS
7 2 (0.17%) KVM
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.083%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.083%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 36 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 34 (2.81%) Ansible
3 33 (2.72%) Terraform
4 17 (1.40%) SCCM
5 12 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (0.99%) Podman
6 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.74%) Nagios
7 8 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (0.66%) NetBackup
8 7 (0.58%) Nessus
9 6 (0.50%) Autotask
9 6 (0.50%) VxRail
10 3 (0.25%) MOM
11 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.17%) SCOM
11 2 (0.17%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 208 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 41 (3.38%) Google
3 40 (3.30%) SAP
4 36 (2.97%) VMware
5 34 (2.81%) Cisco
6 30 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 30 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 27 (2.23%) Oracle
8 25 (2.06%) Alteryx
9 24 (1.98%) Juniper
10 21 (1.73%) Informatica
11 19 (1.57%) Nokia
12 17 (1.40%) IBM
13 14 (1.16%) Databricks
14 13 (1.07%) Citrix
15 12 (0.99%) Adobe
16 11 (0.91%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.74%) Okta
18 8 (0.66%) Dell
18 8 (0.66%) Instagram