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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 89 80
Rank change year-on-year +26 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,356 1,484 2,728
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.13% 2.67% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 2.98% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 948 1,752
10th Percentile £269 £335 £338
25th Percentile £400 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 57 109
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £21.30 £24.25
Median hourly rate £19.38 £43.86 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.83% -2.53% +59.07%
75th Percentile £35.00 £59.03 £51.45
90th Percentile £51.28 £66.95 £56.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £41.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -61.07% -8.33% +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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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
England +33 1,197 £525 -6.25% 1,641
UK excluding London +31 730 £500 - 1,007
London +17 525 £520 -11.60% 640
Work from Home +18 423 £525 -4.46% 712
North of England +49 180 £515 -0.96% 273
South East +17 176 £545 +4.81% 247
North West +46 136 £463 -11.06% 176
Midlands +41 122 £425 -19.05% 196
South West +22 108 £550 - 132
West Midlands +21 84 £463 -12.94% 125
Scotland -7 78 £435 -13.00% 57
East of England +19 54 £513 +13.89% 106
East Midlands +30 37 £270 -43.16% 71
Yorkshire +2 32 £550 +5.26% 73
North East +18 12 £525 +13.51% 25
Wales +14 11 £300 -45.45% 25
Northern Ireland -1 5 £640 +293.85% 8

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 33 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.77%) Confluence
3 18 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.81%) SAS
5 10 (0.74%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.44%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.37%) govService
8 4 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.29%) WordPress
9 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.074%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.074%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.074%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.074%) nginx
10 1 (0.074%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 113 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 99 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.52%) SPSS
7 6 (0.44%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.15%) Revit
8 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.074%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.074%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.074%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.074%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.074%) Sketch
9 1 (0.074%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 16 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.44%) Shopify
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) Primavera
4 4 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.22%) Endur
5 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.15%) JDE OneWorld
6 2 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.074%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.074%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.074%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 162 (11.95%) Azure
2 128 (9.44%) AWS
3 121 (8.92%) Power Platform
4 52 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (3.24%) SaaS
6 34 (2.51%) GCP
7 33 (2.43%) Snowflake
8 26 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.70%) PaaS
10 20 (1.47%) Taleo
11 17 (1.25%) Google Analytics
12 16 (1.18%) GitHub
12 16 (1.18%) Serverless
13 12 (0.88%) Google Workspace
14 11 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
14 11 (0.81%) Power Automate
14 11 (0.81%) PowerApps
15 10 (0.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.24%) Firewall
2 31 (2.29%) WAN
3 28 (2.06%) LAN
4 22 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (1.40%) VPN
6 18 (1.33%) DNS
6 18 (1.33%) Network Security
7 17 (1.25%) VoIP
8 15 (1.11%) DHCP
9 14 (1.03%) VLAN
10 13 (0.96%) SAN
11 11 (0.81%) MPLS
12 9 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
13 8 (0.59%) Internet
13 8 (0.59%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.59%) Wireless
14 7 (0.52%) 3G
14 7 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (0.52%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.48%) Power BI
2 86 (6.34%) Tableau
3 50 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (3.69%) SQL Server
4 24 (1.77%) Big Data
4 24 (1.77%) Data Mining
5 20 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.18%) Looker
8 13 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.88%) Metadata
9 12 (0.88%) NoSQL
9 12 (0.88%) Power Query
10 10 (0.74%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.74%) MySQL
11 9 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.59%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 55 (4.06%) JIRA
2 31 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.99%) Cucumber
3 27 (1.99%) Selenium
4 25 (1.84%) GitLab
4 25 (1.84%) SonarQube
5 24 (1.77%) REST Assured
6 18 (1.33%) Git
7 15 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.52%) RStudio
10 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) Maven
12 1 (0.074%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.074%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.074%) GoCD
12 1 (0.074%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.074%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 606 (44.69%) Social Skills
2 351 (25.88%) Finance
3 342 (25.22%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (10.47%) Presentation Skills
4 142 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 100 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
6 72 (5.31%) Marketing
7 64 (4.72%) Banking
8 62 (4.57%) Retail
9 58 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (3.98%) Telecoms
11 53 (3.91%) Legal
12 28 (2.06%) Law
12 28 (2.06%) Local Government
13 27 (1.99%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.70%) Front Office
15 21 (1.55%) Police
16 20 (1.47%) Aerospace
16 20 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 224 (16.52%) Analyst
2 127 (9.37%) Project Manager
3 124 (9.14%) Lead
4 120 (8.85%) Architect
4 120 (8.85%) Senior
5 79 (5.83%) Developer
6 72 (5.31%) Consultant
7 66 (4.87%) Data Analyst
8 59 (4.35%) Business Analyst
9 46 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
11 33 (2.43%) Senior Manager
12 32 (2.36%) Data Engineer
12 32 (2.36%) IT Manager
13 30 (2.21%) Support Engineer
14 29 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
15 23 (1.70%) Java Engineer
16 21 (1.55%) Senior Project Manager
17 20 (1.47%) Business Manager
17 20 (1.47%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.61%) REST
2 25 (1.84%) .NET
2 25 (1.84%) Java EE
3 23 (1.70%) AngularJS
4 18 (1.33%) Spring
5 16 (1.18%) CSS
5 16 (1.18%) HTML
6 14 (1.03%) React
7 12 (0.88%) ARM Templates
7 12 (0.88%) Kafka
7 12 (0.88%) RESTful
8 11 (0.81%) Node.js
9 10 (0.74%) Spring Boot
10 9 (0.66%) scikit-learn
11 8 (0.59%) .NET Core
11 8 (0.59%) .NET Framework
11 8 (0.59%) JPA
11 8 (0.59%) Middleware
11 8 (0.59%) Pandas
12 7 (0.52%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.27%) Management Information System
2 51 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 37 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.65%) Data Centre
5 26 (1.92%) Credit Risk
6 24 (1.77%) Clustering
7 20 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.25%) NHS
11 15 (1.11%) Driving Licence
12 14 (1.03%) Mobile App
13 13 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (0.88%) Life Science
15 11 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (0.81%) FMCG
15 11 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
16 10 (0.74%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.74%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 110 (8.11%) Windows
2 39 (2.88%) Windows 10
3 34 (2.51%) Linux
4 24 (1.77%) Unix
5 23 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.81%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.44%) Android
8 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.37%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.15%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.15%) zOS
11 1 (0.074%) CentOS
11 1 (0.074%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.074%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (33.55%) Problem-Solving
2 313 (23.08%) Agile
3 250 (18.44%) Project Management
4 203 (14.97%) Analytics
5 170 (12.54%) Time Management
6 153 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 152 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 141 (10.40%) Data Analysis
9 138 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
10 125 (9.22%) Actionable Insight
11 124 (9.14%) Roadmaps
12 123 (9.07%) Visualisation
13 119 (8.78%) DevOps
14 114 (8.41%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 104 (7.67%) Change Management
15 104 (7.67%) Risk Management
16 99 (7.30%) Migration
17 98 (7.23%) Computer Science
18 97 (7.15%) Project Delivery
19 95 (7.01%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 178 (13.13%) SQL
2 101 (7.45%) Python
3 70 (5.16%) Java
4 33 (2.43%) PowerShell
5 25 (1.84%) C#
6 20 (1.47%) R
7 19 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 17 (1.25%) TypeScript
9 13 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.59%) Go
10 8 (0.59%) Swift
11 7 (0.52%) VBA
12 6 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.29%) Bicep
14 4 (0.29%) Ruby
15 3 (0.22%) Bash
15 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.22%) Scala
15 3 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 264 (19.47%) Degree
2 247 (18.22%) Security Cleared
3 189 (13.94%) SC Cleared
4 63 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 50 (3.69%) Master's Degree
6 49 (3.61%) PMP
7 46 (3.39%) PMI Certification
8 41 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.92%) CISM
10 26 (1.92%) HND
11 25 (1.84%) CISSP
12 21 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 15 (1.11%) HNC
15 13 (0.96%) CCNP
16 12 (0.88%) CISA
16 12 (0.88%) PhD
17 11 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 59 (4.35%) QA
3 42 (3.10%) PMO
4 35 (2.58%) Disclosure Scotland
5 26 (1.92%) GDPR
6 25 (1.84%) SLA
7 23 (1.70%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (1.03%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (0.88%) NIST
12 5 (0.37%) GMP
13 4 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.29%) MiFID
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.22%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) P3O
System Software
1 47 (3.47%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (2.21%) Docker
4 15 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.59%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.37%) HDFS
9 4 (0.29%) vSphere
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.15%) Firmware
11 2 (0.15%) KVM
11 2 (0.15%) NFS
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.074%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 40 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.80%) Ansible
2 38 (2.80%) Terraform
3 21 (1.55%) SCCM
4 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.96%) Podman
6 12 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
7 9 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (0.66%) Nagios
7 9 (0.66%) NetBackup
8 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.59%) VxRail
9 7 (0.52%) Autotask
9 7 (0.52%) Nessus
10 4 (0.29%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.22%) Grafana
11 3 (0.22%) MOM
11 3 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.15%) SCOM
Vendors
1 230 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 53 (3.91%) SAP
3 48 (3.54%) Google
4 45 (3.32%) VMware
5 43 (3.17%) Cisco
6 36 (2.65%) Oracle
7 34 (2.51%) Salesforce
8 33 (2.43%) Alteryx
8 33 (2.43%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.77%) Juniper
10 21 (1.55%) Informatica
11 19 (1.40%) Nokia
12 17 (1.25%) IBM
13 16 (1.18%) Dell
14 15 (1.11%) Databricks
15 14 (1.03%) Adobe
15 14 (1.03%) Citrix
16 11 (0.81%) Apple
16 11 (0.81%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.74%) Facebook