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 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 405 589 618
Rank change year-on-year +184 +29 +46
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 171 93 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 76 177
10th Percentile £407 £346 £390
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £716 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £493 £450
% change year-on-year +6.60% +9.44% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £33.50 - -
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 £61.50 £48.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £69.91 - -
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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
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% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
England +157 153 £525 -8.70% 271
London +127 77 £525 -10.64% 135
UK excluding London +76 77 £525 +6.60% 143
Work from Home +141 75 £500 - 112
North of England +50 32 £525 +27.27% 39
South East +17 24 £450 - 39
North West +41 22 £525 +44.83% 27
Midlands +20 9 £450 -30.77% 27
West Midlands +16 8 £450 -28.00% 20
Yorkshire +23 7 £550 +15.79% 6
Scotland +39 4 £626 +44.21% 11
South West +8 4 £575 +39.82% 22
North East +14 3 £533 +33.13% 6
East of England +4 2 £613 +11.36% 6
Wales - 2 £465 - 2
East Midlands +7 1 £225 -65.38% 7

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 7 (4.09%) Confluence
2 5 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.34%) govService
4 3 (1.75%) CMS
5 2 (1.17%) Apache
5 2 (1.17%) 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 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.17%) SPSS
3 2 (1.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.17%) 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 39 (22.81%) Azure
2 38 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 12 (7.02%) AWS
4 10 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.85%) GCP
5 9 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (4.68%) SaaS
7 5 (2.92%) Smartsheet
8 4 (2.34%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (1.75%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.75%) GitHub
10 2 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.17%) dbt
10 2 (1.17%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.17%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) 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 38 (22.22%) Power BI
2 28 (16.37%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (12.87%) Tableau
4 16 (9.36%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.43%) Big Data
6 10 (5.85%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.68%) QlikView
8 7 (4.09%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (2.92%) Metadata
9 5 (2.92%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.34%) KDB
10 4 (2.34%) Looker
10 4 (2.34%) MySQL
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.75%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.75%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.75%) PostHog
11 3 (1.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (5.85%) JIRA
2 6 (3.51%) Git
3 4 (2.34%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.17%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.17%) JUnit
4 2 (1.17%) RStudio
4 2 (1.17%) Selenium
5 1 (0.58%) ERwin
5 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
General
1 98 (57.31%) Social Skills
2 65 (38.01%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (20.47%) Finance
4 15 (8.77%) Retail
5 14 (8.19%) Marketing
6 12 (7.02%) Telecoms
7 11 (6.43%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (6.43%) Public Sector
8 10 (5.85%) Legal
8 10 (5.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.51%) Banking
9 6 (3.51%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.34%) Automotive
12 3 (1.75%) Health Technology
13 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.17%) French Language
13 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.17%) Publishing
14 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (15.79%) Analyst
2 22 (12.87%) Developer
3 19 (11.11%) Lead
4 18 (10.53%) Architect
4 18 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 14 (8.19%) Consultant
5 14 (8.19%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.43%) Senior
7 10 (5.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 10 (5.85%) Product Manager
8 9 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.68%) Data Consultant
9 8 (4.68%) Product Owner
10 7 (4.09%) Data Governance Consultant
10 7 (4.09%) Governance Consultant
10 7 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Informatica Architect
11 6 (3.51%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (3.51%) Qlik Developer
11 6 (3.51%) Qlik Sense Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.92%) JSON
2 4 (2.34%) Kafka
3 2 (1.17%) REST
3 2 (1.17%) Swagger
3 2 (1.17%) YAML
4 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.58%) ODBC
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (2.34%) Life Science
3 4 (2.34%) Reference Data
4 3 (1.75%) FMCG
4 3 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.75%) NHS
5 2 (1.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.17%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.17%) Social Media
6 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (64.91%) Decision-Making
2 81 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (36.26%) Analytics
4 57 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 51 (29.82%) Agile
6 47 (27.49%) Data Modelling
7 39 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.64%) ETL
9 35 (20.47%) Stakeholder Management
9 35 (20.47%) Visualisation
10 31 (18.13%) Data Governance
11 30 (17.54%) Mentoring
12 29 (16.96%) Data Analysis
13 26 (15.20%) Data Analytics
14 25 (14.62%) Data Integration
15 24 (14.04%) Project Management
16 23 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
16 23 (13.45%) Data Visualisation
17 21 (12.28%) Data Management
18 20 (11.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.39%) SQL
2 25 (14.62%) Python
3 10 (5.85%) Scala
4 5 (2.92%) Java
4 5 (2.92%) R
5 4 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.17%) C#
6 2 (1.17%) Perl
6 2 (1.17%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (18.13%) Degree
2 8 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.92%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.75%) CSPO
4 3 (1.75%) Postgraduate
4 3 (1.75%) SAP Certification
5 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.17%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (1.17%) 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 41 (23.98%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.75%) GDPR
3 3 (1.75%) QA
4 2 (1.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.17%) PSD2
5 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (14.04%) Informatica
2 14 (8.19%) Databricks
3 13 (7.60%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.26%) Oracle
4 9 (5.26%) SAP
5 8 (4.68%) Facebook
5 8 (4.68%) Instagram
6 5 (2.92%) Google
7 4 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.75%) Adobe
8 3 (1.75%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.75%) Brio
9 2 (1.17%) Citrix
9 2 (1.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Aprimo
10 1 (0.58%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.58%) Symantec
10 1 (0.58%) Talend
10 1 (0.58%) Varonis
10 1 (0.58%) VMware