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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 581 632
Rank change year-on-year +158 +51 +30
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 171 98 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 80 181
10th Percentile £406 £349 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £708 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £450
% change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% -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 37,061 50,135 80,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.39% 89.71% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,729 34,705 56,261
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
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% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,551 1,672 1,888
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.60
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%
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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +154 153 £525 -8.70% 234
London +121 77 £525 -10.64% 103
UK excluding London +75 76 £525 +0.96% 134
Work from Home +129 75 £500 - 110
North of England +49 32 £525 +27.27% 45
South East +21 23 £450 - 32
North West +34 22 £525 +44.83% 29
Midlands +11 9 £450 -29.41% 25
West Midlands +9 8 £450 -28.00% 19
Yorkshire +17 7 £550 +15.79% 9
Scotland +40 4 £626 +11.95% 8
South West +10 4 £575 +39.82% 17
North East +13 3 £533 +33.13% 7
East of England +5 2 £613 +11.36% 9
Wales - 2 £465 - 2
East Midlands +6 1 £225 -65.38% 6

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%) Cloud Foundry
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 4 (2.34%) 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 37 (21.64%) 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%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.17%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.17%) Google Sheets
10 2 (1.17%) Google Tag Manager
10 2 (1.17%) PaaS
10 2 (1.17%) Power Automate
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 37 (21.64%) Power BI
2 27 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (12.28%) Tableau
4 16 (9.36%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.43%) Big Data
6 9 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.09%) Qlik Sense
7 7 (4.09%) QlikView
8 5 (2.92%) Metadata
8 5 (2.92%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.34%) KDB
9 4 (2.34%) Looker
9 4 (2.34%) MySQL
10 3 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.75%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.75%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.75%) HBase
10 3 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
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 16 (9.36%) 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
10 5 (2.92%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.34%) Automotive
11 4 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
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%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (15.79%) Analyst
2 21 (12.28%) Developer
3 19 (11.11%) Lead
4 18 (10.53%) Architect
4 18 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 16 (9.36%) Consultant
6 14 (8.19%) Data Engineer
7 12 (7.02%) Senior
8 10 (5.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 10 (5.85%) Product Manager
9 9 (5.26%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.68%) Data Consultant
11 7 (4.09%) Data Governance Consultant
11 7 (4.09%) Governance Consultant
11 7 (4.09%) Product Owner
11 7 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Informatica Architect
12 6 (3.51%) Power BI Developer
12 6 (3.51%) Qlik Developer
12 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%) SAP Fiori
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
4 1 (0.58%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.53%) 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%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (65.50%) Decision-Making
2 81 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (36.84%) Analytics
4 56 (32.75%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (30.41%) Agile
6 46 (26.90%) Data Modelling
7 39 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (21.05%) ETL
9 34 (19.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (19.88%) Visualisation
10 31 (18.13%) Data Governance
11 30 (17.54%) Mentoring
12 27 (15.79%) Data Analysis
13 26 (15.20%) Data Analytics
14 25 (14.62%) Project Management
15 24 (14.04%) Data Integration
16 23 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
17 22 (12.87%) Data Management
17 22 (12.87%) Data Visualisation
18 19 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.81%) SQL
2 24 (14.04%) 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 7 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.92%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.34%) SAP Certification
5 3 (1.75%) CSPO
5 3 (1.75%) Postgraduate
6 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.17%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.17%) MBA
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.58%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.39%) 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 11 (6.43%) SAP
5 9 (5.26%) Oracle
6 8 (4.68%) Facebook
6 8 (4.68%) Instagram
7 5 (2.92%) Google
8 4 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.75%) Adobe
9 3 (1.75%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.75%) Brio
10 2 (1.17%) Citrix
10 2 (1.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.58%) Aprimo
11 1 (0.58%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.58%) Symantec
11 1 (0.58%) Talend
11 1 (0.58%) VMware