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 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 63 87 80
Rank change year-on-year +24 -7 +17
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,369 1,493 2,731
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.15% 2.67% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 2.98% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 950 1,756
10th Percentile £269 £329 £338
25th Percentile £400 £450 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £638
90th Percentile £705 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 58 110
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.57 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £20.12 £25.28
Median hourly rate £19.38 £43.43 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.39% -3.49% +55.98%
75th Percentile £35.00 £58.39 £51.68
90th Percentile £51.28 £66.65 £57.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -57.17% -16.67% +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 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%

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 6 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 6 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 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 +33 1,208 £525 -6.25% 1,627
UK excluding London +30 735 £500 - 980
London +22 533 £525 -10.94% 656
Work from Home +18 427 £525 -3.67% 694
North of England +47 181 £515 -0.96% 277
South East +12 176 £545 +4.81% 225
North West +43 137 £463 -12.53% 179
Midlands +39 124 £425 -19.05% 195
South West +20 108 £550 - 134
West Midlands +17 84 £463 -12.94% 123
Scotland -4 79 £435 -13.00% 59
East of England +24 55 £525 +16.67% 90
East Midlands +27 39 £270 -43.16% 72
Yorkshire +1 32 £550 +5.77% 74
North East +16 12 £525 +13.51% 25
Wales +11 11 £300 -45.45% 26
Northern Ireland 0 5 £640 +293.85% 7

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 32 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.75%) Confluence
3 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.80%) SAS
5 10 (0.73%) 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 (0.073%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.073%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.073%) nginx
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.073%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 114 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 100 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.51%) SPSS
8 6 (0.44%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.15%) Revit
9 2 (0.15%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.073%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.073%) Sketch
10 1 (0.073%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.44%) Shopify
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) Primavera
4 4 (0.29%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.22%) Endur
5 3 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
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%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.073%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.073%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 164 (11.98%) Azure
2 127 (9.28%) AWS
3 119 (8.69%) Power Platform
4 51 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (3.21%) SaaS
6 34 (2.48%) GCP
7 32 (2.34%) Snowflake
8 28 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.68%) PaaS
10 20 (1.46%) Taleo
11 17 (1.24%) Google Analytics
12 16 (1.17%) GitHub
12 16 (1.17%) Serverless
13 13 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (0.88%) Google Workspace
15 11 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (0.80%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.80%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (0.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.21%) Firewall
2 31 (2.26%) WAN
3 28 (2.05%) LAN
4 22 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
5 19 (1.39%) VPN
6 18 (1.31%) DNS
6 18 (1.31%) Network Security
7 17 (1.24%) VoIP
8 15 (1.10%) DHCP
9 14 (1.02%) VLAN
10 13 (0.95%) SAN
11 11 (0.80%) MPLS
12 9 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
13 8 (0.58%) Internet
13 8 (0.58%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.58%) Wireless
14 7 (0.51%) 3G
14 7 (0.51%) 5G
14 7 (0.51%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.25%) Power BI
2 86 (6.28%) Tableau
3 53 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 50 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.75%) Big Data
5 24 (1.75%) Data Mining
6 20 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.17%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.17%) Looker
8 13 (0.95%) BigQuery
9 12 (0.88%) Metadata
9 12 (0.88%) NoSQL
9 12 (0.88%) Power Query
10 10 (0.73%) Hadoop
10 10 (0.73%) MySQL
11 9 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (0.58%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 57 (4.16%) JIRA
2 30 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.97%) Cucumber
3 27 (1.97%) Selenium
4 25 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 24 (1.75%) GitLab
5 24 (1.75%) REST Assured
6 20 (1.46%) Git
7 15 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.58%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.51%) RStudio
10 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.22%) Maven
13 1 (0.073%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.073%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.073%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.073%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.073%) VisualWorks
General
1 609 (44.49%) Social Skills
2 354 (25.86%) Finance
3 343 (25.05%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (10.59%) Presentation Skills
5 143 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 101 (7.38%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (5.19%) Marketing
8 65 (4.75%) Banking
9 63 (4.60%) Retail
10 58 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
11 57 (4.16%) Legal
12 54 (3.94%) Telecoms
13 29 (2.12%) Local Government
14 28 (2.05%) Law
14 28 (2.05%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.68%) Front Office
16 21 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.53%) Police
17 20 (1.46%) Aerospace
17 20 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 223 (16.29%) Analyst
2 130 (9.50%) Project Manager
3 126 (9.20%) Lead
4 121 (8.84%) Architect
5 118 (8.62%) Senior
6 79 (5.77%) Developer
7 71 (5.19%) Consultant
8 65 (4.75%) Data Analyst
9 59 (4.31%) Business Analyst
10 47 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
12 34 (2.48%) Senior Manager
13 33 (2.41%) IT Manager
14 32 (2.34%) Data Engineer
15 30 (2.19%) Support Engineer
16 28 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
17 24 (1.75%) Java Engineer
18 21 (1.53%) Senior Project Manager
19 20 (1.46%) Business Manager
19 20 (1.46%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.73%) REST
2 28 (2.05%) .NET
3 25 (1.83%) AngularJS
3 25 (1.83%) Java EE
4 19 (1.39%) Spring
5 18 (1.31%) CSS
5 18 (1.31%) HTML
6 15 (1.10%) React
7 12 (0.88%) ARM Templates
7 12 (0.88%) RESTful
8 11 (0.80%) .NET Core
8 11 (0.80%) Kafka
8 11 (0.80%) Node.js
8 11 (0.80%) Spring Boot
9 9 (0.66%) JPA
9 9 (0.66%) scikit-learn
10 8 (0.58%) .NET Framework
10 8 (0.58%) Middleware
10 8 (0.58%) Pandas
10 8 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (6.36%) Management Information System
2 52 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 39 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 26 (1.90%) Credit Risk
6 24 (1.75%) Clustering
7 21 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.31%) NHS
10 15 (1.10%) Driving Licence
11 14 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 12 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (0.88%) Life Science
13 11 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (0.80%) FMCG
13 11 (0.80%) Public Cloud
13 11 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 110 (8.04%) Windows
2 39 (2.85%) Windows 10
3 33 (2.41%) Linux
4 24 (1.75%) Unix
5 23 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.80%) 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%) zOS
11 1 (0.073%) CentOS
11 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.073%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.073%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (33.53%) Problem-Solving
2 322 (23.52%) Agile
3 260 (18.99%) Project Management
4 201 (14.68%) Analytics
5 169 (12.34%) Time Management
6 156 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 155 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 141 (10.30%) Data Analysis
9 136 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
10 127 (9.28%) Roadmaps
11 123 (8.98%) Actionable Insight
11 123 (8.98%) Visualisation
12 121 (8.84%) DevOps
13 112 (8.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 106 (7.74%) Change Management
15 105 (7.67%) Risk Management
16 101 (7.38%) Migration
17 100 (7.30%) PRINCE2
17 100 (7.30%) Project Delivery
18 99 (7.23%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 178 (13.00%) SQL
2 103 (7.52%) Python
3 71 (5.19%) Java
4 33 (2.41%) PowerShell
5 29 (2.12%) C#
6 20 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.46%) R
7 19 (1.39%) TypeScript
8 13 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.58%) Go
9 8 (0.58%) Swift
10 7 (0.51%) VBA
11 6 (0.44%) Bicep
11 6 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.29%) Ruby
14 3 (0.22%) Bash
14 3 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.22%) Scala
14 3 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 266 (19.43%) Degree
2 251 (18.33%) Security Cleared
3 192 (14.02%) SC Cleared
4 66 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 51 (3.73%) PMP
6 50 (3.65%) Master's Degree
7 48 (3.51%) PMI Certification
8 42 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.97%) CISM
11 26 (1.90%) CISSP
11 26 (1.90%) HND
12 21 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 15 (1.10%) HNC
15 13 (0.95%) CCNP
16 12 (0.88%) CISA
16 12 (0.88%) PhD
17 11 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
17 11 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 60 (4.38%) QA
3 46 (3.36%) PMO
4 35 (2.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 26 (1.90%) GDPR
6 25 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.83%) SLA
7 17 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.02%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.95%) NIST
10 5 (0.37%) GMP
11 4 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.29%) MiFID
11 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.22%) COBIT
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.22%) P3O
12 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (2.19%) Docker
4 15 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.58%) 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 (0.073%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 39 (2.85%) Kubernetes
2 37 (2.70%) Ansible
2 37 (2.70%) Terraform
3 21 (1.53%) SCCM
4 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.95%) 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 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.58%) VxRail
9 7 (0.51%) Autotask
9 7 (0.51%) 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
1 233 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 53 (3.87%) SAP
3 48 (3.51%) Google
4 45 (3.29%) VMware
5 43 (3.14%) Cisco
6 36 (2.63%) Oracle
7 34 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 33 (2.41%) Alteryx
8 33 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.75%) Juniper
10 21 (1.53%) Informatica
11 19 (1.39%) Nokia
12 17 (1.24%) IBM
13 16 (1.17%) Dell
14 15 (1.10%) Databricks
15 14 (1.02%) Adobe
15 14 (1.02%) Citrix
16 11 (0.80%) Apple
16 11 (0.80%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.73%) Facebook