Decision-Making Contracts in England

Decision-Making
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 93 81
Rank change year-on-year +33 -12 +22
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,203 1,212 2,154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.21% 2.58% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 2.87% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 766 1,330
10th Percentile £275 £338 £347
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £741
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 45 85
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.40 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £22.16 £24.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £43.86 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.82% -2.53% +69.94%
75th Percentile £37.50 £56.40 £51.75
90th Percentile £51.35 £71.90 £57.18
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £41.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -53.22% -7.97% +55.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Decision-Making falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +21 525 £514 -13.25% 667
North of England +44 181 £508 -2.40% 264
South East +11 177 £540 +3.85% 227
North West +49 135 £463 -11.06% 165
Midlands +41 123 £431 -17.86% 197
South West +17 111 £550 - 135
West Midlands +24 85 £475 -10.59% 122
East of England +21 54 £513 +13.89% 91
East Midlands +24 37 £270 -43.16% 75
Yorkshire +6 34 £550 +5.26% 72
North East +14 12 £525 +13.51% 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 29 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.83%) Confluence
3 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.83%) Apache
4 10 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.67%) SAS
6 6 (0.50%) CMS
7 5 (0.42%) govService
8 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.33%) WordPress
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.083%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.083%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.083%) nginx
10 1 (0.083%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.083%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 105 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
2 87 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.42%) SPSS
8 4 (0.33%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.17%) Revit
10 1 (0.083%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.083%) FileZilla
10 1 (0.083%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.083%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.50%) Shopify
3 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.33%) Endur
4 4 (0.33%) Primavera
5 3 (0.25%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.25%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.25%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.17%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.17%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.083%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.083%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.083%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.083%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.083%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.083%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 155 (12.88%) Azure
2 114 (9.48%) AWS
3 107 (8.89%) Power Platform
4 47 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (3.66%) SaaS
6 31 (2.58%) GCP
7 26 (2.16%) Snowflake
8 23 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (1.66%) Taleo
10 19 (1.58%) PaaS
11 17 (1.41%) Serverless
12 15 (1.25%) Google Analytics
13 14 (1.16%) GitHub
14 12 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (1.00%) Google Workspace
15 11 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (0.91%) Power Automate
15 11 (0.91%) PowerApps
16 10 (0.83%) IaaS
17 9 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.74%) Firewall
2 31 (2.58%) WAN
3 24 (2.00%) LAN
4 22 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (1.41%) VoIP
6 14 (1.16%) DNS
7 13 (1.08%) VPN
8 12 (1.00%) SAN
9 11 (0.91%) DHCP
9 11 (0.91%) MPLS
9 11 (0.91%) Network Security
10 10 (0.83%) VLAN
11 8 (0.67%) Internet
11 8 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
12 7 (0.58%) 3G
12 7 (0.58%) 4G
12 7 (0.58%) 5G
12 7 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (0.58%) PBX
12 7 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (8.48%) Power BI
2 74 (6.15%) Tableau
3 53 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 24 (2.00%) Data Mining
6 23 (1.91%) Big Data
7 21 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 19 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.33%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.16%) Looker
11 11 (0.91%) Hadoop
11 11 (0.91%) Metadata
12 10 (0.83%) Power Query
13 9 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.67%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.67%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.67%) MySQL
15 7 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 49 (4.07%) JIRA
2 29 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 25 (2.08%) Selenium
3 25 (2.08%) SonarQube
4 24 (2.00%) REST Assured
5 22 (1.83%) GitLab
6 16 (1.33%) Git
7 15 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.58%) RStudio
9 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.25%) Maven
11 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.083%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.083%) ERwin
12 1 (0.083%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.083%) Visual LANSA
12 1 (0.083%) VisualWorks
General
1 540 (44.89%) Social Skills
2 325 (27.02%) Finance
3 305 (25.35%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.81%) Presentation Skills
5 105 (8.73%) Public Sector
6 71 (5.90%) Organisational Skills
7 65 (5.40%) Marketing
8 61 (5.07%) Retail
9 59 (4.90%) Banking
10 55 (4.57%) Telecoms
11 52 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (3.74%) Legal
13 27 (2.24%) Law
13 27 (2.24%) Local Government
14 24 (2.00%) Front Office
15 23 (1.91%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.75%) Police
17 20 (1.66%) Aerospace
18 19 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 198 (16.46%) Analyst
2 116 (9.64%) Project Manager
3 111 (9.23%) Architect
4 109 (9.06%) Senior
5 96 (7.98%) Lead
6 69 (5.74%) Developer
7 62 (5.15%) Consultant
8 56 (4.66%) Business Analyst
9 54 (4.49%) Data Analyst
10 39 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
11 31 (2.58%) Data Engineer
11 31 (2.58%) IT Manager
12 29 (2.41%) Delivery Manager
12 29 (2.41%) Senior Manager
13 27 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.00%) Support Engineer
15 20 (1.66%) DevOps Engineer
16 19 (1.58%) Senior Project Manager
17 18 (1.50%) Java Engineer
17 18 (1.50%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.24%) REST
2 25 (2.08%) Java EE
3 21 (1.75%) .NET
4 15 (1.25%) Kafka
5 12 (1.00%) ARM Templates
6 11 (0.91%) Node.js
6 11 (0.91%) RESTful
7 9 (0.75%) AngularJS
7 9 (0.75%) scikit-learn
8 8 (0.67%) Middleware
9 7 (0.58%) Pandas
9 7 (0.58%) React
10 6 (0.50%) Spring
10 6 (0.50%) TensorFlow
11 5 (0.42%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.42%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.42%) LDAP
11 5 (0.42%) VML
11 5 (0.42%) Web Services
11 5 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (6.15%) Management Information System
2 48 (3.99%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.58%) Data Centre
4 30 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (1.75%) Clustering
6 18 (1.50%) Credit Risk
6 18 (1.50%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.41%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.25%) NHS
10 13 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 12 (1.00%) Life Science
12 10 (0.83%) Client/Server
12 10 (0.83%) FMCG
13 9 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (0.75%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.67%) Digital Media
14 8 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 87 (7.23%) Windows
2 37 (3.08%) Windows 10
3 29 (2.41%) Linux
4 20 (1.66%) Unix
5 14 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.75%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.42%) Android
9 5 (0.42%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.17%) zOS
12 1 (0.083%) CentOS
12 1 (0.083%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.083%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (34.33%) Problem-Solving
2 259 (21.53%) Agile
3 219 (18.20%) Project Management
4 188 (15.63%) Analytics
5 143 (11.89%) Time Management
6 141 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 137 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 133 (11.06%) Data Analysis
9 124 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
10 114 (9.48%) Visualisation
11 112 (9.31%) DevOps
12 110 (9.14%) Roadmaps
13 109 (9.06%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 104 (8.65%) Actionable Insight
15 97 (8.06%) Data Modelling
16 96 (7.98%) Change Management
17 94 (7.81%) Computer Science
18 90 (7.48%) Project Delivery
19 88 (7.32%) Migration
20 87 (7.23%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 151 (12.55%) SQL
2 96 (7.98%) Python
3 58 (4.82%) Java
4 31 (2.58%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.83%) C#
6 17 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.33%) R
8 13 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.67%) Swift
9 8 (0.67%) VBA
10 7 (0.58%) Go
10 7 (0.58%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.42%) Scala
11 5 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.33%) Bicep
12 4 (0.33%) Ruby
13 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.17%) Bash
14 2 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 240 (19.95%) Degree
2 222 (18.45%) Security Cleared
3 170 (14.13%) SC Cleared
4 60 (4.99%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.07%) Master's Degree
6 41 (3.41%) PMI Certification
7 40 (3.33%) PMP
8 38 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (2.16%) HND
10 18 (1.50%) CISM
11 17 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.41%) CISSP
11 17 (1.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 15 (1.25%) HNC
13 13 (1.08%) CCNP
14 12 (1.00%) PhD
15 11 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.83%) MBA
17 9 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.49%) QA
3 32 (2.66%) PMO
4 26 (2.16%) Disclosure Scotland
5 23 (1.91%) GDPR
6 20 (1.66%) SLA
7 18 (1.50%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 9 (0.75%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.58%) NIST
12 5 (0.42%) GMP
13 4 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
13 4 (0.33%) MiFID
13 4 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.25%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.25%) NCSC
14 3 (0.25%) P3O
15 2 (0.17%) COBIT
15 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 36 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.58%) Docker
3 28 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.67%) 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%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 39 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.08%) Ansible
3 36 (2.99%) Terraform
4 18 (1.50%) SCCM
5 13 (1.08%) Podman
6 12 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (0.75%) Nagios
9 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
9 8 (0.67%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.58%) Autotask
10 7 (0.58%) Nessus
11 6 (0.50%) VxRail
12 3 (0.25%) MOM
13 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.17%) SCOM
13 2 (0.17%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 206 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 44 (3.66%) Google
3 40 (3.33%) SAP
4 36 (2.99%) VMware
5 35 (2.91%) Cisco
6 32 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 31 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 27 (2.24%) Oracle
9 26 (2.16%) Alteryx
10 24 (2.00%) Juniper
11 20 (1.66%) Informatica
11 20 (1.66%) Nokia
12 17 (1.41%) IBM
13 15 (1.25%) Databricks
14 13 (1.08%) Adobe
15 12 (1.00%) Citrix
16 11 (0.91%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.83%) Apple
18 9 (0.75%) Okta
19 8 (0.67%) Facebook