Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven 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 324 385 434
Rank change year-on-year +61 +49 -2
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 77 45 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 38 55
10th Percentile £401 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £408 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +15.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £538
90th Percentile £626 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £533 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -7.39% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile £72.22 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £61.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% -22.76% +223.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data-Driven 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the UK excluding London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
North of England +43 31 £529 +28.18% 41
South East +20 25 £450 - 32
North West +34 21 £525 +44.83% 29
Midlands +13 9 £450 -29.41% 26
West Midlands +19 8 £450 -28.00% 18
Yorkshire +19 7 £550 +15.79% 6
South West +5 5 £575 +39.82% 20
Scotland +49 4 £626 +11.95% 8
North East +11 3 £533 +33.13% 6
Wales - 2 £465 - 2
East Midlands +2 1 £225 -65.38% 8
East of England +2 1 £525 -4.55% 11
Data-Driven Decision Making
UK

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) SAS
4 1 (1.30%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.30%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.60%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) Azure
2 13 (16.88%) Power Platform
3 9 (11.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (6.49%) Smartsheet
5 4 (5.19%) AWS
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.60%) dbt
6 2 (2.60%) GCP
6 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.30%) SaaS
7 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) 3G
1 1 (1.30%) 4G
1 1 (1.30%) 5G
1 1 (1.30%) Broadband
1 1 (1.30%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.78%) Data Lake
2 13 (16.88%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (16.88%) Power BI
3 8 (10.39%) Relational Database
4 7 (9.09%) Tableau
5 5 (6.49%) Big Data
6 4 (5.19%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.19%) MySQL
7 3 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.90%) HBase
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.30%) Impala
9 1 (1.30%) Metadata
9 1 (1.30%) Navicat
9 1 (1.30%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) ERwin
2 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) RStudio
2 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (53.25%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.47%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.69%) Legal
4 7 (9.09%) Marketing
5 5 (6.49%) Finance
5 5 (6.49%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (6.49%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.19%) Retail
7 3 (3.90%) Health Technology
7 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.30%) Automotive
9 1 (1.30%) French Language
9 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (14.29%) Data Engineer
1 11 (14.29%) Lead
2 7 (9.09%) Analyst
2 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 7 (9.09%) Developer
3 6 (7.79%) Consultant
3 6 (7.79%) Data Analyst
3 6 (7.79%) Product Manager
3 6 (7.79%) Product Owner
4 5 (6.49%) Data Consultant
4 5 (6.49%) HR Manager
4 5 (6.49%) Project Manager
4 5 (6.49%) Senior
4 5 (6.49%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Category Manager
5 4 (5.19%) Data Governance Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) Data Manager
5 4 (5.19%) Governance Consultant
5 4 (5.19%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) Kafka
2 1 (1.30%) JSON
2 1 (1.30%) ODBC
2 1 (1.30%) REST
2 1 (1.30%) Swagger
2 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.39%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.19%) Life Science
3 4 (5.19%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.90%) FMCG
4 3 (3.90%) NHS
5 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.60%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (74.03%) Decision-Making
2 27 (35.06%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (33.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (32.47%) Agile
5 24 (31.17%) Analytics
6 23 (29.87%) Data Governance
7 19 (24.68%) Data Modelling
8 18 (23.38%) Visualisation
9 15 (19.48%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (19.48%) ETL
10 14 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (16.88%) Data Lineage
11 13 (16.88%) Use Case
12 12 (15.58%) Data Engineering
13 11 (14.29%) Data Science
13 11 (14.29%) Project Management
13 11 (14.29%) Roadmaps
14 10 (12.99%) Data Management
14 10 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (12.99%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.08%) SQL
2 11 (14.29%) Python
3 4 (5.19%) Java
3 4 (5.19%) R
3 4 (5.19%) Scala
4 2 (2.60%) Perl
5 1 (1.30%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (27.27%) Degree
2 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.60%) MBA
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.30%) CSPO
4 1 (1.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) PMO
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Informatica
2 7 (9.09%) Facebook
2 7 (9.09%) Instagram
3 6 (7.79%) Databricks
3 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.49%) Oracle
5 3 (3.90%) Brio
6 2 (2.60%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco
7 1 (1.30%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.30%) Nokia
7 1 (1.30%) Rakuten
7 1 (1.30%) VMware