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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 605 643
Rank change year-on-year +197 +38 +2
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 174 89 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.17% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 71 174
10th Percentile £401 £343 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £725 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £484 £450
% change year-on-year +8.53% +7.50% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
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 £63.31 £48.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £70.49 - -
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +191 155 £525 -8.70% 292
London +136 79 £538 -6.52% 147
UK excluding London +94 77 £525 +8.53% 171
Work from Home +144 76 £500 - 121
North of England +57 31 £525 +23.53% 45
South East +27 24 £450 - 64
North West +36 22 £525 +44.83% 26
Midlands +16 9 £450 -29.41% 25
West Midlands +23 8 £450 -28.00% 20
Yorkshire +23 6 £525 +10.53% 13
Scotland +44 4 £626 +27.01% 5
South West +12 4 £575 +132.32% 15
East of England +11 3 £550 +4.76% 15
North East - 3 £533 - 6
Wales - 2 £465 - 3
East Midlands +13 1 £225 -65.38% 5

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 8 (4.60%) Confluence
2 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.30%) govService
4 3 (1.72%) CMS
5 2 (1.15%) Apache
5 2 (1.15%) SAS
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.15%) SPSS
4 2 (1.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.57%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.57%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.57%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.14%) Azure
2 39 (22.41%) Power Platform
3 13 (7.47%) AWS
4 11 (6.32%) GCP
5 10 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (4.02%) SaaS
8 5 (2.87%) Smartsheet
9 4 (2.30%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (2.30%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.72%) GitHub
11 2 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.15%) dbt
11 2 (1.15%) Google Data Studio
11 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.15%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.57%) 3G
2 1 (0.57%) 4G
2 1 (0.57%) 5G
2 1 (0.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (22.41%) Power BI
2 27 (15.52%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (13.79%) Tableau
4 16 (9.20%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.32%) Big Data
6 9 (5.17%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.60%) QlikView
8 7 (4.02%) Qlik Sense
9 6 (3.45%) Metadata
10 5 (2.87%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.30%) Looker
11 4 (2.30%) MySQL
12 3 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.72%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.72%) HBase
12 3 (1.72%) PostHog
12 3 (1.72%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (6.32%) JIRA
2 6 (3.45%) Git
3 4 (2.30%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.15%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.15%) JUnit
4 2 (1.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.57%) ERwin
5 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) RStudio
General
1 98 (56.32%) Social Skills
2 65 (37.36%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (19.54%) Finance
4 16 (9.20%) Retail
5 14 (8.05%) Marketing
6 12 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (6.90%) Telecoms
7 11 (6.32%) Legal
7 11 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (6.32%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.45%) Banking
8 6 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Automotive
11 3 (1.72%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) French Language
12 2 (1.15%) Publishing
13 1 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (16.09%) Analyst
2 21 (12.07%) Developer
3 20 (11.49%) Lead
4 19 (10.92%) Data Analyst
5 18 (10.34%) Architect
6 14 (8.05%) Data Engineer
7 13 (7.47%) Consultant
8 12 (6.90%) Senior
9 11 (6.32%) Product Manager
10 10 (5.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (5.17%) Business Analyst
12 8 (4.60%) Product Owner
13 7 (4.02%) Data Consultant
13 7 (4.02%) Data Governance Consultant
13 7 (4.02%) Governance Consultant
13 7 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
14 6 (3.45%) Data Manager
14 6 (3.45%) Informatica Architect
14 6 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
14 6 (3.45%) Qlik Sense Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.87%) JSON
2 4 (2.30%) Kafka
3 2 (1.15%) REST
3 2 (1.15%) Swagger
3 2 (1.15%) YAML
4 1 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.57%) ODBC
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.30%) Life Science
4 4 (2.30%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.72%) FMCG
5 3 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.72%) NHS
6 2 (1.15%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.15%) Social Media
6 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.57%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 81 (46.55%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (36.78%) Analytics
4 58 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (29.89%) Agile
6 48 (27.59%) Data Modelling
7 40 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.26%) ETL
8 37 (21.26%) Visualisation
9 36 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (19.54%) Data Governance
11 30 (17.24%) Mentoring
12 29 (16.67%) Data Analysis
13 25 (14.37%) Data Analytics
13 25 (14.37%) Data Integration
13 25 (14.37%) Project Management
14 24 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
15 22 (12.64%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (12.64%) Roadmaps
16 21 (12.07%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.56%) SQL
2 25 (14.37%) Python
3 10 (5.75%) Scala
4 5 (2.87%) Java
5 4 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.30%) R
6 2 (1.15%) C#
6 2 (1.15%) Perl
6 2 (1.15%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (18.97%) Degree
2 8 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.87%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.87%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.72%) CSPO
5 3 (1.72%) Postgraduate
5 3 (1.72%) SAP Certification
6 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.15%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.15%) MBA
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.56%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.87%) GDPR
4 3 (1.72%) QA
5 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.15%) PSD2
6 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.57%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (13.79%) Informatica
2 16 (9.20%) Databricks
3 14 (8.05%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.17%) Oracle
4 9 (5.17%) SAP
5 8 (4.60%) Facebook
5 8 (4.60%) Instagram
6 6 (3.45%) Google
7 4 (2.30%) Adobe
8 3 (1.72%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.72%) Brio
8 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.15%) Citrix
9 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Aprimo
10 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.57%) Marketo
10 1 (0.57%) Symantec
10 1 (0.57%) Talend
10 1 (0.57%) VMware