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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 87 79
Rank change year-on-year +26 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,373 1,496 2,736
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.19% 2.65% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 2.96% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 949 1,754
10th Percentile £269 £329 £338
25th Percentile £400 £450 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +1.06% +9.95%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 58 111
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.57 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.54 £20.12 £25.14
Median hourly rate £19.38 £43.43 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.39% -3.49% +58.26%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.39 £51.61
90th Percentile £51.45 £66.65 £57.50
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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
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 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
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% -4.88%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 1,212 £525 -5.41% 1,915
UK excluding London +35 742 £500 - 1,084
London +24 529 £525 -10.94% 847
Work from Home +19 429 £525 -3.67% 777
South East +17 182 £550 +5.77% 273
North of England +46 179 £525 +0.96% 292
North West +46 136 £463 -13.95% 184
Midlands +43 123 £425 -19.05% 185
South West +25 113 £550 - 156
West Midlands +24 83 £450 -16.28% 112
Scotland -5 79 £435 -13.00% 63
East of England +21 55 £525 +16.67% 113
East Midlands +27 39 £270 -43.16% 73
Yorkshire +11 34 £550 +5.77% 83
Wales +12 11 £300 -45.45% 28
North East +14 9 £533 +15.14% 29
Northern Ireland +1 5 £640 +293.85% 10

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 33 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.53%) Confluence
3 18 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.80%) SAS
5 9 (0.66%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.44%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.36%) 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%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.073%) Mule
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.073%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 114 (8.30%) Microsoft Office
2 99 (7.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
5 11 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.51%) SPSS
8 4 (0.29%) 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 7 (0.51%) Primavera
3 6 (0.44%) Shopify
4 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.29%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.29%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.22%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) JDE OneWorld
7 2 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.15%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 163 (11.87%) Azure
2 126 (9.18%) AWS
3 121 (8.81%) Power Platform
4 49 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (3.13%) SaaS
6 36 (2.62%) GCP
7 32 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 28 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.68%) PaaS
10 20 (1.46%) Taleo
11 17 (1.24%) Google Analytics
12 15 (1.09%) GitHub
12 15 (1.09%) Serverless
13 13 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (0.87%) 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 43 (3.13%) Firewall
2 30 (2.18%) WAN
3 27 (1.97%) LAN
4 21 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
5 18 (1.31%) Network Security
5 18 (1.31%) VPN
6 17 (1.24%) DNS
7 16 (1.17%) VoIP
8 15 (1.09%) DHCP
9 13 (0.95%) SAN
9 13 (0.95%) VLAN
10 11 (0.80%) MPLS
11 9 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (0.66%) Structured Cabling
12 8 (0.58%) Internet
12 8 (0.58%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.58%) Wireless
13 7 (0.51%) 3G
13 7 (0.51%) PBX
13 7 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.38%) Power BI
2 86 (6.26%) Tableau
3 53 (3.86%) SQL Server
4 49 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (1.82%) Big Data
6 24 (1.75%) Data Mining
7 21 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.17%) Looker
9 15 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 13 (0.95%) Metadata
12 12 (0.87%) Power Query
13 11 (0.80%) NoSQL
14 10 (0.73%) Hadoop
14 10 (0.73%) MySQL
15 9 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 7 (0.51%) GIS
17 7 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 54 (3.93%) JIRA
2 30 (2.18%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.97%) Cucumber
3 27 (1.97%) Selenium
4 24 (1.75%) REST Assured
4 24 (1.75%) SonarQube
5 23 (1.68%) GitLab
6 19 (1.38%) Git
7 15 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.58%) RStudio
9 5 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) Maven
12 1 (0.073%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.073%) ERwin
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.073%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.073%) Visual LANSA
General
1 602 (43.85%) Social Skills
2 351 (25.56%) Finance
3 343 (24.98%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (10.63%) Public Sector
5 145 (10.56%) Presentation Skills
6 102 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (5.24%) Marketing
8 62 (4.52%) Banking
8 62 (4.52%) Retail
9 58 (4.22%) Legal
10 57 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
11 56 (4.08%) Telecoms
12 31 (2.26%) Local Government
13 29 (2.11%) Manufacturing
14 28 (2.04%) Law
15 22 (1.60%) 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
1 221 (16.10%) Analyst
2 135 (9.83%) Project Manager
3 126 (9.18%) Lead
4 125 (9.10%) Architect
5 121 (8.81%) Senior
6 79 (5.75%) Developer
7 66 (4.81%) Consultant
8 64 (4.66%) Data Analyst
9 58 (4.22%) Business Analyst
10 48 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
11 36 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
12 34 (2.48%) Senior Manager
13 33 (2.40%) Data Engineer
13 33 (2.40%) IT Manager
14 30 (2.18%) Support Engineer
15 28 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
16 24 (1.75%) Java Engineer
17 23 (1.68%) Business Manager
18 21 (1.53%) Data Scientist
18 21 (1.53%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.71%) REST
2 28 (2.04%) .NET
3 25 (1.82%) Java EE
4 24 (1.75%) AngularJS
5 18 (1.31%) CSS
5 18 (1.31%) HTML
5 18 (1.31%) Spring
6 14 (1.02%) React
7 12 (0.87%) .NET Core
7 12 (0.87%) ARM Templates
7 12 (0.87%) RESTful
8 11 (0.80%) Node.js
8 11 (0.80%) Spring Boot
9 10 (0.73%) Kafka
9 10 (0.73%) scikit-learn
10 9 (0.66%) JPA
10 9 (0.66%) Pandas
11 8 (0.58%) .NET Framework
11 8 (0.58%) YAML
12 7 (0.51%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (6.26%) Management Information System
2 52 (3.79%) Product Ownership
3 38 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
4 36 (2.62%) Data Centre
5 26 (1.89%) Credit Risk
6 23 (1.68%) Clustering
7 22 (1.60%) Algorithms
8 20 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.31%) NHS
10 15 (1.09%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.02%) Driving Licence
12 13 (0.95%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (0.87%) Life Science
13 12 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
14 11 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
14 11 (0.80%) FMCG
14 11 (0.80%) Public Cloud
15 10 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 108 (7.87%) Windows
2 38 (2.77%) Windows 10
3 34 (2.48%) Linux
4 24 (1.75%) Unix
5 22 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.44%) Android
9 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.36%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.15%) zOS
13 1 (0.073%) CentOS
13 1 (0.073%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.073%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (32.92%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (23.38%) Agile
3 265 (19.30%) Project Management
4 197 (14.35%) Analytics
5 169 (12.31%) Time Management
6 160 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 159 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 147 (10.71%) Data Analysis
9 137 (9.98%) Business Intelligence
10 127 (9.25%) Visualisation
11 126 (9.18%) Roadmaps
12 125 (9.10%) Actionable Insight
13 119 (8.67%) DevOps
14 111 (8.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 108 (7.87%) Change Management
16 105 (7.65%) Risk Management
17 102 (7.43%) PRINCE2
18 101 (7.36%) Project Delivery
19 99 (7.21%) Migration
20 97 (7.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 179 (13.04%) SQL
2 106 (7.72%) Python
3 71 (5.17%) Java
4 33 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 30 (2.18%) C#
6 21 (1.53%) JavaScript
6 21 (1.53%) R
7 19 (1.38%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.58%) Swift
10 7 (0.51%) Go
11 6 (0.44%) Bicep
11 6 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.44%) VBA
12 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.29%) Perl
13 4 (0.29%) Ruby
14 3 (0.22%) Bash
14 3 (0.22%) Scala
14 3 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 262 (19.08%) Degree
2 259 (18.86%) Security Cleared
3 194 (14.13%) SC Cleared
4 73 (5.32%) DV Cleared
5 50 (3.64%) PMP
6 49 (3.57%) Master's Degree
7 47 (3.42%) PMI Certification
8 40 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.97%) CISM
11 26 (1.89%) CISSP
11 26 (1.89%) HND
12 21 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 15 (1.09%) HNC
15 13 (0.95%) CCNP
16 12 (0.87%) CISA
16 12 (0.87%) PhD
17 11 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
17 11 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.39%) Data Quality
2 59 (4.30%) QA
3 47 (3.42%) PMO
4 35 (2.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 27 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 25 (1.82%) GDPR
6 25 (1.82%) SLA
7 15 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
8 13 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.87%) NIST
10 5 (0.36%) GMP
11 4 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.29%) MiFID
12 3 (0.22%) COBIT
12 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.22%) NCSC
12 3 (0.22%) P3O
12 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (2.18%) Docker
4 14 (1.02%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.36%) 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%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.073%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 38 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.55%) Ansible
2 35 (2.55%) Terraform
3 20 (1.46%) SCCM
4 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (0.87%) Podman
6 9 (0.66%) Nagios
6 9 (0.66%) NetBackup
7 8 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
7 8 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
7 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (0.58%) VxRail
8 7 (0.51%) Nessus
9 6 (0.44%) Autotask
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
1 234 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 52 (3.79%) SAP
3 47 (3.42%) Google
4 45 (3.28%) VMware
5 43 (3.13%) Cisco
6 36 (2.62%) Oracle
7 33 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.33%) Alteryx
8 32 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.75%) Juniper
10 21 (1.53%) Informatica
11 19 (1.38%) Nokia
12 17 (1.24%) IBM
13 16 (1.17%) Dell
14 15 (1.09%) Databricks
15 14 (1.02%) Citrix
16 13 (0.95%) Adobe
17 11 (0.80%) Palo Alto
18 10 (0.73%) Apple
18 10 (0.73%) Instagram