Decision-Making Contracts in the UK excluding London

Decision-Making
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 85 68
Rank change year-on-year +35 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 742 656 1,078
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.56% 2.88% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 3.23% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 426 718
10th Percentile £264 £308 £315
25th Percentile £400 £424 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £546
% change year-on-year -6.55% +0.69% +10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 44 90
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.70 £14.15
25th Percentile £11.87 £19.00 £25.07
Median hourly rate £16.06 £48.65 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.99% +8.11% +66.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.75 £51.68
90th Percentile £51.33 £65.53 £58.46
UK median hourly rate £19.38 £43.86 £45.00
% change year-on-year -55.83% -2.53% +58.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
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 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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

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

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

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

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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

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 Decision-Making within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +20 182 £550 +5.77% 269
North of England +41 179 £525 +0.96% 278
North West +50 136 £463 -13.95% 176
Midlands +42 123 £425 -19.05% 181
South West +21 113 £550 - 155
West Midlands +24 83 £450 -15.29% 109
Scotland -8 79 £435 -13.00% 58
East of England +18 55 £525 +16.67% 111
East Midlands +29 39 £270 -43.16% 72
Yorkshire +9 34 £550 +5.77% 78
Wales +12 11 £300 -45.45% 28
North East +14 9 £533 +15.14% 28
Northern Ireland 0 5 £640 +293.85% 11
Decision-Making
UK

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 15 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.35%) Confluence
3 7 (0.94%) SAS
4 4 (0.54%) Apache
4 4 (0.54%) WordPress
5 3 (0.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 83 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.43%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) SPSS
8 2 (0.27%) Trello
9 1 (0.13%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.13%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Primavera
2 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 77 (10.38%) Azure
2 74 (9.97%) AWS
3 51 (6.87%) Power Platform
4 30 (4.04%) Snowflake
5 26 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (2.83%) SaaS
7 20 (2.70%) Taleo
8 12 (1.62%) PaaS
9 10 (1.35%) Serverless
10 8 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (0.94%) npm
12 6 (0.81%) GCP
13 5 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.67%) IaaS
13 5 (0.67%) OCI
13 5 (0.67%) Smartsheet
14 4 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.37%) WAN
2 24 (3.23%) LAN
3 23 (3.10%) Firewall
4 16 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (1.75%) VoIP
6 11 (1.48%) SAN
7 10 (1.35%) Network Security
8 9 (1.21%) DNS
8 9 (1.21%) VPN
9 8 (1.08%) DHCP
9 8 (1.08%) MPLS
10 7 (0.94%) PBX
11 6 (0.81%) 3G
11 6 (0.81%) 4G
11 6 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
11 6 (0.81%) Internet
11 6 (0.81%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.81%) SDH
11 6 (0.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.47%) Power BI
2 46 (6.20%) Tableau
3 19 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.43%) SQL Server
5 12 (1.62%) Big Data
5 12 (1.62%) Data Mining
6 11 (1.48%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.40%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.40%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
11 3 (0.40%) MS Access
11 3 (0.40%) MySQL
11 3 (0.40%) Power Query
11 3 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (4.31%) JIRA
2 27 (3.64%) Cucumber
2 27 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 27 (3.64%) Selenium
3 24 (3.23%) REST Assured
3 24 (3.23%) SonarQube
4 18 (2.43%) GitLab
5 15 (2.02%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.40%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.40%) Git
6 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.13%) ERwin
7 1 (0.13%) RStudio
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 340 (45.82%) Social Skills
2 170 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
3 164 (22.10%) Finance
4 86 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.36%) Presentation Skills
6 50 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
7 47 (6.33%) Legal
8 42 (5.66%) Telecoms
9 41 (5.53%) Marketing
10 32 (4.31%) Retail
11 26 (3.50%) Law
12 24 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (3.10%) Manufacturing
14 21 (2.83%) Banking
14 21 (2.83%) Police
15 19 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (2.29%) Aerospace
17 14 (1.89%) Local Government
18 13 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 7 (0.94%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 127 (17.12%) Analyst
2 88 (11.86%) Lead
3 70 (9.43%) Architect
4 69 (9.30%) Project Manager
5 63 (8.49%) Senior
6 33 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
7 32 (4.31%) Developer
8 29 (3.91%) Consultant
8 29 (3.91%) Data Analyst
9 24 (3.23%) IT Manager
10 23 (3.10%) Java Engineer
11 21 (2.83%) Business Analyst
12 19 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
12 19 (2.56%) Support Engineer
13 15 (2.02%) Business Manager
13 15 (2.02%) Software Engineer
14 14 (1.89%) Delivery Manager
14 14 (1.89%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (1.75%) IT Analyst
15 13 (1.75%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.53%) REST
2 25 (3.37%) Java EE
3 16 (2.16%) AngularJS
4 12 (1.62%) ARM Templates
4 12 (1.62%) Spring
5 10 (1.35%) HTML
6 9 (1.21%) CSS
6 9 (1.21%) JPA
6 9 (1.21%) Spring Boot
7 7 (0.94%) .NET
8 6 (0.81%) Middleware
8 6 (0.81%) RESTful
9 4 (0.54%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.54%) React
10 3 (0.40%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (0.40%) JSON
10 3 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.27%) Kafka
11 2 (0.27%) Node.js
11 2 (0.27%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.87%) Management Information System
2 30 (4.04%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.23%) Credit Risk
4 21 (2.83%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.16%) Clustering
6 14 (1.89%) NHS
7 12 (1.62%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.48%) Life Science
9 10 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.08%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.08%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.94%) Blackberry
12 7 (0.94%) PMI
12 7 (0.94%) SCADA
12 7 (0.94%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 79 (10.65%) Windows
2 36 (4.85%) Windows 10
3 17 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.89%) Unix
5 12 (1.62%) Linux
6 11 (1.48%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.08%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.40%) Android
12 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (34.37%) Problem-Solving
2 137 (18.46%) Project Management
3 124 (16.71%) Agile
4 111 (14.96%) Time Management
5 101 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 98 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 90 (12.13%) Analytics
8 61 (8.22%) Change Management
9 59 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
9 59 (7.95%) Roadmaps
10 58 (7.82%) Data Analysis
11 57 (7.68%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 56 (7.55%) Actionable Insight
12 56 (7.55%) Software Engineering
13 55 (7.41%) DevOps
14 52 (7.01%) Data Protection
15 51 (6.87%) PRINCE2
15 51 (6.87%) Visualisation
16 50 (6.74%) Coaching
17 48 (6.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 72 (9.70%) SQL
2 44 (5.93%) Java
3 33 (4.45%) Python
4 23 (3.10%) PowerShell
5 14 (1.89%) TypeScript
6 9 (1.21%) R
7 8 (1.08%) Swift
8 7 (0.94%) C#
9 6 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.40%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.27%) Perl
11 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.27%) VBA
12 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.13%) Scala
12 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 164 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 148 (19.95%) Degree
3 113 (15.23%) SC Cleared
4 56 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.50%) HND
6 22 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.70%) Master's Degree
8 19 (2.56%) PMI Certification
9 18 (2.43%) CISM
10 17 (2.29%) PMP
11 16 (2.16%) CISSP
12 15 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.02%) HNC
13 13 (1.75%) CCNP
14 11 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (1.21%) CISA
15 9 (1.21%) DBS Check
15 9 (1.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 8 (1.08%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.72%) Disclosure Scotland
2 32 (4.31%) QA
3 31 (4.18%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.91%) PMO
5 16 (2.16%) SLA
6 13 (1.75%) GDPR
7 9 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.67%) GMP
9 5 (0.67%) NIST
10 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.13%) GxP
13 1 (0.13%) IFRS
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 30 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.02%) Docker
4 9 (1.21%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (1.08%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.54%) vSphere
8 3 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 30 (4.04%) Ansible
2 22 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 19 (2.56%) Terraform
4 18 (2.43%) SCCM
5 12 (1.62%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (1.62%) Podman
6 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (1.21%) Nagios
7 9 (1.21%) NetBackup
8 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (0.94%) Nessus
10 6 (0.81%) Autotask
10 6 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.54%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.54%) VxRail
12 3 (0.40%) MOM
13 2 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
13 2 (0.27%) SCOM
14 1 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 157 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.99%) VMware
3 36 (4.85%) Cisco
4 28 (3.77%) Alteryx
5 26 (3.50%) ServiceNow
6 23 (3.10%) Juniper
7 17 (2.29%) Nokia
7 17 (2.29%) SAP
8 16 (2.16%) IBM
8 16 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 15 (2.02%) Informatica
10 14 (1.89%) Oracle
11 11 (1.48%) Google
11 11 (1.48%) Palo Alto
12 9 (1.21%) Databricks
12 9 (1.21%) Dell
12 9 (1.21%) Facebook
12 9 (1.21%) Instagram
13 8 (1.08%) Citrix
13 8 (1.08%) Okta