Decision-Making Contracts in Bedfordshire

Decision-Making
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 8 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.38% 3.81% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 4.57% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £416 £260 -
25th Percentile £534 £320 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £554 -
90th Percentile £635 £580 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £350 £548
% change year-on-year +57.14% -36.07% +4.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 213 175 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 89.87% 83.33% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 104 81
10th Percentile £185 £300 £225
25th Percentile £472 £372 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% +5.26% -3.94%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £550
90th Percentile £654 £650 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 2
10th Percentile £31.76 £25.59 £55.60
25th Percentile £59.88 £43.44 £56.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.33 £58.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.60% -5.43% +6.36%
75th Percentile £90.75 £67.13 £61.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £69.38 £62.20
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -11.76% +114.54% -2.17%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Bedfordshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Bedfordshire

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Bedfordshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Bedfordshire

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
Luton -10 7 £600 +17.07% 5
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - -
Decision-Making
East of England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (25.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SAP HANA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Head of PMO
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (25.00%) PDM
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (12.50%) Data Interpretation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (12.50%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) GxP
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle