Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Decision-Making
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 37 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 +49
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 48 24 66
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.69% 4.17% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.64% 4.62% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 13 47
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £363 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £646
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -26.47% +17.45%
75th Percentile £638 £573 £688
90th Percentile £725 £778 £710
South West median daily rate £450 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +19.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £26.49 - £47.47
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.26 £49.10
Median hourly rate £49.83 £27.13 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.71% -45.75% -23.08%
75th Percentile £64.42 £33.74 -
90th Percentile £73.17 £42.30 -
South West median hourly rate £65.17 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +140.27% -32.19% -38.46%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 851 519 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 83.11% 90.26% 84.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 289 504
10th Percentile £325 £204 £275
25th Percentile £405 £340 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £633
90th Percentile £725 £688 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 65 151
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £36.25
25th Percentile £40.94 £61.25 £46.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £72.66 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -18.70%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Bristol

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Decision-Making

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Bristol over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Decision-Making

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in Bristol over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in Bristol

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.33%) Apache
2 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) AWS
1 5 (10.42%) Azure
1 5 (10.42%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.25%) GCP
3 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.17%) Google Ads
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (2.08%) Azure AI
4 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.08%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) Power BI
2 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
General
1 14 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
2 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Billing
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Local Government
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Analyst
1 7 (14.58%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (8.33%) Change Manager
2 4 (8.33%) Project Change Manager
2 4 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 4 (8.33%) Technical Manager
2 4 (8.33%) User Researcher
3 3 (6.25%) Architect
3 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 3 (6.25%) Lead
3 3 (6.25%) Performance Analyst
3 3 (6.25%) Performance Engineer
3 3 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (4.17%) Coordinator
4 2 (4.17%) Data Analyst
4 2 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (4.17%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (4.17%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) Kafka
2 2 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.17%) HTML
2 2 (4.17%) HTML5
2 2 (4.17%) SVG
3 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.08%) Pandas
3 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (2.08%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Analytics
2 16 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (27.08%) Agile
4 12 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (22.92%) Project Management
6 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 7 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (14.58%) Data Governance
8 7 (14.58%) Design Thinking
8 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (14.58%) Systems Thinking
9 6 (12.50%) DevOps
9 6 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
10 5 (10.42%) Business Case
10 5 (10.42%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 5 (10.42%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 5 (10.42%) Programme Governance
10 5 (10.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.58%) Python
2 4 (8.33%) SQL
3 3 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.08%) C#
4 1 (2.08%) Go
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.08%) SAPscript
4 1 (2.08%) Scala
4 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) Degree
4 5 (10.42%) APMP
5 4 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) CISA
7 1 (2.08%) CISM
7 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.08%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) COBIT
3 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) GRC
3 2 (4.17%) NCSC
3 2 (4.17%) NIST
4 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Terraform
2 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Grafana
4 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.08%) Kibana
5 1 (2.08%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (4.17%) BT
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.08%) Cognos
2 1 (2.08%) Databricks
2 1 (2.08%) Foundry
2 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.08%) SAP