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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 39 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 -15 +43
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 61 17 63
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.38% 3.28% 6.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 3.56% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 12 44
10th Percentile £325 - £330
25th Percentile £356 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £488 £646
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% -24.54% +17.45%
75th Percentile £593 £576 £688
90th Percentile £675 £801 £700
South West median daily rate £438 £554 £575
% change year-on-year -21.03% -3.65% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £35.95 £47.83
25th Percentile - £51.98 -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +57.40% -23.08%
75th Percentile - £80.83 -
90th Percentile - £82.11 £66.50
South West median hourly rate £73.17 £69.35 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.51% +73.38% -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 919 478 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 81.11% 92.28% 82.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 287 497
10th Percentile £310 £213 £255
25th Percentile £400 £355 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £514
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -11.59% +2.70%
75th Percentile £555 £594 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 66 155
10th Percentile £17.69 £33.75 £36.25
25th Percentile £60.00 £60.31 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +36.84% -22.76%

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

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Bristol over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Bristol

Decision-Making
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

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 (6.56%) Apache
1 4 (6.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.84%) AWS
1 6 (9.84%) Azure
2 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.56%) GCP
4 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.28%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.64%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) Power BI
2 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.28%) Metadata
4 1 (1.64%) Big Data
4 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.64%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) Git
2 2 (3.28%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.64%) MLflow
General
1 20 (32.79%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
4 10 (16.39%) Finance
5 7 (11.48%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Advertising
6 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.92%) Legal
7 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.64%) Billing
8 1 (1.64%) Local Government
8 1 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Analyst
2 7 (11.48%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (11.48%) Performance Engineer
3 5 (8.20%) Business Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) Change Manager
4 4 (6.56%) Project Change Manager
4 4 (6.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 4 (6.56%) Technical Manager
5 3 (4.92%) Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Coordinator
5 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Performance Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Project Coordinator
5 3 (4.92%) Project Support Coordinator
5 3 (4.92%) Senior
5 3 (4.92%) User Researcher
6 2 (3.28%) Lead
6 2 (3.28%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Power BI Specialist
6 2 (3.28%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) Kafka
1 3 (4.92%) SAP Basis
2 2 (3.28%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (3.28%) HTML
2 2 (3.28%) HTML5
2 2 (3.28%) Pandas
2 2 (3.28%) SVG
3 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.64%) NumPy
3 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.64%) REST
3 1 (1.64%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
1 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
1 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.64%) Replication
3 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) Analytics
2 19 (31.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (22.95%) Data Governance
3 14 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (21.31%) Agile
4 13 (21.31%) Project Management
5 12 (19.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (18.03%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (11.48%) Business Analytics
7 7 (11.48%) Business Case
7 7 (11.48%) Design Thinking
7 7 (11.48%) Roadmaps
7 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.48%) Systems Thinking
8 6 (9.84%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (9.84%) Data Modelling
8 6 (9.84%) DevOps
8 6 (9.84%) Process Improvement
9 5 (8.20%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) Python
2 6 (9.84%) SQL
3 3 (4.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.64%) Go
4 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.64%) R
4 1 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.15%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) Degree
4 5 (8.20%) APMP
5 4 (6.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.64%) CISA
7 1 (1.64%) CISM
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) CRISC
7 1 (1.64%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) COBIT
3 2 (3.28%) GRC
3 2 (3.28%) NIST
3 2 (3.28%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
1 5 (8.20%) Terraform
2 3 (4.92%) Ansible
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
3 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Kibana
4 1 (1.64%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.64%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
1 4 (6.56%) SAP
2 3 (4.92%) Civica
2 3 (4.92%) Databricks
3 2 (3.28%) BT
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat