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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +34
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 70 22 57
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.73% 4.09% 5.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.27% 4.44% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 16 35
10th Percentile £225 £438 £305
25th Percentile £349 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £519 £530
Median % change year-on-year -16.01% -2.12% -9.79%
75th Percentile £500 £573 £650
90th Percentile £675 £613 £688
South West median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £32.33 £35.95 £45.60
25th Percentile £49.83 £51.98 £49.10
Median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +57.40% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79.50 £80.83 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.80 £82.11 £68.75
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 963 496 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.81% 92.19% 82.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 295 486
10th Percentile £325 £220 £246
25th Percentile £403 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.68%
75th Percentile £556 £574 £608
90th Percentile £650 £669 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.47% -1.34% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 81 176
10th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £38.13
25th Percentile £61.25 £40.84 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £63.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% -21.95%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 (5.71%) Apache
1 4 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.86%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Azure
1 7 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (7.14%) AWS
3 4 (5.71%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.86%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.43%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Power BI
2 4 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.43%) Big Data
4 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.43%) Metadata
4 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (1.43%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.43%) MLflow
General
1 19 (27.14%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.14%) Finance
4 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.71%) Advertising
7 3 (4.29%) Banking
7 3 (4.29%) Legal
8 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.43%) Billing
9 1 (1.43%) Local Government
9 1 (1.43%) Marketing
9 1 (1.43%) Military
9 1 (1.43%) Police
9 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (12.86%) Analyst
2 7 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
3 6 (8.57%) Senior
4 5 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Change Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Project Change Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Technical Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Coordinator
6 3 (4.29%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Lead
6 3 (4.29%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.29%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (4.29%) Project Support Coordinator
6 3 (4.29%) Senior Product Owner
7 2 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 2 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) SAP Basis
2 3 (4.29%) Kafka
3 2 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.86%) HTML
3 2 (2.86%) HTML5
3 2 (2.86%) Pandas
3 2 (2.86%) SVG
4 1 (1.43%) .NET
4 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.43%) NumPy
4 1 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.43%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.43%) REST
4 1 (1.43%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) Replication
4 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Analytics
1 25 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (22.86%) Project Management
4 14 (20.00%) Agile
4 14 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 13 (18.57%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (17.14%) Roadmaps
6 12 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (11.43%) AI
9 7 (10.00%) Business Analytics
9 7 (10.00%) Business Case
9 7 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 7 (10.00%) Data Science
9 7 (10.00%) Design Thinking
9 7 (10.00%) Machine Learning
9 7 (10.00%) Systems Thinking
10 6 (8.57%) CI/CD
10 6 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.29%) Python
2 9 (12.86%) SQL
3 4 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.43%) C#
4 1 (1.43%) Go
4 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.43%) R
4 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.43%) Degree
4 7 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.14%) APMP
6 4 (5.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.43%) CISA
7 1 (1.43%) CISM
7 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.43%) CRISC
7 1 (1.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.29%) GDPR
3 3 (4.29%) QA
4 2 (2.86%) COBIT
4 2 (2.86%) GRC
4 2 (2.86%) NIST
5 1 (1.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 5 (7.14%) Terraform
2 3 (4.29%) Ansible
3 2 (2.86%) Grafana
3 2 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) Kibana
4 1 (1.43%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.14%) SAP
2 4 (5.71%) Databricks
3 3 (4.29%) Civica
4 2 (2.86%) BT
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat