Decision-Making Contracts in Bristol

Decision-Making
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 33 56
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 30 46 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 4.62% 4.14% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 5.12% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 23
10th Percentile £425 £296 £418
25th Percentile £444 £408 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £498 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% -17.00% +7.62%
75th Percentile £573 £631 £807
90th Percentile £707 £650 £831
South West median daily rate £520 £530 £531
% change year-on-year -1.89% -0.24% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £78.96 £48.13 -
25th Percentile £79.35 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £52.50 £14.57
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% +260.33% -67.62%
75th Percentile £81.48 £57.50 £29.79
90th Percentile £82.37 £68.75 £38.91
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £40.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year +100.00% -25.46% +8.77%

All Process and 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 593 899 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.37% 80.92% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 493 700
10th Percentile £235 £260 £313
25th Percentile £361 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £638
90th Percentile £644 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 211 160
10th Percentile £18.13 £40.00 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £50.00 £17.70
Median hourly rate £40.84 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.66% +12.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.30
90th Percentile £74.50 £77.50 £83.44
South West median hourly rate £28.10 £55.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -48.92% -10.57% +26.16%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Bristol over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 4 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Akamai
1 3 (10.00%) AWS
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
1 3 (10.00%) Google Sheets
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
2 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub
3 1 (3.33%) iPaaS
3 1 (3.33%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 3 (10.00%) Legal
5 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Electronics
6 2 (6.67%) Local Government
6 2 (6.67%) Marketing
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Architect
2 8 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Lead
3 4 (13.33%) Security Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Operations Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Business Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Operations Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Information Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (10.00%) SailPoint
3 2 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) FMCG
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (26.67%) Analytics
3 8 (26.67%) Project Management
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) Business Case
4 6 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 5 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 5 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 5 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 4 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (13.33%) Data Security
6 4 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (13.33%) Information Architecture
6 4 (13.33%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) Bash
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.33%) R
2 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.33%) PMP
5 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (10.00%) GRC
1 3 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) PMBOK
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Kibana
2 3 (10.00%) logstash
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) F5
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Aareon
5 1 (3.33%) Capita
5 1 (3.33%) Civica
5 1 (3.33%) Foundry
5 1 (3.33%) NEC
5 1 (3.33%) Northgate
5 1 (3.33%) Orchard
5 1 (3.33%) Palantir
5 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.33%) webMethods