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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 42 29
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 +31
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 50 23 56
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.51% 3.68% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.52% 4.09% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 10 40
10th Percentile £325 £319 £311
25th Percentile £356 £350 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -26.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £638 £584 £700
90th Percentile £715 £826 £740
South West median daily rate £450 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £26.49 - £46.75
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.26 £47.29
Median hourly rate £49.83 £27.13 £48.20
Median % change year-on-year +83.71% -43.72% -25.85%
75th Percentile £64.42 £48.00 £49.10
90th Percentile £73.17 - £49.64
South West median hourly rate £65.17 £30.00 £30.82
% change year-on-year +117.24% -2.66% -52.58%

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 767 562 830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 84.56% 89.92% 83.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 312 505
10th Percentile £313 £213 £288
25th Percentile £400 £353 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £640
90th Percentile £740 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 68 125
10th Percentile £17.69 £33.80 £33.80
25th Percentile £33.50 £58.94 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £68.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.61 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £44.00 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -32.31% +15.06% -8.15%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 (8.00%) Apache
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.00%) Azure
4 2 (4.00%) GCP
4 2 (4.00%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.00%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.00%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) JIRA
2 3 (6.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 14 (28.00%) Finance
2 13 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (12.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.00%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Military
7 1 (2.00%) Billing
7 1 (2.00%) Law
7 1 (2.00%) Local Government
7 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (14.00%) Analyst
1 7 (14.00%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (8.00%) Change Manager
2 4 (8.00%) Lead
2 4 (8.00%) Project Change Manager
2 4 (8.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 4 (8.00%) Technical Manager
2 4 (8.00%) User Researcher
3 3 (6.00%) Architect
3 3 (6.00%) Performance Analyst
3 3 (6.00%) Senior
4 2 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 2 (4.00%) Contracts Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Coordinator
4 2 (4.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) Power BI Specialist
4 2 (4.00%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.00%) Project Support Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.00%) HTML
2 2 (4.00%) HTML5
2 2 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (4.00%) REST
2 2 (4.00%) SVG
3 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) Analytics
2 15 (30.00%) Agile
3 14 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (24.00%) Project Management
4 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (16.00%) User Experience
7 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (14.00%) Design Thinking
7 7 (14.00%) Systems Thinking
8 6 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (12.00%) ERP
8 6 (12.00%) Fintech
8 6 (12.00%) Process Improvement
8 6 (12.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (12.00%) UX Design
8 6 (12.00%) UX Research
8 6 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) Go
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) SAPscript
4 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (42.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) Degree
4 5 (10.00%) APMP
5 4 (8.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.00%) CISA
8 1 (2.00%) CISM
8 1 (2.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.00%) COBIT
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) GRC
2 2 (4.00%) NCSC
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
2 2 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (10.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) Ansible
3 2 (4.00%) Grafana
3 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) Kibana
4 1 (2.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (4.00%) BT
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.00%) Cognos
2 1 (2.00%) Foundry
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.00%) SAP