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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 36 52
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 -8
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 98 34 25
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.16% 4.66% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.34% 5.04% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 19 12
10th Percentile £301 £291 £231
25th Percentile £429 £425 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £379
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +18.81% -45.89%
75th Percentile £602 £606 £500
90th Percentile £675 £716 -
South West median daily rate £508 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.00% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile - £26.59 £36.35
25th Percentile £17.17 £35.50 £45.88
Median hourly rate £58.20 £50.33 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.64% +4.85% +61.15%
75th Percentile £63.50 £65.17 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.07 £59.00
South West median hourly rate £58.20 £50.33 £47.75
% change year-on-year +15.64% +5.40% -3.21%

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 1,049 675 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.63% 92.59% 82.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 344 411
10th Percentile £325 £254 £288
25th Percentile £430 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% -6.54%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £599
90th Percentile £675 £743 £701
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 140 141
10th Percentile £21.27 £12.82 £50.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.38 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +4.53%

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 19 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in Bristol over the 6 months to 19 September 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 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.02%) Apache
2 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) SAP HR
1 4 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.04%) SAP EHS
4 1 (1.02%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.24%) Azure
2 11 (11.22%) Power Platform
3 9 (9.18%) AWS
4 4 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (4.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.08%) Azure Functions
4 4 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (4.08%) Azure Storage
4 4 (4.08%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.08%) Power Automate
4 4 (4.08%) PowerApps
4 4 (4.08%) Serverless
5 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.06%) GCP
6 2 (2.04%) GitHub
7 1 (1.02%) Datadog
7 1 (1.02%) dbt
7 1 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) DNS
1 4 (4.08%) WAN
2 1 (1.02%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.22%) Power BI
2 4 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
2 4 (4.08%) GIS
2 4 (4.08%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.06%) Metadata
3 3 (3.06%) Tableau
4 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.04%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.02%) Big Data
5 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.02%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) MLflow
General
1 29 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.31%) Finance
3 15 (15.31%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.24%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.12%) Banking
6 5 (5.10%) Local Government
7 4 (4.08%) Advertising
7 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.06%) Legal
8 3 (3.06%) Marketing
8 3 (3.06%) Military
8 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.04%) Retail
10 1 (1.02%) Billing
10 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (15.31%) Analyst
2 13 (13.27%) Senior
3 10 (10.20%) Product Owner
4 9 (9.18%) Architect
5 7 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.12%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.10%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Risk Manager
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Product Owner
8 4 (4.08%) Administrator
8 4 (4.08%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Designer
8 4 (4.08%) Lead
8 4 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Service Designer
9 3 (3.06%) Consultant
9 3 (3.06%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.06%) Technical Specialist
10 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) HTML
1 4 (4.08%) React
1 4 (4.08%) SAP Basis
2 2 (2.04%) Gherkin
2 2 (2.04%) Next.js
2 2 (2.04%) Node.js
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.04%) Playwright
2 2 (2.04%) React Native
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
3 1 (1.02%) Kafka
3 1 (1.02%) NumPy
3 1 (1.02%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.02%) Pandas
3 1 (1.02%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.02%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Management Information System
1 12 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.04%) Blog
4 2 (2.04%) PMI
5 1 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.02%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Linux
1 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 28 (28.57%) Agile
3 26 (26.53%) Analytics
3 26 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (25.51%) Roadmaps
5 23 (23.47%) AI
6 18 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (14.29%) Generative AI
8 13 (13.27%) Data Governance
8 13 (13.27%) Project Management
9 12 (12.24%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (11.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 11 (11.22%) Machine Learning
10 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (11.22%) Product Backlog
10 11 (11.22%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (9.18%) Data Engineering
11 9 (9.18%) Dependency Management
11 9 (9.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 9 (9.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.39%) SQL
2 7 (7.14%) Python
3 6 (6.12%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.04%) Java
6 2 (2.04%) PHP
7 1 (1.02%) C#
7 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 29 (29.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.12%) Degree
5 4 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.08%) CIPD
6 2 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.04%) PMP
7 1 (1.02%) CISM
7 1 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.02%) CRISC
7 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.02%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (1.02%) NVQ Level 4
7 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.20%) GDPR
3 7 (7.14%) QA
4 4 (4.08%) PMO
5 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (2.04%) GRC
6 2 (2.04%) NIST
7 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (1.02%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (4.08%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.04%) Docker
3 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Ansible
2 1 (1.02%) Grafana
2 1 (1.02%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.20%) SAP
3 8 (8.16%) Oracle
4 5 (5.10%) Databricks
5 4 (4.08%) Pega
5 4 (4.08%) Workday
6 3 (3.06%) Civica
7 1 (1.02%) Ariba
7 1 (1.02%) BT
7 1 (1.02%) Siemens