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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 36 54
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 -17
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 91 33 20
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.72% 4.71% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 5.12% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 18 11
10th Percentile £255 £290 £220
25th Percentile £409 £425 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +16.13% -38.00%
75th Percentile £600 £571 £500
90th Percentile £673 £709 -
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £44.86 £78.96 £45.88
25th Percentile £61.75 £79.35 £49.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +45.45% +84.66%
75th Percentile £71.85 £81.48 £62.50
90th Percentile £79.22 £82.37 £71.25
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -21.88% +66.67% -10.56%

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 1,037 644 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.53% 91.87% 82.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 331 428
10th Percentile £325 £235 £262
25th Percentile £425 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -10.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £704
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 114 155
10th Percentile £19.46 £12.82 £50.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.60 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.77% -56.96% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £74.72
90th Percentile £72.54 £73.75 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +3.85%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.10%) Apache
2 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.20%) SAP EHS
4 1 (1.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.19%) Azure
2 10 (10.99%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.79%) AWS
4 4 (4.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (4.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.40%) Azure Functions
4 4 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (4.40%) Azure Storage
4 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.40%) Power Automate
4 4 (4.40%) PowerApps
4 4 (4.40%) Serverless
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.30%) GCP
6 2 (2.20%) GitHub
7 1 (1.10%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) DNS
1 4 (4.40%) WAN
2 1 (1.10%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) Power BI
2 4 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.40%) Data Lake
2 4 (4.40%) GIS
3 3 (3.30%) Metadata
4 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.20%) Spatial Data
4 2 (2.20%) Tableau
5 1 (1.10%) Big Data
5 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Finance
4 13 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.89%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Banking
7 5 (5.49%) Local Government
8 4 (4.40%) Advertising
9 3 (3.30%) Legal
9 3 (3.30%) Marketing
9 3 (3.30%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.20%) Military
10 2 (2.20%) Retail
11 1 (1.10%) Billing
11 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.10%) Police
Job Titles
1 15 (16.48%) Analyst
2 11 (12.09%) Senior
3 9 (9.89%) Architect
4 7 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 6 (6.59%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.49%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Risk Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Senior Product Owner
7 4 (4.40%) Data Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Designer
7 4 (4.40%) Performance Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Service Designer
8 3 (3.30%) Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Lead
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.30%) Technical Specialist
9 2 (2.20%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.40%) HTML
1 4 (4.40%) React
1 4 (4.40%) SAP Basis
2 2 (2.20%) Gherkin
2 2 (2.20%) Next.js
2 2 (2.20%) Node.js
2 2 (2.20%) Playwright
2 2 (2.20%) React Native
3 1 (1.10%) .NET
3 1 (1.10%) Kafka
3 1 (1.10%) NumPy
3 1 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.10%) Pandas
3 1 (1.10%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.10%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.10%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.20%) PMI
5 1 (1.10%) Blog
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
1 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) Continuous Improvement
1 25 (27.47%) Roadmaps
2 24 (26.37%) Agile
3 23 (25.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (24.18%) Analytics
5 18 (19.78%) AI
5 18 (19.78%) Data Governance
5 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (13.19%) Project Management
8 11 (12.09%) Generative AI
8 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (12.09%) Workshop Facilitation
9 10 (10.99%) Machine Learning
10 9 (9.89%) Product Backlog
10 9 (9.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 9 (9.89%) User Stories
11 8 (8.79%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (8.79%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 8 (8.79%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.88%) SQL
2 8 (8.79%) Python
3 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.20%) Java
6 2 (2.20%) PHP
7 1 (1.10%) C#
7 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (32.97%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.59%) Degree
5 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.20%) PMP
7 1 (1.10%) CISM
7 1 (1.10%) CISSP
7 1 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.10%) CRISC
7 1 (1.10%) ISEB
7 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.69%) QA
3 6 (6.59%) GDPR
4 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.20%) GRC
5 2 (2.20%) NIST
6 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (1.10%) PERC
6 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.20%) Docker
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.10%) Ansible
2 1 (1.10%) Grafana
2 1 (1.10%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) SAP
3 5 (5.49%) Databricks
4 3 (3.30%) Civica
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle
5 1 (1.10%) Ariba
5 1 (1.10%) BT
5 1 (1.10%) Pega
5 1 (1.10%) Siemens