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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 33 30
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 81 24 54
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.45% 4.22% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.24% 4.56% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 18 33
10th Percentile £262 £450 £303
25th Percentile £353 £453 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £553 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +10.54% -20.00%
75th Percentile £507 £625 £650
90th Percentile £656 £716 £688
South West median daily rate £450 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -18.97% +0.98% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £32.33 £35.95 £45.86
25th Percentile £49.83 £51.98 -
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 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £82.11 £67.50
South West median hourly rate £73.17 £69.35 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.51% +73.38% -34.05%

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 983 526 878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.33% 92.44% 82.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 296 481
10th Percentile £335 £230 £250
25th Percentile £413 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £650 £659 £688
South West median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.88% -1.82% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 88 192
10th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £40.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £32.19 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year - -1.70% +8.85%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 (4.94%) Apache
1 4 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.47%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.11%) Azure
1 9 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 7 (8.64%) AWS
3 4 (4.94%) GCP
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.47%) GitHub
5 2 (2.47%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.23%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.11%) Power BI
2 4 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.23%) Big Data
4 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.23%) Metadata
4 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Git
2 2 (2.47%) GitLab
3 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.23%) MLflow
General
1 21 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.28%) Finance
4 9 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.64%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Banking
7 4 (4.94%) Advertising
8 3 (3.70%) Legal
8 3 (3.70%) Marketing
9 2 (2.47%) Billing
9 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.47%) Retail
10 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.23%) Local Government
10 1 (1.23%) Military
10 1 (1.23%) Police
10 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (12.35%) Analyst
2 8 (9.88%) Senior
3 7 (8.64%) Delivery Manager
3 7 (8.64%) Performance Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 6 (7.41%) Product Owner
5 5 (6.17%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.17%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.17%) Senior Product Owner
6 4 (4.94%) Change Manager
6 4 (4.94%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) Project Change Manager
6 4 (4.94%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.94%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.70%) Coordinator
7 3 (3.70%) Lead
7 3 (3.70%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (3.70%) Project Support Coordinator
8 2 (2.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (2.47%) Power BI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) SAP Basis
2 3 (3.70%) Kafka
3 2 (2.47%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.47%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.47%) HTML
3 2 (2.47%) HTML5
3 2 (2.47%) Next.js
3 2 (2.47%) Node.js
3 2 (2.47%) Pandas
3 2 (2.47%) Playwright
3 2 (2.47%) React
3 2 (2.47%) React Native
3 2 (2.47%) SVG
4 1 (1.23%) .NET
4 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.23%) NumPy
4 1 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.23%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.23%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) Replication
5 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) Linux
1 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 29 (35.80%) Analytics
3 19 (23.46%) Agile
4 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.99%) Project Management
6 16 (19.75%) Roadmaps
7 15 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (17.28%) Data Governance
8 14 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (13.58%) AI
11 10 (12.35%) Data Engineering
12 9 (11.11%) Data Modelling
12 9 (11.11%) Data Science
12 9 (11.11%) Generative AI
12 9 (11.11%) Machine Learning
13 8 (9.88%) CI/CD
13 8 (9.88%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (9.88%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 7 (8.64%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.81%) Python
2 11 (13.58%) SQL
3 4 (4.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.47%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.23%) C#
5 1 (1.23%) Go
5 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.23%) R
5 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 27 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) Degree
4 7 (8.64%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.17%) APMP
6 4 (4.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) CISA
7 1 (1.23%) CISM
7 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) CRISC
7 1 (1.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.70%) GDPR
3 3 (3.70%) QA
4 2 (2.47%) COBIT
4 2 (2.47%) GRC
4 2 (2.47%) NIST
5 1 (1.23%) NCSC
5 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.17%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.17%) Terraform
2 3 (3.70%) Ansible
3 2 (2.47%) Grafana
3 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.23%) Kibana
4 1 (1.23%) Kubeflow
4 1 (1.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) SAP
3 4 (4.94%) Databricks
4 3 (3.70%) Civica
5 2 (2.47%) BT
6 1 (1.23%) Red Hat