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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 +25
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 80 25 50
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.23% 4.36% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.93% 4.73% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 19 32
10th Percentile £262 - £318
25th Percentile £350 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.62% +10.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £504 £613 £650
90th Percentile £638 £716 £684
South West median daily rate £450 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -18.58% +0.49% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £32.33 £78.96 £45.86
25th Percentile £49.83 £79.35 -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £80.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +60.00% -4.39%
75th Percentile £79.50 £81.48 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.80 £82.37 £67.50
South West median hourly rate £73.17 £79.35 £40.00
% change year-on-year -7.79% +98.38% -28.01%

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 1,009 529 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.58% 92.32% 81.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 300 488
10th Percentile £349 £235 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.98%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £600
90th Percentile £644 £650 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 78 197
10th Percentile £19.31 £18.51 £40.00
25th Percentile £53.53 £22.10 £46.39
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -9.26% +17.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £36.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +59.72% -34.55% -6.22%

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 27 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 27 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 5 (6.25%) Apache
1 5 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.50%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.25%) Azure
1 9 (11.25%) Power Platform
2 7 (8.75%) AWS
3 4 (5.00%) GCP
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.50%) GitHub
5 2 (2.50%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) Power BI
2 5 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.25%) Big Data
4 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.25%) Metadata
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.25%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.25%) MLflow
General
1 21 (26.25%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.25%) Finance
4 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Banking
7 4 (5.00%) Advertising
8 3 (3.75%) Legal
8 3 (3.75%) Marketing
9 2 (2.50%) Billing
9 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.50%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.25%) Local Government
10 1 (1.25%) Military
10 1 (1.25%) Police
10 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (13.75%) Analyst
2 8 (10.00%) Senior
3 7 (8.75%) Data Engineer
3 7 (8.75%) Delivery Manager
3 7 (8.75%) Performance Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Product Owner
5 5 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.25%) Senior Product Owner
6 4 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.00%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Change Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Project Change Manager
8 2 (2.50%) Contracts Manager
8 2 (2.50%) Coordinator
8 2 (2.50%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (2.50%) Project Coordinator
8 2 (2.50%) Project Support Coordinator
8 2 (2.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) Kafka
1 4 (5.00%) SAP Basis
2 2 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (2.50%) Gherkin
2 2 (2.50%) HTML
2 2 (2.50%) HTML5
2 2 (2.50%) Next.js
2 2 (2.50%) Node.js
2 2 (2.50%) Pandas
2 2 (2.50%) Playwright
2 2 (2.50%) React
2 2 (2.50%) React Native
2 2 (2.50%) SVG
3 1 (1.25%) .NET
3 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.25%) NumPy
3 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.25%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) Replication
4 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Linux
1 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Analytics
1 29 (36.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (25.00%) Agile
3 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 15 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 15 (18.75%) Project Management
6 14 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (15.00%) AI
8 11 (13.75%) Data Engineering
8 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 10 (12.50%) Data Science
9 10 (12.50%) Generative AI
10 9 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (11.25%) Machine Learning
11 8 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 8 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) SQL
2 12 (15.00%) Python
3 4 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.25%) C#
5 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.25%) R
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (33.75%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.25%) Degree
4 7 (8.75%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.25%) APMP
6 4 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.25%) CISA
7 1 (1.25%) CISM
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) CRISC
7 1 (1.25%) ISEB
7 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.00%) GDPR
4 3 (3.75%) QA
5 2 (2.50%) COBIT
5 2 (2.50%) GRC
5 2 (2.50%) NIST
6 1 (1.25%) NCSC
6 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Kibana
3 1 (1.25%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.25%) logstash
3 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) SAP
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
4 3 (3.75%) Civica
5 2 (2.50%) BT
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat