Decision-Making Contracts in Bristol

Decision-Making
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 31 61
Rank change year-on-year -4 +30 -12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 25 51 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 4.28% 4.80% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 5.88% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 24
10th Percentile - £318 £411
25th Percentile £450 £447 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -18.37% +11.36%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £803
90th Percentile £716 £684 £829
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 5
10th Percentile £78.96 £45.86 £22.74
25th Percentile £79.35 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £50.00 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -4.39% +16.21%
75th Percentile £81.48 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.37 £67.50 -
South West median hourly rate £79.35 £40.00 £55.57
% change year-on-year +98.38% -28.01% +10.36%

All Process and 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 539 867 1,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.29% 81.64% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 482 700
10th Percentile £221 £251 £300
25th Percentile £363 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.22% +3.33%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £638
90th Percentile £649 £675 £719
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 198 202
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £22.03 £45.35 £9.80
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £68.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% +23.76%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Bristol

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) GCP
3 1 (4.00%) Akamai
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.00%) iPaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) CockroachDB
2 1 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.00%) Flyway
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (8.00%) Electronics
6 2 (8.00%) Local Government
6 2 (8.00%) Marketing
7 1 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Legal
7 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Business Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Business Information Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) ITIL Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.00%) PMO Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Risk Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) FMCG
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (24.00%) Project Management
2 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (20.00%) Analytics
3 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 5 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 5 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (16.00%) Business Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) Business Case
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (16.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (16.00%) Information Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (16.00%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (16.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (16.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.00%) PMP
4 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
2 2 (8.00%) PMO
3 1 (4.00%) GRC
3 1 (4.00%) PMBOK
3 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Kibana
2 3 (12.00%) logstash
3 2 (8.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Aareon
3 1 (4.00%) Capita
3 1 (4.00%) Civica
3 1 (4.00%) F5
3 1 (4.00%) Foundry
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) NEC
3 1 (4.00%) Northgate
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Orchard
3 1 (4.00%) Palantir
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.00%) webMethods