Decision-Making Contracts in Cardiff

Decision-Making
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 26 31
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +16
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 10 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.13% 4.18% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 5.76% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 2
10th Percentile £256 £120 £521
25th Percentile £303 £122 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £220 £563
Median % change year-on-year +50.53% -60.89% +25.00%
75th Percentile £464 £404 £584
90th Percentile £561 £505 £594
South Wales median daily rate £331 £400 £525
% change year-on-year -17.21% -23.81% +0.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 174 191 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.23% 72.62% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 146 168
10th Percentile £227 £143 £188
25th Percentile £303 £212 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £554
90th Percentile £650 £609 £625
South Wales median daily rate £405 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% -12.50% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 7
10th Percentile £12.21 £14.73 £15.40
25th Percentile - £15.48 £19.13
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -17.47% +18.42%
75th Percentile £22.06 £25.60 £25.50
90th Percentile £24.20 £25.98 £26.20
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £25.27 £19.49
% change year-on-year -36.68% +29.66% -2.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Cardiff over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Welsh Language
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Designer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Designer
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Creative Strategist
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Architect
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Service Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Project Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior User Experience Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Service Designer
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Photography
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Coaching
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Interaction Design
4 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Service Design
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (10.00%) Contract Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Science
5 1 (10.00%) Domain Models
5 1 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft