Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Decision-Making
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 4.44% - 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% - 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.98%
75th Percentile £750 - £663
90th Percentile - - £708
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £739 £575
% change year-on-year -35.70% +28.48% -26.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69 204 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 76.67% 83.61% 79.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 94 108
10th Percentile £460 £415 £350
25th Percentile £525 £525 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £680 £676 £678
90th Percentile £756 £738 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 9
10th Percentile - £61.38 £24.30
25th Percentile - £70.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £71.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.30% +18.33% +321.05%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - £90.90
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £37.52 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% -46.41% +62.36%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Cheltenham

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) npm
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) CentOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Development
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle