Decision-Making Contracts in Dorset

Decision-Making
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 22 30
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Decision-Making 6 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 5.50% 0.68% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 0.77% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £353 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £558 - -
South West median daily rate £520 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -5.45% +6.02% -9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £51.83
25th Percentile - - £52.95
Median hourly rate - - £56.82
75th Percentile - - £57.33
90th Percentile - - £66.66
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £47.75 £53.67
% change year-on-year +67.54% -11.02% +11.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 130 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 89.91% 88.44% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 91 132
10th Percentile £186 £175 £177
25th Percentile £296 £311 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £638
90th Percentile £575 £700 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 45
10th Percentile £14.88 £13.69 £19.05
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £25.75
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +15.88%
75th Percentile £15.75 £45.66 £65.98
90th Percentile £42.85 £52.16 £70.66
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +18.18%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Dorset

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Dorset over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Dorset

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth +5 2 £403 - 5
Poole - 1 £550 - 2
Decision-Making
South West

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Oracle Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle