Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Decision-Making
England > East of England

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 59 58
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +30
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 41 27 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.87% 2.06% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 2.58% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 38
10th Percentile £338 £276 £261
25th Percentile £550 £350 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £548
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -10.96% +4.29%
75th Percentile £662 £538 £594
90th Percentile £700 £665 £608
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £19.06 £16.38 £28.82
25th Percentile £26.13 £16.99 £38.93
Median hourly rate £30.65 £17.99 £56.81
Median % change year-on-year +70.39% -68.33% +110.40%
75th Percentile £31.20 £19.00 £73.65
90th Percentile - £19.60 £83.12
England median hourly rate £26.12 £36.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -27.94% -21.50% +54.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,273 1,048 1,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.08% 79.94% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 418 896
10th Percentile £194 £225 £225
25th Percentile £375 £318 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £559 £600
90th Percentile £686 £650 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 223 374
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.00 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the East of England

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the East of England

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the East of England

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -2 21 £553 +5.33% 57
Bedfordshire -2 8 £600 +17.07% 10
Cambridgeshire -3 6 £650 +107.22% 32
Norfolk -14 3 - - 9
Essex -2 2 £583 +22.74% 22
Suffolk +6 1 £550 - 8
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (4.88%) SAS
1 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) AWS
2 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
3 3 (7.32%) Serverless
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.88%) dbt
4 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.44%) Datadog
5 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) npm
5 1 (2.44%) PaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) DWDM
1 2 (4.88%) SDH
2 1 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Power BI
2 3 (7.32%) SAP HANA
3 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.88%) SAP BW
3 2 (4.88%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.88%) Tableau
4 1 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.44%) Metadata
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
1 2 (4.88%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.44%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Finance
3 7 (17.07%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.88%) Electronics
6 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.44%) Automotive
7 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Lead
3 6 (14.63%) Architect
4 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Data Modeller
6 2 (4.88%) Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.88%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Support
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (4.88%) PyTorch
1 2 (4.88%) RESTful
1 2 (4.88%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.44%) Express.js
2 1 (2.44%) Matplotlib
2 1 (2.44%) NgRx
2 1 (2.44%) NumPy
2 1 (2.44%) Pandas
2 1 (2.44%) Playwright
2 1 (2.44%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) RxJS
2 1 (2.44%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.44%) Seaborn
2 1 (2.44%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.88%) ASIC
3 2 (4.88%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) FPGA
3 2 (4.88%) Life Science
3 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.88%) Verilog
3 2 (4.88%) VHDL
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) PMI
4 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (24.39%) Agile
3 7 (17.07%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (14.63%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (14.63%) Analytics
4 6 (14.63%) Project Delivery
4 6 (14.63%) Risk Management
4 6 (14.63%) Visualisation
5 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (12.20%) Data Modelling
5 5 (12.20%) Information Security
5 5 (12.20%) Project Management
5 5 (12.20%) Security Operations
6 4 (9.76%) AI
6 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (9.76%) Threat Detection
6 4 (9.76%) TOGAF
6 4 (9.76%) Use Case
6 4 (9.76%) User Experience
6 4 (9.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) Python
2 7 (17.07%) SQL
3 3 (7.32%) R
4 2 (4.88%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.88%) PMP
4 1 (2.44%) ACCA
4 1 (2.44%) APMG
4 1 (2.44%) CEH
4 1 (2.44%) CIMA
4 1 (2.44%) CISM
4 1 (2.44%) CISSP
4 1 (2.44%) CRISC
4 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.44%) MCP
4 1 (2.44%) OSCP
4 1 (2.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (14.63%) NIST
2 5 (12.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (9.76%) GRC
4 3 (7.32%) GDPR
4 3 (7.32%) PMO
4 3 (7.32%) QA
5 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
5 2 (4.88%) GxP
5 2 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (2.44%) EU AI Act
6 1 (2.44%) P3O
6 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Grafana
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.44%) Nexpose
1 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) SAP
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco
4 2 (4.88%) Computacenter
4 2 (4.88%) F5
4 2 (4.88%) IBM
4 2 (4.88%) Juniper
4 2 (4.88%) Nokia
4 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.44%) Databricks
5 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.44%) Foundry
5 1 (2.44%) Planview
5 1 (2.44%) Qualys
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk
5 1 (2.44%) Tenable