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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 49 62
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 +12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 46 48 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.54% 3.18% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.89% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 34
10th Percentile £343 £191 £308
25th Percentile £408 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £524
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -33.17% -0.24%
75th Percentile £625 £509 £590
90th Percentile £695 £549 £600
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 2
10th Percentile £18.34 £17.59 £28.82
25th Percentile £25.53 £20.00 £38.93
Median hourly rate £31.20 £35.00 £56.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% -38.39% +170.51%
75th Percentile £31.42 - £73.65
90th Percentile £31.64 £50.00 £83.12
England median hourly rate £31.49 £42.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.91% -7.37% +57.61%

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 1,162 1,233 1,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.52% 81.60% 87.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 448 892
10th Percentile £200 £210 £226
25th Percentile £375 £306 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £627
90th Percentile £686 £638 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 386 360
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.70 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.41 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.06 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -35.61% +97.17% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 23 £550 +142.21% 60
Bedfordshire -3 10 £600 +14.29% 13
Cambridgeshire 0 6 £408 +14.39% 31
Essex -5 3 £583 +66.57% 25
Norfolk - 3 - - 12
Suffolk +6 1 £550 - 7
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (8.70%) Apache Spark
1 4 (8.70%) SAS
1 4 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.35%) Teamcenter
3 1 (2.17%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) AWS
2 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.35%) dbt
3 2 (4.35%) Serverless
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.17%) Datadog
4 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.17%) npm
4 1 (2.17%) OCI
4 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Tableau
2 6 (13.04%) Hadoop
2 6 (13.04%) Power BI
3 4 (8.70%) Big Data
4 3 (6.52%) SAP HANA
5 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (4.35%) SAP BW
5 2 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.35%) Text Mining
6 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.17%) Metadata
6 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.17%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.17%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) Back Office
6 1 (2.17%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Developer
2 7 (15.22%) Lead
3 6 (13.04%) Data Science Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Architect
4 4 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Data Modeller
6 2 (4.35%) Information Scientist
6 2 (4.35%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Support
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Matplotlib
1 6 (13.04%) NumPy
1 6 (13.04%) Pandas
1 6 (13.04%) PyTorch
1 6 (13.04%) scikit-learn
1 6 (13.04%) Seaborn
1 6 (13.04%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.17%) Express.js
3 1 (2.17%) NgRx
3 1 (2.17%) Playwright
3 1 (2.17%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.70%) Life Science
2 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.35%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.17%) NHS
4 1 (2.17%) PMI
4 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (34.78%) Analytics
3 15 (32.61%) Visualisation
4 10 (21.74%) Agile
4 10 (21.74%) Data Science
5 8 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (17.39%) Data Analysis
6 7 (15.22%) Data Modelling
7 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (13.04%) Data Analytics
7 6 (13.04%) Data Munging
7 6 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (13.04%) Machine Learning
7 6 (13.04%) Predictive Analytics
7 6 (13.04%) Project Delivery
7 6 (13.04%) Risk Management
7 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (13.04%) Statistical Modelling
7 6 (13.04%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 8 (17.39%) R
4 2 (4.35%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.35%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) PhD
3 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.35%) PMP
6 1 (2.17%) ACCA
6 1 (2.17%) APMG
6 1 (2.17%) CEH
6 1 (2.17%) CIMA
6 1 (2.17%) CISM
6 1 (2.17%) CISSP
6 1 (2.17%) CRISC
6 1 (2.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) GRC
2 3 (6.52%) PMO
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (4.35%) GxP
3 2 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.17%) NIST
4 1 (2.17%) P3O
4 1 (2.17%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Grafana
1 1 (2.17%) Nexpose
1 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) SAP
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) Adobe
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.17%) Planview
5 1 (2.17%) Qualys
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) Tenable