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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 62 52
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +30
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 38 28 62
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.49% 2.18% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.67% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 40
10th Percentile £328 £277 £261
25th Percentile £491 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £665 £600 £591
90th Percentile £713 £675 £603
England median daily rate £506 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -8.00% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £19.06 £16.55 £28.82
25th Percentile £26.13 £17.84 £38.93
Median hourly rate £30.65 £20.25 £56.81
Median % change year-on-year +51.37% -64.35% +110.40%
75th Percentile £31.20 £20.74 £73.65
90th Percentile - £23.87 £83.12
England median hourly rate £31.20 £33.93 £46.18
% change year-on-year -8.05% -26.53% +30.25%

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 1,314 1,047 1,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.16% 81.61% 88.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 420 879
10th Percentile £185 £240 £225
25th Percentile £363 £320 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £679 £675 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 222 373
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £28.34 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% +34.93% -6.67%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -3 19 £553 -11.52% 36
Bedfordshire -8 7 £600 +14.29% 9
Cambridgeshire -3 6 £650 +107.22% 27
Norfolk -16 3 - - 10
Essex -2 2 £583 +22.74% 11
Suffolk +9 1 £550 - 7
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 (5.26%) SAS
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (13.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.63%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.63%) dbt
4 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.63%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) npm
4 1 (2.63%) PaaS
4 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DWDM
1 2 (5.26%) SDH
2 1 (2.63%) HTTP
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) SAP HANA
3 2 (5.26%) SAP BW
3 2 (5.26%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.26%) Tableau
4 1 (2.63%) Big Data
4 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.63%) Metadata
4 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
1 2 (5.26%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.63%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Finance
5 3 (7.89%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.26%) Electronics
6 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.63%) Automotive
7 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
5 2 (5.26%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Support
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (5.26%) PyTorch
1 2 (5.26%) RESTful
1 2 (5.26%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.63%) .NET
2 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.63%) Express.js
2 1 (2.63%) Matplotlib
2 1 (2.63%) NgRx
2 1 (2.63%) NumPy
2 1 (2.63%) Pandas
2 1 (2.63%) Playwright
2 1 (2.63%) REST
2 1 (2.63%) RxJS
2 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.63%) Seaborn
2 1 (2.63%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.26%) ASIC
3 2 (5.26%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) FPGA
3 2 (5.26%) Life Science
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.26%) Verilog
3 2 (5.26%) VHDL
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) PMI
4 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.68%) Agile
2 9 (23.68%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (15.79%) Analytics
3 6 (15.79%) Risk Management
3 6 (15.79%) Visualisation
4 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (13.16%) Information Security
4 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
4 5 (13.16%) Security Operations
5 4 (10.53%) AI
5 4 (10.53%) Data Science
5 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (10.53%) Incident Response
5 4 (10.53%) Project Management
5 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 4 (10.53%) Time Management
5 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
5 4 (10.53%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) R
4 2 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) CISM
3 2 (5.26%) CISSP
3 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.26%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) ACCA
4 1 (2.63%) CEH
4 1 (2.63%) CIMA
4 1 (2.63%) CRISC
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) MCP
4 1 (2.63%) OSCP
4 1 (2.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) NIST
2 6 (15.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (13.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (10.53%) GRC
5 3 (7.89%) GDPR
6 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
6 2 (5.26%) GxP
6 2 (5.26%) PMO
6 2 (5.26%) QA
6 2 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (2.63%) EU AI Act
7 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Nexpose
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) SAP
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco
4 2 (5.26%) Computacenter
4 2 (5.26%) F5
4 2 (5.26%) IBM
4 2 (5.26%) Juniper
4 2 (5.26%) Nokia
4 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Foundry
5 1 (2.63%) Planview
5 1 (2.63%) Qualys
5 1 (2.63%) Tenable