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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +30
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 79 42 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.58% 4.34% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 4.82% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 22 27
10th Percentile £331 £444 £260
25th Percentile £463 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £575
90th Percentile £748 - £600
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 3
10th Percentile £13.43 £19.65 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £20.26 -
Median hourly rate £17.73 £24.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.13% -31.43% -46.36%
75th Percentile £35.53 £31.64 £47.50
90th Percentile £56.81 £32.65 £55.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £31.08 £18.00
% change year-on-year +76.99% +72.64% -62.11%

All Process & 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 1,722 872 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.02% 90.18% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 458 681
10th Percentile £199 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 175 611
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.05 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.44% - +62.47%
75th Percentile £65.88 £72.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £70.40 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 May 2026.

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 15 May 2026.

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 15 May 2026. 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 -14 25 £500 -23.08% 43
Bedfordshire +5 24 £531 +6.25% 20
Cambridgeshire +16 13 £509 +24.91% 25
Suffolk 0 8 £750 - 12
Essex -6 6 £488 - 18
Norfolk - 3 £411 - 14
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 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (18.99%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.27%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.27%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (1.27%) Camtasia
5 1 (1.27%) CATIA
5 1 (1.27%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.27%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.27%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
2 4 (5.06%) AWS
3 3 (3.80%) Azure
4 2 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.53%) OCI
4 2 (2.53%) SaaS
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.19%) Ethernet
1 12 (15.19%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (7.59%) Metadata
2 5 (6.33%) Power BI
3 4 (5.06%) QlikView
4 3 (3.80%) Tableau
5 2 (2.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.27%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 2 (2.53%) JIRA
General
1 31 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.78%) Finance
3 17 (21.52%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (15.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (8.86%) Local Government
6 7 (8.86%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.59%) Retail
8 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (5.06%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.53%) Automotive
10 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.53%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.53%) Marketing
10 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.27%) Legal
11 1 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (15.19%) Systems Engineer
1 12 (15.19%) Technical Engineer
2 8 (10.13%) Analyst
2 8 (10.13%) Architect
3 7 (8.86%) Developer
3 7 (8.86%) Project Manager
4 6 (7.59%) Head of AI
5 5 (6.33%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.33%) Senior
6 4 (5.06%) Lead
6 4 (5.06%) Programme Manager
6 4 (5.06%) Risk Manager
6 4 (5.06%) Telesales Executive
7 3 (3.80%) Administrator
7 3 (3.80%) IT Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.53%) Consultant
8 2 (2.53%) Data Architect
8 2 (2.53%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (2.53%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.27%) .NET
1 1 (1.27%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Industry 4.0
1 12 (15.19%) Robotics
2 8 (10.13%) Management Information System
2 8 (10.13%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.33%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.33%) NHS
4 2 (2.53%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.53%) Life Science
4 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.27%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.27%) IoT
5 1 (1.27%) PMI
5 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) SystemC
5 1 (1.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.38%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (25.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (24.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 17 (21.52%) Agile
5 15 (18.99%) Customer Service
6 14 (17.72%) Analytics
6 14 (17.72%) Risk Management
7 13 (16.46%) Risk Assessment
8 12 (15.19%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (15.19%) Creative Thinking
8 12 (15.19%) Data Governance
8 12 (15.19%) Fault Analysis
8 12 (15.19%) Mechatronics
8 12 (15.19%) Project Management
8 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (12.66%) Data Architecture
10 9 (11.39%) Change Management
11 8 (10.13%) CRM
11 8 (10.13%) Information Security
11 8 (10.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.13%) SQL
2 2 (2.53%) Python
2 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.27%) C#
3 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.27%) PHP
3 1 (1.27%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (26.58%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.27%) CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.27%) CISSP
4 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.27%) MBA
4 1 (1.27%) PMP
4 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.66%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
2 4 (5.06%) GRC
2 4 (5.06%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.27%) DO-254
3 1 (1.27%) GxP
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) PMO
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.27%) Firmware
Vendors
1 13 (16.46%) Siemens
2 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.53%) Databricks
7 1 (1.27%) Actel
7 1 (1.27%) Adobe
7 1 (1.27%) Cerner
7 1 (1.27%) Lattice Semiconductor
7 1 (1.27%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.27%) Microsemi
7 1 (1.27%) NEC
7 1 (1.27%) Xilinx