Decision-Making Contracts in the East of England

Decision-Making
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 60 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 41 55 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.71% 2.86% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 3.38% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 35
10th Percentile £338 £260 £335
25th Percentile £438 £350 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £675 £553 £593
90th Percentile - £598 £640
England median daily rate £515 £514 £560
% change year-on-year +0.19% -8.21% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £19.89 £21.69 £21.62
25th Percentile £26.10 £30.25 £22.09
Median hourly rate £31.20 £35.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% -44.00% +331.03%
75th Percentile £31.64 £41.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £32.98 £52.50 £79.66
England median hourly rate £30.81 £18.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year +71.14% -58.96% -0.27%

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 983 1,625 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.04% 84.50% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 651 1,015
10th Percentile £212 £200 £229
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 608 348
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.17 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.94 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the East of England.

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

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 2 July 2025.

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

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the East of England.

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

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +17 20 £550 +428.03% 195
Bedfordshire -2 9 £500 - 86
Cambridgeshire +11 7 £491 -7.31% 163
Essex +10 2 - - 141
Norfolk - 2 - - 47
Suffolk -9 1 - - 45
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 9 (21.95%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.88%) Confluence
3 2 (4.88%) SAS
4 1 (2.44%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.88%) SAP BPC
2 2 (4.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) AWS
2 10 (24.39%) Azure
3 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
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%) npm
4 2 (4.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.44%) Datadog
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) Tableau
2 11 (26.83%) Hadoop
3 9 (21.95%) Big Data
4 4 (9.76%) Power BI
5 3 (7.32%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.88%) Text Mining
7 1 (2.44%) MySQL
7 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.44%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.44%) Git
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Finance
4 5 (12.20%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Local Government
6 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.44%) Back Office
7 1 (2.44%) Banking
7 1 (2.44%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.44%) Legal
7 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) Data Science Developer
3 10 (24.39%) Analyst
4 7 (17.07%) Senior
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Business Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Data Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Insight Analyst
8 2 (4.88%) Administrator
8 2 (4.88%) Data Modeller
8 2 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (4.88%) Information Scientist
8 2 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Technical Support
8 2 (4.88%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) Matplotlib
1 11 (26.83%) NumPy
1 11 (26.83%) Pandas
1 11 (26.83%) PyTorch
1 11 (26.83%) scikit-learn
1 11 (26.83%) Seaborn
1 11 (26.83%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.88%) Express.js
2 2 (4.88%) NgRx
2 2 (4.88%) Playwright
2 2 (4.88%) REST
2 2 (4.88%) RESTful
2 2 (4.88%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.83%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.32%) Life Science
3 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Analytics
2 17 (41.46%) Visualisation
3 14 (34.15%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (34.15%) Data Analysis
4 13 (31.71%) Data Science
5 11 (26.83%) Data Analytics
5 11 (26.83%) Data Munging
5 11 (26.83%) Generative AI
5 11 (26.83%) LLM
5 11 (26.83%) Machine Learning
5 11 (26.83%) Predictive Analytics
5 11 (26.83%) Statistical Modelling
5 11 (26.83%) Time Series Forecasting
6 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (21.95%) Computer Science
7 9 (21.95%) Feature Engineering
7 9 (21.95%) Reinforcement Learning
8 6 (14.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (12.20%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) R
3 9 (21.95%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) MATLAB
4 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Degree
2 11 (26.83%) PhD
3 9 (21.95%) Master's Degree
4 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
5 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) CCA
7 1 (2.44%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (39.02%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.88%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) P3O
3 1 (2.44%) PMO
3 1 (2.44%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Grafana
1 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) SAP
2 2 (4.88%) Anaplan
2 2 (4.88%) Hyperion
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe
3 1 (2.44%) Ariba
3 1 (2.44%) Databricks
3 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.44%) Splunk