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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 50 73
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 54 33 41
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.97% 3.12% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.61% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 30
10th Percentile £238 £500 £363
25th Percentile £400 £503 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £575
90th Percentile £696 - £605
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £17.67 -
25th Percentile £30.05 £18.73 -
Median hourly rate £30.11 £20.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.85% - -
75th Percentile £30.16 £25.44 -
90th Percentile - £31.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.62 £30.81 £27.81
% change year-on-year +31.85% +10.77% -46.82%

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 1,470 913 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.86% 86.38% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 437 820
10th Percentile £197 £249 £250
25th Percentile £350 £375 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £694 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 150 466
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.06 £17.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.23 £40.75 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -50.36% +24.43% +27.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 18 February 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
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 18 February 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
Bedfordshire -2 17 £513 +2.50% 10
Hertfordshire -24 14 £553 -14.92% 39
Cambridgeshire +9 12 £450 -21.74% 18
Essex +1 5 £513 - 19
Suffolk +6 3 £625 - 10
Norfolk -23 3 £198 - 13
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 (3.70%) SAS
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (1.85%) Camtasia
4 1 (1.85%) CATIA
4 1 (1.85%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.85%) Maximo
1 1 (1.85%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.85%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.11%) Azure
1 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.85%) AWS
2 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
2 1 (1.85%) Azure API Management
2 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.85%) Azure Functions
2 1 (1.85%) dbt
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.85%) GCP
2 1 (1.85%) GitHub
2 1 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.85%) PaaS
2 1 (1.85%) Serverless
2 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.22%) Ethernet
1 12 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.70%) DWDM
2 2 (3.70%) SDH
3 1 (1.85%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Power BI
2 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.56%) Tableau
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) QlikView
5 1 (1.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.85%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 29 (53.70%) Social Skills
2 18 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (11.11%) Finance
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.26%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.41%) Local Government
7 2 (3.70%) Electronics
7 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.85%) Automotive
8 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Games
8 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.85%) Publishing
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
1 12 (22.22%) Technical Engineer
2 8 (14.81%) Analyst
2 8 (14.81%) Architect
3 6 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.56%) Business Analyst
4 3 (5.56%) Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Lead
4 3 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 3 (5.56%) Risk Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Data Architect
5 2 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Telecoms Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Verification Engineer
6 1 (1.85%) IT Manager
6 1 (1.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) .NET
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.85%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (1.85%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (1.85%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.85%) RESTful
2 1 (1.85%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (1.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Industry 4.0
1 12 (22.22%) Robotics
2 6 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.26%) NHS
3 5 (9.26%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.70%) ASIC
5 2 (3.70%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.70%) FPGA
5 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.70%) Verilog
5 2 (3.70%) VHDL
6 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.85%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.93%) Customer Service
2 14 (25.93%) Risk Assessment
3 12 (22.22%) Creative Thinking
3 12 (22.22%) Fault Analysis
3 12 (22.22%) Mechatronics
4 11 (20.37%) Agile
5 9 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (16.67%) Information Security
6 8 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (14.81%) Risk Management
7 7 (12.96%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (9.26%) Data Architecture
9 5 (9.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (9.26%) TOGAF
10 4 (7.41%) Analytics
10 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (7.41%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.11%) Python
1 6 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (3.70%) Java
2 2 (3.70%) R
2 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.85%) C#
3 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.85%) PHP
3 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Degree
2 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) CISM
3 2 (3.70%) CISSP
4 1 (1.85%) ACCA
4 1 (1.85%) CEH
4 1 (1.85%) CIMA
4 1 (1.85%) CRISC
4 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.85%) MBA
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (1.85%) OSCP
4 1 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) NIST
2 6 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (9.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (9.26%) GDPR
3 5 (9.26%) GRC
4 3 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.70%) QA
6 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.85%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.85%) GxP
6 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.85%) Nexpose
1 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Siemens
2 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.70%) Cisco
3 2 (3.70%) Computacenter
3 2 (3.70%) Databricks
3 2 (3.70%) F5
3 2 (3.70%) IBM
3 2 (3.70%) Juniper
3 2 (3.70%) Nokia
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.85%) Cerner
4 1 (1.85%) Foundry
4 1 (1.85%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (1.85%) NEC
4 1 (1.85%) Qualys
4 1 (1.85%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) Tenable