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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 52 65
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 39 32 43
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.33% 2.91% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 3.40% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 29
10th Percentile £375 £314 £258
25th Percentile £506 £500 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £575
90th Percentile £675 - £610
England median daily rate £513 £535 £539
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.70% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £18.38 -
25th Percentile £30.05 £20.26 -
Median hourly rate £30.11 £20.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.85% - -
75th Percentile £30.16 £27.00 -
90th Percentile - £31.80 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £31.17 £36.33
% change year-on-year +12.28% -14.20% -28.10%

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 1,395 941 1,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 83.38% 85.47% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 415 760
10th Percentile £193 £240 £250
25th Percentile £350 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -3.90% -
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £676 £688 £702
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 174 398
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.27 £37.50 £28.58
Median % change year-on-year -45.96% +31.23% +29.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £84.18 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -27.10% -9.21% +8.57%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -15 17 £575 -11.54% 86
Cambridgeshire -3 7 £650 +85.71% 64
Essex +3 5 £513 - 56
Bedfordshire -12 5 £625 +25.00% 60
Norfolk -21 3 £198 - 54
Suffolk +9 2 £550 - 52
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 (5.13%) SAS
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (2.56%) Camtasia
3 1 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.56%) Maximo
2 1 (2.56%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.56%) AWS
3 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
3 1 (2.56%) Azure API Management
3 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
3 1 (2.56%) dbt
3 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.56%) GCP
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.56%) OCI
3 1 (2.56%) PaaS
3 1 (2.56%) Serverless
3 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DWDM
1 2 (5.13%) SDH
2 1 (2.56%) Internet
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Power BI
2 3 (7.69%) SAP HANA
2 3 (7.69%) Tableau
3 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.13%) SAP BW
3 2 (5.13%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.56%) Metadata
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.56%) Burp Suite
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Local Government
6 2 (5.13%) Electronics
6 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.56%) Automotive
7 1 (2.56%) Publishing
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Risk Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Telecoms Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Verification Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Application Security Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) .NET
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.56%) RESTful
2 1 (2.56%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
1 4 (10.26%) Security Posture
2 3 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (7.69%) NHS
3 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.13%) ASIC
3 2 (5.13%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.13%) FPGA
3 2 (5.13%) Life Science
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.13%) Verilog
3 2 (5.13%) VHDL
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) PMI
4 1 (2.56%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.21%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (25.64%) Risk Management
4 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (20.51%) Information Security
5 6 (15.38%) Analytics
6 5 (12.82%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
6 5 (12.82%) DevOps
6 5 (12.82%) PRINCE2
6 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (12.82%) TOGAF
6 5 (12.82%) Use Case
7 4 (10.26%) AI
7 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (10.26%) ERP
7 4 (10.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) Java
3 2 (5.13%) R
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.56%) PHP
4 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) CISM
3 2 (5.13%) CISSP
3 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.13%) PMP
4 1 (2.56%) ACCA
4 1 (2.56%) CEH
4 1 (2.56%) CIMA
4 1 (2.56%) CRISC
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.56%) MBA
4 1 (2.56%) MCP
4 1 (2.56%) OSCP
4 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) NIST
2 6 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (12.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (10.26%) GDPR
4 4 (10.26%) GRC
5 3 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (7.69%) QA
6 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
6 2 (5.13%) GxP
6 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
7 1 (2.56%) EU AI Act
7 1 (2.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Nexpose
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) SAP
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco
4 2 (5.13%) Computacenter
4 2 (5.13%) F5
4 2 (5.13%) IBM
4 2 (5.13%) Juniper
4 2 (5.13%) Nokia
4 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Adobe
5 1 (2.56%) Cerner
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) Foundry
5 1 (2.56%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (2.56%) NEC
5 1 (2.56%) Qualys
5 1 (2.56%) Tenable