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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 47 65
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 45 45 52
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.23% 3.17% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 3.92% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 34
10th Percentile £343 £264 £291
25th Percentile £475 £332 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £419 £524
Median % change year-on-year +32.06% -20.05% -0.24%
75th Percentile £656 £538 £590
90th Percentile £695 £558 £600
England median daily rate £513 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -3.94% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £19.06 £17.19 £28.82
25th Percentile £26.13 £19.00 £38.93
Median hourly rate £30.65 £27.50 £56.81
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% -51.59% +170.51%
75th Percentile £31.20 £35.00 £73.65
90th Percentile - - £83.12
England median hourly rate £31.20 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -10.86% -24.21% +58.64%

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 1,250 1,148 1,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.80% 80.85% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 452 893
10th Percentile £198 £220 £225
25th Percentile £367 £317 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £568 £613
90th Percentile £682 £650 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 262 374
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £13.91
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.14 £27.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.36% +37.93% -4.76%
75th Percentile £59.25 £61.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.68 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 19 October 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 23 £553 +58.00% 63
Bedfordshire -1 9 £600 +14.29% 4
Cambridgeshire +4 7 £650 +85.71% 27
Norfolk - 3 - - 8
Essex 0 2 £583 +22.74% 29
Suffolk +3 1 £550 - 3
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 3 (6.67%) SAS
1 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Maximo
2 1 (2.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 5 (11.11%) AWS
3 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.67%) Serverless
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.44%) dbt
5 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.22%) Datadog
6 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.22%) OCI
6 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) DWDM
1 2 (4.44%) SDH
2 1 (2.22%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Power BI
1 4 (8.89%) Tableau
2 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.67%) SAP HANA
3 2 (4.44%) Big Data
3 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.44%) SAP BW
3 2 (4.44%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.22%) Metadata
4 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.22%) Tableau Server
4 1 (2.22%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
1 2 (4.44%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
General
1 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Electronics
6 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.22%) Automotive
7 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Analyst
2 7 (15.56%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Consultant
5 3 (6.67%) Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (4.44%) Administrator
6 2 (4.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Data Science Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Support
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 3 (6.67%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.44%) Matplotlib
2 2 (4.44%) NumPy
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.44%) Pandas
2 2 (4.44%) RESTful
2 2 (4.44%) scikit-learn
2 2 (4.44%) Seaborn
3 1 (2.22%) .NET
3 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.22%) Express.js
3 1 (2.22%) NgRx
3 1 (2.22%) Playwright
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) RxJS
3 1 (2.22%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (6.67%) Life Science
2 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.44%) ASIC
3 2 (4.44%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) FPGA
3 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Verilog
3 2 (4.44%) VHDL
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) PMI
4 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (22.22%) Agile
3 9 (20.00%) Analytics
4 8 (17.78%) Visualisation
5 7 (15.56%) Actionable Insight
5 7 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (13.33%) Data Science
6 6 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 5 (11.11%) AI
7 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 5 (11.11%) Information Security
7 5 (11.11%) Project Management
7 5 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 5 (11.11%) User Experience
8 4 (8.89%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.89%) Time Management
8 4 (8.89%) Use Case
8 4 (8.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.22%) Python
2 8 (17.78%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) R
4 2 (4.44%) Java
4 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) PhD
4 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.44%) PMP
5 1 (2.22%) ACCA
5 1 (2.22%) APMG
5 1 (2.22%) CEH
5 1 (2.22%) CIMA
5 1 (2.22%) CISM
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) CRISC
5 1 (2.22%) MCP
5 1 (2.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (13.33%) NIST
2 5 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.89%) GRC
4 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 3 (6.67%) GDPR
4 3 (6.67%) PMO
4 3 (6.67%) QA
5 2 (4.44%) GxP
5 2 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (2.22%) EU AI Act
6 1 (2.22%) P3O
6 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Grafana
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.22%) Nexpose
1 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) SAP
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco
4 2 (4.44%) Computacenter
4 2 (4.44%) F5
4 2 (4.44%) IBM
4 2 (4.44%) Juniper
4 2 (4.44%) Nokia
4 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) Foundry
5 1 (2.22%) Planview
5 1 (2.22%) Qualys
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) Tenable