Decision-Making Contracts in Hertfordshire

Decision-Making
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 40 66
Rank change year-on-year +16 +26 -22
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 20 28 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.51% 3.30% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.99% 3.77% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £263 - £456
25th Percentile £503 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £104 £550
Median % change year-on-year +428.03% -81.06% +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £227 £588
90th Percentile - £301 £651
East of England median daily rate £550 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - - £61.63
25th Percentile - - £62.19
Median hourly rate £31.64 £35.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -45.10% +136.11%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £64.69
90th Percentile - £55.00 £64.88
East of England median hourly rate £31.20 £35.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% -44.00% +331.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 334 743 671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 92.01% 87.51% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 257 368
10th Percentile £248 £225 £260
25th Percentile £431 £313 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £521
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.86% +4.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £676
90th Percentile £664 £700 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +13.77% -12.10% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 317 147
10th Percentile £16.95 £37.17 £18.34
25th Percentile £29.02 £39.55 £49.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.63 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £87.50
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Hertfordshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Hertfordshire

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Hertfordshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Hertfordshire

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Stevenage +28 5 - - 51
Hemel Hempstead +9 2 £550 - 54
Watford +8 2 £249 - 66
Welwyn Garden City -1 2 - - 9
Letchworth - 1 £475 - 1
Decision-Making
East of England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (45.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) dbt
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) Tableau
2 9 (45.00%) Big Data
2 9 (45.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Data Science Developer
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Excel Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Governance Manager
5 1 (5.00%) PMO Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Tableau Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) Matplotlib
1 11 (55.00%) NumPy
1 11 (55.00%) Pandas
1 11 (55.00%) PyTorch
1 11 (55.00%) scikit-learn
1 11 (55.00%) Seaborn
1 11 (55.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Analytics
2 13 (65.00%) Data Analysis
2 13 (65.00%) Visualisation
3 11 (55.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (55.00%) Data Analytics
3 11 (55.00%) Data Munging
3 11 (55.00%) Data Science
3 11 (55.00%) Generative AI
3 11 (55.00%) LLM
3 11 (55.00%) Machine Learning
3 11 (55.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 11 (55.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 11 (55.00%) Time Series Forecasting
4 9 (45.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (45.00%) Feature Engineering
4 9 (45.00%) Reinforcement Learning
5 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (15.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) R
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
1 9 (45.00%) Master's Degree
1 9 (45.00%) PhD
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (65.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (5.00%) P3O
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
3 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.00%) OpenAI