Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Decision-Making
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 26 61
Rank change year-on-year -26 +35 -4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 17 18 11
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.20% 4.86% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 5.70% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 7
10th Percentile £395 £518 £363
25th Percentile £450 £625 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £440
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +47.73% -17.18%
75th Percentile £553 £675 £480
90th Percentile £572 - £530
East of England median daily rate £513 £650 £527
% change year-on-year -21.15% +23.46% +10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £31.64 -
East of England median hourly rate - £23.75 -

All Process & 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 619 316 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 80.29% 85.41% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 151 307
10th Percentile £263 £306 £255
25th Percentile £413 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +20.00% -16.28%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £625
90th Percentile £713 £688 £725
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 94 243
10th Percentile £16.46 £18.52 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.33 £38.54
Median hourly rate £22.66 £65.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.28% +8.75% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67.63 £76.00 £68.28
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.80 £51.25 £38.12
% change year-on-year -57.46% +34.44% +18.55%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Hertfordshire

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Decision-Making

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 18 March 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
Hemel Hempstead -2 3 £550 - 4
Watford - 3 £463 - 17
Hatfield - 3 £553 - 2
Welwyn Garden City +1 2 £500 - 1
St Albans - 2 - - 4
Rickmansworth -1 1 £475 -
Stevenage -18 1 £425 -15.00% 3
Broxbourne - 1 - - 2
Decision-Making
East of England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (5.88%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (5.88%) Camtasia
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) dbt
1 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DWDM
1 2 (11.76%) SDH
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.76%) QlikView
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.76%) Electronics
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Automotive
5 1 (5.88%) Games
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.88%) Publishing
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Architect
1 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Verification Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
3 1 (5.88%) e-Learning Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Finance Manager
3 1 (5.88%) IoT Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
3 1 (5.88%) Qlik Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Telesales Executive
3 1 (5.88%) Threat Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Video Content Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.76%) ASIC
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) FPGA
2 2 (11.76%) Verilog
2 2 (11.76%) VHDL
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.88%) e-Learning
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (23.53%) Customer Service
2 4 (23.53%) Information Security
2 4 (23.53%) Time Management
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
3 3 (17.65%) Information Assurance
3 3 (17.65%) Open Source
3 3 (17.65%) OSINT
3 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
3 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
3 3 (17.65%) Threat Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Threat Detection
3 3 (17.65%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GxP
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco
1 2 (11.76%) Computacenter
1 2 (11.76%) F5
1 2 (11.76%) IBM
1 2 (11.76%) Juniper
1 2 (11.76%) Nokia
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce