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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 52 60
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 -24
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 21 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 6.54% 2.52% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 2.79% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 5
10th Percentile £510 - £468
25th Percentile £538 £104 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £443 £500
Median % change year-on-year +46.89% -11.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £675 £500 £525
90th Percentile - £545 £638
East of England median daily rate £563 £526 £475
% change year-on-year +6.99% +10.68% -3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - - £63.50
25th Percentile - - £65.13
Median hourly rate £31.64 £35.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -46.56% -
75th Percentile - £47.50 £65.75
90th Percentile - £55.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% -46.56% +385.19%

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 285 753 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.79% 90.29% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 277 374
10th Percentile £384 £232 £240
25th Percentile £446 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £705 £768
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 314 156
10th Percentile £22.65 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.00 £53.69
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

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 May 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 May 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 +31 4 £500 - 57
Hemel Hempstead +12 1 £550 - 46
Welwyn Garden City -4 1 - - 3
Letchworth - 1 £475 - 2
Rickmansworth - 1 - - 2
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 12 (57.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (4.76%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 12 (57.14%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Cohesity
4 1 (4.76%) dbt
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) IMAP
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
1 1 (4.76%) Skype
1 1 (4.76%) SMTP
1 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (71.43%) Tableau
2 12 (57.14%) Big Data
2 12 (57.14%) Hadoop
3 2 (9.52%) Power BI
4 1 (4.76%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JMeter
1 1 (4.76%) TestDirector
General
1 13 (61.90%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Data Science Developer
1 14 (66.67%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Senior
2 10 (47.62%) Senior Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
4 1 (4.76%) Excel Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Messaging Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Tableau Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (66.67%) Matplotlib
1 14 (66.67%) NumPy
1 14 (66.67%) Pandas
1 14 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 14 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 14 (66.67%) Seaborn
1 14 (66.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Blackberry
2 1 (4.76%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Analytics
2 16 (76.19%) Data Analysis
2 16 (76.19%) Visualisation
3 14 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (66.67%) Data Analytics
3 14 (66.67%) Data Munging
3 14 (66.67%) Data Science
3 14 (66.67%) Generative AI
3 14 (66.67%) LLM
3 14 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 14 (66.67%) Predictive Analytics
3 14 (66.67%) Statistical Modelling
3 14 (66.67%) Time Series Forecasting
4 12 (57.14%) Computer Science
4 12 (57.14%) Feature Engineering
4 12 (57.14%) Reinforcement Learning
5 3 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
1 14 (66.67%) R
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Degree
1 12 (57.14%) Master's Degree
1 12 (57.14%) PhD
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (76.19%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Fujitsu
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) NetApp
1 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
1 1 (4.76%) VMware