Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Decision-Making
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 8.06% 2.08% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 2.22% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £295 - -
25th Percentile £363 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 - £475
90th Percentile £575 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £550 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54 45 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 87.10% 93.75% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 56
10th Percentile £207 £211 £180
25th Percentile £363 £361 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £525
90th Percentile £616 £696 £588
Oxfordshire median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 14
10th Percentile - £13.08 -
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.96 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.34 £45.00 £26.02
Median % change year-on-year -57.02% +72.98% +6.18%
75th Percentile - £46.30 £56.38
90th Percentile £24.03 £46.78 £65.00
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £20.18 £36.38 £19.50
% change year-on-year -44.53% +86.56% -25.00%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Oxford

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Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Oxford over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Oxford

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Head of PMO
2 1 (20.00%) Information Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
1 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (40.00%) Information Management
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Governance
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
1 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) PMO