Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Decision-Making
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 6 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 3.28% 1.91% 5.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 2.33% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £470 £420 £476
25th Percentile - £431 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £524
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.08% -1.41%
75th Percentile £525 - £548
90th Percentile - - £572
Hampshire median daily rate £492 £525 £494
% change year-on-year -6.29% +6.33% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £51.42
Hampshire median hourly rate - £27.00 £21.53
% change year-on-year - +25.44% -26.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 129 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 77.60% 82.17% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 73 134
10th Percentile £213 £360 £287
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.66% +5.50% -
75th Percentile £556 £688 £600
90th Percentile £639 £714 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £570 £533
% change year-on-year -7.89% +7.04% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 38 35
10th Percentile £25.14 £35.00 £19.85
25th Percentile £27.10 £56.28 £38.08
Median hourly rate £48.75 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +21.74% -8.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £74.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £58.88 £80.80 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.00 £70.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -64.29% +30.23% +39.61%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Commercial Awareness
1 4 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Entry
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Software Licensing
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware