Decision-Making Contracts in South Wales

Decision-Making
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 49
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 -2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 10 20 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.86% 5.45% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 7.07% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £254 £132 £432
25th Percentile £303 £220 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.21% -33.33% +16.89%
75th Percentile £450 - £669
90th Percentile £508 £468 £710
Wales median daily rate £331 £400 £470
% change year-on-year -17.21% -14.89% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £44.00 £17.18
25th Percentile - £46.25 £17.48
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - +152.46% -59.32%
75th Percentile - £50.00 £19.81
90th Percentile - £52.25 £19.91
Wales median hourly rate - £47.50 £19.49
% change year-on-year - +143.71% -57.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 234 283 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.35% 77.11% 87.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 186 299
10th Percentile £190 £143 £190
25th Percentile £289 £250 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -11.25% -
75th Percentile £488 £552 £588
90th Percentile £625 £625 £639
Wales median daily rate £400 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 36 25
10th Percentile £13.08 £13.06 -
25th Percentile £14.23 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.49 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -25.53% +10.24% -2.55%
75th Percentile £23.00 £49.06 £25.00
90th Percentile £43.32 £85.50 £49.50
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £20.35 £19.49
% change year-on-year +3.23% +4.43% -2.55%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in South Wales over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 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
Cardiff +6 9 £331 +50.53% 80
Bridgend - 1 - - 9
Decision-Making
Wales

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Welsh Language
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Designer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Designer
3 2 (20.00%) Interaction Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Creative Strategist
4 1 (10.00%) CRM Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Architect
4 1 (10.00%) GCP Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Service Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior User Experience Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Service Designer
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Photography
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Business Case
4 2 (20.00%) Coaching
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Interaction Design
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (20.00%) Service Design
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Metadata Management
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft