Decision-Making Contracts in the South West

Decision-Making
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 51 45 73
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 -21
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 62 127 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.69% 3.97% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 4.78% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 69 71
10th Percentile £396 £334 £313
25th Percentile £450 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £603
90th Percentile £726 £688 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 26 11
10th Percentile £34.18 £13.21 £50.05
25th Percentile £47.56 £14.54 £52.39
Median hourly rate £69.35 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.38% -38.46% +34.66%
75th Percentile £79.77 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £81.68 £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £51.57
% change year-on-year +62.16% -64.12% +21.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the South West

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the South West

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the South West

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the South West

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the South West

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -7 22 £519 -2.12% 71
Devon +19 11 £575 +23.66% 20
Gloucestershire +14 9 £475 -15.56% 48
Somerset -5 9 £600 +11.11% 29
Wiltshire +9 6 £575 -2.13% 25
Dorset +4 3 £378 - 18
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (4.84%) Apache
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) Appian
3 1 (1.61%) IIS
3 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.68%) AWS
1 6 (9.68%) Azure
2 4 (6.45%) GCP
2 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.61%) Akamai
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (1.61%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.61%) GitHub
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
3 1 (1.61%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) 2G
1 2 (3.23%) 4G
1 2 (3.23%) 5G
1 2 (3.23%) BGP
1 2 (3.23%) Firewall
1 2 (3.23%) MPLS
1 2 (3.23%) OSPF
1 2 (3.23%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (3.23%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.23%) VLAN
1 2 (3.23%) VPN
1 2 (3.23%) WAN
2 1 (1.61%) DHCP
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) Extranet
2 1 (1.61%) Intranet
2 1 (1.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Power BI
2 3 (4.84%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.23%) GIS
3 2 (3.23%) Tableau
4 1 (1.61%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.61%) Flyway
3 1 (1.61%) Git
3 1 (1.61%) Selenium
3 1 (1.61%) TestRail
General
1 35 (56.45%) Social Skills
2 28 (45.16%) Finance
3 13 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.52%) Legal
5 7 (11.29%) Marketing
6 6 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
8 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
9 3 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
10 2 (3.23%) Banking
10 2 (3.23%) Local Government
10 2 (3.23%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.61%) Electronics
11 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.61%) Military
11 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Architect
2 9 (14.52%) Lead
3 8 (12.90%) Analyst
4 6 (9.68%) Business Architect
4 6 (9.68%) Customer Executive
5 5 (8.06%) Senior
6 4 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Head of Information
7 3 (4.84%) Head of Information Management
7 3 (4.84%) Head of Knowledge Management
7 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Administrator
8 2 (3.23%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Designer
8 2 (3.23%) GIS Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.23%) Kafka
2 2 (3.23%) PostGIS
2 2 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (1.61%) .NET
3 1 (1.61%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.23%) Replication
4 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.61%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Windows
2 2 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.61%) Unix
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.97%) Project Management
3 10 (16.13%) Business Development
3 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (14.52%) Business Case
4 9 (14.52%) Collaborative Working
4 9 (14.52%) Data Governance
4 9 (14.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 9 (14.52%) PRINCE2
5 8 (12.90%) Agile
5 8 (12.90%) Analytics
6 7 (11.29%) Business Analysis
6 7 (11.29%) Change Management
6 7 (11.29%) Contract Negotiation
6 7 (11.29%) Information Management
7 6 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (9.68%) Line Management
7 6 (9.68%) Scorecard
8 5 (8.06%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.29%) SQL
2 6 (9.68%) Python
3 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.61%) Bash
4 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.61%) Java
4 1 (1.61%) R
4 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 20 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) Degree
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.23%) CCIE
6 2 (3.23%) CCNP
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.23%) JNCIE
6 2 (3.23%) JNCIP
6 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.23%) PMP
7 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.61%) ISEB
7 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.23%) PMO
2 2 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) CRD IV
3 1 (1.61%) GRC
3 1 (1.61%) IFRS
3 1 (1.61%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.61%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.61%) PMBOK
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
2 2 (3.23%) Ansible
2 2 (3.23%) Kibana
2 2 (3.23%) logstash
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.61%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (1.61%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.61%) SCCM
3 1 (1.61%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.61%) vMotion
3 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.84%) Cisco
3 3 (4.84%) Google
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle
4 2 (3.23%) Ericsson
4 2 (3.23%) ESRI
4 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.23%) Juniper
4 2 (3.23%) Nokia
4 2 (3.23%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.23%) SAP
4 2 (3.23%) VMware
5 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.61%) F5
5 1 (1.61%) Foundry
5 1 (1.61%) McAfee
5 1 (1.61%) Palantir
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.61%) Symantec