Data-Driven Decision Making Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Data-Driven Decision Making
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 1.05% - 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% - 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £690 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £700
75th Percentile £710 - £750
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £688 £275 £375
% change year-on-year +150.00% -26.67% -31.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

Data-Driven 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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 81 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 74.74% 81.82% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 33 50
10th Percentile £220 £213 £199
25th Percentile £325 £250 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £666 £538 £550
90th Percentile £713 £691 £665
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.25% -0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £14.63 £47.63 -
25th Percentile £18.07 £51.25 £11.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +400.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £24.38 - £42.25
90th Percentile £24.61 - £64.40
East of England median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.43% +31.26% +35.44%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Data-Driven Decision Making job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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
Ipswich - 1 £700 - 3
Data-Driven Decision Making
East of England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of AI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks