Decision Quality Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Decision Quality
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Decision Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 - 387
Rank change year-on-year - - +62
Contract jobs citing Decision Quality 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £449 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £449 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Decision Quality 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,682 11,562 17,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.23% 90.44% 84.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,877 7,260 10,404
10th Percentile £294 £238 £250
25th Percentile £400 £378 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -3.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 832 2,050
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.21 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £15.24
Median hourly rate £44.00 £27.70 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.84% -26.13% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

Decision Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Decision Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Decision Quality job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Decision Quality
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Decision Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Decision Quality

Decision Quality
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Decision Quality.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Decision Quality

Decision Quality
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision Quality within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Midlands - 3 £450 -
West Midlands - 3 £450 -
North of England - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Decision Quality
UK

Decision Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (75.00%) Confluence
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Resource Planner
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Contingency Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Cutover Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (75.00%) Line Management
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality