Decision Quality Contract Job Trends

Decision Quality
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 630 - 598
Rank change year-on-year - - +117
Contract jobs citing Decision Quality 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,206 26,654 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,270 17,186 24,018
10th Percentile £320 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,084 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.64 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.84% -26.13% +7.14%

Decision Quality
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Decision Quality job vacancy trend in the UK

Decision Quality
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Decision Quality
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Decision Quality
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England - 7 £449 - 6
Work from Home - 4 £447 - 3
UK excluding London - 4 £450 - 2
London - 3 £425 - 3
Midlands - 3 £450 -
West Midlands - 3 £450 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 2

Decision Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (42.86%) Confluence
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
2 1 (14.29%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Change Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Network Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Resource Planner
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Manager
2 1 (14.29%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (14.29%) LangChain
1 1 (14.29%) LangGraph
1 1 (14.29%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (14.29%) pgvector
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Impact Assessments
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Coaching
2 3 (42.86%) Contingency Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Cutover Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Line Management
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Pegasus
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow