Decision Table Contract Job Trends

Decision Tables
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Decision Table skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 534 582
Rank change year-on-year -62 +48 +173
Contract jobs citing Decision Table 5 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.010% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.011% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £364 £516 £440
25th Percentile £383 £522 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £401 £547 £544
90th Percentile £401 £549 £570
UK excluding London median daily rate - £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Decision Table 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 35,855 27,377 38,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.81% 89.88% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 16,975 25,075
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,138 862 2,184
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.18 £63.75 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.23 £71.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.41% -8.57% -

Decision Table
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Decision Table job vacancy trend in the UK

Decision Table
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Decision Table
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Decision Table
Top 3 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 Table within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
London - 5 £397 - 2
England - 5 £397 - 3
Work from Home - 2 £397 - 3

Decision Table
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 5 (100.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 4 (80.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) BPMN
1 5 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes