Hybrid/Remote Decision Quality Contract Job Trends

Decision Quality
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 337 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Decision Quality 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.033% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £430 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £449 - -
UK median daily rate £449 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,761 9,030 13,321
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.41% 91.31% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,962 6,206 8,917
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £419 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 223 575
10th Percentile £17.23 £14.20 £15.17
25th Percentile £28.50 £19.37 £24.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -5.88% -22.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.75 £75.00 £75.15
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 for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Decision Quality and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Decision Quality job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Decision Quality
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Decision Quality.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Decision Quality

Decision Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (25.00%) LangSmith
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) A2A Protocol
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (25.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (25.00%) pgvector
1 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Coaching
1 2 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Cutover Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (50.00%) Line Management
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Pegasus
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow