Decision-Making Contracts in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 72 75
Rank change year-on-year +37 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 82 70 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.26% 2.94% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 3.32% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 47 89
10th Percentile £263 £350 £292
25th Percentile £350 £423 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £559 £625 £575
90th Percentile £638 £680 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +13.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.55
25th Percentile £27.63 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 - £15.49
75th Percentile £28.88 - £17.48
90th Percentile - - £18.22
England median hourly rate £18.25 £51.57 £42.50
% change year-on-year -64.61% +21.33% +44.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Decision-Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Birmingham +24 38 £415 -20.95% 31
Warwickshire 0 13 £450 -16.28% 15
Staffordshire +10 10 £350 -39.13% 12
Coventry +21 8 £575 +15.00% 6
Worcestershire +10 6 £525 -7.89% 2
Shropshire +21 1 £400 -7.51% 2
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.22%) Apache
3 1 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.44%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.20%) Azure
2 8 (9.76%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.66%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.44%) AWS
5 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.44%) IaaS
5 2 (2.44%) PaaS
5 2 (2.44%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.44%) SaaS
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.22%) OCI
6 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) Network Security
1 4 (4.88%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (4.88%) VPN
2 3 (3.66%) Firewall
2 3 (3.66%) LAN
2 3 (3.66%) VLAN
2 3 (3.66%) VoIP
2 3 (3.66%) WAN
2 3 (3.66%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.22%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.22%) IPsec
3 1 (1.22%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.54%) Power BI
2 5 (6.10%) GIS
3 4 (4.88%) QGIS
4 3 (3.66%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.44%) Power Query
5 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.22%) Metadata
6 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.22%) MS Access
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (9.76%) JIRA
2 2 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (1.22%) Artifactory
General
1 37 (45.12%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.61%) Finance
3 17 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.10%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Automotive
8 3 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Law
9 2 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) Senior
2 12 (14.63%) Analyst
3 9 (10.98%) Project Manager
4 7 (8.54%) IT Manager
4 7 (8.54%) Senior Manager
5 6 (7.32%) Business Manager
5 6 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.32%) Senior Project Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Architect
6 5 (6.10%) Consultant
6 5 (6.10%) Lead
7 4 (4.88%) Data Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) Data Governance Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) Governance Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) Performance Manager
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 3 (3.66%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) Middleware
2 3 (3.66%) .NET
3 2 (2.44%) ADO
4 1 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.22%) REST
4 1 (1.22%) Web Services
4 1 (1.22%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.10%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.10%) SCADA
2 5 (6.10%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.88%) PACS
3 4 (4.88%) PMI
3 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.66%) Clustering
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.22%) NHS
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Windows
2 5 (6.10%) Unix
3 4 (4.88%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.66%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.80%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (19.51%) Agile
4 15 (18.29%) Project Management
5 13 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (14.63%) Computer Science
6 12 (14.63%) Project Delivery
7 10 (12.20%) Budgeting
7 10 (12.20%) Data Analysis
7 10 (12.20%) ITIL
7 10 (12.20%) User Experience
8 9 (10.98%) Data Modelling
8 9 (10.98%) DevOps
8 9 (10.98%) Service Management
9 8 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.76%) ERP
9 8 (9.76%) Visualisation
10 7 (8.54%) Change Management
10 7 (8.54%) Coaching
11 6 (7.32%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.10%) SQL
2 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.44%) Python
4 1 (1.22%) C#
4 1 (1.22%) Java
4 1 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (21.95%) Degree
2 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.10%) PMI Certification
4 5 (6.10%) PMP
5 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.44%) CIPD
6 2 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.22%) ACCA
7 1 (1.22%) CIMA
7 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.22%) CISSP
7 1 (1.22%) CRISC
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.88%) QA
3 3 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) PMO
4 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.66%) Autotask
2 3 (3.66%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (3.66%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (3.66%) SCCM
3 2 (2.44%) Terraform
3 2 (2.44%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.22%) Ansible
4 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.32%) VMware
3 5 (6.10%) BMC
4 4 (4.88%) Ericsson
4 4 (4.88%) ESRI
4 4 (4.88%) Greenplum
4 4 (4.88%) Informatica
4 4 (4.88%) Mapinfo
4 4 (4.88%) Pega
5 3 (3.66%) Apple
5 3 (3.66%) Datto
6 2 (2.44%) Facebook
6 2 (2.44%) Instagram
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle
6 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.22%) Red Hat