Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Decision-Making
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 34 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 36 35 26
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.85% 5.08% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.46% 5.77% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 15
10th Percentile £358 £248 -
25th Percentile £413 £291 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £415
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +20.48% -24.55%
75th Percentile £508 £700 £444
90th Percentile £593 £704 £590
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £458
% change year-on-year -13.64% +20.22% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Decision-Making 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 659 607 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.69% 88.10% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 406 388
10th Percentile £227 £200 £275
25th Percentile £370 £393 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £596
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 20
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £12.45
25th Percentile £14.59 £21.63 £14.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -39.55% +224.57%
75th Percentile £22.81 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £29.50 £56.25 £67.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £21.80 £23.00
% change year-on-year -13.42% -5.24% +29.94%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Decision-Making

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Birmingham over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Decision-Making

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (8.33%) Apache Pig
2 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) CMS
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) IIS
3 1 (2.78%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 3 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) Asana
5 1 (2.78%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Power BI
2 4 (11.11%) Data Mining
3 3 (8.33%) Apache Hive
3 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.33%) Power Query
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.78%) OLTP
4 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (36.11%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Banking
5 4 (11.11%) Legal
5 4 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Local Government
6 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Data Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 3 (8.33%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Data Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Data Governance Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Delivery Project Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Governance Manager
5 2 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Platform Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.56%) Report Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Middleware
1 1 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Agile
2 13 (36.11%) Analytics
3 10 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (19.44%) Data Governance
5 7 (19.44%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (19.44%) Project Management
5 7 (19.44%) Visualisation
6 6 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (13.89%) Data Collection
7 5 (13.89%) Data Science
7 5 (13.89%) Risk Management
7 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
7 5 (13.89%) Scrum
7 5 (13.89%) Waterfall
8 4 (11.11%) Data Management
8 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 4 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Python
1 8 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) Scala
3 4 (11.11%) Java
3 4 (11.11%) R
4 3 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Degree
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
1 2 (5.56%) PMP
2 1 (2.78%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 4 (11.11%) PMO
2 3 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Informatica
3 2 (5.56%) Planview
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Sitecore