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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 44 56
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +13
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 21 27 14
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.20% 3.83% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 4.59% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 5
10th Percentile £451 £224 £405
25th Percentile £463 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -11.36% -
75th Percentile £547 £563 £600
90th Percentile £613 £694 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% +8.17%

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 601 588 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.62% 83.40% 83.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 382 439
10th Percentile £250 £200 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.20% -1.02%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £608
90th Percentile £641 £738 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 10 24
10th Percentile £12.62 £19.65 £13.83
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% +26.88% +62.16%
75th Percentile £24.29 £54.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £28.60 £57.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.70 £23.60 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.40% -14.18% +55.19%

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

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 October 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

Decision-Making
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 (14.29%) Apache Pig
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 3 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.76%) Asana
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Smartsheet
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Power BI
2 4 (19.05%) Data Mining
3 3 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 3 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.76%) OLTP
4 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Legal
4 3 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Marketing
5 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.76%) Retail
6 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Project Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 3 (14.29%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (9.52%) IT Manager
3 2 (9.52%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.76%) Business Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.76%) PMO Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.76%) Web Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
1 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Agile
1 6 (28.57%) Analytics
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Project Management
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Data Collection
3 4 (19.05%) Data Science
3 4 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
3 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
4 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Data Munging
4 3 (14.29%) Linear Algebra
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Scrum
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) Scala
3 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.76%) R
3 1 (4.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
1 2 (9.52%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) PMO
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Sitecore