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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 29 36
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +26
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 36 34 37
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.33% 5.77% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 6.42% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 25
10th Percentile £324 £265 £199
25th Percentile £400 £375 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +25.00% -16.23%
75th Percentile £505 £700 £450
90th Percentile £608 - £572
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 - £28.25

All Process & 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 724 530 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.12% 89.98% 82.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 360 403
10th Percentile £263 £200 £242
25th Percentile £403 £396 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -3.65%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £575
90th Percentile £659 £703 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 12 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.08 £20.18 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% +6.05% +112.09%
75th Percentile £23.58 £53.19 £67.50
90th Percentile £29.07 £57.05 £68.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
% change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +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 16 February 2026.

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%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 3 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.78%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) 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 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.56%) Tableau
5 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.78%) GIS
5 1 (2.78%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Banking
5 3 (8.33%) Local Government
5 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Analyst
2 4 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 4 (11.11%) Data Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 3 (8.33%) Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Change Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Governance Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Lead
4 2 (5.56%) Platform Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Report Manager
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
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Analytics
2 11 (30.56%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 8 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 7 (19.44%) Data Collection
5 7 (19.44%) Data Governance
5 7 (19.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 7 (19.44%) Risk Management
5 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (13.89%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (13.89%) Data Science
6 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
7 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 4 (11.11%) Data Analysis
7 4 (11.11%) Data Strategy
7 4 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Python
1 9 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) R
2 5 (13.89%) Scala
3 4 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) PMO
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.78%) NIST
4 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) 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%) Google