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 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 38 24 29
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 35 28 36
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.73% 5.38% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 6.21% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 30
10th Percentile £324 £265 £211
25th Percentile £400 £338 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.41% -20.95%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £455
90th Percentile £663 £700 £571
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £17.59 £28.25
% change year-on-year +70.58% -37.74% -

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 791 451 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.33% 86.73% 82.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 315 413
10th Percentile £306 £163 £252
25th Percentile £409 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -7.77%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £685
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 43
10th Percentile £12.95 - £13.19
25th Percentile £15.91 £12.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.67 £22.05 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% -15.19% +59.66%
75th Percentile £28.57 £26.38 £47.13
90th Percentile £67.88 £30.68 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.98 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.42% -19.42% +21.62%

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

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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 6 May 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 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Power Platform
2 4 (11.43%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (8.57%) Power Automate
3 3 (8.57%) PowerApps
4 2 (5.71%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.86%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.86%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Power BI
2 5 (14.29%) Power Query
3 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.71%) Tableau
4 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.86%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (11.43%) Local Government
4 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Data Manager
3 4 (11.43%) Consultant
3 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Power BI Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Change Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Data Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Governance Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Governance Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Platform Manager
5 2 (5.71%) PMO Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Report Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Service Designer
6 1 (2.86%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) IoT
2 1 (2.86%) NHS
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Analytics
2 11 (31.43%) Agile
2 11 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (17.14%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (17.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 6 (17.14%) Risk Management
6 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 5 (14.29%) Visualisation
7 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
7 4 (11.43%) Coaching
7 4 (11.43%) Data Collection
7 4 (11.43%) Data Management
7 4 (11.43%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (11.43%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) Python
3 5 (14.29%) R
4 3 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) PMO
2 3 (8.57%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Informatica
2 2 (5.71%) Planview
3 1 (2.86%) Adobe
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.86%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk