Decision-Making Contracts in Birmingham

Decision-Making
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 35 56
Rank change year-on-year -4 +21 +7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 14 31 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.60% 3.98% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 5.00% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 15
10th Percentile £295 £195 £350
25th Percentile £388 £235 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £556 £455 £650
90th Percentile £658 £550 £665
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £538
% change year-on-year - -16.28% +17.81%

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 469 620 783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.17% 79.69% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 421 530
10th Percentile £163 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £630
90th Percentile £689 £700 £714
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 31
10th Percentile - £13.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £13.10
Median hourly rate £17.44 £26.00 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% +23.99% +25.19%
75th Percentile £24.44 £43.63 £29.38
90th Percentile £26.89 £55.75 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.95 £25.00
% change year-on-year +12.78% -20.20% +47.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Birmingham

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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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
2 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.14%) Asana
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
3 1 (7.14%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Tableau
3 2 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (7.14%) DbUnit
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) jMock
1 1 (7.14%) JUnit
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
1 1 (7.14%) Mockito
1 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Games
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Lead
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Power BI Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Lead Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Delivery Project Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
6 1 (7.14%) Senior
6 1 (7.14%) Solutions Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Web Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Web Project Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
1 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
1 1 (7.14%) JPA
1 1 (7.14%) PowerMock
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Integration
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Educational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 4 (28.57%) User Experience
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Change Management
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (21.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
5 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) R
4 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) CISM
2 1 (7.14%) CISSP
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Ariba
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Sitecore