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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 34 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 30 35 25
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.09% 4.83% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 5.64% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 15
10th Percentile £383 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £300 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £415
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +20.48% -24.55%
75th Percentile £511 £700 £444
90th Percentile £618 - £590
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% -11.76%

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 651 621 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.69% 85.66% 84.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 411 417
10th Percentile £236 £196 £281
25th Percentile £378 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 16 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +205.56%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -7.09% -11.40% +38.98%

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 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Birmingham

Decision-Making
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 (10.00%) Apache Pig
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) IIS
2 1 (3.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (10.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (3.33%) Asana
5 1 (3.33%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Power BI
2 4 (13.33%) Data Mining
3 3 (10.00%) Apache Hive
3 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (10.00%) Power Query
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.33%) OLTP
4 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Finance
3 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Legal
4 4 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Marketing
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 4 (13.33%) Data Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (10.00%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Governance Manager
4 2 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 2 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Product Owner
4 2 (6.67%) Report Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Middleware
1 1 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Analytics
2 11 (36.67%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (23.33%) Data Visualisation
3 7 (23.33%) Visualisation
4 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (16.67%) Data Collection
5 5 (16.67%) Data Science
5 5 (16.67%) Scrum
6 4 (13.33%) Data Management
6 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
6 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
6 4 (13.33%) Migration
6 4 (13.33%) Project Management
6 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Scala
3 4 (13.33%) Java
3 4 (13.33%) R
4 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
1 2 (6.67%) PMP
2 1 (3.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.67%) PMO
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Splunk
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) Informatica
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Sitecore