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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 33 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 32 33 39
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.76% 5.83% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 6.42% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 27
10th Percentile £323 £265 £204
25th Percentile £381 £375 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +8.43% -13.09%
75th Percentile £488 £700 £444
90th Percentile £613 - £565
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -9.09%
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 739 514 637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.94% 90.81% 82.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 352 407
10th Percentile £263 £200 £250
25th Percentile £400 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £674 £700 £668
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 14 43
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.24 £13.19
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.34 £18.50
Median hourly rate £17.69 £29.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.03% +3.51% +105.41%
75th Percentile £23.58 £47.04 £51.88
90th Percentile £29.38 £56.65 £68.50
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

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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 23 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 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Pig
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
3 3 (9.38%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.13%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Power BI
2 4 (12.50%) Power Query
3 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.25%) Tableau
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.13%) GIS
4 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Local Government
4 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Change Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Governance Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Platform Manager
4 2 (6.25%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Report Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) IT Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Analytics
1 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) Data Governance
5 6 (18.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 6 (18.75%) Risk Management
5 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (15.63%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
6 5 (15.63%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (15.63%) Visualisation
7 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.50%) Coaching
7 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 4 (12.50%) Data Collection
7 4 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (12.50%) Project Management
7 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) R
4 3 (9.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.25%) Scala
6 1 (3.13%) Java
6 1 (3.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 4 (12.50%) PMO
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) NIST
3 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Databricks
2 2 (6.25%) Informatica
2 2 (6.25%) Planview
2 2 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.13%) Google