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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 47 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 25 20 24
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.73% 3.24% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 3.57% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 15
10th Percentile £397 £451 £223
25th Percentile £500 £463 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £504 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +6.00% -13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £547 £550
90th Percentile £734 £613 £703
West Midlands median daily rate £496 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -0.80% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.25 - -
25th Percentile £23.46 - -
Median hourly rate £24.06 - -
75th Percentile £24.90 - -
90th Percentile £25.26 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £15.28 £33.88 £33.93
% change year-on-year -54.91% -0.15% -

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 756 561 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.44% 90.78% 83.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 364 388
10th Percentile £300 £203 £200
25th Percentile £400 £374 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +2.88%
75th Percentile £596 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £659 £741
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.29% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 53 9
10th Percentile £13.45 - £21.10
25th Percentile £19.51 £12.62 £25.56
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -62.26% +66.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £57.80
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.30 £23.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +18.70% -4.88% -12.07%

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 3 October 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 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
4 1 (4.00%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.00%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (4.00%) OCI
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
1 1 (4.00%) LAN
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (8.00%) Power BI
1 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Looker
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Lead
2 4 (16.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Accountant
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Programme Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.00%) Head of Information
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Functional Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Accountant
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Risk Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Kafka
1 2 (8.00%) Spring
1 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.00%) Django
2 1 (4.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) React Native
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.00%) IoT
1 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Blog
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Code
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) PropTech
2 1 (4.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
5 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (12.00%) Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
6 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) User Experience
7 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps
7 2 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (8.00%) Microservices
7 2 (8.00%) Prototyping
7 2 (8.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Java
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) ACCA
4 1 (4.00%) CIMA
4 1 (4.00%) CIPFA
4 1 (4.00%) CISM
4 1 (4.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) GRC
2 2 (8.00%) PMO
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Argo
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Google
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) OneLogin
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Planon
2 1 (4.00%) SAP
2 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow