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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 29 55
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 -7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 18 34 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.62% 4.58% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 5.59% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 16
10th Percentile £300 £196 £350
25th Percentile £375 £243 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -19.05% +7.69%
75th Percentile £500 £494 £650
90th Percentile £560 £581 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +15.07%

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 434 608 780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.32% 81.94% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 511
10th Percentile £163 £236 £300
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £577 £638
90th Percentile £689 £696 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 43 31
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +25.57% +23.61%
75th Percentile £25.13 £47.13 £29.38
90th Percentile £35.77 £56.25 £53.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £21.69
% change year-on-year -15.56% +3.73% +28.92%

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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 29 May 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
2 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
2 2 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS KMS
3 1 (5.56%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Power Query
2 2 (11.11%) Tableau
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (5.56%) DbUnit
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) jMock
1 1 (5.56%) JUnit
1 1 (5.56%) Maven
1 1 (5.56%) Mockito
1 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Games
6 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.56%) Marketing
6 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
1 5 (27.78%) Lead
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Business Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Report Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Business Performance Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Visualisation Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Performance Manager
4 1 (5.56%) PMO Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
1 1 (5.56%) Hibernate
1 1 (5.56%) JPA
1 1 (5.56%) PowerMock
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) RESTful
1 1 (5.56%) SOAP
1 1 (5.56%) Spring
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Batch
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Integration
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (38.89%) Data Analysis
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
4 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 3 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (16.67%) ERP
5 3 (16.67%) Storytelling
6 2 (11.11%) Budgeting
6 2 (11.11%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 2 (11.11%) Contract Management
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) R
5 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CISM
1 1 (5.56%) CISSP
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) GRC
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) SAP
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Ariba
3 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (5.56%) Qualys
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow