Decision-Making Contracts in Cheshire

Decision-Making
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 24 41
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -23
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 39 35 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.69% 6.94% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.94% 8.24% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 13
10th Percentile £369 £65 £200
25th Percentile £433 £146 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £689 £586
90th Percentile £626 £713 £672
North West median daily rate £490 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +5.95% -7.50% +2.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.66 -
North West median hourly rate £26.47 £11.20 £60.70
% change year-on-year +136.40% -81.56% +80.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Cheshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Cheshire

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Cheshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Cheshire

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -6 13 £483 -23.03% 18
Macclesfield +13 7 £550 -12.70% 2
Crewe - 6 £625 - 7
Warrington -1 4 £401 - 47
Chester - 1 £600 - 39
Decision-Making
North West

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (15.38%) MS Visio
2 5 (12.82%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (17.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
2 4 (10.26%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (10.26%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Azure AI
2 4 (10.26%) GCP
2 4 (10.26%) Google Gemini
3 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.69%) SaaS
4 2 (5.13%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) BGP
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.56%) DHCP
2 1 (2.56%) DMZ
2 1 (2.56%) DWDM
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Internet
2 1 (2.56%) IPsec
2 1 (2.56%) L2TP
2 1 (2.56%) MPLS
2 1 (2.56%) Multicast
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) OSPF
2 1 (2.56%) SSL
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
2 1 (2.56%) WAN
2 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Neo4j
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
1 4 (10.26%) JIRA
General
1 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Finance
2 12 (30.77%) Manufacturing
3 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Automotive
4 6 (15.38%) Legal
4 6 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Publishing
7 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Senior
2 6 (15.38%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Change Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Operational Change Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Tester
7 1 (2.56%) Administrator
7 1 (2.56%) Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Programme Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) PyTorch
1 4 (10.26%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.56%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.56%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) CMDB
1 6 (15.38%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (15.38%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 4 (10.26%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.56%) PMI
5 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
1 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (79.49%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (61.54%) Agile
3 17 (43.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (28.21%) Risk Management
5 10 (25.64%) Business Analysis
6 9 (23.08%) Business Strategy
6 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (23.08%) ITSM
7 8 (20.51%) Project Management
7 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
7 8 (20.51%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (17.95%) Agile Project Management
8 7 (17.95%) Analytics
8 7 (17.95%) Data Modelling
8 7 (17.95%) Supply Chain Management
9 6 (15.38%) API Integration
9 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 6 (15.38%) Presales
9 6 (15.38%) SDLC
9 6 (15.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.69%) Scala
4 2 (5.13%) R
5 1 (2.56%) Java
5 1 (2.56%) Perl
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
5 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Master's Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) CCIE
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) PMO
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) MOM
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.56%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.56%) vMotion
5 1 (2.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 9 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 7 (17.95%) SAP
3 6 (15.38%) Rockwell
3 6 (15.38%) Siemens
4 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.56%) Ariba
5 1 (2.56%) Arista
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco
5 1 (2.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.56%) McAfee
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) VMware