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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 25 47
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 -28
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 42 31 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.62% 5.83% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.94% 6.98% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 21 7
10th Percentile £365 £390 £371
25th Percentile £428 £444 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +13.64% +14.35%
75th Percentile £600 £689 £586
90th Percentile £665 £725 £607
North West median daily rate £501 £463 £529
% change year-on-year +8.32% -12.53% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.66 -
North West median hourly rate £26.47 £11.20 £54.27
% change year-on-year +136.40% -79.37% +37.38%

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 470 444 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 96.51% 83.46% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 295 304
10th Percentile £313 £303 £291
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £586
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 34 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £35.20 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £81.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +51.99%

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 30 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 30 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 -3 19 £483 -22.72% 3
Macclesfield +8 8 £550 -
Warrington -3 4 £401 - 168
Chester - 3 £775 - 129
Crewe +5 1 £625 - 2
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 7 (16.67%) Confluence
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (11.90%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (9.52%) AWS
2 4 (9.52%) Azure AI
2 4 (9.52%) GCP
2 4 (9.52%) Google Gemini
3 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.14%) SaaS
4 2 (4.76%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) BGP
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.38%) DHCP
2 1 (2.38%) DMZ
2 1 (2.38%) DWDM
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) IPsec
2 1 (2.38%) L2TP
2 1 (2.38%) MPLS
2 1 (2.38%) Multicast
2 1 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) OSPF
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
2 1 (2.38%) WAN
2 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Neo4j
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) JIRA
2 4 (9.52%) Git
3 1 (2.38%) Appium
3 1 (2.38%) JMeter
3 1 (2.38%) Selenium
General
1 13 (30.95%) Finance
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Legal
3 6 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 6 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (9.52%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Publishing
6 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Analyst
1 8 (19.05%) Senior
2 7 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Engineering Manager
4 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Business Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Change Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Operational Change Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Tester
7 1 (2.38%) Administrator
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Programme Manager
7 1 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) PyTorch
1 4 (9.52%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.38%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.38%) OLE
2 1 (2.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) CMDB
2 6 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.38%) PMI
6 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
1 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (57.14%) Agile
3 18 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 11 (26.19%) Business Analysis
6 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (23.81%) ITSM
7 9 (21.43%) Business Strategy
7 9 (21.43%) Process Improvement
7 9 (21.43%) Scrum
7 9 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (19.05%) Coaching
9 7 (16.67%) DevOps
9 7 (16.67%) Focus Group
9 7 (16.67%) Project Management
9 7 (16.67%) Service Management
9 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (16.67%) Test Strategy
9 7 (16.67%) Workflow
10 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Java
1 6 (14.29%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.14%) Scala
4 2 (4.76%) R
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) Perl
5 1 (2.38%) SQL
5 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) CCIE
4 1 (2.38%) CCNP
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) ISO 31000
2 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.38%) vMotion
4 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft
1 10 (23.81%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.38%) Ariba
3 1 (2.38%) Arista
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco
3 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
3 1 (2.38%) McAfee
3 1 (2.38%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) Splunk
3 1 (2.38%) VMware