Decision-Making Contracts in the East Midlands

Decision-Making
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 30 30 63
Rank change year-on-year 0 +33 -7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 26 39 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.85% 5.05% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 6.47% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 16
10th Percentile £315 £254 £370
25th Percentile £356 £260 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £270 £475
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -43.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £391 £594
90th Percentile £585 £500 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £11.70
25th Percentile - - £12.38
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% +24.14% -40.18%
75th Percentile - - £16.38
90th Percentile - - £16.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £51.57
% change year-on-year +62.16% -64.12% +21.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the East Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the East Midlands

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the East Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the East Midlands

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire +1 10 £358 -8.21% 21
Nottinghamshire +2 5 £519 -5.68% 25
Lincolnshire +4 3 £251 - 10
Leicestershire +3 3 £475 +76.58% 24
Derbyshire +1 2 £825 +208.99% 20
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.85%) Fusion 360
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.85%) Siemens NX
3 1 (3.85%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) AWS
1 4 (15.38%) SaaS
2 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
3 1 (3.85%) Smartsheet
3 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
1 2 (7.69%) Tableau
2 1 (3.85%) Aerospike
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.85%) Power Query
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Banking
2 3 (11.54%) Local Government
3 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Analyst
1 5 (19.23%) Consultant
2 3 (11.54%) Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Digital Product Owner
2 3 (11.54%) Product Owner
2 3 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Architect
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Finance Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Lead
3 2 (7.69%) Programme Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Security Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Technical Programme Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Data Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
1 1 (3.85%) PySpark
1 1 (3.85%) REST
1 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Analytics
2 8 (30.77%) Data Analysis
3 7 (26.92%) Business Strategy
3 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (26.92%) Risk Management
4 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (19.23%) Scrum
4 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (15.38%) Data Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (15.38%) User Stories
5 4 (15.38%) Validation
6 3 (11.54%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (11.54%) Business Process Modelling
6 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (11.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Java
1 2 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) CISM
2 2 (7.69%) CISSP
2 2 (7.69%) CRISC
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) MBA
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) GRC
2 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.69%) NIST
3 1 (3.85%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Autodesk
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Siemens
3 1 (3.85%) Veracode