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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 32 59
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 +6
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 34 37 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.25% 4.36% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 5.56% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 15
10th Percentile £330 £254 £370
25th Percentile £358 £260 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £270 £475
Median % change year-on-year +53.70% -43.16% +13.43%
75th Percentile £488 £391 £650
90th Percentile £590 £563 £695
England median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £13.30
25th Percentile - - £16.38
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.00 £22.13
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -18.66% -28.61%
75th Percentile - - £27.26
90th Percentile - - £29.96
England median hourly rate £31.20 £18.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year +70.96% -59.44% -

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 573 666 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 88.43% 78.45% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 446 678
10th Percentile £225 £200 £213
25th Percentile £338 £291 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £591
90th Percentile £590 £623 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 59 50
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.58 £12.61
25th Percentile £14.42 £12.75 £16.96
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.00 £24.83
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -31.53% +24.15%
75th Percentile £21.79 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £34.91 £44.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% +4.17% +41.18%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +7 17 £375 -3.85% 70
Nottinghamshire -1 6 £538 -2.27% 32
Leicestershire +1 3 £475 +76.58% 26
Lincolnshire - 3 £251 - 20
Derbyshire +3 2 £825 +216.70% 14
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.94%) Fusion 360
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.94%) Siemens NX
3 1 (2.94%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.94%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) SaaS
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
3 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.94%) Serverless
4 1 (2.94%) Smartsheet
4 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
1 3 (8.82%) Tableau
2 1 (2.94%) Aerospike
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) Big Data
2 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) Power Query
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) IntelliJ
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
3 8 (23.53%) Banking
4 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Local Government
6 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Advertising
7 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.94%) Legal
7 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Business Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Consultant
2 5 (14.71%) Product Owner
3 4 (11.76%) Digital Product Owner
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Architect
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Finance Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Programme Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Data Science Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Power BI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) LDAP
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) PySpark
3 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (41.18%) Agile
3 10 (29.41%) Analytics
3 10 (29.41%) Data Analysis
3 10 (29.41%) Scrum
4 8 (23.53%) Business Strategy
4 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
5 7 (20.59%) Visualisation
6 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (17.65%) Project Management
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.65%) User Stories
7 5 (14.71%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (14.71%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (14.71%) Business Analysis
7 5 (14.71%) SDLC
7 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Java
2 2 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) CISM
2 2 (5.88%) CISSP
2 2 (5.88%) CRISC
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.94%) MBA
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) GRC
2 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Autodesk
3 1 (2.94%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Siemens
3 1 (2.94%) Veracode