Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Decision-Making
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 42 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 40 14 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 4.51% 2.35% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.37% 2.70% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 9 12
10th Percentile £325 £266 £270
25th Percentile £358 £319 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £356 £413
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -13.70% -8.33%
75th Percentile £463 £375 £597
90th Percentile £609 £401 £693
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £27.69 - -
25th Percentile £31.41 - -
Median hourly rate £42.71 £39.68 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% +93.47% +24.30%
75th Percentile £58.91 - -
90th Percentile £65.56 - -
England median hourly rate £31.49 £34.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.38% -24.75% +5.00%

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 745 518 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.99% 87.06% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 319 436
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £358 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £436 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.62% -2.85%
75th Percentile £529 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £640 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 22 46
10th Percentile £16.14 £15.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £19.19 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.12 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £60.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Decision-Making

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the East Midlands

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 December 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 +3 27 £384 +7.87% 13
Nottinghamshire -1 5 £717 +112.44% 15
Leicestershire -10 4 £382 +9.00% 9
Lincolnshire -8 2 £700 - 7
Derbyshire - 2 £350 - 3
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
1 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) SAP ERP
1 3 (7.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.00%) AWS
1 6 (15.00%) Azure
1 6 (15.00%) GCP
1 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.50%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (5.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.50%) dbt
5 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Power BI
2 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) Metadata
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.00%) Tableau
4 1 (2.50%) Big Data
4 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.50%) Power Query
4 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (40.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Legal
5 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Law
7 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Publishing
7 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Lead
2 9 (22.50%) Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Programme Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.50%) SAP Manager
5 3 (7.50%) SAP Programme Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.00%) Payments Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Payments Business Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Data Analytics Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Power BI Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Product Owner
7 1 (2.50%) SAP Implementation Manager
7 1 (2.50%) Senior
7 1 (2.50%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Kafka
1 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.50%) Pandas
2 1 (2.50%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Mac OS
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
1 4 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Agile
2 14 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (32.50%) Business Strategy
4 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (30.00%) Scrum
4 12 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (27.50%) Analytics
6 9 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (22.50%) Project Delivery
7 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 6 (15.00%) Project Management
8 6 (15.00%) User Experience
8 6 (15.00%) Waterfall
9 5 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (12.50%) Process Improvement
9 5 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
9 5 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
9 5 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (17.50%) Python
3 3 (7.50%) Bash
3 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.50%) R
4 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.50%) Google Apps Script
4 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.50%) MBA
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.50%) GDPR
3 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.00%) PMO
4 2 (5.00%) QA
5 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) SCCM
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Citrix
2 4 (10.00%) VMware
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
3 3 (7.50%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
4 2 (5.00%) Informatica
4 2 (5.00%) Sage
4 2 (5.00%) Talend
5 1 (2.50%) Planview
5 1 (2.50%) Remedy
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow