Decision-Making Contracts in Lancashire

Decision-Making
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 26 9 29
Rank change year-on-year -17 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 3 22 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.70% 9.95% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 12.87% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.44%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £501 £463 £529
% change year-on-year +8.32% -12.53% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 20 2
10th Percentile - - £52.56
25th Percentile - - £53.20
Median hourly rate - £16.06 £54.27
Median % change year-on-year - -70.40% +32.35%
75th Percentile - - £55.33
90th Percentile - - £55.97
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
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 160 171 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 90.91% 77.38% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 71 113
10th Percentile £400 £220 £316
25th Percentile £450 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £607 £600
90th Percentile £671 £656 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 57 46
10th Percentile £14.48 - £25.75
25th Percentile £23.96 £16.06 £31.04
Median hourly rate £28.75 £28.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -34.12% +34.03%
75th Percentile £56.26 £45.88 £50.07
90th Percentile £63.40 £48.00 £56.38
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 Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Lancashire

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Lancashire

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Lancashire

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston -13 2 £600 - 139
Blackpool - 1 - - 3
Decision-Making
North West

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Coach
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (33.33%) CISM
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST