Decision-Making Contracts in Manchester

Decision-Making
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 38 49 70
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +13
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 42 47 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.54% 3.10% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.06% 3.56% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 35 28
10th Percentile £343 £350 £291
25th Percentile £375 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -12.74% +21.14%
75th Percentile £504 £563 £650
90th Percentile £614 £638 £683
North West median daily rate £490 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +5.95% -7.50% +2.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £37.50
25th Percentile £67.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £26.47 £11.20 £60.70
% change year-on-year +136.40% -81.56% +80.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Manchester

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Manchester

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Manchester

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Manchester

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Bolton - 2 - - 16
Oldham - 2 - - 1
Stockport - 2 - - 6
Cheadle - 1 - -
Decision-Making
North West

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (19.05%) IBM Domino
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Chatbot
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (11.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.38%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
2 4 (9.52%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (7.14%) AWS
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (7.14%) Figma
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (4.76%) GCP
4 2 (4.76%) Serverless
4 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.38%) Akamai
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.38%) Asana
5 1 (2.38%) dbt
5 1 (2.38%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.38%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) Network Security
1 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.38%) VPN
1 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Power BI
1 5 (11.90%) Tableau
2 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.14%) SAP HANA
4 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.76%) MySQL
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.38%) Looker
5 1 (2.38%) Mixpanel
5 1 (2.38%) Power Query
5 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Marketing
3 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.90%) Legal
5 4 (9.52%) Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Retail
7 2 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.38%) Automotive
8 1 (2.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Coordinator
1 8 (19.05%) CRM Coordinator
1 8 (19.05%) Technical Coordinator
2 5 (11.90%) Architect
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
4 3 (7.14%) Content Designer
4 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Designer
4 3 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.14%) SAP Architect
4 3 (7.14%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.14%) UX Designer
5 2 (4.76%) Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Data Scientist
5 2 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (2.38%) Analytics Consultant
6 1 (2.38%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (2.38%) HR Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) HR Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) Middleware
2 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.76%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.38%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.38%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.14%) Social Media
3 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (42.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 12 (28.57%) Analytics
3 12 (28.57%) Data Management
4 11 (26.19%) Strategic Thinking
5 10 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (19.05%) CRM
6 8 (19.05%) Customer Segmentation
6 8 (19.05%) Visualisation
7 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (16.67%) Project Management
8 6 (14.29%) Agile
8 6 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (11.90%) Data Science
9 5 (11.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.43%) SQL
2 5 (11.90%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) R
4 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 3 (7.14%) PMP
3 2 (4.76%) CCA
4 1 (2.38%) CIMA
4 1 (2.38%) CIPD
4 1 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Accessibility
1 5 (11.90%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
1 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) SAP
2 4 (9.52%) Databricks
3 3 (7.14%) Concur
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.76%) Brio
4 2 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) F5
5 1 (2.38%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.38%) Splunk