Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Decision-Making
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 43 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +41
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 49 40 67
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.77% 3.42% 4.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.28% 3.92% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 47
10th Percentile £314 £379 £212
25th Percentile £381 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £517 £638
90th Percentile £678 £608 £665
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £60.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year - +30.78% +5.82%

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 928 1,020 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 90.27% 87.18% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 586 1,060
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £386 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 35 61
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.34 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £26.93 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -7.43%
75th Percentile £33.00 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Manchester

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Manchester

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Decision-Making

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 16 October 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 - - 29
Stockport - 2 - - 1
Oldham - 1 - - 2
Decision-Making
North West

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (2.04%) Confluence
1 1 (2.04%) JBoss
1 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.12%) AWS
2 3 (6.12%) Google Sheets
3 2 (4.08%) OCI
4 1 (2.04%) Akamai
4 1 (2.04%) Azure
4 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.04%) GCP
4 1 (2.04%) GitHub
4 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.04%) SaaS
4 1 (2.04%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Network Security
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) Power BI
2 2 (4.08%) Delta Lake
2 2 (4.08%) Tableau
3 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.04%) Power Query
3 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.16%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) Gradle
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) JUnit
2 1 (2.04%) Maven
2 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (38.78%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (34.69%) Social Skills
3 15 (30.61%) Finance
4 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Banking
6 3 (6.12%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Analyst
2 7 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 7 (14.29%) Coordinator
2 7 (14.29%) CRM Coordinator
2 7 (14.29%) Technical Coordinator
3 5 (10.20%) Senior
4 4 (8.16%) Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Lead
5 3 (6.12%) Operations Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Performance Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Product Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Product Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Service Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Technical Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) HTML
1 1 (2.04%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (2.04%) JSON
1 1 (2.04%) Pandas
1 1 (2.04%) pytest
1 1 (2.04%) REST
1 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
1 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
1 1 (2.04%) SOAP
1 1 (2.04%) Spring
1 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
1 1 (2.04%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (2.04%) Spring MVC
1 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
1 1 (2.04%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.08%) AI Agents
2 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Unix
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (26.53%) Agile
2 13 (26.53%) Analytics
3 11 (22.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (20.41%) Strategic Thinking
5 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (16.33%) Business Case
6 8 (16.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (14.29%) CRM
7 7 (14.29%) Customer Segmentation
7 7 (14.29%) Data Management
7 7 (14.29%) Project Management
8 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
8 6 (12.24%) Performance Management
9 5 (10.20%) Visualisation
10 4 (8.16%) Actionable Insight
10 4 (8.16%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (8.16%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) Python
1 5 (10.20%) SQL
2 2 (4.08%) Java
3 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.04%) R
3 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (12.24%) Degree
2 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) CISM
3 2 (4.08%) CISSP
3 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) CISA
4 1 (2.04%) CRISC
4 1 (2.04%) GSEC
4 1 (2.04%) MBA
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) GDPR
2 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.08%) HIPAA
3 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.08%) NIST
3 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.04%) EU AI Act
4 1 (2.04%) GRC
4 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Google
3 3 (6.12%) Databricks
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle
3 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.08%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) Anaplan
5 1 (2.04%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.04%) Ariba
5 1 (2.04%) F5
5 1 (2.04%) Splunk