Data-Driven Decision Making Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Data-Driven Decision Making
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £406 £520
% change year-on-year +23.08% -21.88% +9.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

Data-Driven 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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 160 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 81.97% 77.29% 82.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 88 86
10th Percentile £133 £144 £210
25th Percentile £154 £205 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £406 £400
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +1.56% -15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £539 £563
90th Percentile £636 £638 £644
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 25
10th Percentile - £12.43 £14.08
25th Percentile £15.18 £13.70 £15.50
Median hourly rate £41.86 £20.19 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +107.31% +9.14% +5.35%
75th Percentile £51.02 £23.00 £34.21
90th Percentile - £29.67 £37.18
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.14% -10.00% -6.42%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Data-Driven Decision Making job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
Liverpool - 2 £450 - 10
Data-Driven Decision Making
North West

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Qlik Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Qlik Sense Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA