Decision-Making Contracts in the Midlands

Decision-Making
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 35 86
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 -8
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 95 123 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.96% 4.46% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.67% 5.43% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 94 58
10th Percentile £308 £254 £350
25th Percentile £358 £275 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £651 £600 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £15.97 - £11.70
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.00 £12.38
Median hourly rate £18.74 £23.13 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.96% +59.48% -17.05%
75th Percentile £20.87 £28.88 £16.38
90th Percentile £22.15 - £16.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £51.57
% change year-on-year +62.16% -64.12% +21.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the Midlands

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +2 67 £425 -5.56% 174
East Midlands 0 26 £450 +66.67% 100
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (4.21%) Apache
1 4 (4.21%) Confluence
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.05%) Fusion 360
4 1 (1.05%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.05%) Siemens NX
4 1 (1.05%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.11%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.05%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.84%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.58%) AWS
3 6 (6.32%) Azure
4 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.21%) Mimecast
4 4 (4.21%) SaaS
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (3.16%) AWS KMS
5 3 (3.16%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.16%) Route 53
5 3 (3.16%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.11%) Serverless
6 2 (2.11%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.05%) 5G
2 1 (1.05%) Internet
2 1 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.05%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.05%) Modbus
2 1 (1.05%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) Power BI
2 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.21%) DynamoDB
2 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.21%) Tableau
3 3 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.16%) Power Query
4 2 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.05%) Aerospike
5 1 (1.05%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.05%) MySQL
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.05%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.05%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.47%) JIRA
2 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.21%) Maven
3 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (3.16%) DbUnit
3 3 (3.16%) Git
3 3 (3.16%) jMock
3 3 (3.16%) JUnit
3 3 (3.16%) Mockito
3 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.05%) GitLab
4 1 (1.05%) IntelliJ
General
1 39 (41.05%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Finance
3 21 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.68%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Local Government
6 5 (5.26%) Banking
6 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.21%) Legal
7 4 (4.21%) Marketing
8 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Games
9 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.11%) Retail
10 1 (1.05%) Advertising
10 1 (1.05%) Billing
10 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (15.79%) Analyst
1 15 (15.79%) Lead
2 10 (10.53%) Architect
3 8 (8.42%) Developer
4 7 (7.37%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.32%) Consultant
5 6 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.16%) Digital Product Owner
8 3 (3.16%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Security Consultant
8 3 (3.16%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.21%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (4.21%) PySpark
1 4 (4.21%) REST
1 4 (4.21%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.16%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.16%) Bootstrap
2 3 (3.16%) Hibernate
2 3 (3.16%) JPA
2 3 (3.16%) PowerMock
2 3 (3.16%) RESTful
2 3 (3.16%) SOAP
2 3 (3.16%) Spring
2 3 (3.16%) Spring Batch
2 3 (3.16%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (3.16%) Spring Integration
2 3 (3.16%) Web Services
3 2 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.05%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.16%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.11%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) IoT
4 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.11%) Replication
4 2 (2.11%) SCADA
5 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.05%) Derivative
5 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (25.26%) Data Analysis
3 23 (24.21%) Agile
3 23 (24.21%) Analytics
4 22 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (17.89%) Workflow
7 16 (16.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 15 (15.79%) Risk Management
8 15 (15.79%) User Experience
9 13 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (13.68%) Visualisation
10 12 (12.63%) Change Management
10 12 (12.63%) Migration
11 11 (11.58%) Data Modelling
11 11 (11.58%) Project Management
12 9 (9.47%) Data Governance
12 9 (9.47%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (9.47%) Scrum
12 9 (9.47%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.89%) SQL
2 8 (8.42%) Python
3 6 (6.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (5.26%) Java
5 2 (2.11%) R
6 1 (1.05%) C#
6 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.63%) Degree
3 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.21%) CISM
5 4 (4.21%) CISSP
5 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.11%) CRISC
7 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.05%) MBA
8 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.05%) PMP
8 1 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.21%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.21%) QA
3 3 (3.16%) GRC
3 3 (3.16%) PMO
4 2 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.11%) NCSC
4 2 (2.11%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) GAAP
System Software
1 6 (6.32%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) Postfix
3 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Grafana
1 3 (3.16%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.16%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.11%) Ansible
2 2 (2.11%) Kibana
2 2 (2.11%) logstash
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.42%) Atlassian
2 8 (8.42%) SAP
3 5 (5.26%) Oracle
4 4 (4.21%) Cisco
4 4 (4.21%) Proofpoint
5 3 (3.16%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (2.11%) Databricks
7 1 (1.05%) Ariba
7 1 (1.05%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.05%) Qualys
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Siemens
7 1 (1.05%) Veracode