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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 39 80
Rank change year-on-year +4 +41 +2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 110 111 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.04% 3.75% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.66% 4.69% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 82 56
10th Percentile £302 £250 £354
25th Percentile £356 £299 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £431 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £650
90th Percentile £634 £599 £731
England median daily rate £515 £514 £558
% change year-on-year +0.19% -7.80% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile £16.32 £18.00 -
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.41 -
Median hourly rate £20.87 £31.09 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year -32.87% -2.11% +42.74%
75th Percentile £25.72 £33.93 -
90th Percentile £30.62 £54.47 -
England median hourly rate £30.81 £18.25 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.79% -57.56% -4.27%

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 1,942 2,366 2,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.92% 80.01% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,568 2,005
10th Percentile £208 £237 £260
25th Percentile £356 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 177 96
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.24 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.70 £14.00 £15.61
Median hourly rate £21.30 £18.97 £25.13
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -24.50% +30.52%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £48.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.03
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.82% +36.41%

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 26 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 June 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 -3 69 £438 -2.78% 323
East Midlands +9 40 £375 +38.89% 189
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 7 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.64%) Apache
3 3 (2.73%) Confluence
4 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) Fusion 360
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.91%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.91%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.91%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.09%) Power Platform
2 13 (11.82%) AWS
3 9 (8.18%) Azure
4 5 (4.55%) PowerApps
4 5 (4.55%) SaaS
5 4 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (3.64%) AWS KMS
5 4 (3.64%) GCP
5 4 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.64%) Route 53
6 3 (2.73%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.73%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.91%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) Firewall
2 1 (0.91%) 5G
2 1 (0.91%) DNS
2 1 (0.91%) Internet
2 1 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.91%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (0.91%) Modbus
2 1 (0.91%) MQTT
2 1 (0.91%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.36%) Power BI
2 9 (8.18%) Tableau
3 5 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.73%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.73%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.82%) GIS
6 2 (1.82%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.91%) Aerospike
7 1 (0.91%) Big Data
7 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.91%) Metadata
7 1 (0.91%) Power Query
7 1 (0.91%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.55%) Maven
3 4 (3.64%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (3.64%) DbUnit
3 4 (3.64%) Git
3 4 (3.64%) JIRA
3 4 (3.64%) jMock
3 4 (3.64%) JUnit
3 4 (3.64%) Mockito
3 4 (3.64%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.82%) GitLab
5 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.91%) IntelliJ
General
1 47 (42.73%) Social Skills
2 35 (31.82%) Finance
3 32 (29.09%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.00%) Banking
4 11 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.45%) Local Government
6 5 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.64%) Legal
8 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Billing
9 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Games
9 2 (1.82%) Marketing
10 1 (0.91%) Advertising
10 1 (0.91%) Automotive
10 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (26.36%) Analyst
2 14 (12.73%) Lead
3 12 (10.91%) Business Analyst
4 9 (8.18%) Data Analyst
4 9 (8.18%) Developer
5 7 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Architect
6 6 (5.45%) Consultant
6 6 (5.45%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.64%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Digital Product Owner
8 4 (3.64%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.64%) Lead Data Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (3.64%) Programme Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Senior
8 4 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 3 (2.73%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) REST
2 5 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.64%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (3.64%) AngularJS
3 4 (3.64%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (3.64%) Bootstrap
3 4 (3.64%) Hibernate
3 4 (3.64%) JPA
3 4 (3.64%) PowerMock
3 4 (3.64%) RESTful
3 4 (3.64%) SOAP
3 4 (3.64%) Spring
3 4 (3.64%) Spring Batch
3 4 (3.64%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (3.64%) Spring Integration
3 4 (3.64%) Web Services
4 3 (2.73%) LDAP
4 3 (2.73%) PySpark
5 2 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.91%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.73%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.73%) SCADA
5 2 (1.82%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.82%) Pricing Data
5 2 (1.82%) Replication
6 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.91%) Derivative
6 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.91%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (0.91%) IoT
6 1 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.36%) Agile
1 29 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (25.45%) Data Analysis
3 24 (21.82%) Analytics
3 24 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (19.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 19 (17.27%) Risk Management
6 19 (17.27%) Scrum
6 19 (17.27%) Visualisation
7 18 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (13.64%) Project Management
8 15 (13.64%) User Experience
9 14 (12.73%) Change Management
9 14 (12.73%) Workflow
10 12 (10.91%) Business Strategy
10 12 (10.91%) DevOps
11 11 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (10.00%) Project Delivery
11 11 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.27%) SQL
2 9 (8.18%) Python
3 6 (5.45%) Java
4 5 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.73%) R
6 1 (0.91%) Bash
6 1 (0.91%) Go
6 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (15.45%) Degree
2 16 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.73%) CISM
7 3 (2.73%) CISSP
8 2 (1.82%) CRISC
9 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.91%) MBA
9 1 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.09%) QA
3 4 (3.64%) PMO
4 3 (2.73%) GRC
5 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.82%) GDPR
5 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.82%) NCSC
5 2 (1.82%) NIST
6 1 (0.91%) GAAP
System Software
1 8 (7.27%) Docker
2 5 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.64%) Postfix
4 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.64%) Grafana
1 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.64%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.73%) Ansible
3 2 (1.82%) Kibana
3 2 (1.82%) logstash
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.91%) Puppet
4 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.91%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.55%) Oracle
2 5 (4.55%) SAP
3 4 (3.64%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.64%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.82%) Databricks
4 2 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (0.91%) Ariba
5 1 (0.91%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.91%) Cisco
5 1 (0.91%) Proofpoint
5 1 (0.91%) Qualys
5 1 (0.91%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.91%) Siemens
5 1 (0.91%) Veracode