Data-Driven Decision Making Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 147 170
Rank change year-on-year -38 +23 +77
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 21 19 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.46% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.58% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 11
10th Percentile £378 £297 £435
25th Percentile £400 £352 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £406 £581
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -30.08% +13.37%
75th Percentile £553 £452 £606
90th Percentile £600 £480 £700
England median daily rate £500 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +1.27% -10.23% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £52.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -28.10% +2.44% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,102 3,255 4,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.96% 85.93% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,734 1,824 2,801
10th Percentile £213 £263 £281
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 170 190
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.05 £17.44 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +2.47% +31.63%
75th Percentile £45.88 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £68.33 £61.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Data-Driven Decision Making job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the North of England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Yorkshire -29 13 £475 -19.15% 37
North West -24 7 £500 +36.99% 62
North East -3 1 £375 -10.71% 16
Data-Driven Decision Making
England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.76%) Metadata
3 1 (4.76%) SAP BW
3 1 (4.76%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.76%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Tableau
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Banking
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) General Ledger
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Data Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Commercial Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Software Engineering
5 1 (4.76%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.52%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Decision-Making
2 11 (52.38%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (42.86%) Agile
4 8 (38.10%) Data Modelling
5 7 (33.33%) Analytics
5 7 (33.33%) Migration
5 7 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
6 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (28.57%) Visualisation
7 5 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (23.81%) Business Analysis
7 5 (23.81%) SDLC
7 5 (23.81%) Six Sigma
7 5 (23.81%) Traceability Matrix
7 5 (23.81%) User Stories
8 4 (19.05%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (19.05%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
3 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Databricks
1 2 (9.52%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) UiPath