Decision-Making Contracts in the North of England

Decision-Making
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 41 88
Rank change year-on-year +2 +47 -18
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 172 178 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.20% 3.80% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 4.49% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 93 82
10th Percentile £313 £376 £329
25th Percentile £402 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £558 £588 £600
90th Percentile £662 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 55 6
10th Percentile - - £37.50
25th Percentile £22.14 £10.95 £41.16
Median hourly rate £23.57 £15.00 £54.27
Median % change year-on-year +57.13% -72.36% +50.17%
75th Percentile £29.06 £16.06 £62.85
90th Percentile £65.05 - £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.08 £19.38 £46.25
% change year-on-year +60.39% -58.11% +2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 2,978 3,966 5,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 84.67% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 2,415 3,463
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 377 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.11 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +38.87% -34.95% +46.53%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.88 £43.94
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

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

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the North of England

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the North of England

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 Decision-Making within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
North West -14 92 £501 +8.32% 1,234
Yorkshire +33 62 £463 -15.91% 980
North East +6 16 £550 +3.29% 307
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 17 (9.88%) Confluence
2 8 (4.65%) IBM Domino
3 7 (4.07%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.91%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.58%) Apache
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.58%) CMS
6 1 (0.58%) IIS
6 1 (0.58%) JBoss
6 1 (0.58%) SAS
6 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.58%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (6.40%) MS Visio
2 9 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.49%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (2.33%) Trello
6 3 (1.74%) Chatbot
6 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.58%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 8 (4.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.58%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.63%) Power Platform
2 18 (10.47%) Azure
2 18 (10.47%) GCP
3 13 (7.56%) AWS
4 8 (4.65%) Amazon S3
5 5 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.33%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (2.33%) Azure AI
6 4 (2.33%) Google Gemini
7 3 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.74%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.74%) Figma
7 3 (1.74%) SaaS
7 3 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.16%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (1.16%) GitHub
8 2 (1.16%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.49%) Network Security
2 3 (1.74%) Firewall
3 2 (1.16%) DNS
3 2 (1.16%) VPN
3 2 (1.16%) WAN
4 1 (0.58%) BGP
4 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.58%) DHCP
4 1 (0.58%) DMZ
4 1 (0.58%) DWDM
4 1 (0.58%) Internet
4 1 (0.58%) IPsec
4 1 (0.58%) L2TP
4 1 (0.58%) MPLS
4 1 (0.58%) Multicast
4 1 (0.58%) OSPF
4 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.58%) SSL
4 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.63%) Power BI
2 17 (9.88%) Tableau
3 12 (6.98%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.07%) Flink
4 7 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.91%) Metadata
6 4 (2.33%) Looker
6 4 (2.33%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.33%) Power Query
7 3 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.74%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.16%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.58%) Mixpanel
9 1 (0.58%) QlikView
9 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (15.70%) JIRA
2 7 (4.07%) Git
3 3 (1.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.16%) GitLab
4 2 (1.16%) Selenium
5 1 (0.58%) Appium
5 1 (0.58%) Gradle
5 1 (0.58%) JMeter
5 1 (0.58%) JUnit
5 1 (0.58%) Maven
5 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 45 (26.16%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (26.16%) Finance
3 16 (9.30%) Legal
4 14 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.56%) Banking
5 13 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.23%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.23%) Marketing
7 8 (4.65%) Police
8 6 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.49%) Retail
9 5 (2.91%) Retail Banking
10 4 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.33%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.16%) Electronics
12 2 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (23.26%) Analyst
2 17 (9.88%) Business Analyst
2 17 (9.88%) Senior
3 16 (9.30%) Architect
4 15 (8.72%) Lead
5 12 (6.98%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.81%) Data Analyst
7 9 (5.23%) Developer
8 8 (4.65%) Coordinator
8 8 (4.65%) CRM Coordinator
8 8 (4.65%) Support Analyst
8 8 (4.65%) Technical Coordinator
9 7 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.49%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Engineering Manager
10 6 (3.49%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
10 6 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.91%) Scala Developer
11 5 (2.91%) Senior Business Analyst
12 4 (2.33%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.07%) Apache Beam
1 7 (4.07%) JDBC
1 7 (4.07%) Kafka
1 7 (4.07%) Spark Streaming
2 5 (2.91%) Akka
2 5 (2.91%) Play Framework
2 5 (2.91%) PyTorch
2 5 (2.91%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.16%) Middleware
3 2 (1.16%) Node.js
3 2 (1.16%) Playwright
3 2 (1.16%) PySpark
3 2 (1.16%) React
3 2 (1.16%) REST
4 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.58%) GatsbyJS
4 1 (0.58%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.58%) Next.js
4 1 (0.58%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.72%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.40%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.07%) CMDB
4 7 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.33%) PMI
6 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.74%) Social Media
8 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.16%) NHS
8 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Unix
2 1 (0.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (59.30%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (38.37%) Agile
3 46 (26.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (16.28%) Risk Management
5 27 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (14.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 24 (13.95%) DevOps
7 24 (13.95%) Project Management
7 24 (13.95%) Visualisation
8 21 (12.21%) CI/CD
8 21 (12.21%) Data Management
8 21 (12.21%) Scrum
8 21 (12.21%) Strategic Thinking
9 20 (11.63%) Data Analysis
9 20 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (10.47%) Business Analysis
10 18 (10.47%) Service Management
11 17 (9.88%) Analytics
12 16 (9.30%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.88%) SQL
2 15 (8.72%) Python
3 8 (4.65%) Java
3 8 (4.65%) Scala
4 4 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.74%) R
6 2 (1.16%) C#
7 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.58%) Bash
7 1 (0.58%) Bicep
7 1 (0.58%) Perl
7 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (12.79%) Degree
2 12 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.07%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.91%) PMP
6 2 (1.16%) CBAP
6 2 (1.16%) CISM
6 2 (1.16%) CISSP
6 2 (1.16%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.58%) APMG
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) CCIE
7 1 (0.58%) CCNP
7 1 (0.58%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.58%) CIMA
7 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.58%) CRISC
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.40%) PMO
2 9 (5.23%) SLA
3 8 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 7 (4.07%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.33%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.33%) QA
6 2 (1.16%) GDPR
6 2 (1.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.58%) GMP
7 1 (0.58%) GRC
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (4.07%) Docker
2 4 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.65%) Ansible
2 7 (4.07%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.91%) Kibana
4 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.74%) Terraform
6 2 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.16%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.58%) Grafana
7 1 (0.58%) HP Data Protector
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.58%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (0.58%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.58%) SCOM
7 1 (0.58%) vMotion
7 1 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.40%) SAP
2 11 (6.40%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.49%) Google
4 3 (1.74%) Ariba
4 3 (1.74%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.16%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.16%) Cisco
5 2 (1.16%) Concur
5 2 (1.16%) Databricks
5 2 (1.16%) Dell
5 2 (1.16%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.16%) Splunk
5 2 (1.16%) Veritas
6 1 (0.58%) Citrix
6 1 (0.58%) HP
6 1 (0.58%) IBM
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle
6 1 (0.58%) VMware