Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the North West

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Data-Driven Decision Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 155 175
Rank change year-on-year +31 +20 -37
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 17 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.062% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.068% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 4
10th Percentile £408 £289 £312
25th Percentile £425 £309 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £363 £413
Median % change year-on-year +42.76% -12.12% +26.92%
75th Percentile £575 £409 £566
90th Percentile £582 £426 £706
England median daily rate £520 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -9.57% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £44.25
% change year-on-year -10.53% +7.34% +142.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data-Driven Decision Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,398 2,935 3,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.92% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 2,090 2,574
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.28 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £56.80 £65.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the North West

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the North West

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Manchester +29 13 £500 +66.67% 16
Cheshire +6 2 £585 +37.65% 5
Cumbria - 2 £520 -
Data-Driven Decision Making
England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
1 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
2 3 (17.65%) HBase
2 3 (17.65%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Data Scientist
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Capability Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Cassandra Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) Swagger
2 2 (11.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.76%) Reference Data
1 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Decision-Making
2 8 (47.06%) Data Governance
2 8 (47.06%) Data Modelling
3 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (35.29%) ETL
5 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Data Integration
5 5 (29.41%) Data Lineage
5 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (29.41%) Use Case
6 4 (23.53%) Data Science
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
7 3 (17.65%) Agile
7 3 (17.65%) Customer Experience
7 3 (17.65%) DAMA
7 3 (17.65%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
7 3 (17.65%) Physical Data Model
7 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) Scala
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Informatica
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Databricks
3 2 (11.76%) Facebook
3 2 (11.76%) Instagram