Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the North West

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven 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 96 119 155
Rank change year-on-year +23 +36 +12
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 24 18 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.22% 0.65% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.76% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 2
10th Percentile £337 £408 £289
25th Percentile £384 £425 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £518 £363
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +42.76% -12.12%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £409
90th Percentile £591 £582 £426
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% +7.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly 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 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
Manchester +24 20 £455 -9.00% 39
Cheshire -1 2 £524 -10.51% 8
Merseyside - 2 - - 6
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 8 (33.33%) IBM Domino
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
1 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (8.33%) Serverless
2 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) dbt
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
3 1 (4.17%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.67%) Tableau
2 3 (12.50%) Power BI
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.33%) MySQL
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Looker
4 1 (4.17%) Mixpanel
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (54.17%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Marketing
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Military
6 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 8 (33.33%) CRM Coordinator
1 8 (33.33%) Technical Coordinator
2 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 2 (8.33%) Customer Executive
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Planning Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Product Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) SAS Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (8.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.17%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Decision-Making
2 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (41.67%) Data Management
4 9 (37.50%) CRM
5 8 (33.33%) Analytics
5 8 (33.33%) Customer Segmentation
5 8 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
6 6 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 5 (20.83%) Data Science
7 5 (20.83%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
8 4 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (16.67%) ETL
8 4 (16.67%) Project Management
9 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Databricks
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Brio
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Hotjar
4 1 (4.17%) Infoblox