Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in the North West

Decision-Making
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 50 56
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 88 74 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.03% 3.08% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 3.69% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 46 57
10th Percentile £338 £365 £213
25th Percentile £388 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £519 £573 £638
90th Percentile £633 £644 £650
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £20.20
25th Percentile - £57.50 £28.89
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - +60.00% +44.23%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £45.88
90th Percentile - - £59.20
England median hourly rate £31.20 £41.09 £45.88
% change year-on-year -24.07% -10.44% +50.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 1,942 2,003 2,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.92% 83.42% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,158 1,670
10th Percentile £299 £294 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £679 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 109 163
10th Percentile £13.61 £16.45 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.39 £28.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +57.30%
75th Percentile £49.84 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.06 £71.02 £66.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the North West

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the North West over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the North West

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Decision-Making

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 Decision-Making within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 September 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 +2 46 £450 -5.26% 152
Cheshire -14 34 £466 -10.05% 61
Merseyside +5 4 £500 +65.26% 20
Lancashire +1 3 - - 82
Decision-Making
England

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 9 (10.23%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) JBoss
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.55%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.14%) Finacle
2 1 (1.14%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.14%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.14%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.23%) AWS
2 8 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.68%) Azure
4 4 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (4.55%) Azure AI
4 4 (4.55%) GCP
4 4 (4.55%) Google Gemini
5 3 (3.41%) Google Sheets
6 2 (2.27%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.27%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.14%) Akamai
7 1 (1.14%) Asana
7 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.14%) GitHub
7 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) Power BI
2 4 (4.55%) Neo4j
3 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.27%) Tableau
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.14%) Looker
4 1 (1.14%) Power Query
4 1 (1.14%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (17.05%) JIRA
2 6 (6.82%) Git
3 2 (2.27%) Gradle
3 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.27%) JUnit
3 2 (2.27%) Maven
3 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.14%) Appium
4 1 (1.14%) JMeter
4 1 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 33 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (34.09%) Finance
3 27 (30.68%) Social Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Banking
4 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.95%) Legal
6 5 (5.68%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Local Government
8 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Retail
8 2 (2.27%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Analyst
2 16 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 10 (11.36%) Senior
4 8 (9.09%) Coordinator
4 8 (9.09%) CRM Coordinator
4 8 (9.09%) Technical Coordinator
5 6 (6.82%) Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Engineering Manager
5 6 (6.82%) Lead
6 5 (5.68%) Developer
6 5 (5.68%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.41%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.41%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) TensorFlow
2 4 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 4 (4.55%) Streamlit
3 2 (2.27%) REST
3 2 (2.27%) SOAP
3 2 (2.27%) Spring
3 2 (2.27%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.27%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (2.27%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.14%) JSON
4 1 (1.14%) Kafka
4 1 (1.14%) Middleware
4 1 (1.14%) OLE
4 1 (1.14%) Pandas
4 1 (1.14%) Playwright
4 1 (1.14%) pytest
4 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.14%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.14%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.68%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.41%) CMDB
5 2 (2.27%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.14%) NHS
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) Linux
1 2 (2.27%) Unix
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.05%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (32.95%) Agile
3 20 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (18.18%) Project Management
4 16 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (17.05%) Business Analysis
6 14 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (15.91%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 13 (14.77%) Strategic Thinking
8 12 (13.64%) Analytics
8 12 (13.64%) Change Management
9 11 (12.50%) Business Case
9 11 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (12.50%) Coaching
9 11 (12.50%) Risk Management
9 11 (12.50%) Scrum
10 10 (11.36%) Data Management
10 10 (11.36%) DevOps
10 10 (11.36%) Microservices
10 10 (11.36%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.23%) Java
2 8 (9.09%) Python
3 6 (6.82%) SQL
4 3 (3.41%) Scala
5 2 (2.27%) R
5 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.14%) ABAP
6 1 (1.14%) C#
6 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) CISM
4 3 (3.41%) CISSP
4 3 (3.41%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.27%) PMP
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) CBAP
6 1 (1.14%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.14%) CIMA
6 1 (1.14%) CIPD
6 1 (1.14%) CISA
6 1 (1.14%) CRISC
6 1 (1.14%) GSEC
6 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.14%) MBA
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) GDPR
2 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.41%) NIST
2 3 (3.41%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.27%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.27%) QA
3 2 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.14%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.14%) GRC
4 1 (1.14%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.14%) ISO 31000
4 1 (1.14%) NCSC
4 1 (1.14%) PMO
4 1 (1.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) SAP
2 8 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.55%) Google
4 2 (2.27%) Ariba
4 2 (2.27%) Databricks
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle
4 2 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.14%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.14%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.14%) Capita
5 1 (1.14%) Concur
5 1 (1.14%) F5
5 1 (1.14%) IBM
5 1 (1.14%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.14%) Splunk