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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 53 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +13
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 83 74 109
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.38% 3.29% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.86% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 34 67
10th Percentile £353 £303 £65
25th Percentile £400 £379 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £558 £536 £631
90th Percentile £671 £618 £675
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £47.07 - £20.07
25th Percentile £49.49 £22.72 £26.68
Median hourly rate £53.52 £25.43 £46.03
Median % change year-on-year +110.44% -44.75% +1.10%
75th Percentile £57.54 £28.15 £46.18
90th Percentile £59.96 - £49.48
England median hourly rate £30.80 £32.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.96% -29.08% +9.56%

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 2,171 1,916 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.54% 85.27% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,062 1,637
10th Percentile £213 £291 £276
25th Percentile £358 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £568 £575 £600
90th Percentile £664 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 113 152
10th Percentile £15.56 £16.01 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%
75th Percentile £46.71 £51.91 £46.35
90th Percentile £69.35 £69.44 £64.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend 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 9 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the North West over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the North West

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 9 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
Manchester -4 47 £454 -4.47% 173
Cheshire -18 26 £475 +4.11% 82
Merseyside -3 5 £463 +41.09% 31
Lancashire -10 5 £500 -5.88% 70
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (9.64%) SAS
2 4 (4.82%) Confluence
3 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.20%) JBoss
4 1 (1.20%) Moodle
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Finacle
2 1 (1.20%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.46%) Power Platform
2 10 (12.05%) AWS
3 9 (10.84%) Azure
3 9 (10.84%) GCP
4 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.41%) OCI
6 1 (1.20%) Alation
6 1 (1.20%) Collibra
6 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.20%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) Network Security
1 1 (1.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) Power BI
2 8 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.61%) Big Data
3 3 (3.61%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.61%) Metadata
3 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.61%) Tableau
4 2 (2.41%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.41%) Power Query
4 2 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.20%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) Gradle
3 1 (1.20%) JUnit
3 1 (1.20%) Maven
3 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 31 (37.35%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (31.33%) Finance
4 9 (10.84%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.02%) Banking
6 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.41%) Legal
6 2 (2.41%) Marketing
6 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Automotive
7 1 (1.20%) Aviation
7 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Law
7 1 (1.20%) Local Government
7 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
7 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (31.33%) Analyst
2 17 (20.48%) Architect
3 11 (13.25%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.43%) Data Architect
5 6 (7.23%) Lead
6 5 (6.02%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.02%) Developer
6 5 (6.02%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Senior
8 3 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.61%) Consultant
8 3 (3.61%) GCP Architect
8 3 (3.61%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Senior Manager
9 2 (2.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Incident Analyst
9 2 (2.41%) Salesforce Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) Kafka
2 2 (2.41%) HTML
2 2 (2.41%) JSON
2 2 (2.41%) REST
2 2 (2.41%) SOAP
3 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.20%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.20%) CSS
3 1 (1.20%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.20%) Pandas
3 1 (1.20%) pytest
3 1 (1.20%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.20%) Spring
3 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.20%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (1.20%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.20%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.20%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Credit Risk
1 6 (7.23%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.41%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.20%) CMDB
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.20%) Life Science
5 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.20%) NHS
5 1 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.20%) Tandem
5 1 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Unix
1 2 (2.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.53%) Analytics
2 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (24.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 19 (22.89%) Agile
4 19 (22.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (18.07%) Data Modelling
6 14 (16.87%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (16.87%) Change Management
7 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (13.25%) Data Analysis
7 11 (13.25%) Data Governance
7 11 (13.25%) Regulatory Compliance
8 9 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (10.84%) Data Science
9 8 (9.64%) Analytical Modelling
9 8 (9.64%) Business Case
9 8 (9.64%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (9.64%) Machine Learning
9 8 (9.64%) Project Delivery
9 8 (9.64%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.87%) Python
2 11 (13.25%) SQL
3 7 (8.43%) R
4 1 (1.20%) ABAP
4 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.20%) Java
4 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) Degree
2 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.41%) CISM
5 2 (2.41%) CISSP
5 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) CBAP
6 1 (1.20%) CISA
6 1 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.20%) CSPO
6 1 (1.20%) GSEC
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.20%) MBA
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.84%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.41%) CRD IV
4 2 (2.41%) FINREP
4 2 (2.41%) IFRS
4 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.41%) NIST
4 2 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.41%) PMO
4 2 (2.41%) QA
4 2 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.20%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.20%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.20%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.23%) Pega
4 4 (4.82%) Databricks
4 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.61%) Google
5 3 (3.61%) Oracle
5 3 (3.61%) SAP
6 2 (2.41%) Cognos
6 2 (2.41%) IBM
7 1 (1.20%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.20%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.20%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.20%) Capita
7 1 (1.20%) Gemalto
7 1 (1.20%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.20%) Informatica
7 1 (1.20%) Saba
7 1 (1.20%) Splunk