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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 48 48
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 87 78 105
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.54% 3.34% 3.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.95% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 37 62
10th Percentile £346 £315 £65
25th Percentile £401 £400 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +2.95% -9.52%
75th Percentile £551 £565 £634
90th Percentile £659 £664 £673
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £20.07
25th Percentile - - £26.68
Median hourly rate £45.46 - £46.03
75th Percentile - - £46.18
90th Percentile - - £49.48
England median hourly rate £31.20 £32.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.73% -29.08% +15.45%

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 2,169 1,977 2,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.13% 84.78% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 1,068 1,627
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £358 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £670 £656 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 121 156
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £16.13
25th Percentile £19.23 £23.48 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -0.71% +46.88%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.91 £46.35
90th Percentile £71.06 £69.75 £64.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 0 51 £450 -5.26% 102
Cheshire -20 27 £475 -11.21% 37
Merseyside -1 5 £463 +41.09% 13
Lancashire -10 4 £500 -5.88% 53
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 (9.20%) SAS
2 4 (4.60%) Confluence
3 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.30%) JBoss
4 2 (2.30%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.15%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.15%) Finacle
2 1 (1.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.79%) AWS
1 12 (13.79%) Power Platform
2 9 (10.34%) Azure
2 9 (10.34%) GCP
3 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.45%) Google Sheets
4 2 (2.30%) OCI
4 2 (2.30%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.15%) Alation
5 1 (1.15%) Collibra
5 1 (1.15%) GitHub
5 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.15%) SaaS
5 1 (1.15%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.15%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) Network Security
1 1 (1.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) Power BI
2 8 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.45%) Big Data
3 3 (3.45%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.45%) Metadata
3 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.45%) Tableau
4 2 (2.30%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.30%) Power Query
4 2 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.15%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) JIRA
2 3 (3.45%) Git
2 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.30%) Gradle
3 2 (2.30%) JUnit
3 2 (2.30%) Maven
3 2 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 32 (36.78%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (33.33%) Finance
4 11 (12.64%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.90%) Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.30%) Legal
7 2 (2.30%) Marketing
7 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Automotive
8 1 (1.15%) Aviation
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Local Government
8 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
8 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Analyst
2 17 (19.54%) Architect
3 12 (13.79%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.05%) Data Architect
5 6 (6.90%) Developer
5 6 (6.90%) Lead
6 5 (5.75%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.75%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Senior
7 4 (4.60%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Consultant
8 3 (3.45%) GCP Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.45%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.45%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.45%) Service Analyst
9 2 (2.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.45%) Kafka
1 3 (3.45%) REST
1 3 (3.45%) SOAP
2 2 (2.30%) HTML
2 2 (2.30%) JSON
2 2 (2.30%) Spring
2 2 (2.30%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.30%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (2.30%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.15%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.15%) CSS
3 1 (1.15%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.15%) Pandas
3 1 (1.15%) pytest
3 1 (1.15%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.15%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Credit Risk
2 6 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.30%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) CMDB
6 1 (1.15%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.15%) Life Science
6 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.15%) NHS
6 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.15%) Tandem
6 1 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Unix
2 2 (2.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.18%) Analytics
2 26 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (24.14%) Agile
3 21 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 21 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (17.24%) Data Modelling
5 13 (14.94%) Change Management
6 12 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (13.79%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (12.64%) Business Case
7 11 (12.64%) Data Analysis
7 11 (12.64%) Data Governance
7 11 (12.64%) Regulatory Compliance
8 10 (11.49%) Project Management
9 9 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (10.34%) Data Science
10 8 (9.20%) Analytical Modelling
10 8 (9.20%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (9.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.09%) Python
2 11 (12.64%) SQL
3 7 (8.05%) R
4 2 (2.30%) Java
4 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.15%) ABAP
5 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (14.94%) Degree
2 9 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.30%) CISM
5 2 (2.30%) CISSP
5 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) CBAP
6 1 (1.15%) CISA
6 1 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.15%) CSPO
6 1 (1.15%) GSEC
6 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.15%) MBA
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.15%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.79%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.34%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.30%) CRD IV
4 2 (2.30%) FINREP
4 2 (2.30%) IFRS
4 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.30%) NIST
4 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.30%) QA
4 2 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.15%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.15%) PMO
5 1 (1.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.30%) Terraform
2 1 (1.15%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.90%) Google
3 6 (6.90%) Pega
4 4 (4.60%) Databricks
4 4 (4.60%) Oracle
4 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.60%) SAP
5 2 (2.30%) Cognos
5 2 (2.30%) IBM
6 1 (1.15%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.15%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.15%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.15%) Ariba
6 1 (1.15%) Capita
6 1 (1.15%) Gemalto
6 1 (1.15%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.15%) Informatica
6 1 (1.15%) Saba
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk