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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 49 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 +31
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 161 89 116
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.25% 4.03% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.14% 4.54% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 62 47
10th Percentile £335 £321 £358
25th Percentile £413 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £460
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -1.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £581
90th Percentile £700 £638 £685
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 45
10th Percentile £20.30 £27.00 -
25th Percentile £21.14 £33.75 £10.95
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £11.20
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +324.30% -75.60%
75th Percentile £63.06 £61.25 £16.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.53 £29.68 £16.06
% change year-on-year +19.73% +84.78% -65.60%

All Process & 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 3,134 1,959 2,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.73% 88.72% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,825 1,273 1,207
10th Percentile £276 £282 £309
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.25% -9.30% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £588
90th Percentile £676 £665 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 124 170
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.72 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.25 £27.00 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% -21.98% -1.13%
75th Percentile £72.73 £53.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.63 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 August 2026.

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 13 August 2026.

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 13 August 2026. 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 +10 105 £507 +12.67% 212
Cheshire -8 32 £495 +0.10% 51
Lancashire -2 10 £293 -51.21% 61
Merseyside -17 7 £550 +12.82% 46
Cumbria -12 3 £503 - 2
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 5 (3.11%) Confluence
2 3 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.24%) CMS
4 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.48%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.86%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.62%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.62%) Maximo
3 1 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.62%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.62%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (13.04%) AWS
1 21 (13.04%) Azure
2 10 (6.21%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.73%) GCP
4 4 (2.48%) Serverless
5 3 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.86%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.24%) dbt
6 2 (1.24%) GitHub
6 2 (1.24%) Google Gemini
6 2 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.24%) SaaS
6 2 (1.24%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) Firewall
1 3 (1.86%) Network Security
2 2 (1.24%) Internet
3 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.62%) PABX
3 1 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.62%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.62%) SMS
3 1 (0.62%) SNMP
3 1 (0.62%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.62%) VPN
3 1 (0.62%) WAN
3 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.21%) Power BI
2 5 (3.11%) Metadata
2 5 (3.11%) Tableau
3 3 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.62%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.62%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.62%) Looker
4 1 (0.62%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.97%) JIRA
2 2 (1.24%) GitLab
3 1 (0.62%) Git
3 1 (0.62%) Hudson
3 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
General
1 71 (44.10%) Social Skills
2 48 (29.81%) Finance
3 33 (20.50%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.21%) Banking
6 9 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.97%) Retail
8 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.11%) Law
9 5 (3.11%) Legal
10 4 (2.48%) Marketing
11 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.24%) Automotive
13 1 (0.62%) Advertising
13 1 (0.62%) Billing
13 1 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (19.25%) Analyst
2 24 (14.91%) Lead
3 16 (9.94%) Senior
4 14 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 13 (8.07%) Data Analyst
6 12 (7.45%) Architect
7 10 (6.21%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.59%) Developer
8 9 (5.59%) Programme Manager
9 6 (3.73%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.73%) Product Manager
9 6 (3.73%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.11%) Consultant
10 5 (3.11%) Lead Architect
10 5 (3.11%) User Experience Researcher
11 4 (2.48%) Data Manager
11 4 (2.48%) Product Owner
11 4 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.48%) Support Officer
11 4 (2.48%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.35%) Node.js
2 6 (3.73%) PySpark
3 4 (2.48%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.48%) Pandas
4 3 (1.86%) Great Expectations
4 3 (1.86%) OpenID
4 3 (1.86%) React
5 2 (1.24%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.24%) CrewAI
5 2 (1.24%) LangChain
5 2 (1.24%) OAuth
5 2 (1.24%) RESTful
5 2 (1.24%) Spring
5 2 (1.24%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.24%) Vue
6 1 (0.62%) CSS
6 1 (0.62%) HTML
6 1 (0.62%) Kafka
6 1 (0.62%) Nunjucks
6 1 (0.62%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.07%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.83%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.48%) CMDB
5 4 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.48%) NHS
6 3 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.86%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.86%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.86%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.24%) FMCG
7 2 (1.24%) Life Science
7 2 (1.24%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.62%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.24%) Android
2 2 (1.24%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.24%) Linux
3 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.54%) Agile
2 44 (27.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (25.47%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (21.74%) Analytics
5 32 (19.88%) Roadmaps
6 28 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (16.77%) AI
8 23 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (13.04%) Migration
10 19 (11.80%) Risk Management
11 18 (11.18%) Mentoring
12 17 (10.56%) Data Analysis
13 15 (9.32%) Project Management
13 15 (9.32%) Requirements Gathering
13 15 (9.32%) User Experience
13 15 (9.32%) Validation
14 14 (8.70%) Software Engineering
14 14 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
15 13 (8.07%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.94%) SQL
2 13 (8.07%) Python
3 7 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.11%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.48%) Java
6 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (11.80%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.18%) Degree
3 15 (9.32%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.11%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.48%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.86%) CISSP
7 3 (1.86%) PMP
8 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.24%) CISA
8 2 (1.24%) CISM
8 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.24%) CRISC
8 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.62%) CIMA
9 1 (0.62%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.62%) IIBA
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.62%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.01%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.83%) QA
3 7 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.35%) GRC
3 7 (4.35%) NIST
4 5 (3.11%) GDPR
4 5 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.86%) NCSC
5 3 (1.86%) SLA
6 2 (1.24%) PMO
6 2 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.24%) Docker
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.48%) Terraform
2 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.24%) SCCM
3 1 (0.62%) CASB
3 1 (0.62%) Istio
3 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.62%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.45%) SAP
3 10 (6.21%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.48%) Facebook
4 4 (2.48%) Google
4 4 (2.48%) Oracle
4 4 (2.48%) Workday
5 3 (1.86%) Cisco
5 3 (1.86%) Databricks
5 3 (1.86%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.86%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.24%) Ariba
6 2 (1.24%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.62%) Adobe
7 1 (0.62%) Apple
7 1 (0.62%) BMC
7 1 (0.62%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.62%) IBM
7 1 (0.62%) Intel
7 1 (0.62%) OpenText