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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 57 49
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 201 82 78
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 5.11% 3.75% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 4.23% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 62 43
10th Percentile £342 £342 £361
25th Percentile £423 £393 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £522 £559
90th Percentile £700 £679 £648
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 0 1
10th Percentile £13.09 - -
25th Percentile £17.15 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £71.25 - £62.50
90th Percentile £77.53 - -
England median hourly rate £54.40 £31.20 £39.68
% change year-on-year +74.36% -21.37% -13.51%

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 3,248 1,938 2,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.50% 88.53% 83.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,834 1,285 1,103
10th Percentile £300 £268 £295
25th Percentile £402 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £668
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 140 111
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.82 £16.50
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £29.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.12% -40.84% +33.77%
75th Percentile £71.91 £47.12 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.25 £73.56
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +15 126 £525 +16.67% 461
Lancashire +1 30 £475 - 96
Cheshire -3 28 £474 +4.64% 106
Merseyside -2 11 £575 +15.00% 69
Cumbria - 3 £503 - 17
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 11 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.49%) Confluence
3 2 (1.00%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.49%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.50%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.50%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (12.94%) AWS
2 25 (12.44%) Azure
3 15 (7.46%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.48%) GCP
5 7 (3.48%) Serverless
6 5 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.99%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.99%) SaaS
8 3 (1.49%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.49%) GitHub
9 2 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.00%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.00%) IaaS
9 2 (1.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.00%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Firewall
1 4 (1.99%) Network Security
2 3 (1.49%) Internet
3 2 (1.00%) VPN
3 2 (1.00%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.50%) LAN
4 1 (0.50%) PABX
4 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) SMS
4 1 (0.50%) SNMP
4 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.50%) VoIP
4 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.46%) Power BI
2 6 (2.99%) Tableau
3 4 (1.99%) Metadata
4 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.50%) Looker
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (1.99%) JIRA
2 2 (1.00%) GitLab
3 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) MLflow
3 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 85 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 47 (23.38%) Finance
3 37 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.96%) Influencing Skills
4 18 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.47%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.97%) Retail
7 9 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.48%) Banking
9 7 (3.48%) Marketing
10 5 (2.49%) Legal
11 4 (1.99%) Law
12 3 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.00%) Automotive
13 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.50%) Games
14 1 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (14.93%) Analyst
1 30 (14.93%) Lead
2 17 (8.46%) Senior
3 15 (7.46%) Project Manager
4 13 (6.47%) Data Analyst
5 11 (5.47%) Architect
5 11 (5.47%) Developer
6 10 (4.98%) Product Manager
6 10 (4.98%) Programme Manager
7 9 (4.48%) Senior Manager
8 8 (3.98%) Support Officer
9 7 (3.48%) Software Engineer
10 6 (2.99%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.49%) Lead Developer
11 5 (2.49%) Product Owner
11 5 (2.49%) Security Specialist
12 4 (1.99%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (1.99%) Designer
12 4 (1.99%) Java Engineer
12 4 (1.99%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.99%) Node.js
2 4 (1.99%) PySpark
2 4 (1.99%) Spring
2 4 (1.99%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.49%) ADO
3 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.49%) OpenID
3 3 (1.49%) Pandas
3 3 (1.49%) Terraform
4 2 (1.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.00%) CrewAI
4 2 (1.00%) Great Expectations
4 2 (1.00%) Kafka
4 2 (1.00%) LangChain
4 2 (1.00%) OAuth
4 2 (1.00%) React
4 2 (1.00%) REST
4 2 (1.00%) RESTful
5 1 (0.50%) Nunjucks
5 1 (0.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.46%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.97%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.99%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.49%) NHS
8 4 (1.99%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.99%) Life Science
9 3 (1.49%) CMDB
9 3 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.00%) PKI
10 2 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.49%) Windows
2 3 (1.49%) Android
3 2 (1.00%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 62 (30.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 60 (29.85%) Agile
4 45 (22.39%) Roadmaps
5 41 (20.40%) AI
6 37 (18.41%) Analytics
7 36 (17.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 31 (15.42%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (12.94%) Risk Management
11 24 (11.94%) Software Engineering
12 22 (10.95%) Migration
13 21 (10.45%) Mentoring
14 20 (9.95%) Data Analysis
15 19 (9.45%) Generative AI
15 19 (9.45%) Project Management
15 19 (9.45%) Workshop Facilitation
16 17 (8.46%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
17 16 (7.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.96%) SQL
2 13 (6.47%) Python
3 11 (5.47%) Java
4 8 (3.98%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.50%) Go
7 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 28 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.45%) Degree
4 8 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.00%) BC Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.00%) PMP
6 2 (1.00%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.50%) ACCA
7 1 (0.50%) ACSP
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.50%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.50%) IIBA
7 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.50%) SANS
7 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.44%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.46%) NIST
3 14 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (6.97%) NCSC
4 12 (5.97%) GRC
5 9 (4.48%) QA
6 7 (3.48%) Accessibility
7 5 (2.49%) PMO
8 3 (1.49%) GDPR
8 3 (1.49%) SLA
9 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.50%) P3O
System Software
1 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.00%) Docker
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.00%) CASB
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.00%) SCCM
1 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.50%) Istio
2 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 27 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.98%) SAP
3 8 (3.98%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.99%) Google
5 5 (2.49%) Databricks
6 4 (1.99%) Facebook
7 3 (1.49%) Cisco
7 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.49%) Workday
7 3 (1.49%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.00%) Ariba
8 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.50%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.50%) F5
9 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.50%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.50%) Snow
9 1 (0.50%) Splunk
9 1 (0.50%) UiPath