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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 47 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +44
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 154 89 130
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.37% 4.37% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.23% 4.92% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 59 61
10th Percentile £363 £354 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £456 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -1.41% -15.53%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £630
90th Percentile £678 £646 £700
England median daily rate £519 £515 £513
% change year-on-year +0.73% +0.34% -8.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 48
10th Percentile £19.63 £23.63 -
25th Percentile £21.14 £25.31 £10.95
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.75 £11.20
Median % change year-on-year +82.61% +156.81% -70.15%
75th Percentile £67.69 £40.63 £16.06
90th Percentile £94.00 £59.75 -
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.81 £18.25
% change year-on-year +15.34% +68.79% -57.56%

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 2,942 1,808 2,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.56% 88.76% 84.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,720 1,201 1,430
10th Percentile £300 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -8.18% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £565 £585
90th Percentile £675 £665 £675
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 110 265
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.06 £14.22
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.88 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.84% +6.27% -1.77%
75th Percentile £75.75 £62.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.24 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +11 103 £500 +11.11% 134
Cheshire -13 28 £483 -4.95% 36
Lancashire -3 8 £285 -52.50% 52
Cumbria -6 6 £507 - 1
Merseyside -15 5 £525 +10.53% 27
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 7 (4.55%) Confluence
2 2 (1.30%) CMS
2 2 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 7 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.95%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.30%) Maximo
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.65%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.65%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.94%) AWS
1 23 (14.94%) Azure
2 10 (6.49%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.25%) PaaS
4 5 (3.25%) Serverless
5 4 (2.60%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.60%) GCP
5 4 (2.60%) IaaS
5 4 (2.60%) SaaS
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.30%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.30%) dbt
7 2 (1.30%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.30%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) Firewall
1 2 (1.30%) Internet
1 2 (1.30%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) DHCP
2 1 (0.65%) DNS
2 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.65%) PABX
2 1 (0.65%) SMS
2 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.49%) Power BI
2 5 (3.25%) Metadata
2 5 (3.25%) Tableau
3 3 (1.95%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.30%) DocumentDB
4 2 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.65%) GIS
5 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.65%) Looker
5 1 (0.65%) Power Query
5 1 (0.65%) QGIS
5 1 (0.65%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.65%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (7.79%) JIRA
2 3 (1.95%) Git
2 3 (1.95%) GitLab
2 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) Hudson
3 1 (0.65%) MLflow
3 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 74 (48.05%) Social Skills
2 43 (27.92%) Finance
3 35 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.79%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (7.79%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Banking
7 6 (3.90%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.60%) Law
8 4 (2.60%) Marketing
9 3 (1.95%) Legal
9 3 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (20.78%) Analyst
2 22 (14.29%) Lead
3 16 (10.39%) Architect
3 16 (10.39%) Senior
4 12 (7.79%) Data Analyst
5 10 (6.49%) Project Manager
6 9 (5.84%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.19%) Developer
8 6 (3.90%) Data Engineer
8 6 (3.90%) Product Manager
8 6 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (3.90%) User Experience Researcher
9 5 (3.25%) Engagement Manager
9 5 (3.25%) Product Owner
9 5 (3.25%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.25%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.60%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.60%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (2.60%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.19%) Node.js
2 6 (3.90%) AngularJS
2 6 (3.90%) PySpark
3 5 (3.25%) React
4 4 (2.60%) Pandas
4 4 (2.60%) Vue
5 3 (1.95%) Great Expectations
5 3 (1.95%) Kafka
5 3 (1.95%) LangChain
6 2 (1.30%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.30%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.30%) CrewAI
6 2 (1.30%) Middleware
6 2 (1.30%) OAuth
6 2 (1.30%) OpenID
6 2 (1.30%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.30%) RESTful
7 1 (0.65%) Nunjucks
7 1 (0.65%) React Native
7 1 (0.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.60%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.60%) CMDB
8 4 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.95%) Life Science
9 3 (1.95%) NHS
9 3 (1.95%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.30%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.95%) Linux
1 3 (1.95%) Windows
2 2 (1.30%) Android
2 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.65%) VMS
3 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (31.82%) Agile
2 41 (26.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (22.73%) Roadmaps
5 32 (20.78%) Analytics
6 31 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (15.58%) AI
8 23 (14.94%) Mentoring
8 23 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (12.99%) Migration
10 18 (11.69%) Data Analysis
10 18 (11.69%) Risk Management
11 17 (11.04%) Data Modelling
11 17 (11.04%) Workflow
12 16 (10.39%) User Experience
13 15 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
14 14 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
14 14 (9.09%) DevOps
14 14 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.74%) SQL
2 13 (8.44%) Python
3 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 7 (4.55%) TypeScript
4 3 (1.95%) Java
5 2 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (11.04%) Degree
2 16 (10.39%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.25%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.95%) CISSP
7 3 (1.95%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.95%) PMP
8 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.30%) CISA
8 2 (1.30%) CISM
8 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.30%) CRISC
9 1 (0.65%) ACSP
9 1 (0.65%) CIMA
9 1 (0.65%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.19%) QA
4 5 (3.25%) GDPR
4 5 (3.25%) GRC
5 4 (2.60%) SLA
6 3 (1.95%) NIST
6 3 (1.95%) PMO
7 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.65%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.65%) NCSC
8 1 (0.65%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (3.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 8 (5.19%) Terraform
2 4 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.60%) SCCM
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.65%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (8.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 10 (6.49%) SAP
4 5 (3.25%) Databricks
5 4 (2.60%) Facebook
5 4 (2.60%) Oracle
5 4 (2.60%) Workday
6 3 (1.95%) Google
6 3 (1.95%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.30%) BMC
7 2 (1.30%) Cisco
7 2 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.30%) IBM
7 2 (1.30%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.30%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.65%) Adobe
8 1 (0.65%) Apple
8 1 (0.65%) Ariba
8 1 (0.65%) Remedy