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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 43 51
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 85 79 98
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.52% 3.32% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.98% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 42 62
10th Percentile £328 £333 £214
25th Percentile £400 £393 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £482 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -8.19% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £562 £638
90th Percentile £674 £673 £673
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £20.07
25th Percentile - £57.50 £26.68
Median hourly rate £45.46 £60.00 £46.03
Median % change year-on-year -24.23% +30.35% +6.17%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile - - £49.48
England median hourly rate £26.12 £36.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -27.94% -21.50% +54.32%

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 2,120 1,987 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.71% 83.59% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,392 1,080 1,684
10th Percentile £215 £294 £271
25th Percentile £360 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £591
90th Percentile £678 £656 £673
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 111 168
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.50 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.18 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.44 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.41% +14.29% +45.83%
75th Percentile £45.46 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.14 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 7 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 7 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 +2 46 £450 -1.10% 252
Cheshire -20 30 £484 -12.09% 72
Lancashire -6 5 £500 -5.88% 117
Merseyside +2 4 £463 +41.09% 20
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 (5.88%) Confluence
1 5 (5.88%) SAS
2 3 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) JBoss
3 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.18%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Finacle
2 1 (1.18%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.94%) AWS
1 11 (12.94%) Power Platform
2 8 (9.41%) Azure
3 6 (7.06%) GCP
4 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.53%) Google Sheets
5 2 (2.35%) OCI
5 2 (2.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.18%) Alation
6 1 (1.18%) Collibra
6 1 (1.18%) GitHub
6 1 (1.18%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.18%) SaaS
6 1 (1.18%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.18%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Network Security
2 1 (1.18%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) Power BI
2 7 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.53%) Big Data
3 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.53%) Tableau
4 2 (2.35%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.35%) Power Query
4 2 (2.35%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.18%) Metadata
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (12.94%) JIRA
2 3 (3.53%) Git
2 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.35%) Gradle
3 2 (2.35%) JUnit
3 2 (2.35%) Maven
3 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.18%) Appium
4 1 (1.18%) JMeter
4 1 (1.18%) Selenium
General
1 31 (36.47%) Social Skills
2 28 (32.94%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (30.59%) Finance
4 8 (9.41%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Banking
6 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.35%) Legal
6 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Automotive
7 1 (1.18%) Aviation
7 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.18%) Law
7 1 (1.18%) Local Government
7 1 (1.18%) Marketing
7 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.18%) Retail
7 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (32.94%) Analyst
2 13 (15.29%) Business Analyst
3 12 (14.12%) Architect
4 7 (8.24%) Lead
5 6 (7.06%) Developer
6 5 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.88%) Senior
7 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.71%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Consultant
8 3 (3.53%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (3.53%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Service Analyst
9 2 (2.35%) Business Architect
9 2 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.53%) REST
1 3 (3.53%) SOAP
2 2 (2.35%) HTML
2 2 (2.35%) JSON
2 2 (2.35%) Spring
2 2 (2.35%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.35%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (2.35%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.18%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.18%) CSS
3 1 (1.18%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.18%) Kafka
3 1 (1.18%) Pandas
3 1 (1.18%) Playwright
3 1 (1.18%) pytest
3 1 (1.18%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.18%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.18%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.06%) Credit Risk
1 6 (7.06%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.35%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.35%) CMDB
5 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.18%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.18%) NHS
6 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.18%) Tandem
6 1 (1.18%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Unix
2 2 (2.35%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.41%) Analytics
2 23 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (25.88%) Agile
4 19 (22.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 19 (22.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (15.29%) Change Management
6 13 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (15.29%) Data Modelling
7 12 (14.12%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (12.94%) Business Case
8 11 (12.94%) Project Management
9 9 (10.59%) Data Analysis
9 9 (10.59%) Data Governance
10 8 (9.41%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (9.41%) Business Analysis
10 8 (9.41%) Data Science
10 8 (9.41%) Incident Response
10 8 (9.41%) Risk Management
11 7 (8.24%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.29%) Python
2 10 (11.76%) SQL
3 6 (7.06%) R
4 4 (4.71%) Java
5 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.18%) ABAP
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Degree
2 7 (8.24%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.71%) CISM
4 4 (4.71%) CISSP
5 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.53%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.18%) CBAP
7 1 (1.18%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.18%) CISA
7 1 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.18%) CRISC
7 1 (1.18%) CSPO
7 1 (1.18%) GSEC
7 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.18%) MBA
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.18%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) GDPR
2 7 (8.24%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.71%) NIST
4 3 (3.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.35%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.18%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.18%) ISO 31000
6 1 (1.18%) NCSC
6 1 (1.18%) PMO
6 1 (1.18%) QA
6 1 (1.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (22.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.24%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.88%) Pega
4 4 (4.71%) Databricks
4 4 (4.71%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) Oracle
4 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.71%) SAP
5 2 (2.35%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.18%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.18%) Ariba
6 1 (1.18%) Capita
6 1 (1.18%) Gemalto
6 1 (1.18%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.18%) Informatica
6 1 (1.18%) Saba
6 1 (1.18%) Splunk
6 1 (1.18%) Thales
6 1 (1.18%) Workday