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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 56 51
Rank change year-on-year +18 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 191 79 73
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.91% 3.69% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 4.17% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 57 45
10th Percentile £342 £339 £364
25th Percentile £431 £385 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £584 £525 £575
90th Percentile £700 £638 £645
England median daily rate £540 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 1
10th Percentile £13.09 - -
25th Percentile £14.06 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £30.90 - £60.00
75th Percentile £64.25 - £62.50
90th Percentile £76.20 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.35 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.52% -26.25% -7.37%

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 3,212 1,893 1,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.55% 88.42% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,842 1,259 1,126
10th Percentile £295 £297 £294
25th Percentile £401 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £492
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -7.43% -1.70%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £587
90th Percentile £675 £680 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 131 108
10th Percentile £15.48 £13.51 £16.43
25th Percentile £24.18 £17.34 £27.94
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.90% -40.84% +21.43%
75th Percentile £72.28 £45.95 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.25 £72.40
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +15 116 £525 +19.32% 455
Lancashire +9 30 £475 - 78
Cheshire -2 30 £490 +8.17% 90
Merseyside -10 9 £575 +15.00% 70
Cumbria - 3 £503 - 14
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 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.57%) Confluence
3 2 (1.05%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (9.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.57%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.52%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.14%) AWS
2 24 (12.57%) Azure
3 11 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.71%) GCP
5 6 (3.14%) Serverless
6 4 (2.09%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.57%) GitHub
7 3 (1.57%) SaaS
8 2 (1.05%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.05%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.05%) dbt
8 2 (1.05%) Google Gemini
8 2 (1.05%) IaaS
8 2 (1.05%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.05%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) Firewall
1 4 (2.09%) Network Security
2 3 (1.57%) Internet
3 2 (1.05%) VPN
3 2 (1.05%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) PABX
4 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) SMS
4 1 (0.52%) SNMP
4 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.52%) VoIP
4 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.76%) Power BI
2 5 (2.62%) Metadata
2 5 (2.62%) Tableau
3 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.52%) Looker
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (2.09%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) MLflow
3 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (43.98%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.13%) Finance
3 34 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.85%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (6.81%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.28%) Retail
8 9 (4.71%) Banking
8 9 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.14%) Law
10 6 (3.14%) Legal
10 6 (3.14%) Marketing
11 3 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.05%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Billing
13 1 (0.52%) Local Government
13 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (15.18%) Analyst
2 25 (13.09%) Lead
3 16 (8.38%) Senior
4 15 (7.85%) Project Manager
5 13 (6.81%) Architect
6 12 (6.28%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.76%) Developer
8 9 (4.71%) Programme Manager
9 8 (4.19%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.19%) Support Officer
10 7 (3.66%) Product Manager
11 6 (3.14%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.14%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.62%) Consultant
12 5 (2.62%) Data Engineer
12 5 (2.62%) Lead Developer
12 5 (2.62%) Security Specialist
12 5 (2.62%) Technical Architect
13 4 (2.09%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (2.09%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.14%) Node.js
2 5 (2.62%) PySpark
3 4 (2.09%) Pandas
3 4 (2.09%) Spring
3 4 (2.09%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.09%) Terraform
4 3 (1.57%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.57%) Great Expectations
4 3 (1.57%) Kafka
4 3 (1.57%) OpenID
5 2 (1.05%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.05%) CrewAI
5 2 (1.05%) LangChain
5 2 (1.05%) OAuth
5 2 (1.05%) React
5 2 (1.05%) RESTful
6 1 (0.52%) .NET
6 1 (0.52%) HTML
6 1 (0.52%) NumPy
6 1 (0.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.81%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.76%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.14%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.62%) NHS
7 4 (2.09%) Digital Media
7 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.57%) CMDB
8 3 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.57%) Life Science
9 2 (1.05%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.05%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.05%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.62%) Windows
2 2 (1.05%) Android
2 2 (1.05%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 55 (28.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (26.70%) Agile
4 39 (20.42%) Roadmaps
5 38 (19.90%) Analytics
6 37 (19.37%) AI
7 34 (17.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 30 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (14.66%) Risk Management
10 25 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (11.52%) Migration
12 21 (10.99%) Data Analysis
12 21 (10.99%) Software Engineering
13 19 (9.95%) Mentoring
14 18 (9.42%) Project Management
15 17 (8.90%) Generative AI
15 17 (8.90%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (8.90%) Validation
16 16 (8.38%) ERP
16 16 (8.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 16 (8.38%) SQL
2 13 (6.81%) Python
3 9 (4.71%) Java
4 7 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.62%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.52%) Go
7 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 27 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.47%) Degree
4 8 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.09%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.57%) PMP
7 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.05%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) CISSP
7 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.52%) ACCA
8 1 (0.52%) CEH
8 1 (0.52%) CIMA
8 1 (0.52%) CISA
8 1 (0.52%) CISM
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.14%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.38%) NIST
3 13 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (6.28%) GRC
4 12 (6.28%) NCSC
5 9 (4.71%) QA
6 6 (3.14%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.57%) GDPR
7 3 (1.57%) PMO
7 3 (1.57%) SLA
8 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.05%) Docker
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.05%) CASB
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.05%) SCCM
1 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.52%) Istio
2 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.52%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 24 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.76%) SAP
3 9 (4.71%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.14%) Google
5 5 (2.62%) Databricks
6 4 (2.09%) Facebook
7 3 (1.57%) Cisco
7 3 (1.57%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.57%) Workday
7 3 (1.57%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.05%) Ariba
8 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle
9 1 (0.52%) F5
9 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.52%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.52%) Planview
9 1 (0.52%) Splunk