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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +32
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 113 83 120
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.05% 4.03% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.53% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 40 71
10th Percentile £376 £355 £155
25th Percentile £400 £405 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £483 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% +4.32% -8.87%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £601
90th Percentile £675 £601 £689
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 26
10th Percentile £36.64 £22.59 -
25th Percentile £45.35 £22.72 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £25.43 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +121.20% +58.34% -75.29%
75th Percentile £69.93 £28.75 £20.07
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.50 £46.18
England median hourly rate £45.23 £29.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year +55.97% +8.78% -51.38%

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 2,413 1,834 2,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.46% 89.03% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,557 1,108 1,571
10th Percentile £213 £274 £302
25th Percentile £358 £381 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £571 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 106 228
10th Percentile £16.32 £18.07 £12.67
25th Percentile £22.85 £23.11 £16.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.23% +21.69% -30.67%
75th Percentile £63.43 £55.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.00 £79.04 £53.07
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +7 73 £442 +0.91% 109
Cheshire -25 25 £475 -5.94% 33
Lancashire -13 6 £313 -47.92% 31
Merseyside -12 5 £450 -10.09% 15
Cumbria +5 3 £507 - 5
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 10 (8.85%) Confluence
2 8 (7.08%) SAS
3 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.88%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Maximo
2 1 (0.88%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.81%) AWS
1 19 (16.81%) Azure
2 13 (11.50%) GCP
3 10 (8.85%) Power Platform
4 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.42%) PaaS
6 4 (3.54%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.65%) IaaS
7 3 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.65%) SaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.77%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.77%) OCI
8 2 (1.77%) Serverless
8 2 (1.77%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.88%) Dataform
9 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.88%) LangSmith
9 1 (0.88%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) DHCP
1 1 (0.88%) DNS
1 1 (0.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.85%) Power BI
2 8 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.54%) Tableau
4 3 (2.65%) Big Data
4 3 (2.65%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.65%) Metadata
5 2 (1.77%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.77%) DocumentDB
5 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.77%) Power Query
5 2 (1.77%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.88%) GIS
6 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.88%) QGIS
6 1 (0.88%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) JIRA
2 4 (3.54%) Git
2 4 (3.54%) GitLab
3 3 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.88%) fastlane
4 1 (0.88%) Gradle
4 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.88%) MLflow
4 1 (0.88%) Xcode
4 1 (0.88%) XCTest
General
1 54 (47.79%) Social Skills
2 35 (30.97%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (30.09%) Finance
4 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.62%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (8.85%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Banking
7 5 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.65%) Retail
9 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Legal
9 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.77%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.88%) Automotive
10 1 (0.88%) Aviation
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 32 (28.32%) Analyst
2 27 (23.89%) Architect
3 14 (12.39%) Business Analyst
4 10 (8.85%) Lead
4 10 (8.85%) Senior
5 7 (6.19%) Data Architect
6 6 (5.31%) Developer
6 6 (5.31%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (4.42%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (3.54%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.54%) Incident Analyst
8 4 (3.54%) Performance Analyst
8 4 (3.54%) Product Manager
8 4 (3.54%) User Experience Researcher
9 3 (2.65%) Designer
9 3 (2.65%) Implementation Manager
9 3 (2.65%) Implementation Project Manager
9 3 (2.65%) Lead Architect
9 3 (2.65%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) Kafka
2 3 (2.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.65%) JSON
2 3 (2.65%) Node.js
2 3 (2.65%) React
2 3 (2.65%) REST
3 2 (1.77%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.77%) HTML
3 2 (1.77%) Middleware
3 2 (1.77%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.77%) Vue
4 1 (0.88%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (0.88%) Jest
4 1 (0.88%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (0.88%) LangChain
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.88%) OkHttp
4 1 (0.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.88%) Playwright
4 1 (0.88%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.08%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.31%) AI Agents
4 6 (5.31%) Credit Risk
4 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.65%) CMDB
6 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.65%) Life Science
6 3 (2.65%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.88%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.54%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Mac OS
2 3 (2.65%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.77%) Android
3 2 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.88%) Linux
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.20%) Agile
2 32 (28.32%) Analytics
3 31 (27.43%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (25.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (21.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 23 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (20.35%) Roadmaps
7 18 (15.93%) Data Modelling
7 18 (15.93%) User Experience
8 17 (15.04%) Data Analysis
8 17 (15.04%) Requirements Gathering
9 16 (14.16%) Mentoring
10 13 (11.50%) Business Analysis
10 13 (11.50%) Change Management
10 13 (11.50%) Workflow
11 12 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (10.62%) ETL
12 11 (9.73%) AI
12 11 (9.73%) Collaborative Culture
12 11 (9.73%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.39%) Python
2 9 (7.96%) SQL
3 6 (5.31%) R
4 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.54%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.65%) Bash
7 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.88%) ABAP
8 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.88%) Java
8 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.88%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.88%) Swift
8 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Degree
2 13 (11.50%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.88%) CBAP
7 1 (0.88%) CISM
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.88%) CSPO
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.88%) MBA
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
7 1 (0.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.16%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.62%) Accessibility
3 8 (7.08%) GDPR
4 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.65%) QA
6 2 (1.77%) CRD IV
6 2 (1.77%) FINREP
6 2 (1.77%) IFRS
6 2 (1.77%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.77%) PMO
6 2 (1.77%) SEPA
7 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.88%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.88%) NIST
7 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.88%) SLA
7 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.42%) Docker
2 4 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Terraform
2 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.42%) SCCM
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.88%) Ansible
5 1 (0.88%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.19%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.31%) Google
3 6 (5.31%) Pega
4 4 (3.54%) Databricks
4 4 (3.54%) SAP
5 3 (2.65%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.65%) Citrix
5 3 (2.65%) IBM
5 3 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.65%) VMware
6 2 (1.77%) BMC
6 2 (1.77%) Cognos
6 2 (1.77%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.77%) Oracle
6 2 (1.77%) Remedy
6 2 (1.77%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.88%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.88%) IFS