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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 40 30
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 +44
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 130 92 136
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.93% 4.75% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.26% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 55 67
10th Percentile £366 £352 £379
25th Percentile £400 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £497 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +7.46% -10.19%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £628
90th Percentile £654 £659 £693
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 49
10th Percentile £27.23 £22.61 -
25th Percentile £48.75 £22.72 £10.95
Median hourly rate £59.00 £26.47 £11.20
Median % change year-on-year +122.94% +136.40% -78.52%
75th Percentile £67.43 £29.69 £16.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £51.25 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.08 £18.00
% change year-on-year +60.90% +72.64% -60.00%

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 2,757 1,749 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.27% 90.29% 85.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 1,141 1,445
10th Percentile £300 £300 £308
25th Percentile £391 £388 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £583 £563 £588
90th Percentile £662 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 98 257
10th Percentile £17.13 £17.01 £10.98
25th Percentile £25.38 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% +23.08% -25.75%
75th Percentile £74.26 £62.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.73 £62.50
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +6 86 £447 -0.33% 156
Cheshire -19 27 £483 -5.53% 34
Merseyside -15 6 £525 -9.09% 15
Lancashire -4 5 £293 -51.21% 55
Cumbria -9 3 £507 - 1
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 9 (6.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.77%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.77%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.31%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Maximo
2 1 (0.77%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.77%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.77%) SAP MDG-F
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.00%) AWS
2 23 (17.69%) Azure
3 8 (6.15%) GCP
4 7 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.62%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.85%) PaaS
6 5 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.85%) Serverless
7 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.08%) SaaS
8 3 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.31%) GitHub
8 3 (2.31%) IaaS
8 3 (2.31%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.54%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.77%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) DHCP
1 1 (0.77%) DNS
1 1 (0.77%) Firewall
1 1 (0.77%) Internet
1 1 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.77%) Network Security
1 1 (0.77%) PABX
1 1 (0.77%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.85%) Power BI
2 4 (3.08%) Metadata
3 3 (2.31%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.54%) DocumentDB
4 2 (1.54%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.54%) Tableau
5 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.77%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.77%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.77%) GIS
5 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.77%) Looker
5 1 (0.77%) Power Query
5 1 (0.77%) QGIS
5 1 (0.77%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.77%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (10.77%) JIRA
2 5 (3.85%) GitLab
3 4 (3.08%) Git
4 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.77%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.77%) fastlane
5 1 (0.77%) Gradle
5 1 (0.77%) Hudson
5 1 (0.77%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.77%) MLflow
5 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.77%) Xcode
5 1 (0.77%) XCTest
General
1 65 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 34 (26.15%) Finance
3 25 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.77%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Banking
8 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.08%) Law
8 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Retail
10 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.54%) Marketing
11 1 (0.77%) Advertising
11 1 (0.77%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.77%) Legal
11 1 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (20.00%) Analyst
2 24 (18.46%) Lead
3 17 (13.08%) Architect
4 16 (12.31%) Senior
5 9 (6.92%) Business Analyst
6 8 (6.15%) User Experience Researcher
7 7 (5.38%) Developer
8 6 (4.62%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Lead Architect
8 6 (4.62%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.85%) Designer
9 5 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.85%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (3.08%) Consultant
10 4 (3.08%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.08%) Data Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Product Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.92%) Node.js
2 6 (4.62%) AngularJS
2 6 (4.62%) React
3 5 (3.85%) PySpark
4 4 (3.08%) Pandas
4 4 (3.08%) Vue
5 3 (2.31%) Great Expectations
5 3 (2.31%) Kafka
6 2 (1.54%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.54%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.54%) Middleware
6 2 (1.54%) OAuth
6 2 (1.54%) OpenID
6 2 (1.54%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.54%) REST
6 2 (1.54%) RESTful
6 2 (1.54%) Spring
6 2 (1.54%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.77%) CSS
7 1 (0.77%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) Cloud Native
1 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.38%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.08%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.31%) CMDB
5 3 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.31%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.54%) Life Science
6 2 (1.54%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.62%) Windows
2 4 (3.08%) Mac OS
2 4 (3.08%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.31%) Android
3 3 (2.31%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.31%) Linux
4 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.62%) Agile
2 36 (27.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 29 (22.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (18.46%) Analytics
7 21 (16.15%) Mentoring
7 21 (16.15%) User Experience
8 18 (13.85%) Workflow
9 17 (13.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (12.31%) AI
11 15 (11.54%) DevOps
11 15 (11.54%) Migration
11 15 (11.54%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (10.00%) Risk Management
12 13 (10.00%) User Research
13 12 (9.23%) Data Analysis
13 12 (9.23%) Data Modelling
13 12 (9.23%) Data Protection
13 12 (9.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.23%) SQL
2 9 (6.92%) Python
3 8 (6.15%) JavaScript
3 8 (6.15%) TypeScript
4 5 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.08%) Java
6 3 (2.31%) Bash
7 1 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.77%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.77%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.54%) Degree
3 13 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.08%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.31%) CISSP
6 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.31%) PMP
7 2 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.54%) CISA
7 2 (1.54%) CISM
7 2 (1.54%) CRISC
8 1 (0.77%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.77%) CIMA
8 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.77%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.69%) Data Quality
2 17 (13.08%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.62%) GDPR
3 6 (4.62%) QA
4 5 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.31%) GRC
5 3 (2.31%) NIST
5 3 (2.31%) PMO
5 3 (2.31%) SLA
6 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.77%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.77%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.77%) NCSC
7 1 (0.77%) SEPA
7 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.38%) Docker
2 6 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (6.92%) Terraform
2 7 (5.38%) SCCM
3 5 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.77%) Ansible
4 1 (0.77%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.77%) Grafana
4 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.92%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.15%) SAP
4 6 (4.62%) Google
5 4 (3.08%) Oracle
5 4 (3.08%) Workday
6 3 (2.31%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.31%) Citrix
6 3 (2.31%) VMware
7 2 (1.54%) BMC
7 2 (1.54%) Cisco
7 2 (1.54%) Databricks
7 2 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.54%) IBM
7 2 (1.54%) Remedy
7 2 (1.54%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.77%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.77%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.77%) IFS
8 1 (0.77%) Zscaler