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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 54 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 84 76 106
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.43% 3.26% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 3.87% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 36 64
10th Percentile £340 £311 £65
25th Percentile £400 £393 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £482 £494
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -2.38% -5.95%
75th Percentile £551 £569 £628
90th Percentile £669 £668 £668
England median daily rate £508 £550 £546
% change year-on-year -7.73% +0.69% -0.68%
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% +3.02%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile - - £49.48
England median hourly rate £31.20 £34.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -10.22% -24.75% +18.41%

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 2,160 1,962 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.24% 84.06% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 1,061 1,660
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £598
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 114 159
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% +1.03% +55.56%
75th Percentile £46.71 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.29 £70.90 £64.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 21 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 21 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 0 49 £450 -5.26% 165
Cheshire -28 25 £475 -8.21% 44
Merseyside -1 5 £463 +41.09% 14
Lancashire -6 5 £500 -5.88% 78
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 6 (7.14%) SAS
2 3 (3.57%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.38%) JBoss
3 2 (2.38%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.19%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Finacle
2 1 (1.19%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.29%) AWS
2 11 (13.10%) Power Platform
3 9 (10.71%) Azure
3 9 (10.71%) GCP
4 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.57%) Google Sheets
5 2 (2.38%) OCI
5 2 (2.38%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.19%) Alation
6 1 (1.19%) Collibra
6 1 (1.19%) GitHub
6 1 (1.19%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.19%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) Network Security
1 1 (1.19%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) Power BI
2 8 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.57%) Big Data
3 3 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.57%) Tableau
4 2 (2.38%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.38%) Power Query
4 2 (2.38%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.19%) Metadata
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.19%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) JIRA
2 3 (3.57%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.38%) Gradle
3 2 (2.38%) JUnit
3 2 (2.38%) Maven
3 2 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 29 (34.52%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (34.52%) Finance
3 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (7.14%) Banking
6 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.38%) Legal
6 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Aviation
7 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Law
7 1 (1.19%) Local Government
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
7 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (30.95%) Analyst
2 15 (17.86%) Architect
3 12 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Developer
5 5 (5.95%) Data Analyst
5 5 (5.95%) Data Architect
5 5 (5.95%) Lead
5 5 (5.95%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.76%) Senior
6 4 (4.76%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (3.57%) Consultant
7 3 (3.57%) GCP Architect
7 3 (3.57%) Operations Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Product Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Service Analyst
8 2 (2.38%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) Kafka
1 3 (3.57%) REST
1 3 (3.57%) SOAP
2 2 (2.38%) HTML
2 2 (2.38%) JSON
2 2 (2.38%) Spring
2 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.38%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (2.38%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.19%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.19%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.19%) CSS
3 1 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.19%) Pandas
3 1 (1.19%) pytest
3 1 (1.19%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.19%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.19%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Credit Risk
2 6 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.19%) CMDB
6 1 (1.19%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) NHS
6 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.19%) Tandem
6 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Unix
2 2 (2.38%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (32.14%) Analytics
2 25 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 21 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (23.81%) Agile
5 14 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (15.48%) Change Management
6 13 (15.48%) Data Modelling
7 12 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (13.10%) Business Case
8 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (13.10%) Regulatory Compliance
9 10 (11.90%) Data Analysis
9 10 (11.90%) Project Management
10 9 (10.71%) Data Governance
10 9 (10.71%) Data Science
11 8 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (9.52%) Analytical Modelling
11 8 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (9.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.67%) Python
2 10 (11.90%) SQL
3 7 (8.33%) R
4 2 (2.38%) Java
4 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.19%) ABAP
5 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Degree
2 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.57%) CISM
4 3 (3.57%) CISSP
4 3 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) CBAP
6 1 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.19%) CISA
6 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.19%) CSPO
6 1 (1.19%) GSEC
6 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.19%) MBA
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) Data Quality
1 9 (10.71%) GDPR
2 3 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.57%) NIST
3 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.38%) QA
3 2 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.19%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.19%) NCSC
4 1 (1.19%) PMO
4 1 (1.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.38%) Terraform
2 1 (1.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 6 (7.14%) Google
3 6 (7.14%) Pega
4 4 (4.76%) Databricks
4 4 (4.76%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.76%) SAP
5 2 (2.38%) IBM
6 1 (1.19%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.19%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.19%) Ariba
6 1 (1.19%) Capita
6 1 (1.19%) Gemalto
6 1 (1.19%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.19%) Informatica
6 1 (1.19%) Saba
6 1 (1.19%) Splunk
6 1 (1.19%) Thales
6 1 (1.19%) Workday