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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 45 33
Rank change year-on-year -8 -12 +39
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 124 88 144
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.90% 4.56% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.64% 5.04% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 50 69
10th Percentile £375 £355 £181
25th Percentile £402 £421 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £499 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +5.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £573 £625
90th Percentile £675 £626 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 49
10th Percentile £22.57 £22.61 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £22.72 £10.95
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.47 £11.20
Median % change year-on-year +117.27% +136.40% -82.78%
75th Percentile £61.57 £29.69 £16.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £51.25 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £30.81 £18.00
% change year-on-year +86.66% +71.14% -65.53%

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 2,672 1,747 2,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.05% 90.61% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,665 1,134 1,545
10th Percentile £263 £300 £309
25th Percentile £375 £391 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £664 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 110 244
10th Percentile £19.75 £16.23 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £13.20
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.68% +47.16% -39.44%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.87 £52.52
England median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +13 80 £450 +0.67% 134
Cheshire -29 28 £487 -6.35% 32
Merseyside -16 6 £413 -17.58% 19
Lancashire -13 5 £313 -47.92% 48
Cumbria +1 3 £507 - 2
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 (8.06%) Confluence
2 6 (4.84%) SAS
3 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.81%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.81%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.42%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Maximo
1 2 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.81%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.35%) AWS
2 22 (17.74%) Azure
3 11 (8.87%) GCP
4 8 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.65%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.03%) PaaS
7 4 (3.23%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.42%) IaaS
8 3 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.42%) SaaS
8 3 (2.42%) Serverless
8 3 (2.42%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.61%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.61%) GitHub
9 2 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.81%) dbt
10 1 (0.81%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) DHCP
1 1 (0.81%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.65%) Power BI
2 6 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.03%) Metadata
4 3 (2.42%) Big Data
4 3 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.61%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.61%) DocumentDB
5 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.61%) Power Query
5 2 (1.61%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.61%) Tableau
6 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.81%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.81%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.81%) QGIS
6 1 (0.81%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (12.90%) JIRA
2 5 (4.03%) GitLab
3 4 (3.23%) Git
4 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.81%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.81%) fastlane
5 1 (0.81%) Gradle
5 1 (0.81%) Hudson
5 1 (0.81%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.81%) MLflow
5 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.81%) Xcode
5 1 (0.81%) XCTest
General
1 62 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.61%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (26.61%) Finance
3 17 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (8.87%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.65%) Banking
7 5 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.42%) Law
9 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Legal
9 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.61%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Advertising
10 1 (0.81%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Aviation
10 1 (0.81%) Local Government
10 1 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (20.97%) Architect
2 25 (20.16%) Analyst
3 16 (12.90%) Lead
4 13 (10.48%) Senior
5 9 (7.26%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.65%) Developer
7 6 (4.84%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.03%) Data Architect
8 5 (4.03%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.03%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.03%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.03%) User Experience Researcher
9 4 (3.23%) Data Manager
9 4 (3.23%) Engagement Manager
9 4 (3.23%) Lead Architect
9 4 (3.23%) Performance Analyst
9 4 (3.23%) Service Designer
9 4 (3.23%) UX Designer
9 4 (3.23%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.84%) Node.js
2 5 (4.03%) Kafka
2 5 (4.03%) React
3 4 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.42%) Vue
5 2 (1.61%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.61%) Middleware
5 2 (1.61%) Pandas
5 2 (1.61%) PySpark
5 2 (1.61%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.61%) REST
5 2 (1.61%) Spring
5 2 (1.61%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.81%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.81%) Jest
6 1 (0.81%) JSON
6 1 (0.81%) Nunjucks
6 1 (0.81%) OkHttp
6 1 (0.81%) Playwright
6 1 (0.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.65%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.84%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.23%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.42%) CMDB
6 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.42%) Life Science
6 3 (2.42%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.61%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.81%) Blog
8 1 (0.81%) FMCG
8 1 (0.81%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.42%) Mac OS
1 3 (2.42%) Windows
1 3 (2.42%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.61%) Android
2 2 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.81%) Linux
3 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.45%) Agile
2 33 (26.61%) Analytics
3 32 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (24.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (18.55%) Roadmaps
7 20 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 20 (16.13%) User Experience
8 18 (14.52%) Data Analysis
8 18 (14.52%) Mentoring
9 17 (13.71%) Data Modelling
10 16 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
10 16 (12.90%) Workflow
11 15 (12.10%) AI
11 15 (12.10%) Project Management
12 14 (11.29%) Data Governance
12 14 (11.29%) DevOps
12 14 (11.29%) ETL
13 13 (10.48%) Risk Management
14 12 (9.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.87%) Python
2 10 (8.06%) SQL
3 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.23%) R
5 3 (2.42%) Bash
5 3 (2.42%) Java
6 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (12.90%) Degree
1 16 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.06%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.42%) CISM
5 3 (2.42%) CISSP
5 3 (2.42%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.42%) PMP
6 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.61%) CISA
6 2 (1.61%) CRISC
6 2 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.29%) Accessibility
3 9 (7.26%) GDPR
4 6 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.84%) QA
5 3 (2.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.42%) GRC
5 3 (2.42%) NIST
5 3 (2.42%) PMO
6 2 (1.61%) CRD IV
6 2 (1.61%) FINREP
6 2 (1.61%) IFRS
6 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (1.61%) SLA
7 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.81%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.81%) SEPA
7 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.65%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.26%) Terraform
2 7 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.03%) SCCM
4 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.81%) Ansible
5 1 (0.81%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.81%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (7.26%) Microsoft
1 9 (7.26%) ServiceNow
2 6 (4.84%) SAP
3 5 (4.03%) Google
4 4 (3.23%) Oracle
4 4 (3.23%) Pega
5 3 (2.42%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.42%) Citrix
5 3 (2.42%) Databricks
5 3 (2.42%) VMware
6 2 (1.61%) BMC
6 2 (1.61%) Cognos
6 2 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.61%) IBM
6 2 (1.61%) Remedy
6 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.61%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.61%) Workday
7 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.81%) IFS