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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 48 30
Rank change year-on-year -11 -18 +38
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 115 83 152
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.82% 4.14% 5.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 4.58% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 41 73
10th Percentile £375 £350 £164
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £497 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +7.46% -7.50%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £615
90th Percentile £678 £614 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 53
10th Percentile £19.46 £22.61 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £22.72 £10.95
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.47 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +107.82% +64.79% -75.29%
75th Percentile £78.29 £29.69 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £51.25 £25.34
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.40 £18.94
% change year-on-year +49.53% +60.54% -63.79%

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 2,561 1,811 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.97% 90.32% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 1,132 1,595
10th Percentile £220 £281 £309
25th Percentile £370 £391 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 113 263
10th Percentile £18.67 £16.60 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.98 £13.62
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £23.45
Median % change year-on-year +41.69% +35.44% -37.13%
75th Percentile £67.04 £59.90 £45.00
90th Percentile £76.30 £79.97 £52.61
England median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +11 73 £447 +3.65% 134
Cheshire -25 26 £479 -6.81% 37
Merseyside -15 6 £413 -15.43% 13
Lancashire -10 5 £313 -47.92% 42
Cumbria +4 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 11 (9.57%) Confluence
2 8 (6.96%) SAS
3 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.87%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (6.96%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Maximo
1 2 (1.74%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.87%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 22 (19.13%) Azure
2 21 (18.26%) AWS
3 13 (11.30%) GCP
4 9 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.83%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.35%) PaaS
6 4 (3.48%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.61%) IaaS
7 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.61%) SaaS
7 3 (2.61%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.74%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.74%) OCI
8 2 (1.74%) Serverless
9 1 (0.87%) Dataform
9 1 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.87%) LangSmith
9 1 (0.87%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) DHCP
1 1 (0.87%) DNS
1 1 (0.87%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (7.83%) Power BI
2 3 (2.61%) Big Data
2 3 (2.61%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.61%) Metadata
2 3 (2.61%) Tableau
3 2 (1.74%) Delta Lake
3 2 (1.74%) DocumentDB
3 2 (1.74%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.74%) Power Query
3 2 (1.74%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.87%) GIS
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.87%) QGIS
4 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.87%) Spatial Data
4 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (15.65%) JIRA
2 5 (4.35%) Git
3 4 (3.48%) GitLab
4 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.87%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.87%) fastlane
5 1 (0.87%) Gradle
5 1 (0.87%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.87%) MLflow
5 1 (0.87%) Xcode
5 1 (0.87%) XCTest
General
1 57 (49.57%) Social Skills
2 32 (27.83%) Finance
3 31 (26.96%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.17%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.43%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Banking
9 3 (2.61%) Retail
10 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Legal
10 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.87%) Advertising
11 1 (0.87%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.87%) Automotive
11 1 (0.87%) Aviation
11 1 (0.87%) Law
11 1 (0.87%) Local Government
11 1 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (25.22%) Architect
2 25 (21.74%) Analyst
3 13 (11.30%) Lead
4 10 (8.70%) Senior
5 7 (6.09%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.35%) Developer
7 5 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Designer
8 4 (3.48%) Engagement Manager
8 4 (3.48%) Lead Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Performance Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Product Manager
8 4 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.48%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.48%) Kafka
1 4 (3.48%) Node.js
1 4 (3.48%) React
2 3 (2.61%) REST
2 3 (2.61%) Vue
3 2 (1.74%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.74%) JSON
3 2 (1.74%) Middleware
3 2 (1.74%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.87%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (0.87%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.87%) Jest
4 1 (0.87%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (0.87%) LangChain
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.87%) OkHttp
4 1 (0.87%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.87%) Playwright
4 1 (0.87%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.22%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.22%) Credit Risk
3 6 (5.22%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.48%) CMDB
6 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.61%) Life Science
6 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.61%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.87%) Blog
8 1 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.87%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.48%) Windows
2 3 (2.61%) Mac OS
2 3 (2.61%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.74%) Android
3 2 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.87%) Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.17%) Agile
2 31 (26.96%) Analytics
3 29 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (23.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (18.26%) Roadmaps
6 21 (18.26%) User Experience
7 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (15.65%) Data Analysis
9 17 (14.78%) Data Modelling
10 16 (13.91%) Mentoring
10 16 (13.91%) Workflow
11 14 (12.17%) ETL
11 14 (12.17%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (11.30%) DevOps
13 12 (10.43%) AI
13 12 (10.43%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (10.43%) Project Management
14 11 (9.57%) User Research
15 10 (8.70%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.91%) Python
2 12 (10.43%) SQL
3 6 (5.22%) R
4 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.61%) Bash
5 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.87%) Java
6 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.87%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.87%) Swift
6 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.91%) Degree
1 16 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.87%) CISM
5 1 (0.87%) CISSP
5 1 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.39%) Data Quality
2 13 (11.30%) Accessibility
3 9 (7.83%) GDPR
4 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.48%) QA
5 3 (2.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.74%) CRD IV
6 2 (1.74%) FINREP
6 2 (1.74%) IFRS
6 2 (1.74%) PMO
6 2 (1.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.87%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.87%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.87%) NIST
7 1 (0.87%) SEPA
7 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.35%) Docker
2 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Terraform
2 6 (5.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.35%) SCCM
4 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.87%) Ansible
5 1 (0.87%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.87%) Grafana
5 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.83%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.22%) Google
3 6 (5.22%) Pega
4 4 (3.48%) Databricks
4 4 (3.48%) Oracle
5 3 (2.61%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.61%) Citrix
5 3 (2.61%) IBM
5 3 (2.61%) SAP
5 3 (2.61%) VMware
6 2 (1.74%) BMC
6 2 (1.74%) Cognos
6 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.74%) Remedy
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.74%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.74%) Workday
7 1 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.87%) IFS