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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 45 44
Rank change year-on-year -16 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 89 82 109
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.53% 3.84% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 4.43% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 37 68
10th Percentile £342 £343 £65
25th Percentile £400 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £514
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.54% -0.24%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £638
90th Percentile £666 £610 £679
England median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £47.07 - £20.07
25th Percentile £49.49 £22.72 £45.88
Median hourly rate £53.52 £25.43 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +110.44% -44.93% -0.43%
75th Percentile £57.54 £28.15 -
90th Percentile £59.96 - £52.78
England median hourly rate £31.49 £34.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.38% -24.75% +3.89%

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 2,226 1,849 2,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.30% 86.60% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 1,039 1,603
10th Percentile £213 £266 £303
25th Percentile £358 £389 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 102 156
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.00 £15.88
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.05 £18.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.95 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -20.13% +46.06%
75th Percentile £55.00 £51.91 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.67 £69.59 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

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 December 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
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 December 2025.

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 December 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 -5 55 £435 -8.53% 170
Cheshire -20 24 £475 +1.28% 61
Lancashire -6 6 £406 -23.53% 63
Merseyside -5 4 £500 -0.10% 27
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 8 (8.99%) SAS
2 4 (4.49%) Confluence
3 3 (3.37%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.12%) Finacle
2 1 (1.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 13 (14.61%) Azure
1 13 (14.61%) GCP
1 13 (14.61%) Power Platform
2 12 (13.48%) AWS
3 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.37%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.25%) OCI
5 1 (1.12%) Alation
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.12%) Collibra
5 1 (1.12%) Datadog
5 1 (1.12%) GitHub
5 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.12%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.12%) Network Security
1 1 (1.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) Power BI
2 8 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.37%) Big Data
3 3 (3.37%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.37%) Metadata
3 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.37%) Tableau
4 2 (2.25%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.25%) Power Query
4 2 (2.25%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.12%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) JIRA
2 2 (2.25%) Git
2 2 (2.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.12%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.12%) fastlane
3 1 (1.12%) Gradle
3 1 (1.12%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) Xcode
3 1 (1.12%) XCTest
General
1 39 (43.82%) Social Skills
2 30 (33.71%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (26.97%) Finance
4 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.11%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.74%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.62%) Banking
8 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Marketing
8 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Automotive
9 1 (1.12%) Aviation
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Local Government
9 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Analyst
2 20 (22.47%) Architect
3 11 (12.36%) Business Analyst
4 8 (8.99%) Lead
5 7 (7.87%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.62%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) Developer
6 5 (5.62%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.49%) Performance Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Senior
8 3 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.37%) Consultant
8 3 (3.37%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) GCP Architect
8 3 (3.37%) Lead Architect
8 3 (3.37%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.37%) Senior Manager
9 2 (2.25%) Designer
9 2 (2.25%) Incident Analyst
9 2 (2.25%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) JSON
1 3 (3.37%) Kafka
1 3 (3.37%) REST
2 2 (2.25%) HTML
3 1 (1.12%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.12%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.12%) CSS
3 1 (1.12%) Jest
3 1 (1.12%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (1.12%) Node.js
3 1 (1.12%) OkHttp
3 1 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.12%) Playwright
3 1 (1.12%) SOAP
3 1 (1.12%) Spring
3 1 (1.12%) SwiftUI
3 1 (1.12%) UIKit
3 1 (1.12%) XGBoost
3 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Credit Risk
1 6 (6.74%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.12%) CMDB
4 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.12%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.12%) Life Science
4 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.12%) NHS
4 1 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.12%) Tandem
4 1 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.62%) Windows
2 3 (3.37%) Mac OS
2 3 (3.37%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.12%) Android
3 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.96%) Analytics
2 25 (28.09%) Agile
3 22 (24.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 22 (24.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (16.85%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (16.85%) Data Modelling
7 14 (15.73%) Change Management
8 13 (14.61%) User Experience
9 12 (13.48%) Roadmaps
10 11 (12.36%) Data Analysis
10 11 (12.36%) Data Governance
10 11 (12.36%) Regulatory Compliance
11 10 (11.24%) Actionable Insight
11 10 (11.24%) Requirements Gathering
12 9 (10.11%) Data Science
12 9 (10.11%) IT Strategy
12 9 (10.11%) Visualisation
13 8 (8.99%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.73%) Python
2 11 (12.36%) SQL
3 7 (7.87%) R
4 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.37%) Bash
6 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.12%) ABAP
7 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.12%) Java
7 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.12%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.12%) Swift
7 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (16.85%) Degree
2 10 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.37%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.25%) CISM
5 2 (2.25%) CISSP
5 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) CBAP
6 1 (1.12%) CISA
6 1 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.12%) CSPO
6 1 (1.12%) GSEC
6 1 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.12%) MBA
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.12%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.12%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.61%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.24%) GDPR
3 8 (8.99%) Accessibility
4 5 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.25%) CRD IV
6 2 (2.25%) FINREP
6 2 (2.25%) IFRS
6 2 (2.25%) NIST
6 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.25%) PMO
6 2 (2.25%) QA
7 1 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.12%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.12%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.12%) SEPA
7 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.37%) SCCM
1 3 (3.37%) Terraform
2 1 (1.12%) Grafana
2 1 (1.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.74%) Google
2 6 (6.74%) Pega
3 5 (5.62%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.49%) Databricks
4 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.37%) Citrix
5 3 (3.37%) SAP
5 3 (3.37%) VMware
6 2 (2.25%) Cognos
6 2 (2.25%) IBM
6 2 (2.25%) Oracle
7 1 (1.12%) ArcSight
7 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.12%) Capita
7 1 (1.12%) Gemalto
7 1 (1.12%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.12%) Informatica
7 1 (1.12%) Saba
7 1 (1.12%) Splunk