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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 43 29
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 +52
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 136 92 135
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.09% 4.73% 5.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 5.25% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 54 67
10th Percentile £363 £359 £365
25th Percentile £400 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £501 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% +8.32% -12.53%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £628
90th Percentile £648 £662 £693
England median daily rate £512 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.43% - -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% -79.37%
75th Percentile £67.43 £29.69 £16.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £51.25 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.08 £19.38
% change year-on-year +60.90% +60.39% -58.11%

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 2,772 1,752 2,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.27% 90.08% 85.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,656 1,145 1,449
10th Percentile £300 £300 £306
25th Percentile £395 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £561 £588
90th Percentile £670 £662 £676
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 97 263
10th Percentile £17.09 £13.88 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £14.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.40 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.92% +16.92% -25.71%
75th Percentile £74.26 £63.40 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.80 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 0 89 £449 +0.34% 114
Cheshire -23 27 £483 -5.53% 23
Merseyside -17 6 £525 -9.09% 18
Cumbria -8 5 £507 - 1
Lancashire -8 5 £293 -51.21% 51
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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.74%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Maximo
1 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.74%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.74%) SAP MDG-F
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.85%) AWS
2 25 (18.38%) Azure
3 8 (5.88%) GCP
4 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
5 6 (4.41%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.68%) PaaS
6 5 (3.68%) Serverless
7 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.94%) SaaS
8 3 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.21%) GitHub
8 3 (2.21%) IaaS
8 3 (2.21%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.47%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) DHCP
1 1 (0.74%) DNS
1 1 (0.74%) Firewall
1 1 (0.74%) Internet
1 1 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.74%) Network Security
1 1 (0.74%) PABX
1 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.41%) Power BI
2 4 (2.94%) Metadata
3 3 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.47%) DocumentDB
4 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.47%) Tableau
5 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.74%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.74%) GIS
5 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.74%) Looker
5 1 (0.74%) Power Query
5 1 (0.74%) QGIS
5 1 (0.74%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.74%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (10.29%) JIRA
2 5 (3.68%) GitLab
3 4 (2.94%) Git
4 3 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.74%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.74%) fastlane
5 1 (0.74%) Gradle
5 1 (0.74%) Hudson
5 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.74%) MLflow
5 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.74%) Xcode
5 1 (0.74%) XCTest
General
1 69 (50.74%) Social Skills
2 36 (26.47%) Finance
3 27 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.29%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Banking
8 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Law
8 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.21%) Marketing
9 3 (2.21%) Retail
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 27 (19.85%) Analyst
2 24 (17.65%) Lead
3 17 (12.50%) Architect
4 16 (11.76%) Senior
5 9 (6.62%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 8 (5.88%) User Experience Researcher
7 7 (5.15%) Developer
8 6 (4.41%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.41%) Lead Architect
8 6 (4.41%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.68%) Designer
9 5 (3.68%) Engagement Manager
9 5 (3.68%) Incident Analyst
9 5 (3.68%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.68%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (2.94%) Consultant
10 4 (2.94%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) Node.js
2 6 (4.41%) AngularJS
2 6 (4.41%) React
3 5 (3.68%) PySpark
4 4 (2.94%) Pandas
4 4 (2.94%) Vue
5 3 (2.21%) Great Expectations
5 3 (2.21%) Kafka
6 2 (1.47%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.47%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.47%) Middleware
6 2 (1.47%) OAuth
6 2 (1.47%) OpenID
6 2 (1.47%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.47%) REST
6 2 (1.47%) RESTful
6 2 (1.47%) Spring
6 2 (1.47%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.74%) CSS
7 1 (0.74%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.09%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.62%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.15%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.21%) CMDB
6 3 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.21%) Life Science
6 3 (2.21%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.47%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) CCTV
8 1 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.41%) Windows
2 4 (2.94%) Mac OS
2 4 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.21%) Android
3 3 (2.21%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.21%) Linux
4 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.56%) Agile
2 39 (28.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (25.74%) Roadmaps
4 32 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (19.85%) Analytics
7 23 (16.91%) Mentoring
8 22 (16.18%) User Experience
9 18 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (13.24%) Workflow
10 17 (12.50%) AI
11 16 (11.76%) DevOps
11 16 (11.76%) Migration
11 16 (11.76%) Risk Management
12 15 (11.03%) Requirements Gathering
13 14 (10.29%) Project Management
14 13 (9.56%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (9.56%) Data Analysis
14 13 (9.56%) Data Protection
14 13 (9.56%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.56%) SQL
2 10 (7.35%) Python
3 8 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 8 (5.88%) TypeScript
4 5 (3.68%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.94%) Java
6 3 (2.21%) Bash
7 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.74%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.50%) Degree
3 16 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.68%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.21%) CISSP
7 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.21%) PMP
8 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.47%) CISA
8 2 (1.47%) CISM
8 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.47%) CRISC
9 1 (0.74%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.74%) CIMA
9 1 (0.74%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.18%) Data Quality
2 17 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.41%) GDPR
3 6 (4.41%) QA
4 5 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.94%) SLA
6 3 (2.21%) GRC
6 3 (2.21%) NIST
6 3 (2.21%) PMO
7 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.74%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.74%) NCSC
8 1 (0.74%) SEPA
8 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.15%) Docker
2 6 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (6.62%) Terraform
2 7 (5.15%) SCCM
3 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.62%) SAP
2 9 (6.62%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.41%) Google
4 4 (2.94%) Databricks
4 4 (2.94%) Oracle
4 4 (2.94%) Workday
5 3 (2.21%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.21%) Citrix
5 3 (2.21%) VMware
6 2 (1.47%) BMC
6 2 (1.47%) Cisco
6 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.47%) IBM
6 2 (1.47%) Remedy
6 2 (1.47%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.74%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.74%) IFS
7 1 (0.74%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.74%) Zscaler