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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 45 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 -12 +47
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 120 88 142
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.79% 4.56% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 5.04% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 50 68
10th Percentile £375 £355 £167
25th Percentile £400 £421 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £499 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.27% +5.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £551 £573 £626
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% -81.56%
75th Percentile £61.57 £29.69 £16.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £51.25 -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £30.81 £18.00
% change year-on-year +90.72% +71.14% -65.47%

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 2,654 1,747 2,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.80% 90.57% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,651 1,134 1,535
10th Percentile £263 £300 £308
25th Percentile £375 £391 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -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 242 109 243
10th Percentile £19.82 £16.21 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £13.16
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.14% +51.24% -40.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.15 £52.61
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.00
% change year-on-year +30.84% -6.59% -9.33%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +10 76 £442 -1.23% 107
Cheshire -25 28 £487 -6.35% 31
Merseyside -17 7 £456 -8.84% 19
Lancashire -12 4 £307 -48.92% 50
Cumbria -2 3 £507 - 1
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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 6 (5.00%) SAS
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Maximo
1 2 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.83%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.17%) AWS
1 23 (19.17%) Azure
2 11 (9.17%) GCP
3 8 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.17%) PaaS
5 4 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.50%) IaaS
6 3 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.50%) SaaS
6 3 (2.50%) Serverless
6 3 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.67%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.67%) GitHub
7 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.83%) dbt
8 1 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) DHCP
1 1 (0.83%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.67%) Power BI
2 6 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.00%) Metadata
3 3 (2.50%) Big Data
3 3 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.67%) DocumentDB
4 2 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.67%) Power Query
4 2 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.67%) Tableau
5 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.83%) GIS
5 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.83%) QGIS
5 1 (0.83%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (13.33%) JIRA
2 5 (4.17%) GitLab
3 4 (3.33%) Git
4 3 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.83%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.83%) fastlane
5 1 (0.83%) Gradle
5 1 (0.83%) Hudson
5 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.83%) MLflow
5 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.83%) Xcode
5 1 (0.83%) XCTest
General
1 61 (50.83%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.50%) Finance
3 30 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.83%) Banking
8 5 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.50%) Law
10 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Legal
10 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.67%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Advertising
11 1 (0.83%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.83%) Automotive
11 1 (0.83%) Aviation
11 1 (0.83%) Local Government
11 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (21.67%) Architect
2 22 (18.33%) Analyst
3 18 (15.00%) Lead
4 11 (9.17%) Senior
5 9 (7.50%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.83%) Developer
7 5 (4.17%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.17%) User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.33%) Consultant
8 4 (3.33%) Data Manager
8 4 (3.33%) Designer
8 4 (3.33%) Engagement Manager
8 4 (3.33%) Lead Architect
8 4 (3.33%) Service Designer
8 4 (3.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) Node.js
2 5 (4.17%) Kafka
2 5 (4.17%) React
3 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.50%) PySpark
4 3 (2.50%) Vue
5 2 (1.67%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.67%) Middleware
5 2 (1.67%) Pandas
5 2 (1.67%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.67%) REST
5 2 (1.67%) Spring
5 2 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.83%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.83%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.83%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (0.83%) LangChain
6 1 (0.83%) OkHttp
6 1 (0.83%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.83%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.33%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.50%) CMDB
6 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.50%) Life Science
6 3 (2.50%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) Blog
8 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.50%) Mac OS
1 3 (2.50%) Windows
1 3 (2.50%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.67%) Android
2 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.00%) Agile
2 31 (25.83%) Analytics
2 31 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (17.50%) Roadmaps
6 20 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (16.67%) User Experience
7 18 (15.00%) Data Analysis
7 18 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 17 (14.17%) Data Modelling
9 16 (13.33%) Workflow
10 15 (12.50%) AI
10 15 (12.50%) Data Governance
10 15 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
11 14 (11.67%) DevOps
11 14 (11.67%) ETL
11 14 (11.67%) Project Management
12 13 (10.83%) Risk Management
13 12 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.17%) Python
1 11 (9.17%) SQL
2 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.33%) R
4 3 (2.50%) Bash
4 3 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.83%) Objective-C
5 1 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Degree
1 16 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.50%) CISM
5 3 (2.50%) CISSP
5 3 (2.50%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.50%) PMP
6 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.67%) CISA
6 2 (1.67%) CRISC
6 2 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.83%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.67%) Accessibility
3 9 (7.50%) GDPR
4 6 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.00%) QA
5 3 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.50%) GRC
5 3 (2.50%) NIST
5 3 (2.50%) PMO
6 2 (1.67%) CRD IV
6 2 (1.67%) FINREP
6 2 (1.67%) IFRS
6 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (1.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.83%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.83%) SEPA
7 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) Docker
2 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Terraform
2 7 (5.83%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.17%) SCCM
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.83%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.83%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.50%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.00%) SAP
4 5 (4.17%) Google
5 4 (3.33%) Oracle
5 4 (3.33%) Pega
6 3 (2.50%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.50%) Citrix
6 3 (2.50%) Databricks
6 3 (2.50%) VMware
7 2 (1.67%) BMC
7 2 (1.67%) Cognos
7 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.67%) IBM
7 2 (1.67%) Remedy
7 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.67%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.67%) Workday
8 1 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.83%) Informatica