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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 39 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +36
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 132 93 143
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.14% 4.73% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 5.23% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 47 69
10th Percentile £375 £354 £181
25th Percentile £400 £416 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +5.95% -7.50%
75th Percentile £556 £551 £588
90th Percentile £678 £618 £691
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 48
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% -81.56%
75th Percentile £67.43 £29.69 £16.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £51.25 -
England median hourly rate £60.25 £30.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +100.83% +62.16% -64.12%

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 2,666 1,778 2,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.68% 90.35% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,656 1,149 1,519
10th Percentile £275 £300 £306
25th Percentile £375 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £653 £660 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 108 246
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.97 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.66 £13.36
Median hourly rate £51.02 £31.88 £21.56
Median % change year-on-year +60.04% +47.90% -38.41%
75th Percentile £74.01 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.96 £57.50
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +6 88 £442 -1.89% 139
Cheshire -22 26 £487 -4.26% 44
Merseyside -15 7 £525 -9.09% 17
Lancashire -6 5 £293 -51.21% 52
Cumbria -1 3 £507 -
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 9 (6.82%) Confluence
2 3 (2.27%) SAS
3 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.76%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (6.06%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Maximo
2 1 (0.76%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.76%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.76%) SAP MDG-F
2 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.94%) AWS
2 21 (15.91%) Azure
3 9 (6.82%) GCP
4 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.79%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.79%) PaaS
5 5 (3.79%) Serverless
6 4 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.03%) SaaS
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.27%) IaaS
7 3 (2.27%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.52%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.52%) GitHub
8 2 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) DHCP
1 1 (0.76%) DNS
1 1 (0.76%) Internet
1 1 (0.76%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.30%) Power BI
2 6 (4.55%) Metadata
3 3 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.27%) Tableau
4 2 (1.52%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.52%) DocumentDB
4 2 (1.52%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.52%) Power Query
4 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.76%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.76%) GIS
5 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.76%) QGIS
5 1 (0.76%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.76%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (11.36%) JIRA
2 5 (3.79%) GitLab
3 4 (3.03%) Git
4 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.76%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.76%) fastlane
5 1 (0.76%) Gradle
5 1 (0.76%) Hudson
5 1 (0.76%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.76%) MLflow
5 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.76%) Xcode
5 1 (0.76%) XCTest
General
1 67 (50.76%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.03%) Finance
3 30 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.85%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (7.58%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (6.06%) Banking
8 5 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.03%) Law
10 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.52%) Legal
10 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.52%) Marketing
10 2 (1.52%) Retail
11 1 (0.76%) Advertising
11 1 (0.76%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (19.70%) Analyst
2 24 (18.18%) Lead
3 22 (16.67%) Architect
4 16 (12.12%) Senior
5 9 (6.82%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.30%) Developer
6 7 (5.30%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.30%) User Experience Researcher
7 6 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) Lead Architect
7 6 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (3.79%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.79%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (3.03%) Consultant
9 4 (3.03%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.03%) Data Manager
9 4 (3.03%) Incident Analyst
9 4 (3.03%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.06%) Node.js
2 6 (4.55%) React
3 5 (3.79%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.79%) Kafka
3 5 (3.79%) PySpark
4 4 (3.03%) Pandas
4 4 (3.03%) Vue
5 3 (2.27%) Great Expectations
6 2 (1.52%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.52%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.52%) Middleware
6 2 (1.52%) OAuth
6 2 (1.52%) OpenID
6 2 (1.52%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.52%) REST
6 2 (1.52%) Spring
6 2 (1.52%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.76%) JSON
7 1 (0.76%) RESTful
7 1 (0.76%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.30%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.79%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.27%) CMDB
6 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.27%) Life Science
6 3 (2.27%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.27%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.03%) Windows
2 3 (2.27%) Mac OS
2 3 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.52%) Android
3 2 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.52%) Linux
4 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.82%) Agile
2 33 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (23.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (20.45%) Analytics
6 25 (18.94%) Roadmaps
7 20 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 20 (15.15%) User Experience
8 19 (14.39%) Mentoring
9 17 (12.88%) AI
9 17 (12.88%) Workflow
10 16 (12.12%) Migration
11 15 (11.36%) DevOps
12 14 (10.61%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (9.85%) Data Analysis
13 13 (9.85%) Project Management
13 13 (9.85%) Risk Management
13 13 (9.85%) User Research
14 12 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
14 12 (9.09%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.33%) SQL
2 9 (6.82%) Python
3 8 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 7 (5.30%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.79%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.27%) Bash
6 3 (2.27%) Java
7 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.76%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.76%) R
7 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.61%) Degree
3 13 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.27%) CISSP
6 3 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.27%) PMP
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.52%) CISA
7 2 (1.52%) CISM
7 2 (1.52%) CRISC
8 1 (0.76%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.76%) ACCA
8 1 (0.76%) CIMA
8 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.76%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.94%) Data Quality
2 16 (12.12%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.30%) QA
4 6 (4.55%) GDPR
5 5 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.27%) GRC
6 3 (2.27%) PMO
6 3 (2.27%) SLA
7 2 (1.52%) CRD IV
7 2 (1.52%) FINREP
7 2 (1.52%) IFRS
7 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (1.52%) NIST
7 2 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.76%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.76%) NCSC
8 1 (0.76%) SEPA
8 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Docker
2 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (8.33%) Terraform
2 7 (5.30%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.55%) SCCM
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.76%) Ansible
5 1 (0.76%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.82%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.06%) SAP
4 6 (4.55%) Google
5 5 (3.79%) Workday
6 4 (3.03%) Oracle
7 3 (2.27%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.27%) Citrix
7 3 (2.27%) VMware
8 2 (1.52%) BMC
8 2 (1.52%) Cognos
8 2 (1.52%) Databricks
8 2 (1.52%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.52%) IBM
8 2 (1.52%) Remedy
8 2 (1.52%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.76%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.76%) IFS