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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 52 50
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 192 88 74
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.90% 4.03% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 4.53% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 63 46
10th Percentile £343 £338 £365
25th Percentile £425 £388 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £573
90th Percentile £700 £633 £644
England median daily rate £540 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 1
10th Percentile £13.38 - -
25th Percentile £17.15 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £40.45 - £60.00
75th Percentile £65.69 - £62.50
90th Percentile £76.40 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.20 £41.09
% change year-on-year +60.26% -24.07% -10.44%

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 3,242 1,942 2,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.68% 88.92% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,860 1,285 1,158
10th Percentile £295 £299 £294
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.72% -1.40%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £679 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 134 109
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.61 £16.45
25th Percentile £24.18 £17.39 £28.50
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.08% -40.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £73.00 £49.84 £58.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.06 £71.02
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +10 118 £525 +16.67% 391
Cheshire -1 31 £495 +6.34% 88
Lancashire +7 29 £475 - 72
Merseyside -13 8 £563 +12.50% 60
Cumbria - 3 £503 - 15
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 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.56%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.56%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.52%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.58%) AWS
2 24 (12.50%) Azure
3 10 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.69%) GCP
5 6 (3.13%) Serverless
6 4 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.56%) GitHub
7 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.56%) SaaS
8 2 (1.04%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.04%) dbt
8 2 (1.04%) Google Gemini
8 2 (1.04%) IaaS
8 2 (1.04%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.04%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.08%) Firewall
1 4 (2.08%) Network Security
2 3 (1.56%) Internet
3 2 (1.04%) VPN
3 2 (1.04%) WAN
4 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) PABX
4 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) SMS
4 1 (0.52%) SNMP
4 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.52%) VoIP
4 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.21%) Power BI
2 5 (2.60%) Metadata
2 5 (2.60%) Tableau
3 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.52%) Looker
4 1 (0.52%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (2.08%) JIRA
2 2 (1.04%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) Hudson
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) MLflow
3 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 85 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.00%) Finance
3 34 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (6.77%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.73%) Retail
8 10 (5.21%) Banking
9 9 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (3.13%) Legal
11 6 (3.13%) Marketing
12 5 (2.60%) Law
13 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
14 2 (1.04%) Automotive
15 1 (0.52%) Billing
15 1 (0.52%) Local Government
15 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (15.10%) Analyst
2 26 (13.54%) Lead
3 16 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 15 (7.81%) Senior
5 13 (6.77%) Architect
6 12 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 12 (6.25%) Developer
7 9 (4.69%) Programme Manager
8 8 (4.17%) Product Manager
9 7 (3.65%) Senior Manager
9 7 (3.65%) Support Officer
10 6 (3.13%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.13%) Consultant
10 6 (3.13%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.60%) Lead Developer
11 5 (2.60%) Security Specialist
11 5 (2.60%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.08%) Administrator
12 4 (2.08%) Lead Java Developer
12 4 (2.08%) Technical Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.13%) Node.js
2 5 (2.60%) PySpark
3 4 (2.08%) Pandas
3 4 (2.08%) Spring
3 4 (2.08%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.08%) Terraform
4 3 (1.56%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.56%) Great Expectations
4 3 (1.56%) Kafka
4 3 (1.56%) OpenID
5 2 (1.04%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.04%) CrewAI
5 2 (1.04%) LangChain
5 2 (1.04%) OAuth
5 2 (1.04%) React
5 2 (1.04%) RESTful
6 1 (0.52%) NumPy
6 1 (0.52%) REST
6 1 (0.52%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.29%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.77%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.73%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.13%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.60%) NHS
8 4 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.56%) CMDB
9 3 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.56%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.56%) Life Science
10 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.04%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.60%) Windows
2 2 (1.04%) Android
2 2 (1.04%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.42%) Continuous Improvement
2 56 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 52 (27.08%) Agile
4 40 (20.83%) Roadmaps
5 39 (20.31%) Analytics
6 37 (19.27%) AI
7 35 (18.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 31 (16.15%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (14.58%) Risk Management
10 26 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (11.46%) Migration
12 21 (10.94%) Data Analysis
12 21 (10.94%) Software Engineering
13 20 (10.42%) Mentoring
13 20 (10.42%) Project Management
14 17 (8.85%) Generative AI
14 17 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (8.33%) ERP
15 16 (8.33%) Validation
15 16 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.81%) SQL
2 12 (6.25%) Python
3 9 (4.69%) Java
4 7 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.60%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.52%) Go
7 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 27 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.42%) Degree
4 8 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.60%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.08%) PMP
7 3 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.56%) CISSP
7 3 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.04%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.04%) CISA
8 2 (1.04%) CISM
8 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.04%) CRISC
8 2 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.52%) ACSP
9 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.52%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.54%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.85%) NIST
3 14 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (6.77%) GRC
5 12 (6.25%) NCSC
6 9 (4.69%) QA
7 6 (3.13%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.56%) GDPR
8 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 3 (1.56%) PMO
8 3 (1.56%) SLA
9 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Docker
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.04%) CASB
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.04%) SCCM
1 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.52%) Istio
2 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.52%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 22 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.25%) SAP
3 9 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.13%) Google
5 4 (2.08%) Databricks
5 4 (2.08%) Facebook
6 3 (1.56%) Cisco
6 3 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.56%) Workday
6 3 (1.56%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.04%) Ariba
7 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle
8 1 (0.52%) F5
8 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.52%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.52%) Planview
8 1 (0.52%) Splunk