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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 54 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 189 88 73
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 4.86% 4.01% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.87% 4.52% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 63 46
10th Percentile £337 £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 £537 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +4.27% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 1
10th Percentile £13.09 - -
25th Percentile £18.19 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £30.90 - £60.00
75th Percentile £60.75 - £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 - -
England median hourly rate £42.77 £31.49 £42.50
% change year-on-year +35.81% -25.91% -7.37%

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 3,220 1,947 1,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.78% 88.82% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,862 1,284 1,148
10th Percentile £295 £300 £300
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 £675 £677
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 131 107
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.51 £16.40
25th Percentile £24.72 £17.34 £27.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.90% -40.84% +21.43%
75th Percentile £73.25 £51.63 £57.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.45 £70.90
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +12 116 £525 +16.67% 510
Cheshire 0 31 £490 +5.26% 119
Lancashire +2 27 £475 - 88
Merseyside -15 8 £563 +12.50% 75
Cumbria - 3 £503 - 17
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 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.59%) Confluence
3 2 (1.06%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.59%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.53%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.53%) SAP MDG-F
3 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.29%) AWS
2 24 (12.70%) Azure
3 10 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.76%) GCP
5 5 (2.65%) Serverless
6 4 (2.12%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.59%) GitHub
7 3 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.59%) SaaS
8 2 (1.06%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.06%) dbt
8 2 (1.06%) Google Gemini
8 2 (1.06%) IaaS
8 2 (1.06%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.06%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.53%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.53%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.12%) Firewall
1 4 (2.12%) Network Security
2 3 (1.59%) Internet
3 2 (1.06%) VPN
3 2 (1.06%) WAN
4 1 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.53%) LAN
4 1 (0.53%) PABX
4 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.53%) SMS
4 1 (0.53%) SNMP
4 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.53%) VoIP
4 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.29%) Power BI
2 5 (2.65%) Metadata
2 5 (2.65%) Tableau
3 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.53%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.53%) Looker
4 1 (0.53%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (2.12%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Hudson
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) MLflow
3 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 83 (43.92%) Social Skills
2 48 (25.40%) Finance
3 34 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.94%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (6.35%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.82%) Retail
8 10 (5.29%) Banking
9 7 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.17%) Legal
11 5 (2.65%) Law
11 5 (2.65%) Marketing
12 3 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.06%) Automotive
14 1 (0.53%) Billing
14 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (15.87%) Analyst
2 27 (14.29%) Lead
3 16 (8.47%) Project Manager
4 15 (7.94%) Senior
5 14 (7.41%) Architect
6 12 (6.35%) Data Analyst
6 12 (6.35%) Developer
7 9 (4.76%) Programme Manager
8 8 (4.23%) Product Manager
9 7 (3.70%) Senior Manager
9 7 (3.70%) Support Officer
10 6 (3.17%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.17%) Consultant
11 5 (2.65%) Lead Architect
11 5 (2.65%) Lead Developer
11 5 (2.65%) Security Specialist
11 5 (2.65%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.65%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.12%) Java Developer
12 4 (2.12%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.17%) Node.js
2 5 (2.65%) PySpark
3 4 (2.12%) Pandas
3 4 (2.12%) Spring
3 4 (2.12%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.12%) Terraform
4 3 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.59%) Great Expectations
4 3 (1.59%) Kafka
4 3 (1.59%) OpenID
5 2 (1.06%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.06%) CrewAI
5 2 (1.06%) LangChain
5 2 (1.06%) OAuth
5 2 (1.06%) React
5 2 (1.06%) RESTful
6 1 (0.53%) NumPy
6 1 (0.53%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.88%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.65%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.65%) NHS
7 4 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.59%) CMDB
8 3 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.59%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.59%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.06%) Life Science
9 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.65%) Windows
2 2 (1.06%) Android
2 2 (1.06%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 56 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 51 (26.98%) Agile
4 40 (21.16%) Roadmaps
5 38 (20.11%) Analytics
6 35 (18.52%) AI
6 35 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 31 (16.40%) Cybersecurity
8 28 (14.81%) Risk Management
9 25 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (11.64%) Migration
11 20 (10.58%) Data Analysis
11 20 (10.58%) Mentoring
11 20 (10.58%) Software Engineering
12 18 (9.52%) Project Management
12 18 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (8.47%) Generative AI
13 16 (8.47%) Validation
13 16 (8.47%) Workshop Facilitation
14 15 (7.94%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.94%) SQL
2 12 (6.35%) Python
3 8 (4.23%) Java
4 7 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.65%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.53%) Go
7 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.53%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 28 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.17%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.05%) Degree
4 8 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.65%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.12%) PMP
7 3 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.59%) CISSP
7 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.06%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.06%) CISA
8 2 (1.06%) CISM
8 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.06%) CRISC
8 2 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.53%) ACSP
9 1 (0.53%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.53%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.76%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.99%) NIST
3 14 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (6.88%) GRC
5 12 (6.35%) NCSC
6 9 (4.76%) QA
7 6 (3.17%) Accessibility
8 4 (2.12%) SLA
9 3 (1.59%) GDPR
9 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 3 (1.59%) PMO
10 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.06%) Docker
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.06%) CASB
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.06%) SCCM
1 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.53%) Istio
2 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 21 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.35%) SAP
3 9 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.17%) Google
5 4 (2.12%) Databricks
5 4 (2.12%) Facebook
6 3 (1.59%) Cisco
6 3 (1.59%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.59%) Workday
6 3 (1.59%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.06%) Ariba
7 2 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle
8 1 (0.53%) Adobe
8 1 (0.53%) BMC
8 1 (0.53%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.53%) Intel
8 1 (0.53%) Planview
8 1 (0.53%) Siemens