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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 44 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 96 86 106
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.72% 4.08% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 4.62% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 40 67
10th Percentile £356 £355 £65
25th Percentile £400 £411 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +3.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £638
90th Percentile £671 £601 £693
England median daily rate £513 £535 £539
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.70% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 12
10th Percentile £31.06 - £20.07
25th Percentile £45.12 £22.72 £25.01
Median hourly rate £50.23 £25.43 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +97.52% -44.57% -11.99%
75th Percentile £58.44 £28.45 £46.18
90th Percentile £60.16 £28.63 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £31.17 £36.33
% change year-on-year +12.28% -14.20% -28.10%

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 2,262 1,861 2,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.57% 88.24% 87.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 1,066 1,602
10th Percentile £213 £280 £306
25th Percentile £358 £390 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £594
90th Percentile £650 £656 £687
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 97 187
10th Percentile £16.49 £16.04 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.75 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.40 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.96% -18.24% -0.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.85 £62.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -27.10% -9.21% +8.57%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +2 59 £442 -7.05% 129
Cheshire -24 26 £475 -5.94% 44
Merseyside -10 6 £500 -0.10% 32
Lancashire -7 5 £406 -1.52% 65
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 (8.33%) SAS
2 7 (7.29%) Confluence
3 3 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.04%) Finacle
2 1 (1.04%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.63%) AWS
1 15 (15.63%) Azure
2 13 (13.54%) GCP
3 12 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.13%) PaaS
6 2 (2.08%) OCI
6 2 (2.08%) SaaS
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.04%) Datadog
7 1 (1.04%) Dataform
7 1 (1.04%) GitHub
7 1 (1.04%) IaaS
7 1 (1.04%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.04%) Serverless
7 1 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.04%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Network Security
1 1 (1.04%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) Power BI
2 8 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.17%) Tableau
4 3 (3.13%) Big Data
4 3 (3.13%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.13%) Metadata
5 2 (2.08%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.08%) Power Query
5 2 (2.08%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.04%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.04%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (11.46%) JIRA
2 3 (3.13%) Git
2 3 (3.13%) GitLab
3 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.04%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.04%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.04%) fastlane
4 1 (1.04%) Gradle
4 1 (1.04%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.04%) MLflow
4 1 (1.04%) Xcode
4 1 (1.04%) XCTest
General
1 44 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (29.17%) Finance
3 11 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (7.29%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Banking
7 4 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Retail
9 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.08%) Legal
9 2 (2.08%) Marketing
10 1 (1.04%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.04%) Automotive
10 1 (1.04%) Aviation
10 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.04%) Law
10 1 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Analyst
2 24 (25.00%) Architect
3 8 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.29%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.29%) Data Architect
4 7 (7.29%) Lead
5 5 (5.21%) Developer
6 4 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (4.17%) Consultant
6 4 (4.17%) Incident Analyst
6 4 (4.17%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (4.17%) Senior
7 3 (3.13%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.13%) GCP Architect
7 3 (3.13%) Implementation Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Implementation Project Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Lead Architect
7 3 (3.13%) Product Manager
7 3 (3.13%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.08%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) Kafka
2 3 (3.13%) JSON
2 3 (3.13%) REST
3 2 (2.08%) HTML
3 2 (2.08%) Middleware
4 1 (1.04%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.04%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.04%) CSS
4 1 (1.04%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.04%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.04%) Jest
4 1 (1.04%) JSON Schema
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.04%) Node.js
4 1 (1.04%) React
4 1 (1.04%) SOAP
4 1 (1.04%) Spring
4 1 (1.04%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.04%) UIKit
4 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.25%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.25%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.13%) CMDB
5 3 (3.13%) Life Science
5 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.13%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.04%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.04%) Tandem
7 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.17%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Mac OS
2 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.04%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.25%) Analytics
2 24 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (22.92%) Agile
3 22 (22.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 21 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 17 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 15 (15.63%) User Experience
9 14 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (14.58%) Change Management
10 12 (12.50%) ETL
11 11 (11.46%) AI
11 11 (11.46%) Data Analysis
11 11 (11.46%) Data Governance
11 11 (11.46%) Regulatory Compliance
12 10 (10.42%) Data Science
12 10 (10.42%) Requirements Gathering
13 9 (9.38%) IT Strategy
13 9 (9.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.54%) Python
2 10 (10.42%) SQL
3 6 (6.25%) R
4 4 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.13%) Bash
6 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.04%) ABAP
7 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.04%) Java
7 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.04%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.04%) Swift
7 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Degree
2 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) CISM
5 2 (2.08%) CISSP
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.04%) CBAP
6 1 (1.04%) CISA
6 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.04%) CSPO
6 1 (1.04%) GSEC
6 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.04%) MBA
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.38%) GDPR
3 8 (8.33%) Accessibility
4 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.08%) CRD IV
6 2 (2.08%) FINREP
6 2 (2.08%) IFRS
6 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
6 2 (2.08%) NIST
6 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.08%) QA
6 2 (2.08%) SEPA
7 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.04%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.04%) ISO 8583
7 1 (1.04%) PMO
7 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.13%) Docker
1 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.21%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.21%) SCCM
2 4 (4.17%) Terraform
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.04%) Grafana
4 1 (1.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.25%) Google
3 6 (6.25%) Pega
4 4 (4.17%) Databricks
4 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.13%) Citrix
5 3 (3.13%) SAP
5 3 (3.13%) VMware
6 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.08%) BMC
6 2 (2.08%) Cognos
6 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.08%) IBM
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle
6 2 (2.08%) Remedy
6 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.04%) Thales
7 1 (1.04%) Workday