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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 49 44
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +18
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 105 83 113
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.94% 3.95% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 4.46% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 38 78
10th Percentile £363 £354 £187
25th Percentile £400 £408 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £469
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +2.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £551 £547 £636
90th Percentile £674 £604 £708
England median daily rate £510 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -5.34% +2.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £33.85 - £10.95
25th Percentile £45.23 £22.72 £20.07
Median hourly rate £55.00 £26.47 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year +107.82% -0.73% -58.98%
75th Percentile £60.16 £29.06 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.94 £29.63 -
England median hourly rate £37.75 £31.35 £28.25
% change year-on-year +20.42% +10.96% -47.26%

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 2,318 1,859 2,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.01% 88.48% 86.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,518 1,097 1,655
10th Percentile £213 £275 £306
25th Percentile £358 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 98 211
10th Percentile £16.41 £16.19 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.85 £22.72 £15.84
Median hourly rate £42.69 £31.51 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.46% +5.03% -20.00%
75th Percentile £59.38 £52.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.58 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - +1.21%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +3 66 £442 -2.97% 120
Cheshire -21 27 £475 -5.94% 47
Merseyside -9 6 £500 -0.10% 22
Lancashire - 5 £406 - 58
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 (8.57%) Confluence
2 8 (7.62%) SAS
3 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.95%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.95%) Moodle
Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.86%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Finacle
2 1 (0.95%) Maximo
2 1 (0.95%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.14%) AWS
2 17 (16.19%) Azure
3 13 (12.38%) GCP
4 12 (11.43%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.76%) PaaS
7 4 (3.81%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.86%) IaaS
8 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.86%) SaaS
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.90%) OCI
9 2 (1.90%) Serverless
9 2 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.95%) Collibra
10 1 (0.95%) Dataform
10 1 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.95%) LangSmith
10 1 (0.95%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) DHCP
1 1 (0.95%) DNS
1 1 (0.95%) Network Security
1 1 (0.95%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.43%) Power BI
2 8 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.81%) Tableau
4 3 (2.86%) Big Data
4 3 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.86%) Metadata
5 2 (1.90%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.90%) DocumentDB
5 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.90%) Power Query
5 2 (1.90%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.95%) GIS
6 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.95%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (3.81%) Git
2 4 (3.81%) GitLab
3 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.95%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.95%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.95%) fastlane
4 1 (0.95%) Gradle
4 1 (0.95%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.95%) MLflow
4 1 (0.95%) Xcode
4 1 (0.95%) XCTest
General
1 48 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.57%) Finance
3 27 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.38%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.71%) Banking
8 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.86%) Retail
10 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.90%) Legal
10 2 (1.90%) Marketing
11 1 (0.95%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.95%) Automotive
11 1 (0.95%) Aviation
11 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.95%) Local Government
11 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (24.76%) Analyst
1 26 (24.76%) Architect
2 8 (7.62%) Business Analyst
2 8 (7.62%) Lead
3 7 (6.67%) Data Architect
3 7 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 5 (4.76%) Developer
5 4 (3.81%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (3.81%) Consultant
5 4 (3.81%) Incident Analyst
5 4 (3.81%) Performance Analyst
5 4 (3.81%) Product Manager
5 4 (3.81%) Senior
6 3 (2.86%) Designer
6 3 (2.86%) GCP Architect
6 3 (2.86%) Lead Architect
6 3 (2.86%) Service Designer
6 3 (2.86%) User Experience Researcher
6 3 (2.86%) UX Designer
6 3 (2.86%) UX Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) Kafka
2 3 (2.86%) JSON
2 3 (2.86%) REST
3 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.90%) HTML
3 2 (1.90%) Middleware
3 2 (1.90%) Node.js
3 2 (1.90%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.90%) React
4 1 (0.95%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.95%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.95%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (0.95%) Jest
4 1 (0.95%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.95%) Playwright
4 1 (0.95%) Retrofit
4 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.95%) UIKit
4 1 (0.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.71%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.71%) Credit Risk
3 6 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.86%) CMDB
6 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.86%) Life Science
6 3 (2.86%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.95%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.81%) Windows
2 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
2 3 (2.86%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.95%) Android
3 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.95%) Linux
3 1 (0.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.57%) Analytics
2 28 (26.67%) Agile
3 27 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (21.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 19 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (17.14%) Data Modelling
7 18 (17.14%) Roadmaps
8 17 (16.19%) User Experience
9 14 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (12.38%) Change Management
10 13 (12.38%) Data Analysis
11 12 (11.43%) ETL
11 12 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (10.48%) AI
12 11 (10.48%) Data Governance
12 11 (10.48%) Regulatory Compliance
13 10 (9.52%) Data Science
14 9 (8.57%) IT Strategy
14 9 (8.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.33%) Python
2 10 (9.52%) SQL
3 6 (5.71%) R
4 5 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.86%) Bash
6 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.95%) ABAP
7 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.95%) Java
7 1 (0.95%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.95%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.95%) Swift
7 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) Degree
2 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.90%) CISM
5 2 (1.90%) CISSP
5 2 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.95%) CISA
6 1 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.95%) CSPO
6 1 (0.95%) GSEC
6 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.95%) MBA
6 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.95%) PMP
6 1 (0.95%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.48%) Accessibility
3 9 (8.57%) GDPR
4 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.90%) CRD IV
6 2 (1.90%) FINREP
6 2 (1.90%) IFRS
6 2 (1.90%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.90%) NIST
6 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.90%) PMO
6 2 (1.90%) QA
6 2 (1.90%) SEPA
7 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.95%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.95%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.95%) SLA
7 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.81%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.81%) Docker
2 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (5.71%) Terraform
2 5 (4.76%) SCCM
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.95%) Ansible
4 1 (0.95%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.95%) Grafana
4 1 (0.95%) QRadar
4 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.71%) Google
3 6 (5.71%) Pega
4 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.81%) SAP
5 3 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.86%) Citrix
5 3 (2.86%) Databricks
5 3 (2.86%) IBM
5 3 (2.86%) VMware
6 2 (1.90%) BMC
6 2 (1.90%) Cognos
6 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.90%) Oracle
6 2 (1.90%) Remedy
6 2 (1.90%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.95%) Gemalto
7 1 (0.95%) Informatica
7 1 (0.95%) Saba