Decision-Making Contracts in the North West

Decision-Making
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 33 77
Rank change year-on-year -13 +44 -28
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 89 130 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.37% 4.68% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 5.56% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 54
10th Percentile £354 £350 £213
25th Percentile £413 £401 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £463 £548
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -15.53% +3.30%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £639
90th Percentile £646 £700 £693
England median daily rate £515 £513 £560
% change year-on-year +0.34% -8.35% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 48 4
10th Percentile £23.63 - £25.45
25th Percentile £25.31 £10.95 £33.20
Median hourly rate £28.75 £11.20 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +156.81% -70.15% -1.48%
75th Percentile £40.63 £16.06 £42.23
90th Percentile £59.75 - £50.73
England median hourly rate £30.81 £18.25 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.79% -57.56% -2.23%

All Process and 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 1,809 2,339 2,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.76% 84.23% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,430 1,894
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £565 £585 £588
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 263 146
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.88
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.18 £20.06
Median hourly rate £31.88 £28.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -8.32% +28.86%
75th Percentile £62.25 £46.18 £45.90
90th Percentile £81.24 £66.61 £60.62
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the North West

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the North West

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 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the North West

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the North West

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 29 June 2025.

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 29 June 2025. 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
Cheshire -2 39 £508 -14.24% 73
Manchester +8 37 £450 -0.55% 275
Merseyside +5 6 £475 +5.56% 46
Cumbria -15 3 - - 5
Lancashire -18 3 £600 - 87
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.99%) Confluence
1 8 (8.99%) IBM Domino
2 2 (2.25%) JBoss
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.25%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (7.87%) MS Visio
2 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.37%) Chatbot
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.25%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.12%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.48%) AWS
2 7 (7.87%) Azure
3 5 (5.62%) GCP
4 4 (4.49%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (4.49%) Azure AI
4 4 (4.49%) Google Gemini
4 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.37%) Figma
5 3 (3.37%) Google Sheets
6 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.25%) SaaS
6 2 (2.25%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.12%) Akamai
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.12%) Asana
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.12%) GitHub
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) Firewall
1 3 (3.37%) Network Security
2 2 (2.25%) VPN
2 2 (2.25%) WAN
3 1 (1.12%) BGP
3 1 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.12%) DMZ
3 1 (1.12%) DNS
3 1 (1.12%) DWDM
3 1 (1.12%) Internet
3 1 (1.12%) IPsec
3 1 (1.12%) L2TP
3 1 (1.12%) MPLS
3 1 (1.12%) Multicast
3 1 (1.12%) OSPF
3 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.12%) SSL
3 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Tableau
2 4 (4.49%) Neo4j
2 4 (4.49%) Power BI
3 3 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.37%) Metadata
4 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.12%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.12%) Looker
4 1 (1.12%) Power Query
4 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.12%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (20.22%) JIRA
2 7 (7.87%) Git
3 2 (2.25%) Gradle
3 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) JUnit
3 2 (2.25%) Maven
3 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.12%) Appium
4 1 (1.12%) JMeter
4 1 (1.12%) Selenium
General
1 31 (34.83%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (33.71%) Finance
3 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
4 13 (14.61%) Legal
5 9 (10.11%) Banking
6 8 (8.99%) Public Sector
7 7 (7.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (6.74%) Manufacturing
8 6 (6.74%) Marketing
9 2 (2.25%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.25%) Retail
9 2 (2.25%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.25%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Local Government
10 1 (1.12%) Military
10 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (14.61%) Analyst
2 9 (10.11%) Business Analyst
3 8 (8.99%) Coordinator
3 8 (8.99%) CRM Coordinator
3 8 (8.99%) Lead
3 8 (8.99%) Senior
3 8 (8.99%) Technical Coordinator
4 6 (6.74%) Engineering Manager
5 5 (5.62%) Architect
6 4 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Designer
6 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 3 (3.37%) Content Designer
7 3 (3.37%) Developer
7 3 (3.37%) Operations Manager
7 3 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.37%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.37%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.62%) PyTorch
1 5 (5.62%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.25%) REST
2 2 (2.25%) SOAP
2 2 (2.25%) Spring
2 2 (2.25%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.25%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (2.25%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.12%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.12%) Middleware
3 1 (1.12%) OLE
3 1 (1.12%) Playwright
3 1 (1.12%) PySpark
3 1 (1.12%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.99%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.74%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (5.62%) CMDB
5 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.37%) Social Media
6 2 (2.25%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Linux
1 2 (2.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.93%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (39.33%) Agile
3 23 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (20.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 17 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (19.10%) Risk Management
6 14 (15.73%) Data Management
6 14 (15.73%) Strategic Thinking
7 13 (14.61%) Project Management
8 12 (13.48%) Process Improvement
8 12 (13.48%) Scrum
9 11 (12.36%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (12.36%) Business Strategy
9 11 (12.36%) Coaching
9 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (11.24%) Business Analysis
10 10 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (10.11%) Change Management
11 9 (10.11%) CRM
11 9 (10.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.24%) Python
2 9 (10.11%) Java
3 7 (7.87%) SQL
4 3 (3.37%) R
4 3 (3.37%) Scala
5 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.12%) C#
6 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (13.48%) Degree
2 8 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.25%) CISM
4 2 (2.25%) CISSP
4 2 (2.25%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.25%) PMP
5 1 (1.12%) CCIE
5 1 (1.12%) CCNP
5 1 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (1.12%) CIMA
5 1 (1.12%) CIPD
5 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.12%) CRISC
5 1 (1.12%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.37%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.37%) GDPR
2 3 (3.37%) PMO
2 3 (3.37%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.25%) NIST
3 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.12%) GRC
4 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.12%) ISO 31000
4 1 (1.12%) NCSC
4 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.37%) Ansible
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.36%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.62%) SAP
4 4 (4.49%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) Ariba
5 2 (2.25%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle
5 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.25%) Splunk
6 1 (1.12%) Arista
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco
6 1 (1.12%) Concur
6 1 (1.12%) Databricks
6 1 (1.12%) F5
6 1 (1.12%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.12%) McAfee
6 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft