Decision-Making Contracts in Northern Ireland

Decision-Making
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 7 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 4.17% 3.42% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.55% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £593 - £155
25th Percentile £600 £635 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £640 £163
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +293.85% -61.76%
75th Percentile £663 £645 £169
90th Percentile £820 - -
UK median daily rate £515 £523 £545
% change year-on-year -1.44% -4.13% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £36.03 - -
25th Percentile £37.58 £18.67 -
Median hourly rate £42.41 £21.10 £13.91
Median % change year-on-year +100.98% +51.69% +36.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 -
90th Percentile £50.78 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £19.38 £43.43
% change year-on-year +63.30% -55.39% -3.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 110 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.26% 75.34% 75.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 54 73
10th Percentile £157 £277 £166
25th Percentile £306 £403 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% -3.68%
75th Percentile £560 £640 £538
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 12
10th Percentile £12.87 - £13.77
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £24.08 £15.38 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +56.53% +0.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £40.83 £23.54 £16.72
90th Percentile £75.85 £31.88 £18.33
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Northern Ireland

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
County Antrim - 7 £625 - 147
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) HBase
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Programme Director
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Big Data Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Budget Management
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Management
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Management
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Scala
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ACCA
2 1 (14.29%) CIMA
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) MiFID
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera