Decision-Making Contracts in Staffordshire

Decision-Making
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 6 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 8.96% 9.52% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 11.36% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £383 £298 £406
25th Percentile £394 £302 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -39.13% -8.00%
75th Percentile - £516 £650
90th Percentile - £563 -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 88 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 88.06% 83.81% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 61 90
10th Percentile £140 £213 £163
25th Percentile £150 £325 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £575
90th Percentile £553 £538 £699
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 2
10th Percentile £12.40 £13.87 -
25th Percentile £13.78 £15.13 -
Median hourly rate £17.62 £40.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -55.95% +78.49% +17.64%
75th Percentile £20.24 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £23.82 £56.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Staffordshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Staffordshire

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Staffordshire

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Stoke-on-Trent +2 4 £400 +28.41% 37
Stafford - 1 - - 4
Decision-Making
West Midlands

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Mimecast
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Messaging Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
1 4 (66.67%) PLM
1 4 (66.67%) Strategic Planning
1 4 (66.67%) System Testing
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Proofpoint