Decision Quality Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Decision Quality
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Decision Quality skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Decision Quality 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £449 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £449 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Decision Quality 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,638 1,200 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.17% 88.43% 84.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 791 1,076
10th Percentile £306 £195 £275
25th Percentile £402 £383 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £670 £675 £750
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 60 114
10th Percentile £14.04 £12.62 £11.08
25th Percentile £21.30 £14.32 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.42% -19.42% +21.62%
75th Percentile £67.84 £24.42 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £37.72 £58.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

Decision Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Decision Quality relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Decision Quality job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Decision Quality
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Decision Quality within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Shropshire - 3 £450 -
Decision Quality
England

Decision Quality
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Contingency Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cutover Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 3 (100.00%) Line Management
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality