Decision-Making Contracts in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 36 38 69
Rank change year-on-year +2 +31 +7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 67 82 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.98% 4.21% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.64% 5.01% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 66 47
10th Percentile £301 £263 £350
25th Percentile £366 £350 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £625
90th Percentile £695 £638 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £16.15 £27.63 -
Median hourly rate £17.59 £28.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.74% - -
75th Percentile £18.45 £28.88 -
90th Percentile £18.62 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £51.57
% change year-on-year +62.16% -64.12% +21.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
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-Making within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +8 28 £425 +2.41% 75
Warwickshire -1 9 £625 +38.89% 27
Shropshire +4 8 £315 -21.25% 5
Worcestershire 0 6 £575 +9.52% 8
Staffordshire -2 6 £400 +14.29% 60
Solihull - 3 £500 - 8
Coventry +2 2 £513 -10.87% 11
Herefordshire - 1 £400 - 2
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.97%) Apache
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.48%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) Power Platform
2 7 (10.45%) AWS
3 4 (5.97%) Azure
3 4 (5.97%) Mimecast
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (4.48%) AWS KMS
4 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.48%) Route 53
5 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.99%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.49%) 5G
2 1 (1.49%) Internet
2 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.49%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.49%) Modbus
2 1 (1.49%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) Power BI
2 4 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.48%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.99%) Power Query
4 2 (2.99%) Tableau
5 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.49%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.49%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.49%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (4.48%) DbUnit
2 3 (4.48%) Git
2 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.48%) jMock
2 3 (4.48%) JUnit
2 3 (4.48%) Maven
2 3 (4.48%) Mockito
2 3 (4.48%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.91%) Finance
3 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.46%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Legal
5 3 (4.48%) Local Government
5 3 (4.48%) Marketing
5 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Games
6 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.99%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Billing
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (19.40%) Lead
2 10 (14.93%) Analyst
3 8 (11.94%) Developer
4 6 (8.96%) Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Senior
7 3 (4.48%) Unified Communications Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Accountant
8 2 (2.99%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Python Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (4.48%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.48%) Bootstrap
2 3 (4.48%) Hibernate
2 3 (4.48%) JPA
2 3 (4.48%) PowerMock
2 3 (4.48%) PySpark
2 3 (4.48%) REST
2 3 (4.48%) RESTful
2 3 (4.48%) SOAP
2 3 (4.48%) Spring
2 3 (4.48%) Spring Batch
2 3 (4.48%) Spring Boot
2 3 (4.48%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (4.48%) Spring Integration
2 3 (4.48%) Web Services
3 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (2.99%) IoT
2 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.99%) Replication
2 2 (2.99%) SCADA
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.49%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.49%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.49%) NB-IoT
3 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (23.88%) Data Analysis
3 15 (22.39%) Analytics
4 14 (20.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 14 (20.90%) Workflow
5 13 (19.40%) Agile
5 13 (19.40%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (17.91%) User Experience
7 10 (14.93%) Change Management
7 10 (14.93%) Migration
7 10 (14.93%) Visualisation
8 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (11.94%) Data Modelling
10 7 (10.45%) Data Governance
10 7 (10.45%) DevOps
10 7 (10.45%) Project Management
10 7 (10.45%) Risk Management
11 6 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (8.96%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.39%) SQL
2 6 (8.96%) Python
3 5 (7.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.48%) Java
5 2 (2.99%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) Degree
4 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.99%) CISM
7 2 (2.99%) CISSP
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.49%) PMP
8 1 (1.49%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.97%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) NCSC
3 2 (2.99%) PMO
4 1 (1.49%) GAAP
4 1 (1.49%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Postfix
3 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Grafana
1 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.99%) Ansible
2 2 (2.99%) Kibana
2 2 (2.99%) logstash
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Atlassian
3 7 (10.45%) SAP
4 4 (5.97%) Cisco
4 4 (5.97%) Proofpoint
5 3 (4.48%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle
6 2 (2.99%) Databricks
7 1 (1.49%) Ariba
7 1 (1.49%) Qualys
7 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow