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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 40 58
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 +20
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 70 80 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.04% 4.12% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.68% 4.94% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 60 45
10th Percentile £300 £235 £350
25th Percentile £341 £359 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +15.07%
75th Percentile £588 £564 £650
90th Percentile £638 £628 £740
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £15.97 - -
25th Percentile £17.01 £27.63 -
Median hourly rate £18.74 £33.93 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.77% - -
75th Percentile £26.31 - -
90th Percentile £30.85 £58.57 -
England median hourly rate £31.08 £19.38 £46.25
% change year-on-year +60.39% -58.11% +2.78%

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 1,232 1,619 1,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.70% 83.32% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 1,082 1,334
10th Percentile £200 £271 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £609
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 117 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.10 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.13 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +3.73% +28.92%
75th Percentile £29.33 £40.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 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 -4 18 £425 - 170
Warwickshire +3 16 £625 +38.89% 43
Shropshire - 13 £313 - 231
Worcestershire -3 7 £575 +9.52% 123
Staffordshire -3 6 £400 +14.29% 129
Solihull - 4 £500 - 9
Coventry 0 2 £513 -8.89% 121
Herefordshire - 1 £400 - 3
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 7 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.71%) Apache
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.29%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (25.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.14%) Power Platform
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.14%) AWS
3 5 (7.14%) PowerApps
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (5.71%) AWS KMS
4 4 (5.71%) Azure
4 4 (5.71%) Mimecast
4 4 (5.71%) Route 53
5 3 (4.29%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.43%) 5G
2 1 (1.43%) Internet
2 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.43%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (1.43%) Modbus
2 1 (1.43%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.86%) Power BI
2 5 (7.14%) Tableau
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.71%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.86%) Power Query
6 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.43%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.43%) Metadata
6 1 (1.43%) MySQL
6 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.43%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.43%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.00%) JIRA
2 4 (5.71%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (5.71%) DbUnit
2 4 (5.71%) Git
2 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.71%) jMock
2 4 (5.71%) JUnit
2 4 (5.71%) Maven
2 4 (5.71%) Mockito
2 4 (5.71%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 25 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (22.86%) Finance
4 11 (15.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Local Government
6 3 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Billing
7 2 (2.86%) Games
7 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Automotive
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (22.86%) Analyst
2 15 (21.43%) Lead
3 9 (12.86%) Developer
4 6 (8.57%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Lead Data Analyst
6 4 (5.71%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Senior
7 3 (4.29%) Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Unified Communications Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Accountant
8 2 (2.86%) Management Accountant
8 2 (2.86%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.86%) Report Manager
8 2 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
1 4 (5.71%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (5.71%) Bootstrap
1 4 (5.71%) Hibernate
1 4 (5.71%) JPA
1 4 (5.71%) PowerMock
1 4 (5.71%) REST
1 4 (5.71%) RESTful
1 4 (5.71%) SOAP
1 4 (5.71%) Spring
1 4 (5.71%) Spring Batch
1 4 (5.71%) Spring Boot
1 4 (5.71%) Spring Cloud
1 4 (5.71%) Spring Integration
1 4 (5.71%) Web Services
2 3 (4.29%) PySpark
3 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.29%) Operational Technology
3 3 (4.29%) SCADA
4 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.86%) IoT
4 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.86%) Replication
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.43%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.43%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.43%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.43%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (27.14%) Data Analysis
3 16 (22.86%) Analytics
3 16 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (22.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 15 (21.43%) Workflow
5 14 (20.00%) Agile
5 14 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (15.71%) User Experience
8 10 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (14.29%) Budgeting
8 10 (14.29%) Change Management
9 9 (12.86%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 9 (12.86%) Data Modelling
9 9 (12.86%) DevOps
9 9 (12.86%) Planning and Forecasting
9 9 (12.86%) Risk Management
10 8 (11.43%) Data Governance
10 8 (11.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.86%) SQL
2 6 (8.57%) Python
3 5 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (5.71%) Java
5 2 (2.86%) R
6 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.57%) Degree
2 6 (8.57%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.43%) CISM
5 1 (1.43%) CISSP
5 1 (1.43%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) QA
3 3 (4.29%) PMO
4 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.86%) GDPR
4 2 (2.86%) NCSC
5 1 (1.43%) GAAP
5 1 (1.43%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) Postfix
3 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Grafana
1 4 (5.71%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Ansible
3 2 (2.86%) Kibana
3 2 (2.86%) logstash
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.86%) Atlassian
3 6 (8.57%) SAP
4 4 (5.71%) Cisco
4 4 (5.71%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (5.71%) Proofpoint
4 4 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.29%) Oracle
6 2 (2.86%) Databricks
7 1 (1.43%) Ariba
7 1 (1.43%) Qualys
7 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow