Decision-Making Contracts in the North West

Decision-Making
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Decision-Making skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Decision-Making over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 76 54
Rank change year-on-year +44 -22 +7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 133 88 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.97% 2.81% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 3.11% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 56 103
10th Percentile £353 £260 £317
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% +1.50% +39.28%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £622
90th Percentile £699 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 8 32
10th Percentile - £34.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £10.95 £37.50 £17.23
Median hourly rate £11.20 £54.27 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year -79.37% +70.19% +11.47%
75th Percentile £16.06 £65.00 £50.01
90th Percentile - - £55.40
England median hourly rate £18.25 £50.05 £44.73
% change year-on-year -63.54% +11.91% +59.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Decision-Making is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,829 3,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.88% 90.47% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 1,993 2,598
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 139 169
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.80 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +46.94% +32.43%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.46 £50.78
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in the North West

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in the North West

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the North West

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in the North West

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the North West

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Manchester +16 43 £463 -10.19% 90
Cheshire +19 30 £618 +21.67% 27
Cumbria - 29 £515 - 6
Lancashire +17 23 - - 13
Merseyside +18 5 £450 +9.09% 23
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 61 (45.86%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (8.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.50%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.75%) Primavera
3 1 (0.75%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 20 (15.04%) Taleo
2 10 (7.52%) AWS
3 9 (6.77%) Azure
4 7 (5.26%) Serverless
5 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.01%) npm
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.26%) IaaS
8 3 (2.26%) PaaS
8 3 (2.26%) SaaS
9 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.75%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) HTTP
1 4 (3.01%) Network Security
2 3 (2.26%) Firewall
2 3 (2.26%) LAN
2 3 (2.26%) VLAN
2 3 (2.26%) VoIP
2 3 (2.26%) VPN
2 3 (2.26%) WAN
2 3 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.75%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (4.51%) Power BI
2 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.26%) Tableau
3 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.50%) Big Data
3 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.50%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.75%) MySQL
4 1 (0.75%) Navicat
4 1 (0.75%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.75%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.75%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 49 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.80%) Finance
3 11 (8.27%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.51%) Banking
5 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.51%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.01%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Front Office
7 3 (2.26%) Legal
8 2 (1.50%) Billing
8 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Automotive
9 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (18.80%) Analyst
2 13 (9.77%) Architect
2 13 (9.77%) Service Analyst
2 13 (9.77%) Service Desk Analyst
3 9 (6.77%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 9 (6.77%) IT Support
3 9 (6.77%) Lead
3 9 (6.77%) Project Manager
4 6 (4.51%) Consultant
4 6 (4.51%) Senior
4 6 (4.51%) Software Engineer
5 4 (3.01%) Business Analyst
5 4 (3.01%) Business Architect
5 4 (3.01%) Data Architect
5 4 (3.01%) Security Architect
5 4 (3.01%) Security Manager
5 4 (3.01%) Security Project Manager
5 4 (3.01%) Support Analyst
6 3 (2.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (2.26%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.01%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.01%) RESTful
2 2 (1.50%) JSON
2 2 (1.50%) REST
2 2 (1.50%) Swagger
2 2 (1.50%) YAML
3 1 (0.75%) Kafka
3 1 (0.75%) Middleware
3 1 (0.75%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.02%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.01%) Driving Licence
2 4 (3.01%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (3.01%) Taxonomies
2 4 (3.01%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.26%) Clustering
3 3 (2.26%) Life Science
4 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.50%) PKI
4 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.50%) SCADA
4 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.75%) CMDB
5 1 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.75%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 30 (22.56%) Windows
2 29 (21.80%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.26%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.75%) Linux
4 1 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (21.05%) Time Management
3 27 (20.30%) Customer Service
4 25 (18.80%) Data Protection
4 25 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (10.53%) Analytics
6 13 (9.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 13 (9.77%) Use Case
7 12 (9.02%) Project Management
8 11 (8.27%) Agile
8 11 (8.27%) Data Integration
8 11 (8.27%) Data Strategy
9 10 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (7.52%) Data Analysis
9 10 (7.52%) Data Governance
10 9 (6.77%) Business Case
10 9 (6.77%) Risk Management
11 8 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (5.26%) Business Analysis
12 7 (5.26%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.52%) SQL
2 6 (4.51%) Python
3 4 (3.01%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.50%) C#
6 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (24.81%) SC Cleared
1 33 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 20 (15.04%) Degree
3 10 (7.52%) CISSP
4 9 (6.77%) CISM
5 6 (4.51%) CISA
5 6 (4.51%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.51%) MBA
6 3 (2.26%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.26%) PMP
7 2 (1.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CRISC
8 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.55%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (8.27%) SLA
3 6 (4.51%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.26%) GDPR
4 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (2.26%) NIST
4 3 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.50%) PMO
5 2 (1.50%) QA
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) GMP
6 1 (0.75%) GxP
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.26%) Hyper-V
1 3 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.26%) Autotask
1 3 (2.26%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.26%) SCCM
2 1 (0.75%) Control-M
Vendors
1 66 (49.62%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.04%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.51%) SAP
4 5 (3.76%) Databricks
4 5 (3.76%) Informatica
5 4 (3.01%) VMware
6 3 (2.26%) Apple
6 3 (2.26%) Datto
6 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.50%) Adobe
7 2 (1.50%) Facebook
7 2 (1.50%) Instagram
7 2 (1.50%) Teradata
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco
8 1 (0.75%) F5
8 1 (0.75%) Google
8 1 (0.75%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.75%) IBM
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle
8 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto