Decision-Making Contracts in the West Midlands

Decision-Making
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 62 80
Rank change year-on-year +24 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 83 70 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.27% 3.13% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 3.56% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 46 76
10th Percentile £238 £354 £271
25th Percentile £363 £459 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £531 £456
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +16.44% +1.39%
75th Percentile £571 £650 £569
90th Percentile £620 £744 £613
England median daily rate £525 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.55
25th Percentile £27.63 - £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.93 - £15.49
75th Percentile - - £17.48
90th Percentile £58.57 - £18.22
England median hourly rate £19.38 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -59.21% +5.56% +69.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,613 1,965 3,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.93% 87.84% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 1,334 2,338
10th Percentile £263 £263 £278
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £586
90th Percentile £745 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 49 63
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.50 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.22 £13.70 £13.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.75 £19.93
90th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £24.05
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 June 2024.

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 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
Birmingham +25 34 £425 -19.05% 49
Warwickshire -6 14 £450 -18.18% 11
Staffordshire +15 13 £350 -39.13% 10
Worcestershire +12 11 £550 -3.51% 6
Coventry +13 4 £563 +12.50% 9
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 5 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.41%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.05%) Power Platform
2 9 (10.84%) Azure
3 5 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.41%) AWS
4 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.41%) IaaS
4 2 (2.41%) PaaS
4 2 (2.41%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.41%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.41%) SaaS
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.20%) OCI
5 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) VPN
2 3 (3.61%) Firewall
2 3 (3.61%) LAN
2 3 (3.61%) VLAN
2 3 (3.61%) VoIP
2 3 (3.61%) WAN
2 3 (3.61%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.20%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.20%) IPsec
3 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) Power BI
2 4 (4.82%) Data Mining
3 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.41%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.41%) GIS
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.41%) Power Query
4 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.20%) Metadata
5 1 (1.20%) MS Access
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.41%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 36 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.71%) Finance
3 19 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.46%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.61%) Automotive
8 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Marketing
9 2 (2.41%) Law
9 2 (2.41%) Local Government
10 1 (1.20%) Billing
10 1 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Analyst
2 12 (14.46%) Senior
3 10 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Business Manager
4 9 (10.84%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.43%) IT Manager
5 7 (8.43%) Lead
5 7 (8.43%) Senior Manager
6 6 (7.23%) Senior Project Manager
7 5 (6.02%) Architect
7 5 (6.02%) Consultant
7 5 (6.02%) Performance Manager
8 4 (4.82%) Data Consultant
8 4 (4.82%) Data Governance Consultant
8 4 (4.82%) Governance Consultant
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Business Change Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) Middleware
2 3 (3.61%) .NET
3 2 (2.41%) ADO
3 2 (2.41%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.41%) REST
4 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.20%) BREW
4 1 (1.20%) Web Services
4 1 (1.20%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.02%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.02%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.02%) SCADA
2 5 (6.02%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.82%) PMI
4 3 (3.61%) Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Windows
2 5 (6.02%) Unix
3 4 (4.82%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.61%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (33.73%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (21.69%) User Experience
3 17 (20.48%) Computer Science
4 16 (19.28%) Project Management
5 14 (16.87%) Agile
5 14 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (16.87%) Data Analysis
5 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (15.66%) DevOps
7 11 (13.25%) ERP
7 11 (13.25%) Visualisation
8 10 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (12.05%) Change Management
8 10 (12.05%) Data Modelling
8 10 (12.05%) Project Delivery
8 10 (12.05%) Software Engineering
8 10 (12.05%) Workflow
9 9 (10.84%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (10.84%) ITIL
10 8 (9.64%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.64%) SQL
2 5 (6.02%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.02%) Python
3 3 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.20%) C#
4 1 (1.20%) Java
4 1 (1.20%) R
4 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (30.12%) Degree
2 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (9.64%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.02%) PMI Certification
5 5 (6.02%) PMP
6 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.20%) ACCA
8 1 (1.20%) CIMA
8 1 (1.20%) CIPD
8 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.20%) CISSP
8 1 (1.20%) CRISC
8 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.25%) QA
2 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.82%) GDPR
4 3 (3.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.61%) Autotask
1 3 (3.61%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (3.61%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.61%) SCCM
2 2 (2.41%) Ansible
2 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) Terraform
2 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.23%) VMware
3 5 (6.02%) BMC
4 4 (4.82%) Informatica
5 3 (3.61%) Apple
5 3 (3.61%) Datto
5 3 (3.61%) Oracle
5 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.41%) Facebook
6 2 (2.41%) Instagram
6 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.20%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.20%) Sage