Decision-Making Contracts in the North West

Decision-Making
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 79 56
Rank change year-on-year +49 -23 +6
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 135 75 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.84% 2.49% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 2.77% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 49 98
10th Percentile £378 £289 £311
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -0.95% +33.76%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £715 £680 £729
England median daily rate £523 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -7.11% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 3 26
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £10.95 - £15.56
Median hourly rate £11.20 £37.50 £38.06
Median % change year-on-year -70.15% -1.48% +101.87%
75th Percentile £16.06 £46.95 £51.28
90th Percentile - £52.62 £57.24
England median hourly rate £18.50 £43.86 £45.00
% change year-on-year -57.82% -2.53% +69.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,704 3,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.85% 89.77% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,900 2,591
10th Percentile £310 £313 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 142 155
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £59.08 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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

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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 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in the North West

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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 June 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 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
Manchester +3 43 £458 -16.06% 86
Cheshire +17 34 £625 +13.64% 30
Cumbria - 28 £493 - 5
Lancashire +20 22 - - 12
Merseyside +17 5 £450 -4.76% 29
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.74%) Confluence
1 1 (0.74%) nginx
Applications
1 58 (42.96%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (8.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.81%) Taleo
2 12 (8.89%) Azure
3 11 (8.15%) AWS
4 8 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.19%) Serverless
6 4 (2.96%) npm
6 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.22%) IaaS
7 3 (2.22%) PaaS
7 3 (2.22%) SaaS
8 2 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) HTTP
1 4 (2.96%) LAN
1 4 (2.96%) Network Security
2 3 (2.22%) Firewall
2 3 (2.22%) VLAN
2 3 (2.22%) VoIP
2 3 (2.22%) VPN
2 3 (2.22%) WAN
2 3 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.96%) Power BI
3 3 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.22%) Tableau
4 2 (1.48%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.74%) Big Data
5 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.74%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.74%) MySQL
5 1 (0.74%) Navicat
5 1 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.48%) Finance
3 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.96%) Banking
6 4 (2.96%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Front Office
7 3 (2.22%) Legal
7 3 (2.22%) Publishing
8 2 (1.48%) Automotive
8 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Aviation
9 1 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (17.78%) Analyst
2 13 (9.63%) Architect
2 13 (9.63%) Service Analyst
2 13 (9.63%) Service Desk Analyst
3 10 (7.41%) Lead
4 9 (6.67%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 9 (6.67%) IT Support
5 8 (5.93%) Project Manager
5 8 (5.93%) Senior
6 6 (4.44%) Software Engineer
7 5 (3.70%) Programme Manager
8 4 (2.96%) Consultant
8 4 (2.96%) Data Architect
8 4 (2.96%) Developer
8 4 (2.96%) Security Architect
8 4 (2.96%) Security Manager
8 4 (2.96%) Security Project Manager
8 4 (2.96%) Support Analyst
9 3 (2.22%) Help Desk Support
9 3 (2.22%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.96%) AngularJS
1 4 (2.96%) RESTful
2 2 (1.48%) JSON
3 1 (0.74%) Kafka
3 1 (0.74%) Middleware
3 1 (0.74%) Node.js
3 1 (0.74%) ODBC
3 1 (0.74%) REST
3 1 (0.74%) Swagger
3 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.96%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.96%) Industry 4.0
2 4 (2.96%) Taxonomies
3 3 (2.22%) Clustering
3 3 (2.22%) Life Science
3 3 (2.22%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.48%) PKI
4 2 (1.48%) SCADA
4 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.74%) CCTV
5 1 (0.74%) CMDB
5 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.74%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.74%) NHS
5 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.44%) Windows
2 29 (21.48%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.22%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.48%) Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (20.74%) Time Management
3 27 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 24 (17.78%) Data Protection
5 22 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (10.37%) Analytics
6 14 (10.37%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (10.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 14 (10.37%) Project Management
7 12 (8.89%) Data Integration
8 11 (8.15%) Data Strategy
8 11 (8.15%) Use Case
9 10 (7.41%) Agile
9 10 (7.41%) Data Governance
10 9 (6.67%) Business Case
11 8 (5.93%) Coaching
11 8 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (5.93%) Data Analysis
12 7 (5.19%) Information Security
12 7 (5.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.41%) SQL
2 6 (4.44%) Python
3 4 (2.96%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.74%) Bash
5 1 (0.74%) C#
5 1 (0.74%) Java
5 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.70%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 20 (14.81%) Degree
4 10 (7.41%) CISSP
5 9 (6.67%) CISM
6 6 (4.44%) CISA
6 6 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.44%) MBA
7 5 (3.70%) PMI Certification
7 5 (3.70%) PMP
8 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.74%) CRISC
9 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (6.67%) SLA
3 6 (4.44%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.96%) PMO
5 3 (2.22%) QA
6 2 (1.48%) GDPR
6 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.48%) NIST
6 2 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.74%) GMP
System Software
1 3 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.22%) Hyper-V
1 3 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.48%) Docker
2 2 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.22%) Autotask
1 3 (2.22%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.22%) SCCM
2 2 (1.48%) Ansible
2 2 (1.48%) Terraform
3 1 (0.74%) Control-M
3 1 (0.74%) Istio
3 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Podman
Vendors
1 64 (47.41%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.81%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.70%) Informatica
4 4 (2.96%) SAP
4 4 (2.96%) VMware
5 3 (2.22%) Apple
5 3 (2.22%) Citrix
5 3 (2.22%) Databricks
5 3 (2.22%) Datto
5 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.48%) Adobe
6 2 (1.48%) Facebook
6 2 (1.48%) Instagram
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco
7 1 (0.74%) F5
7 1 (0.74%) Google
7 1 (0.74%) IBM
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.74%) Teradata
7 1 (0.74%) Zscaler