Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in England

Decision-Making
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 48 78
Rank change year-on-year +20 +30 -5
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 2,866 1,328 932
As % of all contract jobs in England 6.20% 4.73% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.31% 5.20% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,785 831 519
10th Percentile £360 £319 £313
25th Percentile £450 £411 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £638
90th Percentile £787 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £546 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +6.07% -2.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 38 39
10th Percentile £13.09 £17.48 £25.26
25th Percentile £20.31 £21.47 £28.50
Median hourly rate £54.40 £31.20 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.36% -16.80% -19.68%
75th Percentile £74.00 £42.87 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.50 £69.15 £65.90
UK median hourly rate £53.70 £31.20 £43.75
% change year-on-year +72.12% -28.69% -4.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in England

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in England

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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
London +23 1,462 £570 +3.64% 4,875
North of England +9 386 £519 +9.26% 1,095
South East +14 364 £525 - 1,146
Midlands +17 295 £500 +8.11% 624
South West +15 220 £550 +7.32% 420
West Midlands +13 214 £491 -1.80% 385
North West +21 204 £525 +16.67% 640
Yorkshire -10 136 £500 -1.38% 354
East of England +4 80 £525 -4.81% 351
East Midlands +4 79 £500 +33.33% 238
North East -6 48 £494 +6.76% 105
Decision-Making
UK

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 82 (2.86%) Confluence
2 66 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 49 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.73%) Apache
6 20 (0.70%) SAS
7 10 (0.35%) CMS
7 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.14%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.14%) Mendix
8 4 (0.14%) nginx
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.10%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.070%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.070%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.070%) Camunda
11 1 (0.035%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.035%) Appian
11 1 (0.035%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 220 (7.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 15 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.21%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.10%) Productboard
9 3 (0.10%) Trello
10 2 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.035%) Simulink
11 1 (0.035%) SPSS
11 1 (0.035%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 48 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.38%) Primavera
4 7 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.24%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 6 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.21%) SAP HR
6 5 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.17%) SAP HCM
6 5 (0.17%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.14%) Cloudability
7 4 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 4 (0.14%) iTrent
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.10%) Endur
8 3 (0.10%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 489 (17.06%) Azure
2 419 (14.62%) AWS
3 406 (14.17%) Power Platform
4 146 (5.09%) GCP
5 103 (3.59%) SaaS
6 88 (3.07%) Snowflake
7 71 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (2.34%) dbt
9 59 (2.06%) Serverless
10 58 (2.02%) GitHub
11 57 (1.99%) Entra ID
12 54 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 49 (1.71%) Amazon S3
14 46 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
15 41 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
16 37 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
17 35 (1.22%) Power Automate
18 34 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
19 33 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 29 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.01%) Firewall
1 29 (1.01%) WAN
2 24 (0.84%) Network Security
3 21 (0.73%) Broadband
4 16 (0.56%) DNS
4 16 (0.56%) VPN
5 12 (0.42%) LAN
5 12 (0.42%) SD-WAN
6 9 (0.31%) VLAN
7 8 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
8 7 (0.24%) DHCP
9 6 (0.21%) Cisco IPT
9 6 (0.21%) Internet
9 6 (0.21%) IPsec
9 6 (0.21%) MPLS
9 6 (0.21%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.17%) BGP
10 5 (0.17%) OSPF
10 5 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.14%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 391 (13.64%) Power BI
2 127 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
3 112 (3.91%) Metadata
4 98 (3.42%) Tableau
5 54 (1.88%) Data Lake
6 47 (1.64%) BigQuery
7 46 (1.61%) Power Query
8 42 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (1.26%) Looker
10 34 (1.19%) Relational Database
11 29 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
11 29 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 24 (0.84%) NoSQL
13 23 (0.80%) Big Data
13 23 (0.80%) SQL Server
13 23 (0.80%) Star Schema
14 22 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (0.77%) Semantic Layer
15 21 (0.73%) DynamoDB
16 19 (0.66%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 138 (4.82%) JIRA
2 69 (2.41%) Git
3 41 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.73%) GitLab
5 8 (0.28%) Claude Code
5 8 (0.28%) Cucumber
5 8 (0.28%) JUnit
6 5 (0.17%) Maven
6 5 (0.17%) MLflow
6 5 (0.17%) Mockito
6 5 (0.17%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.17%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.14%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.14%) jMock
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.14%) Postman
7 4 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.14%) Selenium
8 3 (0.10%) ERwin
General
1 1,175 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 857 (29.90%) Finance
3 688 (24.01%) Analytical Skills
4 489 (17.06%) Public Sector
5 259 (9.04%) Influencing Skills
6 214 (7.47%) Banking
7 142 (4.95%) Retail
8 118 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
9 113 (3.94%) Marketing
10 86 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
11 85 (2.97%) Manufacturing
12 81 (2.83%) Legal
13 79 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 73 (2.55%) Local Government
15 50 (1.74%) Military
16 44 (1.54%) Aerospace
16 44 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
17 43 (1.50%) Telecoms
18 33 (1.15%) Front Office
19 32 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 459 (16.02%) Analyst
2 399 (13.92%) Senior
3 377 (13.15%) Lead
4 321 (11.20%) Architect
5 168 (5.86%) Business Analyst
6 158 (5.51%) Project Manager
7 151 (5.27%) Data Engineer
8 135 (4.71%) Data Analyst
9 120 (4.19%) Developer
10 113 (3.94%) Senior Manager
11 96 (3.35%) Consultant
12 89 (3.11%) Product Manager
13 81 (2.83%) Data Architect
14 79 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
15 73 (2.55%) Data Scientist
16 69 (2.41%) Product Owner
17 64 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
18 58 (2.02%) Programme Manager
19 57 (1.99%) Senior Data Engineer
20 55 (1.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (3.91%) Terraform
2 64 (2.23%) REST
3 57 (1.99%) Kafka
4 50 (1.74%) React
5 37 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 37 (1.29%) PySpark
6 27 (0.94%) .NET
7 24 (0.84%) Spring
8 23 (0.80%) Spring Boot
9 21 (0.73%) HTML
9 21 (0.73%) Pandas
10 20 (0.70%) Middleware
10 20 (0.70%) RESTful
11 18 (0.63%) Node.js
11 18 (0.63%) OAuth
12 17 (0.59%) JSON
13 16 (0.56%) AngularJS
14 14 (0.49%) OpenID
14 14 (0.49%) SOAP
15 13 (0.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 212 (7.40%) Product Ownership
2 176 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 133 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 121 (4.22%) Onboarding
5 70 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 62 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 57 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
7 57 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 52 (1.81%) Virtual Team
9 51 (1.78%) Operational Technology
10 50 (1.74%) AI Agents
11 45 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 42 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
13 37 (1.29%) Data Centre
14 33 (1.15%) NHS
15 32 (1.12%) Social Media
16 28 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
17 27 (0.94%) Security Posture
18 26 (0.91%) CMDB
19 25 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (1.92%) Windows
2 42 (1.47%) Linux
3 15 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 14 (0.49%) Mac OS
4 14 (0.49%) Unix
5 8 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.21%) Android
6 6 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.17%) CentOS
7 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.14%) VMS
9 3 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,023 (35.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 798 (27.84%) Agile
3 715 (24.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 690 (24.08%) Analytics
5 612 (21.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 601 (20.97%) AI
7 575 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
8 565 (19.71%) Roadmaps
9 449 (15.67%) Business Intelligence
10 374 (13.05%) Data Modelling
11 298 (10.40%) Risk Management
12 297 (10.36%) CI/CD
13 293 (10.22%) Actionable Insight
14 288 (10.05%) DevOps
15 287 (10.01%) Migration
16 265 (9.25%) Validation
17 264 (9.21%) Data Governance
18 250 (8.72%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 250 (8.72%) Project Management
19 243 (8.48%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 497 (17.34%) SQL
2 380 (13.26%) Python
3 94 (3.28%) Java
4 64 (2.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 63 (2.20%) TypeScript
6 54 (1.88%) JavaScript
7 33 (1.15%) C#
8 30 (1.05%) R
9 23 (0.80%) PowerShell
10 21 (0.73%) Bash
11 14 (0.49%) T-SQL
12 11 (0.38%) Go
13 9 (0.31%) C++
13 9 (0.31%) Scala
14 8 (0.28%) Bicep
14 8 (0.28%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.28%) VBA
15 6 (0.21%) Groovy
15 6 (0.21%) LookML
15 6 (0.21%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 644 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 492 (17.17%) SC Cleared
3 238 (8.30%) Degree
4 115 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 103 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 94 (3.28%) PMI Certification
7 88 (3.07%) PMP
8 45 (1.57%) ACCA
9 44 (1.54%) Azure Certification
10 39 (1.36%) CIMA
11 36 (1.26%) CISSP
12 31 (1.08%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.01%) AWS Certification
14 28 (0.98%) CISM
15 23 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
16 22 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 14 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
19 13 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
20 12 (0.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 418 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 162 (5.65%) PMO
3 153 (5.34%) QA
4 105 (3.66%) GDPR
5 90 (3.14%) Accessibility
6 72 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 64 (2.23%) NIST
8 63 (2.20%) GRC
9 51 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 40 (1.40%) NCSC
11 19 (0.66%) SLA
12 13 (0.45%) IFRS
13 9 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.28%) WCAG
15 7 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.21%) ISO 20022
16 6 (0.21%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
17 5 (0.17%) PSD2
17 5 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 81 (2.83%) Docker
2 41 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 24 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (0.42%) IAG
6 10 (0.35%) vSphere
7 8 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.14%) Firmware
10 4 (0.14%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.10%) Postfix
12 1 (0.035%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.035%) NFS
Systems Management
1 108 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.22%) Ansible
3 18 (0.63%) Grafana
4 16 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.38%) Kibana
6 9 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.21%) SCCM
9 4 (0.14%) Control-M
9 4 (0.14%) Istio
9 4 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.10%) Argo
10 3 (0.10%) Rancher
11 2 (0.070%) MOM
11 2 (0.070%) OPNET
11 2 (0.070%) Packer
11 2 (0.070%) Puppet
11 2 (0.070%) QRadar
11 2 (0.070%) WSUS
Vendors
1 453 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 145 (5.06%) SAP
3 138 (4.82%) Databricks
4 102 (3.56%) ServiceNow
5 93 (3.24%) Oracle
6 84 (2.93%) Google
7 70 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 34 (1.19%) Workday
9 30 (1.05%) Ariba
10 28 (0.98%) VMware
11 22 (0.77%) Adobe
12 21 (0.73%) Splunk
13 19 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.56%) Denodo
15 15 (0.52%) Dynatrace
15 15 (0.52%) Informatica
15 15 (0.52%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.42%) Pega
17 11 (0.38%) IBM
18 10 (0.35%) OpenAI