Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in London

Decision-Making
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 47 70
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,141 592 545
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.34% 4.78% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 5.18% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 388 382
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £440 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £643
90th Percentile £775 £779 £763
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 23
10th Percentile £26.52 £27.80 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.44 £28.60 -
Median hourly rate £34.87 £49.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -29.57% +77.99% -35.97%
75th Percentile £58.25 £52.25 £41.88
90th Percentile £76.15 £75.13 £50.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.35 £18.00
% change year-on-year +67.49% +74.14% -62.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,896 11,429 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.31% 92.26% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,636 7,715 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £812 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 185 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.10 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.90 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in London

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in London

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in London

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Central London +10 158 £575 +4.55% 181
West London -5 34 £520 -16.80% 29
South London -3 18 £519 -13.58% 10
East London -4 5 £697 -10.06% 28
North London - 2 £413 - 4
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 41 (3.59%) Confluence
2 20 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.88%) nginx
6 5 (0.44%) CMS
6 5 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) Camunda
9 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.18%) Mendix
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 91 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (1.58%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.40%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.088%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.088%) InVision
9 1 (0.088%) Sketch
9 1 (0.088%) SPSS
9 1 (0.088%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.53%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.44%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.18%) Lorenzo
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.18%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 230 (20.16%) Azure
2 194 (17.00%) AWS
3 162 (14.20%) Power Platform
4 90 (7.89%) GCP
5 71 (6.22%) SaaS
6 39 (3.42%) Amazon S3
7 37 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (3.24%) Serverless
8 36 (3.16%) Snowflake
9 31 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (2.63%) GitHub
11 29 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (1.58%) Collibra
16 17 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (1.40%) dbt
18 15 (1.31%) Dagster
18 15 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.14%) DNS
1 13 (1.14%) Firewall
1 13 (1.14%) VPN
2 11 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.79%) HTTP
3 9 (0.79%) OpenVPN
4 4 (0.35%) NAS
4 4 (0.35%) Network Security
4 4 (0.35%) SAN
5 3 (0.26%) WAN
6 2 (0.18%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.18%) Calico
6 2 (0.18%) Intelligent Network
6 2 (0.18%) Intranet
6 2 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.18%) NaaS
6 2 (0.18%) VSAN
6 2 (0.18%) Wireless
7 1 (0.088%) Modbus
7 1 (0.088%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (13.50%) Power BI
2 65 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (4.56%) Tableau
4 50 (4.38%) Metadata
5 31 (2.72%) BigQuery
6 30 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.28%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.58%) Looker
9 18 (1.58%) Power Query
10 17 (1.49%) Big Data
10 17 (1.49%) Oracle Database
10 17 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (1.40%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.31%) Delta Lake
12 15 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (1.14%) Parquet
14 12 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 85 (7.45%) JIRA
2 40 (3.51%) Git
3 18 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.14%) GitLab
5 12 (1.05%) MLflow
6 11 (0.96%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.53%) ERwin
8 6 (0.53%) JUnit
8 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.35%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.35%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.35%) jMock
9 4 (0.35%) Maven
9 4 (0.35%) Mockito
10 3 (0.26%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.26%) Toad
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.18%) Robot Framework
General
1 408 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 398 (34.88%) Finance
3 272 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (13.58%) Public Sector
5 126 (11.04%) Banking
6 64 (5.61%) Marketing
7 56 (4.91%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (4.12%) Legal
9 46 (4.03%) Retail
10 39 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.80%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (2.19%) Financial Institution
15 24 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.67%) Billing
16 19 (1.67%) Front Office
16 19 (1.67%) Local Government
17 16 (1.40%) Investment Banking
18 12 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 192 (16.83%) Analyst
2 172 (15.07%) Senior
3 129 (11.31%) Lead
4 95 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 93 (8.15%) Architect
6 79 (6.92%) Data Engineer
7 78 (6.84%) Developer
8 75 (6.57%) Project Manager
9 65 (5.70%) Data Analyst
10 51 (4.47%) Consultant
11 38 (3.33%) Data Scientist
12 35 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (2.80%) Product Manager
14 31 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.63%) Senior Manager
16 25 (2.19%) Senior Data Engineer
16 25 (2.19%) User Researcher
17 24 (2.10%) Designer
18 22 (1.93%) Product Owner
18 22 (1.93%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.89%) REST
2 31 (2.72%) Pandas
3 21 (1.84%) React
4 20 (1.75%) Middleware
4 20 (1.75%) NumPy
5 19 (1.67%) .NET
5 19 (1.67%) PySpark
5 19 (1.67%) scikit-learn
6 18 (1.58%) Kafka
7 17 (1.49%) AngularJS
8 16 (1.40%) RESTful
9 15 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (1.31%) Spring
9 15 (1.31%) Spring Boot
10 13 (1.14%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.05%) LangChain
12 10 (0.88%) HTML
12 10 (0.88%) Node.js
12 10 (0.88%) OpenID
13 9 (0.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.40%) Cloud Native
2 66 (5.78%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.07%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (2.37%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 24 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
6 24 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.58%) PMI
9 18 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.14%) FMCG
11 13 (1.14%) NHS
12 11 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 11 (0.96%) CMDB
13 10 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.05%) Linux
1 12 (1.05%) Windows
2 4 (0.35%) VMS
3 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.26%) Unix
3 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.088%) Solaris
4 1 (0.088%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (27.17%) Agile
2 266 (23.31%) Analytics
3 264 (23.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 241 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
5 219 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 217 (19.02%) AI
7 182 (15.95%) Business Intelligence
7 182 (15.95%) Roadmaps
8 177 (15.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 172 (15.07%) Data Modelling
10 146 (12.80%) CI/CD
10 146 (12.80%) DevOps
11 120 (10.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 120 (10.52%) Project Management
12 119 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
13 117 (10.25%) Actionable Insight
14 114 (9.99%) ETL
15 113 (9.90%) Data Governance
16 112 (9.82%) Migration
17 104 (9.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 236 (20.68%) SQL
2 218 (19.11%) Python
3 57 (5.00%) Java
4 32 (2.80%) TypeScript
5 28 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (2.10%) C#
7 18 (1.58%) R
8 16 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.40%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.79%) VBA
10 7 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.44%) Bicep
12 5 (0.44%) C++
12 5 (0.44%) Scala
13 4 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.35%) Ruby
14 3 (0.26%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.088%) Bash
Qualifications
1 198 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 158 (13.85%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.82%) Degree
4 44 (3.86%) PMP
5 40 (3.51%) PMI Certification
6 31 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.93%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.49%) ACCA
11 16 (1.40%) CISSP
12 14 (1.23%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.05%) CBAP
13 12 (1.05%) CIMA
14 10 (0.88%) CISM
15 9 (0.79%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.79%) IIBA
15 9 (0.79%) PhD
16 8 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.49%) PMO
3 67 (5.87%) QA
4 38 (3.33%) GDPR
5 29 (2.54%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.58%) NIST
7 15 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.96%) SLA
10 7 (0.61%) GRC
10 7 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.53%) COREP
11 6 (0.53%) FINREP
11 6 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.44%) COBIT
12 5 (0.44%) GAAP
12 5 (0.44%) IFRS
12 5 (0.44%) WCAG
13 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 32 (2.80%) Docker
2 9 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.79%) Squid
3 7 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.35%) NFS
5 3 (0.26%) IAG
5 3 (0.26%) Postfix
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.088%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (5.61%) Terraform
2 60 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.58%) Grafana
4 14 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.88%) Ansible
7 9 (0.79%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.61%) Consul
8 7 (0.61%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.44%) Kibana
9 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.35%) Control-M
10 4 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.35%) vMotion
11 3 (0.26%) Istio
12 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.18%) Argo
12 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.18%) SCCM
13 1 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 164 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.91%) Oracle
3 52 (4.56%) Databricks
4 48 (4.21%) SAP
5 43 (3.77%) Google
6 40 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 37 (3.24%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.75%) Workday
9 14 (1.23%) Adobe
10 12 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.96%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.79%) Foundry
12 9 (0.79%) VMware
13 8 (0.70%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.70%) Software AG
14 7 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (0.53%) Murex
15 6 (0.53%) Palantir
15 6 (0.53%) Splunk