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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 78 77
Rank change year-on-year +29 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 702 480 590
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.00% 3.05% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 3.42% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 299 419
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £650
90th Percentile £784 £825 £771
England median daily rate £513 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -6.82% +0.46% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 17
10th Percentile - £29.90 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £31.81 £35.63
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.25 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% -17.35% -20.25%
75th Percentile £36.35 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £42.54 £52.35 £66.56
England median hourly rate £30.11 £34.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -13.37% -24.75% +18.41%

All Process and 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 12,961 14,023 18,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.39% 89.17% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,517 9,049 13,046
10th Percentile £331 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 250
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +0.76% -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +12 93 £550 - 459
West London -5 13 £525 -15.15% 46
South London -18 4 £750 +25.00% 10
East London +5 2 £575 +91.67% 23
North London +2 1 £650 - 3
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 32 (4.56%) Confluence
2 16 (2.28%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.28%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.71%) Apache
4 5 (0.71%) CMS
5 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.43%) nginx
7 2 (0.28%) Appian
7 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.28%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 84 (11.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.57%) Trello
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.28%) Sketch
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.14%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.14%) InVision
7 1 (0.14%) Notion
7 1 (0.14%) SPSS
7 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.57%) Oracle Payroll
3 4 (0.57%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.43%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.28%) Endur
5 2 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 122 (17.38%) Power Platform
2 95 (13.53%) Azure
3 83 (11.82%) AWS
4 43 (6.13%) GCP
5 33 (4.70%) SaaS
6 23 (3.28%) Snowflake
7 22 (3.13%) GitHub
8 19 (2.71%) dbt
9 17 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (1.57%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.57%) ChatGPT
11 11 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (1.28%) PaaS
13 8 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
13 8 (1.14%) Serverless
14 7 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.85%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.71%) Firewall
2 5 (0.71%) Multicast
3 4 (0.57%) Internet
3 4 (0.57%) Network Security
3 4 (0.57%) tcpdump
3 4 (0.57%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.43%) 5G
4 3 (0.43%) Broadband
5 2 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.28%) DMZ
5 2 (0.28%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.28%) ISDN
5 2 (0.28%) Junos
5 2 (0.28%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.28%) PSTN
5 2 (0.28%) Softphone
5 2 (0.28%) SSL
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (16.52%) Power BI
2 44 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (5.56%) Tableau
4 25 (3.56%) Metadata
5 21 (2.99%) Big Data
5 21 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.85%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.14%) SQL Server
9 13 (1.85%) Hadoop
9 13 (1.85%) Power Query
10 12 (1.71%) Star Schema
11 10 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.28%) Looker
13 8 (1.14%) Apache Hive
13 8 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (1.00%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.00%) Data Vault
14 7 (1.00%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (6.55%) JIRA
2 27 (3.85%) Git
3 12 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.85%) GitLab
4 6 (0.85%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.57%) Maven
5 4 (0.57%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.43%) Selenium
6 3 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.14%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.14%) jMock
8 1 (0.14%) MLflow
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) Postman
8 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 292 (41.60%) Social Skills
2 254 (36.18%) Finance
3 234 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (14.81%) Banking
5 94 (13.39%) Public Sector
6 44 (6.27%) Marketing
7 39 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
8 35 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (3.99%) Retail
10 27 (3.85%) Front Office
11 26 (3.70%) Legal
12 24 (3.42%) Financial Institution
13 23 (3.28%) Investment Banking
13 23 (3.28%) Local Government
13 23 (3.28%) Publishing
14 15 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.85%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.57%) Back Office
16 11 (1.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (21.79%) Analyst
2 79 (11.25%) Senior
3 75 (10.68%) Business Analyst
4 66 (9.40%) Lead
5 60 (8.55%) Developer
6 47 (6.70%) Architect
7 44 (6.27%) Project Manager
8 43 (6.13%) Data Analyst
9 36 (5.13%) Data Engineer
10 22 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (2.71%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (2.56%) Consultant
12 18 (2.56%) Data Scientist
13 17 (2.42%) Data Business Analyst
14 13 (1.85%) Senior Developer
15 12 (1.71%) Product Manager
15 12 (1.71%) Senior Manager
16 11 (1.57%) Data Architect
16 11 (1.57%) Risk Analyst
16 11 (1.57%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.99%) AngularJS
2 19 (2.71%) Kafka
2 19 (2.71%) React
3 16 (2.28%) REST
4 13 (1.85%) XML
5 12 (1.71%) FIX Protocol
5 12 (1.71%) Pandas
6 11 (1.57%) JSON
6 11 (1.57%) scikit-learn
6 11 (1.57%) TensorFlow
7 10 (1.42%) .NET
7 10 (1.42%) Plotly
7 10 (1.42%) RESTful
8 9 (1.28%) NumPy
8 9 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.28%) PySpark
9 8 (1.14%) CSS
9 8 (1.14%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.14%) Ultra Messaging
10 7 (1.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (6.13%) Product Ownership
2 36 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 32 (4.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 26 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.57%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.42%) Derivative
13 10 (1.42%) Reinsurance
14 9 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.14%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.99%) Linux
2 15 (2.14%) Windows
3 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (28.63%) Agile
2 189 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 176 (25.07%) Analytics
4 134 (19.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 133 (18.95%) Business Intelligence
6 107 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 104 (14.81%) Data Analysis
8 99 (14.10%) Visualisation
9 98 (13.96%) AI
10 97 (13.82%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 97 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 92 (13.11%) Actionable Insight
12 88 (12.54%) Data Modelling
13 86 (12.25%) Roadmaps
14 74 (10.54%) Project Management
15 65 (9.26%) CI/CD
15 65 (9.26%) Data Governance
16 64 (9.12%) Risk Management
17 61 (8.69%) Data Science
18 60 (8.55%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 164 (23.36%) SQL
2 142 (20.23%) Python
3 29 (4.13%) Java
4 22 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.42%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.99%) Bash
6 14 (1.99%) C++
6 14 (1.99%) R
7 13 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.28%) Scala
10 7 (1.00%) C#
11 6 (0.85%) Bicep
11 6 (0.85%) Korn
12 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.43%) Groovy
13 3 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 92 (13.11%) Degree
2 80 (11.40%) Security Cleared
3 66 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.85%) PMI Certification
5 20 (2.85%) PMP
6 16 (2.28%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.85%) CIMA
8 12 (1.71%) ACCA
9 11 (1.57%) CISSP
10 6 (0.85%) CISM
11 5 (0.71%) MCP
11 5 (0.71%) PhD
12 4 (0.57%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.57%) MBA
12 4 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 3 (0.43%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.43%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.70%) PMO
4 19 (2.71%) GDPR
4 19 (2.71%) QA
5 16 (2.28%) NIST
6 14 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.28%) GRC
8 7 (1.00%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.71%) GMP
10 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.43%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.43%) WCAG
12 2 (0.28%) COBIT
12 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (4.42%) Docker
2 8 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) HDFS
3 5 (0.71%) zsh
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (4.42%) Terraform
2 24 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.71%) ITRS Geneos
5 9 (1.28%) Grafana
6 4 (0.57%) Ansible
6 4 (0.57%) Kibana
6 4 (0.57%) logstash
7 3 (0.43%) Rancher
8 2 (0.28%) Consul
8 2 (0.28%) Packer
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.70%) SAP
3 29 (4.13%) Oracle
4 24 (3.42%) Google
5 20 (2.85%) Databricks
6 19 (2.71%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.71%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.71%) Solace
8 9 (1.28%) Adobe
8 9 (1.28%) TIBCO
9 7 (1.00%) Dataiku
10 6 (0.85%) Foundry
11 5 (0.71%) Cisco
11 5 (0.71%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.71%) Workday
12 4 (0.57%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.57%) Informatica
12 4 (0.57%) Refinitiv
12 4 (0.57%) UiPath
12 4 (0.57%) Xero