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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 79 73
Rank change year-on-year +32 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 738 504 591
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.20% 3.19% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.64% 3.56% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 315 420
10th Percentile £346 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £650
90th Percentile £775 £838 £750
England median daily rate £506 £550 £546
% change year-on-year -8.09% +0.69% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 17
10th Percentile - £30.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £32.38 £35.63
Median hourly rate £31.49 £42.50 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -25.91% -3.10% -20.25%
75th Percentile £37.50 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £42.40 £60.75 £66.56
England median hourly rate £31.20 £33.93 £46.18
% change year-on-year -8.05% -26.53% +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 13,095 14,155 17,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 89.55% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,599 9,136 12,670
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 171 240
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.25 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.50 £24.15 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +4.30% -7.81%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +13 103 £550 - 75
West London -5 12 £525 -25.00% 32
South London -20 4 £750 +25.00% 4
East London +7 2 £575 +91.67% 23
North London +2 1 £650 - 2
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 33 (4.47%) Confluence
2 20 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.68%) Apache
5 5 (0.68%) CMS
6 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.41%) nginx
8 2 (0.27%) Appian
8 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.27%) SAS
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.14%) Camunda
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 98 (13.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (2.71%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.54%) Trello
7 2 (0.27%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.14%) InVision
8 1 (0.14%) Notion
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) SPSS
8 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payroll
4 4 (0.54%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.41%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.27%) Endur
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.27%) Shopify
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 135 (18.29%) Power Platform
2 104 (14.09%) Azure
3 89 (12.06%) AWS
4 43 (5.83%) GCP
5 33 (4.47%) SaaS
6 25 (3.39%) Snowflake
7 20 (2.71%) GitHub
7 20 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.44%) dbt
9 13 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (1.49%) Amazon S3
10 11 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.49%) ChatGPT
11 10 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (1.22%) PaaS
12 9 (1.22%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.22%) Serverless
13 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.81%) Firewall
2 5 (0.68%) Network Security
2 5 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.54%) Internet
3 4 (0.54%) Multicast
3 4 (0.54%) tcpdump
3 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.41%) 5G
4 3 (0.41%) Broadband
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.27%) DMZ
5 2 (0.27%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.27%) ISDN
5 2 (0.27%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.27%) PSTN
5 2 (0.27%) Softphone
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) WAN
5 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (17.48%) Power BI
2 46 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (5.28%) Tableau
4 23 (3.12%) Big Data
4 23 (3.12%) Metadata
5 22 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.71%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.44%) SQL Server
8 14 (1.90%) Hadoop
8 14 (1.90%) Power Query
9 13 (1.76%) Star Schema
10 11 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.22%) Apache Hive
11 9 (1.22%) Looker
12 8 (1.08%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.95%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.95%) Data Vault
13 7 (0.95%) Delta Lake
13 7 (0.95%) Impala
Development Applications
1 49 (6.64%) JIRA
2 31 (4.20%) Git
3 14 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.81%) GitLab
4 6 (0.81%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.54%) Maven
5 4 (0.54%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.41%) Selenium
6 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.14%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.14%) ERwin
8 1 (0.14%) jMock
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Mockito
8 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 306 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 264 (35.77%) Finance
3 253 (34.28%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (14.09%) Banking
5 99 (13.41%) Public Sector
6 45 (6.10%) Marketing
7 44 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
9 28 (3.79%) Legal
9 28 (3.79%) Retail
10 27 (3.66%) Front Office
11 24 (3.25%) Financial Institution
11 24 (3.25%) Publishing
12 22 (2.98%) Local Government
13 19 (2.57%) Investment Banking
14 18 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.90%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.63%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 168 (22.76%) Analyst
2 88 (11.92%) Senior
3 82 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 70 (9.49%) Lead
5 58 (7.86%) Developer
6 49 (6.64%) Architect
7 46 (6.23%) Data Analyst
8 45 (6.10%) Project Manager
9 38 (5.15%) Data Engineer
10 27 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
11 20 (2.71%) Data Scientist
12 19 (2.57%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (2.44%) Consultant
13 18 (2.44%) Data Business Analyst
14 17 (2.30%) Senior Manager
15 14 (1.90%) Product Manager
15 14 (1.90%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (1.76%) Senior Developer
17 12 (1.63%) Operations Manager
18 11 (1.49%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.71%) AngularJS
1 20 (2.71%) Kafka
2 18 (2.44%) React
3 16 (2.17%) REST
4 14 (1.90%) Pandas
5 13 (1.76%) XML
6 12 (1.63%) Plotly
6 12 (1.63%) scikit-learn
7 11 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (1.49%) JSON
7 11 (1.49%) NumPy
7 11 (1.49%) TensorFlow
8 10 (1.36%) .NET
9 9 (1.22%) PySpark
9 9 (1.22%) RESTful
10 8 (1.08%) CSS
10 8 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (1.08%) HTML
10 8 (1.08%) PyTorch
10 8 (1.08%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.83%) Product Ownership
2 39 (5.28%) Management Information System
3 34 (4.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.79%) Cloud Native
5 26 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (3.39%) Algorithms
7 23 (3.12%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.49%) Derivative
12 9 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (1.22%) NHS
12 9 (1.22%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.22%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.08%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.79%) Linux
2 15 (2.03%) Windows
3 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (29.00%) Agile
2 199 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
3 180 (24.39%) Analytics
4 146 (19.78%) Business Intelligence
4 146 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 107 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 106 (14.36%) Data Analysis
6 106 (14.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 105 (14.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 102 (13.82%) AI
9 100 (13.55%) Visualisation
10 99 (13.41%) Actionable Insight
11 94 (12.74%) Data Modelling
12 91 (12.33%) Roadmaps
13 80 (10.84%) Project Management
14 68 (9.21%) Data Governance
14 68 (9.21%) Risk Management
15 65 (8.81%) Data Science
16 64 (8.67%) CI/CD
16 64 (8.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 172 (23.31%) SQL
2 147 (19.92%) Python
3 29 (3.93%) Java
4 22 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.30%) TypeScript
6 16 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.03%) Bash
7 15 (2.03%) R
8 14 (1.90%) C++
9 11 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.22%) Scala
11 8 (1.08%) C#
12 6 (0.81%) Bicep
12 6 (0.81%) Korn
13 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.68%) VBA
14 4 (0.54%) Groovy
14 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 97 (13.14%) Degree
2 89 (12.06%) Security Cleared
3 72 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.98%) PMI Certification
5 22 (2.98%) PMP
6 20 (2.71%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.63%) ACCA
7 12 (1.63%) CIMA
8 11 (1.49%) CISSP
9 6 (0.81%) CISM
9 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.81%) MBA
9 6 (0.81%) PhD
10 5 (0.68%) MCP
11 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.79%) PMO
4 23 (3.12%) QA
5 19 (2.57%) GDPR
6 15 (2.03%) NIST
7 14 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.22%) GRC
9 7 (0.95%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.68%) GMP
12 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.54%) WCAG
13 3 (0.41%) COBIT
13 3 (0.41%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.41%) NCSC
14 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (4.34%) Docker
2 8 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.81%) HDFS
4 5 (0.68%) zsh
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (4.34%) Terraform
2 26 (3.52%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.76%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
5 10 (1.36%) Grafana
6 4 (0.54%) Ansible
6 4 (0.54%) Kibana
6 4 (0.54%) logstash
6 4 (0.54%) Rancher
7 2 (0.27%) Consul
7 2 (0.27%) Packer
8 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.01%) SAP
3 34 (4.61%) Oracle
4 26 (3.52%) Google
5 23 (3.12%) Databricks
5 23 (3.12%) Salesforce
5 23 (3.12%) ServiceNow
6 13 (1.76%) Adobe
7 11 (1.49%) Solace
8 9 (1.22%) TIBCO
9 7 (0.95%) Dataiku
9 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.95%) Workday
10 6 (0.81%) Cisco
10 6 (0.81%) Foundry
11 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.54%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.54%) Ariba
12 4 (0.54%) Juniper
12 4 (0.54%) Palo Alto