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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 47 66
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 +32
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,019 561 596
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.13% 4.40% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 4.82% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 372 432
10th Percentile £370 £356 £350
25th Percentile £432 £423 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +3.53% -9.96%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £646
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 27
10th Percentile - £28.32 £19.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £20.00 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.60% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £41.75 £53.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £58.55 £54.25
England median hourly rate £50.23 £29.50 £18.94
% change year-on-year +70.27% +55.78% -63.79%

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 14,942 11,630 15,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.82% 91.27% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,020 7,810 11,431
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 164 342
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -19.47%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.18 £69.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +14 144 £555 +6.73% 295
South London -17 18 £519 -13.58% 23
West London -15 15 £518 -17.20% 45
East London -1 4 £719 -7.23% 33
North London - 2 £413 - 1
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 46 (4.51%) Confluence
2 24 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.98%) nginx
6 5 (0.49%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.39%) Apache
7 4 (0.39%) CMS
8 3 (0.29%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.098%) SAS
Applications
1 115 (11.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (4.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (3.43%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.96%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.67%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.29%) Notion
8 3 (0.29%) Trello
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) InVision
9 2 (0.20%) Sketch
10 1 (0.098%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 9 (0.88%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.29%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.29%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.20%) Lorenzo
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
7 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 211 (20.71%) Azure
2 182 (17.86%) Power Platform
3 163 (16.00%) AWS
4 78 (7.65%) GCP
5 46 (4.51%) SaaS
6 35 (3.43%) Serverless
7 34 (3.34%) Snowflake
8 33 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 29 (2.85%) Amazon S3
11 29 (2.85%) GitHub
12 26 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.57%) Power Automate
15 16 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (1.37%) Collibra
16 14 (1.37%) PaaS
17 13 (1.28%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.57%) Firewall
1 16 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.28%) VPN
3 12 (1.18%) DNS
4 9 (0.88%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.79%) Network Security
6 7 (0.69%) HTTP
7 4 (0.39%) Multicast
7 4 (0.39%) NAS
7 4 (0.39%) SAN
7 4 (0.39%) tcpdump
7 4 (0.39%) WAN
7 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.29%) 5G
8 3 (0.29%) Broadband
8 3 (0.29%) Internet
9 2 (0.20%) Calico
9 2 (0.20%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.20%) NaaS
9 2 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (17.17%) Power BI
2 65 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (4.81%) Tableau
4 40 (3.93%) Metadata
5 32 (3.14%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.77%) Big Data
9 17 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (1.57%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.47%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.37%) Looker
13 13 (1.28%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.18%) Delta Lake
14 12 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (1.08%) Power Query
16 10 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.98%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 88 (8.64%) JIRA
2 39 (3.83%) Git
3 14 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.28%) GitLab
5 11 (1.08%) MLflow
6 10 (0.98%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.59%) ERwin
8 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.39%) JUnit
10 3 (0.29%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.29%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.29%) Selenium
10 3 (0.29%) Toad
11 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.20%) DbUnit
11 2 (0.20%) jMock
11 2 (0.20%) Postman
11 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 409 (40.14%) Social Skills
2 368 (36.11%) Finance
3 281 (27.58%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (14.23%) Public Sector
5 116 (11.38%) Banking
6 46 (4.51%) Marketing
7 45 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
7 45 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
8 38 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
9 37 (3.63%) Legal
10 34 (3.34%) Retail
11 28 (2.75%) Telecoms
12 27 (2.65%) Front Office
13 24 (2.36%) Publishing
14 23 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (2.26%) Financial Institution
15 22 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (2.06%) Billing
17 20 (1.96%) Local Government
18 18 (1.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (17.96%) Analyst
2 142 (13.94%) Senior
3 113 (11.09%) Lead
4 93 (9.13%) Business Analyst
5 82 (8.05%) Developer
6 79 (7.75%) Architect
7 69 (6.77%) Project Manager
8 60 (5.89%) Data Engineer
9 56 (5.50%) Data Analyst
10 32 (3.14%) Consultant
10 32 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
11 31 (3.04%) User Researcher
12 28 (2.75%) Senior Manager
12 28 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (2.36%) Data Scientist
13 24 (2.36%) Product Manager
14 21 (2.06%) Senior Business Analyst
15 20 (1.96%) Programme Manager
16 19 (1.86%) Senior Data Engineer
17 17 (1.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.04%) REST
2 26 (2.55%) Kafka
2 26 (2.55%) Pandas
3 23 (2.26%) AngularJS
3 23 (2.26%) scikit-learn
4 21 (2.06%) Middleware
5 20 (1.96%) NumPy
6 18 (1.77%) React
7 17 (1.67%) PySpark
8 15 (1.47%) .NET
8 15 (1.47%) PyTorch
9 14 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 14 (1.37%) RESTful
10 12 (1.18%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.08%) Plotly
12 10 (0.98%) JSON
12 10 (0.98%) LangChain
12 10 (0.98%) OpenID
12 10 (0.98%) XML
13 9 (0.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.18%) Cloud Native
2 52 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 31 (3.04%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 26 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 23 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 22 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.47%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.47%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.28%) Derivative
13 13 (1.28%) FMCG
14 12 (1.18%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.98%) Fixed Income
15 10 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.67%) Linux
2 14 (1.37%) Windows
3 3 (0.29%) VMS
3 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.098%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.098%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (28.36%) Agile
2 244 (23.95%) Analytics
3 238 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
4 225 (22.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 199 (19.53%) Business Intelligence
6 183 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 165 (16.19%) AI
8 161 (15.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 154 (15.11%) Roadmaps
10 143 (14.03%) Data Modelling
11 141 (13.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 125 (12.27%) Actionable Insight
13 121 (11.87%) DevOps
14 115 (11.29%) CI/CD
15 110 (10.79%) Visualisation
16 108 (10.60%) ETL
17 107 (10.50%) Migration
18 105 (10.30%) Project Management
19 102 (10.01%) Data Governance
20 93 (9.13%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 226 (22.18%) SQL
2 195 (19.14%) Python
3 36 (3.53%) Java
4 28 (2.75%) TypeScript
5 20 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (1.86%) C#
7 15 (1.47%) PL/SQL
7 15 (1.47%) R
8 14 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.08%) Bash
10 9 (0.88%) C++
11 8 (0.79%) VBA
12 7 (0.69%) Bicep
12 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.39%) Groovy
13 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.39%) Scala
14 3 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 168 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 136 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 116 (11.38%) Degree
4 36 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (3.53%) Master's Degree
5 29 (2.85%) PMI Certification
5 29 (2.85%) PMP
6 15 (1.47%) ACCA
6 15 (1.47%) CIMA
6 15 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.37%) CISSP
8 11 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.08%) CBAP
8 11 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (0.88%) CISM
9 9 (0.88%) PhD
10 8 (0.79%) IIBA
10 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.59%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (13.44%) Data Quality
2 62 (6.08%) PMO
3 58 (5.69%) QA
4 40 (3.93%) Accessibility
5 33 (3.24%) GDPR
6 16 (1.57%) NIST
7 14 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (1.08%) GRC
10 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.98%) SLA
11 8 (0.79%) WCAG
12 7 (0.69%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.49%) COBIT
15 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
16 3 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (2.85%) Docker
2 9 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.88%) Squid
3 6 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) HDFS
4 4 (0.39%) NFS
5 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.20%) vSphere
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.098%) Postfix
6 1 (0.098%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.098%) zsh
Systems Management
1 55 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.00%) Terraform
3 21 (2.06%) Grafana
4 20 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.88%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.79%) Consul
8 7 (0.69%) Ansible
8 7 (0.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.39%) vMotion
11 3 (0.29%) Control-M
11 3 (0.29%) Rancher
11 3 (0.29%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.20%) Argo
12 2 (0.20%) Istio
13 1 (0.098%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 140 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.30%) Oracle
3 49 (4.81%) Databricks
4 46 (4.51%) SAP
5 40 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 38 (3.73%) Google
7 33 (3.24%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.67%) Adobe
9 16 (1.57%) Workday
10 14 (1.37%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.98%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.88%) Planview
13 9 (0.88%) Software AG
14 8 (0.79%) Cisco
14 8 (0.79%) VMware
15 7 (0.69%) Foundry
15 7 (0.69%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.59%) Ariba
16 6 (0.59%) Murex