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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 49 66
Rank change year-on-year +15 +17 +35
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,040 570 589
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.14% 4.52% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.86% 4.95% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 705 380 423
10th Percentile £372 £356 £345
25th Percentile £431 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £645
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 28
10th Percentile £18.25 £28.32 £19.57
25th Percentile £18.72 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £52.75 £53.25 £49.06
90th Percentile £77.50 £58.55 £54.13
England median hourly rate £58.75 £30.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +95.83% +62.16% -65.37%

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 15,153 11,521 15,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.47% 91.42% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,178 7,819 11,391
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £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 232 167 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.65 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.10 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £65.00 £67.90
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +15 145 £575 +10.58% 279
West London -14 20 £520 -16.80% 36
South London -17 18 £519 -13.58% 12
East London +3 5 £697 -10.06% 24
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 47 (4.52%) Confluence
2 24 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.06%) nginx
6 6 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.48%) Apache
7 5 (0.48%) CMS
7 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.19%) Camunda
8 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.19%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 113 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 33 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.63%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.29%) Notion
8 3 (0.29%) Trello
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.19%) InVision
9 2 (0.19%) Sketch
10 1 (0.096%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.096%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 9 (0.87%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.58%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.29%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.29%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 221 (21.25%) Azure
2 177 (17.02%) AWS
2 177 (17.02%) Power Platform
3 80 (7.69%) GCP
4 50 (4.81%) SaaS
5 38 (3.65%) Snowflake
6 37 (3.56%) Serverless
7 35 (3.37%) Amazon S3
7 35 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.08%) GitHub
9 31 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 28 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (1.44%) Collibra
15 15 (1.44%) PaaS
16 14 (1.35%) Power Automate
17 13 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.54%) Firewall
2 13 (1.25%) DNS
2 13 (1.25%) VPN
3 12 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.87%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.77%) HTTP
5 8 (0.77%) Network Security
6 4 (0.38%) NAS
6 4 (0.38%) SAN
6 4 (0.38%) WAN
7 3 (0.29%) 5G
7 3 (0.29%) Broadband
7 3 (0.29%) Internet
8 2 (0.19%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.19%) Calico
8 2 (0.19%) DHCP
8 2 (0.19%) DMZ
8 2 (0.19%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.19%) NaaS
8 2 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (16.35%) Power BI
2 64 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (4.52%) Tableau
4 41 (3.94%) Metadata
5 31 (2.98%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.12%) Data Lake
7 19 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 17 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.54%) Big Data
9 16 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.35%) Looker
12 13 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.25%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.25%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.15%) Power Query
14 10 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (8.75%) JIRA
2 42 (4.04%) Git
3 16 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.25%) GitLab
5 12 (1.15%) MLflow
6 9 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.87%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.58%) ERwin
7 6 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.38%) JUnit
9 3 (0.29%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.29%) Toad
10 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.19%) DbUnit
10 2 (0.19%) jMock
10 2 (0.19%) Maven
10 2 (0.19%) Postman
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
10 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 408 (39.23%) Social Skills
2 376 (36.15%) Finance
3 280 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (14.13%) Public Sector
5 120 (11.54%) Banking
6 52 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 51 (4.90%) Marketing
8 43 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (3.85%) Legal
10 37 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
10 37 (3.56%) Retail
11 29 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 24 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (2.31%) Financial Institution
12 24 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.02%) Local Government
14 20 (1.92%) Billing
14 20 (1.92%) Front Office
15 18 (1.73%) Investment Banking
15 18 (1.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 183 (17.60%) Analyst
2 153 (14.71%) Senior
3 112 (10.77%) Lead
4 94 (9.04%) Business Analyst
5 83 (7.98%) Architect
6 82 (7.88%) Developer
7 66 (6.35%) Data Engineer
7 66 (6.35%) Project Manager
8 58 (5.58%) Data Analyst
9 36 (3.46%) Consultant
10 32 (3.08%) Senior Manager
11 31 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
12 28 (2.69%) User Researcher
13 27 (2.60%) Data Scientist
13 27 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
14 23 (2.21%) Product Manager
15 22 (2.12%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (2.02%) Programme Manager
16 21 (2.02%) Senior Business Analyst
17 20 (1.92%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.98%) REST
2 29 (2.79%) Pandas
3 25 (2.40%) Kafka
4 24 (2.31%) scikit-learn
5 22 (2.12%) AngularJS
5 22 (2.12%) NumPy
6 19 (1.83%) React
7 18 (1.73%) Middleware
7 18 (1.73%) PySpark
8 17 (1.63%) .NET
9 15 (1.44%) PyTorch
10 14 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.35%) RESTful
11 12 (1.15%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.06%) LangChain
12 11 (1.06%) Plotly
13 10 (0.96%) OpenID
14 9 (0.87%) JSON
14 9 (0.87%) LDAP
15 8 (0.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 69 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 59 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 31 (2.98%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 30 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 22 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.63%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.54%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.44%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.35%) FMCG
15 13 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 12 (1.15%) NHS
17 11 (1.06%) Derivative
17 11 (1.06%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.25%) Windows
2 9 (0.87%) Linux
3 3 (0.29%) VMS
3 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.096%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.096%) Solaris
5 1 (0.096%) Unix
5 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (28.46%) Agile
2 250 (24.04%) Analytics
3 241 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
4 234 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 194 (18.65%) Business Intelligence
6 188 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 176 (16.92%) AI
8 160 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 158 (15.19%) Roadmaps
10 153 (14.71%) Data Modelling
11 140 (13.46%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 129 (12.40%) DevOps
13 122 (11.73%) Actionable Insight
13 122 (11.73%) CI/CD
14 110 (10.58%) ETL
14 110 (10.58%) Migration
15 108 (10.38%) Visualisation
16 106 (10.19%) Project Management
17 101 (9.71%) Data Governance
18 95 (9.13%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 225 (21.63%) SQL
2 205 (19.71%) Python
3 44 (4.23%) Java
4 27 (2.60%) TypeScript
5 21 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (1.92%) C#
7 16 (1.54%) PL/SQL
7 16 (1.54%) R
8 13 (1.25%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.87%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.77%) VBA
11 7 (0.67%) Bicep
11 7 (0.67%) C++
11 7 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.58%) Bash
13 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.38%) Groovy
13 4 (0.38%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 170 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 138 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 115 (11.06%) Degree
4 37 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.27%) Master's Degree
6 30 (2.88%) PMP
7 29 (2.79%) PMI Certification
8 17 (1.63%) ACCA
9 16 (1.54%) CIMA
9 16 (1.54%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.35%) CISSP
11 12 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.06%) CBAP
13 10 (0.96%) PhD
13 10 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.87%) CISM
15 8 (0.77%) IIBA
15 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.58%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 63 (6.06%) PMO
3 62 (5.96%) QA
4 35 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 31 (2.98%) GDPR
6 14 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.35%) NIST
7 12 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.06%) SLA
9 10 (0.96%) GRC
9 10 (0.96%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.67%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.67%) WCAG
11 5 (0.48%) COBIT
12 4 (0.38%) COREP
12 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.38%) FINREP
12 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (2.79%) Docker
2 9 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.87%) Squid
3 7 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.38%) NFS
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) IAG
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.096%) Postfix
6 1 (0.096%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.096%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 58 (5.58%) Terraform
2 57 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.63%) Grafana
4 16 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.87%) Ansible
6 9 (0.87%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.77%) Consul
8 7 (0.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.38%) Control-M
9 4 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.38%) vMotion
10 3 (0.29%) Rancher
10 3 (0.29%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.19%) Argo
11 2 (0.19%) Istio
12 1 (0.096%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.096%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 147 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.38%) Oracle
3 51 (4.90%) Databricks
4 46 (4.42%) SAP
5 45 (4.33%) ServiceNow
6 38 (3.65%) Google
7 35 (3.37%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.63%) Adobe
8 17 (1.63%) Workday
9 14 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.96%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.87%) Foundry
12 9 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.87%) Software AG
12 9 (0.87%) VMware
13 8 (0.77%) Planview
14 7 (0.67%) Cisco
15 6 (0.58%) Ariba
15 6 (0.58%) Murex