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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 48 71
Rank change year-on-year +18 +23 +25
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,138 595 546
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.34% 4.76% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 5.16% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 390 382
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £438 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £643
90th Percentile £774 £775 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -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 £55.00 £31.08 £18.00
% change year-on-year +76.99% +72.64% -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 15,848 11,538 15,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.22% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,808 11,112
10th Percentile £356 £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 £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +10 159 £575 +4.55% 290
West London -5 34 £520 -16.80% 33
South London +2 17 £519 -13.58% 8
East London -4 5 £697 -10.06% 27
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 42 (3.69%) Confluence
2 23 (2.02%) 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 97 (8.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.81%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.67%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.41%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.62%) 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 8 (0.70%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.18%) Actimize
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 225 (19.77%) Azure
2 192 (16.87%) AWS
3 167 (14.67%) Power Platform
4 90 (7.91%) GCP
5 70 (6.15%) SaaS
6 38 (3.34%) Amazon S3
6 38 (3.34%) Serverless
6 38 (3.34%) Snowflake
7 36 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 30 (2.64%) GitHub
9 27 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 21 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (1.58%) Collibra
12 17 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (1.41%) dbt
14 15 (1.32%) Dagster
14 15 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.14%) DNS
1 13 (1.14%) Firewall
1 13 (1.14%) VPN
2 11 (0.97%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.79%) HTTP
3 9 (0.79%) OpenVPN
4 5 (0.44%) Network Security
5 4 (0.35%) NAS
5 4 (0.35%) SAN
6 3 (0.26%) WAN
7 2 (0.18%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.18%) Calico
7 2 (0.18%) Intelligent Network
7 2 (0.18%) Intranet
7 2 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.18%) NaaS
7 2 (0.18%) VSAN
7 2 (0.18%) Wireless
8 1 (0.088%) Modbus
8 1 (0.088%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (13.97%) Power BI
2 64 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (4.57%) Tableau
4 48 (4.22%) Metadata
5 31 (2.72%) BigQuery
5 31 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.11%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.58%) Looker
7 18 (1.58%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.49%) Oracle Database
8 17 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.49%) Power Query
9 16 (1.41%) Big Data
9 16 (1.41%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.32%) Delta Lake
10 15 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.14%) Parquet
12 12 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 86 (7.56%) JIRA
2 41 (3.60%) Git
3 18 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.14%) GitLab
5 12 (1.05%) MLflow
6 10 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.53%) ERwin
8 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.44%) JUnit
10 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.26%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.26%) jMock
10 3 (0.26%) Maven
10 3 (0.26%) Mockito
10 3 (0.26%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.26%) Toad
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 408 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 398 (34.97%) Finance
3 273 (23.99%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (13.36%) Public Sector
5 129 (11.34%) Banking
6 64 (5.62%) Marketing
7 58 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (4.13%) Legal
9 44 (3.87%) Retail
10 41 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (2.11%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.76%) Local Government
17 19 (1.67%) Billing
18 18 (1.58%) Front Office
19 16 (1.41%) Investment Banking
20 11 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 198 (17.40%) Analyst
2 174 (15.29%) Senior
3 128 (11.25%) Lead
4 97 (8.52%) Business Analyst
5 94 (8.26%) Architect
6 79 (6.94%) Data Engineer
7 76 (6.68%) Developer
8 75 (6.59%) Project Manager
9 67 (5.89%) Data Analyst
10 50 (4.39%) Consultant
11 37 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
12 36 (3.16%) Data Scientist
13 32 (2.81%) Senior Manager
14 31 (2.72%) Product Manager
14 31 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (2.20%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (2.11%) User Researcher
17 23 (2.02%) Designer
18 22 (1.93%) Product Owner
18 22 (1.93%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.81%) REST
2 31 (2.72%) Pandas
3 20 (1.76%) NumPy
4 19 (1.67%) Middleware
4 19 (1.67%) PySpark
4 19 (1.67%) React
4 19 (1.67%) scikit-learn
5 18 (1.58%) .NET
5 18 (1.58%) Kafka
6 16 (1.41%) AngularJS
7 15 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (1.32%) RESTful
8 14 (1.23%) Spring
8 14 (1.23%) Spring Boot
9 13 (1.14%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.05%) LangChain
11 10 (0.88%) HTML
11 10 (0.88%) OpenID
12 9 (0.79%) JSON
12 9 (0.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (6.50%) Cloud Native
2 65 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (2.37%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 26 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.58%) PMI
12 17 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.14%) FMCG
13 13 (1.14%) NHS
14 11 (0.97%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.97%) CMDB
15 10 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.05%) Windows
2 11 (0.97%) Linux
3 4 (0.35%) VMS
4 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.088%) Solaris
5 1 (0.088%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (27.24%) Agile
2 264 (23.20%) Analytics
3 260 (22.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 241 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
5 217 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 212 (18.63%) AI
7 187 (16.43%) Business Intelligence
8 182 (15.99%) Roadmaps
9 176 (15.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 171 (15.03%) Data Modelling
11 143 (12.57%) CI/CD
11 143 (12.57%) DevOps
12 125 (10.98%) Project Management
13 121 (10.63%) Actionable Insight
13 121 (10.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 118 (10.37%) Data Pipeline
15 116 (10.19%) Migration
16 114 (10.02%) ETL
17 113 (9.93%) Data Governance
18 103 (9.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 235 (20.65%) SQL
2 219 (19.24%) Python
3 55 (4.83%) Java
4 31 (2.72%) TypeScript
5 26 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (2.11%) C#
7 20 (1.76%) R
8 16 (1.41%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.41%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.97%) VBA
10 7 (0.62%) 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 2 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 195 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 156 (13.71%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.75%) Degree
4 46 (4.04%) PMP
5 41 (3.60%) PMI Certification
6 31 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.64%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.41%) ACCA
10 16 (1.41%) CISSP
11 13 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.05%) CBAP
13 11 (0.97%) CIMA
14 10 (0.88%) CISM
14 10 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.79%) IIBA
15 9 (0.79%) PhD
16 8 (0.70%) AWS Certification
17 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (14.41%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.50%) PMO
3 69 (6.06%) QA
4 37 (3.25%) GDPR
5 29 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.58%) NIST
7 16 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.97%) SLA
10 8 (0.70%) GRC
11 7 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.53%) COREP
12 6 (0.53%) FINREP
12 6 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.44%) COBIT
13 5 (0.44%) GAAP
13 5 (0.44%) IFRS
13 5 (0.44%) WCAG
14 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 32 (2.81%) Docker
2 9 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.79%) Squid
3 7 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.35%) NFS
5 3 (0.26%) IAG
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.18%) Postfix
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 (5.62%) Terraform
2 60 (5.27%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.58%) Grafana
4 15 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.79%) Ansible
6 9 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.62%) Consul
7 7 (0.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.44%) Kibana
8 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.35%) Control-M
9 4 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.35%) vMotion
10 3 (0.26%) Istio
11 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.18%) Argo
11 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.18%) SCCM
12 1 (0.088%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 168 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.27%) Oracle
3 54 (4.75%) Databricks
4 49 (4.31%) SAP
5 43 (3.78%) Google
5 43 (3.78%) ServiceNow
6 38 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.93%) Workday
8 14 (1.23%) Adobe
9 12 (1.05%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.05%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.88%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.79%) Foundry
12 9 (0.79%) VMware
13 8 (0.70%) Software AG
14 7 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.62%) Planview
15 6 (0.53%) Palantir
15 6 (0.53%) Splunk