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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 61 70
Rank change year-on-year +20 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 817 504 584
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.59% 3.61% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 3.99% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 317 421
10th Percentile £363 £345 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £698 £650
90th Percentile £774 £875 £769
England median daily rate £513 £535 £533
% change year-on-year -4.21% +0.47% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 23
10th Percentile - £28.60 £26.55
25th Percentile £18.25 £30.03 £27.81
Median hourly rate £31.49 £34.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -0.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile £41.78 £50.75 £48.63
90th Percentile £44.98 £59.75 £63.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £31.17 £36.33
% change year-on-year +12.28% -14.20% -28.10%

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 13,327 12,620 16,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.12% 90.43% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,848 8,052 11,585
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 158 302
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.53 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.73 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +15.40% -15.16%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £70.20 £80.23 £73.56
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.93% +8.51%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +16 113 £550 +7.84% 126
West London -11 11 £525 -39.13% 21
South London -15 8 £550 -8.33% 40
East London +2 3 £625 - 15
North London +7 1 £500 - 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 39 (4.77%) Confluence
2 21 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.86%) nginx
6 4 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.37%) Apache
7 3 (0.37%) CMS
7 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) Appian
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
8 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 107 (13.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (2.33%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.61%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.37%) Notion
8 3 (0.37%) Sketch
8 3 (0.37%) Trello
9 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.24%) InVision
10 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.12%) SPSS
10 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 10 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.10%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.49%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.49%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.37%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.37%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.24%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.12%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 157 (19.22%) Power Platform
2 140 (17.14%) Azure
3 104 (12.73%) AWS
4 45 (5.51%) GCP
5 36 (4.41%) SaaS
6 30 (3.67%) GitHub
7 25 (3.06%) Snowflake
8 22 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (2.20%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.20%) Serverless
12 15 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (1.84%) dbt
13 13 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.47%) PaaS
15 11 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.22%) Collibra
16 10 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.35%) Firewall
2 10 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.98%) VPN
4 6 (0.73%) DNS
4 6 (0.73%) HTTP
4 6 (0.73%) Network Security
5 5 (0.61%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.49%) Internet
6 4 (0.49%) Multicast
6 4 (0.49%) tcpdump
6 4 (0.49%) Wireless
6 4 (0.49%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.37%) 5G
7 3 (0.37%) Broadband
8 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.24%) Calico
8 2 (0.24%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.24%) ISDN
8 2 (0.24%) PSTN
8 2 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (18.36%) Power BI
2 51 (6.24%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (4.53%) Metadata
4 36 (4.41%) Tableau
5 33 (4.04%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.18%) Data Lake
6 26 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (2.69%) Big Data
8 17 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (1.71%) Delta Lake
10 14 (1.71%) Hadoop
10 14 (1.71%) Power Query
11 13 (1.59%) Star Schema
12 11 (1.35%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.10%) Looker
13 9 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.98%) Apache Hive
15 7 (0.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 61 (7.47%) JIRA
2 33 (4.04%) Git
3 15 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.22%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.10%) GitLab
6 7 (0.86%) MLflow
7 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.61%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.49%) ERwin
8 4 (0.49%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.24%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.12%) Gradle
11 1 (0.12%) Toad
General
1 331 (40.51%) Social Skills
2 280 (34.27%) Finance
3 254 (31.09%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (12.97%) Public Sector
5 100 (12.24%) Banking
6 40 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
7 36 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
7 36 (4.41%) Marketing
8 29 (3.55%) Legal
9 28 (3.43%) Front Office
10 25 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.94%) Publishing
11 24 (2.94%) Retail
12 22 (2.69%) Telecoms
13 17 (2.08%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (2.08%) Local Government
14 16 (1.96%) Billing
14 16 (1.96%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 170 (20.81%) Analyst
2 111 (13.59%) Senior
3 82 (10.04%) Lead
4 81 (9.91%) Business Analyst
5 67 (8.20%) Developer
6 54 (6.61%) Architect
7 50 (6.12%) Project Manager
8 48 (5.88%) Data Analyst
9 44 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 31 (3.79%) Consultant
10 31 (3.79%) Senior Analyst
11 23 (2.82%) Senior Manager
12 20 (2.45%) Data Scientist
12 20 (2.45%) Product Manager
12 20 (2.45%) Senior Business Analyst
12 20 (2.45%) Senior Data Engineer
13 19 (2.33%) User Researcher
14 16 (1.96%) Data Business Analyst
14 16 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (1.71%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.82%) Kafka
2 19 (2.33%) REST
3 18 (2.20%) AngularJS
3 18 (2.20%) Pandas
4 17 (2.08%) React
5 16 (1.96%) Middleware
5 16 (1.96%) PySpark
5 16 (1.96%) scikit-learn
6 13 (1.59%) .NET
6 13 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (1.59%) RESTful
6 13 (1.59%) TensorFlow
7 12 (1.47%) NumPy
7 12 (1.47%) Plotly
7 12 (1.47%) PyTorch
8 10 (1.22%) XML
9 9 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (1.10%) JSON
10 8 (0.98%) HTML
10 8 (0.98%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.51%) Product Ownership
2 39 (4.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 36 (4.41%) Management Information System
4 33 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 25 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.57%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.20%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.84%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.59%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.59%) Derivative
11 13 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.10%) Credit Risk
16 8 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (0.98%) FMCG
16 8 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.06%) Linux
2 17 (2.08%) Windows
3 5 (0.61%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.24%) Unix
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (26.93%) Problem-Solving
2 216 (26.44%) Agile
3 192 (23.50%) Analytics
4 175 (21.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 168 (20.56%) Business Intelligence
6 126 (15.42%) AI
7 122 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 121 (14.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 121 (14.81%) Roadmaps
9 117 (14.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 114 (13.95%) Actionable Insight
11 104 (12.73%) Data Modelling
12 101 (12.36%) Data Analysis
13 98 (12.00%) Visualisation
14 86 (10.53%) CI/CD
14 86 (10.53%) Data Governance
14 86 (10.53%) Project Management
15 80 (9.79%) DevOps
16 75 (9.18%) ETL
17 71 (8.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 190 (23.26%) SQL
2 159 (19.46%) Python
3 23 (2.82%) Java
4 17 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (1.96%) TypeScript
6 15 (1.84%) Bash
6 15 (1.84%) R
7 14 (1.71%) C++
7 14 (1.71%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.59%) C#
9 12 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.10%) Bicep
10 9 (1.10%) VBA
11 5 (0.61%) Korn
11 5 (0.61%) Scala
11 5 (0.61%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.49%) Groovy
13 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 109 (13.34%) Security Cleared
2 107 (13.10%) Degree
3 92 (11.26%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 26 (3.18%) PMI Certification
7 25 (3.06%) PMP
8 14 (1.71%) ACCA
8 14 (1.71%) CIMA
9 9 (1.10%) CBAP
9 9 (1.10%) CISSP
10 8 (0.98%) PhD
11 7 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.86%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.73%) CISM
12 6 (0.73%) IIBA
12 6 (0.73%) MBA
12 6 (0.73%) MCP
13 5 (0.61%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (12.48%) Data Quality
2 39 (4.77%) PMO
2 39 (4.77%) QA
3 31 (3.79%) Accessibility
4 23 (2.82%) GDPR
5 15 (1.84%) NIST
6 13 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.86%) EU AI Act
9 7 (0.86%) GRC
10 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.73%) SLA
11 5 (0.61%) COBIT
11 5 (0.61%) GMP
11 5 (0.61%) WCAG
12 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.37%) IFRS
13 3 (0.37%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 32 (3.92%) Docker
2 8 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.73%) HDFS
4 5 (0.61%) Squid
4 5 (0.61%) zsh
5 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.24%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 42 (5.14%) Terraform
2 36 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.71%) Grafana
3 14 (1.71%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (0.73%) Consul
6 5 (0.61%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.49%) Ansible
7 4 (0.49%) Kibana
7 4 (0.49%) logstash
7 4 (0.49%) Rancher
8 3 (0.37%) Control-M
9 2 (0.24%) Istio
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 106 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.88%) Oracle
3 38 (4.65%) SAP
4 31 (3.79%) Databricks
5 30 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 28 (3.43%) Salesforce
7 19 (2.33%) Google
8 11 (1.35%) Adobe
9 10 (1.22%) Workday
10 9 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.10%) Software AG
10 9 (1.10%) Solace
11 8 (0.98%) Cisco
11 8 (0.98%) TIBCO
12 7 (0.86%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.73%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.73%) Planview
14 5 (0.61%) Ariba
14 5 (0.61%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.49%) Foundry