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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 70
Rank change year-on-year +20 +20 +30
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,126 582 566
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.34% 4.66% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 5.06% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 380 398
10th Percentile £375 £356 £313
25th Percentile £435 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £643
90th Percentile £775 £789 £763
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 25
10th Percentile £26.52 £27.80 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.25 £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 £63.75 £52.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.60 £75.13 £53.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £31.35 £18.25
% change year-on-year +83.44% +71.75% -64.61%

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 15,677 11,512 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.23% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,479 7,802 11,216
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £431 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 175 313
10th Percentile £18.52 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.66 £23.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +23.21% -26.80%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +14 161 £575 +5.50% 283
West London -7 33 £520 -16.80% 45
South London 0 18 £519 -13.58% 8
East London -2 5 £697 -10.06% 32
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 41 (3.64%) Confluence
2 23 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.89%) nginx
5 5 (0.44%) Apache
5 5 (0.44%) CMS
5 5 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.18%) Camunda
8 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.18%) Mendix
8 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.18%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 15 (1.33%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) Notion
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.089%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.089%) InVision
9 1 (0.089%) Sketch
9 1 (0.089%) SPSS
9 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.53%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.44%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.27%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.27%) 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
1 221 (19.63%) Azure
2 188 (16.70%) AWS
3 163 (14.48%) Power Platform
4 90 (7.99%) GCP
5 70 (6.22%) SaaS
6 39 (3.46%) Serverless
7 38 (3.37%) Amazon S3
8 36 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (3.20%) Snowflake
9 31 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (2.66%) GitHub
11 28 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (1.60%) Collibra
15 17 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (1.33%) Dagster
16 15 (1.33%) dbt
16 15 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.33%) Firewall
2 13 (1.15%) DNS
2 13 (1.15%) VPN
3 11 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.80%) HTTP
4 9 (0.80%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.71%) Network Security
6 4 (0.36%) NAS
6 4 (0.36%) SAN
7 3 (0.27%) Internet
7 3 (0.27%) WAN
8 2 (0.18%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.18%) DMZ
8 2 (0.18%) Intranet
8 2 (0.18%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.18%) Junos
8 2 (0.18%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (13.85%) Power BI
2 63 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.44%) Tableau
4 46 (4.09%) Metadata
5 30 (2.66%) BigQuery
5 30 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.60%) Looker
7 18 (1.60%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.51%) Big Data
8 17 (1.51%) Oracle Database
8 17 (1.51%) Power Query
9 16 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.33%) Delta Lake
10 15 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.15%) Parquet
12 12 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 85 (7.55%) JIRA
2 40 (3.55%) Git
3 17 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.15%) GitLab
5 12 (1.07%) MLflow
6 10 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.53%) ERwin
8 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.44%) JUnit
10 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.27%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.27%) jMock
10 3 (0.27%) Maven
10 3 (0.27%) Mockito
10 3 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.27%) Toad
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) Selenium
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 408 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 404 (35.88%) Finance
3 278 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (13.50%) Public Sector
5 133 (11.81%) Banking
6 60 (5.33%) Marketing
7 59 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (4.17%) Legal
9 45 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (3.64%) Retail
11 37 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.84%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (2.22%) Financial Institution
13 25 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 22 (1.95%) Local Government
15 19 (1.69%) Billing
16 18 (1.60%) Front Office
17 16 (1.42%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 197 (17.50%) Analyst
2 170 (15.10%) Senior
3 124 (11.01%) Lead
4 96 (8.53%) Business Analyst
5 94 (8.35%) Architect
6 76 (6.75%) Project Manager
7 75 (6.66%) Data Engineer
7 75 (6.66%) Developer
8 65 (5.77%) Data Analyst
9 49 (4.35%) Consultant
10 36 (3.20%) Senior Analyst
11 35 (3.11%) Data Scientist
12 32 (2.84%) Senior Manager
13 31 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (2.49%) Product Manager
15 25 (2.22%) User Researcher
16 24 (2.13%) Senior Data Engineer
17 23 (2.04%) Designer
18 22 (1.95%) Programme Manager
18 22 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.66%) Pandas
1 30 (2.66%) REST
2 20 (1.78%) Middleware
2 20 (1.78%) NumPy
3 19 (1.69%) PySpark
4 18 (1.60%) .NET
4 18 (1.60%) React
4 18 (1.60%) scikit-learn
5 17 (1.51%) Kafka
6 15 (1.33%) AngularJS
6 15 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (1.24%) PyTorch
7 14 (1.24%) RESTful
8 13 (1.15%) Spring
8 13 (1.15%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.07%) LangChain
10 10 (0.89%) OpenID
10 10 (0.89%) TensorFlow
11 9 (0.80%) HTML
11 9 (0.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 60 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.40%) AI Agents
4 27 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.31%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 24 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 18 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.60%) PMI
9 16 (1.42%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.15%) FMCG
10 13 (1.15%) NHS
11 11 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 11 (0.98%) CMDB
11 11 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.07%) Linux
1 12 (1.07%) Windows
2 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
2 3 (0.27%) VMS
2 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.18%) Unix
4 1 (0.089%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.089%) Solaris
4 1 (0.089%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (27.09%) Agile
2 261 (23.18%) Analytics
3 255 (22.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 242 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
5 214 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 206 (18.29%) AI
7 184 (16.34%) Business Intelligence
8 171 (15.19%) Roadmaps
9 170 (15.10%) Data Modelling
9 170 (15.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 142 (12.61%) DevOps
11 139 (12.34%) CI/CD
12 126 (11.19%) Project Management
13 121 (10.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 119 (10.57%) Actionable Insight
15 117 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
16 116 (10.30%) Migration
17 114 (10.12%) ETL
18 108 (9.59%) Data Governance
19 101 (8.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 234 (20.78%) SQL
2 215 (19.09%) Python
3 54 (4.80%) Java
4 28 (2.49%) TypeScript
5 26 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (2.13%) C#
7 21 (1.87%) R
8 17 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.42%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.98%) VBA
11 6 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.53%) Scala
11 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.44%) Bicep
12 5 (0.44%) C++
13 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.36%) Ruby
14 3 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.27%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 189 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 151 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.86%) Degree
4 46 (4.09%) PMP
5 42 (3.73%) PMI Certification
6 32 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.84%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 19 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.51%) ACCA
10 15 (1.33%) CISSP
11 13 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.07%) CBAP
13 11 (0.98%) CIMA
14 10 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.80%) CISM
15 9 (0.80%) IIBA
15 9 (0.80%) PhD
16 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (0.53%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (13.94%) Data Quality
2 73 (6.48%) PMO
3 68 (6.04%) QA
4 37 (3.29%) GDPR
5 29 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.60%) NIST
7 16 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.98%) SLA
10 8 (0.71%) GRC
10 8 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.53%) COREP
11 6 (0.53%) FINREP
11 6 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.44%) COBIT
12 5 (0.44%) GAAP
12 5 (0.44%) IFRS
12 5 (0.44%) WCAG
13 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 31 (2.75%) Docker
2 9 (0.80%) Squid
3 8 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) NFS
6 3 (0.27%) IAG
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.089%) HDFS
8 1 (0.089%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (5.60%) Terraform
2 59 (5.24%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.60%) Grafana
4 15 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.89%) Ansible
7 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.62%) Consul
8 7 (0.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.44%) Kibana
10 4 (0.36%) Control-M
10 4 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.36%) vMotion
11 3 (0.27%) Istio
12 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.18%) Argo
12 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.089%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.089%) Rancher
Vendors
1 163 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.33%) Oracle
3 52 (4.62%) Databricks
4 50 (4.44%) SAP
5 43 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 42 (3.73%) Google
7 38 (3.37%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.87%) Workday
9 17 (1.51%) Adobe
10 12 (1.07%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.98%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.80%) Foundry
12 9 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.80%) Software AG
12 9 (0.80%) VMware
13 7 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.62%) Planview
14 6 (0.53%) Cisco
14 6 (0.53%) GoldenSource