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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 50 68
Rank change year-on-year +22 +18 +28
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,118 581 573
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.28% 4.62% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.11% 5.01% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 381 406
10th Percentile £375 £363 £319
25th Percentile £435 £417 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £645
90th Percentile £771 £813 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 26
10th Percentile £26.99 £27.80 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.81 £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 £66.06 £52.25 £47.44
90th Percentile £77.05 £75.13 £52.50
England median hourly rate £60.25 £30.81 £18.25
% change year-on-year +95.59% +68.79% -64.22%

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 15,735 11,590 15,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 7,861 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +10 162 £575 +6.98% 315
West London -9 29 £520 -16.80% 32
South London -3 19 £519 -13.58% 5
East London -2 5 £697 -10.06% 21
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 45 (4.03%) Confluence
2 25 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.98%) nginx
6 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.45%) CMS
7 5 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) Camunda
9 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
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
1 103 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 33 (2.95%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.43%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) Notion
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.18%) InVision
9 2 (0.18%) Sketch
9 2 (0.18%) Trello
10 1 (0.089%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.089%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.89%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.45%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.27%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.18%) Lorenzo
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.18%) SystmOne
7 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 222 (19.86%) Azure
2 189 (16.91%) AWS
3 166 (14.85%) Power Platform
4 94 (8.41%) GCP
5 67 (5.99%) SaaS
6 38 (3.40%) Amazon S3
6 38 (3.40%) Serverless
7 37 (3.31%) Snowflake
8 35 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (2.68%) GitHub
11 29 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (1.61%) Collibra
15 16 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (1.34%) Dagster
16 15 (1.34%) dbt
16 15 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.34%) Firewall
2 13 (1.16%) DNS
2 13 (1.16%) VPN
3 11 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.81%) HTTP
4 9 (0.81%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.72%) 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
1 158 (14.13%) Power BI
2 64 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.47%) Tableau
4 47 (4.20%) Metadata
5 30 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 29 (2.59%) BigQuery
7 25 (2.24%) Data Lake
8 20 (1.79%) Big Data
9 19 (1.70%) NoSQL
10 18 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (1.52%) Looker
11 17 (1.52%) Oracle Database
11 17 (1.52%) Power Query
11 17 (1.52%) Relational Database
12 16 (1.43%) Delta Lake
13 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.16%) Parquet
15 12 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 90 (8.05%) JIRA
2 42 (3.76%) Git
3 17 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.16%) GitLab
5 12 (1.07%) MLflow
6 10 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.54%) ERwin
8 6 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.45%) 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%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 409 (36.58%) Social Skills
2 401 (35.87%) Finance
3 281 (25.13%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (13.60%) Public Sector
5 131 (11.72%) Banking
6 60 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
7 58 (5.19%) Marketing
8 46 (4.11%) Legal
8 46 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (3.67%) Retail
10 38 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (2.77%) Telecoms
12 25 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (2.15%) Financial Institution
13 24 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 22 (1.97%) Local Government
15 20 (1.79%) Front Office
16 18 (1.61%) Billing
17 16 (1.43%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 193 (17.26%) Analyst
2 170 (15.21%) Senior
3 122 (10.91%) Lead
4 94 (8.41%) Business Analyst
5 92 (8.23%) Architect
6 79 (7.07%) Developer
7 76 (6.80%) Data Engineer
7 76 (6.80%) Project Manager
8 63 (5.64%) Data Analyst
9 47 (4.20%) Consultant
10 35 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
11 33 (2.95%) Data Scientist
11 33 (2.95%) Senior Manager
12 29 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
13 25 (2.24%) Product Manager
13 25 (2.24%) Senior Data Engineer
13 25 (2.24%) User Researcher
14 24 (2.15%) Designer
15 22 (1.97%) Programme Manager
15 22 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.68%) REST
2 29 (2.59%) Pandas
3 20 (1.79%) Middleware
4 19 (1.70%) NumPy
4 19 (1.70%) PySpark
4 19 (1.70%) scikit-learn
5 18 (1.61%) .NET
5 18 (1.61%) Kafka
5 18 (1.61%) React
6 16 (1.43%) AngularJS
7 15 (1.34%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.16%) LangChain
8 13 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (1.16%) RESTful
8 13 (1.16%) Spring
8 13 (1.16%) Spring Boot
9 11 (0.98%) HTML
9 11 (0.98%) TensorFlow
10 10 (0.89%) JSON
10 10 (0.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.53%) Cloud Native
2 64 (5.72%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.40%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.42%) AI Agents
4 27 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.61%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.61%) PMI
8 17 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.43%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.16%) FMCG
10 13 (1.16%) NHS
11 12 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
12 11 (0.98%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.25%) Linux
2 12 (1.07%) Windows
3 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.27%) VMS
3 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.089%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.089%) Solaris
5 1 (0.089%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (27.64%) Agile
2 264 (23.61%) Analytics
3 255 (22.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 243 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 214 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 207 (18.52%) AI
7 184 (16.46%) Business Intelligence
8 172 (15.38%) Data Modelling
8 172 (15.38%) Roadmaps
9 164 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 139 (12.43%) CI/CD
10 139 (12.43%) DevOps
11 127 (11.36%) Project Management
12 121 (10.82%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 118 (10.55%) Migration
14 117 (10.47%) Data Pipeline
15 116 (10.38%) Actionable Insight
16 113 (10.11%) ETL
17 111 (9.93%) Data Governance
18 101 (9.03%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 234 (20.93%) SQL
2 214 (19.14%) Python
3 56 (5.01%) Java
4 27 (2.42%) TypeScript
5 26 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (2.15%) C#
7 22 (1.97%) R
8 17 (1.52%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.98%) VBA
11 7 (0.63%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.54%) C++
12 6 (0.54%) Scala
12 6 (0.54%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.45%) Bicep
14 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.36%) Ruby
15 3 (0.27%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 184 (16.46%) Security Cleared
2 147 (13.15%) SC Cleared
3 114 (10.20%) Degree
4 44 (3.94%) PMP
5 40 (3.58%) PMI Certification
6 34 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.86%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.43%) ACCA
11 14 (1.25%) CISSP
12 13 (1.16%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.07%) CBAP
14 10 (0.89%) CIMA
14 10 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.81%) IIBA
15 9 (0.81%) PhD
16 8 (0.72%) CISM
16 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (0.54%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (13.77%) Data Quality
2 73 (6.53%) PMO
3 68 (6.08%) QA
4 34 (3.04%) GDPR
5 30 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.61%) NIST
7 16 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.98%) SLA
10 9 (0.81%) GRC
11 8 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.54%) COREP
12 6 (0.54%) FINREP
12 6 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.54%) WCAG
13 5 (0.45%) COBIT
13 5 (0.45%) GAAP
13 5 (0.45%) IFRS
14 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 32 (2.86%) Docker
2 9 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.81%) Squid
3 7 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.36%) NFS
5 3 (0.27%) IAG
6 2 (0.18%) HDFS
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.18%) Postfix
6 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.089%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (5.55%) Terraform
2 59 (5.28%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.61%) Grafana
4 15 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.81%) Ansible
6 9 (0.81%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.72%) Consul
8 7 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.45%) Kibana
9 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.36%) Control-M
10 4 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
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
1 162 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.28%) Oracle
3 54 (4.83%) Databricks
4 49 (4.38%) SAP
5 45 (4.03%) ServiceNow
6 44 (3.94%) Google
7 37 (3.31%) Salesforce
8 22 (1.97%) Workday
9 18 (1.61%) Adobe
10 12 (1.07%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.98%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.89%) Foundry
13 9 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.81%) Software AG
13 9 (0.81%) VMware
14 7 (0.63%) Planview
15 6 (0.54%) GoldenSource
15 6 (0.54%) Informatica
15 6 (0.54%) Palantir