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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 49 94
Rank change year-on-year +20 +45 -4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,466 676 448
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.21% 5.01% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 5.42% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 967 450 270
10th Percentile £376 £355 £350
25th Percentile £464 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £662 £682
90th Percentile £800 £771 £775
England median daily rate £545 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +3.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 7
10th Percentile £23.50 £21.91 £31.70
25th Percentile £26.45 £30.86 £34.38
Median hourly rate £32.25 £33.46 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -21.27% +6.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £44.98 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.12 £49.45 £52.25
England median hourly rate £42.77 £31.35 £41.09
% change year-on-year +36.43% -23.72% -10.44%

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 18,051 12,472 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.78% 92.51% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 8,235 9,567
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £671 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 247 185
10th Percentile £16.21 £17.62 £17.35
25th Percentile £19.27 £25.02 £24.15
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +13 213 £625 +13.64% 427
West London +16 71 £700 +33.33% 143
South London +1 13 £650 +4.00% 40
East London +7 7 £600 +4.35% 35
North London 0 1 £550 -15.38% 7
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 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.59%) Confluence
3 29 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.95%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) CMS
7 5 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.34%) SAS
8 4 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.27%) Mendix
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) Camunda
9 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.068%) Appian
10 1 (0.068%) IIS
10 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 93 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.41%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.27%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.14%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.14%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.068%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.068%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 263 (17.94%) Azure
2 262 (17.87%) AWS
3 184 (12.55%) Power Platform
4 84 (5.73%) GCP
5 71 (4.84%) Snowflake
6 62 (4.23%) SaaS
7 50 (3.41%) dbt
8 42 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 36 (2.46%) GitHub
11 34 (2.32%) Serverless
12 29 (1.98%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (1.23%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.23%) OCI
17 17 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.95%) WAN
2 12 (0.82%) Network Security
3 11 (0.75%) Broadband
3 11 (0.75%) Firewall
4 8 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.48%) VPN
6 5 (0.34%) LAN
7 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.27%) IPsec
7 4 (0.27%) Modbus
7 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.20%) BGP
8 3 (0.20%) DNS
8 3 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.20%) MPLS
8 3 (0.20%) OSPF
8 3 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.20%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.20%) X.509
9 2 (0.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (12.07%) Power BI
2 72 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.16%) Metadata
4 56 (3.82%) Tableau
5 32 (2.18%) BigQuery
6 31 (2.11%) Power Query
7 28 (1.91%) Data Lake
7 28 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.77%) Delta Lake
8 26 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.57%) Looker
10 22 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (1.30%) Big Data
12 18 (1.23%) Star Schema
13 16 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
13 16 (1.09%) SQL Server
14 15 (1.02%) Data Vault
14 15 (1.02%) DynamoDB
14 15 (1.02%) NoSQL
15 14 (0.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 59 (4.02%) JIRA
2 38 (2.59%) Git
3 25 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.61%) GitLab
5 8 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.41%) JUnit
7 5 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.20%) Maven
8 3 (0.20%) MLflow
8 3 (0.20%) Mockito
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.20%) VTune
8 3 (0.20%) Xcode
9 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.14%) ERwin
9 2 (0.14%) jMock
9 2 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 558 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 494 (33.70%) Finance
3 356 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (15.83%) Public Sector
5 169 (11.53%) Banking
6 131 (8.94%) Influencing Skills
7 91 (6.21%) Retail
8 80 (5.46%) Marketing
9 51 (3.48%) Legal
10 45 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (2.52%) Local Government
13 36 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (2.39%) Front Office
15 33 (2.25%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.50%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.43%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.36%) Aviation
18 20 (1.36%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 235 (16.03%) Analyst
2 224 (15.28%) Senior
3 201 (13.71%) Lead
4 190 (12.96%) Architect
5 102 (6.96%) Business Analyst
6 82 (5.59%) Project Manager
7 77 (5.25%) Data Engineer
8 71 (4.84%) Developer
9 70 (4.77%) Data Analyst
10 60 (4.09%) Consultant
11 50 (3.41%) Data Scientist
12 45 (3.07%) Data Architect
12 45 (3.07%) Senior Manager
13 44 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.93%) Product Manager
15 32 (2.18%) Technical Leader
16 29 (1.98%) Designer
17 28 (1.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 28 (1.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.93%) Terraform
2 39 (2.66%) Kafka
2 39 (2.66%) REST
3 32 (2.18%) React
4 27 (1.84%) PySpark
5 18 (1.23%) Pandas
6 17 (1.16%) Spring
7 16 (1.09%) RESTful
7 16 (1.09%) Spring Boot
8 15 (1.02%) .NET
9 14 (0.95%) HTML
10 13 (0.89%) Middleware
10 13 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (0.82%) Node.js
12 11 (0.75%) ATL
12 11 (0.75%) LangChain
13 10 (0.68%) OAuth
14 9 (0.61%) FastAPI
14 9 (0.61%) NumPy
15 8 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.30%) Product Ownership
2 101 (6.89%) Cloud Native
3 69 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 55 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 41 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.59%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.25%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 28 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 27 (1.84%) NHS
10 23 (1.57%) Operational Technology
11 20 (1.36%) Data Centre
11 20 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.36%) Taxonomies
12 15 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.95%) FMCG
13 14 (0.95%) Social Media
14 13 (0.89%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.23%) Windows
2 16 (1.09%) Linux
3 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.41%) Unix
5 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.068%) Solaris
7 1 (0.068%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (36.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 401 (27.35%) Agile
3 385 (26.26%) Analytics
4 334 (22.78%) AI
5 308 (21.01%) Continuous Improvement
6 297 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
7 294 (20.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 271 (18.49%) Roadmaps
9 205 (13.98%) Business Intelligence
10 190 (12.96%) Data Modelling
11 183 (12.48%) CI/CD
12 173 (11.80%) DevOps
13 150 (10.23%) Actionable Insight
14 148 (10.10%) Validation
15 146 (9.96%) Data Governance
16 142 (9.69%) Data Pipeline
16 142 (9.69%) Risk Management
17 137 (9.35%) Migration
18 134 (9.14%) Machine Learning
19 127 (8.66%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 298 (20.33%) SQL
2 270 (18.42%) Python
3 69 (4.71%) Java
4 46 (3.14%) TypeScript
5 44 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 31 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.57%) C#
8 21 (1.43%) R
9 15 (1.02%) Bash
10 9 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.55%) Scala
11 8 (0.55%) VBA
12 7 (0.48%) Bicep
12 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.41%) C++
13 6 (0.41%) SPARQL
13 6 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.34%) Cypher
14 5 (0.34%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 252 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 196 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.50%) Degree
4 54 (3.68%) PMP
5 50 (3.41%) PMI Certification
6 38 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.36%) ACCA
9 19 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.23%) CISSP
11 17 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.09%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (0.95%) CIMA
15 11 (0.75%) CISM
16 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
19 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (13.92%) Data Quality
2 83 (5.66%) PMO
3 70 (4.77%) QA
4 57 (3.89%) GDPR
5 52 (3.55%) Accessibility
6 33 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 30 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.77%) NIST
9 22 (1.50%) GRC
10 12 (0.82%) IFRS
11 9 (0.61%) NCSC
11 9 (0.61%) SLA
12 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.41%) COREP
13 6 (0.41%) FINREP
14 5 (0.34%) SEPA
15 4 (0.27%) GAAP
16 3 (0.20%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (4.23%) Docker
2 21 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) IAG
4 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) vSphere
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.068%) Firmware
7 1 (0.068%) NFS
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.09%) Ansible
3 12 (0.82%) Grafana
3 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.55%) Kibana
5 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.34%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.20%) Istio
8 3 (0.20%) Rancher
8 3 (0.20%) SCCM
8 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.14%) Packer
9 2 (0.14%) Puppet
10 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.068%) Argo
10 1 (0.068%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 203 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.28%) Databricks
3 46 (3.14%) Salesforce
4 45 (3.07%) ServiceNow
5 41 (2.80%) Oracle
6 40 (2.73%) SAP
7 39 (2.66%) Google
8 13 (0.89%) Workday
9 12 (0.82%) Adobe
10 10 (0.68%) IBM
10 10 (0.68%) Murex
10 10 (0.68%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.61%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.61%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.61%) Informatica
11 9 (0.61%) Splunk
12 8 (0.55%) Foundry
12 8 (0.55%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.48%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.48%) Teradata