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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 76 71
Rank change year-on-year +32 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 730 518 598
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.18% 3.28% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 3.66% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 325 424
10th Percentile £351 £356 £371
25th Percentile £419 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £838 £750
England median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 14
10th Percentile - £30.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £32.31 £35.79
Median hourly rate £31.49 £40.00 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -7.15% -21.67%
75th Percentile £39.63 £50.75 £63.44
90th Percentile £42.67 £64.18 £65.07
England median hourly rate £31.20 £32.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.73% -29.08% +16.91%

All Process and 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 12,965 14,161 17,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.02% 89.69% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,536 9,145 12,688
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £769 £800 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.17 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 96 £515 -4.19% 73
West London -4 12 £525 -25.00% 32
South London -18 3 £750 +25.00% 3
North London +3 1 £650 - 4
East London +3 1 £575 +91.67% 22
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 32 (4.38%) Confluence
2 21 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.68%) Apache
5 5 (0.68%) CMS
6 4 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Appian
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 95 (13.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.55%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.55%) Trello
7 2 (0.27%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.14%) InVision
8 1 (0.14%) Notion
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) SPSS
8 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.55%) Oracle Payroll
4 4 (0.55%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.55%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.41%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.27%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.27%) Endur
6 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 133 (18.22%) Power Platform
2 105 (14.38%) Azure
3 91 (12.47%) AWS
4 42 (5.75%) GCP
5 31 (4.25%) SaaS
6 24 (3.29%) Snowflake
7 20 (2.74%) GitHub
7 20 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (2.47%) dbt
9 15 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.51%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.51%) ChatGPT
12 10 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (1.23%) PaaS
13 9 (1.23%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.82%) Firewall
2 5 (0.68%) Network Security
2 5 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.55%) Internet
3 4 (0.55%) Multicast
3 4 (0.55%) tcpdump
3 4 (0.55%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.41%) 5G
4 3 (0.41%) Broadband
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.27%) DMZ
5 2 (0.27%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.27%) ISDN
5 2 (0.27%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.27%) PSTN
5 2 (0.27%) Softphone
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) WAN
5 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (17.26%) Power BI
2 46 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (5.34%) Tableau
4 24 (3.29%) Big Data
5 23 (3.15%) Metadata
6 21 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (2.47%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.47%) SQL Server
8 17 (2.33%) Data Lake
9 14 (1.92%) Hadoop
10 13 (1.78%) Star Schema
11 12 (1.64%) Power Query
12 10 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.23%) Apache Hive
14 8 (1.10%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.10%) Looker
14 8 (1.10%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.96%) Data Vault
15 7 (0.96%) Impala
16 6 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 48 (6.58%) JIRA
2 30 (4.11%) Git
3 14 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.82%) GitLab
5 5 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.41%) MLflow
7 3 (0.41%) Selenium
7 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.27%) Maven
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) Log4j
9 1 (0.14%) Postman
9 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 301 (41.23%) Social Skills
2 259 (35.48%) Finance
3 244 (33.42%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (13.84%) Public Sector
5 97 (13.29%) Banking
6 46 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
7 44 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (5.89%) Marketing
9 29 (3.97%) Legal
10 26 (3.56%) Front Office
11 25 (3.42%) Publishing
12 24 (3.29%) Retail
13 23 (3.15%) Financial Institution
14 20 (2.74%) Local Government
15 18 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (2.05%) Investment Banking
17 15 (2.05%) Telecoms
18 13 (1.78%) Manufacturing
19 11 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 158 (21.64%) Analyst
2 84 (11.51%) Senior
3 76 (10.41%) Business Analyst
4 71 (9.73%) Lead
5 53 (7.26%) Developer
6 52 (7.12%) Architect
7 46 (6.30%) Project Manager
8 44 (6.03%) Data Analyst
9 37 (5.07%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.84%) Senior Analyst
11 21 (2.88%) Data Scientist
12 19 (2.60%) Consultant
13 18 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (2.33%) Data Business Analyst
14 17 (2.33%) Senior Manager
15 14 (1.92%) Product Manager
15 14 (1.92%) Senior Business Analyst
16 12 (1.64%) Operations Manager
16 12 (1.64%) User Researcher
17 11 (1.51%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.88%) Kafka
2 19 (2.60%) AngularJS
3 18 (2.47%) React
4 15 (2.05%) REST
5 14 (1.92%) Pandas
6 13 (1.78%) XML
7 12 (1.64%) Plotly
7 12 (1.64%) scikit-learn
8 11 (1.51%) NumPy
8 11 (1.51%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.37%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.37%) JSON
9 10 (1.37%) PySpark
10 9 (1.23%) .NET
10 9 (1.23%) PyTorch
11 8 (1.10%) CSS
11 8 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (1.10%) HTML
11 8 (1.10%) RESTful
11 8 (1.10%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.89%) Product Ownership
2 39 (5.34%) Management Information System
3 34 (4.66%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (3.84%) Cloud Native
5 26 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (3.42%) Algorithms
7 23 (3.15%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.19%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.78%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.51%) Derivative
12 11 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.37%) NHS
14 9 (1.23%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.23%) Reinsurance
15 8 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.42%) Linux
2 14 (1.92%) Windows
3 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (28.08%) Agile
2 195 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
3 179 (24.52%) Analytics
4 141 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 139 (19.04%) Business Intelligence
6 109 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 107 (14.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 106 (14.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 103 (14.11%) AI
10 98 (13.42%) Data Analysis
11 97 (13.29%) Visualisation
12 94 (12.88%) Data Modelling
13 93 (12.74%) Actionable Insight
14 91 (12.47%) Roadmaps
15 79 (10.82%) Project Management
16 72 (9.86%) Data Governance
17 67 (9.18%) Data Science
18 65 (8.90%) CI/CD
18 65 (8.90%) Risk Management
19 64 (8.77%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 164 (22.47%) SQL
2 144 (19.73%) Python
3 25 (3.42%) Java
4 20 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.33%) R
6 16 (2.19%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.05%) Bash
7 15 (2.05%) C++
7 15 (2.05%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.51%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.23%) Scala
10 8 (1.10%) C#
11 6 (0.82%) Bicep
11 6 (0.82%) Korn
12 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.68%) VBA
13 4 (0.55%) Groovy
13 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 99 (13.56%) Degree
2 89 (12.19%) Security Cleared
3 72 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.01%) Master's Degree
5 22 (3.01%) PMI Certification
5 22 (3.01%) PMP
6 12 (1.64%) ACCA
6 12 (1.64%) CIMA
7 11 (1.51%) CISSP
8 7 (0.96%) PhD
9 6 (0.82%) CISM
9 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.82%) MBA
10 5 (0.68%) MCP
11 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.41%) CISA
12 3 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (11.10%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.84%) Accessibility
2 28 (3.84%) PMO
3 25 (3.42%) QA
4 19 (2.60%) GDPR
5 15 (2.05%) NIST
6 14 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.23%) GRC
8 7 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.96%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.68%) GMP
10 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.55%) WCAG
11 3 (0.41%) COBIT
11 3 (0.41%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.41%) NCSC
11 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (4.38%) Docker
2 8 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.82%) HDFS
4 5 (0.68%) zsh
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 32 (4.38%) Terraform
2 27 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.51%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 9 (1.23%) Grafana
6 4 (0.55%) Ansible
6 4 (0.55%) Kibana
6 4 (0.55%) logstash
6 4 (0.55%) Rancher
7 1 (0.14%) Consul
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.21%) SAP
3 34 (4.66%) Oracle
4 25 (3.42%) Databricks
4 25 (3.42%) Google
4 25 (3.42%) Salesforce
4 25 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 12 (1.64%) Adobe
6 10 (1.37%) Solace
7 9 (1.23%) TIBCO
8 7 (0.96%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.96%) Workday
9 6 (0.82%) Cisco
9 6 (0.82%) Dataiku
9 6 (0.82%) Foundry
10 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.55%) Ariba
11 4 (0.55%) Informatica
11 4 (0.55%) Juniper
11 4 (0.55%) Palo Alto