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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 48 80
Rank change year-on-year +18 +32 +7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,350 685 475
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.70% 5.01% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 5.43% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 462 309
10th Percentile £392 £356 £288
25th Percentile £454 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 9
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.63 £29.48 £36.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £40.49 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% -14.76% +8.30%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.99 £55.25 £51.50
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.81 £16.06
% change year-on-year +15.34% +91.81% -65.60%

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 17,940 12,624 14,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,801 8,441 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -14.20%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +6 191 £625 +14.68% 292
West London +11 59 £575 +6.80% 83
South London -3 16 £513 -14.58% 18
East London +7 6 £660 - 17
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 37 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
1 37 (2.74%) Confluence
2 28 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.19%) Apache
5 7 (0.52%) CMS
6 6 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.30%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.30%) nginx
8 3 (0.22%) Mendix
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.15%) Camunda
9 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.074%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 34 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.19%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.59%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.30%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.074%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 267 (19.78%) Azure
2 260 (19.26%) AWS
3 178 (13.19%) Power Platform
4 106 (7.85%) GCP
5 68 (5.04%) SaaS
6 59 (4.37%) Snowflake
7 44 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (3.04%) Amazon S3
9 39 (2.89%) dbt
10 35 (2.59%) Serverless
11 34 (2.52%) GitHub
12 29 (2.15%) Entra ID
13 27 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 20 (1.48%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.26%) PowerApps
18 16 (1.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.11%) Firewall
1 15 (1.11%) WAN
2 12 (0.89%) VPN
3 10 (0.74%) Network Security
4 7 (0.52%) DNS
4 7 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.30%) LAN
5 4 (0.30%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.22%) BGP
6 3 (0.22%) Broadband
6 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (0.22%) IPsec
6 3 (0.22%) MPLS
6 3 (0.22%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.22%) OSPF
6 3 (0.22%) SAN
6 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (12.81%) Power BI
2 76 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (4.22%) Tableau
4 52 (3.85%) Metadata
5 39 (2.89%) BigQuery
6 28 (2.07%) Power Query
7 26 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 25 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.63%) Big Data
10 21 (1.56%) Looker
10 21 (1.56%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.26%) Delta Lake
11 17 (1.26%) SQL Server
12 16 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.19%) Star Schema
13 14 (1.04%) MongoDB
14 13 (0.96%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (5.63%) JIRA
2 40 (2.96%) Git
3 24 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.96%) GitLab
5 6 (0.44%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.37%) JUnit
6 5 (0.37%) Mockito
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.30%) ERwin
7 4 (0.30%) jMock
7 4 (0.30%) Maven
7 4 (0.30%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.22%) MLflow
8 3 (0.22%) VTune
8 3 (0.22%) Xcode
9 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 496 (36.74%) Finance
2 480 (35.56%) Social Skills
3 329 (24.37%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (14.44%) Public Sector
5 154 (11.41%) Banking
6 97 (7.19%) Influencing Skills
7 81 (6.00%) Retail
8 75 (5.56%) Marketing
9 51 (3.78%) Legal
10 45 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 28 (2.07%) Financial Institution
14 28 (2.07%) Investment Banking
15 25 (1.85%) Front Office
15 25 (1.85%) Local Government
16 22 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.26%) Aviation
18 15 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 209 (15.48%) Analyst
2 202 (14.96%) Senior
3 174 (12.89%) Lead
4 148 (10.96%) Architect
5 95 (7.04%) Business Analyst
5 95 (7.04%) Data Engineer
6 90 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 77 (5.70%) Developer
8 69 (5.11%) Data Analyst
9 54 (4.00%) Data Scientist
10 49 (3.63%) Consultant
11 42 (3.11%) Product Manager
11 42 (3.11%) Senior Manager
12 40 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (2.22%) Data Architect
14 30 (2.22%) Designer
14 30 (2.22%) Product Owner
15 28 (2.07%) Senior Data Engineer
16 25 (1.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.04%) REST
2 35 (2.59%) Kafka
3 29 (2.15%) React
4 28 (2.07%) Pandas
4 28 (2.07%) PySpark
5 18 (1.33%) Middleware
5 18 (1.33%) NumPy
6 17 (1.26%) scikit-learn
7 16 (1.19%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.19%) JSON
8 15 (1.11%) .NET
8 15 (1.11%) RESTful
9 14 (1.04%) Spring
9 14 (1.04%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.96%) Node.js
11 12 (0.89%) HTML
12 11 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (0.74%) PyTorch
14 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
15 8 (0.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.85%) Product Ownership
2 92 (6.81%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.89%) Virtual Team
7 36 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.37%) AI Agents
9 26 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.93%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.48%) NHS
12 19 (1.41%) FMCG
13 17 (1.26%) CMDB
13 17 (1.26%) PMI
14 16 (1.19%) Data Centre
14 16 (1.19%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.04%) Security Posture
15 14 (1.04%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.26%) Windows
2 16 (1.19%) Linux
3 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
3 6 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.074%) Solaris
6 1 (0.074%) VMS
6 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (30.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 378 (28.00%) Agile
3 350 (25.93%) Analytics
4 294 (21.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 290 (21.48%) AI
6 266 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
7 241 (17.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 222 (16.44%) Roadmaps
9 197 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
9 197 (14.59%) Data Modelling
10 182 (13.48%) CI/CD
11 174 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
12 173 (12.81%) DevOps
13 140 (10.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 132 (9.78%) Data Engineering
15 131 (9.70%) Validation
16 130 (9.63%) Machine Learning
17 129 (9.56%) Actionable Insight
18 128 (9.48%) Data Science
19 123 (9.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 278 (20.59%) SQL
2 272 (20.15%) Python
3 70 (5.19%) Java
4 46 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (3.11%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.07%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.33%) C#
8 15 (1.11%) R
9 12 (0.89%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.59%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) C++
11 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.52%) VBA
12 6 (0.44%) Ruby
12 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Cypher
13 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 223 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 174 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.63%) Degree
4 55 (4.07%) PMP
5 50 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 35 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 22 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.11%) CISSP
11 14 (1.04%) ACCA
12 10 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.67%) CISM
14 8 (0.59%) CIMA
15 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.52%) PhD
15 7 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
16 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 94 (6.96%) PMO
3 68 (5.04%) QA
4 45 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 43 (3.19%) GDPR
6 21 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.41%) NIST
8 14 (1.04%) GRC
8 14 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.67%) COREP
9 9 (0.67%) FINREP
10 8 (0.59%) SLA
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.44%) IFRS
13 5 (0.37%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.37%) SEPA
14 4 (0.30%) GAAP
14 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (3.70%) Docker
2 20 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
5 3 (0.22%) Squid
6 2 (0.15%) NFS
6 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 78 (5.78%) Terraform
2 65 (4.81%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.26%) Ansible
4 13 (0.96%) Grafana
5 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.44%) Kibana
9 4 (0.30%) Control-M
9 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.22%) SCCM
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) Consul
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.074%) Istio
12 1 (0.074%) vMotion
Vendors
1 189 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.26%) Databricks
3 49 (3.63%) Google
4 46 (3.41%) SAP
5 44 (3.26%) Oracle
6 43 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.19%) Adobe
8 16 (1.19%) Workday
9 10 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.74%) Zscaler
10 9 (0.67%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.67%) GoldenSource
10 9 (0.67%) Murex
11 8 (0.59%) Amplitude
11 8 (0.59%) Foundry
12 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
12 7 (0.52%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (0.52%) Splunk