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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 50 91
Rank change year-on-year +21 +41 -5
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,441 663 444
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.14% 4.94% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.03% 5.33% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 935 437 269
10th Percentile £393 £337 £323
25th Percentile £463 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £677 £656 £675
90th Percentile £806 £750 £775
England median daily rate £537 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +4.27% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 7
10th Percentile £26.25 £28.06 £31.70
25th Percentile £26.52 £30.96 £34.38
Median hourly rate £32.00 £33.46 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -21.27% +1.57%
75th Percentile £54.50 £46.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.13 £50.10 £52.25
England median hourly rate £42.77 £31.49 £42.50
% change year-on-year +35.81% -25.91% -7.37%

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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £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 £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 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +15 211 £625 +13.64% 453
West London +19 73 £700 +33.33% 129
South London -1 10 £650 +8.33% 40
East London +7 7 £600 +4.35% 28
North London 0 1 £550 -15.38% 6
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 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
1 37 (2.57%) Confluence
2 25 (1.73%) Apache Spark
2 25 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.97%) Apache
4 6 (0.42%) CMS
5 5 (0.35%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.35%) SAS
6 4 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.21%) Camunda
7 3 (0.21%) Mendix
7 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.14%) nginx
9 1 (0.069%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.069%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.49%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.21%) Endur
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.14%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
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
6 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.069%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.069%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.069%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 266 (18.46%) Azure
2 263 (18.25%) AWS
3 178 (12.35%) Power Platform
4 80 (5.55%) GCP
5 66 (4.58%) SaaS
5 66 (4.58%) Snowflake
6 45 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (3.12%) dbt
7 41 (2.85%) Amazon S3
8 39 (2.71%) GitHub
9 37 (2.57%) Serverless
10 28 (1.94%) Entra ID
11 27 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 20 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.32%) OCI
16 18 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.97%) WAN
2 12 (0.83%) Firewall
2 12 (0.83%) Network Security
3 11 (0.76%) Broadband
4 9 (0.62%) VPN
5 8 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 5 (0.35%) LAN
7 4 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.28%) IPsec
7 4 (0.28%) Modbus
7 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.21%) BGP
8 3 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.21%) MPLS
8 3 (0.21%) OSPF
8 3 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.21%) X.509
9 2 (0.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (11.87%) Power BI
2 70 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (4.30%) Metadata
4 49 (3.40%) Tableau
5 32 (2.22%) Power Query
6 30 (2.08%) BigQuery
7 28 (1.94%) Data Lake
8 26 (1.80%) Delta Lake
9 25 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.53%) Looker
11 21 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.25%) Big Data
12 18 (1.25%) SQL Server
13 17 (1.18%) NoSQL
14 16 (1.11%) Star Schema
15 15 (1.04%) MongoDB
16 14 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.97%) DynamoDB
16 14 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 59 (4.09%) JIRA
2 40 (2.78%) Git
3 25 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.76%) GitLab
5 7 (0.49%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.35%) JUnit
6 5 (0.35%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.21%) ERwin
8 3 (0.21%) Maven
8 3 (0.21%) MLflow
8 3 (0.21%) Mockito
8 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.21%) VTune
8 3 (0.21%) Xcode
9 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 548 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 492 (34.14%) Finance
3 357 (24.77%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (15.41%) Public Sector
5 161 (11.17%) Banking
6 131 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
7 83 (5.76%) Retail
8 80 (5.55%) Marketing
9 56 (3.89%) Legal
10 43 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.36%) Front Office
13 34 (2.36%) Local Government
14 30 (2.08%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.67%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
17 22 (1.53%) Aviation
17 22 (1.53%) Financial Institution
18 20 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 229 (15.89%) Analyst
2 222 (15.41%) Senior
3 195 (13.53%) Lead
4 177 (12.28%) Architect
5 98 (6.80%) Business Analyst
6 86 (5.97%) Project Manager
7 83 (5.76%) Data Engineer
8 69 (4.79%) Data Analyst
9 63 (4.37%) Developer
10 56 (3.89%) Consultant
11 52 (3.61%) Data Scientist
12 50 (3.47%) Senior Manager
13 45 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (3.05%) Product Manager
15 43 (2.98%) Data Architect
16 42 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (2.08%) Designer
17 30 (2.08%) Technical Leader
18 29 (2.01%) Senior Data Engineer
19 28 (1.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (6.11%) Terraform
2 38 (2.64%) REST
3 36 (2.50%) Kafka
4 29 (2.01%) PySpark
4 29 (2.01%) React
5 19 (1.32%) Pandas
6 17 (1.18%) Spring
7 16 (1.11%) Spring Boot
8 15 (1.04%) Middleware
9 14 (0.97%) .NET
9 14 (0.97%) HTML
9 14 (0.97%) Node.js
10 13 (0.90%) RESTful
11 12 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
12 11 (0.76%) AngularJS
12 11 (0.76%) ATL
12 11 (0.76%) LangChain
13 10 (0.69%) JSON
13 10 (0.69%) NumPy
14 9 (0.62%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.29%) Product Ownership
2 99 (6.87%) Cloud Native
3 65 (4.51%) Onboarding
4 53 (3.68%) Management Information System
5 42 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.64%) AI Agents
7 34 (2.36%) Virtual Team
8 31 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.87%) NHS
11 25 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.60%) Operational Technology
13 20 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.18%) Taxonomies
15 16 (1.11%) Data Centre
16 15 (1.04%) CMDB
16 15 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.04%) FMCG
17 14 (0.97%) Social Media
18 13 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.25%) Windows
2 15 (1.04%) Linux
3 8 (0.56%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.42%) Unix
5 5 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.069%) Solaris
7 1 (0.069%) VMS
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (36.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 403 (27.97%) Agile
3 378 (26.23%) Analytics
4 327 (22.69%) AI
5 310 (21.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 299 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
7 288 (19.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 261 (18.11%) Roadmaps
9 197 (13.67%) Business Intelligence
10 188 (13.05%) Data Modelling
11 183 (12.70%) CI/CD
12 178 (12.35%) DevOps
13 153 (10.62%) Actionable Insight
14 147 (10.20%) Validation
15 145 (10.06%) Data Pipeline
16 141 (9.78%) Data Governance
17 137 (9.51%) Machine Learning
17 137 (9.51%) Risk Management
18 130 (9.02%) Data Engineering
19 126 (8.74%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 280 (19.43%) SQL
2 272 (18.88%) Python
3 72 (5.00%) Java
4 44 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 44 (3.05%) TypeScript
5 27 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.53%) C#
7 20 (1.39%) R
8 15 (1.04%) Bash
9 10 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.56%) Scala
10 8 (0.56%) VBA
11 7 (0.49%) Bicep
11 7 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.42%) C++
12 6 (0.42%) SPARQL
12 6 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.35%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.35%) Ruby
13 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 247 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 193 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.63%) Degree
4 57 (3.96%) PMP
5 52 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 40 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.39%) ACCA
9 18 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.25%) CISSP
9 18 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (0.90%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.90%) CIMA
12 10 (0.69%) CISM
12 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (13.74%) Data Quality
2 86 (5.97%) PMO
3 71 (4.93%) QA
4 56 (3.89%) GDPR
5 50 (3.47%) Accessibility
6 31 (2.15%) Actionable Recommendations
7 26 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.80%) NIST
8 20 (1.39%) GRC
9 11 (0.76%) IFRS
10 9 (0.62%) SLA
11 8 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.49%) COREP
12 7 (0.49%) FINREP
13 6 (0.42%) NCSC
14 5 (0.35%) SEPA
15 4 (0.28%) GAAP
16 3 (0.21%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (4.30%) Docker
2 19 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.49%) IAG
5 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.069%) Firmware
7 1 (0.069%) NFS
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.069%) Squid
7 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.069%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (5.27%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.97%) Ansible
3 12 (0.83%) Grafana
4 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.42%) Kibana
7 5 (0.35%) Control-M
7 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.21%) Istio
9 3 (0.21%) SCCM
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Puppet
10 2 (0.14%) Rancher
11 1 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.069%) Argo
11 1 (0.069%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.069%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.069%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 201 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.25%) Databricks
3 48 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 45 (3.12%) Salesforce
5 44 (3.05%) Oracle
5 44 (3.05%) SAP
6 34 (2.36%) Google
7 14 (0.97%) Adobe
8 13 (0.90%) Workday
9 11 (0.76%) Informatica
10 10 (0.69%) Murex
10 10 (0.69%) Splunk
10 10 (0.69%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.62%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.62%) Foundry
11 9 (0.62%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.56%) IBM
13 7 (0.49%) GoldenSource
13 7 (0.49%) Teradata