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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 51 79
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +18
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,232 577 522
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.51% 4.66% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.34% 5.06% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 384 356
10th Percentile £375 £363 £288
25th Percentile £450 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £545 £523
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% +4.31% -12.92%
75th Percentile £673 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £770 £763
England median daily rate £518 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -0.38% - -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 22
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.63 £28.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £29.16
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +32.05% -33.53%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.23 £45.31
90th Percentile £75.70 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +14.51% +67.58% -57.82%

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 16,795 11,414 15,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.28% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 7,654 11,105
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 205 313
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +6 170 £595 +8.18% 144
West London -1 38 £520 -8.64% 41
South London +4 19 £519 -13.58% 11
East London +1 6 £719 -7.23% 25
North London - 1 £325 - 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 36 (2.92%) Confluence
2 22 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 16 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.81%) nginx
6 5 (0.41%) Apache
6 5 (0.41%) CMS
6 5 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.16%) Camunda
8 2 (0.16%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.16%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.16%) Mendix
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.16%) SAS
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 88 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (1.46%) Chatbot
6 12 (0.97%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.081%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.081%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.41%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.41%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.16%) Actimize
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.16%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.16%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 246 (19.97%) Azure
2 209 (16.96%) AWS
3 169 (13.72%) Power Platform
4 98 (7.95%) GCP
5 69 (5.60%) SaaS
6 42 (3.41%) Amazon S3
7 40 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (3.17%) Serverless
8 39 (3.17%) Snowflake
9 35 (2.84%) GitHub
10 34 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 29 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 24 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (1.62%) dbt
15 18 (1.46%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (1.38%) Collibra
17 16 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
17 16 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.30%) VPN
2 15 (1.22%) Firewall
3 13 (1.06%) DNS
4 11 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.73%) HTTP
5 9 (0.73%) Network Security
5 9 (0.73%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.49%) WAN
7 4 (0.32%) NAS
7 4 (0.32%) SAN
8 3 (0.24%) BGP
8 3 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.24%) MPLS
8 3 (0.24%) OSPF
8 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.24%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.16%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.16%) NaaS
9 2 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (13.23%) Power BI
2 67 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (4.46%) Metadata
4 53 (4.30%) Tableau
5 32 (2.60%) BigQuery
6 30 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 28 (2.27%) SQL Server
8 23 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 22 (1.79%) Power Query
10 20 (1.62%) Relational Database
11 19 (1.54%) Big Data
11 19 (1.54%) Looker
11 19 (1.54%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (1.22%) Delta Lake
14 14 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (1.06%) Parquet
16 12 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 78 (6.33%) JIRA
2 39 (3.17%) Git
3 18 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.22%) GitLab
5 11 (0.89%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.73%) MLflow
7 7 (0.57%) JUnit
8 6 (0.49%) ERwin
9 5 (0.41%) Mockito
9 5 (0.41%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (0.32%) DbUnit
10 4 (0.32%) jMock
10 4 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.24%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.24%) Toad
12 2 (0.16%) Postman
12 2 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.16%) Xcode
General
1 437 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 430 (34.90%) Finance
3 276 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (14.20%) Public Sector
5 121 (9.82%) Banking
6 65 (5.28%) Marketing
7 62 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
8 58 (4.71%) Retail
9 51 (4.14%) Legal
10 40 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (2.92%) Telecoms
12 34 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.19%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.62%) Local Government
15 17 (1.38%) Front Office
16 16 (1.30%) Billing
16 16 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 190 (15.42%) Senior
2 187 (15.18%) Analyst
3 152 (12.34%) Lead
4 107 (8.69%) Architect
5 91 (7.39%) Data Engineer
6 90 (7.31%) Business Analyst
7 87 (7.06%) Project Manager
8 78 (6.33%) Developer
9 66 (5.36%) Data Analyst
10 53 (4.30%) Consultant
11 44 (3.57%) Data Scientist
12 39 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (2.76%) Product Manager
14 33 (2.68%) User Researcher
15 32 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.44%) Senior Manager
17 28 (2.27%) Senior Data Engineer
18 27 (2.19%) Technical Leader
19 25 (2.03%) Product Owner
20 23 (1.87%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.25%) REST
2 30 (2.44%) React
3 28 (2.27%) Pandas
4 25 (2.03%) PySpark
5 21 (1.70%) Kafka
5 21 (1.70%) Middleware
6 20 (1.62%) .NET
7 18 (1.46%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.46%) scikit-learn
8 17 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 17 (1.38%) RESTful
9 16 (1.30%) NumPy
10 15 (1.22%) Spring
10 15 (1.22%) Spring Boot
11 12 (0.97%) JSON
11 12 (0.97%) PyTorch
12 11 (0.89%) LangChain
12 11 (0.89%) Node.js
13 10 (0.81%) HTML
13 10 (0.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 88 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 41 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.00%) Virtual Team
5 35 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.52%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.54%) FMCG
12 18 (1.46%) NHS
13 17 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.38%) PMI
13 17 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.22%) Taxonomies
16 11 (0.89%) Algorithms
16 11 (0.89%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.30%) Windows
2 12 (0.97%) Linux
3 5 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.41%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.24%) Unix
4 3 (0.24%) VMS
4 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.081%) Solaris
6 1 (0.081%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (27.03%) Agile
2 299 (24.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 295 (23.94%) Analytics
4 250 (20.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 249 (20.21%) AI
6 245 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
7 200 (16.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 193 (15.67%) Roadmaps
9 185 (15.02%) Business Intelligence
10 178 (14.45%) Data Modelling
11 171 (13.88%) CI/CD
12 159 (12.91%) DevOps
13 142 (11.53%) Data Pipeline
14 128 (10.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 128 (10.39%) Migration
15 127 (10.31%) Actionable Insight
16 122 (9.90%) Project Management
17 120 (9.74%) ETL
18 116 (9.42%) Data Science
19 115 (9.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 252 (20.45%) SQL
2 242 (19.64%) Python
3 67 (5.44%) Java
4 47 (3.81%) TypeScript
5 33 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (1.79%) C#
7 21 (1.70%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.30%) R
9 13 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.65%) VBA
11 7 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.49%) Bicep
12 6 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.41%) Ruby
13 5 (0.41%) Scala
14 4 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.24%) C++
16 2 (0.16%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 214 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 176 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.01%) Degree
4 49 (3.98%) PMP
5 43 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.95%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.38%) ACCA
10 17 (1.38%) CISSP
11 14 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.89%) CIMA
13 10 (0.81%) CISM
14 9 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.65%) CBAP
16 7 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.49%) APMP
17 6 (0.49%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (13.80%) Data Quality
2 78 (6.33%) PMO
3 64 (5.19%) QA
4 39 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 39 (3.17%) GDPR
5 20 (1.62%) NIST
6 18 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (0.89%) GRC
7 11 (0.89%) SLA
8 10 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.57%) COREP
9 7 (0.57%) FINREP
9 7 (0.57%) NIST 800
10 6 (0.49%) GAAP
10 6 (0.49%) IFRS
10 6 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.41%) NCSC
12 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (2.76%) Docker
2 14 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.73%) Squid
4 6 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.32%) NFS
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
6 3 (0.24%) Postfix
6 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.081%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.081%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.081%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (6.49%) Terraform
2 63 (5.11%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.46%) Grafana
4 14 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.06%) Ansible
6 12 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.73%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.57%) Consul
8 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.41%) Kibana
10 4 (0.32%) Control-M
10 4 (0.32%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.32%) vMotion
11 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.24%) SCCM
12 2 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.16%) Argo
12 2 (0.16%) Istio
12 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 182 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.79%) Oracle
3 55 (4.46%) Databricks
4 47 (3.81%) Google
5 44 (3.57%) SAP
6 37 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 36 (2.92%) ServiceNow
8 20 (1.62%) Workday
9 14 (1.14%) Adobe
10 13 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.89%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.73%) Foundry
14 8 (0.65%) Murex
14 8 (0.65%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.65%) VMware
15 7 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.57%) GoldenSource
15 7 (0.57%) Informatica
15 7 (0.57%) Palantir