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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 46 86
Rank change year-on-year +16 +40 +1
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,356 683 475
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.73% 5.02% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 5.44% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 461 308
10th Percentile £390 £355 £288
25th Percentile £455 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -9.66%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £748 £771
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
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 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -26.32% +8.30%
75th Percentile £61.25 £49.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.99 £53.65 £51.50
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.81 £16.06
% change year-on-year +15.34% +91.81% -65.00%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 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 £660 £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 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +6 189 £625 +15.74% 222
West London +15 61 £588 +9.13% 93
South London 0 15 £513 -14.58% 32
East London +9 6 £660 - 19
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 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.58%) Confluence
3 29 (2.14%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.18%) Apache
6 7 (0.52%) CMS
7 6 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.22%) Mendix
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.22%) nginx
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.22%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
11 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 34 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 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 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
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%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 262 (19.32%) Azure
2 257 (18.95%) AWS
3 178 (13.13%) Power Platform
4 102 (7.52%) GCP
5 68 (5.01%) SaaS
6 57 (4.20%) Snowflake
7 43 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (2.95%) Amazon S3
9 38 (2.80%) dbt
10 34 (2.51%) GitHub
10 34 (2.51%) Serverless
11 29 (2.14%) Entra ID
12 26 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
12 26 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 19 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.40%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.18%) Amazon Bedrock
15 16 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.11%) WAN
2 14 (1.03%) Firewall
3 11 (0.81%) VPN
4 10 (0.74%) Network Security
5 7 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.44%) DNS
7 4 (0.29%) LAN
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Broadband
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) IPsec
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) SAN
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (12.76%) Power BI
2 75 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (4.20%) Tableau
4 55 (4.06%) Metadata
5 38 (2.80%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.14%) Power Query
7 27 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 25 (1.84%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.62%) Big Data
9 22 (1.62%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.47%) Looker
11 18 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (1.25%) SQL Server
13 16 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.18%) Delta Lake
13 16 (1.18%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.03%) MongoDB
14 14 (1.03%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (5.38%) JIRA
2 38 (2.80%) Git
3 24 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.81%) GitLab
5 5 (0.37%) JUnit
5 5 (0.37%) Mockito
5 5 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.29%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.29%) ERwin
6 4 (0.29%) jMock
6 4 (0.29%) Maven
6 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.22%) MLflow
7 3 (0.22%) VTune
7 3 (0.22%) Xcode
8 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 497 (36.65%) Finance
2 484 (35.69%) Social Skills
3 329 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (14.90%) Public Sector
5 156 (11.50%) Banking
6 98 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (6.05%) Retail
8 74 (5.46%) Marketing
9 53 (3.91%) Legal
10 44 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.14%) Investment Banking
15 28 (2.06%) Front Office
16 26 (1.92%) Financial Institution
16 26 (1.92%) Local Government
17 24 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.40%) Aviation
19 15 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 212 (15.63%) Analyst
2 203 (14.97%) Senior
3 175 (12.91%) Lead
4 152 (11.21%) Architect
5 96 (7.08%) Business Analyst
6 93 (6.86%) Data Engineer
7 90 (6.64%) Project Manager
8 74 (5.46%) Developer
9 71 (5.24%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.91%) Data Scientist
11 50 (3.69%) Consultant
12 45 (3.32%) Senior Manager
13 43 (3.17%) Product Manager
14 40 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
15 38 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.29%) Data Architect
17 30 (2.21%) Designer
18 29 (2.14%) Product Owner
19 27 (1.99%) Senior Data Engineer
20 26 (1.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.10%) REST
2 33 (2.43%) Kafka
3 28 (2.06%) React
4 27 (1.99%) PySpark
5 26 (1.92%) Pandas
6 18 (1.33%) Middleware
7 16 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.18%) JSON
7 16 (1.18%) NumPy
8 15 (1.11%) .NET
8 15 (1.11%) RESTful
9 14 (1.03%) scikit-learn
9 14 (1.03%) Spring
9 14 (1.03%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.96%) Node.js
11 12 (0.88%) HTML
12 11 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (0.66%) PyTorch
14 8 (0.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 104 (7.67%) Product Ownership
2 93 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.69%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (2.80%) Virtual Team
6 33 (2.43%) AI Agents
7 27 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 26 (1.92%) Data Structures
9 22 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.47%) NHS
11 19 (1.40%) FMCG
12 17 (1.25%) CMDB
12 17 (1.25%) PMI
13 16 (1.18%) Data Centre
13 16 (1.18%) Operational Technology
14 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
15 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.25%) Windows
2 16 (1.18%) 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
1 427 (31.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 379 (27.95%) Agile
3 348 (25.66%) Analytics
4 300 (22.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 288 (21.24%) AI
6 265 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (17.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 225 (16.59%) Roadmaps
9 197 (14.53%) Business Intelligence
9 197 (14.53%) Data Modelling
10 178 (13.13%) CI/CD
11 169 (12.46%) Data Pipeline
11 169 (12.46%) DevOps
12 140 (10.32%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 133 (9.81%) Validation
14 129 (9.51%) Actionable Insight
14 129 (9.51%) Data Engineering
15 127 (9.37%) Machine Learning
16 126 (9.29%) Data Science
17 125 (9.22%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 276 (20.35%) SQL
2 268 (19.76%) Python
3 69 (5.09%) Java
4 46 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (3.02%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.33%) C#
8 15 (1.11%) R
9 12 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.59%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) C++
10 8 (0.59%) VBA
11 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
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
1 224 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 177 (13.05%) SC Cleared
3 102 (7.52%) Degree
4 55 (4.06%) PMP
5 50 (3.69%) PMI Certification
6 32 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 22 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.03%) ACCA
11 14 (1.03%) CISSP
12 11 (0.81%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.59%) CIMA
13 8 (0.59%) CISM
14 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.44%) PhD
16 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
16 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (13.94%) Data Quality
2 96 (7.08%) PMO
3 69 (5.09%) QA
4 46 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 45 (3.32%) GDPR
6 22 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (1.33%) NIST
8 14 (1.03%) GRC
9 13 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (0.66%) COREP
10 9 (0.66%) FINREP
11 8 (0.59%) SLA
12 7 (0.52%) IFRS
12 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.37%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) SEPA
14 4 (0.29%) GAAP
14 4 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (3.69%) Docker
2 20 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
6 2 (0.15%) NFS
6 2 (0.15%) Squid
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 75 (5.53%) Terraform
2 64 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.25%) Ansible
4 12 (0.88%) Grafana
4 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.44%) Kibana
6 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.37%) Control-M
8 4 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.22%) SCCM
10 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.074%) Consul
11 1 (0.074%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.074%) vMotion
Vendors
1 188 (13.86%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.31%) Databricks
3 49 (3.61%) Google
4 46 (3.39%) SAP
5 45 (3.32%) Oracle
6 43 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.18%) Adobe
8 16 (1.18%) Workday
9 11 (0.81%) Murex
9 11 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.74%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.66%) GoldenSource
12 8 (0.59%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.59%) Foundry
13 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.52%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.52%) Splunk