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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 47 95
Rank change year-on-year +17 +48 -4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,357 683 456
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.76% 5.08% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 5.50% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 460 290
10th Percentile £386 £350 £300
25th Percentile £458 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.45% -7.05%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £743 £775
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 10
10th Percentile £26.25 £26.64 £35.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £30.80 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.37 £37.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% -20.54% +8.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.49 £54.05 £50.75
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.20 £16.06
% change year-on-year +13.88% +94.27% -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 17,896 12,411 14,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.39% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,750 8,257 10,026
10th Percentile £362 £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 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £530
% change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 255 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.72 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +9 190 £625 +13.64% 206
West London +15 64 £600 +14.29% 73
South London -1 9 £525 -12.50% 28
East London +7 6 £660 +14.70% 20
North London -3 1 £550 -15.38% 8
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 27 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 26 (1.92%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.18%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.29%) Camunda
8 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.29%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) Mendix
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.22%) nginx
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
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 83 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.03%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) Actimize
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.074%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.074%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.074%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 263 (19.38%) Azure
2 254 (18.72%) AWS
3 171 (12.60%) Power Platform
4 98 (7.22%) GCP
5 69 (5.08%) SaaS
6 59 (4.35%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (3.10%) dbt
9 36 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 35 (2.58%) GitHub
11 31 (2.28%) Serverless
12 28 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (2.06%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.40%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
17 16 (1.18%) Azure AI
17 16 (1.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.18%) WAN
2 14 (1.03%) Firewall
3 11 (0.81%) Network Security
3 11 (0.81%) VPN
4 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 6 (0.44%) DNS
6 5 (0.37%) Broadband
6 5 (0.37%) LAN
7 4 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
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%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) DHCP
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (12.23%) Power BI
2 75 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
3 59 (4.35%) Metadata
4 52 (3.83%) Tableau
5 37 (2.73%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.14%) Power Query
7 27 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.92%) Data Lake
8 26 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.77%) NoSQL
10 22 (1.62%) Big Data
10 22 (1.62%) Looker
11 19 (1.40%) Delta Lake
11 19 (1.40%) SQL Server
12 17 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.25%) MongoDB
13 16 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.18%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.03%) Oracle Database
15 12 (0.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 70 (5.16%) JIRA
2 37 (2.73%) Git
3 23 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.81%) GitLab
5 4 (0.29%) ERwin
5 4 (0.29%) JUnit
5 4 (0.29%) Mockito
5 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.22%) DbUnit
6 3 (0.22%) jMock
6 3 (0.22%) Maven
6 3 (0.22%) VTune
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) MLflow
7 2 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 498 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 487 (35.89%) Finance
3 319 (23.51%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (14.44%) Public Sector
5 157 (11.57%) Banking
6 103 (7.59%) Influencing Skills
7 84 (6.19%) Retail
8 77 (5.67%) Marketing
9 53 (3.91%) Legal
10 43 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 30 (2.21%) Investment Banking
15 28 (2.06%) Front Office
15 28 (2.06%) Local Government
16 25 (1.84%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.40%) Aviation
19 17 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 211 (15.55%) Analyst
2 204 (15.03%) Senior
3 178 (13.12%) Lead
4 162 (11.94%) Architect
5 97 (7.15%) Business Analyst
6 87 (6.41%) Data Engineer
6 87 (6.41%) Project Manager
7 75 (5.53%) Developer
8 67 (4.94%) Data Analyst
9 51 (3.76%) Consultant
9 51 (3.76%) Data Scientist
10 46 (3.39%) Senior Manager
11 43 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
12 41 (3.02%) Product Manager
13 40 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
14 36 (2.65%) Data Architect
15 31 (2.28%) Designer
16 29 (2.14%) Product Owner
17 28 (2.06%) Senior Data Engineer
18 27 (1.99%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (5.97%) Terraform
2 44 (3.24%) REST
3 35 (2.58%) Kafka
4 30 (2.21%) React
5 29 (2.14%) PySpark
6 22 (1.62%) Pandas
7 19 (1.40%) Middleware
8 16 (1.18%) RESTful
9 15 (1.11%) JSON
9 15 (1.11%) Spring
9 15 (1.11%) Spring Boot
10 14 (1.03%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.96%) .NET
12 12 (0.88%) HTML
12 12 (0.88%) Node.js
12 12 (0.88%) NumPy
13 11 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (0.81%) scikit-learn
14 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
15 8 (0.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 99 (7.30%) Cloud Native
3 52 (3.83%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 43 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.65%) AI Agents
7 36 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 27 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.92%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.47%) NHS
12 18 (1.33%) FMCG
13 17 (1.25%) CMDB
13 17 (1.25%) PMI
14 16 (1.18%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.11%) Operational Technology
16 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
17 13 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.25%) Windows
2 16 (1.18%) Linux
3 6 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
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 Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (32.28%) Stakeholder Management
2 375 (27.63%) Agile
3 356 (26.23%) Analytics
4 303 (22.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 299 (22.03%) AI
6 271 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
7 251 (18.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 229 (16.88%) Roadmaps
9 197 (14.52%) Data Modelling
10 191 (14.08%) Business Intelligence
11 183 (13.49%) CI/CD
12 172 (12.68%) DevOps
13 159 (11.72%) Data Pipeline
14 134 (9.87%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 134 (9.87%) Validation
15 131 (9.65%) Actionable Insight
15 131 (9.65%) Data Engineering
16 127 (9.36%) Data Governance
17 126 (9.29%) Migration
18 124 (9.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 275 (20.27%) SQL
2 264 (19.45%) Python
3 74 (5.45%) Java
4 46 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (3.10%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.25%) C#
7 17 (1.25%) R
8 11 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.59%) Bash
9 8 (0.59%) C++
9 8 (0.59%) VBA
10 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.44%) Bicep
11 6 (0.44%) Ruby
11 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
12 5 (0.37%) Cypher
12 5 (0.37%) Scala
12 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 225 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 172 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.59%) Degree
4 54 (3.98%) PMP
5 49 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 33 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.03%) ACCA
10 14 (1.03%) CISSP
11 12 (0.88%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.59%) CIMA
12 8 (0.59%) CISM
13 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.44%) PhD
15 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (13.78%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.56%) PMO
3 68 (5.01%) QA
4 48 (3.54%) GDPR
5 47 (3.46%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.40%) NIST
8 13 (0.96%) GRC
9 12 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.59%) COREP
10 8 (0.59%) FINREP
11 7 (0.52%) IFRS
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.52%) SLA
12 5 (0.37%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) GAAP
13 4 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (3.76%) Docker
2 19 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
6 2 (0.15%) Squid
6 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) NFS
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.33%) Ansible
3 13 (0.96%) Grafana
4 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.66%) 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
9 3 (0.22%) Istio
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
10 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.074%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.074%) Consul
Vendors
1 190 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.82%) Databricks
3 46 (3.39%) Google
3 46 (3.39%) Oracle
4 44 (3.24%) Salesforce
4 44 (3.24%) SAP
4 44 (3.24%) ServiceNow
5 16 (1.18%) Adobe
5 16 (1.18%) Workday
6 12 (0.88%) Murex
7 11 (0.81%) Zscaler
8 9 (0.66%) Amplitude
8 9 (0.66%) Foundry
8 9 (0.66%) OpenAI
9 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.59%) Bloomberg
9 8 (0.59%) GoldenSource
10 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
10 7 (0.52%) Informatica
11 6 (0.44%) Dynatrace