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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 50 72
Rank change year-on-year +21 +22 +27
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,123 589 557
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.36% 4.76% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.20% 5.16% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 384 391
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £436 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £643
90th Percentile £771 £775 £763
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 25
10th Percentile £26.52 £27.80 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.44 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £34.87 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.57% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £58.25 £52.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.15 £75.13 £53.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £31.08 £18.25
% change year-on-year +76.99% +70.27% -63.54%

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 15,594 11,404 15,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,437 7,710 11,153
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 175 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.45
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.02 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.96% -20.49% -2.25%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +12 159 £575 +4.55% 256
West London -10 33 £520 -16.80% 38
South London -1 17 £519 -13.58% 8
East London -2 5 £697 -10.06% 19
North London - 2 £413 - 4
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 41 (3.65%) Confluence
2 23 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.89%) nginx
6 5 (0.45%) CMS
6 5 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.36%) Apache
7 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) Camunda
9 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.18%) Mendix
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 98 (8.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.85%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 15 (1.34%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) Notion
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.089%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.089%) InVision
9 1 (0.089%) Sketch
9 1 (0.089%) SPSS
9 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.53%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.45%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.27%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.18%) Actimize
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 221 (19.68%) Azure
2 190 (16.92%) AWS
3 163 (14.51%) Power Platform
4 91 (8.10%) GCP
5 70 (6.23%) SaaS
6 38 (3.38%) Amazon S3
6 38 (3.38%) Serverless
7 37 (3.29%) Snowflake
8 36 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (2.67%) GitHub
10 27 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (1.60%) Collibra
14 17 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (1.42%) dbt
16 15 (1.34%) Dagster
16 15 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.34%) Firewall
2 13 (1.16%) DNS
2 13 (1.16%) VPN
3 11 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.80%) HTTP
4 9 (0.80%) OpenVPN
5 7 (0.62%) Network Security
6 4 (0.36%) NAS
6 4 (0.36%) SAN
7 3 (0.27%) Internet
7 3 (0.27%) WAN
8 2 (0.18%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.18%) DMZ
8 2 (0.18%) Intranet
8 2 (0.18%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.18%) Junos
8 2 (0.18%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (13.89%) Power BI
2 63 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.45%) Tableau
4 46 (4.10%) Metadata
5 30 (2.67%) BigQuery
5 30 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.60%) Looker
7 18 (1.60%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.51%) Big Data
8 17 (1.51%) Oracle Database
8 17 (1.51%) Power Query
9 16 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.34%) Delta Lake
10 15 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.16%) Parquet
12 12 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 85 (7.57%) JIRA
2 40 (3.56%) Git
3 17 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.16%) GitLab
5 12 (1.07%) MLflow
6 10 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.53%) ERwin
8 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.45%) JUnit
10 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.27%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.27%) jMock
10 3 (0.27%) Maven
10 3 (0.27%) Mockito
10 3 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.27%) Toad
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) Selenium
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 404 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 401 (35.71%) Finance
3 275 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (13.36%) Public Sector
5 131 (11.67%) Banking
6 61 (5.43%) Marketing
7 58 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (4.19%) Legal
9 43 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (3.74%) Retail
11 37 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.85%) Telecoms
13 26 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (2.23%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.78%) Local Government
16 19 (1.69%) Billing
17 18 (1.60%) Front Office
18 16 (1.42%) Investment Banking
19 12 (1.07%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 197 (17.54%) Analyst
2 168 (14.96%) Senior
3 124 (11.04%) Lead
4 96 (8.55%) Business Analyst
5 93 (8.28%) Architect
6 77 (6.86%) Data Engineer
7 76 (6.77%) Project Manager
8 75 (6.68%) Developer
9 65 (5.79%) Data Analyst
10 50 (4.45%) Consultant
11 36 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (3.12%) Data Scientist
13 32 (2.85%) Senior Manager
14 31 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
15 28 (2.49%) Product Manager
16 24 (2.14%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (2.14%) User Researcher
17 23 (2.05%) Designer
18 22 (1.96%) Programme Manager
18 22 (1.96%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.67%) Pandas
1 30 (2.67%) REST
2 20 (1.78%) NumPy
3 19 (1.69%) Middleware
4 18 (1.60%) .NET
4 18 (1.60%) Kafka
4 18 (1.60%) PySpark
4 18 (1.60%) React
4 18 (1.60%) scikit-learn
5 15 (1.34%) AngularJS
5 15 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (1.34%) RESTful
6 14 (1.25%) Spring
6 14 (1.25%) Spring Boot
7 13 (1.16%) PyTorch
8 11 (0.98%) LangChain
9 10 (0.89%) OpenID
10 9 (0.80%) HTML
10 9 (0.80%) JSON
10 9 (0.80%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 60 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.12%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (2.32%) AI Agents
5 26 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (2.32%) Virtual Team
6 24 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 24 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.60%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.60%) PMI
8 16 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.16%) FMCG
9 13 (1.16%) NHS
10 11 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 11 (0.98%) CMDB
10 11 (0.98%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.07%) Linux
1 12 (1.07%) Windows
2 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
2 3 (0.27%) VMS
2 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.18%) Unix
4 1 (0.089%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.089%) Solaris
4 1 (0.089%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (26.98%) Agile
2 263 (23.42%) Analytics
3 255 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 241 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
5 213 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 206 (18.34%) AI
7 184 (16.38%) Business Intelligence
8 173 (15.41%) Roadmaps
9 170 (15.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 169 (15.05%) Data Modelling
11 142 (12.64%) DevOps
12 140 (12.47%) CI/CD
13 126 (11.22%) Project Management
14 120 (10.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 119 (10.60%) Actionable Insight
16 116 (10.33%) Data Pipeline
16 116 (10.33%) Migration
17 113 (10.06%) ETL
18 109 (9.71%) Data Governance
19 99 (8.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 232 (20.66%) SQL
2 214 (19.06%) Python
3 56 (4.99%) Java
4 28 (2.49%) TypeScript
5 26 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (2.14%) C#
7 20 (1.78%) R
8 17 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.42%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.98%) VBA
11 6 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.45%) Bicep
12 5 (0.45%) C++
12 5 (0.45%) Scala
13 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.36%) Ruby
14 3 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.27%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 189 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 151 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 109 (9.71%) Degree
4 45 (4.01%) PMP
5 41 (3.65%) PMI Certification
6 31 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.67%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.51%) ACCA
10 15 (1.34%) CISSP
11 13 (1.16%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.07%) CBAP
13 11 (0.98%) CIMA
14 10 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.80%) CISM
15 9 (0.80%) IIBA
15 9 (0.80%) PhD
16 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (0.53%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (14.16%) Data Quality
2 73 (6.50%) PMO
3 69 (6.14%) QA
4 37 (3.29%) GDPR
5 29 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.60%) NIST
7 16 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.98%) SLA
10 8 (0.71%) GRC
11 7 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.53%) COREP
12 6 (0.53%) FINREP
12 6 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.45%) COBIT
13 5 (0.45%) GAAP
13 5 (0.45%) IFRS
13 5 (0.45%) WCAG
14 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 31 (2.76%) Docker
2 9 (0.80%) Squid
3 8 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) NFS
6 3 (0.27%) IAG
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.089%) HDFS
8 1 (0.089%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (5.52%) Terraform
2 59 (5.25%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.60%) Grafana
4 15 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.80%) Ansible
6 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.62%) Consul
7 7 (0.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.45%) Kibana
9 4 (0.36%) Control-M
9 4 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) vMotion
10 3 (0.27%) Istio
11 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.18%) Argo
11 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.089%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 165 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.34%) Oracle
3 53 (4.72%) Databricks
4 50 (4.45%) SAP
5 43 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 42 (3.74%) Google
7 37 (3.29%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.87%) Workday
9 17 (1.51%) Adobe
10 12 (1.07%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.98%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.80%) Foundry
12 9 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.80%) VMware
13 8 (0.71%) Software AG
14 7 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.62%) Planview
15 6 (0.53%) Cisco
15 6 (0.53%) GoldenSource