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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 49 66
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 +39
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,069 575 588
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.18% 4.54% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 4.96% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 728 381 422
10th Percentile £374 £356 £338
25th Percentile £431 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £645
90th Percentile £771 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 28
10th Percentile £18.25 £28.35 £19.57
25th Percentile £19.19 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £32.00 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.35% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £41.75 £55.25 £49.06
90th Percentile £74.75 £77.88 £54.13
England median hourly rate £57.50 £30.40 £18.94
% change year-on-year +89.13% +60.54% -63.79%

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 15,441 11,594 15,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.26% 91.57% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,365 7,865 11,315
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 169 332
10th Percentile £18.20 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.13 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.00% -1.71% -11.83%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +13 151 £560 +6.67% 279
West London -15 21 £520 -16.80% 36
South London -16 18 £519 -13.58% 12
East London +1 5 £697 -10.06% 24
North London - 2 £413 - 1
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 48 (4.49%) Confluence
2 23 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.03%) nginx
6 8 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.47%) Apache
7 5 (0.47%) CMS
7 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.19%) Camunda
9 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.19%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 113 (10.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (1.96%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.59%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.28%) Notion
8 3 (0.28%) Trello
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.19%) InVision
9 2 (0.19%) Sketch
10 1 (0.094%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.094%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 9 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.84%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.56%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.47%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 4 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.19%) Actimize
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.19%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 219 (20.49%) Azure
2 182 (17.03%) AWS
3 178 (16.65%) Power Platform
4 85 (7.95%) GCP
5 54 (5.05%) SaaS
6 40 (3.74%) Snowflake
7 38 (3.55%) Serverless
8 36 (3.37%) Amazon S3
9 35 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (2.90%) GitHub
12 30 (2.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 29 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (1.50%) Collibra
16 16 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (1.31%) dbt
17 14 (1.31%) PaaS
17 14 (1.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.50%) Firewall
2 13 (1.22%) DNS
2 13 (1.22%) VPN
3 12 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.75%) HTTP
5 8 (0.75%) Network Security
6 4 (0.37%) NAS
6 4 (0.37%) SAN
6 4 (0.37%) WAN
7 3 (0.28%) 5G
7 3 (0.28%) Broadband
7 3 (0.28%) Internet
8 2 (0.19%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.19%) Calico
8 2 (0.19%) DHCP
8 2 (0.19%) DMZ
8 2 (0.19%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.19%) NaaS
8 2 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.00%) Power BI
2 67 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (4.58%) Tableau
4 43 (4.02%) Metadata
5 31 (2.90%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.15%) Data Lake
7 20 (1.87%) BigQuery
8 19 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (1.68%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (1.50%) Big Data
11 16 (1.50%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.40%) Looker
13 14 (1.31%) Delta Lake
14 13 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (1.22%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.22%) Power Query
15 12 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (0.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 92 (8.61%) JIRA
2 43 (4.02%) Git
3 16 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.22%) GitLab
5 12 (1.12%) MLflow
6 9 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.56%) ERwin
7 6 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.37%) JUnit
9 3 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.28%) Toad
10 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.19%) DbUnit
10 2 (0.19%) jMock
10 2 (0.19%) Maven
10 2 (0.19%) Postman
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
10 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 416 (38.91%) Social Skills
2 385 (36.01%) Finance
3 292 (27.32%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (14.22%) Public Sector
5 124 (11.60%) Banking
6 56 (5.24%) Marketing
7 54 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
8 44 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
9 43 (4.02%) Legal
10 39 (3.65%) Retail
11 37 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 26 (2.43%) Financial Institution
14 24 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (2.15%) Front Office
16 22 (2.06%) Local Government
17 20 (1.87%) Billing
18 19 (1.78%) Investment Banking
19 18 (1.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 189 (17.68%) Analyst
2 161 (15.06%) Senior
3 114 (10.66%) Lead
4 96 (8.98%) Business Analyst
5 83 (7.76%) Architect
6 81 (7.58%) Developer
7 70 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 69 (6.45%) Project Manager
9 62 (5.80%) Data Analyst
10 39 (3.65%) Consultant
11 35 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
12 34 (3.18%) Senior Manager
13 29 (2.71%) Data Scientist
14 28 (2.62%) User Researcher
15 27 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (2.25%) Senior Data Engineer
17 23 (2.15%) Senior Business Analyst
18 21 (1.96%) Product Manager
18 21 (1.96%) Programme Manager
19 20 (1.87%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.99%) Pandas
2 31 (2.90%) REST
3 25 (2.34%) Kafka
3 25 (2.34%) scikit-learn
4 24 (2.25%) NumPy
5 21 (1.96%) AngularJS
6 19 (1.78%) PySpark
6 19 (1.78%) React
7 18 (1.68%) Middleware
8 17 (1.59%) .NET
8 17 (1.59%) PyTorch
9 14 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
9 14 (1.31%) RESTful
10 13 (1.22%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.03%) LangChain
11 11 (1.03%) Plotly
12 10 (0.94%) OpenID
13 9 (0.84%) JSON
13 9 (0.84%) LDAP
13 9 (0.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 69 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 63 (5.89%) Product Ownership
3 32 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 31 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 31 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.34%) Virtual Team
7 24 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 23 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 16 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.40%) PMI
14 14 (1.31%) Algorithms
15 13 (1.22%) FMCG
15 13 (1.22%) NHS
15 13 (1.22%) Security Posture
16 11 (1.03%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.22%) Windows
2 10 (0.94%) Linux
3 3 (0.28%) VMS
3 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.094%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.094%) Solaris
5 1 (0.094%) Unix
5 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (28.53%) Agile
2 255 (23.85%) Analytics
3 246 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
4 244 (22.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 196 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
6 195 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 182 (17.03%) AI
8 163 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 160 (14.97%) Data Modelling
10 158 (14.78%) Roadmaps
11 137 (12.82%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 131 (12.25%) DevOps
13 126 (11.79%) CI/CD
14 123 (11.51%) Actionable Insight
15 115 (10.76%) Project Management
16 114 (10.66%) ETL
17 112 (10.48%) Migration
18 111 (10.38%) Visualisation
19 105 (9.82%) Data Governance
20 103 (9.64%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 232 (21.70%) SQL
2 214 (20.02%) Python
3 47 (4.40%) Java
4 25 (2.34%) TypeScript
5 24 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (1.96%) C#
7 19 (1.78%) R
8 16 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 14 (1.31%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.84%) PowerShell
10 9 (0.84%) VBA
11 8 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.65%) Bicep
12 7 (0.65%) C++
13 6 (0.56%) Bash
14 4 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.37%) Groovy
14 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.37%) Scala
15 3 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 175 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 143 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 117 (10.94%) Degree
4 37 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.27%) PMP
6 34 (3.18%) Master's Degree
6 34 (3.18%) PMI Certification
7 18 (1.68%) ACCA
8 16 (1.50%) CIMA
8 16 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.31%) CISSP
10 12 (1.12%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.03%) CBAP
12 10 (0.94%) PhD
12 10 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.84%) CISM
13 9 (0.84%) IIBA
14 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.56%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (13.38%) Data Quality
2 66 (6.17%) PMO
3 64 (5.99%) QA
4 34 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 32 (2.99%) GDPR
6 14 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.31%) NIST
7 12 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.12%) SLA
8 10 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.84%) GRC
10 7 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.65%) WCAG
11 5 (0.47%) COBIT
11 5 (0.47%) COREP
11 5 (0.47%) FINREP
12 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (2.71%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.84%) Squid
3 7 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.37%) NFS
5 2 (0.19%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) IAG
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.094%) Postfix
6 1 (0.094%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.094%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (5.80%) Terraform
2 58 (5.43%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.59%) Grafana
4 16 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.75%) Ansible
7 8 (0.75%) Consul
8 7 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.37%) Control-M
9 4 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.37%) vMotion
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
10 3 (0.28%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.19%) Argo
11 2 (0.19%) Istio
12 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.094%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 149 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.24%) Oracle
3 52 (4.86%) Databricks
4 45 (4.21%) SAP
4 45 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 42 (3.93%) Google
6 35 (3.27%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.68%) Workday
8 17 (1.59%) Adobe
9 14 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.94%) Foundry
12 9 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.84%) Software AG
12 9 (0.84%) VMware
13 8 (0.75%) Planview
14 7 (0.65%) Cisco
15 6 (0.56%) Ariba
15 6 (0.56%) Murex