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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 49 88
Rank change year-on-year +19 +39 +1
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,337 677 466
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.66% 5.00% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 5.42% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 456 299
10th Percentile £383 £354 £298
25th Percentile £454 £417 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £745 £770
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.44 £30.80 £37.50
Median hourly rate £34.87 £37.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -20.54% +8.30%
75th Percentile £62.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £54.05 £50.75
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.20 £16.06
% change year-on-year +13.88% +94.27% -65.60%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +9 186 £625 +13.64% 214
West London +13 60 £600 +11.45% 84
South London -3 11 £519 -13.54% 18
East London +4 6 £660 +14.70% 15
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 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.62%) Confluence
3 28 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.20%) Apache
6 6 (0.45%) CMS
7 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.075%) WordPress
Applications
1 83 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (2.32%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.05%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.45%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.30%) 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%) 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 (0.075%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.075%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 258 (19.30%) Azure
2 250 (18.70%) AWS
3 172 (12.86%) Power Platform
4 100 (7.48%) GCP
5 69 (5.16%) SaaS
6 57 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 43 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.84%) dbt
9 37 (2.77%) Amazon S3
10 33 (2.47%) GitHub
11 31 (2.32%) Serverless
12 28 (2.09%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 23 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.42%) Power Automate
17 17 (1.27%) Amazon Bedrock
18 16 (1.20%) OCI
18 16 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.12%) WAN
2 14 (1.05%) Firewall
3 11 (0.82%) VPN
4 10 (0.75%) Network Security
5 7 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.45%) DNS
7 4 (0.30%) 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%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.15%) SAN
9 2 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.49%) Power BI
2 73 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (4.04%) Metadata
3 54 (4.04%) Tableau
4 37 (2.77%) BigQuery
5 29 (2.17%) Power Query
6 28 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.80%) Data Lake
9 22 (1.65%) Big Data
9 22 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 21 (1.57%) Looker
11 17 (1.27%) SQL Server
12 16 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.20%) Delta Lake
12 16 (1.20%) Star Schema
13 15 (1.12%) MongoDB
14 13 (0.97%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (5.39%) JIRA
2 36 (2.69%) Git
3 24 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.82%) GitLab
5 5 (0.37%) JUnit
5 5 (0.37%) Mockito
5 5 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.30%) ERwin
6 4 (0.30%) jMock
6 4 (0.30%) Maven
6 4 (0.30%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.22%) VTune
7 3 (0.22%) Xcode
8 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.15%) MLflow
General
1 483 (36.13%) Finance
2 481 (35.98%) Social Skills
3 316 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (14.51%) Public Sector
5 153 (11.44%) Banking
6 100 (7.48%) Influencing Skills
7 80 (5.98%) Retail
8 73 (5.46%) Marketing
9 52 (3.89%) Legal
10 43 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 29 (2.17%) Investment Banking
14 28 (2.09%) Front Office
15 26 (1.94%) Local Government
16 25 (1.87%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.42%) Aviation
19 15 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 206 (15.41%) Analyst
2 203 (15.18%) Senior
3 170 (12.72%) Lead
4 152 (11.37%) Architect
5 96 (7.18%) Business Analyst
6 91 (6.81%) Data Engineer
7 88 (6.58%) Project Manager
8 73 (5.46%) Developer
9 68 (5.09%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.89%) Data Scientist
11 50 (3.74%) Consultant
12 44 (3.29%) Senior Manager
13 42 (3.14%) Product Manager
14 41 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
15 39 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
16 32 (2.39%) Data Architect
17 30 (2.24%) Designer
18 29 (2.17%) Product Owner
19 27 (2.02%) Senior Data Engineer
20 26 (1.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.14%) REST
2 33 (2.47%) Kafka
3 28 (2.09%) React
4 27 (2.02%) PySpark
5 24 (1.80%) Pandas
6 18 (1.35%) Middleware
7 15 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 15 (1.12%) JSON
7 15 (1.12%) RESTful
8 14 (1.05%) .NET
8 14 (1.05%) NumPy
8 14 (1.05%) Spring
8 14 (1.05%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.97%) Node.js
10 12 (0.90%) HTML
10 12 (0.90%) scikit-learn
11 11 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (0.67%) PyTorch
13 8 (0.60%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.70%) Product Ownership
2 92 (6.88%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.81%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (3.22%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 35 (2.62%) AI Agents
8 28 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.57%) NHS
11 20 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (1.42%) FMCG
13 17 (1.27%) CMDB
13 17 (1.27%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.27%) PMI
14 15 (1.12%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.05%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.27%) Linux
2 16 (1.20%) Windows
3 6 (0.45%) Mac OS
3 6 (0.45%) 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 (0.075%) Solaris
6 1 (0.075%) VMS
6 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (31.49%) Stakeholder Management
2 370 (27.67%) Agile
3 348 (26.03%) Analytics
4 296 (22.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 288 (21.54%) AI
6 260 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (18.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 227 (16.98%) Roadmaps
9 195 (14.58%) Data Modelling
10 190 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
11 178 (13.31%) CI/CD
12 169 (12.64%) DevOps
13 166 (12.42%) Data Pipeline
14 136 (10.17%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 133 (9.95%) Validation
16 127 (9.50%) Actionable Insight
16 127 (9.50%) Data Engineering
17 123 (9.20%) Data Governance
17 123 (9.20%) Data Science
17 123 (9.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 270 (20.19%) SQL
2 263 (19.67%) Python
3 69 (5.16%) Java
4 46 (3.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.09%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.20%) C#
8 15 (1.12%) R
9 11 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.60%) Bash
10 8 (0.60%) C++
10 8 (0.60%) VBA
11 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.45%) Ruby
12 6 (0.45%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Cypher
13 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 216 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 169 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 100 (7.48%) Degree
4 55 (4.11%) PMP
5 50 (3.74%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.05%) ACCA
10 14 (1.05%) CISSP
11 12 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.60%) CIMA
12 8 (0.60%) CISM
13 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.45%) PhD
15 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
15 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (13.61%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.66%) PMO
3 66 (4.94%) QA
4 46 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 45 (3.37%) GDPR
6 22 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (1.35%) NIST
8 13 (0.97%) GRC
9 12 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.60%) COREP
10 8 (0.60%) 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 (0.30%) GAAP
13 4 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 48 (3.59%) Docker
2 19 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.67%) 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 (0.075%) Firmware
7 1 (0.075%) NFS
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.075%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.075%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (5.68%) Terraform
2 64 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.27%) Ansible
4 12 (0.90%) Grafana
5 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.45%) Kibana
7 6 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.37%) Control-M
9 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.22%) SCCM
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.075%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.075%) Consul
12 1 (0.075%) Istio
Vendors
1 185 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.39%) Databricks
3 46 (3.44%) Google
3 46 (3.44%) SAP
4 44 (3.29%) Oracle
5 43 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.27%) Adobe
8 16 (1.20%) Workday
9 11 (0.82%) Murex
9 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.75%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.67%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.60%) Foundry
12 8 (0.60%) GoldenSource
13 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.52%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.45%) Informatica
14 6 (0.45%) Splunk