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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 48 76
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 +21
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,242 585 528
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.56% 4.71% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.39% 5.10% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 391 361
10th Percentile £377 £363 £288
25th Percentile £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +2.55% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £644
90th Percentile £775 £763 £763
England median daily rate £519 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -0.28% - -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 22
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.63 £28.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £29.16
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +32.05% -33.53%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.23 £45.31
90th Percentile £75.70 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £30.81 £18.94
% change year-on-year +15.24% +62.67% -56.82%

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 16,816 11,468 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.31% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,190 7,694 11,171
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £436 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 206 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +5 173 £595 +8.18% 145
West London -2 40 £521 -8.42% 42
South London +6 19 £519 -13.58% 11
East London +1 6 £719 -7.23% 26
North London - 1 £325 - 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 36 (2.90%) Confluence
2 22 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.81%) nginx
6 5 (0.40%) Apache
6 5 (0.40%) CMS
6 5 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.16%) Camunda
8 2 (0.16%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.16%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.16%) Mendix
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.16%) SAS
8 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 86 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.45%) Chatbot
4 18 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.081%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.081%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.40%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.40%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.16%) Actimize
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.16%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.16%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 248 (19.97%) Azure
2 211 (16.99%) AWS
3 170 (13.69%) Power Platform
4 99 (7.97%) GCP
5 68 (5.48%) SaaS
6 44 (3.54%) Amazon S3
7 41 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (3.22%) Serverless
9 39 (3.14%) Snowflake
10 35 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 35 (2.82%) GitHub
11 30 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 25 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (1.61%) dbt
15 18 (1.45%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (1.37%) Collibra
16 17 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
17 16 (1.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.29%) VPN
2 14 (1.13%) Firewall
3 13 (1.05%) DNS
4 11 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.72%) HTTP
5 9 (0.72%) Network Security
5 9 (0.72%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.48%) WAN
7 4 (0.32%) NAS
7 4 (0.32%) SAN
8 3 (0.24%) BGP
8 3 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.24%) MPLS
8 3 (0.24%) OSPF
8 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.24%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.16%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.16%) IPsec
9 2 (0.16%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (13.20%) Power BI
2 67 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (4.59%) Metadata
4 53 (4.27%) Tableau
5 32 (2.58%) BigQuery
6 31 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 29 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 26 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 21 (1.69%) Big Data
11 20 (1.61%) Power Query
11 20 (1.61%) Relational Database
12 19 (1.53%) Looker
12 19 (1.53%) Oracle Database
13 17 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (1.21%) Delta Lake
15 14 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (1.05%) Parquet
17 12 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 78 (6.28%) JIRA
2 39 (3.14%) Git
3 18 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.21%) GitLab
5 11 (0.89%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.72%) MLflow
7 7 (0.56%) JUnit
8 6 (0.48%) ERwin
9 5 (0.40%) Mockito
9 5 (0.40%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (0.32%) DbUnit
10 4 (0.32%) jMock
10 4 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.24%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.24%) Toad
12 2 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
12 2 (0.16%) Xcode
General
1 441 (35.51%) Social Skills
2 435 (35.02%) Finance
3 278 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (14.17%) Public Sector
5 122 (9.82%) Banking
6 65 (5.23%) Marketing
7 64 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
8 60 (4.83%) Retail
9 52 (4.19%) Legal
10 41 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
11 40 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.90%) Telecoms
13 35 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 28 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (2.17%) Financial Institution
16 22 (1.77%) Local Government
17 18 (1.45%) Front Office
18 16 (1.29%) Billing
18 16 (1.29%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 190 (15.30%) Senior
2 186 (14.98%) Analyst
3 155 (12.48%) Lead
4 108 (8.70%) Architect
5 93 (7.49%) Data Engineer
6 90 (7.25%) Business Analyst
7 87 (7.00%) Project Manager
8 79 (6.36%) Developer
9 66 (5.31%) Data Analyst
10 53 (4.27%) Consultant
11 44 (3.54%) Data Scientist
12 39 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (2.74%) Product Manager
14 33 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.66%) User Researcher
15 29 (2.33%) Senior Manager
16 28 (2.25%) Senior Data Engineer
16 28 (2.25%) Technical Leader
17 25 (2.01%) Product Owner
18 24 (1.93%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.38%) REST
2 31 (2.50%) React
3 29 (2.33%) Pandas
4 26 (2.09%) PySpark
5 23 (1.85%) Kafka
6 21 (1.69%) .NET
7 20 (1.61%) Middleware
8 19 (1.53%) scikit-learn
9 18 (1.45%) AngularJS
10 17 (1.37%) NumPy
10 17 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
10 17 (1.37%) RESTful
11 15 (1.21%) Spring
11 15 (1.21%) Spring Boot
12 14 (1.13%) PyTorch
13 13 (1.05%) JSON
14 12 (0.97%) LangChain
15 11 (0.89%) Node.js
16 10 (0.81%) HTML
16 10 (0.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 90 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.68%) Product Ownership
3 42 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.06%) Virtual Team
5 36 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (2.58%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 19 (1.53%) FMCG
11 18 (1.45%) NHS
12 17 (1.37%) PMI
12 17 (1.37%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.29%) Taxonomies
14 13 (1.05%) CMDB
15 11 (0.89%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.29%) Windows
2 14 (1.13%) Linux
3 5 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.24%) Unix
4 3 (0.24%) VMS
4 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.081%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.081%) Solaris
6 1 (0.081%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (27.13%) Agile
2 304 (24.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 300 (24.15%) Analytics
4 256 (20.61%) AI
5 249 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 246 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
7 204 (16.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 196 (15.78%) Roadmaps
9 186 (14.98%) Business Intelligence
10 181 (14.57%) Data Modelling
11 176 (14.17%) CI/CD
12 163 (13.12%) DevOps
13 147 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
14 131 (10.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 129 (10.39%) Migration
16 128 (10.31%) Actionable Insight
17 123 (9.90%) Project Management
18 121 (9.74%) ETL
19 119 (9.58%) Data Science
20 114 (9.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 253 (20.37%) SQL
2 246 (19.81%) Python
3 67 (5.39%) Java
4 49 (3.95%) TypeScript
5 33 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (1.85%) C#
7 22 (1.77%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.29%) R
9 13 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.64%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.64%) VBA
11 7 (0.56%) Bicep
11 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.48%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.40%) Ruby
13 5 (0.40%) Scala
14 4 (0.32%) C++
14 4 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.16%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 215 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 176 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 109 (8.78%) Degree
4 49 (3.95%) PMP
5 43 (3.46%) PMI Certification
6 27 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.37%) ACCA
10 17 (1.37%) CISSP
11 15 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.89%) CIMA
13 10 (0.81%) CISM
14 9 (0.72%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.64%) CBAP
16 7 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.48%) APMP
17 6 (0.48%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 76 (6.12%) PMO
3 65 (5.23%) QA
4 41 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 40 (3.22%) GDPR
6 20 (1.61%) NIST
7 18 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.89%) GRC
9 10 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.81%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.81%) SLA
10 7 (0.56%) COREP
10 7 (0.56%) FINREP
10 7 (0.56%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.48%) GAAP
11 6 (0.48%) IFRS
11 6 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.40%) NCSC
13 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (2.82%) Docker
2 14 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.72%) Squid
4 6 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.32%) NFS
6 3 (0.24%) IAG
6 3 (0.24%) Postfix
6 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.081%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.081%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.081%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.081%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.081%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (6.44%) Terraform
2 64 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.45%) Grafana
4 14 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.05%) Ansible
6 12 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.56%) Consul
8 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.40%) Kibana
10 4 (0.32%) Control-M
10 4 (0.32%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.32%) vMotion
11 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.24%) SCCM
12 2 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.16%) Argo
12 2 (0.16%) Istio
12 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 183 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.83%) Oracle
3 56 (4.51%) Databricks
4 47 (3.78%) Google
5 45 (3.62%) SAP
6 39 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 38 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.61%) Workday
9 14 (1.13%) Adobe
10 13 (1.05%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.89%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.72%) Foundry
14 8 (0.64%) Murex
14 8 (0.64%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.64%) VMware
15 7 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.56%) GoldenSource
15 7 (0.56%) Informatica
15 7 (0.56%) Palantir