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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 52 86
Rank change year-on-year +22 +34 +5
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,328 661 477
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.68% 4.84% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 5.24% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 450 312
10th Percentile £392 £356 £288
25th Percentile £450 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% -9.40%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £750 £763
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 12
10th Percentile £27.94 £26.53 £17.93
25th Percentile £32.03 £28.21 £31.14
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +5.88% -3.10%
75th Percentile £62.50 £51.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £55.25 -
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year +18.43% +86.80% -64.31%

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 17,699 12,607 14,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.22% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,437 10,407
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.69 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -20.35%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +9 184 £625 +13.64% 163
West London +9 53 £575 +6.80% 56
South London -2 16 £513 -14.58% 21
East London +8 6 £660 -14.90% 15
North London -2 1 £325 -50.00% 5
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 38 (2.86%) Confluence
2 31 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.05%) Apache
6 7 (0.53%) CMS
7 6 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.38%) nginx
9 3 (0.23%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.075%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.075%) Hyperledger
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 90 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (2.71%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (1.36%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.68%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.30%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.38%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.38%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.30%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Actimize
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 260 (19.58%) Azure
2 253 (19.05%) AWS
3 167 (12.58%) Power Platform
4 106 (7.98%) GCP
5 70 (5.27%) SaaS
6 50 (3.77%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.39%) Amazon S3
8 41 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (2.94%) Serverless
10 30 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (2.26%) dbt
11 26 (1.96%) GitHub
12 25 (1.88%) Entra ID
13 23 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (1.28%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.20%) OCI
17 15 (1.13%) Azure AI
17 15 (1.13%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.05%) Firewall
2 13 (0.98%) WAN
3 11 (0.83%) VPN
4 9 (0.68%) DNS
4 9 (0.68%) Network Security
5 6 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.38%) NAS
6 5 (0.38%) SAN
6 5 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.30%) LAN
7 4 (0.30%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.23%) BGP
8 3 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.23%) HTTP
8 3 (0.23%) IPsec
8 3 (0.23%) MPLS
8 3 (0.23%) OSPF
8 3 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.23%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (12.20%) Power BI
2 67 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (4.07%) Metadata
3 54 (4.07%) Tableau
4 40 (3.01%) BigQuery
5 26 (1.96%) Power Query
6 25 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (1.73%) Relational Database
8 22 (1.66%) Big Data
8 22 (1.66%) Looker
8 22 (1.66%) NoSQL
9 21 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 17 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.20%) SQL Server
12 15 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.13%) Delta Lake
13 14 (1.05%) Oracle Database
13 14 (1.05%) Star Schema
14 12 (0.90%) MongoDB
14 12 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 79 (5.95%) JIRA
2 43 (3.24%) Git
3 20 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.83%) GitLab
5 6 (0.45%) JUnit
5 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.38%) MLflow
6 5 (0.38%) Mockito
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.30%) ERwin
7 4 (0.30%) jMock
7 4 (0.30%) Maven
8 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.23%) VTune
8 3 (0.23%) Xcode
9 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 485 (36.52%) Finance
2 468 (35.24%) Social Skills
3 322 (24.25%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (14.38%) Public Sector
5 146 (10.99%) Banking
6 88 (6.63%) Influencing Skills
7 71 (5.35%) Marketing
7 71 (5.35%) Retail
8 50 (3.77%) Legal
9 46 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.33%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.03%) Local Government
14 26 (1.96%) Financial Institution
15 25 (1.88%) Investment Banking
16 24 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
16 24 (1.81%) Front Office
17 15 (1.13%) Aviation
18 14 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 200 (15.06%) Analyst
2 191 (14.38%) Senior
3 170 (12.80%) Lead
4 140 (10.54%) Architect
5 92 (6.93%) Business Analyst
5 92 (6.93%) Data Engineer
6 91 (6.85%) Project Manager
7 76 (5.72%) Developer
8 70 (5.27%) Data Analyst
9 54 (4.07%) Data Scientist
10 46 (3.46%) Consultant
11 39 (2.94%) Product Manager
12 37 (2.79%) Senior Manager
12 37 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
13 36 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
14 31 (2.33%) Product Owner
15 30 (2.26%) Designer
16 26 (1.96%) User Researcher
17 25 (1.88%) Senior Data Engineer
18 23 (1.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.01%) REST
2 33 (2.48%) Kafka
3 29 (2.18%) React
4 27 (2.03%) Pandas
5 25 (1.88%) PySpark
6 18 (1.36%) Middleware
7 17 (1.28%) AngularJS
7 17 (1.28%) NumPy
8 16 (1.20%) JSON
8 16 (1.20%) RESTful
8 16 (1.20%) scikit-learn
9 15 (1.13%) .NET
10 14 (1.05%) Spring
10 14 (1.05%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.98%) Node.js
12 11 (0.83%) HTML
12 11 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
12 11 (0.83%) PyTorch
13 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (0.68%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 98 (7.38%) Product Ownership
2 91 (6.85%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.24%) Virtual Team
5 41 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (2.79%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (2.56%) AI Agents
9 26 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.51%) NHS
12 19 (1.43%) FMCG
13 17 (1.28%) CMDB
13 17 (1.28%) PMI
14 16 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 15 (1.13%) Taxonomies
16 14 (1.05%) Data Centre
16 14 (1.05%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.20%) Windows
2 15 (1.13%) Linux
3 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.30%) Unix
6 3 (0.23%) VMS
6 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.15%) Android
7 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.075%) Solaris
8 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (28.99%) Stakeholder Management
2 369 (27.79%) Agile
3 330 (24.85%) Analytics
4 288 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 279 (21.01%) AI
6 255 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
7 231 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 221 (16.64%) Roadmaps
9 188 (14.16%) Business Intelligence
10 186 (14.01%) Data Modelling
11 176 (13.25%) CI/CD
12 166 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
12 166 (12.50%) DevOps
13 135 (10.17%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 134 (10.09%) Validation
15 127 (9.56%) Migration
16 125 (9.41%) Machine Learning
17 124 (9.34%) Actionable Insight
18 122 (9.19%) Data Science
19 121 (9.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 260 (19.58%) SQL
2 259 (19.50%) Python
3 70 (5.27%) Java
4 46 (3.46%) TypeScript
5 40 (3.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.36%) C#
8 16 (1.20%) R
9 8 (0.60%) C++
10 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.53%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.53%) VBA
11 6 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.45%) Ruby
11 6 (0.45%) SPARQL
11 6 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.38%) Cypher
12 5 (0.38%) Gremlin
12 5 (0.38%) Scala
12 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 225 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 183 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.76%) Degree
4 54 (4.07%) PMP
5 49 (3.69%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.28%) CISSP
10 12 (0.90%) ACCA
11 10 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.75%) CISM
12 8 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.45%) CIMA
14 6 (0.45%) PhD
15 5 (0.38%) CISA
15 5 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (13.48%) Data Quality
2 93 (7.00%) PMO
3 69 (5.20%) QA
4 50 (3.77%) Accessibility
5 44 (3.31%) GDPR
6 19 (1.43%) NIST
7 18 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.98%) GRC
10 8 (0.60%) COREP
10 8 (0.60%) FINREP
10 8 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.60%) SLA
11 7 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.38%) SEPA
13 4 (0.30%) GAAP
13 4 (0.30%) IFRS
13 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (3.46%) Docker
2 19 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.53%) IAG
5 5 (0.38%) NFS
5 5 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.30%) Squid
7 3 (0.23%) Postfix
8 1 (0.075%) Firmware
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.075%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 74 (5.57%) Terraform
2 65 (4.89%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.13%) Ansible
4 14 (1.05%) Grafana
5 10 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.45%) Kibana
9 4 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.30%) vMotion
10 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.23%) SCCM
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.15%) Consul
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 180 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 63 (4.74%) Databricks
3 50 (3.77%) Google
4 49 (3.69%) SAP
5 45 (3.39%) Oracle
6 42 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.20%) Workday
9 13 (0.98%) Adobe
10 11 (0.83%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.75%) Murex
12 9 (0.68%) Zscaler
13 8 (0.60%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.60%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.60%) Foundry
13 8 (0.60%) GoldenSource
13 8 (0.60%) Splunk
14 7 (0.53%) Anaplan
14 7 (0.53%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.53%) VMware