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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 50 85
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 -2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,491 683 463
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.27% 5.10% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 5.52% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 452 281
10th Percentile £375 £351 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% -2.19% -1.39%
75th Percentile £688 £656 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £788
England median daily rate £550 £519 £525
% change year-on-year +6.08% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 7
10th Percentile £23.50 £18.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £26.45 £25.11 £32.38
Median hourly rate £53.75 £31.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.29% -15.33% -5.85%
75th Percentile £62.00 £42.20 £46.25
90th Percentile £66.12 £47.13 £52.25
England median hourly rate £54.40 £31.20 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.36% -16.80% -18.80%

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 18,262 12,381 14,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.48% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,971 8,179 9,290
10th Percentile £358 £334 £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 £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 241 177
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.40
25th Percentile £18.69 £25.15 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.49 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -16.03% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +19 218 £625 +13.64% 64
West London +18 73 £719 +36.90% 49
South London +4 16 £650 -0.38% 8
East London +8 6 £613 +6.52% 13
North London -3 1 £550 -15.38% 3
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 47 (3.15%) Confluence
2 40 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.01%) Apache
6 9 (0.60%) SAS
7 7 (0.47%) CMS
8 4 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.27%) Mendix
9 2 (0.13%) Appian
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.13%) Camunda
9 2 (0.13%) IIS
9 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 100 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.40%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.20%) Productboard
9 1 (0.067%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.067%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.067%) Misys Equation
Cloud Services
1 267 (17.91%) Azure
2 264 (17.71%) AWS
3 187 (12.54%) Power Platform
4 78 (5.23%) GCP
5 72 (4.83%) Snowflake
6 56 (3.76%) SaaS
7 55 (3.69%) dbt
8 42 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (2.55%) Amazon S3
9 38 (2.55%) GitHub
10 35 (2.35%) Serverless
11 27 (1.81%) Entra ID
12 26 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 25 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (1.27%) Amazon Bedrock
16 19 (1.27%) OCI
17 18 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.01%) WAN
2 12 (0.80%) Firewall
2 12 (0.80%) Network Security
3 11 (0.74%) Broadband
4 9 (0.60%) VPN
5 8 (0.54%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.34%) LAN
7 4 (0.27%) IPsec
7 4 (0.27%) Modbus
7 4 (0.27%) MPLS
7 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.20%) BGP
8 3 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.20%) OSPF
8 3 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.20%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.20%) X.509
9 2 (0.13%) DNS
9 2 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (12.14%) Power BI
2 71 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (3.76%) Tableau
4 55 (3.69%) Metadata
5 33 (2.21%) Power Query
6 31 (2.08%) BigQuery
6 31 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.88%) Data Lake
7 28 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 25 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.61%) Delta Lake
10 23 (1.54%) Looker
11 17 (1.14%) Big Data
11 17 (1.14%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.14%) Semantic Layer
12 16 (1.07%) Star Schema
13 15 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.01%) Data Vault
13 15 (1.01%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 61 (4.09%) JIRA
2 44 (2.95%) Git
3 24 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.74%) GitLab
5 8 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.40%) JUnit
7 5 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 4 (0.27%) Selenium
9 3 (0.20%) Maven
9 3 (0.20%) Mockito
9 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.20%) VTune
9 3 (0.20%) Xcode
10 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.13%) MLflow
10 2 (0.13%) Postman
10 2 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.13%) Serenity BDD
General
1 594 (39.84%) Social Skills
2 514 (34.47%) Finance
3 366 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (16.10%) Public Sector
5 169 (11.33%) Banking
6 136 (9.12%) Influencing Skills
7 91 (6.10%) Retail
8 70 (4.69%) Marketing
9 48 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (3.02%) Legal
11 42 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.28%) Front Office
14 32 (2.15%) Investment Banking
14 32 (2.15%) Local Government
15 24 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.54%) Military
16 23 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (1.41%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (16.10%) Analyst
2 223 (14.96%) Senior
3 206 (13.82%) Lead
4 186 (12.47%) Architect
5 104 (6.98%) Business Analyst
6 95 (6.37%) Project Manager
7 76 (5.10%) Developer
8 73 (4.90%) Data Analyst
9 69 (4.63%) Data Engineer
10 61 (4.09%) Consultant
11 53 (3.55%) Senior Manager
12 52 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
13 50 (3.35%) Data Scientist
13 50 (3.35%) Product Manager
14 42 (2.82%) Data Architect
15 40 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
16 32 (2.15%) Technical Leader
17 28 (1.88%) Product Owner
18 27 (1.81%) Designer
19 26 (1.74%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (5.50%) Terraform
2 42 (2.82%) Kafka
3 41 (2.75%) REST
4 31 (2.08%) React
5 24 (1.61%) PySpark
6 18 (1.21%) .NET
6 18 (1.21%) Pandas
7 16 (1.07%) RESTful
8 14 (0.94%) Spring
9 13 (0.87%) FastAPI
9 13 (0.87%) Middleware
9 13 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (0.87%) Spring Boot
10 12 (0.80%) HTML
10 12 (0.80%) OAuth
11 11 (0.74%) ATL
11 11 (0.74%) Node.js
12 9 (0.60%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.60%) NumPy
12 9 (0.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 111 (7.44%) Product Ownership
2 102 (6.84%) Cloud Native
3 69 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 60 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.88%) AI Agents
6 40 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 32 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 32 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 32 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.74%) Operational Technology
10 25 (1.68%) NHS
11 22 (1.48%) Taxonomies
12 20 (1.34%) Data Centre
12 20 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.07%) Life Science
13 16 (1.07%) Social Media
14 15 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.87%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.41%) Windows
2 18 (1.21%) Linux
3 8 (0.54%) macOS
4 6 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.40%) Unix
5 2 (0.13%) Android
5 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.13%) VMS
5 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.067%) AIX
6 1 (0.067%) Solaris
6 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (39.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 413 (27.70%) Agile
3 397 (26.63%) Analytics
4 343 (23.00%) AI
5 313 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 313 (20.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 291 (19.52%) Roadmaps
7 290 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (14.49%) Business Intelligence
9 185 (12.41%) Data Modelling
10 181 (12.14%) CI/CD
11 175 (11.74%) DevOps
12 166 (11.13%) Actionable Insight
13 154 (10.33%) Migration
14 153 (10.26%) Validation
15 146 (9.79%) Risk Management
16 142 (9.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 136 (9.12%) Data Governance
18 133 (8.92%) Data Pipeline
19 127 (8.52%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 306 (20.52%) SQL
2 271 (18.18%) Python
3 59 (3.96%) Java
4 46 (3.09%) TypeScript
5 44 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 31 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 27 (1.81%) C#
8 23 (1.54%) R
9 15 (1.01%) Bash
10 10 (0.67%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.47%) Bicep
12 6 (0.40%) C++
12 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.40%) LookML
12 6 (0.40%) Scala
12 6 (0.40%) SPARQL
12 6 (0.40%) VBA
13 5 (0.34%) Groovy
13 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 269 (18.04%) Security Cleared
2 215 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 118 (7.91%) Degree
4 50 (3.35%) PMP
5 45 (3.02%) PMI Certification
6 42 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.27%) ACCA
9 19 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.21%) CISSP
11 14 (0.94%) CIMA
11 14 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (0.80%) CISM
13 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 6 (0.40%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 83 (5.57%) PMO
3 77 (5.16%) QA
4 58 (3.89%) GDPR
5 54 (3.62%) Accessibility
6 38 (2.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 31 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.68%) NIST
9 24 (1.61%) GRC
10 11 (0.74%) IFRS
11 9 (0.60%) NCSC
12 7 (0.47%) SLA
13 6 (0.40%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.34%) SEPA
15 4 (0.27%) COREP
15 4 (0.27%) FINREP
16 3 (0.20%) GAAP
16 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (4.09%) Docker
2 22 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) IAG
6 3 (0.20%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Postfix
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.067%) Firmware
8 1 (0.067%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.067%) NFS
Systems Management
1 75 (5.03%) Kubernetes
2 13 (0.87%) Ansible
3 12 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (0.74%) Grafana
5 7 (0.47%) Kibana
6 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.27%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.20%) Rancher
8 3 (0.20%) SCCM
8 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.13%) Istio
9 2 (0.13%) Packer
9 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.067%) Argo
10 1 (0.067%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 208 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.24%) Databricks
3 50 (3.35%) Salesforce
4 45 (3.02%) Oracle
5 44 (2.95%) SAP
5 44 (2.95%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.35%) Google
7 12 (0.80%) Workday
8 11 (0.74%) Adobe
9 10 (0.67%) IBM
9 10 (0.67%) Zscaler
10 9 (0.60%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.60%) Bloomberg
10 9 (0.60%) Informatica
10 9 (0.60%) Murex
10 9 (0.60%) Splunk
11 8 (0.54%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.54%) Teradata
12 7 (0.47%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.40%) VMware