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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 47 70
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 +34
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,089 581 585
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.28% 4.59% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.05% 4.99% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 380 420
10th Percentile £375 £356 £338
25th Percentile £440 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £650
90th Percentile £775 £813 £777
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 27
10th Percentile £19.35 £28.33 £19.57
25th Percentile £26.52 £29.12 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £76.60 £84.73 £52.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £30.81 £18.00
% change year-on-year +94.77% +71.14% -65.47%

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 15,445 11,632 15,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 91.83% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,343 7,889 11,364
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 166 338
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.98
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.64 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.80 £63.50 £66.83
England median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
% change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +14 158 £575 +10.05% 258
West London -15 22 £520 -16.80% 31
South London -16 19 £519 -13.58% 9
East London -1 5 £697 -10.06% 24
North London - 2 £413 - 2
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 45 (4.13%) Confluence
2 24 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.01%) nginx
6 9 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.46%) Apache
7 5 (0.46%) CMS
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) Camunda
9 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.092%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.092%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 109 (10.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (4.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (3.21%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.56%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.28%) Notion
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.18%) InVision
9 2 (0.18%) Sketch
9 2 (0.18%) Trello
10 1 (0.092%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 10 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.55%) Loan IQ
3 6 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.46%) BambooHR
5 4 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.18%) Actimize
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 221 (20.29%) Azure
2 184 (16.90%) AWS
3 174 (15.98%) Power Platform
4 89 (8.17%) GCP
5 58 (5.33%) SaaS
6 38 (3.49%) Amazon S3
6 38 (3.49%) Serverless
6 38 (3.49%) Snowflake
7 36 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 30 (2.75%) GitHub
10 29 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.47%) Collibra
13 16 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (1.38%) PaaS
15 14 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (1.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.38%) Firewall
2 12 (1.10%) DNS
2 12 (1.10%) VPN
3 11 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.73%) HTTP
5 8 (0.73%) Network Security
6 4 (0.37%) NAS
6 4 (0.37%) SAN
7 3 (0.28%) 5G
7 3 (0.28%) Broadband
7 3 (0.28%) WAN
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.18%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.18%) Internet
8 2 (0.18%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.18%) Junos
8 2 (0.18%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (15.24%) Power BI
2 66 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (4.32%) Tableau
4 42 (3.86%) Metadata
5 32 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 25 (2.30%) BigQuery
7 23 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (1.47%) Big Data
11 16 (1.47%) Looker
12 14 (1.29%) Delta Lake
12 14 (1.29%) Power Query
13 13 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.19%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.01%) MySQL
15 11 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 89 (8.17%) JIRA
2 44 (4.04%) Git
3 18 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.19%) GitLab
5 12 (1.10%) MLflow
6 10 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.55%) ERwin
8 6 (0.55%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.46%) JUnit
10 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.28%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.28%) jMock
10 3 (0.28%) Maven
10 3 (0.28%) Mockito
10 3 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.28%) Toad
11 2 (0.18%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 409 (37.56%) Social Skills
2 392 (36.00%) Finance
3 286 (26.26%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (13.87%) Public Sector
5 128 (11.75%) Banking
6 60 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
7 59 (5.42%) Marketing
8 47 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
9 46 (4.22%) Legal
10 41 (3.76%) Retail
11 37 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 26 (2.39%) Financial Institution
14 24 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (2.02%) Front Office
16 20 (1.84%) Local Government
17 19 (1.74%) Billing
18 18 (1.65%) Investment Banking
19 12 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 186 (17.08%) Analyst
2 165 (15.15%) Senior
3 118 (10.84%) Lead
4 94 (8.63%) Business Analyst
5 90 (8.26%) Architect
6 82 (7.53%) Developer
7 74 (6.80%) Data Engineer
8 67 (6.15%) Project Manager
9 60 (5.51%) Data Analyst
10 41 (3.76%) Consultant
11 34 (3.12%) Senior Manager
12 33 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (2.85%) Data Scientist
14 28 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (2.48%) User Researcher
16 26 (2.39%) Senior Data Engineer
17 24 (2.20%) Designer
18 23 (2.11%) Product Manager
19 22 (2.02%) Senior Business Analyst
20 21 (1.93%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (3.03%) Pandas
2 32 (2.94%) REST
3 24 (2.20%) NumPy
3 24 (2.20%) scikit-learn
4 23 (2.11%) Kafka
5 21 (1.93%) PySpark
5 21 (1.93%) React
6 20 (1.84%) AngularJS
7 19 (1.74%) Middleware
8 18 (1.65%) .NET
9 16 (1.47%) PyTorch
10 14 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.29%) RESTful
11 12 (1.10%) LangChain
11 12 (1.10%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.01%) Spring
12 11 (1.01%) Spring Boot
13 10 (0.92%) JSON
13 10 (0.92%) OpenID
13 10 (0.92%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.31%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 26 (2.39%) AI Agents
6 26 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 26 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.30%) Virtual Team
8 23 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.56%) PMI
10 16 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.19%) NHS
13 12 (1.10%) CMDB
13 12 (1.10%) Data Centre
13 12 (1.10%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.10%) Linux
2 11 (1.01%) Windows
3 3 (0.28%) VMS
3 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.092%) Solaris
5 1 (0.092%) Unix
5 1 (0.092%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (28.37%) Agile
2 261 (23.97%) Analytics
3 249 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
3 249 (22.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 201 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 195 (17.91%) AI
6 193 (17.72%) Business Intelligence
7 166 (15.24%) Data Modelling
8 165 (15.15%) Roadmaps
9 162 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 137 (12.58%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 132 (12.12%) CI/CD
11 132 (12.12%) DevOps
12 117 (10.74%) Actionable Insight
13 115 (10.56%) Project Management
14 114 (10.47%) Migration
15 113 (10.38%) ETL
16 112 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
17 105 (9.64%) Data Governance
17 105 (9.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 232 (21.30%) SQL
2 215 (19.74%) Python
3 52 (4.78%) Java
4 25 (2.30%) TypeScript
5 24 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (2.02%) C#
7 20 (1.84%) R
8 16 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 15 (1.38%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.92%) VBA
11 9 (0.83%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.73%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.64%) Bicep
14 6 (0.55%) C++
15 5 (0.46%) Bash
15 5 (0.46%) Scala
16 4 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.28%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 183 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 148 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 116 (10.65%) Degree
4 36 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 36 (3.31%) PMP
5 35 (3.21%) Master's Degree
5 35 (3.21%) PMI Certification
6 16 (1.47%) ACCA
6 16 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.19%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.19%) CIMA
8 13 (1.19%) CISSP
9 11 (1.01%) CBAP
9 11 (1.01%) PhD
10 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
11 9 (0.83%) CISM
11 9 (0.83%) IIBA
12 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.55%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (13.50%) Data Quality
2 66 (6.06%) PMO
3 64 (5.88%) QA
4 35 (3.21%) GDPR
5 33 (3.03%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.38%) NIST
7 13 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.10%) SLA
9 10 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.73%) GRC
10 8 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.64%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.64%) WCAG
12 5 (0.46%) COBIT
12 5 (0.46%) COREP
12 5 (0.46%) FINREP
13 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.37%) NCSC
13 4 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (2.75%) Docker
2 9 (0.83%) Squid
3 8 (0.73%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.37%) NFS
6 3 (0.28%) IAG
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.092%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (5.79%) Terraform
2 57 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.65%) Grafana
4 15 (1.38%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.83%) Ansible
6 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.73%) Consul
8 7 (0.64%) 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%) Istio
10 3 (0.28%) Kibana
11 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.18%) Argo
11 2 (0.18%) Rancher
11 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.092%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 155 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 55 (5.05%) Oracle
3 53 (4.87%) Databricks
4 48 (4.41%) SAP
5 47 (4.32%) ServiceNow
6 43 (3.95%) Google
7 36 (3.31%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.93%) Workday
9 18 (1.65%) Adobe
10 13 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.10%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.01%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.92%) Foundry
14 9 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.83%) Software AG
14 9 (0.83%) VMware
15 8 (0.73%) Planview
16 7 (0.64%) Ariba
17 6 (0.55%) Cisco
17 6 (0.55%) Informatica