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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 51 89
Rank change year-on-year +21 +38 +3
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,354 668 457
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.75% 4.99% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 5.40% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 447 286
10th Percentile £390 £341 £300
25th Percentile £460 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £745 £772
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 10
10th Percentile £26.25 £26.86 £34.75
25th Percentile £26.52 £30.91 £37.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.23 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -27.94% +8.30%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.99 £53.25 £50.75
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.49 £21.50
% change year-on-year +12.83% +46.47% -53.14%

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 17,874 12,372 14,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.51% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,225 9,980
10th Percentile £360 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 190
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.78% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +10 185 £625 +16.28% 214
West London +14 63 £625 +19.05% 124
South London -10 8 £550 -8.33% 14
East London +7 5 £600 +4.35% 15
North London -2 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 35 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
1 35 (2.58%) Confluence
2 26 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 26 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.18%) Apache
4 6 (0.44%) CMS
5 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.30%) Camunda
6 4 (0.30%) HCL Notes
6 4 (0.30%) SAS
7 3 (0.22%) Mendix
7 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 86 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.89%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) Actimize
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.074%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 257 (18.98%) Azure
2 250 (18.46%) AWS
3 174 (12.85%) Power Platform
4 94 (6.94%) GCP
5 70 (5.17%) SaaS
6 61 (4.51%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (3.18%) dbt
9 35 (2.58%) GitHub
10 34 (2.51%) Amazon S3
11 30 (2.22%) Serverless
12 27 (1.99%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 21 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (1.33%) OCI
18 17 (1.26%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.26%) Power Automate
19 15 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.18%) WAN
2 12 (0.89%) Firewall
3 11 (0.81%) Network Security
4 10 (0.74%) VPN
5 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.37%) Broadband
6 5 (0.37%) DNS
6 5 (0.37%) LAN
7 4 (0.30%) IPsec
7 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.22%) X.509
9 2 (0.15%) DHCP
9 2 (0.15%) Modbus
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (12.48%) Power BI
2 74 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.51%) Metadata
4 53 (3.91%) Tableau
5 37 (2.73%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.14%) Power Query
7 26 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 25 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.77%) Data Lake
10 23 (1.70%) NoSQL
11 22 (1.62%) Big Data
12 21 (1.55%) Looker
13 19 (1.40%) Delta Lake
14 18 (1.33%) SQL Server
15 17 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (1.18%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.18%) Star Schema
17 15 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
18 14 (1.03%) Oracle Database
19 12 (0.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 65 (4.80%) JIRA
2 34 (2.51%) Git
3 22 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.81%) GitLab
5 4 (0.30%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.30%) ERwin
5 4 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.22%) JUnit
6 3 (0.22%) Mockito
6 3 (0.22%) VTune
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) jMock
7 2 (0.15%) Maven
7 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
7 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 501 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 481 (35.52%) Finance
3 325 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (14.62%) Public Sector
5 159 (11.74%) Banking
6 105 (7.75%) Influencing Skills
7 80 (5.91%) Retail
8 76 (5.61%) Marketing
9 56 (4.14%) Legal
10 43 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 38 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.14%) Local Government
15 28 (2.07%) Front Office
15 28 (2.07%) Investment Banking
16 26 (1.92%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.40%) Aviation
19 17 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 219 (16.17%) Analyst
2 202 (14.92%) Senior
3 174 (12.85%) Lead
4 163 (12.04%) Architect
5 99 (7.31%) Business Analyst
6 86 (6.35%) Data Engineer
7 84 (6.20%) Project Manager
8 70 (5.17%) Developer
9 67 (4.95%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.84%) Data Scientist
11 51 (3.77%) Consultant
12 45 (3.32%) Senior Manager
13 43 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
14 39 (2.88%) Product Manager
15 38 (2.81%) Data Architect
15 38 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.14%) Designer
17 28 (2.07%) Product Owner
17 28 (2.07%) Senior Data Engineer
18 25 (1.85%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (5.83%) Terraform
2 42 (3.10%) REST
3 34 (2.51%) Kafka
4 30 (2.22%) React
5 28 (2.07%) PySpark
6 22 (1.62%) Pandas
7 18 (1.33%) Middleware
8 15 (1.11%) JSON
9 14 (1.03%) RESTful
9 14 (1.03%) Spring
9 14 (1.03%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.96%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.89%) .NET
11 12 (0.89%) HTML
11 12 (0.89%) Node.js
11 12 (0.89%) NumPy
11 12 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
12 11 (0.81%) scikit-learn
13 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 99 (7.31%) Cloud Native
3 54 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 41 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.66%) AI Agents
7 34 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.36%) Virtual Team
9 26 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 22 (1.62%) NHS
12 21 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.33%) FMCG
14 17 (1.26%) CMDB
14 17 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.26%) PMI
15 16 (1.18%) Operational Technology
16 15 (1.11%) Taxonomies
17 13 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
18 12 (0.89%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.26%) Windows
2 15 (1.11%) Linux
3 6 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.074%) Solaris
6 1 (0.074%) VMS
6 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (32.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 374 (27.62%) Agile
3 357 (26.37%) Analytics
4 302 (22.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 297 (21.94%) AI
6 269 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
7 256 (18.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 231 (17.06%) Roadmaps
9 195 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
9 195 (14.40%) Data Modelling
10 179 (13.22%) CI/CD
11 172 (12.70%) DevOps
12 154 (11.37%) Data Pipeline
13 137 (10.12%) Validation
14 135 (9.97%) Actionable Insight
15 130 (9.60%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 128 (9.45%) Data Governance
17 127 (9.38%) Data Engineering
18 126 (9.31%) Migration
19 120 (8.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 275 (20.31%) SQL
2 261 (19.28%) Python
3 70 (5.17%) Java
4 46 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 27 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.33%) R
8 15 (1.11%) C#
9 11 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.59%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) C++
10 8 (0.59%) VBA
11 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.44%) Bicep
12 6 (0.44%) Ruby
12 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 228 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 173 (12.78%) SC Cleared
3 104 (7.68%) Degree
4 54 (3.99%) PMP
5 49 (3.62%) PMI Certification
6 34 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.26%) ACCA
9 17 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.89%) CISSP
11 11 (0.81%) CIMA
12 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.52%) CISM
14 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.44%) PhD
14 6 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (13.88%) Data Quality
2 84 (6.20%) PMO
3 67 (4.95%) QA
4 47 (3.47%) GDPR
5 44 (3.25%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 20 (1.48%) NIST
8 14 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.96%) GRC
10 8 (0.59%) COREP
10 8 (0.59%) FINREP
10 8 (0.59%) IFRS
10 8 (0.59%) SLA
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.37%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) SEPA
13 4 (0.30%) GAAP
14 3 (0.22%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (3.62%) Docker
2 18 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 2 (0.15%) Postfix
5 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.074%) Firmware
6 1 (0.074%) NFS
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.074%) Squid
6 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.33%) Ansible
3 11 (0.81%) Grafana
3 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.44%) Kibana
6 5 (0.37%) Control-M
7 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.22%) Istio
8 3 (0.22%) SCCM
9 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.074%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.074%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 190 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.83%) Databricks
3 48 (3.55%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.40%) Oracle
5 45 (3.32%) SAP
6 42 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 41 (3.03%) Google
8 16 (1.18%) Workday
9 13 (0.96%) Adobe
10 12 (0.89%) Murex
11 11 (0.81%) Zscaler
12 8 (0.59%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.59%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.59%) Foundry
12 8 (0.59%) GoldenSource
12 8 (0.59%) Informatica
12 8 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.52%) Teradata
14 6 (0.44%) CrowdStrike