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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 54 84
Rank change year-on-year +25 +30 +15
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,261 587 509
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.60% 4.62% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 5.00% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 394 347
10th Percentile £386 £358 £286
25th Percentile £450 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +2.64% -13.33%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £648
90th Percentile £775 £763 £768
England median daily rate £520 £515 £514
% change year-on-year +0.87% +0.19% -7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 20
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £19.38
25th Percentile £31.63 £28.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +26.23% -29.77%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.23 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.70 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.81 £18.25
% change year-on-year +15.34% +68.79% -57.56%

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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +7 173 £595 +8.18% 97
West London 0 42 £523 -8.20% 38
South London +7 19 £519 -13.58% 15
East London +3 6 £719 -7.23% 25
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 38 (3.01%) Confluence
2 25 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.79%) nginx
6 8 (0.63%) Apache
7 6 (0.48%) CMS
8 5 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.16%) Camunda
10 2 (0.16%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.16%) Mendix
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 88 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.59%) Chatbot
5 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.95%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.079%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.079%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.79%) 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%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 251 (19.90%) Azure
2 223 (17.68%) AWS
3 168 (13.32%) Power Platform
4 102 (8.09%) GCP
5 66 (5.23%) SaaS
6 49 (3.89%) Amazon S3
7 44 (3.49%) Serverless
8 42 (3.33%) Snowflake
9 40 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (2.62%) GitHub
12 31 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (1.74%) dbt
15 20 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (1.51%) Entra ID
17 17 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
18 15 (1.19%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.27%) Firewall
1 16 (1.27%) VPN
2 14 (1.11%) DNS
3 11 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.71%) HTTP
4 9 (0.71%) Network Security
4 9 (0.71%) OpenVPN
5 7 (0.56%) WAN
6 5 (0.40%) NAS
6 5 (0.40%) SAN
7 3 (0.24%) BGP
7 3 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.24%) MPLS
7 3 (0.24%) OSPF
7 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.24%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.16%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.16%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (12.85%) Power BI
2 68 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (4.44%) Metadata
4 55 (4.36%) Tableau
5 35 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 28 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.98%) SQL Server
9 22 (1.74%) Big Data
9 22 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 21 (1.67%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.59%) Looker
11 20 (1.59%) Power Query
12 18 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.43%) Oracle Database
13 14 (1.11%) Delta Lake
14 12 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
14 12 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 82 (6.50%) JIRA
2 41 (3.25%) Git
3 20 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.95%) GitLab
5 11 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.63%) MLflow
8 7 (0.56%) JUnit
9 6 (0.48%) ERwin
10 5 (0.40%) Mockito
11 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.32%) DbUnit
11 4 (0.32%) jMock
11 4 (0.32%) Maven
11 4 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.24%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.24%) Toad
12 3 (0.24%) VTune
12 3 (0.24%) Xcode
13 2 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 455 (36.08%) Finance
2 451 (35.77%) Social Skills
3 285 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (13.88%) Public Sector
5 132 (10.47%) Banking
6 69 (5.47%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (5.39%) Marketing
8 64 (5.08%) Retail
9 51 (4.04%) Legal
10 41 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
10 41 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 36 (2.85%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.14%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.74%) Investment Banking
15 21 (1.67%) Local Government
16 20 (1.59%) Front Office
17 16 (1.27%) Billing
18 13 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 190 (15.07%) Senior
2 189 (14.99%) Analyst
3 163 (12.93%) Lead
4 113 (8.96%) Architect
5 93 (7.38%) Data Engineer
6 92 (7.30%) Business Analyst
7 87 (6.90%) Project Manager
8 76 (6.03%) Developer
9 66 (5.23%) Data Analyst
10 50 (3.97%) Consultant
11 45 (3.57%) Data Scientist
12 40 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (2.70%) Product Manager
14 32 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (2.54%) User Researcher
15 31 (2.46%) Senior Manager
16 29 (2.30%) Technical Leader
17 26 (2.06%) Designer
17 26 (2.06%) Product Owner
18 25 (1.98%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.25%) REST
2 32 (2.54%) React
3 27 (2.14%) Pandas
4 25 (1.98%) Kafka
4 25 (1.98%) PySpark
5 22 (1.74%) Middleware
6 19 (1.51%) .NET
7 18 (1.43%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.43%) scikit-learn
8 17 (1.35%) NumPy
8 17 (1.35%) RESTful
9 15 (1.19%) JSON
9 15 (1.19%) Spring
9 15 (1.19%) Spring Boot
10 13 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
10 13 (1.03%) PyTorch
11 12 (0.95%) LangChain
11 12 (0.95%) Node.js
12 11 (0.87%) HTML
13 10 (0.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 88 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 38 (3.01%) Virtual Team
5 35 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (2.70%) AI Agents
7 31 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 26 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.51%) FMCG
11 18 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.43%) NHS
11 18 (1.43%) Taxonomies
12 17 (1.35%) PMI
12 17 (1.35%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.11%) CMDB
13 14 (1.11%) Data Centre
14 13 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.43%) Windows
2 16 (1.27%) Linux
3 6 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.32%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) VMS
6 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.079%) Solaris
8 1 (0.079%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (27.76%) Agile
2 315 (24.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 305 (24.19%) Analytics
4 264 (20.94%) AI
5 260 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 254 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (16.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 195 (15.46%) Roadmaps
9 183 (14.51%) Business Intelligence
10 180 (14.27%) Data Modelling
11 176 (13.96%) CI/CD
12 166 (13.16%) DevOps
13 152 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
14 130 (10.31%) Migration
15 128 (10.15%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 125 (9.91%) Actionable Insight
16 125 (9.91%) Data Science
17 120 (9.52%) Project Management
18 118 (9.36%) ETL
18 118 (9.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 253 (20.06%) SQL
2 250 (19.83%) Python
3 69 (5.47%) Java
4 50 (3.97%) TypeScript
5 32 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (1.90%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.67%) C#
8 16 (1.27%) R
9 11 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.63%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.63%) VBA
11 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.48%) C++
12 6 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.48%) Ruby
13 5 (0.40%) Bicep
13 5 (0.40%) Scala
13 5 (0.40%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.32%) Rust
14 4 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 217 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 179 (14.20%) SC Cleared
3 111 (8.80%) Degree
4 50 (3.97%) PMP
5 45 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.35%) ACCA
11 16 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.27%) CISSP
12 11 (0.87%) CIMA
13 9 (0.71%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.71%) CISM
14 8 (0.63%) CBAP
14 8 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.48%) IIBA
16 6 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (13.80%) Data Quality
2 81 (6.42%) PMO
3 66 (5.23%) QA
4 44 (3.49%) Accessibility
5 42 (3.33%) GDPR
6 19 (1.51%) NIST
7 16 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.87%) GRC
8 11 (0.87%) SLA
9 10 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.56%) COREP
11 7 (0.56%) FINREP
11 7 (0.56%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.48%) GAAP
12 6 (0.48%) IFRS
12 6 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.32%) NCSC
13 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (2.93%) Docker
2 15 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.71%) Squid
4 5 (0.40%) NFS
4 5 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.24%) IAG
5 3 (0.24%) Postfix
5 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.079%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (6.34%) Terraform
2 65 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.51%) Grafana
4 15 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.11%) Ansible
6 12 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.56%) Consul
8 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.48%) 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%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 184 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.68%) Databricks
3 54 (4.28%) Oracle
4 47 (3.73%) Google
5 43 (3.41%) SAP
6 39 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.85%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.59%) Workday
9 13 (1.03%) Adobe
9 13 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.95%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.87%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.71%) Foundry
12 9 (0.71%) Murex
13 8 (0.63%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.63%) Splunk
14 7 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.56%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.56%) Informatica
14 7 (0.56%) VMware