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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 50 87
Rank change year-on-year +21 +37 +7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,405 644 454
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.00% 4.87% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.86% 5.27% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 426 280
10th Percentile £393 £338 £300
25th Percentile £463 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -4.55% -6.18%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £750 £775
England median daily rate £537 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +4.78% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 7
10th Percentile £26.25 £28.40 £34.75
25th Percentile £26.52 £31.09 £38.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.23 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -27.94% +8.30%
75th Percentile £56.63 £47.31 £49.38
90th Percentile £70.99 £51.10 £53.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.29% -9.60% -25.04%

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 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +14 198 £625 +13.64% 317
West London +19 72 £675 +28.57% 128
South London -6 9 £600 - 33
East London +7 6 £600 +4.35% 19
North London +1 1 £550 -15.38% 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 37 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.49%) Confluence
3 25 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.14%) Apache
6 6 (0.43%) CMS
7 5 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.28%) Camunda
8 4 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.28%) SAS
9 3 (0.21%) Mendix
9 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.071%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.071%) IIS
11 1 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.071%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (0.78%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.50%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Endur
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.14%) Actimize
6 2 (0.14%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.14%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.071%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.071%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.071%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 265 (18.86%) AWS
2 263 (18.72%) Azure
3 170 (12.10%) Power Platform
4 88 (6.26%) GCP
5 66 (4.70%) SaaS
6 63 (4.48%) Snowflake
7 48 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (3.13%) dbt
9 40 (2.85%) GitHub
10 34 (2.42%) Amazon S3
10 34 (2.42%) Serverless
11 27 (1.92%) Entra ID
12 25 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 23 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (1.35%) OCI
15 18 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
15 18 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.14%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.07%) WAN
2 12 (0.85%) Firewall
2 12 (0.85%) Network Security
3 9 (0.64%) Broadband
3 9 (0.64%) VPN
4 8 (0.57%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.36%) DNS
5 5 (0.36%) LAN
6 4 (0.28%) IPsec
6 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.21%) BGP
7 3 (0.21%) Cisco IPT
7 3 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.21%) Modbus
7 3 (0.21%) MPLS
7 3 (0.21%) OSPF
7 3 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.21%) X.509
8 2 (0.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (11.67%) Power BI
2 72 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (4.70%) Metadata
4 49 (3.49%) Tableau
5 32 (2.28%) BigQuery
6 31 (2.21%) Power Query
7 27 (1.92%) Data Lake
8 26 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.71%) Delta Lake
10 21 (1.49%) Looker
11 20 (1.42%) NoSQL
11 20 (1.42%) SQL Server
12 19 (1.35%) Big Data
13 18 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 16 (1.14%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (1.00%) Oracle Database
16 13 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 63 (4.48%) JIRA
2 40 (2.85%) Git
3 23 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.93%) GitLab
5 5 (0.36%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.28%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.28%) ERwin
7 3 (0.21%) JUnit
7 3 (0.21%) MLflow
7 3 (0.21%) Mockito
7 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.21%) VTune
7 3 (0.21%) Xcode
8 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.14%) jMock
8 2 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.14%) REST Assured
General
1 536 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 491 (34.95%) Finance
3 355 (25.27%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (14.88%) Public Sector
5 161 (11.46%) Banking
6 122 (8.68%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (5.84%) Retail
8 76 (5.41%) Marketing
9 50 (3.56%) Legal
10 42 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (2.28%) Local Government
14 31 (2.21%) Investment Banking
15 29 (2.06%) Front Office
16 26 (1.85%) Telecoms
17 25 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
17 25 (1.78%) Financial Institution
18 21 (1.49%) Aviation
19 17 (1.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 227 (16.16%) Analyst
2 218 (15.52%) Senior
3 186 (13.24%) Lead
4 168 (11.96%) Architect
5 100 (7.12%) Business Analyst
6 84 (5.98%) Project Manager
7 83 (5.91%) Data Engineer
8 67 (4.77%) Data Analyst
9 62 (4.41%) Developer
10 54 (3.84%) Data Scientist
11 53 (3.77%) Consultant
12 49 (3.49%) Senior Manager
13 46 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
14 42 (2.99%) Product Manager
15 41 (2.92%) Data Architect
16 39 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (2.21%) Designer
18 28 (1.99%) Senior Data Engineer
18 28 (1.99%) Technical Leader
19 27 (1.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.19%) Terraform
2 39 (2.78%) REST
3 35 (2.49%) Kafka
4 30 (2.14%) React
5 27 (1.92%) PySpark
6 22 (1.57%) Pandas
7 17 (1.21%) Middleware
8 15 (1.07%) Spring
9 14 (1.00%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.93%) .NET
10 13 (0.93%) HTML
10 13 (0.93%) Node.js
11 12 (0.85%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.85%) JSON
11 12 (0.85%) NumPy
11 12 (0.85%) RESTful
12 11 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (0.71%) LangChain
13 10 (0.71%) scikit-learn
14 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 101 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 96 (6.83%) Cloud Native
3 61 (4.34%) Onboarding
4 50 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 41 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.56%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 28 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.78%) NHS
11 22 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.42%) Operational Technology
13 17 (1.21%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.21%) FMCG
13 17 (1.21%) Taxonomies
14 16 (1.14%) CMDB
15 14 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.00%) PMI
16 13 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.28%) Windows
2 15 (1.07%) Linux
3 8 (0.57%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.43%) Unix
5 5 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.071%) Solaris
7 1 (0.071%) VMS
7 1 (0.071%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 393 (27.97%) Agile
3 367 (26.12%) Analytics
4 316 (22.49%) AI
5 307 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 291 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
7 276 (19.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 245 (17.44%) Roadmaps
9 193 (13.74%) Data Modelling
10 190 (13.52%) Business Intelligence
11 180 (12.81%) CI/CD
12 178 (12.67%) DevOps
13 148 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
14 141 (10.04%) Actionable Insight
15 139 (9.89%) Validation
16 137 (9.75%) Data Governance
17 135 (9.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 131 (9.32%) Machine Learning
19 127 (9.04%) Data Engineering
20 126 (8.97%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 278 (19.79%) SQL
2 273 (19.43%) Python
3 70 (4.98%) Java
4 44 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 44 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 29 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.42%) C#
7 18 (1.28%) R
8 13 (0.93%) Bash
9 10 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.57%) VBA
11 7 (0.50%) Bicep
11 7 (0.50%) C++
11 7 (0.50%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.50%) Scala
12 6 (0.43%) Ruby
12 6 (0.43%) SPARQL
12 6 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.36%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 240 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 183 (13.02%) SC Cleared
3 108 (7.69%) Degree
4 53 (3.77%) PMP
5 48 (3.42%) PMI Certification
6 37 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.35%) ACCA
10 17 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (1.07%) CISSP
12 13 (0.93%) CIMA
13 12 (0.85%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.57%) CISM
15 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 5 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
17 5 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 87 (6.19%) PMO
3 70 (4.98%) QA
4 51 (3.63%) GDPR
5 46 (3.27%) Accessibility
6 26 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 23 (1.64%) NIST
8 20 (1.42%) GRC
8 20 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.71%) IFRS
10 9 (0.64%) SLA
11 8 (0.57%) COREP
11 8 (0.57%) FINREP
12 7 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.36%) NCSC
13 5 (0.36%) SEPA
14 4 (0.28%) GAAP
15 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (4.13%) Docker
2 19 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.50%) IAG
5 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.071%) Firmware
7 1 (0.071%) NFS
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.071%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.071%) Squid
7 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.071%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.00%) Ansible
3 12 (0.85%) Grafana
4 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.43%) Kibana
7 5 (0.36%) Control-M
8 4 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.21%) Istio
9 3 (0.21%) SCCM
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Puppet
11 1 (0.071%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.071%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.071%) Argo
11 1 (0.071%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.071%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.071%) Rancher
11 1 (0.071%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 194 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.77%) Databricks
3 48 (3.42%) ServiceNow
4 45 (3.20%) Oracle
4 45 (3.20%) SAP
5 43 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 38 (2.70%) Google
7 13 (0.93%) Adobe
7 13 (0.93%) Workday
8 11 (0.78%) Informatica
9 10 (0.71%) Murex
9 10 (0.71%) Zscaler
10 9 (0.64%) OpenAI
10 9 (0.64%) Splunk
11 8 (0.57%) Amplitude
11 8 (0.57%) Bloomberg
11 8 (0.57%) Foundry
11 8 (0.57%) GoldenSource
12 7 (0.50%) Anaplan
12 7 (0.50%) Dynatrace