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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 49 86
Rank change year-on-year +19 +37 +1
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,356 678 475
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.73% 5.00% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 5.41% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 460 308
10th Percentile £393 £356 £288
25th Percentile £456 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -8.74%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £748 £771
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 9
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.63 £28.84 £36.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% -20.54% +8.30%
75th Percentile £61.25 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.99 £54.05 £51.50
England median hourly rate £35.53 £29.48 £16.06
% change year-on-year +20.53% +83.55% -65.00%

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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £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 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +9 192 £625 +15.74% 291
West London +15 60 £575 +6.80% 82
South London 0 15 £513 -14.58% 19
East London +9 6 £660 - 17
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 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (2.65%) Confluence
3 28 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.18%) Apache
6 7 (0.52%) CMS
7 6 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.22%) Mendix
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.22%) nginx
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 34 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.29%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 266 (19.62%) Azure
2 259 (19.10%) AWS
3 179 (13.20%) Power Platform
4 104 (7.67%) GCP
5 68 (5.01%) SaaS
6 58 (4.28%) Snowflake
7 43 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (2.95%) Amazon S3
9 39 (2.88%) dbt
10 34 (2.51%) GitHub
10 34 (2.51%) Serverless
11 29 (2.14%) Entra ID
12 27 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 27 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 26 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (1.47%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (1.25%) PowerApps
18 16 (1.18%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.11%) WAN
2 14 (1.03%) Firewall
3 11 (0.81%) VPN
4 10 (0.74%) Network Security
5 7 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.44%) DNS
7 4 (0.29%) LAN
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Broadband
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) IPsec
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) SAN
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (12.83%) Power BI
2 76 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (4.20%) Tableau
4 54 (3.98%) Metadata
5 38 (2.80%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.14%) Power Query
7 26 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 25 (1.84%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.55%) Big Data
9 21 (1.55%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.47%) Looker
11 17 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (1.25%) Delta Lake
11 17 (1.25%) SQL Server
12 16 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.18%) Star Schema
13 14 (1.03%) MongoDB
13 14 (1.03%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (5.46%) JIRA
2 39 (2.88%) Git
3 24 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.88%) GitLab
5 5 (0.37%) JUnit
5 5 (0.37%) Mockito
5 5 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.29%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.29%) ERwin
6 4 (0.29%) jMock
6 4 (0.29%) Maven
6 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.22%) MLflow
7 3 (0.22%) VTune
7 3 (0.22%) Xcode
8 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 500 (36.87%) Finance
2 487 (35.91%) Social Skills
3 330 (24.34%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (14.68%) Public Sector
5 154 (11.36%) Banking
6 98 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
7 80 (5.90%) Retail
8 74 (5.46%) Marketing
9 53 (3.91%) Legal
10 45 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.14%) Investment Banking
15 28 (2.06%) Financial Institution
16 27 (1.99%) Front Office
17 25 (1.84%) Local Government
18 22 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
19 18 (1.33%) Aviation
20 15 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 211 (15.56%) Analyst
2 201 (14.82%) Senior
3 175 (12.91%) Lead
4 151 (11.14%) Architect
5 96 (7.08%) Business Analyst
6 95 (7.01%) Data Engineer
7 89 (6.56%) Project Manager
8 75 (5.53%) Developer
9 70 (5.16%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.91%) Data Scientist
11 50 (3.69%) Consultant
12 43 (3.17%) Senior Manager
13 42 (3.10%) Product Manager
14 40 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
15 38 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.21%) Data Architect
16 30 (2.21%) Designer
16 30 (2.21%) Product Owner
17 28 (2.06%) Senior Data Engineer
18 25 (1.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.02%) REST
2 35 (2.58%) Kafka
3 29 (2.14%) React
4 28 (2.06%) Pandas
4 28 (2.06%) PySpark
5 18 (1.33%) Middleware
5 18 (1.33%) NumPy
6 16 (1.18%) AngularJS
6 16 (1.18%) JSON
6 16 (1.18%) scikit-learn
7 15 (1.11%) .NET
7 15 (1.11%) RESTful
8 14 (1.03%) Spring
8 14 (1.03%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.96%) Node.js
10 12 (0.88%) HTML
11 11 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (0.66%) PyTorch
13 8 (0.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 93 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.69%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.80%) Virtual Team
7 37 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (2.43%) AI Agents
9 28 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 26 (1.92%) Data Structures
11 22 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.47%) NHS
13 19 (1.40%) FMCG
14 17 (1.25%) CMDB
14 17 (1.25%) PMI
15 16 (1.18%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.18%) Operational Technology
16 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
17 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.25%) Windows
2 16 (1.18%) Linux
3 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
3 6 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
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 10
6 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (31.34%) Stakeholder Management
2 378 (27.88%) Agile
3 350 (25.81%) Analytics
4 298 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
5 292 (21.53%) AI
6 266 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
7 243 (17.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 224 (16.52%) Roadmaps
9 198 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
10 195 (14.38%) Data Modelling
11 179 (13.20%) CI/CD
12 173 (12.76%) Data Pipeline
13 170 (12.54%) DevOps
14 140 (10.32%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 132 (9.73%) Data Engineering
16 131 (9.66%) Machine Learning
16 131 (9.66%) Validation
17 128 (9.44%) Actionable Insight
18 127 (9.37%) Data Science
19 125 (9.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 279 (20.58%) SQL
2 271 (19.99%) Python
3 70 (5.16%) Java
4 46 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (3.02%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.33%) C#
8 15 (1.11%) R
9 12 (0.88%) 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%) Ruby
12 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Cypher
13 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 222 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 173 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 102 (7.52%) Degree
4 55 (4.06%) PMP
5 50 (3.69%) PMI Certification
6 35 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 22 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.03%) ACCA
10 14 (1.03%) CISSP
11 11 (0.81%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.59%) CIMA
12 8 (0.59%) CISM
13 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.44%) PhD
15 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
15 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (14.09%) Data Quality
2 96 (7.08%) PMO
3 68 (5.01%) QA
4 45 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 45 (3.32%) GDPR
5 21 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 18 (1.33%) NIST
7 14 (1.03%) GRC
8 13 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.66%) COREP
9 9 (0.66%) FINREP
10 8 (0.59%) SLA
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.44%) IFRS
13 5 (0.37%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) SEPA
14 4 (0.29%) GAAP
14 4 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (3.69%) Docker
2 20 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
6 2 (0.15%) NFS
6 2 (0.15%) Squid
6 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (5.60%) Terraform
2 64 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.25%) Ansible
4 12 (0.88%) Grafana
4 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.44%) Kibana
8 4 (0.29%) Control-M
8 4 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 3 (0.22%) SCCM
10 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.074%) Consul
11 1 (0.074%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.074%) vMotion
Vendors
1 190 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.24%) Databricks
3 49 (3.61%) Google
4 46 (3.39%) SAP
5 45 (3.32%) Oracle
6 43 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.18%) Adobe
8 16 (1.18%) Workday
9 11 (0.81%) Murex
9 11 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.74%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.66%) GoldenSource
12 8 (0.59%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.59%) Foundry
13 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.52%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.52%) Splunk