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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 72
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 +27
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,126 585 566
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.32% 4.65% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.16% 5.04% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 381 398
10th Percentile £375 £356 £313
25th Percentile £435 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £643
90th Percentile £775 £800 £763
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 25
10th Percentile £26.52 £27.80 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.25 £28.60 £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 £52.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.60 £75.13 £53.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £31.08 £18.25
% change year-on-year +85.04% +70.27% -64.61%

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 15,734 11,596 15,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.34% 92.21% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,510 7,857 11,214
10th Percentile £356 £350 £341
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 178 313
10th Percentile £18.61 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £24.65 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +14 161 £575 +5.50% 278
West London -6 33 £520 -16.80% 43
South London -2 18 £519 -13.58% 7
East London -3 5 £697 -10.06% 35
North London - 2 £413 - 4
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 41 (3.64%) Confluence
2 23 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.89%) nginx
5 5 (0.44%) Apache
5 5 (0.44%) CMS
5 5 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.18%) Camunda
8 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.18%) Mendix
8 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.18%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 100 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.84%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.69%) MS Visio
6 15 (1.33%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) 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 (0.089%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.089%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.53%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.44%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.36%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.27%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.18%) Actimize
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 221 (19.63%) Azure
2 188 (16.70%) AWS
3 164 (14.56%) Power Platform
4 90 (7.99%) GCP
5 70 (6.22%) SaaS
6 39 (3.46%) Serverless
7 38 (3.37%) Amazon S3
8 37 (3.29%) Snowflake
9 36 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (2.66%) GitHub
12 28 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 21 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (1.60%) Collibra
16 17 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 15 (1.33%) Dagster
17 15 (1.33%) dbt
17 15 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.33%) Firewall
2 13 (1.15%) DNS
2 13 (1.15%) VPN
3 11 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.80%) HTTP
4 9 (0.80%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.71%) Network Security
6 4 (0.36%) NAS
6 4 (0.36%) SAN
7 3 (0.27%) Internet
7 3 (0.27%) WAN
8 2 (0.18%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.18%) DMZ
8 2 (0.18%) Intranet
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
1 157 (13.94%) Power BI
2 64 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.44%) Tableau
4 46 (4.09%) Metadata
5 30 (2.66%) BigQuery
5 30 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.60%) Looker
7 18 (1.60%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.51%) Big Data
8 17 (1.51%) Oracle Database
8 17 (1.51%) Power Query
9 16 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.33%) Delta Lake
10 15 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.15%) Parquet
12 12 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 86 (7.64%) JIRA
2 40 (3.55%) Git
3 17 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.15%) GitLab
5 12 (1.07%) MLflow
6 10 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.53%) ERwin
8 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.44%) JUnit
10 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.27%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.27%) jMock
10 3 (0.27%) Maven
10 3 (0.27%) Mockito
10 3 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.27%) Toad
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) Selenium
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 409 (36.32%) Social Skills
2 404 (35.88%) Finance
3 278 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (13.59%) Public Sector
5 133 (11.81%) Banking
6 61 (5.42%) Marketing
7 59 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
8 47 (4.17%) Legal
9 45 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (3.64%) Retail
11 37 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.84%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (2.22%) Financial Institution
13 25 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 22 (1.95%) Local Government
15 19 (1.69%) Billing
16 18 (1.60%) Front Office
17 16 (1.42%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 196 (17.41%) Analyst
2 169 (15.01%) Senior
3 124 (11.01%) Lead
4 96 (8.53%) Business Analyst
5 94 (8.35%) Architect
6 76 (6.75%) Project Manager
7 75 (6.66%) Data Engineer
7 75 (6.66%) Developer
8 65 (5.77%) Data Analyst
9 49 (4.35%) Consultant
10 35 (3.11%) Data Scientist
10 35 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
11 32 (2.84%) Senior Manager
12 31 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (2.49%) Product Manager
14 25 (2.22%) User Researcher
15 24 (2.13%) Designer
15 24 (2.13%) Senior Data Engineer
16 22 (1.95%) Programme Manager
16 22 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.66%) Pandas
1 30 (2.66%) REST
2 20 (1.78%) Middleware
2 20 (1.78%) NumPy
3 19 (1.69%) PySpark
4 18 (1.60%) .NET
4 18 (1.60%) React
4 18 (1.60%) scikit-learn
5 17 (1.51%) Kafka
6 15 (1.33%) AngularJS
6 15 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (1.24%) PyTorch
7 14 (1.24%) RESTful
8 13 (1.15%) Spring
8 13 (1.15%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.07%) LangChain
10 10 (0.89%) HTML
10 10 (0.89%) OpenID
10 10 (0.89%) TensorFlow
11 9 (0.80%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.39%) Cloud Native
2 60 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.40%) AI Agents
4 27 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 25 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 24 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.60%) PMI
10 16 (1.42%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.15%) FMCG
11 13 (1.15%) NHS
12 11 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 11 (0.98%) CMDB
12 11 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.07%) Linux
1 12 (1.07%) Windows
2 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
2 3 (0.27%) VMS
2 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.18%) Unix
4 1 (0.089%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.089%) Solaris
4 1 (0.089%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (27.09%) Agile
2 261 (23.18%) Analytics
3 256 (22.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 242 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
5 215 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 206 (18.29%) AI
7 184 (16.34%) Business Intelligence
8 172 (15.28%) Roadmaps
9 170 (15.10%) Data Modelling
10 169 (15.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 142 (12.61%) DevOps
12 139 (12.34%) CI/CD
13 127 (11.28%) Project Management
14 122 (10.83%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 119 (10.57%) Actionable Insight
16 117 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
16 117 (10.39%) Migration
17 114 (10.12%) ETL
18 109 (9.68%) Data Governance
19 101 (8.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 234 (20.78%) SQL
2 215 (19.09%) Python
3 54 (4.80%) Java
4 28 (2.49%) TypeScript
5 26 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (2.13%) C#
7 21 (1.87%) R
8 17 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.42%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.98%) VBA
11 6 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.53%) Scala
11 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.44%) Bicep
12 5 (0.44%) C++
13 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.36%) Ruby
14 3 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.27%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 189 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 151 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.95%) Degree
4 46 (4.09%) PMP
5 42 (3.73%) PMI Certification
6 32 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (2.84%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.51%) ACCA
10 15 (1.33%) CISSP
11 13 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.07%) CBAP
13 11 (0.98%) CIMA
14 10 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.80%) CISM
15 9 (0.80%) IIBA
15 9 (0.80%) PhD
16 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (0.53%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (13.94%) Data Quality
2 73 (6.48%) PMO
3 68 (6.04%) QA
4 37 (3.29%) GDPR
5 30 (2.66%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.60%) NIST
7 16 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.98%) SLA
10 8 (0.71%) GRC
10 8 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.53%) COREP
11 6 (0.53%) FINREP
11 6 (0.53%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.53%) WCAG
12 5 (0.44%) COBIT
12 5 (0.44%) GAAP
12 5 (0.44%) IFRS
13 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 31 (2.75%) Docker
2 9 (0.80%) Squid
3 8 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) NFS
6 3 (0.27%) IAG
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.089%) HDFS
8 1 (0.089%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (5.60%) Terraform
2 59 (5.24%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.60%) Grafana
4 15 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.89%) Ansible
7 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.62%) Consul
8 7 (0.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.44%) Kibana
10 4 (0.36%) Control-M
10 4 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.36%) vMotion
11 3 (0.27%) Istio
12 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.18%) Argo
12 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.089%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 162 (14.39%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.33%) Oracle
3 52 (4.62%) Databricks
4 50 (4.44%) SAP
5 43 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 42 (3.73%) Google
7 39 (3.46%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.87%) Workday
9 18 (1.60%) Adobe
10 12 (1.07%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.98%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.80%) Foundry
12 9 (0.80%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.80%) Software AG
12 9 (0.80%) VMware
13 7 (0.62%) Planview
14 6 (0.53%) Cisco
14 6 (0.53%) GoldenSource
14 6 (0.53%) Murex