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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 47 94
Rank change year-on-year +18 +47 -6
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,467 688 450
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.24% 5.10% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 5.50% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 460 271
10th Percentile £371 £355 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £661 £686
90th Percentile £800 £771 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 6
10th Percentile £24.60 £18.25 £31.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £29.91 £33.44
Median hourly rate £33.37 £32.73 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -18.18% +3.45%
75th Percentile £62.88 £44.10 £47.50
90th Percentile £68.59 £49.13 £53.13
England median hourly rate £54.40 £31.35 £39.68
% change year-on-year +73.55% -21.01% -13.51%

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 17,999 12,504 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.62% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,775 8,251 9,455
10th Percentile £358 £333 £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 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 245 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.35 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +17 216 £625 +13.64% 389
West London +19 70 £719 +36.90% 140
South London +1 13 £650 +4.00% 40
East London +8 6 £613 +6.52% 24
North London 0 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 42 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.73%) Confluence
3 30 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 26 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.02%) Apache
6 5 (0.34%) CMS
7 4 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.27%) Mendix
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.068%) Appian
10 1 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.068%) IIS
10 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 96 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.41%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.14%) Productboard
9 1 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.14%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.068%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 263 (17.93%) Azure
2 257 (17.52%) AWS
3 183 (12.47%) Power Platform
4 84 (5.73%) GCP
5 71 (4.84%) Snowflake
6 61 (4.16%) SaaS
7 55 (3.75%) dbt
8 42 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (2.45%) Amazon S3
9 36 (2.45%) GitHub
10 33 (2.25%) Serverless
11 28 (1.91%) Entra ID
12 25 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.23%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (1.23%) OCI
17 17 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.02%) WAN
2 13 (0.89%) Network Security
3 12 (0.82%) Firewall
4 11 (0.75%) Broadband
5 8 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.48%) VPN
7 5 (0.34%) LAN
8 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
8 4 (0.27%) IPsec
8 4 (0.27%) Modbus
8 4 (0.27%) MPLS
8 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.20%) BGP
9 3 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.20%) OSPF
9 3 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.20%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.20%) X.509
10 2 (0.14%) DNS
10 2 (0.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (12.00%) Power BI
2 72 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (3.89%) Metadata
4 55 (3.75%) Tableau
5 35 (2.39%) BigQuery
6 33 (2.25%) Power Query
7 28 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 27 (1.84%) Data Lake
9 25 (1.70%) Delta Lake
10 24 (1.64%) Looker
11 21 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.23%) Big Data
13 17 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
13 17 (1.16%) Star Schema
14 16 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.09%) Data Vault
14 16 (1.09%) DynamoDB
15 15 (1.02%) NoSQL
15 15 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (3.89%) JIRA
2 44 (3.00%) Git
3 24 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.61%) GitLab
5 8 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.41%) JUnit
7 5 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.20%) Maven
8 3 (0.20%) Mockito
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.20%) VTune
8 3 (0.20%) Xcode
9 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.14%) ERwin
9 2 (0.14%) jMock
9 2 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 569 (38.79%) Social Skills
2 496 (33.81%) Finance
3 360 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (15.68%) Public Sector
5 168 (11.45%) Banking
6 128 (8.73%) Influencing Skills
7 90 (6.13%) Retail
8 74 (5.04%) Marketing
9 49 (3.34%) Legal
10 47 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 38 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.45%) Front Office
13 36 (2.45%) Local Government
14 33 (2.25%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.57%) Telecoms
16 20 (1.36%) Aviation
16 20 (1.36%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.30%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 236 (16.09%) Analyst
2 220 (15.00%) Senior
3 203 (13.84%) Lead
4 186 (12.68%) Architect
5 102 (6.95%) Business Analyst
6 84 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 75 (5.11%) Developer
8 74 (5.04%) Data Engineer
9 70 (4.77%) Data Analyst
10 62 (4.23%) Consultant
11 51 (3.48%) Data Scientist
12 46 (3.14%) Product Manager
12 46 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (3.07%) Senior Manager
14 44 (3.00%) Data Architect
15 42 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
16 32 (2.18%) Technical Leader
17 28 (1.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 28 (1.91%) Designer
18 27 (1.84%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (5.73%) Terraform
2 40 (2.73%) Kafka
3 38 (2.59%) REST
4 32 (2.18%) React
5 27 (1.84%) PySpark
6 20 (1.36%) Pandas
7 16 (1.09%) .NET
8 15 (1.02%) RESTful
8 15 (1.02%) Spring
9 14 (0.95%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.89%) HTML
10 13 (0.89%) Middleware
10 13 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (0.82%) FastAPI
12 11 (0.75%) ATL
12 11 (0.75%) Node.js
12 11 (0.75%) OAuth
13 10 (0.68%) LangChain
13 10 (0.68%) NumPy
14 9 (0.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 104 (7.09%) Product Ownership
2 99 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 70 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 57 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.59%) AI Agents
7 35 (2.39%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 29 (1.98%) Data Structures
10 24 (1.64%) NHS
10 24 (1.64%) Operational Technology
11 20 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.36%) Taxonomies
12 19 (1.30%) Data Centre
13 16 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.02%) Social Media
15 14 (0.95%) CMDB
16 13 (0.89%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.23%) Windows
2 16 (1.09%) Linux
3 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.41%) Unix
5 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (37.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 406 (27.68%) Agile
3 393 (26.79%) Analytics
4 334 (22.77%) AI
5 309 (21.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 298 (20.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 297 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
8 276 (18.81%) Roadmaps
9 210 (14.31%) Business Intelligence
10 191 (13.02%) Data Modelling
11 181 (12.34%) CI/CD
12 170 (11.59%) DevOps
13 155 (10.57%) Validation
14 151 (10.29%) Actionable Insight
15 142 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
16 141 (9.61%) Migration
17 140 (9.54%) Risk Management
18 138 (9.41%) Data Governance
19 136 (9.27%) Data-Driven Decision Making
20 131 (8.93%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 300 (20.45%) SQL
2 266 (18.13%) Python
3 63 (4.29%) Java
4 46 (3.14%) TypeScript
5 45 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 29 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 25 (1.70%) C#
8 20 (1.36%) R
9 15 (1.02%) Bash
10 10 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.55%) Scala
12 7 (0.48%) Bicep
12 7 (0.48%) VBA
13 6 (0.41%) C++
13 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.41%) SPARQL
13 6 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.34%) Cypher
14 5 (0.34%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 256 (17.45%) Security Cleared
2 199 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 111 (7.57%) Degree
4 52 (3.54%) PMP
5 47 (3.20%) PMI Certification
6 38 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.30%) ACCA
7 19 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.23%) CISSP
8 18 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (0.89%) CIMA
11 11 (0.75%) CISM
12 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (14.45%) Data Quality
2 82 (5.59%) PMO
3 72 (4.91%) QA
4 57 (3.89%) GDPR
5 51 (3.48%) Accessibility
6 32 (2.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 31 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.77%) NIST
9 22 (1.50%) GRC
10 11 (0.75%) IFRS
11 9 (0.61%) NCSC
12 8 (0.55%) SLA
13 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.34%) SEPA
15 4 (0.27%) COREP
15 4 (0.27%) FINREP
16 3 (0.20%) GAAP
16 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (4.09%) Docker
2 22 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) IAG
4 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) vSphere
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.068%) Firmware
7 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.068%) NFS
Systems Management
1 75 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.95%) Ansible
3 12 (0.82%) Grafana
3 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.48%) Kibana
5 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Control-M
6 4 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.20%) Istio
7 3 (0.20%) Rancher
7 3 (0.20%) SCCM
7 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.14%) Packer
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 207 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.27%) Databricks
3 45 (3.07%) Salesforce
3 45 (3.07%) ServiceNow
4 43 (2.93%) SAP
5 42 (2.86%) Oracle
6 38 (2.59%) Google
7 15 (1.02%) Workday
8 12 (0.82%) Adobe
9 10 (0.68%) Zscaler
10 9 (0.61%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.61%) Bloomberg
10 9 (0.61%) IBM
10 9 (0.61%) Informatica
10 9 (0.61%) Murex
10 9 (0.61%) Splunk
11 7 (0.48%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.48%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.48%) Teradata
12 6 (0.41%) VMware