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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 49 73
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 +26
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,176 571 527
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.40% 4.73% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.21% 5.12% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 375 363
10th Percentile £375 £363 £288
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -10.94%
75th Percentile £658 £669 £643
90th Percentile £775 £775 £760
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 24
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.25 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £34.23 £32.00 £29.16
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +9.76% -33.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.22 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.60 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.20 £19.38
% change year-on-year +52.24% +61.03% -56.94%

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 16,309 11,148 15,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.30% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,878 7,454 11,015
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £430 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 194 318
10th Percentile £18.14 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +15.18% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.98 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.73 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +9 162 £581 +5.68% 270
West London -3 36 £520 -13.33% 35
South London 0 18 £519 -13.58% 12
East London -3 5 £697 -10.06% 29
North London - 2 £413 - 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 36 (3.06%) Confluence
2 21 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.45%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.85%) nginx
6 5 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 84 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.36%) Chatbot
6 14 (1.19%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.085%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.43%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.43%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.17%) Actimize
6 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.17%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 240 (20.41%) Azure
2 196 (16.67%) AWS
3 158 (13.44%) Power Platform
4 91 (7.74%) GCP
5 73 (6.21%) SaaS
6 38 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 38 (3.23%) Serverless
7 36 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (2.98%) Snowflake
9 32 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (2.64%) GitHub
11 28 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 23 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (1.53%) Collibra
14 18 (1.53%) dbt
15 17 (1.45%) Entra ID
15 17 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.28%) VPN
2 13 (1.11%) DNS
2 13 (1.11%) Firewall
3 11 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.77%) HTTP
4 9 (0.77%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.51%) Network Security
6 4 (0.34%) NAS
6 4 (0.34%) SAN
6 4 (0.34%) WAN
7 2 (0.17%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.17%) BGP
7 2 (0.17%) Intelligent Network
7 2 (0.17%) Intranet
7 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.17%) IPsec
7 2 (0.17%) MPLS
7 2 (0.17%) OSPF
7 2 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (12.93%) Power BI
2 63 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (4.42%) Metadata
4 50 (4.25%) Tableau
5 30 (2.55%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 27 (2.30%) Data Lake
8 21 (1.79%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.62%) Looker
9 19 (1.62%) Oracle Database
9 19 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (1.62%) Power Query
10 18 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.28%) Big Data
12 14 (1.19%) Delta Lake
12 14 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (1.11%) Parquet
14 12 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 76 (6.46%) JIRA
2 38 (3.23%) Git
3 16 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.19%) GitLab
5 11 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.85%) MLflow
7 9 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.51%) ERwin
8 6 (0.51%) JUnit
8 6 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.34%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.34%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.34%) jMock
9 4 (0.34%) Maven
9 4 (0.34%) Mockito
10 3 (0.26%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.26%) Toad
11 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.17%) Selenium
11 2 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 418 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 405 (34.44%) Finance
3 273 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (13.95%) Public Sector
5 125 (10.63%) Banking
6 66 (5.61%) Marketing
7 56 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 51 (4.34%) Retail
9 48 (4.08%) Legal
10 40 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.81%) Telecoms
13 30 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (2.21%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.62%) Local Government
16 18 (1.53%) Front Office
17 16 (1.36%) Billing
17 16 (1.36%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 185 (15.73%) Analyst
2 184 (15.65%) Senior
3 143 (12.16%) Lead
4 99 (8.42%) Architect
5 88 (7.48%) Business Analyst
6 84 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 82 (6.97%) Project Manager
8 78 (6.63%) Developer
9 67 (5.70%) Data Analyst
10 53 (4.51%) Consultant
11 39 (3.32%) Data Scientist
12 36 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.98%) Product Manager
14 32 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (2.64%) Senior Manager
16 30 (2.55%) User Researcher
17 28 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
18 24 (2.04%) Technical Leader
19 23 (1.96%) Designer
19 23 (1.96%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.98%) REST
2 29 (2.47%) Pandas
3 23 (1.96%) React
4 21 (1.79%) .NET
4 21 (1.79%) Middleware
4 21 (1.79%) PySpark
5 19 (1.62%) AngularJS
5 19 (1.62%) scikit-learn
6 18 (1.53%) Kafka
6 18 (1.53%) RESTful
7 17 (1.45%) NumPy
8 16 (1.36%) Spring
8 16 (1.36%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
10 13 (1.11%) PyTorch
11 11 (0.94%) LangChain
11 11 (0.94%) Node.js
12 10 (0.85%) OpenID
12 10 (0.85%) TensorFlow
13 9 (0.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 80 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 74 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 34 (2.89%) Onboarding
4 33 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (2.72%) Virtual Team
6 28 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.45%) PMI
13 16 (1.36%) FMCG
14 15 (1.28%) NHS
15 11 (0.94%) Algorithms
16 10 (0.85%) CMDB
16 10 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.28%) Windows
2 12 (1.02%) Linux
3 4 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.34%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.26%) VMS
4 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.085%) Android
5 1 (0.085%) Solaris
5 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (26.70%) Agile
2 278 (23.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 273 (23.21%) Analytics
4 243 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
5 235 (19.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 229 (19.47%) AI
7 191 (16.24%) Roadmaps
8 188 (15.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 176 (14.97%) Business Intelligence
10 170 (14.46%) Data Modelling
11 155 (13.18%) CI/CD
12 150 (12.76%) DevOps
13 126 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
14 121 (10.29%) Actionable Insight
14 121 (10.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 120 (10.20%) Project Management
16 116 (9.86%) Migration
17 115 (9.78%) ETL
18 112 (9.52%) Data Governance
19 107 (9.10%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 237 (20.15%) SQL
2 225 (19.13%) Python
3 61 (5.19%) Java
4 38 (3.23%) TypeScript
5 29 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (1.96%) C#
7 18 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.36%) R
9 15 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.60%) VBA
11 6 (0.51%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.43%) Bicep
12 5 (0.43%) Ruby
12 5 (0.43%) Scala
12 5 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.34%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.26%) C++
15 2 (0.17%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.17%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 211 (17.94%) Security Cleared
2 173 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 105 (8.93%) Degree
4 47 (4.00%) PMP
5 41 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.45%) ACCA
10 17 (1.45%) CISSP
11 15 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.94%) CIMA
13 10 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.85%) CISM
14 8 (0.68%) CBAP
14 8 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.60%) PhD
16 6 (0.51%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 72 (6.12%) PMO
3 67 (5.70%) QA
4 39 (3.32%) GDPR
5 31 (2.64%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.70%) NIST
7 18 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.94%) GRC
9 11 (0.94%) SLA
10 10 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.60%) COREP
11 7 (0.60%) FINREP
11 7 (0.60%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.51%) GAAP
12 6 (0.51%) IFRS
13 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.43%) NCSC
14 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (2.55%) Docker
2 12 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.77%) Squid
4 7 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.34%) NFS
6 3 (0.26%) IAG
6 3 (0.26%) Postfix
6 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.17%) vSphere
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.085%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (5.95%) Terraform
2 61 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.53%) Grafana
4 14 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.85%) Ansible
7 9 (0.77%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.60%) Consul
8 7 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.43%) Kibana
11 4 (0.34%) Control-M
11 4 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (0.34%) vMotion
12 3 (0.26%) Istio
12 3 (0.26%) SCCM
13 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.17%) Argo
13 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 167 (14.20%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.85%) Oracle
3 52 (4.42%) Databricks
4 45 (3.83%) Google
5 42 (3.57%) SAP
6 39 (3.32%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.81%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.70%) Workday
9 12 (1.02%) Adobe
9 12 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.02%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.94%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.77%) Foundry
11 9 (0.77%) VMware
12 8 (0.68%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.60%) GoldenSource
13 7 (0.60%) Informatica
13 7 (0.60%) Murex
13 7 (0.60%) Software AG