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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 52 81
Rank change year-on-year +23 +29 +8
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,331 646 508
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.69% 4.76% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 5.17% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 436 337
10th Percentile £375 £352 £282
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +1.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £663
90th Percentile £788 £763 £765
England median daily rate £525 £515 £513
% change year-on-year +1.94% +0.49% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 18
10th Percentile £27.46 £26.75 £19.02
25th Percentile £32.00 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -20.20%
75th Percentile £58.75 £51.22 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.15 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £40.27 £28.60 £18.25
% change year-on-year +40.79% +56.71% -59.44%

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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +8 188 £625 +13.64% 136
West London +12 51 £536 -0.39% 41
South London +2 20 £519 -13.58% 16
East London +5 6 £697 -10.06% 21
North London - 1 £325 - 7
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 (3.08%) Confluence
2 28 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.83%) Apache
6 10 (0.75%) nginx
7 7 (0.53%) CMS
8 5 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.23%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 2 (0.15%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.15%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 90 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 37 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.43%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.75%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.15%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.38%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.30%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 258 (19.38%) Azure
2 247 (18.56%) AWS
3 167 (12.55%) Power Platform
4 103 (7.74%) GCP
5 69 (5.18%) SaaS
6 51 (3.83%) Amazon S3
7 47 (3.53%) Snowflake
8 46 (3.46%) Serverless
9 42 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (2.10%) dbt
12 26 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (1.88%) GitHub
14 23 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (1.73%) Entra ID
15 20 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (1.28%) Power Automate
18 16 (1.20%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.20%) Firewall
1 16 (1.20%) VPN
2 14 (1.05%) DNS
3 11 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.68%) OpenVPN
4 9 (0.68%) WAN
5 8 (0.60%) Network Security
6 5 (0.38%) HTTP
6 5 (0.38%) NAS
6 5 (0.38%) SAN
6 5 (0.38%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.23%) BGP
7 3 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.23%) MPLS
7 3 (0.23%) OSPF
7 3 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.23%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.15%) DHCP
8 2 (0.15%) Intranet
8 2 (0.15%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (12.10%) Power BI
2 65 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (4.21%) Tableau
4 55 (4.13%) Metadata
5 38 (2.85%) BigQuery
6 25 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (1.73%) Big Data
7 23 (1.73%) Power Query
8 22 (1.65%) NoSQL
9 21 (1.58%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.58%) Looker
9 21 (1.58%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.28%) Oracle Database
10 17 (1.28%) SQL Server
11 14 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (0.90%) Delta Lake
12 12 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (0.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (6.39%) JIRA
2 43 (3.23%) Git
3 20 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.83%) GitLab
4 11 (0.83%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.53%) JUnit
7 5 (0.38%) MLflow
7 5 (0.38%) Mockito
8 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.30%) ERwin
8 4 (0.30%) jMock
8 4 (0.30%) Maven
9 3 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.23%) VTune
9 3 (0.23%) Xcode
10 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 482 (36.21%) Finance
2 473 (35.54%) Social Skills
3 311 (23.37%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (14.20%) Public Sector
5 143 (10.74%) Banking
6 81 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
7 71 (5.33%) Marketing
7 71 (5.33%) Retail
8 52 (3.91%) Legal
9 43 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 41 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.48%) Telecoms
13 30 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.88%) Front Office
14 25 (1.88%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.80%) Local Government
16 17 (1.28%) Billing
17 15 (1.13%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 201 (15.10%) Analyst
2 189 (14.20%) Senior
3 167 (12.55%) Lead
4 136 (10.22%) Architect
5 93 (6.99%) Business Analyst
6 90 (6.76%) Project Manager
7 89 (6.69%) Data Engineer
8 78 (5.86%) Developer
9 70 (5.26%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.98%) Data Scientist
11 45 (3.38%) Consultant
12 40 (3.01%) Product Manager
13 36 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (2.63%) Senior Manager
15 31 (2.33%) Designer
16 30 (2.25%) Product Owner
17 29 (2.18%) User Researcher
18 24 (1.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 24 (1.80%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.08%) REST
2 31 (2.33%) React
3 30 (2.25%) Kafka
4 27 (2.03%) Pandas
5 22 (1.65%) PySpark
6 19 (1.43%) Middleware
7 18 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 17 (1.28%) NumPy
8 17 (1.28%) RESTful
9 16 (1.20%) .NET
9 16 (1.20%) JSON
9 16 (1.20%) scikit-learn
10 15 (1.13%) Spring
10 15 (1.13%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.98%) Node.js
12 12 (0.90%) HTML
13 11 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (0.83%) PyTorch
14 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (0.75%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 96 (7.21%) Product Ownership
2 92 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 47 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 41 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 33 (2.48%) AI Agents
9 25 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 20 (1.50%) FMCG
13 19 (1.43%) NHS
14 18 (1.35%) PMI
15 17 (1.28%) Security Posture
15 17 (1.28%) Taxonomies
16 16 (1.20%) CMDB
17 15 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
18 14 (1.05%) Data Centre
18 14 (1.05%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.20%) Windows
2 15 (1.13%) Linux
3 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 5 (0.38%) Unix
5 3 (0.23%) VMS
5 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.15%) Android
6 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.075%) Solaris
7 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (27.80%) Agile
2 368 (27.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 328 (24.64%) Analytics
4 287 (21.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 277 (20.81%) AI
6 261 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
7 228 (17.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 223 (16.75%) Roadmaps
9 187 (14.05%) Business Intelligence
10 182 (13.67%) Data Modelling
11 172 (12.92%) CI/CD
11 172 (12.92%) DevOps
12 163 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
13 137 (10.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 133 (9.99%) Validation
15 130 (9.77%) Migration
16 127 (9.54%) Actionable Insight
17 124 (9.32%) Machine Learning
18 123 (9.24%) Data Science
19 122 (9.17%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 257 (19.31%) Python
2 255 (19.16%) SQL
3 72 (5.41%) Java
4 48 (3.61%) TypeScript
5 37 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.43%) C#
8 16 (1.20%) R
9 8 (0.60%) C++
9 8 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.53%) VBA
11 6 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.45%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.45%) Ruby
11 6 (0.45%) SPARQL
11 6 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.38%) Cypher
12 5 (0.38%) Gremlin
12 5 (0.38%) Scala
12 5 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 226 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 184 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.89%) Degree
4 52 (3.91%) PMP
5 48 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 29 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.28%) CISSP
11 14 (1.05%) ACCA
12 11 (0.83%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.75%) CISM
14 8 (0.60%) CIMA
14 8 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.38%) CBAP
16 5 (0.38%) CISA
16 5 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 91 (6.84%) PMO
3 71 (5.33%) QA
4 51 (3.83%) Accessibility
5 49 (3.68%) GDPR
6 19 (1.43%) NIST
7 16 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.90%) GRC
10 10 (0.75%) SLA
11 8 (0.60%) COREP
11 8 (0.60%) FINREP
11 8 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.45%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.30%) GAAP
14 4 (0.30%) IFRS
14 4 (0.30%) NCSC
14 4 (0.30%) SEPA
14 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (3.08%) Docker
2 18 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.68%) Squid
4 7 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.45%) IAG
6 5 (0.38%) NFS
6 5 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.23%) Postfix
8 1 (0.075%) Firmware
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.075%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (6.01%) Terraform
2 70 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.43%) Grafana
4 15 (1.13%) Ansible
4 15 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.53%) Consul
7 7 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.45%) Kibana
8 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.30%) vMotion
10 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.23%) SCCM
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) Argo
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 180 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.36%) Databricks
3 49 (3.68%) Oracle
3 49 (3.68%) SAP
4 48 (3.61%) Google
5 40 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 36 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.20%) Workday
8 14 (1.05%) Adobe
9 13 (0.98%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.83%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.75%) Murex
12 10 (0.75%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.68%) Foundry
14 8 (0.60%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.60%) GoldenSource
14 8 (0.60%) Splunk
14 8 (0.60%) Zscaler
15 7 (0.53%) CrowdStrike