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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 50 66
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 +34
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,017 566 590
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.11% 4.47% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 4.89% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 376 429
10th Percentile £370 £350 £349
25th Percentile £431 £414 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -10.83%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £645
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 27
10th Percentile - £28.32 £19.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.75 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £47.25 £53.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £76.13 £58.55 £54.25
England median hourly rate £56.25 £30.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% +62.16% -64.51%

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 14,942 11,579 15,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.72% 91.43% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,023 7,821 11,436
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +14.75% -21.79%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +14 144 £560 +7.69% 261
South London -16 18 £519 -13.58% 11
West London -15 15 £518 -17.20% 36
East London -2 4 £719 -7.23% 24
North London - 2 £413 - 1
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 48 (4.72%) Confluence
2 24 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.98%) nginx
6 5 (0.49%) Apache
6 5 (0.49%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.39%) CMS
8 3 (0.29%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.098%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.098%) SAS
Applications
1 114 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.97%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.67%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.29%) Notion
8 3 (0.29%) Trello
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) InVision
9 2 (0.20%) Sketch
10 1 (0.098%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 9 (0.88%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.49%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.29%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.29%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 214 (21.04%) Azure
2 179 (17.60%) Power Platform
3 165 (16.22%) AWS
4 77 (7.57%) GCP
5 49 (4.82%) SaaS
6 36 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (3.54%) Serverless
7 33 (3.24%) Snowflake
8 32 (3.15%) GitHub
9 31 (3.05%) Amazon S3
9 31 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (2.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 27 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (1.47%) PaaS
15 15 (1.47%) Power Automate
16 14 (1.38%) Collibra
17 13 (1.28%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.57%) Firewall
1 16 (1.57%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.28%) VPN
3 12 (1.18%) DNS
4 9 (0.88%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.79%) Network Security
6 7 (0.69%) HTTP
7 4 (0.39%) Multicast
7 4 (0.39%) NAS
7 4 (0.39%) SAN
7 4 (0.39%) tcpdump
7 4 (0.39%) WAN
7 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.29%) 5G
8 3 (0.29%) Broadband
8 3 (0.29%) Internet
9 2 (0.20%) Calico
9 2 (0.20%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.20%) NaaS
9 2 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (16.91%) Power BI
2 65 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (4.72%) Tableau
4 39 (3.83%) Metadata
5 30 (2.95%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 20 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.67%) BigQuery
8 17 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (1.47%) Big Data
11 14 (1.38%) Looker
12 13 (1.28%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.18%) Power Query
14 11 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (1.08%) Delta Lake
15 10 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 92 (9.05%) JIRA
2 42 (4.13%) Git
3 16 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.28%) GitLab
5 11 (1.08%) MLflow
6 9 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.59%) ERwin
7 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.39%) JUnit
9 3 (0.29%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.29%) Toad
10 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.20%) DbUnit
10 2 (0.20%) jMock
10 2 (0.20%) Maven
10 2 (0.20%) Postman
10 2 (0.20%) Selenium
10 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 411 (40.41%) Social Skills
2 371 (36.48%) Finance
3 274 (26.94%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (14.26%) Public Sector
5 115 (11.31%) Banking
6 48 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
7 47 (4.62%) Marketing
8 45 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (3.93%) Legal
10 38 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (3.44%) Retail
12 28 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.46%) Front Office
14 24 (2.36%) Financial Institution
15 23 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (2.06%) Billing
16 21 (2.06%) Publishing
17 20 (1.97%) Local Government
18 17 (1.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 182 (17.90%) Analyst
2 145 (14.26%) Senior
3 111 (10.91%) Lead
4 92 (9.05%) Business Analyst
5 81 (7.96%) Developer
6 78 (7.67%) Architect
7 66 (6.49%) Project Manager
8 61 (6.00%) Data Engineer
9 56 (5.51%) Data Analyst
10 34 (3.34%) Consultant
11 33 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
12 29 (2.85%) Senior Manager
12 29 (2.85%) User Researcher
13 27 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.36%) Data Scientist
15 23 (2.26%) Product Manager
16 22 (2.16%) Programme Manager
17 21 (2.06%) Senior Business Analyst
18 18 (1.77%) Senior Data Engineer
19 17 (1.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.05%) REST
2 26 (2.56%) Kafka
2 26 (2.56%) Pandas
3 25 (2.46%) AngularJS
4 23 (2.26%) scikit-learn
5 22 (2.16%) Middleware
6 20 (1.97%) NumPy
7 18 (1.77%) React
8 17 (1.67%) PySpark
9 16 (1.57%) .NET
10 15 (1.47%) PyTorch
11 14 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
11 14 (1.38%) RESTful
12 12 (1.18%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.08%) Plotly
14 10 (0.98%) JSON
14 10 (0.98%) LangChain
14 10 (0.98%) OpenID
15 9 (0.88%) LDAP
15 9 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.21%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 31 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (2.65%) Virtual Team
7 23 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 22 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.47%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.47%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.38%) FMCG
14 13 (1.28%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.18%) Derivative
16 10 (0.98%) Fixed Income
16 10 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.38%) Linux
1 14 (1.38%) Windows
2 3 (0.29%) VMS
2 3 (0.29%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.098%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.098%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (28.32%) Agile
2 243 (23.89%) Analytics
3 234 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
4 227 (22.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 197 (19.37%) Business Intelligence
6 182 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 167 (16.42%) AI
8 159 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 155 (15.24%) Roadmaps
10 148 (14.55%) Data Modelling
11 140 (13.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 127 (12.49%) Actionable Insight
13 125 (12.29%) DevOps
14 119 (11.70%) CI/CD
15 109 (10.72%) Migration
15 109 (10.72%) Visualisation
16 108 (10.62%) ETL
17 105 (10.32%) Project Management
18 98 (9.64%) Data Governance
19 92 (9.05%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 223 (21.93%) SQL
2 196 (19.27%) Python
3 38 (3.74%) Java
4 28 (2.75%) TypeScript
5 21 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 20 (1.97%) C#
7 15 (1.47%) PL/SQL
7 15 (1.47%) R
8 14 (1.38%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.18%) JavaScript
10 10 (0.98%) Bash
11 8 (0.79%) C++
11 8 (0.79%) VBA
12 7 (0.69%) Bicep
12 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.39%) Groovy
14 3 (0.29%) Korn
14 3 (0.29%) Ruby
14 3 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 170 (16.72%) Security Cleared
2 138 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 114 (11.21%) Degree
4 36 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.44%) Master's Degree
6 28 (2.75%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.75%) PMP
7 17 (1.67%) ACCA
8 16 (1.57%) CIMA
8 16 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.38%) CISSP
10 12 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.08%) CBAP
12 10 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.88%) CISM
13 9 (0.88%) PhD
14 8 (0.79%) IIBA
14 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.59%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (13.37%) Data Quality
2 62 (6.10%) PMO
3 60 (5.90%) QA
4 37 (3.64%) Accessibility
5 32 (3.15%) GDPR
6 16 (1.57%) NIST
7 14 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.98%) GRC
9 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.98%) SLA
10 7 (0.69%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.69%) WCAG
11 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.49%) COBIT
13 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.29%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 28 (2.75%) Docker
2 9 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.88%) Squid
3 6 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) NFS
5 2 (0.20%) HDFS
5 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.20%) vSphere
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.098%) Postfix
6 1 (0.098%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 55 (5.41%) Kubernetes
1 55 (5.41%) Terraform
2 21 (2.06%) Grafana
3 20 (1.97%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.88%) FortiGate
6 8 (0.79%) Consul
7 7 (0.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.59%) Ansible
9 5 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.39%) vMotion
11 3 (0.29%) Control-M
11 3 (0.29%) Rancher
11 3 (0.29%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.20%) Argo
12 2 (0.20%) Istio
13 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 147 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.31%) Oracle
3 48 (4.72%) Databricks
4 45 (4.42%) SAP
5 40 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 37 (3.64%) Google
7 33 (3.24%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.77%) Adobe
9 17 (1.67%) Workday
10 14 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.98%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.88%) Planview
13 9 (0.88%) Software AG
14 8 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.79%) VMware
15 7 (0.69%) Cisco
15 7 (0.69%) Foundry
15 7 (0.69%) Informatica
16 6 (0.59%) Ariba