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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 82 78
Rank change year-on-year +36 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 706 477 585
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.02% 3.03% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 3.40% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 301 416
10th Percentile £351 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £656 £690 £650
90th Percentile £782 £825 £773
England median daily rate £513 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -6.82% +0.46% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 16
10th Percentile - £29.90 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £31.81 £35.54
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.25 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% -15.86% -17.93%
75th Percentile £36.35 £45.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £42.54 £52.35 £66.93
England median hourly rate £30.11 £34.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -13.37% -24.75% +44.72%

All Process and 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 13,002 14,024 18,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.38% 89.18% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,556 9,051 12,959
10th Percentile £332 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 168 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% - -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.19 £61.31
90th Percentile £67.25 £80.23 £76.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 97 £555 +0.91% 476
West London -1 13 £525 -15.15% 48
South London -17 4 £750 +25.00% 10
East London +3 2 £575 +91.67% 26
North London +2 1 £650 - 3
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 32 (4.53%) Confluence
2 16 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.71%) Apache
4 5 (0.71%) CMS
5 4 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.42%) nginx
7 2 (0.28%) Appian
7 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.28%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 83 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.56%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.57%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.57%) Trello
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.28%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.14%) InVision
8 1 (0.14%) Notion
8 1 (0.14%) SPSS
8 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.57%) Oracle Payroll
3 4 (0.57%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.42%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.28%) Endur
5 2 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 125 (17.71%) Power Platform
2 93 (13.17%) Azure
3 81 (11.47%) AWS
4 41 (5.81%) GCP
5 32 (4.53%) SaaS
6 25 (3.54%) Snowflake
7 22 (3.12%) GitHub
8 19 (2.69%) dbt
9 18 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (1.56%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (1.42%) ChatGPT
13 9 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (1.27%) PaaS
14 8 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.13%) Serverless
15 7 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.85%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.71%) Multicast
3 4 (0.57%) tcpdump
3 4 (0.57%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.42%) 5G
4 3 (0.42%) Broadband
4 3 (0.42%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) Internet
5 2 (0.28%) ISDN
5 2 (0.28%) Network Security
5 2 (0.28%) PSTN
5 2 (0.28%) Softphone
5 2 (0.28%) SSL
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) Wireless
6 1 (0.14%) BGP
6 1 (0.14%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.14%) OSPF
6 1 (0.14%) SSH
6 1 (0.14%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (16.86%) Power BI
2 44 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (5.67%) Tableau
4 25 (3.54%) Metadata
5 21 (2.97%) Big Data
5 21 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (2.83%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.27%) SQL Server
9 14 (1.98%) Power Query
10 13 (1.84%) Hadoop
11 12 (1.70%) Star Schema
12 10 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.27%) Looker
14 8 (1.13%) Apache Hive
14 8 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.99%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.99%) Data Vault
15 7 (0.99%) Delta Lake
15 7 (0.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (6.66%) JIRA
2 27 (3.82%) Git
3 12 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.99%) GitLab
5 6 (0.85%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.57%) Maven
6 4 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.42%) Selenium
7 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.14%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.14%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.14%) jMock
9 1 (0.14%) JUnit
9 1 (0.14%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.14%) Mockito
9 1 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 293 (41.50%) Social Skills
2 256 (36.26%) Finance
3 231 (32.72%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (14.73%) Banking
5 93 (13.17%) Public Sector
6 45 (6.37%) Marketing
7 39 (5.52%) Influencing Skills
8 33 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (3.97%) Retail
10 27 (3.82%) Front Office
11 26 (3.68%) Financial Institution
11 26 (3.68%) Legal
12 23 (3.26%) Investment Banking
12 23 (3.26%) Local Government
12 23 (3.26%) Publishing
13 16 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.84%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.70%) Back Office
16 11 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 156 (22.10%) Analyst
2 79 (11.19%) Senior
3 77 (10.91%) Business Analyst
4 67 (9.49%) Lead
5 60 (8.50%) Developer
6 49 (6.94%) Architect
7 44 (6.23%) Data Analyst
8 43 (6.09%) Project Manager
9 36 (5.10%) Data Engineer
10 22 (3.12%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (2.69%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (2.55%) Consultant
12 18 (2.55%) Data Business Analyst
12 18 (2.55%) Data Scientist
13 13 (1.84%) Senior Developer
14 12 (1.70%) Data Architect
14 12 (1.70%) Product Manager
14 12 (1.70%) Senior Manager
14 12 (1.70%) Technical Analyst
15 11 (1.56%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.97%) AngularJS
2 19 (2.69%) Kafka
2 19 (2.69%) React
3 16 (2.27%) REST
4 13 (1.84%) XML
5 12 (1.70%) FIX Protocol
5 12 (1.70%) Pandas
6 11 (1.56%) JSON
6 11 (1.56%) scikit-learn
6 11 (1.56%) TensorFlow
7 10 (1.42%) .NET
7 10 (1.42%) Plotly
7 10 (1.42%) RESTful
8 9 (1.27%) NumPy
8 9 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
8 9 (1.27%) PySpark
9 8 (1.13%) CSS
9 8 (1.13%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.13%) Ultra Messaging
10 7 (0.99%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.23%) Product Ownership
2 37 (5.24%) Management Information System
3 31 (4.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (3.82%) Cloud Native
5 26 (3.68%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (3.12%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (2.12%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.42%) Derivative
13 10 (1.42%) Reinsurance
14 9 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.27%) Data Centre
14 9 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.27%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.13%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.97%) Linux
2 15 (2.12%) Windows
3 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (28.61%) Agile
2 189 (26.77%) Problem-Solving
3 177 (25.07%) Analytics
4 138 (19.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 136 (19.26%) Business Intelligence
6 108 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 108 (15.30%) Data Analysis
7 102 (14.45%) Visualisation
8 99 (14.02%) AI
8 99 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 98 (13.88%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 92 (13.03%) Actionable Insight
11 89 (12.61%) Data Modelling
12 87 (12.32%) Roadmaps
13 73 (10.34%) Project Management
14 66 (9.35%) Data Governance
14 66 (9.35%) Risk Management
15 65 (9.21%) CI/CD
16 61 (8.64%) Data Science
16 61 (8.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 163 (23.09%) SQL
2 142 (20.11%) Python
3 28 (3.97%) Java
4 23 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.41%) TypeScript
6 14 (1.98%) Bash
6 14 (1.98%) C++
6 14 (1.98%) R
7 13 (1.84%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.56%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.27%) Scala
10 7 (0.99%) C#
11 6 (0.85%) Bicep
11 6 (0.85%) Korn
12 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.42%) Groovy
13 3 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 92 (13.03%) Degree
2 79 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 66 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.97%) PMP
6 20 (2.83%) PMI Certification
7 16 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.84%) CIMA
9 12 (1.70%) ACCA
10 11 (1.56%) CISSP
11 6 (0.85%) CISM
12 5 (0.71%) MCP
12 5 (0.71%) PhD
13 4 (0.57%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.57%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.57%) MBA
13 4 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 3 (0.42%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.42%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (11.33%) Data Quality
2 29 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.68%) PMO
4 19 (2.69%) GDPR
4 19 (2.69%) QA
5 16 (2.27%) NIST
6 14 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.27%) GRC
8 7 (0.99%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.71%) GMP
10 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.42%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.42%) NCSC
11 3 (0.42%) WCAG
12 2 (0.28%) COBIT
12 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (4.39%) Docker
2 8 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.71%) HDFS
3 5 (0.71%) zsh
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (4.39%) Terraform
2 24 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.84%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
5 9 (1.27%) Grafana
6 4 (0.57%) Ansible
6 4 (0.57%) Kibana
6 4 (0.57%) logstash
7 3 (0.42%) Rancher
8 2 (0.28%) Consul
8 2 (0.28%) Packer
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.82%) SAP
3 29 (4.11%) Oracle
4 24 (3.40%) Google
5 20 (2.83%) Databricks
6 19 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.55%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.70%) Solace
9 9 (1.27%) Adobe
9 9 (1.27%) TIBCO
10 7 (0.99%) Dataiku
11 6 (0.85%) Foundry
12 5 (0.71%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.71%) Workday
13 4 (0.57%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.57%) Ariba
13 4 (0.57%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.57%) Refinitiv
13 4 (0.57%) UiPath
13 4 (0.57%) Xero