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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 51 94
Rank change year-on-year +22 +43 -7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,440 663 447
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.09% 4.91% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.97% 5.31% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 433 276
10th Percentile £390 £338 £306
25th Percentile £463 £420 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% -3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £807 £750 £775
England median daily rate £537 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +4.27% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 7
10th Percentile £26.25 £28.40 £31.70
25th Percentile £26.52 £31.09 £34.38
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -19.46% -3.10%
75th Percentile £56.63 £47.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.99 £51.10 £52.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £31.64 £42.50
% change year-on-year +10.62% -25.55% -7.37%

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 18,076 12,495 14,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.53% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,807 8,257 9,705
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 255 182
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.01 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +17 207 £625 +13.64% 315
West London +18 75 £700 +33.33% 98
South London -4 10 £650 +8.33% 23
East London +6 6 £600 +4.35% 21
North London -2 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 37 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (2.50%) Confluence
3 25 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.11%) Apache
6 6 (0.42%) CMS
7 5 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.28%) SAS
9 3 (0.21%) Camunda
9 3 (0.21%) Mendix
9 3 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.069%) IIS
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.069%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.76%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.49%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.35%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.21%) Endur
5 3 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.14%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.14%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.069%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.069%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.069%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.069%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 271 (18.82%) AWS
2 268 (18.61%) Azure
3 177 (12.29%) Power Platform
4 88 (6.11%) GCP
5 68 (4.72%) SaaS
6 64 (4.44%) Snowflake
7 48 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (3.13%) dbt
9 41 (2.85%) GitHub
10 36 (2.50%) Amazon S3
11 35 (2.43%) Serverless
12 27 (1.88%) Entra ID
13 25 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 25 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 24 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (1.32%) OCI
16 18 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
17 16 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.04%) WAN
2 12 (0.83%) Firewall
2 12 (0.83%) Network Security
3 10 (0.69%) Broadband
4 9 (0.63%) VPN
5 8 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.35%) DNS
6 5 (0.35%) LAN
7 4 (0.28%) IPsec
7 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.21%) BGP
8 3 (0.21%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.21%) Modbus
8 3 (0.21%) MPLS
8 3 (0.21%) OSPF
8 3 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.21%) X.509
9 2 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (11.88%) Power BI
2 72 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (4.58%) Metadata
4 51 (3.54%) Tableau
5 32 (2.22%) BigQuery
6 31 (2.15%) Power Query
7 27 (1.88%) Data Lake
8 26 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (1.67%) Delta Lake
11 23 (1.60%) Looker
12 20 (1.39%) NoSQL
13 19 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
13 19 (1.32%) Big Data
13 19 (1.32%) SQL Server
14 16 (1.11%) MongoDB
14 16 (1.11%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.97%) Oracle Database
16 13 (0.90%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 62 (4.31%) JIRA
2 41 (2.85%) Git
3 24 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.90%) GitLab
5 5 (0.35%) Claude Code
5 5 (0.35%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.28%) ERwin
6 4 (0.28%) JUnit
7 3 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.21%) MLflow
7 3 (0.21%) Mockito
7 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.21%) VTune
7 3 (0.21%) Xcode
8 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.14%) jMock
8 2 (0.14%) Maven
8 2 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 550 (38.19%) Social Skills
2 499 (34.65%) Finance
3 363 (25.21%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (15.07%) Public Sector
5 163 (11.32%) Banking
6 128 (8.89%) Influencing Skills
7 84 (5.83%) Retail
8 80 (5.56%) Marketing
9 52 (3.61%) Legal
10 43 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.36%) Local Government
14 31 (2.15%) Investment Banking
15 30 (2.08%) Front Office
16 26 (1.81%) Financial Institution
16 26 (1.81%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
18 22 (1.53%) Aviation
19 18 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 232 (16.11%) Analyst
2 226 (15.69%) Senior
3 193 (13.40%) Lead
4 173 (12.01%) Architect
5 101 (7.01%) Business Analyst
6 86 (5.97%) Project Manager
7 83 (5.76%) Data Engineer
8 70 (4.86%) Data Analyst
9 64 (4.44%) Developer
10 55 (3.82%) Consultant
10 55 (3.82%) Data Scientist
11 51 (3.54%) Senior Manager
12 46 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
13 43 (2.99%) Product Manager
14 42 (2.92%) Data Architect
15 40 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.08%) Designer
17 29 (2.01%) Technical Leader
18 28 (1.94%) Product Owner
18 28 (1.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (6.04%) Terraform
2 39 (2.71%) REST
3 37 (2.57%) Kafka
4 30 (2.08%) React
5 27 (1.88%) PySpark
6 22 (1.53%) Pandas
7 16 (1.11%) Middleware
7 16 (1.11%) Spring
8 15 (1.04%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.90%) .NET
9 13 (0.90%) HTML
9 13 (0.90%) Node.js
10 12 (0.83%) JSON
10 12 (0.83%) NumPy
10 12 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (0.83%) RESTful
11 11 (0.76%) AngularJS
11 11 (0.76%) LangChain
12 10 (0.69%) ATL
12 10 (0.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.15%) Product Ownership
2 101 (7.01%) Cloud Native
3 63 (4.38%) Onboarding
4 50 (3.47%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.64%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 25 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 25 (1.74%) NHS
10 23 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.46%) Operational Technology
12 17 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.18%) Taxonomies
13 16 (1.11%) FMCG
14 15 (1.04%) CMDB
14 15 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.97%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.25%) Windows
2 15 (1.04%) Linux
3 8 (0.56%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.42%) Unix
5 5 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.069%) Solaris
7 1 (0.069%) VMS
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (35.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 400 (27.78%) Agile
3 379 (26.32%) Analytics
4 329 (22.85%) AI
5 315 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 297 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 292 (20.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 259 (17.99%) Roadmaps
9 197 (13.68%) Business Intelligence
10 192 (13.33%) Data Modelling
11 184 (12.78%) CI/CD
12 182 (12.64%) DevOps
13 148 (10.28%) Actionable Insight
13 148 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
14 143 (9.93%) Validation
15 142 (9.86%) Data Governance
16 139 (9.65%) Machine Learning
17 136 (9.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 134 (9.31%) Risk Management
19 130 (9.03%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 285 (19.79%) SQL
2 277 (19.24%) Python
3 70 (4.86%) Java
4 45 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 44 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 30 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 20 (1.39%) C#
7 20 (1.39%) R
8 13 (0.90%) Bash
9 10 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.56%) VBA
11 7 (0.49%) Bicep
11 7 (0.49%) C++
11 7 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.49%) Scala
12 6 (0.42%) Ruby
12 6 (0.42%) SPARQL
12 6 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.35%) Cypher
13 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 246 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 190 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 111 (7.71%) Degree
4 56 (3.89%) PMP
5 51 (3.54%) PMI Certification
6 38 (2.64%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.39%) ACCA
8 20 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (1.11%) CISSP
12 13 (0.90%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.90%) CIMA
13 9 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.56%) CISM
15 7 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
17 5 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (13.75%) Data Quality
2 84 (5.83%) PMO
3 70 (4.86%) QA
4 53 (3.68%) GDPR
5 47 (3.26%) Accessibility
6 29 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 23 (1.60%) NIST
8 20 (1.39%) GRC
8 20 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 11 (0.76%) IFRS
10 9 (0.63%) SLA
11 8 (0.56%) COREP
11 8 (0.56%) FINREP
11 8 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.35%) NCSC
12 5 (0.35%) SEPA
13 4 (0.28%) GAAP
14 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (4.31%) Docker
2 19 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.49%) IAG
5 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.069%) Firmware
7 1 (0.069%) NFS
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.069%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.069%) Squid
7 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.069%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.97%) Ansible
3 12 (0.83%) Grafana
4 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.42%) Kibana
7 5 (0.35%) Control-M
8 4 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.21%) Istio
9 3 (0.21%) SCCM
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Puppet
11 1 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.069%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.069%) Argo
11 1 (0.069%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.069%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.069%) Rancher
11 1 (0.069%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 197 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 85 (5.90%) Databricks
3 47 (3.26%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.19%) Oracle
5 44 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 44 (3.06%) SAP
6 38 (2.64%) Google
7 13 (0.90%) Adobe
7 13 (0.90%) Workday
8 11 (0.76%) Informatica
9 10 (0.69%) Murex
9 10 (0.69%) Splunk
9 10 (0.69%) Zscaler
10 9 (0.63%) IBM
10 9 (0.63%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.56%) Amplitude
11 8 (0.56%) Bloomberg
11 8 (0.56%) Foundry
11 8 (0.56%) GoldenSource
12 7 (0.49%) Dynatrace