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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 51 92
Rank change year-on-year +22 +41 +2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,389 663 456
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.92% 4.95% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.77% 5.36% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 439 282
10th Percentile £394 £338 £301
25th Percentile £463 £416 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.55% -6.18%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £682
90th Percentile £800 £750 £775
England median daily rate £530 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +3.41% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 9
10th Percentile £26.25 £26.86 £34.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £30.91 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.23 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -27.94% +8.30%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.99 £53.25 £51.50
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.50 £31.97
% change year-on-year +12.79% -1.45% -30.33%

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 17,877 12,377 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,691 8,233 9,872
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 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 194
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.89 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +13 196 £625 +14.94% 314
West London +18 71 £700 +33.33% 140
South London -11 9 £600 - 29
East London +6 6 £600 +4.35% 17
North London 0 1 £550 -15.38% 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 37 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (2.59%) Confluence
3 26 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.15%) Apache
6 6 (0.43%) CMS
7 5 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.29%) Camunda
8 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.29%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) Mendix
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
11 1 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.072%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.072%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.072%) WordPress
Applications
1 86 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.86%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.50%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.072%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.36%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Actimize
6 2 (0.14%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.14%) Endur
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 (0.072%) Primavera
7 1 (0.072%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 261 (18.79%) Azure
2 260 (18.72%) AWS
3 171 (12.31%) Power Platform
4 90 (6.48%) GCP
5 67 (4.82%) SaaS
6 65 (4.68%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (3.24%) dbt
8 36 (2.59%) GitHub
9 35 (2.52%) Amazon S3
10 34 (2.45%) Serverless
11 28 (2.02%) Entra ID
12 24 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (1.37%) OCI
16 18 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.08%) WAN
2 12 (0.86%) Firewall
2 12 (0.86%) Network Security
3 10 (0.72%) VPN
4 9 (0.65%) Broadband
5 8 (0.58%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.36%) DNS
6 5 (0.36%) LAN
7 4 (0.29%) IPsec
7 4 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.22%) X.509
9 2 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (11.88%) Power BI
2 74 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (4.61%) Metadata
4 51 (3.67%) Tableau
5 36 (2.59%) BigQuery
6 30 (2.16%) Power Query
7 26 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.73%) Looker
8 24 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.44%) Delta Lake
10 20 (1.44%) NoSQL
11 19 (1.37%) Big Data
12 18 (1.30%) SQL Server
13 17 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.15%) Star Schema
15 15 (1.08%) MongoDB
16 14 (1.01%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.94%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 63 (4.54%) JIRA
2 36 (2.59%) Git
3 21 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.79%) GitLab
5 4 (0.29%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.29%) ERwin
5 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.22%) JUnit
6 3 (0.22%) Mockito
6 3 (0.22%) VTune
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.14%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.14%) jMock
7 2 (0.14%) Maven
7 2 (0.14%) MLflow
7 2 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
7 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
General
1 523 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 489 (35.21%) Finance
3 344 (24.77%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (15.05%) Public Sector
5 158 (11.38%) Banking
6 117 (8.42%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (5.90%) Retail
8 77 (5.54%) Marketing
9 53 (3.82%) Legal
10 42 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (2.66%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
13 31 (2.23%) Investment Banking
13 31 (2.23%) Local Government
14 30 (2.16%) Front Office
14 30 (2.16%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
15 24 (1.73%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.51%) Aviation
17 17 (1.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 225 (16.20%) Analyst
2 210 (15.12%) Senior
3 183 (13.17%) Lead
4 164 (11.81%) Architect
5 99 (7.13%) Business Analyst
6 83 (5.98%) Data Engineer
6 83 (5.98%) Project Manager
7 67 (4.82%) Data Analyst
8 64 (4.61%) Developer
9 54 (3.89%) Consultant
10 53 (3.82%) Data Scientist
11 45 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
11 45 (3.24%) Senior Manager
12 41 (2.95%) Product Manager
13 40 (2.88%) Data Architect
14 38 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (2.23%) Designer
16 28 (2.02%) Product Owner
16 28 (2.02%) Senior Data Engineer
17 27 (1.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (6.05%) Terraform
2 40 (2.88%) REST
3 33 (2.38%) Kafka
4 29 (2.09%) React
5 26 (1.87%) PySpark
6 22 (1.58%) Pandas
7 17 (1.22%) Middleware
8 15 (1.08%) Spring
9 14 (1.01%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.94%) .NET
10 13 (0.94%) HTML
10 13 (0.94%) Node.js
10 13 (0.94%) RESTful
11 12 (0.86%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.86%) JSON
11 12 (0.86%) NumPy
11 12 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (0.72%) scikit-learn
13 9 (0.65%) LangChain
13 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.42%) Product Ownership
2 96 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 59 (4.25%) Onboarding
4 50 (3.60%) Management Information System
5 40 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.59%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 27 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.66%) NHS
12 22 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.37%) Operational Technology
14 18 (1.30%) Data Centre
14 18 (1.30%) FMCG
15 17 (1.22%) CMDB
15 17 (1.22%) Taxonomies
16 15 (1.08%) PMI
17 13 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.22%) Windows
2 15 (1.08%) Linux
3 8 (0.58%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.43%) Unix
5 5 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.072%) Solaris
7 1 (0.072%) VMS
7 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (33.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 386 (27.79%) Agile
3 363 (26.13%) Analytics
4 307 (22.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 306 (22.03%) AI
6 285 (20.52%) Problem-Solving
7 271 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 242 (17.42%) Roadmaps
9 196 (14.11%) Data Modelling
10 192 (13.82%) Business Intelligence
11 179 (12.89%) CI/CD
12 175 (12.60%) DevOps
13 153 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
14 139 (10.01%) Validation
15 138 (9.94%) Actionable Insight
16 134 (9.65%) Data Governance
17 133 (9.58%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 131 (9.43%) Data Engineering
19 125 (9.00%) Machine Learning
20 122 (8.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 278 (20.01%) SQL
2 274 (19.73%) Python
3 70 (5.04%) Java
4 44 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (3.10%) TypeScript
6 29 (2.09%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.37%) C#
8 18 (1.30%) R
9 10 (0.72%) PowerShell
10 9 (0.65%) Bash
11 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
11 8 (0.58%) VBA
12 7 (0.50%) Bicep
12 7 (0.50%) C++
13 6 (0.43%) Ruby
13 6 (0.43%) Scala
13 6 (0.43%) SPARQL
14 5 (0.36%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 234 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 179 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 106 (7.63%) Degree
4 54 (3.89%) PMP
5 49 (3.53%) PMI Certification
6 35 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.37%) ACCA
8 19 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.08%) CISSP
12 13 (0.94%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.94%) CIMA
13 10 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.58%) CISM
14 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 5 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
16 5 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (14.11%) Data Quality
2 87 (6.26%) PMO
3 70 (5.04%) QA
4 50 (3.60%) GDPR
5 45 (3.24%) Accessibility
6 26 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
7 23 (1.66%) NIST
8 19 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (1.30%) GRC
10 10 (0.72%) IFRS
11 8 (0.58%) COREP
11 8 (0.58%) FINREP
11 8 (0.58%) SLA
12 7 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.36%) NCSC
13 5 (0.36%) SEPA
14 4 (0.29%) GAAP
15 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (3.82%) Docker
2 20 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.50%) IAG
5 2 (0.14%) Postfix
5 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.072%) Firmware
6 1 (0.072%) NFS
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.072%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.072%) Squid
6 1 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.072%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.15%) Ansible
3 11 (0.79%) Grafana
3 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.43%) Kibana
4 6 (0.43%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.36%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.22%) Istio
7 3 (0.22%) SCCM
8 2 (0.14%) Packer
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.072%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.072%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.072%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.072%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.072%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 192 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.76%) Databricks
3 48 (3.46%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.31%) Oracle
5 43 (3.10%) Salesforce
5 43 (3.10%) SAP
6 40 (2.88%) Google
7 16 (1.15%) Workday
8 13 (0.94%) Adobe
9 12 (0.86%) Murex
10 11 (0.79%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.65%) Informatica
11 9 (0.65%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.65%) Splunk
12 8 (0.58%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.58%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.58%) Foundry
12 8 (0.58%) GoldenSource
13 7 (0.50%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.50%) Teradata