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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 49 73
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 +23
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,183 574 534
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.40% 4.72% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.23% 5.11% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 378 370
10th Percentile £375 £363 £288
25th Percentile £448 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £662 £642
90th Percentile £775 £775 £751
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 24
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.25 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £34.23 £32.00 £29.16
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +9.76% -33.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.22 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.60 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.08 £19.38
% change year-on-year +60.90% +60.39% -59.21%

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 16,373 11,226 15,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.27% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,935 7,534 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 192 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +14.29% -28.97%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £62.90 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +6 160 £575 +4.55% 74
West London -8 36 £520 -13.33% 20
South London 0 18 £519 -13.58% 8
East London -5 5 £697 -10.06% 17
North London - 2 £413 - 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 38 (3.21%) Confluence
2 21 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.85%) nginx
6 5 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.35%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) Notion
9 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.085%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.085%) InVision
10 1 (0.085%) Sketch
10 1 (0.085%) SPSS
10 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.42%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.17%) Actimize
7 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.17%) Lorenzo
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 240 (20.29%) Azure
2 197 (16.65%) AWS
3 163 (13.78%) Power Platform
4 92 (7.78%) GCP
5 73 (6.17%) SaaS
6 37 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 37 (3.13%) Serverless
6 37 (3.13%) Snowflake
7 36 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (2.62%) GitHub
10 27 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (1.61%) Collibra
14 18 (1.52%) dbt
15 17 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (1.35%) Entra ID
16 16 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.27%) VPN
2 13 (1.10%) DNS
2 13 (1.10%) Firewall
3 11 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.76%) HTTP
4 9 (0.76%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.51%) Network Security
6 4 (0.34%) NAS
6 4 (0.34%) SAN
6 4 (0.34%) WAN
7 2 (0.17%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.17%) BGP
7 2 (0.17%) Intelligent Network
7 2 (0.17%) Intranet
7 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.17%) IPsec
7 2 (0.17%) MPLS
7 2 (0.17%) OSPF
7 2 (0.17%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (13.27%) Power BI
2 63 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (4.48%) Metadata
3 53 (4.48%) Tableau
4 30 (2.54%) BigQuery
5 29 (2.45%) SQL Server
6 27 (2.28%) Data Lake
7 21 (1.78%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.61%) Looker
8 19 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (1.61%) Power Query
8 19 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.52%) Oracle Database
10 15 (1.27%) Big Data
11 14 (1.18%) Delta Lake
11 14 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (1.10%) Parquet
13 12 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 81 (6.85%) JIRA
2 37 (3.13%) Git
3 16 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.10%) GitLab
5 11 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.85%) MLflow
7 9 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.51%) ERwin
8 6 (0.51%) JUnit
8 6 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.34%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.34%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.34%) jMock
9 4 (0.34%) Maven
9 4 (0.34%) Mockito
10 3 (0.25%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.25%) Toad
11 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.17%) Selenium
11 2 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 418 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 411 (34.74%) Finance
3 276 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (13.52%) Public Sector
5 131 (11.07%) Banking
6 66 (5.58%) Marketing
7 57 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (4.23%) Retail
9 48 (4.06%) Legal
10 40 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.62%) Telecoms
13 29 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 28 (2.37%) Financial Institution
15 26 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.61%) Local Government
17 18 (1.52%) Front Office
18 16 (1.35%) Billing
18 16 (1.35%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 192 (16.23%) Analyst
2 182 (15.38%) Senior
3 139 (11.75%) Lead
4 98 (8.28%) Architect
5 92 (7.78%) Business Analyst
6 82 (6.93%) Data Engineer
7 81 (6.85%) Project Manager
8 80 (6.76%) Developer
9 68 (5.75%) Data Analyst
10 54 (4.56%) Consultant
11 39 (3.30%) Data Scientist
12 36 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.96%) Product Manager
14 31 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.54%) Senior Manager
15 30 (2.54%) User Researcher
16 27 (2.28%) Senior Data Engineer
17 24 (2.03%) Designer
18 23 (1.94%) Product Owner
19 21 (1.78%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.96%) REST
2 30 (2.54%) Pandas
3 23 (1.94%) React
4 21 (1.78%) .NET
4 21 (1.78%) Middleware
5 20 (1.69%) PySpark
6 19 (1.61%) scikit-learn
7 18 (1.52%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.52%) Kafka
7 18 (1.52%) NumPy
7 18 (1.52%) RESTful
8 16 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 16 (1.35%) Spring
8 16 (1.35%) Spring Boot
9 13 (1.10%) PyTorch
10 11 (0.93%) LangChain
10 11 (0.93%) Node.js
11 10 (0.85%) HTML
11 10 (0.85%) OpenID
11 10 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 72 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.04%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (2.62%) Virtual Team
6 28 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.20%) AI Agents
8 24 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.52%) PMI
11 18 (1.52%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.27%) FMCG
13 15 (1.27%) NHS
14 11 (0.93%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.85%) CMDB
16 9 (0.76%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.18%) Windows
2 12 (1.01%) Linux
3 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.25%) Unix
3 3 (0.25%) VMS
3 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.085%) Solaris
4 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (26.88%) Agile
2 280 (23.67%) Analytics
3 275 (23.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 245 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
5 234 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 231 (19.53%) AI
7 192 (16.23%) Roadmaps
8 191 (16.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 181 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
10 175 (14.79%) Data Modelling
11 152 (12.85%) CI/CD
12 149 (12.60%) DevOps
13 126 (10.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 124 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
15 122 (10.31%) Actionable Insight
15 122 (10.31%) Project Management
16 117 (9.89%) ETL
17 115 (9.72%) Migration
18 114 (9.64%) Data Governance
19 108 (9.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 242 (20.46%) SQL
2 226 (19.10%) Python
3 61 (5.16%) Java
4 37 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 31 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (1.94%) C#
7 18 (1.52%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.35%) R
9 15 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.68%) VBA
11 7 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.42%) Bicep
12 5 (0.42%) Ruby
12 5 (0.42%) Scala
12 5 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.34%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.25%) C++
15 2 (0.17%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 209 (17.67%) Security Cleared
2 171 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 109 (9.21%) Degree
4 45 (3.80%) PMP
5 40 (3.38%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.20%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.44%) ACCA
11 16 (1.35%) CISSP
12 15 (1.27%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.01%) CBAP
14 11 (0.93%) CIMA
15 10 (0.85%) CISM
16 9 (0.76%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.76%) IIBA
17 8 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
18 7 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 75 (6.34%) PMO
3 68 (5.75%) QA
4 40 (3.38%) GDPR
5 32 (2.70%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.69%) NIST
7 18 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.93%) SLA
10 10 (0.85%) GRC
10 10 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.59%) COREP
11 7 (0.59%) FINREP
11 7 (0.59%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.51%) GAAP
12 6 (0.51%) IFRS
13 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.42%) NCSC
14 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (2.54%) Docker
2 11 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.76%) Squid
4 7 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.34%) NFS
6 3 (0.25%) IAG
6 3 (0.25%) Postfix
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.17%) vSphere
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.085%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (5.83%) Terraform
2 61 (5.16%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.52%) Grafana
4 14 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.85%) Ansible
7 9 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.59%) Consul
8 7 (0.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.42%) Kibana
9 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.34%) Control-M
10 4 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.34%) vMotion
11 3 (0.25%) Istio
12 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.17%) Argo
12 2 (0.17%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.17%) SCCM
13 1 (0.085%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 167 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.82%) Oracle
3 53 (4.48%) Databricks
4 45 (3.80%) Google
5 43 (3.63%) SAP
6 39 (3.30%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.87%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.69%) Workday
9 13 (1.10%) Adobe
10 12 (1.01%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.76%) Foundry
12 9 (0.76%) VMware
13 8 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.59%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.59%) Software AG
14 7 (0.59%) Splunk
15 6 (0.51%) Planview