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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 48 85
Rank change year-on-year +18 +37 +6
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,346 674 457
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.70% 5.01% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 5.42% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 452 291
10th Percentile £381 £353 £300
25th Percentile £455 £417 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £679
90th Percentile £800 £747 £775
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 10
10th Percentile £26.25 £26.64 £35.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £30.80 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.37 £37.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% -20.54% +8.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.49 £54.05 £50.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.20 £16.06
% change year-on-year +13.78% +94.27% -65.00%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +9 190 £625 +13.64% 190
West London +16 64 £600 +14.29% 65
South London -4 10 £519 -13.54% 18
East London +3 6 £660 +14.70% 21
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 36 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
1 36 (2.67%) Confluence
2 27 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.19%) Apache
5 6 (0.45%) CMS
6 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.30%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.30%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Mendix
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) nginx
8 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 83 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.04%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.45%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.074%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 262 (19.47%) Azure
2 251 (18.65%) AWS
3 171 (12.70%) Power Platform
4 98 (7.28%) GCP
5 69 (5.13%) SaaS
6 57 (4.23%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.90%) dbt
9 37 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 34 (2.53%) GitHub
11 31 (2.30%) Serverless
12 28 (2.08%) Entra ID
13 27 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 23 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.41%) Power Automate
17 17 (1.26%) Amazon Bedrock
18 16 (1.19%) Azure AI
18 16 (1.19%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.19%) WAN
2 14 (1.04%) Firewall
3 11 (0.82%) Network Security
3 11 (0.82%) VPN
4 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 6 (0.45%) DNS
6 5 (0.37%) Broadband
6 5 (0.37%) LAN
7 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) IPsec
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) DHCP
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (12.33%) Power BI
2 74 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (4.23%) Metadata
4 53 (3.94%) Tableau
5 36 (2.67%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.15%) Power Query
7 27 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.93%) Data Lake
9 25 (1.86%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.63%) Big Data
10 22 (1.63%) NoSQL
11 21 (1.56%) Looker
12 18 (1.34%) Delta Lake
13 17 (1.26%) SQL Server
14 16 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.19%) Star Schema
15 15 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (1.11%) MongoDB
16 14 (1.04%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 71 (5.27%) JIRA
2 36 (2.67%) Git
3 23 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.82%) GitLab
5 4 (0.30%) ERwin
5 4 (0.30%) JUnit
5 4 (0.30%) Mockito
5 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.22%) DbUnit
6 3 (0.22%) jMock
6 3 (0.22%) Maven
6 3 (0.22%) VTune
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) MLflow
7 2 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 489 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 486 (36.11%) Finance
3 317 (23.55%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (14.64%) Public Sector
5 154 (11.44%) Banking
6 102 (7.58%) Influencing Skills
7 81 (6.02%) Retail
8 76 (5.65%) Marketing
9 53 (3.94%) Legal
10 43 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.15%) Investment Banking
15 27 (2.01%) Front Office
15 27 (2.01%) Local Government
16 25 (1.86%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.41%) Aviation
19 17 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 209 (15.53%) Analyst
2 204 (15.16%) Senior
3 174 (12.93%) Lead
4 157 (11.66%) Architect
5 97 (7.21%) Business Analyst
6 88 (6.54%) Data Engineer
6 88 (6.54%) Project Manager
7 72 (5.35%) Developer
8 67 (4.98%) Data Analyst
9 52 (3.86%) Data Scientist
10 50 (3.71%) Consultant
11 46 (3.42%) Senior Manager
12 43 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
13 41 (3.05%) Product Manager
14 40 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
15 34 (2.53%) Data Architect
16 30 (2.23%) Designer
17 29 (2.15%) Product Owner
18 27 (2.01%) Senior Data Engineer
18 27 (2.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.12%) REST
2 34 (2.53%) Kafka
3 28 (2.08%) PySpark
3 28 (2.08%) React
4 22 (1.63%) Pandas
5 18 (1.34%) Middleware
6 15 (1.11%) JSON
7 14 (1.04%) .NET
7 14 (1.04%) AngularJS
7 14 (1.04%) RESTful
8 13 (0.97%) Spring
8 13 (0.97%) Spring Boot
9 12 (0.89%) HTML
9 12 (0.89%) Node.js
9 12 (0.89%) NumPy
9 12 (0.89%) scikit-learn
10 11 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (0.67%) PyTorch
12 8 (0.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 95 (7.06%) Cloud Native
3 52 (3.86%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.34%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.67%) AI Agents
8 35 (2.60%) Virtual Team
9 28 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 26 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.49%) NHS
13 18 (1.34%) FMCG
14 17 (1.26%) CMDB
14 17 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.26%) PMI
15 15 (1.11%) Operational Technology
16 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.26%) Windows
2 16 (1.19%) Linux
3 6 (0.45%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.074%) Solaris
6 1 (0.074%) VMS
6 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (31.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 371 (27.56%) Agile
3 353 (26.23%) Analytics
4 300 (22.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 295 (21.92%) AI
6 267 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
7 247 (18.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 229 (17.01%) Roadmaps
9 194 (14.41%) Data Modelling
10 189 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
11 179 (13.30%) CI/CD
12 172 (12.78%) DevOps
13 161 (11.96%) Data Pipeline
14 136 (10.10%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 133 (9.88%) Validation
16 130 (9.66%) Actionable Insight
17 128 (9.51%) Data Engineering
18 127 (9.44%) Data Governance
19 126 (9.36%) Migration
20 123 (9.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 269 (19.99%) SQL
2 261 (19.39%) Python
3 71 (5.27%) Java
4 46 (3.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.97%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.34%) C#
8 16 (1.19%) R
9 11 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.59%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) C++
10 8 (0.59%) VBA
11 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.45%) Bicep
12 6 (0.45%) Ruby
12 6 (0.45%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Cypher
13 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 221 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 173 (12.85%) SC Cleared
3 104 (7.73%) Degree
4 55 (4.09%) PMP
5 50 (3.71%) PMI Certification
6 29 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.04%) ACCA
10 14 (1.04%) CISSP
11 12 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.59%) CIMA
12 8 (0.59%) CISM
13 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.45%) PhD
15 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (13.60%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.61%) PMO
3 67 (4.98%) QA
4 48 (3.57%) GDPR
5 45 (3.34%) Accessibility
6 22 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.41%) NIST
8 13 (0.97%) GRC
9 12 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.59%) COREP
10 8 (0.59%) FINREP
11 7 (0.52%) IFRS
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.52%) SLA
12 5 (0.37%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) SEPA
13 4 (0.30%) GAAP
13 4 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (3.57%) Docker
2 19 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
6 2 (0.15%) Squid
6 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) NFS
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (5.79%) Terraform
2 66 (4.90%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.34%) Ansible
4 12 (0.89%) Grafana
5 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.45%) Kibana
7 6 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.37%) Control-M
9 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.22%) SCCM
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.074%) Consul
12 1 (0.074%) Istio
Vendors
1 187 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.42%) Databricks
3 46 (3.42%) Google
3 46 (3.42%) Oracle
4 44 (3.27%) SAP
5 43 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 42 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.19%) Adobe
7 16 (1.19%) Workday
8 11 (0.82%) Murex
8 11 (0.82%) Zscaler
9 9 (0.67%) Amplitude
9 9 (0.67%) Foundry
9 9 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.59%) GoldenSource
11 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
11 7 (0.52%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.52%) Informatica
12 6 (0.45%) CrowdStrike