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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 60 63
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 +34
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 827 497 593
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.64% 3.63% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 4.02% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 311 437
10th Percentile £363 £338 £374
25th Percentile £425 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £645
90th Percentile £775 £875 £775
England median daily rate £513 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 27
10th Percentile - £28.60 £23.05
25th Percentile £18.25 £30.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% +14.75% -44.55%
75th Percentile £39.63 £50.75 £41.13
90th Percentile £42.67 £58.84 £61.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £31.17 £30.50
% change year-on-year +12.28% +2.20% -41.68%

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 13,329 12,378 16,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.91% 90.52% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,842 7,830 11,851
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 153 348
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.23 £19.34
Median hourly rate £34.38 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +18.33% -19.70%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.94
90th Percentile £71.75 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +17 111 £550 +10.00% 274
West London -19 10 £523 -39.42% 29
South London -16 8 £550 -8.33% 15
East London +1 3 £625 - 22
North London +5 2 £413 - 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 (4.47%) Confluence
2 18 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.85%) nginx
6 4 (0.48%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.36%) Apache
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) Appian
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.24%) CMS
8 2 (0.24%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.24%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
8 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 109 (13.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (4.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (2.30%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.97%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.36%) Notion
7 3 (0.36%) Sketch
7 3 (0.36%) Trello
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.24%) InVision
9 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.12%) SPSS
9 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.48%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.48%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.36%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.24%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.24%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 155 (18.74%) Power Platform
2 148 (17.90%) Azure
3 109 (13.18%) AWS
4 44 (5.32%) GCP
5 39 (4.72%) SaaS
6 29 (3.51%) GitHub
7 25 (3.02%) Snowflake
8 22 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (2.42%) Serverless
11 19 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (2.18%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.57%) Collibra
14 13 (1.57%) PaaS
15 12 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (1.33%) dbt
17 10 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
17 10 (1.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.33%) Firewall
2 10 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.97%) VPN
4 7 (0.85%) HTTP
5 6 (0.73%) DNS
5 6 (0.73%) Network Security
6 5 (0.60%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.48%) Multicast
7 4 (0.48%) tcpdump
7 4 (0.48%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.36%) 5G
8 3 (0.36%) Broadband
8 3 (0.36%) Internet
8 3 (0.36%) Wireless
9 2 (0.24%) Calico
9 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.24%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.24%) IOS XR
9 2 (0.24%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (17.90%) Power BI
2 49 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (4.72%) Metadata
3 39 (4.72%) Tableau
4 32 (3.87%) SQL Server
5 27 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 26 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.30%) Big Data
8 15 (1.81%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (1.69%) Delta Lake
9 14 (1.69%) Power Query
10 13 (1.57%) Hadoop
11 12 (1.45%) Oracle Database
12 11 (1.33%) Star Schema
13 9 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.97%) Looker
14 8 (0.97%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 61 (7.38%) JIRA
2 33 (3.99%) Git
3 14 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.21%) GitLab
5 9 (1.09%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.97%) MLflow
7 6 (0.73%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.48%) ERwin
9 4 (0.48%) Selenium
10 3 (0.36%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.24%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.24%) JUnit
11 2 (0.24%) Postman
11 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 339 (40.99%) Social Skills
2 283 (34.22%) Finance
3 253 (30.59%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (12.21%) Banking
5 100 (12.09%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (4.59%) Marketing
8 37 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
9 31 (3.75%) Legal
10 29 (3.51%) Front Office
11 26 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (2.90%) Publishing
13 23 (2.78%) Retail
13 23 (2.78%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.42%) Local Government
15 19 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (2.06%) Billing
17 15 (1.81%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.69%) Financial Institution
18 14 (1.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (20.92%) Analyst
2 111 (13.42%) Senior
3 87 (10.52%) Lead
4 84 (10.16%) Business Analyst
5 68 (8.22%) Developer
6 54 (6.53%) Architect
7 48 (5.80%) Data Analyst
7 48 (5.80%) Project Manager
8 42 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 31 (3.75%) Consultant
9 31 (3.75%) Senior Analyst
10 22 (2.66%) Senior Manager
11 21 (2.54%) Senior Business Analyst
12 20 (2.42%) Product Manager
12 20 (2.42%) User Researcher
13 19 (2.30%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (2.18%) Data Scientist
15 16 (1.93%) Data Business Analyst
15 16 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.90%) Kafka
2 20 (2.42%) REST
3 19 (2.30%) AngularJS
4 17 (2.06%) Pandas
4 17 (2.06%) React
5 16 (1.93%) Middleware
6 15 (1.81%) PySpark
6 15 (1.81%) scikit-learn
7 14 (1.69%) .NET
8 13 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (1.57%) RESTful
9 12 (1.45%) NumPy
9 12 (1.45%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.33%) Plotly
10 11 (1.33%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.21%) XML
12 9 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (1.09%) JSON
12 9 (1.09%) LangChain
13 8 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.20%) Product Ownership
2 41 (4.96%) Cloud Native
3 39 (4.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 33 (3.99%) Management Information System
5 24 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 15 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.57%) Derivative
9 13 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.21%) Replication
13 9 (1.09%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.90%) Linux
2 15 (1.81%) Windows
3 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.24%) Unix
4 2 (0.24%) VMS
4 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
2 219 (26.48%) Agile
3 198 (23.94%) Analytics
4 178 (21.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 167 (20.19%) Business Intelligence
6 130 (15.72%) AI
7 128 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 126 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 123 (14.87%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 121 (14.63%) Roadmaps
11 114 (13.78%) Actionable Insight
12 102 (12.33%) Data Modelling
13 97 (11.73%) Visualisation
14 96 (11.61%) Data Analysis
15 89 (10.76%) Project Management
16 88 (10.64%) CI/CD
17 84 (10.16%) DevOps
18 83 (10.04%) Data Governance
19 77 (9.31%) ETL
19 77 (9.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 191 (23.10%) SQL
2 158 (19.11%) Python
3 24 (2.90%) Java
4 19 (2.30%) TypeScript
5 16 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (1.81%) Bash
7 14 (1.69%) C#
7 14 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.69%) R
8 13 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.57%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.45%) C++
10 9 (1.09%) Bicep
10 9 (1.09%) VBA
11 5 (0.60%) Korn
11 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.48%) Groovy
12 4 (0.48%) Scala
13 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 111 (13.42%) Degree
2 101 (12.21%) Security Cleared
3 87 (10.52%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.99%) Master's Degree
6 25 (3.02%) PMI Certification
6 25 (3.02%) PMP
7 15 (1.81%) ACCA
7 15 (1.81%) CIMA
8 10 (1.21%) CBAP
9 8 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.97%) CISSP
9 8 (0.97%) PhD
10 7 (0.85%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.85%) IIBA
10 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.73%) MBA
12 5 (0.60%) APMP
12 5 (0.60%) CISM
12 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.58%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.96%) PMO
3 39 (4.72%) QA
4 33 (3.99%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.66%) GDPR
6 14 (1.69%) NIST
7 13 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.85%) GRC
9 7 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.73%) COBIT
10 6 (0.73%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.73%) SLA
10 6 (0.73%) WCAG
11 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.48%) GMP
12 4 (0.48%) Solvency II
13 3 (0.36%) GAAP
System Software
1 32 (3.87%) Docker
2 7 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.60%) HDFS
3 5 (0.60%) Squid
3 5 (0.60%) zsh
4 4 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) NFS
5 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.24%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (5.32%) Terraform
2 40 (4.84%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.69%) Grafana
3 14 (1.69%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (0.73%) Consul
6 5 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.48%) Ansible
7 4 (0.48%) Kibana
7 4 (0.48%) logstash
7 4 (0.48%) Rancher
8 3 (0.36%) Control-M
9 2 (0.24%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.24%) Istio
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.24%) vMotion
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.12%) Argo
10 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 106 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 49 (5.93%) Oracle
3 38 (4.59%) SAP
4 34 (4.11%) Databricks
5 32 (3.87%) ServiceNow
6 30 (3.63%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.18%) Google
8 11 (1.33%) Adobe
9 10 (1.21%) Workday
10 9 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.09%) Software AG
10 9 (1.09%) Solace
11 8 (0.97%) Cisco
11 8 (0.97%) TIBCO
12 7 (0.85%) Planview
12 7 (0.85%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.73%) Ariba
13 6 (0.73%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.60%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.60%) Informatica