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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 50 82
Rank change year-on-year +19 +32 +11
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,293 631 515
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.61% 4.72% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.43% 5.13% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 422 350
10th Percentile £375 £355 £287
25th Percentile £450 £418 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £672 £655 £659
90th Percentile £776 £763 £764
England median daily rate £520 £515 £515
% change year-on-year +0.97% - -6.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 20
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £19.38
25th Percentile £31.44 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £34.87 £32.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -2.29% -25.33%
75th Percentile £57.69 £51.22 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.81 £18.00
% change year-on-year +15.34% +71.14% -59.49%

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 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +6 173 £625 +13.64% 206
West London +6 47 £523 -3.98% 37
South London +9 21 £519 -13.58% 16
East London +2 6 £719 -7.23% 20
North London - 1 £325 - 6
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 39 (3.02%) Confluence
2 26 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.77%) nginx
5 8 (0.62%) Apache
6 7 (0.54%) CMS
7 5 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.23%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.15%) Camunda
9 2 (0.15%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.15%) Mendix
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.077%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.077%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 92 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (2.71%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.55%) Chatbot
4 20 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.077%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.39%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.39%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.15%) Actimize
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 256 (19.80%) Azure
2 237 (18.33%) AWS
3 173 (13.38%) Power Platform
4 103 (7.97%) GCP
5 66 (5.10%) SaaS
6 50 (3.87%) Amazon S3
7 44 (3.40%) Serverless
7 44 (3.40%) Snowflake
8 43 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (2.17%) GitHub
11 26 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (1.93%) dbt
13 23 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 20 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (1.47%) Entra ID
16 17 (1.31%) Collibra
16 17 (1.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.24%) Firewall
1 16 (1.24%) VPN
2 14 (1.08%) DNS
3 11 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.70%) Network Security
4 9 (0.70%) OpenVPN
5 7 (0.54%) WAN
6 5 (0.39%) HTTP
6 5 (0.39%) NAS
6 5 (0.39%) SAN
7 3 (0.23%) BGP
7 3 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.23%) MPLS
7 3 (0.23%) OSPF
7 3 (0.23%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.23%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.15%) Intranet
8 2 (0.15%) IPsec
8 2 (0.15%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.92%) Power BI
2 65 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (4.64%) Tableau
4 59 (4.56%) Metadata
5 35 (2.71%) BigQuery
6 26 (2.01%) Data Lake
6 26 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (1.78%) Big Data
8 22 (1.70%) Looker
8 22 (1.70%) NoSQL
8 22 (1.70%) Power Query
8 22 (1.70%) SQL Server
9 20 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 18 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (1.39%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.24%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.93%) Parquet
13 12 (0.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (6.34%) JIRA
2 44 (3.40%) Git
3 20 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.85%) GitLab
4 11 (0.85%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.54%) JUnit
7 6 (0.46%) ERwin
7 6 (0.46%) MLflow
8 5 (0.39%) Mockito
9 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.31%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.31%) jMock
9 4 (0.31%) Maven
10 3 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.23%) Toad
10 3 (0.23%) VTune
10 3 (0.23%) Xcode
11 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
General
1 463 (35.81%) Finance
2 459 (35.50%) Social Skills
3 298 (23.05%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (14.15%) Public Sector
5 134 (10.36%) Banking
6 74 (5.72%) Influencing Skills
7 71 (5.49%) Marketing
8 65 (5.03%) Retail
9 50 (3.87%) Legal
10 38 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 29 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (2.09%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.86%) Local Government
16 23 (1.78%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.62%) Front Office
18 17 (1.31%) Billing
19 13 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 202 (15.62%) Analyst
2 183 (14.15%) Senior
3 157 (12.14%) Lead
4 122 (9.44%) Architect
5 94 (7.27%) Data Engineer
6 93 (7.19%) Business Analyst
7 86 (6.65%) Project Manager
8 78 (6.03%) Developer
9 71 (5.49%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.71%) Data Scientist
11 47 (3.63%) Consultant
12 36 (2.78%) Product Manager
12 36 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (2.40%) Senior Manager
13 31 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (2.40%) User Researcher
14 29 (2.24%) Designer
14 29 (2.24%) Product Owner
15 24 (1.86%) Senior Data Engineer
15 24 (1.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.09%) REST
2 32 (2.47%) React
3 28 (2.17%) Kafka
4 27 (2.09%) Pandas
5 26 (2.01%) PySpark
6 19 (1.47%) .NET
7 18 (1.39%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.39%) Middleware
7 18 (1.39%) NumPy
8 17 (1.31%) RESTful
8 17 (1.31%) scikit-learn
9 15 (1.16%) JSON
9 15 (1.16%) Spring
9 15 (1.16%) Spring Boot
10 12 (0.93%) HTML
10 12 (0.93%) Node.js
11 11 (0.85%) PyTorch
12 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (0.77%) Next.js
12 10 (0.77%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 87 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 41 (3.17%) Virtual Team
5 38 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.40%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.47%) NHS
11 18 (1.39%) FMCG
11 18 (1.39%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.31%) Taxonomies
13 16 (1.24%) PMI
14 15 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.16%) CMDB
15 14 (1.08%) Data Centre
16 12 (0.93%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.24%) Windows
2 14 (1.08%) Linux
3 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.31%) Unix
6 3 (0.23%) VMS
6 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.15%) Android
7 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.077%) Solaris
8 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (27.76%) Agile
2 334 (25.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 322 (24.90%) Analytics
4 273 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 268 (20.73%) AI
6 258 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
7 221 (17.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 207 (16.01%) Roadmaps
9 189 (14.62%) Data Modelling
10 187 (14.46%) Business Intelligence
11 177 (13.69%) CI/CD
12 172 (13.30%) DevOps
13 160 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
14 139 (10.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 129 (9.98%) Migration
16 128 (9.90%) Actionable Insight
17 123 (9.51%) Data Science
17 123 (9.51%) Validation
18 120 (9.28%) Data Governance
18 120 (9.28%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 259 (20.03%) SQL
2 255 (19.72%) Python
3 70 (5.41%) Java
4 51 (3.94%) TypeScript
5 35 (2.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.62%) C#
8 16 (1.24%) R
9 10 (0.77%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.70%) VBA
11 8 (0.62%) C++
12 7 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.54%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.46%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.46%) Ruby
14 5 (0.39%) Scala
14 5 (0.39%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.31%) Rust
15 4 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 223 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 183 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 106 (8.20%) Degree
4 48 (3.71%) PMP
5 44 (3.40%) PMI Certification
6 27 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.39%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.24%) CISSP
12 15 (1.16%) ACCA
13 11 (0.85%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.70%) CIMA
14 9 (0.70%) CISM
15 8 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.46%) CBAP
17 6 (0.46%) CISA
18 4 (0.31%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (13.61%) Data Quality
2 87 (6.73%) PMO
3 70 (5.41%) QA
4 48 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 47 (3.63%) GDPR
6 20 (1.55%) NIST
7 16 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (0.93%) GRC
9 11 (0.85%) SLA
10 9 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.54%) COREP
11 7 (0.54%) FINREP
11 7 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.31%) GAAP
12 4 (0.31%) IFRS
12 4 (0.31%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (3.02%) Docker
2 14 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.70%) Squid
4 5 (0.39%) IAG
4 5 (0.39%) NFS
4 5 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.23%) Postfix
5 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.077%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.077%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (6.11%) Terraform
2 68 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.47%) Grafana
4 15 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.08%) Ansible
6 12 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.54%) Consul
8 7 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.46%) Kibana
9 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.31%) vMotion
11 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.23%) SCCM
12 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.15%) Control-M
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) Puppet
12 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 182 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.72%) Databricks
3 50 (3.87%) Google
4 48 (3.71%) Oracle
5 46 (3.56%) SAP
6 39 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.31%) Workday
9 14 (1.08%) Adobe
10 13 (1.01%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.93%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.77%) Murex
14 9 (0.70%) Foundry
14 9 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.62%) Splunk
16 7 (0.54%) Anaplan
16 7 (0.54%) Bloomberg
16 7 (0.54%) GoldenSource
16 7 (0.54%) VMware