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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 51 91
Rank change year-on-year +22 +40 -3
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,449 664 450
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.16% 4.93% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.06% 5.33% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 437 275
10th Percentile £391 £338 £327
25th Percentile £469 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £675
90th Percentile £808 £755 £775
England median daily rate £540 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 7
10th Percentile £22.95 £28.40 £31.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £31.09 £34.38
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -19.46% +6.70%
75th Percentile £56.63 £45.87 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.49 £49.78 £52.25
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.35 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.52% -26.25% -7.37%

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 17,985 12,452 14,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.52% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,227 9,667
10th Percentile £360 £331 £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 £675
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 306 252 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.94 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -10.01% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +17 214 £625 +13.64% 444
West London +17 73 £700 +33.33% 119
South London -3 11 £650 +4.00% 29
East London +7 7 £600 +4.35% 25
North London 0 1 £550 -15.38% 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 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
1 38 (2.62%) Confluence
2 25 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.66%) SharePoint
4 14 (0.97%) Apache
5 6 (0.41%) CMS
6 5 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.35%) SAS
7 4 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.28%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.069%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.069%) Appian
9 1 (0.069%) IIS
9 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.069%) nginx
9 1 (0.069%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
Applications
1 90 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.48%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.21%) Endur
5 3 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.14%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.069%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.069%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 267 (18.43%) Azure
2 266 (18.36%) AWS
3 174 (12.01%) Power Platform
4 81 (5.59%) GCP
5 67 (4.62%) Snowflake
6 66 (4.55%) SaaS
7 45 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (3.11%) dbt
8 40 (2.76%) Amazon S3
9 37 (2.55%) GitHub
10 36 (2.48%) Serverless
11 30 (2.07%) Entra ID
12 27 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (1.38%) OCI
16 19 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (1.24%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
19 16 (1.10%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.97%) WAN
2 12 (0.83%) Network Security
3 11 (0.76%) Broadband
3 11 (0.76%) Firewall
4 8 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.48%) VPN
6 5 (0.35%) LAN
7 4 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.28%) DNS
7 4 (0.28%) IPsec
7 4 (0.28%) Modbus
7 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.21%) BGP
8 3 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.21%) MPLS
8 3 (0.21%) OSPF
8 3 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.21%) X.509
9 2 (0.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (11.53%) Power BI
2 69 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (4.28%) Metadata
4 49 (3.38%) Tableau
5 32 (2.21%) Power Query
6 30 (2.07%) BigQuery
7 28 (1.93%) Data Lake
8 26 (1.79%) Delta Lake
8 26 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (1.52%) Looker
10 18 (1.24%) Big Data
11 17 (1.17%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.17%) Star Schema
12 16 (1.10%) SQL Server
13 15 (1.04%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
14 14 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (0.97%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 60 (4.14%) JIRA
2 40 (2.76%) Git
3 25 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.62%) GitLab
5 8 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.35%) JUnit
6 5 (0.35%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.21%) Maven
7 3 (0.21%) MLflow
7 3 (0.21%) Mockito
7 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.21%) VTune
7 3 (0.21%) Xcode
8 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
8 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.14%) jMock
8 2 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 551 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 498 (34.37%) Finance
3 356 (24.57%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (15.67%) Public Sector
5 164 (11.32%) Banking
6 134 (9.25%) Influencing Skills
7 84 (5.80%) Retail
8 80 (5.52%) Marketing
9 55 (3.80%) Legal
10 44 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 43 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.35%) Front Office
13 34 (2.35%) Local Government
14 32 (2.21%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.59%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.52%) Aviation
16 22 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
16 22 (1.52%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 230 (15.87%) Analyst
2 223 (15.39%) Senior
3 201 (13.87%) Lead
4 182 (12.56%) Architect
5 100 (6.90%) Business Analyst
6 85 (5.87%) Project Manager
7 79 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 68 (4.69%) Data Analyst
9 66 (4.55%) Developer
10 56 (3.86%) Consultant
11 51 (3.52%) Data Scientist
12 48 (3.31%) Senior Manager
13 45 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
14 43 (2.97%) Product Manager
15 42 (2.90%) Data Architect
15 42 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
16 33 (2.28%) Technical Leader
17 31 (2.14%) Designer
18 29 (2.00%) Senior Data Engineer
19 28 (1.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.21%) Terraform
2 38 (2.62%) Kafka
3 36 (2.48%) REST
4 30 (2.07%) React
5 28 (1.93%) PySpark
6 19 (1.31%) Pandas
7 17 (1.17%) Spring
8 16 (1.10%) Spring Boot
9 14 (0.97%) .NET
9 14 (0.97%) HTML
9 14 (0.97%) Middleware
9 14 (0.97%) Node.js
9 14 (0.97%) RESTful
10 13 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (0.76%) ATL
11 11 (0.76%) LangChain
12 10 (0.69%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.69%) NumPy
13 9 (0.62%) JSON
13 9 (0.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 104 (7.18%) Cloud Native
3 68 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 54 (3.73%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.69%) AI Agents
7 34 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (2.28%) Virtual Team
9 28 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.86%) NHS
11 25 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 23 (1.59%) Operational Technology
13 21 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.31%) Data Centre
14 19 (1.31%) Taxonomies
15 15 (1.04%) CMDB
15 15 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.04%) FMCG
16 14 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.24%) Windows
2 15 (1.04%) Linux
3 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.41%) Unix
5 5 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.069%) Solaris
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (36.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 404 (27.88%) Agile
3 380 (26.22%) Analytics
4 333 (22.98%) AI
5 312 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 300 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
7 289 (19.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 265 (18.29%) Roadmaps
9 192 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
10 186 (12.84%) CI/CD
11 183 (12.63%) Data Modelling
12 175 (12.08%) DevOps
13 153 (10.56%) Actionable Insight
14 147 (10.14%) Validation
15 143 (9.87%) Data Governance
16 142 (9.80%) Risk Management
17 141 (9.73%) Data Pipeline
18 137 (9.45%) Machine Learning
19 130 (8.97%) Migration
20 128 (8.83%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 283 (19.53%) SQL
2 270 (18.63%) Python
3 71 (4.90%) Java
4 44 (3.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 44 (3.04%) TypeScript
5 27 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.52%) C#
7 20 (1.38%) R
8 15 (1.04%) Bash
9 9 (0.62%) PowerShell
9 9 (0.62%) Scala
10 8 (0.55%) VBA
11 7 (0.48%) Bicep
11 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.41%) C++
12 6 (0.41%) SPARQL
12 6 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.35%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.35%) Ruby
13 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 250 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 196 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 112 (7.73%) Degree
4 56 (3.86%) PMP
5 52 (3.59%) PMI Certification
6 39 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 32 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.45%) ACCA
9 20 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.24%) CISSP
10 18 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.97%) CIMA
13 11 (0.76%) CISM
14 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 5 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
17 5 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (13.80%) Data Quality
2 85 (5.87%) PMO
3 71 (4.90%) QA
4 55 (3.80%) GDPR
5 51 (3.52%) Accessibility
6 31 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 29 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 27 (1.86%) NIST
9 22 (1.52%) GRC
10 12 (0.83%) IFRS
11 9 (0.62%) SLA
12 8 (0.55%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.55%) NCSC
13 7 (0.48%) COREP
13 7 (0.48%) FINREP
14 5 (0.35%) SEPA
15 4 (0.28%) GAAP
16 3 (0.21%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (4.21%) Docker
2 21 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.48%) IAG
5 5 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.14%) Postfix
7 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.069%) Firmware
8 1 (0.069%) NFS
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.17%) Ansible
3 12 (0.83%) Grafana
4 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.48%) Kibana
6 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.35%) Control-M
8 4 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.21%) Istio
9 3 (0.21%) Rancher
9 3 (0.21%) SCCM
10 2 (0.14%) Packer
10 2 (0.14%) Puppet
11 1 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.069%) Argo
11 1 (0.069%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.069%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 200 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.35%) Databricks
3 48 (3.31%) ServiceNow
4 44 (3.04%) Salesforce
5 43 (2.97%) Oracle
6 41 (2.83%) SAP
7 38 (2.62%) Google
8 13 (0.90%) Adobe
9 12 (0.83%) Workday
10 11 (0.76%) Informatica
11 10 (0.69%) Murex
11 10 (0.69%) Splunk
11 10 (0.69%) Zscaler
12 9 (0.62%) Amplitude
12 9 (0.62%) Bloomberg
12 9 (0.62%) IBM
12 9 (0.62%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.55%) Foundry
14 7 (0.48%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.48%) Teradata