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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 49 81
Rank change year-on-year +19 +32 +12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,337 656 485
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.70% 4.83% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 5.24% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 446 318
10th Percentile £390 £356 £286
25th Percentile £450 £416 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -10.26%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £750 £764
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 13
10th Percentile £27.94 £26.53 £18.11
25th Percentile £32.03 £28.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +20.00% -14.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £51.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £55.25 -
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year +18.43% +86.80% -64.31%

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 17,780 12,524 14,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.22% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,742 8,379 10,498
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 240 232
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -14.29% -20.20%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +8 185 £625 +13.64% 158
West London +9 54 £550 +2.16% 53
South London -6 16 £513 -14.58% 21
East London +8 6 £660 -14.90% 14
North London -2 1 £325 -50.00% 4
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 (2.84%) Confluence
2 31 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.05%) Apache
6 7 (0.52%) CMS
7 6 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.37%) nginx
9 3 (0.22%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.075%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.075%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (2.69%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.42%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.67%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.30%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.30%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Actimize
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 261 (19.52%) Azure
2 252 (18.85%) AWS
3 166 (12.42%) Power Platform
4 106 (7.93%) GCP
5 70 (5.24%) SaaS
6 50 (3.74%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.37%) Amazon S3
8 41 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (2.99%) Serverless
10 30 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (2.24%) dbt
11 26 (1.94%) GitHub
12 24 (1.80%) Entra ID
13 23 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 17 (1.27%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.20%) Azure AI
16 16 (1.20%) OCI
17 15 (1.12%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.05%) Firewall
2 13 (0.97%) WAN
3 11 (0.82%) VPN
4 9 (0.67%) DNS
4 9 (0.67%) Network Security
5 6 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.37%) NAS
6 5 (0.37%) SAN
6 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.30%) LAN
7 4 (0.30%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) HTTP
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%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (12.04%) Power BI
2 67 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (4.11%) Tableau
4 54 (4.04%) Metadata
5 40 (2.99%) BigQuery
6 26 (1.94%) Power Query
7 25 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (1.72%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.65%) Big Data
9 22 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 22 (1.65%) Looker
9 22 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.20%) SQL Server
12 15 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.12%) Delta Lake
13 14 (1.05%) Star Schema
14 12 (0.90%) MongoDB
14 12 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 79 (5.91%) JIRA
2 43 (3.22%) Git
3 20 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.82%) GitLab
5 6 (0.45%) JUnit
5 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.37%) MLflow
6 5 (0.37%) Mockito
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.30%) ERwin
7 4 (0.30%) jMock
7 4 (0.30%) Maven
8 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.22%) VTune
8 3 (0.22%) Xcode
9 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 493 (36.87%) Finance
2 470 (35.15%) Social Skills
3 322 (24.08%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 146 (10.92%) Banking
6 87 (6.51%) Influencing Skills
7 72 (5.39%) Marketing
8 71 (5.31%) Retail
9 51 (3.81%) Legal
10 46 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 40 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (2.39%) Telecoms
14 27 (2.02%) Local Government
15 26 (1.94%) Financial Institution
16 25 (1.87%) Investment Banking
17 24 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (1.80%) Front Office
18 15 (1.12%) Aviation
19 14 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 200 (14.96%) Analyst
2 192 (14.36%) Senior
3 171 (12.79%) Lead
4 138 (10.32%) Architect
5 93 (6.96%) Business Analyst
6 92 (6.88%) Data Engineer
6 92 (6.88%) Project Manager
7 76 (5.68%) Developer
8 69 (5.16%) Data Analyst
9 54 (4.04%) Data Scientist
10 46 (3.44%) Consultant
11 39 (2.92%) Product Manager
12 37 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
12 37 (2.77%) Senior Manager
13 36 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (2.32%) Product Owner
15 30 (2.24%) Designer
16 27 (2.02%) User Researcher
17 25 (1.87%) Senior Data Engineer
18 24 (1.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.99%) REST
2 32 (2.39%) Kafka
3 30 (2.24%) React
4 27 (2.02%) Pandas
5 25 (1.87%) PySpark
6 18 (1.35%) Middleware
7 17 (1.27%) AngularJS
7 17 (1.27%) NumPy
8 16 (1.20%) JSON
8 16 (1.20%) RESTful
8 16 (1.20%) scikit-learn
9 15 (1.12%) .NET
9 15 (1.12%) Spring
9 15 (1.12%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.97%) Node.js
11 11 (0.82%) HTML
11 11 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (0.82%) PyTorch
12 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (0.75%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 94 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.22%) Virtual Team
5 41 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (2.77%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (2.62%) AI Agents
9 26 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.50%) FMCG
11 20 (1.50%) NHS
12 17 (1.27%) CMDB
12 17 (1.27%) PMI
13 16 (1.20%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.20%) Taxonomies
14 14 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.05%) Data Centre
14 14 (1.05%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.20%) Windows
2 15 (1.12%) Linux
3 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.30%) Unix
6 3 (0.22%) VMS
6 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.15%) Android
7 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.075%) Solaris
8 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (28.80%) Stakeholder Management
2 371 (27.75%) Agile
3 331 (24.76%) Analytics
4 290 (21.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 282 (21.09%) AI
6 259 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
7 231 (17.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 221 (16.53%) Roadmaps
9 188 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
10 186 (13.91%) Data Modelling
11 178 (13.31%) CI/CD
12 168 (12.57%) DevOps
13 166 (12.42%) Data Pipeline
14 136 (10.17%) Validation
15 135 (10.10%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 129 (9.65%) Migration
17 127 (9.50%) Machine Learning
18 124 (9.27%) Actionable Insight
19 123 (9.20%) Data Science
20 121 (9.05%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 260 (19.45%) Python
1 260 (19.45%) SQL
2 72 (5.39%) Java
3 47 (3.52%) TypeScript
4 40 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.35%) C#
7 16 (1.20%) R
8 8 (0.60%) C++
9 7 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.52%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.52%) VBA
10 6 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.45%) Ruby
10 6 (0.45%) SPARQL
10 6 (0.45%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.37%) Cypher
11 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
11 5 (0.37%) Scala
11 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 224 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 182 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 104 (7.78%) Degree
4 54 (4.04%) PMP
5 49 (3.66%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.20%) CISSP
11 13 (0.97%) ACCA
12 10 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.67%) CISM
14 8 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.52%) CIMA
15 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.45%) PhD
17 5 (0.37%) CISA
17 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 93 (6.96%) PMO
3 69 (5.16%) QA
4 50 (3.74%) Accessibility
5 45 (3.37%) GDPR
6 19 (1.42%) NIST
7 18 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 15 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.97%) GRC
10 8 (0.60%) COREP
10 8 (0.60%) FINREP
10 8 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.60%) SLA
11 7 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.30%) IFRS
13 4 (0.30%) NCSC
13 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.30%) SEPA
13 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (3.44%) Docker
2 19 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 5 (0.37%) NFS
5 5 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.30%) Squid
7 3 (0.22%) Postfix
8 1 (0.075%) Firmware
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.075%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 77 (5.76%) Terraform
2 68 (5.09%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.12%) Ansible
4 14 (1.05%) Grafana
5 10 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 6 (0.45%) Kibana
8 4 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.30%) vMotion
9 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.22%) SCCM
10 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.15%) Argo
10 2 (0.15%) Consul
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 181 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 63 (4.71%) Databricks
3 50 (3.74%) Google
3 50 (3.74%) SAP
4 47 (3.52%) Oracle
5 42 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 37 (2.77%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.20%) Workday
8 14 (1.05%) Adobe
9 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.75%) Murex
11 9 (0.67%) Foundry
12 8 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.60%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.60%) GoldenSource
12 8 (0.60%) Splunk
12 8 (0.60%) Zscaler
13 7 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.52%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.52%) VMware