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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 88
Rank change year-on-year +20 +38 +2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,356 675 467
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.73% 4.97% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 5.38% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 876 456 305
10th Percentile £395 £356 £288
25th Percentile £455 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.87% -10.08%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £750 £763
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 9
10th Percentile £27.94 £26.53 £35.00
25th Percentile £32.03 £28.21 £36.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £44.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.22% -6.32% +8.30%
75th Percentile £62.50 £51.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £55.25 £51.50
England median hourly rate £35.53 £28.15 £16.06
% change year-on-year +26.22% +75.28% -64.66%

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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
10th Percentile £363 £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 £660 £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 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +10 194 £625 +14.68% 299
West London +11 58 £575 +6.80% 83
South London -4 16 £513 -14.58% 20
East London +8 6 £660 - 18
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 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
1 37 (2.73%) Confluence
2 30 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.18%) Apache
5 7 (0.52%) CMS
6 6 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.37%) nginx
8 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) SAS
11 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.25%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.59%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.29%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
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%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.074%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 270 (19.91%) Azure
2 264 (19.47%) AWS
3 177 (13.05%) Power Platform
4 108 (7.96%) GCP
5 69 (5.09%) SaaS
6 60 (4.42%) Snowflake
7 44 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (3.17%) Amazon S3
9 39 (2.88%) dbt
10 37 (2.73%) Serverless
11 33 (2.43%) GitHub
12 29 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 26 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (1.92%) Entra ID
15 21 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (1.40%) Power Automate
17 18 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
18 17 (1.25%) Azure AI
19 16 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.03%) Firewall
2 13 (0.96%) WAN
3 11 (0.81%) VPN
4 9 (0.66%) DNS
4 9 (0.66%) Network Security
5 6 (0.44%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.29%) LAN
7 4 (0.29%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.29%) SAN
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%) NAS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (12.68%) Power BI
2 76 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (4.13%) Tableau
4 52 (3.83%) Metadata
5 40 (2.95%) BigQuery
6 28 (2.06%) Power Query
7 27 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.84%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.77%) Data Lake
10 22 (1.62%) Big Data
11 21 (1.55%) NoSQL
12 20 (1.47%) Looker
13 18 (1.33%) SQL Server
14 17 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
14 17 (1.25%) Delta Lake
15 16 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (1.18%) Star Schema
16 14 (1.03%) MongoDB
17 13 (0.96%) Oracle Database
18 11 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (5.60%) JIRA
2 41 (3.02%) Git
3 24 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.96%) GitLab
5 6 (0.44%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.37%) JUnit
6 5 (0.37%) Mockito
7 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.29%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.29%) ERwin
7 4 (0.29%) jMock
7 4 (0.29%) Maven
7 4 (0.29%) MLflow
7 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
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
1 502 (37.02%) Finance
2 487 (35.91%) Social Skills
3 331 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (14.31%) Public Sector
5 152 (11.21%) Banking
6 94 (6.93%) Influencing Skills
7 79 (5.83%) Retail
8 74 (5.46%) Marketing
9 52 (3.83%) Legal
10 45 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 40 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 28 (2.06%) Financial Institution
15 27 (1.99%) Investment Banking
16 25 (1.84%) Front Office
17 24 (1.77%) Local Government
18 23 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
19 17 (1.25%) Aviation
20 15 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 212 (15.63%) Analyst
2 204 (15.04%) Senior
3 172 (12.68%) Lead
4 151 (11.14%) Architect
5 98 (7.23%) Business Analyst
6 95 (7.01%) Data Engineer
7 92 (6.78%) Project Manager
8 76 (5.60%) Developer
9 71 (5.24%) Data Analyst
10 54 (3.98%) Data Scientist
11 48 (3.54%) Consultant
12 42 (3.10%) Product Manager
12 42 (3.10%) Senior Manager
13 40 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
13 40 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (2.21%) Designer
14 30 (2.21%) Product Owner
15 29 (2.14%) Data Architect
16 28 (2.06%) Senior Data Engineer
17 25 (1.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.95%) REST
2 35 (2.58%) Kafka
3 29 (2.14%) React
4 28 (2.06%) Pandas
5 27 (1.99%) PySpark
6 18 (1.33%) Middleware
6 18 (1.33%) NumPy
7 17 (1.25%) scikit-learn
8 16 (1.18%) AngularJS
8 16 (1.18%) JSON
9 15 (1.11%) RESTful
10 14 (1.03%) .NET
10 14 (1.03%) Spring
10 14 (1.03%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.96%) Node.js
12 12 (0.88%) HTML
13 11 (0.81%) PyTorch
14 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
15 8 (0.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 93 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.69%) Onboarding
4 42 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
5 41 (3.02%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.95%) Virtual Team
7 36 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (2.43%) AI Agents
9 25 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.47%) NHS
13 19 (1.40%) FMCG
14 17 (1.25%) CMDB
14 17 (1.25%) PMI
15 16 (1.18%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.18%) Operational Technology
16 15 (1.11%) Security Posture
17 14 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.18%) Linux
2 15 (1.11%) Windows
3 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) VMS
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.074%) Solaris
6 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (30.83%) Stakeholder Management
2 383 (28.24%) Agile
3 349 (25.74%) Analytics
4 295 (21.76%) AI
5 292 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 267 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
7 240 (17.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 227 (16.74%) Roadmaps
9 198 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
10 197 (14.53%) Data Modelling
11 181 (13.35%) CI/CD
12 172 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
12 172 (12.68%) DevOps
13 142 (10.47%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 132 (9.73%) Validation
15 131 (9.66%) Data Engineering
15 131 (9.66%) Machine Learning
16 128 (9.44%) Actionable Insight
16 128 (9.44%) Data Science
17 124 (9.14%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 277 (20.43%) SQL
2 267 (19.69%) Python
3 70 (5.16%) Java
4 45 (3.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (3.10%) TypeScript
6 27 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.25%) C#
8 16 (1.18%) R
9 9 (0.66%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.59%) C++
11 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.52%) VBA
12 6 (0.44%) Bash
12 6 (0.44%) Ruby
12 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Cypher
13 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 227 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 177 (13.05%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.60%) Degree
4 55 (4.06%) PMP
5 50 (3.69%) PMI Certification
6 34 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.25%) CISSP
10 16 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 13 (0.96%) ACCA
12 11 (0.81%) CISM
13 10 (0.74%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.52%) CIMA
15 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.52%) PhD
16 5 (0.37%) CISA
16 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 94 (6.93%) PMO
3 69 (5.09%) QA
4 45 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 45 (3.32%) GDPR
5 21 (1.55%) NIST
6 20 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 16 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.03%) GRC
9 9 (0.66%) COREP
9 9 (0.66%) FINREP
10 8 (0.59%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.59%) SLA
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.37%) IFRS
12 5 (0.37%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) NCSC
13 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (3.76%) Docker
2 20 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 4 (0.29%) Squid
6 3 (0.22%) NFS
6 3 (0.22%) Postfix
6 3 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 78 (5.75%) Terraform
2 68 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.25%) Ansible
4 14 (1.03%) Grafana
5 10 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.44%) Kibana
9 5 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.29%) Control-M
10 4 (0.29%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.22%) SCCM
12 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.15%) Consul
12 2 (0.15%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) Puppet
12 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.15%) vMotion
Vendors
1 187 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.38%) Databricks
3 49 (3.61%) Google
4 47 (3.47%) SAP
5 44 (3.24%) Oracle
6 40 (2.95%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.18%) Workday
9 14 (1.03%) Adobe
10 11 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 10 (0.74%) Zscaler
12 9 (0.66%) GoldenSource
12 9 (0.66%) Murex
13 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.59%) Foundry
14 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
14 7 (0.52%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.52%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.52%) Splunk