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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 54 79
Rank change year-on-year +24 +25 +21
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,256 589 514
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.55% 4.63% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.37% 5.00% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 396 351
10th Percentile £383 £359 £288
25th Percentile £450 £424 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £529 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.02% +0.71% -11.76%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
England median daily rate £519 £518 £514
% change year-on-year +0.25% +0.68% -8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 20
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £19.38
25th Percentile £31.63 £28.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +26.23% -29.77%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.23 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.70 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.81 £18.00
% change year-on-year +15.34% +71.14% -58.14%

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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +7 171 £600 +9.09% 103
West London 0 41 £536 -5.79% 43
South London +7 19 £519 -13.58% 16
East London +3 6 £719 -7.23% 24
North London - 1 £325 - 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 37 (2.95%) Confluence
2 25 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.80%) nginx
6 8 (0.64%) Apache
7 6 (0.48%) CMS
8 5 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.16%) Camunda
10 2 (0.16%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.16%) Mendix
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.080%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.59%) Chatbot
5 19 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.96%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.080%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.080%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.40%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.40%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.16%) Actimize
6 2 (0.16%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 250 (19.90%) Azure
2 224 (17.83%) AWS
3 168 (13.38%) Power Platform
4 102 (8.12%) GCP
5 65 (5.18%) SaaS
6 50 (3.98%) Amazon S3
7 44 (3.50%) Serverless
8 42 (3.34%) Snowflake
9 41 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (2.55%) GitHub
12 31 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (1.75%) dbt
15 20 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (1.51%) Entra ID
17 17 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
19 15 (1.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.27%) Firewall
1 16 (1.27%) VPN
2 14 (1.11%) DNS
3 11 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.72%) Network Security
4 9 (0.72%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.64%) HTTP
6 7 (0.56%) WAN
7 5 (0.40%) NAS
7 5 (0.40%) SAN
8 3 (0.24%) BGP
8 3 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.24%) MPLS
8 3 (0.24%) OSPF
8 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.24%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.16%) Intranet
9 2 (0.16%) IPsec
9 2 (0.16%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (12.90%) Power BI
2 67 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 56 (4.46%) Metadata
4 55 (4.38%) Tableau
5 35 (2.79%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.31%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (1.91%) SQL Server
9 23 (1.83%) Big Data
10 22 (1.75%) NoSQL
11 21 (1.67%) Relational Database
12 20 (1.59%) Looker
12 20 (1.59%) Power Query
13 18 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (1.43%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.11%) Delta Lake
15 13 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 80 (6.37%) JIRA
2 41 (3.26%) Git
3 20 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.96%) GitLab
5 11 (0.88%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.64%) MLflow
8 7 (0.56%) JUnit
9 6 (0.48%) ERwin
10 5 (0.40%) Mockito
11 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.32%) DbUnit
11 4 (0.32%) jMock
11 4 (0.32%) Maven
11 4 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.24%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.24%) Toad
12 3 (0.24%) VTune
12 3 (0.24%) Xcode
13 2 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 450 (35.83%) Finance
2 447 (35.59%) Social Skills
3 283 (22.53%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (13.93%) Public Sector
5 130 (10.35%) Banking
6 69 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (5.41%) Marketing
8 64 (5.10%) Retail
9 50 (3.98%) Legal
10 40 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (2.71%) Telecoms
13 27 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.15%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.75%) Investment Banking
15 21 (1.67%) Local Government
16 20 (1.59%) Front Office
17 15 (1.19%) Billing
18 13 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 189 (15.05%) Senior
2 188 (14.97%) Analyst
3 160 (12.74%) Lead
4 114 (9.08%) Architect
5 93 (7.40%) Data Engineer
6 89 (7.09%) Business Analyst
7 85 (6.77%) Project Manager
8 77 (6.13%) Developer
9 66 (5.25%) Data Analyst
10 50 (3.98%) Consultant
11 45 (3.58%) Data Scientist
12 39 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (2.71%) Product Manager
14 32 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (2.55%) User Researcher
15 30 (2.39%) Senior Manager
16 28 (2.23%) Technical Leader
17 26 (2.07%) Designer
17 26 (2.07%) Product Owner
18 25 (1.99%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.26%) REST
2 32 (2.55%) React
3 27 (2.15%) Pandas
4 26 (2.07%) Kafka
5 25 (1.99%) PySpark
6 21 (1.67%) Middleware
7 19 (1.51%) .NET
8 18 (1.43%) AngularJS
8 18 (1.43%) scikit-learn
9 17 (1.35%) NumPy
9 17 (1.35%) RESTful
10 15 (1.19%) JSON
10 15 (1.19%) Spring
10 15 (1.19%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.04%) PyTorch
12 12 (0.96%) Node.js
12 12 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (0.88%) HTML
13 11 (0.88%) LangChain
14 10 (0.80%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 90 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 87 (6.93%) Product Ownership
3 44 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 38 (3.03%) Virtual Team
6 35 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (2.55%) AI Agents
7 32 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.51%) FMCG
11 18 (1.43%) NHS
11 18 (1.43%) Taxonomies
12 17 (1.35%) PMI
12 17 (1.35%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.11%) CMDB
14 14 (1.11%) Data Centre
15 13 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.35%) Windows
2 15 (1.19%) Linux
3 6 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.32%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) VMS
6 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.080%) Solaris
8 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (27.71%) Agile
2 314 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 306 (24.36%) Analytics
4 262 (20.86%) AI
5 259 (20.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 250 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (16.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 194 (15.45%) Roadmaps
9 183 (14.57%) Business Intelligence
10 181 (14.41%) Data Modelling
11 177 (14.09%) CI/CD
12 167 (13.30%) DevOps
13 153 (12.18%) Data Pipeline
14 130 (10.35%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 128 (10.19%) Migration
16 125 (9.95%) Actionable Insight
17 124 (9.87%) Data Science
18 118 (9.39%) ETL
19 117 (9.32%) Project Management
20 116 (9.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 251 (19.98%) SQL
2 249 (19.82%) Python
3 69 (5.49%) Java
4 50 (3.98%) TypeScript
5 32 (2.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (1.99%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.67%) C#
8 16 (1.27%) R
9 10 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.64%) VBA
11 7 (0.56%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.48%) C++
12 6 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.48%) Ruby
13 5 (0.40%) Bicep
13 5 (0.40%) Scala
13 5 (0.40%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 219 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 181 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 106 (8.44%) Degree
4 48 (3.82%) PMP
5 44 (3.50%) PMI Certification
6 29 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.91%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.27%) ACCA
9 16 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.27%) CISSP
10 10 (0.80%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.80%) CIMA
11 9 (0.72%) CISM
12 8 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.56%) CBAP
14 6 (0.48%) CISA
14 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (13.93%) Data Quality
2 82 (6.53%) PMO
3 66 (5.25%) QA
4 45 (3.58%) Accessibility
5 43 (3.42%) GDPR
6 19 (1.51%) NIST
7 16 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.88%) GRC
9 10 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.80%) SLA
10 9 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.56%) COREP
11 7 (0.56%) FINREP
11 7 (0.56%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.40%) GAAP
12 5 (0.40%) IFRS
12 5 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.32%) NCSC
13 4 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (2.95%) Docker
2 14 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.72%) Squid
4 5 (0.40%) NFS
4 5 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.24%) IAG
5 3 (0.24%) Postfix
5 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.080%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.080%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.080%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 81 (6.45%) Terraform
2 65 (5.18%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.51%) Grafana
4 15 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.11%) Ansible
6 12 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.56%) Consul
8 7 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.48%) Kibana
9 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.32%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.32%) vMotion
11 3 (0.24%) Control-M
11 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.24%) SCCM
12 2 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) Puppet
12 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 183 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.70%) Databricks
3 52 (4.14%) Oracle
4 47 (3.74%) Google
5 42 (3.34%) SAP
6 39 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.87%) Salesforce
8 18 (1.43%) Workday
9 13 (1.04%) Adobe
9 13 (1.04%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.88%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.72%) Foundry
12 9 (0.72%) Murex
13 8 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.64%) Splunk
14 7 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.56%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.56%) VMware
15 6 (0.48%) Palantir