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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 48 86
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 +2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,339 676 473
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.65% 4.99% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 5.40% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 454 305
10th Percentile £390 £353 £300
25th Percentile £455 £414 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -9.21%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £746 £773
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.44 £30.80 £37.50
Median hourly rate £34.87 £37.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -20.54% +8.30%
75th Percentile £62.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £54.05 £50.75
England median hourly rate £35.53 £29.68 £16.06
% change year-on-year +19.73% +84.78% -65.60%

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 17,930 12,520 14,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.34% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,353 10,096
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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 202
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +6 187 £625 +13.64% 220
West London +14 60 £600 +11.45% 97
South London -3 11 £513 -14.58% 30
East London +6 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 36 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.61%) Confluence
3 28 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.19%) Apache
6 6 (0.45%) CMS
6 6 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.30%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.22%) Mendix
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) nginx
8 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.22%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 1 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.075%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.075%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.075%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.075%) WordPress
Applications
1 83 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (1.12%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.45%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
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%) Oracle EBS
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 (0.075%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.075%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 260 (19.42%) Azure
2 250 (18.67%) AWS
3 170 (12.70%) Power Platform
4 100 (7.47%) GCP
5 69 (5.15%) SaaS
6 57 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 43 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.84%) dbt
9 37 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 33 (2.46%) GitHub
11 31 (2.32%) Serverless
12 28 (2.09%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 23 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.42%) Power Automate
17 17 (1.27%) Amazon Bedrock
18 16 (1.19%) OCI
18 16 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.12%) WAN
2 14 (1.05%) Firewall
3 11 (0.82%) VPN
4 10 (0.75%) Network Security
5 7 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 6 (0.45%) DNS
7 4 (0.30%) LAN
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Broadband
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) IPsec
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) SAN
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (12.32%) Power BI
2 73 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (4.11%) Metadata
4 53 (3.96%) Tableau
5 37 (2.76%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.17%) Power Query
7 27 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 22 (1.64%) Big Data
10 22 (1.64%) NoSQL
11 20 (1.49%) Looker
12 16 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.19%) Delta Lake
12 16 (1.19%) SQL Server
12 16 (1.19%) Star Schema
13 15 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (1.05%) MongoDB
14 14 (1.05%) Oracle Database
15 11 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (5.45%) JIRA
2 36 (2.69%) Git
3 24 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.82%) GitLab
5 5 (0.37%) JUnit
5 5 (0.37%) Mockito
5 5 (0.37%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
6 4 (0.30%) ERwin
6 4 (0.30%) jMock
6 4 (0.30%) Maven
6 4 (0.30%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.22%) VTune
7 3 (0.22%) Xcode
8 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
8 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 485 (36.22%) Finance
2 477 (35.62%) Social Skills
3 318 (23.75%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (14.49%) Public Sector
5 156 (11.65%) Banking
6 98 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
7 81 (6.05%) Retail
8 73 (5.45%) Marketing
9 53 (3.96%) Legal
10 44 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (2.24%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.17%) Investment Banking
15 28 (2.09%) Front Office
16 26 (1.94%) Local Government
17 25 (1.87%) Financial Institution
18 23 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
19 19 (1.42%) Aviation
20 15 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 204 (15.24%) Analyst
2 201 (15.01%) Senior
3 171 (12.77%) Lead
4 151 (11.28%) Architect
5 94 (7.02%) Business Analyst
6 91 (6.80%) Data Engineer
7 89 (6.65%) Project Manager
8 74 (5.53%) Developer
9 68 (5.08%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.96%) Data Scientist
11 50 (3.73%) Consultant
12 44 (3.29%) Senior Manager
13 43 (3.21%) Product Manager
14 40 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
15 38 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.32%) Data Architect
17 30 (2.24%) Designer
18 29 (2.17%) Product Owner
19 27 (2.02%) Senior Data Engineer
20 26 (1.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.14%) REST
2 33 (2.46%) Kafka
3 28 (2.09%) React
4 27 (2.02%) PySpark
5 24 (1.79%) Pandas
6 18 (1.34%) Middleware
7 15 (1.12%) .NET
7 15 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 15 (1.12%) JSON
7 15 (1.12%) RESTful
8 14 (1.05%) NumPy
8 14 (1.05%) Spring
8 14 (1.05%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.97%) Node.js
10 12 (0.90%) HTML
10 12 (0.90%) scikit-learn
11 11 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
12 9 (0.67%) PyTorch
13 8 (0.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 104 (7.77%) Product Ownership
2 94 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.73%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.76%) Virtual Team
7 34 (2.54%) AI Agents
8 27 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 20 (1.49%) NHS
10 20 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.42%) FMCG
12 17 (1.27%) CMDB
12 17 (1.27%) PMI
13 16 (1.19%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.12%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.05%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.19%) Linux
1 16 (1.19%) Windows
2 6 (0.45%) Mac OS
2 6 (0.45%) Unix
3 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.15%) Android
4 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.075%) Solaris
5 1 (0.075%) VMS
5 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (31.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 372 (27.78%) Agile
3 345 (25.77%) Analytics
4 295 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 288 (21.51%) AI
6 262 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
7 238 (17.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 225 (16.80%) Roadmaps
9 193 (14.41%) Data Modelling
10 189 (14.12%) Business Intelligence
11 178 (13.29%) CI/CD
12 169 (12.62%) DevOps
13 166 (12.40%) Data Pipeline
14 136 (10.16%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 133 (9.93%) Validation
16 127 (9.48%) Actionable Insight
16 127 (9.48%) Data Engineering
17 125 (9.34%) Machine Learning
18 124 (9.26%) Data Governance
18 124 (9.26%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 268 (20.01%) SQL
2 264 (19.72%) Python
3 69 (5.15%) Java
4 45 (3.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 40 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.09%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.27%) C#
8 15 (1.12%) R
9 11 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.60%) Bash
10 8 (0.60%) C++
10 8 (0.60%) VBA
11 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.45%) Ruby
12 6 (0.45%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Cypher
13 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 217 (16.21%) Security Cleared
2 170 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 99 (7.39%) Degree
4 55 (4.11%) PMP
5 50 (3.73%) PMI Certification
6 32 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.05%) ACCA
10 14 (1.05%) CISSP
11 11 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.60%) CIMA
12 8 (0.60%) CISM
13 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.45%) PhD
15 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
15 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (13.59%) Data Quality
2 90 (6.72%) PMO
3 67 (5.00%) QA
4 46 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 45 (3.36%) GDPR
6 22 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 17 (1.27%) NIST
8 13 (0.97%) GRC
9 12 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.60%) COREP
10 8 (0.60%) FINREP
11 7 (0.52%) IFRS
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.52%) SLA
12 5 (0.37%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) SEPA
13 4 (0.30%) GAAP
13 4 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (3.66%) Docker
2 19 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
6 2 (0.15%) NFS
6 2 (0.15%) Squid
6 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.075%) Firmware
7 1 (0.075%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.075%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.075%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.075%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (5.68%) Terraform
2 64 (4.78%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.27%) Ansible
4 12 (0.90%) Grafana
5 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.45%) Kibana
7 6 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.37%) Control-M
9 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.22%) SCCM
10 3 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.075%) Consul
12 1 (0.075%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.075%) vMotion
Vendors
1 186 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.38%) Databricks
3 46 (3.44%) Google
3 46 (3.44%) SAP
4 45 (3.36%) Oracle
5 43 (3.21%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.19%) Adobe
7 16 (1.19%) Workday
8 11 (0.82%) Murex
8 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 10 (0.75%) Zscaler
10 8 (0.60%) Amplitude
10 8 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.60%) Foundry
10 8 (0.60%) GoldenSource
11 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
11 7 (0.52%) Bloomberg
11 7 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (0.52%) Splunk