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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 73 73
Rank change year-on-year +29 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 746 517 594
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.22% 3.31% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.69% 3.69% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 326 422
10th Percentile £350 £353 £375
25th Percentile £419 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.58%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £650
90th Percentile £750 £838 £750
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 16
10th Percentile - £30.30 £30.62
25th Percentile £18.25 £32.31 £35.47
Median hourly rate £31.49 £40.00 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -7.15% -21.67%
75th Percentile £39.63 £50.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £42.67 £64.18 £65.05
England median hourly rate £30.80 £32.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.96% -29.08% +9.56%

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 +11 99 £525 -3.45% 76
West London -7 10 £525 -25.00% 32
South London -21 3 £750 +25.00% 29
North London +3 2 £575 - 5
East London +4 1 £575 +91.67% 17
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 33 (4.42%) Confluence
2 22 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.67%) Apache
5 5 (0.67%) CMS
6 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Appian
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.13%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 103 (13.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (2.95%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (2.14%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.67%) Trello
7 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.54%) Notion
8 3 (0.40%) Sketch
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.27%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.27%) InVision
9 2 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.13%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.13%) SPSS
10 1 (0.13%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payroll
4 4 (0.54%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.40%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.27%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.27%) Endur
6 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 140 (18.77%) Power Platform
2 109 (14.61%) Azure
3 90 (12.06%) AWS
4 43 (5.76%) GCP
5 31 (4.16%) SaaS
6 23 (3.08%) Snowflake
7 20 (2.68%) GitHub
8 19 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (2.14%) dbt
10 14 (1.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.61%) Amazon S3
11 12 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (1.47%) ChatGPT
12 11 (1.47%) Serverless
13 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (1.34%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (1.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.67%) Firewall
1 5 (0.67%) Network Security
1 5 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.54%) Internet
2 4 (0.54%) Multicast
2 4 (0.54%) tcpdump
2 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.40%) 5G
3 3 (0.40%) Broadband
3 3 (0.40%) VPN
4 2 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.27%) DMZ
4 2 (0.27%) IOS XR
4 2 (0.27%) ISDN
4 2 (0.27%) Junos
4 2 (0.27%) NX-OS
4 2 (0.27%) PSTN
4 2 (0.27%) Softphone
4 2 (0.27%) WAN
4 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (17.83%) Power BI
2 43 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (5.63%) Tableau
4 24 (3.22%) Big Data
5 23 (3.08%) Metadata
6 22 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.41%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.14%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.88%) Hadoop
11 13 (1.74%) Star Schema
12 12 (1.61%) Power Query
13 10 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (1.21%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.07%) Delta Lake
15 8 (1.07%) Looker
15 8 (1.07%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.94%) Data Vault
16 7 (0.94%) Impala
16 7 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (6.84%) JIRA
2 31 (4.16%) Git
3 14 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.80%) GitLab
5 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.40%) MLflow
7 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.27%) Maven
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.13%) ERwin
9 1 (0.13%) LSMW
9 1 (0.13%) Postman
9 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 308 (41.29%) Social Skills
2 269 (36.06%) Finance
3 249 (33.38%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (14.08%) Banking
5 99 (13.27%) Public Sector
6 48 (6.43%) Influencing Skills
7 45 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (5.76%) Marketing
9 31 (4.16%) Legal
10 27 (3.62%) Front Office
11 25 (3.35%) Financial Institution
11 25 (3.35%) Publishing
12 23 (3.08%) Retail
13 21 (2.82%) Local Government
14 18 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (2.01%) Investment Banking
16 15 (2.01%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.74%) Manufacturing
18 11 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 165 (22.12%) Analyst
2 83 (11.13%) Senior
3 80 (10.72%) Business Analyst
4 74 (9.92%) Lead
5 57 (7.64%) Developer
6 52 (6.97%) Architect
7 47 (6.30%) Data Analyst
8 46 (6.17%) Project Manager
9 33 (4.42%) Data Engineer
10 27 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
11 22 (2.95%) Data Scientist
12 20 (2.68%) Consultant
13 18 (2.41%) Data Business Analyst
13 18 (2.41%) Senior Manager
14 15 (2.01%) Senior Data Engineer
15 14 (1.88%) Product Manager
16 13 (1.74%) Senior Business Analyst
17 12 (1.61%) Data Architect
17 12 (1.61%) Operations Manager
17 12 (1.61%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.68%) Kafka
2 18 (2.41%) AngularJS
3 17 (2.28%) React
4 16 (2.14%) Pandas
5 14 (1.88%) REST
6 13 (1.74%) NumPy
6 13 (1.74%) XML
7 12 (1.61%) Plotly
7 12 (1.61%) scikit-learn
8 11 (1.47%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.34%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.34%) JSON
9 10 (1.34%) PySpark
10 9 (1.21%) CSS
10 9 (1.21%) HTML
10 9 (1.21%) PyTorch
11 8 (1.07%) .NET
11 8 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (1.07%) Middleware
11 8 (1.07%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.90%) Product Ownership
2 39 (5.23%) Management Information System
3 35 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.35%) Algorithms
5 25 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.22%) Cloud Native
7 20 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.28%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.61%) Derivative
10 12 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.21%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.21%) NHS
14 8 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.07%) Reinsurance
14 8 (1.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.08%) Linux
2 13 (1.74%) Windows
3 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (27.48%) Agile
2 199 (26.68%) Problem-Solving
3 185 (24.80%) Analytics
4 150 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 147 (19.71%) Business Intelligence
6 114 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 113 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 110 (14.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 109 (14.61%) AI
10 100 (13.40%) Data Analysis
11 98 (13.14%) Visualisation
12 97 (13.00%) Actionable Insight
13 96 (12.87%) Data Modelling
14 94 (12.60%) Roadmaps
15 82 (10.99%) Project Management
16 75 (10.05%) Data Governance
17 68 (9.12%) Data Science
18 66 (8.85%) Risk Management
19 64 (8.58%) Change Management
20 62 (8.31%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 167 (22.39%) SQL
2 145 (19.44%) Python
3 24 (3.22%) Java
4 21 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.28%) R
6 16 (2.14%) C++
7 15 (2.01%) Bash
7 15 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.01%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.21%) C#
9 9 (1.21%) Scala
10 6 (0.80%) Bicep
10 6 (0.80%) Korn
10 6 (0.80%) VBA
11 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.54%) Groovy
12 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 104 (13.94%) Degree
2 90 (12.06%) Security Cleared
3 73 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 25 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.22%) Master's Degree
6 23 (3.08%) PMI Certification
7 21 (2.82%) PMP
8 11 (1.47%) ACCA
8 11 (1.47%) CIMA
9 10 (1.34%) CISSP
10 8 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.07%) PhD
11 6 (0.80%) CBAP
11 6 (0.80%) CISM
11 6 (0.80%) MBA
12 5 (0.67%) MCP
13 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.40%) CISA
13 3 (0.40%) IIBA
13 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.16%) PMO
3 29 (3.89%) Accessibility
4 26 (3.49%) QA
5 20 (2.68%) GDPR
6 14 (1.88%) NIST
7 12 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.21%) GRC
9 8 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.94%) EU AI Act
11 5 (0.67%) GMP
11 5 (0.67%) WCAG
12 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.40%) COBIT
13 3 (0.40%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.40%) NCSC
13 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (4.29%) Docker
2 7 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.80%) HDFS
4 5 (0.67%) zsh
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (4.16%) Terraform
2 27 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
3 10 (1.34%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.21%) Grafana
5 4 (0.54%) Ansible
5 4 (0.54%) Kibana
5 4 (0.54%) logstash
5 4 (0.54%) Rancher
6 1 (0.13%) Consul
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.13%) Packer
6 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 97 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.09%) SAP
3 35 (4.69%) Oracle
4 27 (3.62%) Salesforce
5 26 (3.49%) Databricks
6 24 (3.22%) Google
6 24 (3.22%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.74%) Adobe
8 10 (1.34%) Solace
9 8 (1.07%) TIBCO
10 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.94%) Workday
11 6 (0.80%) Cisco
11 6 (0.80%) Dataiku
11 6 (0.80%) Foundry
12 4 (0.54%) Ariba
12 4 (0.54%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.54%) Juniper
12 4 (0.54%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.54%) Planview