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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 76
Rank change year-on-year +20 +26 +22
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,167 564 542
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.38% 4.67% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.21% 5.06% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 375 375
10th Percentile £377 £363 £299
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -11.39%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £642
90th Percentile £775 £775 £763
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 23
10th Percentile £26.52 £27.55 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.25 £28.60 -
Median hourly rate £34.23 £45.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% +61.81% -36.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.25 £41.88
90th Percentile £76.60 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.08 £18.50
% change year-on-year +68.95% +67.97% -60.00%

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 16,181 11,140 15,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.43% 92.20% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,808 7,503 11,081
10th Percentile £358 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 182 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.76 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £30.90 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.54% +10.68% -29.54%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.68 £63.23 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.71% -23.29% -2.67%

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 27 May 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 May 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 May 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 +6 158 £575 +4.55% 275
West London -10 36 £520 -13.33% 24
South London -1 18 £519 -13.58% 13
East London -2 5 £697 -10.06% 21
North London - 2 £413 - 5
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 (3.26%) Confluence
2 21 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.86%) nginx
6 5 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (2.57%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.46%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.37%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.086%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.086%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.086%) InVision
9 1 (0.086%) Sketch
9 1 (0.086%) SPSS
9 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.43%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.43%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.17%) Actimize
7 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.17%) Lorenzo
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 234 (20.05%) Azure
2 199 (17.05%) AWS
3 162 (13.88%) Power Platform
4 92 (7.88%) GCP
5 73 (6.26%) SaaS
6 38 (3.26%) Amazon S3
7 37 (3.17%) Serverless
7 37 (3.17%) Snowflake
8 36 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (2.66%) GitHub
11 28 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 22 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (1.54%) Collibra
13 18 (1.54%) dbt
14 17 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (1.37%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.11%) DNS
1 13 (1.11%) VPN
2 12 (1.03%) Firewall
3 11 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.77%) HTTP
4 9 (0.77%) OpenVPN
5 4 (0.34%) NAS
5 4 (0.34%) Network Security
5 4 (0.34%) SAN
6 3 (0.26%) WAN
7 2 (0.17%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.17%) Calico
7 2 (0.17%) Intelligent Network
7 2 (0.17%) Intranet
7 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.17%) NaaS
7 2 (0.17%) VSAN
7 2 (0.17%) Wireless
8 1 (0.086%) RS-485
8 1 (0.086%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (13.37%) Power BI
2 64 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (4.71%) Tableau
4 52 (4.46%) Metadata
5 31 (2.66%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.49%) SQL Server
7 27 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 20 (1.71%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.63%) Looker
9 19 (1.63%) Power Query
10 18 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 17 (1.46%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.29%) Big Data
13 14 (1.20%) Delta Lake
13 14 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (1.11%) Parquet
15 12 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 80 (6.86%) JIRA
2 39 (3.34%) Git
3 17 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.11%) GitLab
5 11 (0.94%) MLflow
5 11 (0.94%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.51%) ERwin
7 6 (0.51%) JUnit
7 6 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.34%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.34%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.34%) jMock
8 4 (0.34%) Maven
8 4 (0.34%) Mockito
9 3 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.26%) Toad
10 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 415 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 401 (34.36%) Finance
3 272 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (13.45%) Public Sector
5 128 (10.97%) Banking
6 65 (5.57%) Marketing
7 58 (4.97%) Influencing Skills
8 49 (4.20%) Retail
9 47 (4.03%) Legal
10 39 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.40%) Financial Institution
14 27 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.63%) Front Office
16 19 (1.63%) Local Government
17 18 (1.54%) Billing
18 16 (1.37%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 193 (16.54%) Analyst
2 177 (15.17%) Senior
3 136 (11.65%) Lead
4 98 (8.40%) Architect
5 93 (7.97%) Business Analyst
6 81 (6.94%) Data Engineer
7 80 (6.86%) Developer
8 74 (6.34%) Project Manager
9 68 (5.83%) Data Analyst
10 54 (4.63%) Consultant
11 38 (3.26%) Data Scientist
12 35 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (2.74%) Product Manager
14 30 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (2.49%) User Researcher
16 28 (2.40%) Senior Manager
17 27 (2.31%) Senior Data Engineer
18 24 (2.06%) Designer
19 22 (1.89%) Product Owner
20 21 (1.80%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (3.00%) REST
2 31 (2.66%) Pandas
3 22 (1.89%) React
4 21 (1.80%) Middleware
5 20 (1.71%) .NET
6 19 (1.63%) NumPy
6 19 (1.63%) PySpark
6 19 (1.63%) scikit-learn
7 18 (1.54%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.54%) Kafka
8 17 (1.46%) RESTful
9 16 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.37%) Spring
9 16 (1.37%) Spring Boot
10 14 (1.20%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.03%) LangChain
12 10 (0.86%) HTML
12 10 (0.86%) Node.js
12 10 (0.86%) OpenID
12 10 (0.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (6.68%) Cloud Native
2 68 (5.83%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (2.57%) Virtual Team
6 27 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 24 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.54%) PMI
10 18 (1.54%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.37%) NHS
13 15 (1.29%) FMCG
14 11 (0.94%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.94%) CMDB
15 9 (0.77%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.20%) Windows
2 12 (1.03%) Linux
3 4 (0.34%) VMS
4 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.086%) Solaris
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (26.39%) Agile
2 277 (23.74%) Analytics
3 269 (23.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 238 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 232 (19.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 227 (19.45%) AI
7 189 (16.20%) Roadmaps
8 184 (15.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 180 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
10 172 (14.74%) Data Modelling
11 151 (12.94%) CI/CD
12 149 (12.77%) DevOps
13 122 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
14 121 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
14 121 (10.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 118 (10.11%) ETL
16 117 (10.03%) Project Management
17 114 (9.77%) Data Governance
18 111 (9.51%) Migration
19 107 (9.17%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 240 (20.57%) SQL
2 225 (19.28%) Python
3 61 (5.23%) Java
4 36 (3.08%) TypeScript
5 30 (2.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (1.97%) C#
7 17 (1.46%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.46%) R
8 15 (1.29%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.69%) VBA
10 7 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.43%) Bicep
11 5 (0.43%) Ruby
11 5 (0.43%) Scala
11 5 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.34%) C++
12 4 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
12 4 (0.34%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.086%) Bash
Qualifications
1 201 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 163 (13.97%) SC Cleared
3 108 (9.25%) Degree
4 44 (3.77%) PMP
5 39 (3.34%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.40%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.97%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.54%) ACCA
11 16 (1.37%) CISSP
12 15 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.03%) CBAP
13 12 (1.03%) CIMA
14 10 (0.86%) CISM
15 9 (0.77%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.77%) IIBA
16 8 (0.69%) PhD
16 8 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (14.31%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.34%) PMO
3 67 (5.74%) QA
4 40 (3.43%) GDPR
5 31 (2.66%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.63%) NIST
7 18 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.94%) SLA
10 10 (0.86%) GRC
11 7 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.51%) COREP
12 6 (0.51%) FINREP
12 6 (0.51%) GAAP
12 6 (0.51%) IFRS
12 6 (0.51%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.43%) NCSC
14 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (2.66%) Docker
2 11 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.77%) Squid
4 7 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.34%) NFS
6 3 (0.26%) IAG
6 3 (0.26%) Postfix
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.17%) vSphere
8 1 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.086%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (5.83%) Terraform
2 62 (5.31%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.54%) Grafana
4 14 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.86%) Ansible
7 9 (0.77%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.60%) Consul
8 7 (0.60%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.43%) Kibana
9 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.34%) Control-M
10 4 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.34%) vMotion
11 3 (0.26%) Istio
12 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.17%) Argo
12 2 (0.17%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.17%) SCCM
13 1 (0.086%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 161 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 56 (4.80%) Oracle
3 52 (4.46%) Databricks
4 44 (3.77%) Google
4 44 (3.77%) SAP
5 40 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 36 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.71%) Workday
8 14 (1.20%) Adobe
9 12 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.94%) Dynatrace
11 9 (0.77%) Foundry
11 9 (0.77%) VMware
12 8 (0.69%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.60%) Software AG
13 7 (0.60%) Splunk
14 6 (0.51%) Murex
14 6 (0.51%) Planview