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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 53 82
Rank change year-on-year +22 +29 +17
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,277 623 521
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.60% 4.71% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.42% 5.11% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 415 353
10th Percentile £375 £356 £288
25th Percentile £450 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -10.26%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £775 £763 £773
England median daily rate £520 £515 £515
% change year-on-year +0.97% +0.10% -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.44 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £34.87 £32.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +4.92% -29.77%
75th Percentile £57.69 £51.22 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +14.60% +72.24% -58.55%

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 17,207 12,190 15,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.22% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,434 8,142 11,106
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 227 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -25.47%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +5 171 £625 +13.64% 325
West London +3 45 £536 -1.46% 39
South London +10 20 £519 -13.58% 16
East London +3 6 £719 -7.23% 24
North London - 1 £325 - 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 (2.98%) Confluence
2 25 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (1.88%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.78%) nginx
6 8 (0.63%) Apache
7 7 (0.55%) CMS
8 5 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.23%) SAS
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
11 1 (0.078%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.078%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
Applications
1 89 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 33 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.57%) Chatbot
5 19 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.94%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.078%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.078%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.39%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.39%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.16%) Actimize
6 2 (0.16%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 254 (19.89%) Azure
2 234 (18.32%) AWS
3 168 (13.16%) Power Platform
4 103 (8.07%) GCP
5 66 (5.17%) SaaS
6 50 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 44 (3.45%) Serverless
8 43 (3.37%) Snowflake
9 41 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (2.19%) GitHub
12 26 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 23 (1.80%) dbt
14 20 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (1.49%) Entra ID
16 16 (1.25%) Collibra
16 16 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.25%) Firewall
1 16 (1.25%) VPN
2 14 (1.10%) DNS
3 11 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.70%) Network Security
4 9 (0.70%) OpenVPN
5 7 (0.55%) WAN
6 6 (0.47%) HTTP
7 5 (0.39%) NAS
7 5 (0.39%) SAN
8 3 (0.23%) BGP
8 3 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.23%) MPLS
8 3 (0.23%) OSPF
8 3 (0.23%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.23%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.16%) Intranet
9 2 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.16%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (12.69%) Power BI
2 64 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (4.54%) Tableau
4 57 (4.46%) Metadata
5 35 (2.74%) BigQuery
6 26 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 26 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (1.80%) Big Data
8 22 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 22 (1.72%) SQL Server
9 21 (1.64%) Looker
10 20 (1.57%) Power Query
10 20 (1.57%) Relational Database
11 18 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (1.41%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.17%) Delta Lake
13 13 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
15 11 (0.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 81 (6.34%) JIRA
2 44 (3.45%) Git
3 20 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.86%) GitLab
4 11 (0.86%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.55%) JUnit
6 7 (0.55%) MLflow
7 6 (0.47%) ERwin
8 5 (0.39%) Mockito
9 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.31%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.31%) jMock
9 4 (0.31%) Maven
10 3 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.23%) Toad
10 3 (0.23%) VTune
10 3 (0.23%) Xcode
11 2 (0.16%) PowerBuilder
General
1 461 (36.10%) Finance
2 455 (35.63%) Social Skills
3 293 (22.94%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (14.02%) Public Sector
5 132 (10.34%) Banking
6 72 (5.64%) Influencing Skills
7 71 (5.56%) Marketing
8 64 (5.01%) Retail
9 50 (3.92%) Legal
10 38 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 29 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.11%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.88%) Local Government
15 23 (1.80%) Investment Banking
16 21 (1.64%) Front Office
17 16 (1.25%) Billing
18 13 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 194 (15.19%) Analyst
2 183 (14.33%) Senior
3 156 (12.22%) Lead
4 119 (9.32%) Architect
5 93 (7.28%) Data Engineer
6 89 (6.97%) Business Analyst
7 86 (6.73%) Project Manager
8 77 (6.03%) Developer
9 68 (5.32%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.76%) Data Scientist
11 47 (3.68%) Consultant
12 37 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.74%) Product Manager
14 32 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (2.43%) User Researcher
16 30 (2.35%) Senior Manager
17 28 (2.19%) Designer
17 28 (2.19%) Product Owner
18 25 (1.96%) Technical Leader
19 24 (1.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.13%) REST
2 32 (2.51%) React
3 28 (2.19%) Kafka
4 27 (2.11%) Pandas
5 26 (2.04%) PySpark
6 19 (1.49%) .NET
6 19 (1.49%) Middleware
7 18 (1.41%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.41%) NumPy
7 18 (1.41%) scikit-learn
8 17 (1.33%) RESTful
9 15 (1.17%) JSON
9 15 (1.17%) Spring
9 15 (1.17%) Spring Boot
10 12 (0.94%) HTML
10 12 (0.94%) Node.js
10 12 (0.94%) PyTorch
11 10 (0.78%) LDAP
11 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (0.78%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 90 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 87 (6.81%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 40 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 37 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.43%) AI Agents
7 31 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.49%) NHS
11 18 (1.41%) FMCG
11 18 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.33%) Taxonomies
13 16 (1.25%) PMI
14 15 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.10%) CMDB
15 14 (1.10%) Data Centre
16 12 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.25%) Windows
2 14 (1.10%) Linux
3 6 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.31%) Unix
6 3 (0.23%) VMS
6 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.078%) Solaris
8 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (27.64%) Agile
2 326 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 314 (24.59%) Analytics
4 266 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 265 (20.75%) AI
6 256 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
7 218 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 204 (15.97%) Roadmaps
9 183 (14.33%) Data Modelling
10 182 (14.25%) Business Intelligence
11 177 (13.86%) CI/CD
12 169 (13.23%) DevOps
13 156 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
14 136 (10.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 131 (10.26%) Migration
16 127 (9.95%) Actionable Insight
17 124 (9.71%) Data Science
18 123 (9.63%) Validation
19 119 (9.32%) Machine Learning
20 117 (9.16%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 256 (20.05%) SQL
2 253 (19.81%) Python
3 70 (5.48%) Java
4 51 (3.99%) TypeScript
5 32 (2.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.64%) C#
8 16 (1.25%) R
9 10 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.70%) VBA
11 7 (0.55%) C++
11 7 (0.55%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.47%) Ruby
13 5 (0.39%) Scala
13 5 (0.39%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.31%) Cypher
14 4 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.31%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 222 (17.38%) Security Cleared
2 182 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 105 (8.22%) Degree
4 47 (3.68%) PMP
5 43 (3.37%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.25%) CISSP
12 15 (1.17%) ACCA
13 11 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.70%) CIMA
14 9 (0.70%) CISM
15 8 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.47%) CBAP
17 6 (0.47%) CISA
18 4 (0.31%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (13.55%) Data Quality
2 85 (6.66%) PMO
3 69 (5.40%) QA
4 47 (3.68%) Accessibility
5 46 (3.60%) GDPR
6 20 (1.57%) NIST
7 16 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.86%) GRC
9 11 (0.86%) SLA
10 9 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.55%) COREP
11 7 (0.55%) FINREP
11 7 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.31%) GAAP
12 4 (0.31%) IFRS
12 4 (0.31%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (3.05%) Docker
2 14 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.70%) Squid
4 5 (0.39%) NFS
4 5 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.31%) IAG
6 3 (0.23%) Postfix
6 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.078%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (6.19%) Terraform
2 68 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.49%) Grafana
4 15 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.10%) Ansible
6 12 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.55%) Consul
8 7 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.47%) Kibana
9 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.31%) vMotion
11 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.23%) SCCM
12 2 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.16%) Control-M
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) Puppet
12 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 180 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.78%) Databricks
3 50 (3.92%) Google
4 48 (3.76%) Oracle
5 44 (3.45%) SAP
6 38 (2.98%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.25%) Workday
9 14 (1.10%) Adobe
10 13 (1.02%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.94%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.86%) Dynatrace
13 10 (0.78%) Murex
14 9 (0.70%) Foundry
14 9 (0.70%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.63%) Splunk
16 7 (0.55%) Anaplan
16 7 (0.55%) Bloomberg
16 7 (0.55%) GoldenSource
16 7 (0.55%) VMware