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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 65 70
Rank change year-on-year +24 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 785 492 567
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.51% 3.49% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.03% 3.86% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 306 406
10th Percentile £361 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £875 £750
England median daily rate £513 £539 £540
% change year-on-year -4.87% -0.23% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 18
10th Percentile - £30.30 £27.34
25th Percentile £18.25 £31.07 £29.61
Median hourly rate £31.49 £38.75 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year -18.74% +4.97% -32.88%
75th Percentile £41.81 £50.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £45.33 £64.18 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.49 £34.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -8.72% -24.80% -1.08%

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 13,014 12,735 15,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.41% 90.26% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,150 11,402
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.43% -2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 157 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.06 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £53.75 £54.56
90th Percentile £69.42 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -23.60% +27.14%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +16 106 £550 +5.26% 136
West London -9 11 £525 -47.50% 20
South London -23 3 £750 +25.00% 20
North London +5 2 £575 - 2
East London - 1 £575 - 12
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 (4.20%) Confluence
2 23 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.38%) Apache
6 3 (0.38%) CMS
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.25%) Appian
7 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
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%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 108 (13.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (2.17%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.51%) Notion
6 4 (0.51%) Trello
7 3 (0.38%) Sketch
7 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.25%) InVision
9 1 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.13%) SPSS
9 1 (0.13%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (1.15%) NetSuite
1 9 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.51%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.51%) SAP IBP
3 4 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.25%) Lorenzo
4 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.25%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.13%) Endur
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 150 (19.11%) Power Platform
2 126 (16.05%) Azure
3 90 (11.46%) AWS
4 40 (5.10%) GCP
5 35 (4.46%) SaaS
6 28 (3.57%) GitHub
7 24 (3.06%) Snowflake
8 20 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (2.04%) dbt
12 14 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (1.66%) Amazon S3
14 12 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.53%) PaaS
14 12 (1.53%) Serverless
15 10 (1.27%) ChatGPT
15 10 (1.27%) Power Automate
16 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.76%) Firewall
2 5 (0.64%) Network Security
2 5 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.51%) HTTP
3 4 (0.51%) Internet
3 4 (0.51%) Multicast
3 4 (0.51%) tcpdump
3 4 (0.51%) Wireless
3 4 (0.51%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.38%) 5G
4 3 (0.38%) Broadband
4 3 (0.38%) VPN
5 2 (0.25%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.25%) Calico
5 2 (0.25%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.25%) Intelligent Network
5 2 (0.25%) ISDN
5 2 (0.25%) PSTN
5 2 (0.25%) VSAN
5 2 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (18.22%) Power BI
2 48 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (4.46%) Tableau
4 29 (3.69%) Metadata
5 28 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.93%) Big Data
6 23 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
7 22 (2.80%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (1.66%) Hadoop
10 13 (1.66%) Power Query
10 13 (1.66%) Star Schema
11 11 (1.40%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.40%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.02%) Apache Hive
12 8 (1.02%) Looker
12 8 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.89%) Data Vault
13 7 (0.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (6.50%) JIRA
2 31 (3.95%) Git
3 15 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.15%) GitLab
5 6 (0.76%) MLflow
6 5 (0.64%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.64%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.13%) Gradle
10 1 (0.13%) LSMW
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 317 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 274 (34.90%) Finance
3 261 (33.25%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 103 (13.12%) Banking
6 43 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (5.10%) Marketing
9 30 (3.82%) Legal
10 27 (3.44%) Front Office
11 24 (3.06%) Publishing
12 22 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.55%) Retail
14 19 (2.42%) Financial Institution
14 19 (2.42%) Local Government
14 19 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 16 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.91%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.53%) Investment Banking
17 12 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 171 (21.78%) Analyst
2 105 (13.38%) Senior
3 85 (10.83%) Business Analyst
4 78 (9.94%) Lead
5 60 (7.64%) Developer
6 52 (6.62%) Architect
7 46 (5.86%) Data Analyst
7 46 (5.86%) Project Manager
8 38 (4.84%) Data Engineer
9 33 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
10 27 (3.44%) Consultant
11 22 (2.80%) Senior Manager
12 21 (2.68%) Data Scientist
12 21 (2.68%) Senior Business Analyst
13 20 (2.55%) Senior Data Engineer
14 18 (2.29%) Product Manager
15 17 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
16 15 (1.91%) User Researcher
17 13 (1.66%) Operations Manager
17 13 (1.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.55%) Kafka
2 18 (2.29%) Pandas
2 18 (2.29%) REST
3 17 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 16 (2.04%) scikit-learn
5 15 (1.91%) Middleware
6 14 (1.78%) React
6 14 (1.78%) TensorFlow
6 14 (1.78%) XML
7 13 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (1.66%) PySpark
7 13 (1.66%) PyTorch
8 12 (1.53%) NumPy
8 12 (1.53%) Plotly
9 10 (1.27%) RESTful
10 9 (1.15%) .NET
10 9 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (1.15%) JSON
11 8 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (1.02%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 39 (4.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 36 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.69%) Cloud Native
5 25 (3.18%) Algorithms
5 25 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.53%) Derivative
9 12 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.27%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.02%) NHS
12 8 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.18%) Linux
2 17 (2.17%) Windows
3 5 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (26.88%) Agile
1 211 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
2 191 (24.33%) Analytics
3 170 (21.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 159 (20.25%) Business Intelligence
5 124 (15.80%) AI
6 123 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 119 (15.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 118 (15.03%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 112 (14.27%) Roadmaps
10 103 (13.12%) Actionable Insight
11 99 (12.61%) Data Modelling
12 98 (12.48%) Data Analysis
13 96 (12.23%) Visualisation
14 87 (11.08%) Project Management
15 79 (10.06%) Data Governance
16 76 (9.68%) CI/CD
17 72 (9.17%) DevOps
18 69 (8.79%) Data Science
19 68 (8.66%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 173 (22.04%) SQL
2 147 (18.73%) Python
3 24 (3.06%) Java
4 18 (2.29%) R
5 17 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 16 (2.04%) C++
7 15 (1.91%) Bash
8 14 (1.78%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.53%) C#
10 12 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.27%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.15%) Bicep
13 7 (0.89%) Scala
13 7 (0.89%) VBA
14 5 (0.64%) Korn
14 5 (0.64%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.51%) Groovy
15 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 116 (14.78%) Degree
2 97 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 82 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.33%) Master's Degree
5 33 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.31%) PMI Certification
6 26 (3.31%) PMP
7 12 (1.53%) ACCA
7 12 (1.53%) CIMA
8 10 (1.27%) CISSP
9 9 (1.15%) PhD
10 8 (1.02%) CBAP
11 7 (0.89%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.76%) CISM
12 6 (0.76%) MBA
12 6 (0.76%) MCP
12 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.64%) APMP
13 5 (0.64%) IIBA
14 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (12.48%) Data Quality
2 38 (4.84%) PMO
3 32 (4.08%) QA
4 31 (3.95%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.80%) GDPR
6 14 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.66%) NIST
8 9 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (1.02%) GRC
9 8 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.89%) EU AI Act
11 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.64%) COBIT
12 5 (0.64%) GMP
12 5 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.64%) WCAG
13 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.51%) SLA
14 3 (0.38%) IFRS
14 3 (0.38%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 32 (4.08%) Docker
2 8 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) HDFS
4 5 (0.64%) zsh
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 35 (4.46%) Terraform
2 31 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.15%) Grafana
3 9 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.51%) Ansible
4 4 (0.51%) Kibana
4 4 (0.51%) logstash
4 4 (0.51%) Rancher
5 2 (0.25%) Control-M
5 2 (0.25%) Istio
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.13%) Consul
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Packer
6 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 101 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.86%) Oracle
3 38 (4.84%) SAP
4 30 (3.82%) Salesforce
4 30 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 26 (3.31%) Databricks
6 18 (2.29%) Google
7 12 (1.53%) Adobe
8 9 (1.15%) Solace
9 8 (1.02%) Cisco
9 8 (1.02%) Software AG
9 8 (1.02%) TIBCO
9 8 (1.02%) Workday
10 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.76%) Planview
11 4 (0.51%) Ariba
11 4 (0.51%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.51%) Informatica
11 4 (0.51%) Juniper
11 4 (0.51%) Palo Alto