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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 49 66
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 +35
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,078 587 587
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.23% 4.64% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 5.06% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 386 421
10th Percentile £375 £356 £344
25th Percentile £440 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% -10.75%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £645
90th Percentile £752 £813 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 28
10th Percentile £18.44 £28.32 £19.57
25th Percentile £20.00 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £32.00 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.35% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £41.75 £55.25 £49.06
90th Percentile £74.75 £81.30 £54.13
England median hourly rate £57.50 £30.81 £18.00
% change year-on-year +86.66% +71.14% -65.58%

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 15,419 11,590 15,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 91.69% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,329 7,865 11,333
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.90
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 +15 152 £568 +8.10% 279
West London -13 22 £520 -16.80% 36
South London -17 18 £519 -13.58% 12
East London 0 5 £697 -10.06% 24
North London - 2 £413 - 1
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 45 (4.17%) Confluence
2 23 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.02%) nginx
5 8 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.46%) Apache
6 5 (0.46%) CMS
6 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.19%) Camunda
8 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.19%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 110 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (4.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (3.25%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (1.95%) MS Visio
6 18 (1.67%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.28%) Notion
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.19%) InVision
9 2 (0.19%) Sketch
9 2 (0.19%) Trello
10 1 (0.093%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 10 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.56%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.46%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.19%) Actimize
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 220 (20.41%) Azure
2 182 (16.88%) AWS
3 176 (16.33%) Power Platform
4 88 (8.16%) GCP
5 57 (5.29%) SaaS
6 40 (3.71%) Snowflake
7 38 (3.53%) Serverless
8 36 (3.34%) Amazon S3
8 36 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (2.88%) GitHub
11 30 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.48%) Collibra
15 16 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (1.30%) Dagster
16 14 (1.30%) dbt
16 14 (1.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.48%) Firewall
2 13 (1.21%) DNS
2 13 (1.21%) VPN
3 12 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.83%) Network Security
4 9 (0.83%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.74%) HTTP
6 4 (0.37%) NAS
6 4 (0.37%) SAN
6 4 (0.37%) WAN
7 3 (0.28%) 5G
7 3 (0.28%) Broadband
7 3 (0.28%) Internet
8 2 (0.19%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.19%) Calico
8 2 (0.19%) DHCP
8 2 (0.19%) DMZ
8 2 (0.19%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.19%) NaaS
8 2 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (15.68%) Power BI
2 69 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (4.45%) Tableau
4 44 (4.08%) Metadata
5 32 (2.97%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.23%) BigQuery
7 23 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (1.58%) Looker
9 17 (1.58%) NoSQL
9 17 (1.58%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (1.39%) Big Data
11 14 (1.30%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.21%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.21%) Power Query
13 12 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 88 (8.16%) JIRA
2 44 (4.08%) Git
3 16 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.21%) GitLab
5 12 (1.11%) MLflow
6 9 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.65%) ERwin
8 6 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.37%) JUnit
10 3 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.28%) Toad
11 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.19%) jMock
11 2 (0.19%) Maven
11 2 (0.19%) Postman
11 2 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.19%) Selenium
11 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 410 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 385 (35.71%) Finance
3 290 (26.90%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 126 (11.69%) Banking
6 57 (5.29%) Marketing
7 56 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (4.17%) Legal
9 43 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (3.80%) Retail
11 37 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.78%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.32%) Financial Institution
14 24 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (2.13%) Front Office
15 23 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (2.13%) Local Government
16 20 (1.86%) Billing
17 19 (1.76%) Investment Banking
18 15 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 186 (17.25%) Analyst
2 164 (15.21%) Senior
3 113 (10.48%) Lead
4 93 (8.63%) Business Analyst
5 87 (8.07%) Architect
6 82 (7.61%) Developer
7 72 (6.68%) Data Engineer
8 66 (6.12%) Project Manager
9 61 (5.66%) Data Analyst
10 40 (3.71%) Consultant
11 35 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
12 34 (3.15%) Senior Manager
13 31 (2.88%) Data Scientist
14 28 (2.60%) User Researcher
15 27 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (2.23%) Senior Data Engineer
17 23 (2.13%) Product Manager
18 22 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
19 21 (1.95%) Designer
19 21 (1.95%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.97%) Pandas
2 31 (2.88%) REST
3 25 (2.32%) Kafka
4 24 (2.23%) NumPy
4 24 (2.23%) scikit-learn
5 21 (1.95%) AngularJS
6 20 (1.86%) React
7 19 (1.76%) PySpark
8 18 (1.67%) .NET
8 18 (1.67%) Middleware
9 16 (1.48%) PyTorch
10 14 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.30%) RESTful
11 12 (1.11%) LangChain
11 12 (1.11%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.02%) Plotly
13 10 (0.93%) JSON
13 10 (0.93%) OpenID
14 9 (0.83%) LDAP
14 9 (0.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 64 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.25%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 27 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 26 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.32%) Virtual Team
9 21 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.48%) PMI
13 15 (1.39%) Data Centre
14 14 (1.30%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.30%) NHS
14 14 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.11%) CMDB
16 11 (1.02%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.11%) Windows
2 10 (0.93%) Linux
3 3 (0.28%) VMS
3 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.093%) Solaris
5 1 (0.093%) Unix
5 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (28.57%) Agile
2 261 (24.21%) Analytics
3 247 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
4 244 (22.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 200 (18.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 195 (18.09%) Business Intelligence
7 192 (17.81%) AI
8 166 (15.40%) Data Modelling
9 163 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 162 (15.03%) Roadmaps
11 139 (12.89%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 132 (12.24%) DevOps
13 128 (11.87%) CI/CD
14 122 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
15 115 (10.67%) ETL
16 114 (10.58%) Project Management
17 113 (10.48%) Migration
18 111 (10.30%) Visualisation
19 108 (10.02%) Data Governance
19 108 (10.02%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 233 (21.61%) SQL
2 217 (20.13%) Python
3 47 (4.36%) Java
4 26 (2.41%) TypeScript
5 25 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (2.04%) C#
7 19 (1.76%) R
8 16 (1.48%) PL/SQL
9 15 (1.39%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.83%) PowerShell
10 9 (0.83%) VBA
11 8 (0.74%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.65%) Bicep
12 7 (0.65%) C++
13 6 (0.56%) Bash
14 4 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.37%) Groovy
14 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.37%) Scala
15 3 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 181 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 147 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 118 (10.95%) Degree
4 37 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.25%) PMP
6 34 (3.15%) Master's Degree
6 34 (3.15%) PMI Certification
7 16 (1.48%) ACCA
7 16 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.30%) CIMA
8 14 (1.30%) CISSP
9 12 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.02%) CBAP
11 10 (0.93%) PhD
11 10 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.83%) CISM
12 9 (0.83%) IIBA
13 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.56%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (13.54%) Data Quality
2 66 (6.12%) PMO
3 64 (5.94%) QA
4 34 (3.15%) GDPR
5 33 (3.06%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.30%) NIST
7 13 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.11%) SLA
9 10 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.74%) GRC
11 7 (0.65%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.65%) WCAG
12 5 (0.46%) COBIT
12 5 (0.46%) COREP
12 5 (0.46%) FINREP
13 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (2.78%) Docker
2 9 (0.83%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.83%) Squid
3 7 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.37%) NFS
5 3 (0.28%) IAG
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.093%) Postfix
7 1 (0.093%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (5.75%) Terraform
2 58 (5.38%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.58%) Grafana
4 16 (1.48%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.74%) Ansible
7 8 (0.74%) Consul
8 7 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.37%) Control-M
9 4 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.37%) vMotion
10 3 (0.28%) Istio
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.19%) Argo
11 2 (0.19%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.093%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.093%) Packer
Vendors
1 153 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.29%) Oracle
3 53 (4.92%) Databricks
4 47 (4.36%) SAP
5 46 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 43 (3.99%) Google
7 35 (3.25%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.76%) Workday
9 18 (1.67%) Adobe
10 14 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.93%) Foundry
13 9 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.83%) Software AG
13 9 (0.83%) VMware
14 8 (0.74%) Planview
15 7 (0.65%) Cisco
16 6 (0.56%) Ariba
16 6 (0.56%) Murex