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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 67 69
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 755 518 593
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.28% 3.44% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.78% 3.82% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 323 425
10th Percentile £346 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £650
90th Percentile £750 £848 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 16
10th Percentile - £30.50 £30.62
25th Percentile £18.25 £31.46 £35.47
Median hourly rate £31.49 £37.50 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% -12.96% -21.67%
75th Percentile £39.63 £50.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £42.67 £60.75 £65.05
England median hourly rate £31.49 £34.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.38% -24.75% +5.00%

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 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +10 97 £525 - 68
West London -10 11 £525 -47.50% 29
South London -17 3 £750 +25.00% 15
North London +5 2 £575 - 4
East London +4 1 £575 +91.67% 25
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 31 (4.11%) Confluence
2 25 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.66%) Apache
5 5 (0.66%) CMS
6 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.26%) Appian
7 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.26%) nginx
7 2 (0.26%) 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%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 108 (14.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (4.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (2.38%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.66%) Trello
7 4 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.53%) Notion
8 3 (0.40%) Sketch
9 2 (0.26%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.26%) InVision
9 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.13%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.13%) SPSS
10 1 (0.13%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 11 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.53%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.53%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.26%) Endur
6 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.26%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 141 (18.68%) Power Platform
2 112 (14.83%) Azure
3 91 (12.05%) AWS
4 43 (5.70%) GCP
5 31 (4.11%) SaaS
6 24 (3.18%) Snowflake
7 21 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (2.65%) GitHub
9 16 (2.12%) dbt
10 13 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 13 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (1.59%) PaaS
11 12 (1.59%) Serverless
12 11 (1.46%) ChatGPT
13 10 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (1.32%) Power Automate
14 9 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.79%) Firewall
2 5 (0.66%) Network Security
2 5 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.53%) Internet
3 4 (0.53%) Multicast
3 4 (0.53%) tcpdump
3 4 (0.53%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.40%) 5G
4 3 (0.40%) Broadband
4 3 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.26%) DMZ
5 2 (0.26%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.26%) ISDN
5 2 (0.26%) Junos
5 2 (0.26%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.26%) PSTN
5 2 (0.26%) Softphone
5 2 (0.26%) WAN
5 2 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (17.75%) Power BI
2 41 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (5.17%) Tableau
4 24 (3.18%) Big Data
4 24 (3.18%) Metadata
5 22 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 18 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.12%) Power Query
9 14 (1.85%) Data Lake
10 13 (1.72%) Hadoop
10 13 (1.72%) Star Schema
11 10 (1.32%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (1.06%) Apache Hive
12 8 (1.06%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.93%) Data Vault
13 7 (0.93%) Looker
Development Applications
1 49 (6.49%) JIRA
2 32 (4.24%) Git
3 15 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.79%) GitLab
5 5 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.53%) MLflow
6 4 (0.53%) Selenium
6 4 (0.53%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.26%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.26%) Maven
8 2 (0.26%) Postman
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.13%) LSMW
9 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 312 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 269 (35.63%) Finance
3 261 (34.57%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (14.17%) Banking
5 97 (12.85%) Public Sector
6 47 (6.23%) Influencing Skills
7 44 (5.83%) Marketing
8 42 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (4.11%) Legal
10 26 (3.44%) Front Office
11 25 (3.31%) Publishing
12 23 (3.05%) Financial Institution
13 21 (2.78%) Retail
14 20 (2.65%) Local Government
15 17 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (2.12%) Investment Banking
17 15 (1.99%) Telecoms
18 14 (1.85%) Manufacturing
19 11 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 169 (22.38%) Analyst
2 83 (10.99%) Senior
3 77 (10.20%) Business Analyst
4 73 (9.67%) Lead
5 57 (7.55%) Architect
5 57 (7.55%) Developer
6 48 (6.36%) Data Analyst
7 43 (5.70%) Project Manager
8 32 (4.24%) Data Engineer
9 26 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
10 23 (3.05%) Data Scientist
11 20 (2.65%) Consultant
11 20 (2.65%) Senior Manager
12 18 (2.38%) Data Business Analyst
13 16 (2.12%) Product Manager
14 15 (1.99%) Senior Data Engineer
15 13 (1.72%) Senior Business Analyst
15 13 (1.72%) User Researcher
16 12 (1.59%) Project Leader
16 12 (1.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.78%) Kafka
2 18 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 16 (2.12%) React
4 15 (1.99%) Pandas
5 14 (1.85%) scikit-learn
6 13 (1.72%) REST
6 13 (1.72%) TensorFlow
7 12 (1.59%) NumPy
7 12 (1.59%) Plotly
7 12 (1.59%) XML
8 11 (1.46%) PyTorch
9 10 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.32%) Middleware
9 10 (1.32%) PySpark
10 9 (1.19%) .NET
10 9 (1.19%) CSS
10 9 (1.19%) HTML
10 9 (1.19%) JSON
10 9 (1.19%) RESTful
11 8 (1.06%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.83%) Product Ownership
2 39 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 37 (4.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 26 (3.44%) Algorithms
4 26 (3.44%) Cloud Native
5 25 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.52%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.85%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.59%) Derivative
11 11 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.06%) NHS
14 8 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.18%) Linux
2 14 (1.85%) Windows
3 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (26.62%) Agile
1 201 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
2 184 (24.37%) Analytics
3 153 (20.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 150 (19.87%) Business Intelligence
5 119 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (15.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 113 (14.97%) AI
8 112 (14.83%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 100 (13.25%) Actionable Insight
10 99 (13.11%) Roadmaps
11 97 (12.85%) Data Analysis
11 97 (12.85%) Visualisation
12 95 (12.58%) Data Modelling
13 79 (10.46%) Project Management
14 78 (10.33%) Data Governance
15 69 (9.14%) Data Science
16 67 (8.87%) Risk Management
17 65 (8.61%) CI/CD
18 64 (8.48%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (21.85%) SQL
2 142 (18.81%) Python
3 24 (3.18%) Java
4 19 (2.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (2.38%) R
6 16 (2.12%) C++
7 15 (1.99%) Bash
7 15 (1.99%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.85%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.59%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.46%) C#
11 9 (1.19%) Scala
12 7 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.79%) Bicep
13 6 (0.79%) VBA
14 5 (0.66%) Korn
14 5 (0.66%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.53%) Groovy
15 4 (0.53%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 109 (14.44%) Degree
2 90 (11.92%) Security Cleared
3 74 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 29 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.58%) Master's Degree
6 22 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.65%) PMP
8 10 (1.32%) ACCA
8 10 (1.32%) CIMA
8 10 (1.32%) CISSP
9 8 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.06%) PhD
10 6 (0.79%) CBAP
10 6 (0.79%) CISM
10 6 (0.79%) MBA
11 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.66%) MCP
12 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (11.39%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.50%) PMO
3 29 (3.84%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.71%) QA
5 21 (2.78%) GDPR
6 14 (1.85%) NIST
7 12 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (1.19%) GRC
9 7 (0.93%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.66%) GMP
10 5 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.66%) WCAG
11 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.40%) COBIT
12 3 (0.40%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.40%) NCSC
12 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (4.24%) Docker
2 7 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.79%) HDFS
4 5 (0.66%) zsh
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (4.24%) Terraform
2 30 (3.97%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
3 10 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.19%) Grafana
5 4 (0.53%) Ansible
5 4 (0.53%) Kibana
5 4 (0.53%) logstash
5 4 (0.53%) Rancher
6 1 (0.13%) Consul
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Istio
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.13%) Packer
6 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 95 (12.58%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.90%) SAP
3 34 (4.50%) Oracle
4 27 (3.58%) Salesforce
5 25 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.18%) Databricks
7 23 (3.05%) Google
8 12 (1.59%) Adobe
9 10 (1.32%) Solace
10 8 (1.06%) TIBCO
11 7 (0.93%) Cisco
11 7 (0.93%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.79%) Foundry
12 6 (0.79%) Planview
13 5 (0.66%) Software AG
13 5 (0.66%) Workday
14 4 (0.53%) Dataiku
14 4 (0.53%) Juniper
14 4 (0.53%) UiPath
14 4 (0.53%) Xero