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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 62 66
Rank change year-on-year +23 +4 +33
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 837 496 585
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.67% 3.59% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 3.97% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 312 431
10th Percentile £363 £348 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £692 £645
90th Percentile £774 £875 £769
England median daily rate £514 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.93% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 25
10th Percentile - £28.60 £26.87
25th Percentile £18.25 £30.03 £27.81
Median hourly rate £31.49 £34.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -0.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile £41.78 £50.75 £43.51
90th Percentile £44.98 £59.75 £62.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £31.17 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.08% -10.94% -31.37%

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 13,441 12,496 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.45% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,906 7,945 11,669
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 155 323
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.11 £24.66 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £56.13 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.50 £72.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +18 114 £550 +10.00% 133
West London -14 10 £511 -40.72% 22
South London -19 8 £550 -8.33% 39
East London +4 3 £625 - 19
North London +5 2 £413 - 2
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 39 (4.66%) Confluence
2 20 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.84%) nginx
6 4 (0.48%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.36%) Apache
7 3 (0.36%) CMS
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) Appian
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
8 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.12%) Camunda
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 106 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (2.15%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.36%) Notion
8 3 (0.36%) Sketch
8 3 (0.36%) Trello
9 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.24%) InVision
10 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.12%) SPSS
10 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (1.08%) NetSuite
1 9 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.48%) SAP IBP
3 4 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.36%) Loan IQ
4 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.36%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.24%) Lorenzo
5 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.24%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.12%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 157 (18.76%) Power Platform
2 146 (17.44%) Azure
3 106 (12.66%) AWS
4 44 (5.26%) GCP
5 36 (4.30%) SaaS
6 30 (3.58%) GitHub
7 24 (2.87%) Snowflake
8 22 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (2.27%) Serverless
11 17 (2.03%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.55%) dbt
13 13 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (1.55%) PaaS
14 12 (1.43%) Collibra
15 11 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (1.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.31%) Firewall
2 10 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 8 (0.96%) VPN
4 6 (0.72%) DNS
4 6 (0.72%) HTTP
4 6 (0.72%) Network Security
5 5 (0.60%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.48%) Internet
6 4 (0.48%) Multicast
6 4 (0.48%) tcpdump
6 4 (0.48%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.36%) 5G
7 3 (0.36%) Broadband
7 3 (0.36%) Wireless
8 2 (0.24%) Calico
8 2 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.24%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.24%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.24%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (17.80%) Power BI
2 50 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (4.54%) Tableau
4 37 (4.42%) Metadata
5 33 (3.94%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 26 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
8 21 (2.51%) Big Data
9 17 (2.03%) Relational Database
10 16 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (1.67%) Delta Lake
11 14 (1.67%) Hadoop
11 14 (1.67%) Power Query
12 13 (1.55%) Star Schema
13 11 (1.31%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.96%) Apache Hive
15 8 (0.96%) Looker
16 7 (0.84%) Impala
Development Applications
1 61 (7.29%) JIRA
2 33 (3.94%) Git
3 15 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.19%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.08%) GitLab
6 7 (0.84%) MLflow
7 5 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.60%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.48%) ERwin
8 4 (0.48%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.24%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.24%) Postman
10 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.12%) Gradle
11 1 (0.12%) LSMW
General
1 340 (40.62%) Social Skills
2 290 (34.65%) Finance
3 252 (30.11%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (12.66%) Public Sector
5 101 (12.07%) Banking
6 40 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
7 39 (4.66%) Marketing
8 37 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (3.58%) Legal
10 28 (3.35%) Front Office
11 25 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
12 24 (2.87%) Publishing
12 24 (2.87%) Retail
13 23 (2.75%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.39%) Local Government
15 18 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (2.03%) Billing
17 16 (1.91%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.91%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (20.43%) Analyst
2 112 (13.38%) Senior
3 86 (10.27%) Lead
4 83 (9.92%) Business Analyst
5 67 (8.00%) Developer
6 54 (6.45%) Architect
7 50 (5.97%) Project Manager
8 49 (5.85%) Data Analyst
9 43 (5.14%) Data Engineer
10 32 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
11 31 (3.70%) Consultant
12 23 (2.75%) Senior Manager
13 21 (2.51%) Senior Business Analyst
13 21 (2.51%) User Researcher
14 20 (2.39%) Senior Data Engineer
15 19 (2.27%) Data Scientist
15 19 (2.27%) Product Manager
16 17 (2.03%) Data Business Analyst
17 16 (1.91%) Solutions Architect
18 14 (1.67%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.75%) Kafka
2 19 (2.27%) REST
3 18 (2.15%) AngularJS
3 18 (2.15%) React
4 17 (2.03%) Pandas
5 16 (1.91%) Middleware
5 16 (1.91%) PySpark
6 15 (1.79%) scikit-learn
7 13 (1.55%) .NET
7 13 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (1.55%) RESTful
8 12 (1.43%) NumPy
8 12 (1.43%) Plotly
8 12 (1.43%) PyTorch
8 12 (1.43%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.19%) XML
10 9 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (1.08%) JSON
11 8 (0.96%) HTML
11 8 (0.96%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.62%) Product Ownership
2 40 (4.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 37 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 35 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.39%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.55%) Derivative
10 13 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.43%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.08%) Credit Risk
13 9 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.08%) FMCG
13 9 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.99%) Linux
2 18 (2.15%) Windows
3 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.24%) Unix
4 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (26.76%) Problem-Solving
2 223 (26.64%) Agile
3 197 (23.54%) Analytics
4 178 (21.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 167 (19.95%) Business Intelligence
6 131 (15.65%) AI
7 126 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 126 (15.05%) Roadmaps
8 125 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 122 (14.58%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 116 (13.86%) Actionable Insight
11 102 (12.19%) Data Modelling
12 100 (11.95%) Data Analysis
13 97 (11.59%) Visualisation
14 88 (10.51%) CI/CD
14 88 (10.51%) Project Management
15 87 (10.39%) Data Governance
16 86 (10.27%) DevOps
17 76 (9.08%) Risk Management
18 75 (8.96%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 192 (22.94%) SQL
2 160 (19.12%) Python
3 25 (2.99%) Java
4 18 (2.15%) TypeScript
5 17 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (1.79%) Bash
6 15 (1.79%) R
7 14 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.55%) C#
9 12 (1.43%) C++
9 12 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.08%) Bicep
10 9 (1.08%) VBA
11 5 (0.60%) Korn
11 5 (0.60%) Scala
11 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.48%) Groovy
13 3 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 112 (13.38%) Degree
2 109 (13.02%) Security Cleared
3 93 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.94%) Master's Degree
6 27 (3.23%) PMI Certification
7 26 (3.11%) PMP
8 15 (1.79%) ACCA
8 15 (1.79%) CIMA
9 10 (1.19%) CBAP
9 10 (1.19%) CISSP
10 8 (0.96%) PhD
11 7 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.84%) CISM
11 7 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.84%) IIBA
11 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.72%) MBA
12 6 (0.72%) MCP
13 5 (0.60%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.54%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.78%) PMO
3 39 (4.66%) QA
4 33 (3.94%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.75%) GDPR
6 15 (1.79%) NIST
7 13 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.84%) EU AI Act
10 7 (0.84%) GRC
11 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.72%) SLA
11 6 (0.72%) WCAG
12 5 (0.60%) COBIT
12 5 (0.60%) GMP
13 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.48%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 32 (3.82%) Docker
2 7 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.72%) HDFS
4 5 (0.60%) Squid
4 5 (0.60%) zsh
5 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.24%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (5.26%) Terraform
2 39 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.67%) Grafana
3 14 (1.67%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
5 6 (0.72%) Consul
6 5 (0.60%) FortiGate
6 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.48%) Ansible
7 4 (0.48%) Kibana
7 4 (0.48%) logstash
7 4 (0.48%) Rancher
8 3 (0.36%) Control-M
9 2 (0.24%) Istio
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.12%) Packer
10 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 108 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.73%) Oracle
3 39 (4.66%) SAP
4 32 (3.82%) Databricks
4 32 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.58%) Salesforce
6 18 (2.15%) Google
7 12 (1.43%) Adobe
8 10 (1.19%) Workday
9 9 (1.08%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.08%) Software AG
9 9 (1.08%) Solace
10 8 (0.96%) Cisco
10 8 (0.96%) TIBCO
11 7 (0.84%) Planview
11 7 (0.84%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.72%) Informatica
12 6 (0.72%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.60%) Ariba
13 5 (0.60%) Atlassian