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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 48 77
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 +14
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,198 580 527
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.43% 4.74% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 5.13% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 383 364
10th Percentile £375 £363 £288
25th Percentile £448 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +5.26% -11.29%
75th Percentile £666 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £763
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 22
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.63 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £29.16
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +9.76% -33.53%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.22 £45.31
90th Percentile £75.70 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +14.60% +67.58% -60.00%

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 16,527 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,014 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.38 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +8 166 £581 +5.68% 250
West London -2 37 £520 -8.64% 33
South London +1 18 £519 -13.58% 9
East London 0 5 £697 -10.06% 27
North London - 1 £325 - 6
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 36 (3.01%) Confluence
2 21 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.83%) nginx
6 5 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.33%) Apache
7 4 (0.33%) CMS
7 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 88 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.34%) Chatbot
6 14 (1.17%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.083%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.083%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.42%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.42%) Loan IQ
2 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.17%) Actimize
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.17%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 239 (19.95%) Azure
2 203 (16.94%) AWS
3 165 (13.77%) Power Platform
4 93 (7.76%) GCP
5 71 (5.93%) SaaS
6 40 (3.34%) Amazon S3
7 39 (3.26%) Snowflake
8 36 (3.01%) Serverless
9 35 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (2.59%) GitHub
12 27 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.50%) dbt
16 17 (1.42%) Collibra
16 17 (1.42%) Entra ID
16 17 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.34%) VPN
2 13 (1.09%) DNS
2 13 (1.09%) Firewall
3 11 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.75%) HTTP
4 9 (0.75%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.67%) Network Security
6 5 (0.42%) WAN
7 4 (0.33%) NAS
7 4 (0.33%) SAN
8 3 (0.25%) BGP
8 3 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.25%) MPLS
8 3 (0.25%) OSPF
8 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.25%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.17%) Calico
9 2 (0.17%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.17%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (13.27%) Power BI
2 63 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (4.26%) Metadata
3 51 (4.26%) Tableau
4 30 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 28 (2.34%) Data Lake
5 28 (2.34%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 20 (1.67%) Power Query
8 19 (1.59%) Looker
8 19 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.50%) Big Data
9 18 (1.50%) Oracle Database
10 15 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.17%) Delta Lake
11 14 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (1.09%) Parquet
13 12 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 74 (6.18%) JIRA
2 37 (3.09%) Git
3 15 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.17%) GitLab
5 11 (0.92%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.83%) MLflow
7 9 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.50%) ERwin
8 6 (0.50%) JUnit
9 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (0.33%) DbUnit
10 4 (0.33%) jMock
10 4 (0.33%) Maven
10 4 (0.33%) Mockito
10 4 (0.33%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.25%) Toad
12 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.17%) Selenium
12 2 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 424 (35.39%) Social Skills
2 416 (34.72%) Finance
3 277 (23.12%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (14.02%) Public Sector
5 120 (10.02%) Banking
6 66 (5.51%) Marketing
7 58 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
8 54 (4.51%) Retail
9 49 (4.09%) Legal
10 40 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (3.01%) Telecoms
13 32 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (2.17%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.59%) Local Government
16 16 (1.34%) Billing
16 16 (1.34%) Front Office
17 15 (1.25%) Investment Banking
18 12 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 188 (15.69%) Senior
2 187 (15.61%) Analyst
3 146 (12.19%) Lead
4 97 (8.10%) Architect
5 90 (7.51%) Business Analyst
6 89 (7.43%) Data Engineer
7 87 (7.26%) Project Manager
8 74 (6.18%) Developer
9 65 (5.43%) Data Analyst
10 52 (4.34%) Consultant
11 41 (3.42%) Data Scientist
12 37 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.92%) Product Manager
14 32 (2.67%) Senior Manager
15 31 (2.59%) User Researcher
16 30 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.34%) Senior Data Engineer
18 24 (2.00%) Technical Leader
19 23 (1.92%) Product Owner
20 22 (1.84%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.17%) REST
2 28 (2.34%) Pandas
3 26 (2.17%) React
4 22 (1.84%) PySpark
5 20 (1.67%) Middleware
6 19 (1.59%) .NET
7 18 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.50%) scikit-learn
8 17 (1.42%) Kafka
8 17 (1.42%) RESTful
9 16 (1.34%) NumPy
9 16 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.34%) Spring
9 16 (1.34%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.00%) PyTorch
11 11 (0.92%) LangChain
12 10 (0.83%) Node.js
12 10 (0.83%) OpenID
13 9 (0.75%) HTML
13 9 (0.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (3.17%) Virtual Team
4 34 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (2.34%) AI Agents
7 23 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.50%) FMCG
10 18 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.42%) PMI
12 15 (1.25%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.25%) NHS
13 11 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 11 (0.92%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.83%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.25%) Windows
2 12 (1.00%) Linux
3 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.25%) Unix
4 3 (0.25%) VMS
4 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.083%) Android
5 1 (0.083%) Solaris
5 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (26.54%) Agile
2 287 (23.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 282 (23.54%) Analytics
4 243 (20.28%) AI
5 242 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 241 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
7 194 (16.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 190 (15.86%) Roadmaps
9 182 (15.19%) Business Intelligence
10 172 (14.36%) Data Modelling
11 159 (13.27%) CI/CD
12 151 (12.60%) DevOps
13 134 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
14 127 (10.60%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 125 (10.43%) Project Management
16 122 (10.18%) Actionable Insight
17 121 (10.10%) Migration
18 114 (9.52%) ETL
19 111 (9.27%) Data Science
20 110 (9.18%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 242 (20.20%) SQL
2 232 (19.37%) Python
3 62 (5.18%) Java
4 43 (3.59%) TypeScript
5 31 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (1.75%) C#
7 19 (1.59%) JavaScript
8 17 (1.42%) R
9 13 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.67%) VBA
11 7 (0.58%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.50%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.42%) Bicep
13 5 (0.42%) Ruby
13 5 (0.42%) Scala
14 4 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.17%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.17%) C++
15 2 (0.17%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 212 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 174 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 110 (9.18%) Degree
4 49 (4.09%) PMP
5 43 (3.59%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 23 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.42%) ACCA
10 17 (1.42%) CISSP
11 15 (1.25%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.92%) CIMA
13 10 (0.83%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.83%) CISM
14 8 (0.67%) CBAP
14 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.50%) CISA
15 6 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (14.02%) Data Quality
2 79 (6.59%) PMO
3 65 (5.43%) QA
4 40 (3.34%) GDPR
5 32 (2.67%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.67%) NIST
7 18 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.92%) GRC
8 11 (0.92%) SLA
9 10 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.58%) COREP
10 7 (0.58%) FINREP
10 7 (0.58%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.50%) GAAP
11 6 (0.50%) IFRS
12 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.42%) NCSC
13 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (2.59%) Docker
2 13 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.75%) Squid
4 7 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.33%) NFS
6 3 (0.25%) IAG
6 3 (0.25%) Postfix
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.17%) vSphere
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.083%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (6.34%) Terraform
2 61 (5.09%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.50%) Grafana
4 14 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.92%) Ansible
7 9 (0.75%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.58%) Consul
8 7 (0.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.42%) Kibana
11 4 (0.33%) Control-M
11 4 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (0.33%) vMotion
12 3 (0.25%) Istio
13 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.17%) Argo
13 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.17%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 174 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.84%) Oracle
3 53 (4.42%) Databricks
4 46 (3.84%) Google
5 43 (3.59%) SAP
6 37 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 36 (3.01%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.67%) Workday
9 13 (1.09%) Adobe
10 12 (1.00%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.00%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.92%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.75%) Foundry
12 9 (0.75%) VMware
13 8 (0.67%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.58%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.58%) Informatica
14 7 (0.58%) Murex
14 7 (0.58%) Splunk