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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 61 67
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +33
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 848 494 591
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.70% 3.62% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 4.00% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 313 439
10th Percentile £363 £338 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.58%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £645
90th Percentile £775 £875 £775
England median daily rate £510 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +0.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 26
10th Percentile - £28.60 £19.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £30.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £29.16
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +20.05% -41.02%
75th Percentile £35.96 £50.75 £38.15
90th Percentile £41.84 £58.84 £56.88
England median hourly rate £36.98 £31.35 £28.03
% change year-on-year +17.98% +11.83% -46.32%

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 13,506 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.78% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,992 7,845 11,870
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
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 £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +14 113 £550 +5.77% 254
West London -13 10 £523 -39.42% 27
South London -21 8 £550 -8.33% 18
East London +2 3 £625 -19.35% 20
North London +5 2 £413 - 5
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 38 (4.48%) Confluence
2 20 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.94%) nginx
5 4 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.24%) Appian
7 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.24%) CMS
7 2 (0.24%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.24%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.24%) SAS
7 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.12%) Camunda
Applications
1 107 (12.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (2.83%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (2.12%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.18%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.35%) Notion
8 3 (0.35%) Sketch
8 3 (0.35%) 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 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.47%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.35%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.35%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.24%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.24%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 157 (18.51%) Power Platform
2 156 (18.40%) Azure
3 114 (13.44%) AWS
4 44 (5.19%) GCP
5 38 (4.48%) SaaS
6 28 (3.30%) GitHub
7 25 (2.95%) Snowflake
8 23 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (2.71%) Serverless
9 21 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (2.36%) Amazon S3
10 20 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (1.65%) Collibra
14 13 (1.53%) PaaS
15 12 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (1.30%) dbt
17 10 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.42%) Firewall
1 12 (1.42%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.06%) VPN
3 8 (0.94%) DNS
4 7 (0.83%) HTTP
5 6 (0.71%) Network Security
5 6 (0.71%) OpenVPN
6 4 (0.47%) Multicast
6 4 (0.47%) tcpdump
6 4 (0.47%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.35%) 5G
7 3 (0.35%) Broadband
7 3 (0.35%) Internet
7 3 (0.35%) NAS
7 3 (0.35%) SAN
7 3 (0.35%) Wireless
8 2 (0.24%) Calico
8 2 (0.24%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.24%) Junos
8 2 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (17.69%) Power BI
2 50 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (4.83%) Metadata
4 39 (4.60%) Tableau
5 32 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.18%) Data Lake
7 26 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (2.12%) Big Data
9 16 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (1.77%) Delta Lake
10 15 (1.77%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.53%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.53%) Power Query
12 12 (1.42%) Hadoop
13 11 (1.30%) Star Schema
14 10 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.18%) Looker
15 9 (1.06%) NoSQL
15 9 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 62 (7.31%) JIRA
2 35 (4.13%) Git
3 13 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.18%) GitLab
5 9 (1.06%) MLflow
6 8 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.71%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.47%) ERwin
9 4 (0.47%) Selenium
10 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.24%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.24%) JUnit
11 2 (0.24%) Postman
11 2 (0.24%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.24%) Toad
12 1 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 350 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 289 (34.08%) Finance
3 247 (29.13%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (12.85%) Public Sector
5 101 (11.91%) Banking
6 40 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
6 40 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
7 38 (4.48%) Marketing
8 30 (3.54%) Legal
9 28 (3.30%) Front Office
9 28 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (3.07%) Retail
11 24 (2.83%) Publishing
11 24 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.48%) Local Government
13 19 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (2.00%) Billing
15 15 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.77%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 169 (19.93%) Analyst
2 114 (13.44%) Senior
3 92 (10.85%) Lead
4 82 (9.67%) Business Analyst
5 71 (8.37%) Developer
6 59 (6.96%) Architect
7 51 (6.01%) Project Manager
8 47 (5.54%) Data Analyst
9 45 (5.31%) Data Engineer
10 31 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (3.42%) Consultant
12 25 (2.95%) User Researcher
13 21 (2.48%) Senior Business Analyst
13 21 (2.48%) Senior Manager
14 20 (2.36%) Senior Data Engineer
14 20 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
15 19 (2.24%) Product Manager
16 17 (2.00%) Data Scientist
17 16 (1.89%) Data Business Analyst
18 15 (1.77%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.83%) Kafka
2 20 (2.36%) REST
3 18 (2.12%) AngularJS
4 17 (2.00%) Pandas
5 16 (1.89%) Middleware
5 16 (1.89%) React
6 15 (1.77%) PySpark
6 15 (1.77%) scikit-learn
7 14 (1.65%) .NET
7 14 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (1.53%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.53%) RESTful
9 12 (1.42%) NumPy
10 11 (1.30%) Plotly
10 11 (1.30%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.18%) LangChain
11 10 (1.18%) XML
12 9 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (1.06%) JSON
13 8 (0.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.31%) Product Ownership
2 43 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 37 (4.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 33 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.95%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.24%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.24%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.53%) Derivative
12 12 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.30%) Replication
14 10 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.71%) Linux
2 15 (1.77%) Windows
3 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.35%) VMS
5 2 (0.24%) Unix
5 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (27.71%) Agile
2 221 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
3 201 (23.70%) Analytics
4 182 (21.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 171 (20.17%) Business Intelligence
6 132 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 130 (15.33%) AI
8 128 (15.09%) Roadmaps
8 128 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 122 (14.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 115 (13.56%) Actionable Insight
11 106 (12.50%) Data Modelling
12 98 (11.56%) Visualisation
13 95 (11.20%) Data Analysis
14 94 (11.08%) CI/CD
15 90 (10.61%) Project Management
16 87 (10.26%) Data Governance
17 86 (10.14%) DevOps
18 81 (9.55%) ETL
19 79 (9.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 189 (22.29%) SQL
2 160 (18.87%) Python
3 24 (2.83%) Java
4 18 (2.12%) TypeScript
5 15 (1.77%) Bash
5 15 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (1.77%) PL/SQL
6 14 (1.65%) C#
6 14 (1.65%) PowerShell
6 14 (1.65%) R
7 13 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.42%) C++
9 9 (1.06%) VBA
10 8 (0.94%) Bicep
11 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.59%) Korn
13 4 (0.47%) Groovy
14 3 (0.35%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.35%) Rust
14 3 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 113 (13.33%) Degree
1 113 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 99 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (4.13%) Master's Degree
5 25 (2.95%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.95%) PMP
6 15 (1.77%) ACCA
6 15 (1.77%) CIMA
7 11 (1.30%) CBAP
8 10 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.06%) CISSP
10 7 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.83%) IIBA
10 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.83%) PhD
11 6 (0.71%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.71%) MBA
11 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.59%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (12.15%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.95%) PMO
3 39 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 39 (4.60%) QA
4 23 (2.71%) GDPR
5 13 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.53%) NIST
6 10 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.83%) GRC
7 7 (0.83%) WCAG
8 6 (0.71%) COBIT
8 6 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.71%) SLA
9 5 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.59%) EU AI Act
9 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.47%) GMP
10 4 (0.47%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 32 (3.77%) Docker
2 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.71%) Squid
4 5 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.59%) zsh
5 4 (0.47%) HDFS
6 3 (0.35%) NFS
7 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 45 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 44 (5.19%) Terraform
3 15 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.65%) Grafana
5 9 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
6 6 (0.71%) Consul
6 6 (0.71%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.47%) Ansible
7 4 (0.47%) Kibana
7 4 (0.47%) logstash
7 4 (0.47%) Rancher
8 3 (0.35%) Control-M
8 3 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (0.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (0.35%) vMotion
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
Vendors
1 109 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.01%) Oracle
3 38 (4.48%) Databricks
3 38 (4.48%) SAP
4 32 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 28 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.24%) Google
7 11 (1.30%) Adobe
8 10 (1.18%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.18%) Workday
9 9 (1.06%) Software AG
9 9 (1.06%) Solace
10 8 (0.94%) Cisco
10 8 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.94%) TIBCO
11 7 (0.83%) Planview
12 6 (0.71%) Ariba
13 5 (0.59%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.59%) Informatica
13 5 (0.59%) VMware