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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 48 91
Rank change year-on-year +18 +43 0
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,352 680 458
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.73% 5.06% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 5.47% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 456 291
10th Percentile £385 £352 £300
25th Percentile £456 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -5.98%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £679
90th Percentile £800 £745 £775
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 10
10th Percentile £26.25 £26.64 £35.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £30.80 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.37 £37.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% -20.54% +8.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.49 £54.05 £50.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £31.20 £16.06
% change year-on-year +13.78% +94.27% -65.00%

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 17,902 12,422 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.40% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,269 10,048
10th Percentile £361 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 197
10th Percentile £17.18 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.29 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.22% -16.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +9 189 £625 +14.94% 103
West London +14 64 £600 +14.29% 67
South London -1 10 £519 -13.54% 26
East London +3 6 £660 +14.70% 20
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 37 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.59%) Confluence
3 27 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 26 (1.92%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.18%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.30%) Camunda
8 4 (0.30%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.30%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) Mendix
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.22%) nginx
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 84 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (1.04%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
8 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.074%) Primavera
8 1 (0.074%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 263 (19.45%) Azure
2 256 (18.93%) AWS
3 172 (12.72%) Power Platform
4 99 (7.32%) GCP
5 69 (5.10%) SaaS
6 59 (4.36%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (3.03%) dbt
9 37 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 35 (2.59%) GitHub
11 32 (2.37%) Serverless
12 28 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (2.07%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.41%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.26%) Amazon Bedrock
17 16 (1.18%) Azure AI
17 16 (1.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.18%) WAN
2 14 (1.04%) Firewall
3 11 (0.81%) Network Security
3 11 (0.81%) VPN
4 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 6 (0.44%) DNS
6 5 (0.37%) Broadband
6 5 (0.37%) LAN
7 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) IPsec
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) DHCP
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.35%) Power BI
2 76 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (4.29%) Metadata
4 53 (3.92%) Tableau
5 37 (2.74%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.14%) Power Query
7 27 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 25 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.78%) NoSQL
11 22 (1.63%) Big Data
11 22 (1.63%) Looker
12 19 (1.41%) Delta Lake
12 19 (1.41%) SQL Server
13 17 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (1.26%) MongoDB
14 16 (1.18%) Star Schema
15 14 (1.04%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 70 (5.18%) JIRA
2 37 (2.74%) Git
3 23 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.81%) GitLab
5 4 (0.30%) ERwin
5 4 (0.30%) JUnit
5 4 (0.30%) Mockito
5 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.22%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.22%) DbUnit
6 3 (0.22%) jMock
6 3 (0.22%) Maven
6 3 (0.22%) VTune
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) MLflow
7 2 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 492 (36.39%) Social Skills
2 488 (36.09%) Finance
3 317 (23.45%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (14.57%) Public Sector
5 154 (11.39%) Banking
6 102 (7.54%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (6.07%) Retail
8 76 (5.62%) Marketing
9 53 (3.92%) Legal
10 43 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 42 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
12 32 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (2.22%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.14%) Investment Banking
15 28 (2.07%) Local Government
16 27 (2.00%) Front Office
17 25 (1.85%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
19 19 (1.41%) Aviation
20 17 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 208 (15.38%) Analyst
2 205 (15.16%) Senior
3 176 (13.02%) Lead
4 160 (11.83%) Architect
5 95 (7.03%) Business Analyst
6 89 (6.58%) Data Engineer
7 88 (6.51%) Project Manager
8 75 (5.55%) Developer
9 68 (5.03%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.77%) Data Scientist
11 50 (3.70%) Consultant
12 46 (3.40%) Senior Manager
13 43 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
14 41 (3.03%) Product Manager
15 40 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (2.66%) Data Architect
17 31 (2.29%) Designer
18 29 (2.14%) Product Owner
18 29 (2.14%) Senior Data Engineer
19 27 (2.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (3.25%) REST
2 35 (2.59%) Kafka
3 30 (2.22%) React
4 29 (2.14%) PySpark
5 22 (1.63%) Pandas
6 19 (1.41%) Middleware
7 16 (1.18%) RESTful
8 15 (1.11%) JSON
8 15 (1.11%) Spring
8 15 (1.11%) Spring Boot
9 14 (1.04%) .NET
9 14 (1.04%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.89%) HTML
10 12 (0.89%) Node.js
10 12 (0.89%) NumPy
11 11 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (0.81%) scikit-learn
12 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.59%) Next.js
13 8 (0.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.91%) Product Ownership
2 100 (7.40%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 43 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (2.66%) AI Agents
7 36 (2.66%) Virtual Team
8 27 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.92%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.48%) NHS
12 18 (1.33%) FMCG
13 17 (1.26%) CMDB
13 17 (1.26%) PMI
14 16 (1.18%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.11%) Operational Technology
16 13 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.26%) Windows
2 16 (1.18%) Linux
3 6 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.074%) Solaris
6 1 (0.074%) VMS
6 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (31.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 372 (27.51%) Agile
3 354 (26.18%) Analytics
4 301 (22.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 298 (22.04%) AI
6 268 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
7 247 (18.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 229 (16.94%) Roadmaps
9 196 (14.50%) Data Modelling
10 191 (14.13%) Business Intelligence
11 184 (13.61%) CI/CD
12 172 (12.72%) DevOps
13 161 (11.91%) Data Pipeline
14 134 (9.91%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 133 (9.84%) Validation
16 130 (9.62%) Data Engineering
17 129 (9.54%) Actionable Insight
18 127 (9.39%) Data Governance
19 126 (9.32%) Migration
20 124 (9.17%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 274 (20.27%) SQL
2 264 (19.53%) Python
3 74 (5.47%) Java
4 46 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (3.11%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.07%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.33%) C#
8 16 (1.18%) R
9 11 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.59%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) C++
10 8 (0.59%) VBA
11 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.44%) Bicep
12 6 (0.44%) Ruby
12 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Cypher
13 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 224 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 172 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.62%) Degree
4 54 (3.99%) PMP
5 49 (3.62%) PMI Certification
6 33 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.04%) ACCA
10 14 (1.04%) CISSP
11 12 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 8 (0.59%) CIMA
12 8 (0.59%) CISM
13 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.44%) PhD
15 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (13.91%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.58%) PMO
3 68 (5.03%) QA
4 48 (3.55%) GDPR
5 47 (3.48%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.41%) NIST
8 13 (0.96%) GRC
9 12 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.59%) COREP
10 8 (0.59%) FINREP
11 7 (0.52%) IFRS
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.52%) SLA
12 5 (0.37%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) SEPA
13 4 (0.30%) GAAP
13 4 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (3.77%) Docker
2 19 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
6 2 (0.15%) Squid
6 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) NFS
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (5.99%) Terraform
2 69 (5.10%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.33%) Ansible
4 13 (0.96%) Grafana
5 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.44%) Kibana
7 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.37%) Control-M
9 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.22%) Istio
10 3 (0.22%) SCCM
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.074%) Consul
Vendors
1 189 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.70%) Databricks
3 47 (3.48%) Google
4 46 (3.40%) Oracle
5 44 (3.25%) SAP
6 43 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 42 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.18%) Adobe
8 16 (1.18%) Workday
9 11 (0.81%) Murex
9 11 (0.81%) Zscaler
10 9 (0.67%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.67%) Foundry
10 9 (0.67%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.59%) GoldenSource
12 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
12 7 (0.52%) Bloomberg
12 7 (0.52%) Informatica
13 6 (0.44%) Dynatrace