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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 64 69
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 +26
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 785 500 575
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.48% 3.51% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.99% 3.89% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 308 413
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £419 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £875 £750
England median daily rate £507 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -5.85% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 18
10th Percentile - £30.30 £27.34
25th Percentile £18.25 £31.07 £29.61
Median hourly rate £31.49 £38.75 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year -18.74% +4.97% -32.88%
75th Percentile £41.81 £50.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £45.33 £64.18 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.49 £34.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -8.72% -24.80% -8.33%

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 13,097 12,837 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.24% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,661 8,213 11,529
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 160 244
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.09 £17.07
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.44 £54.13 £54.34
90th Percentile £69.24 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.20% +23.55%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +14 107 £550 +4.76% 321
West London -11 10 £525 -47.50% 22
South London -22 3 £750 +25.00% 14
North London +5 2 £575 - 4
East London - 1 £575 - 16
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 32 (4.08%) Confluence
2 23 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.38%) Apache
6 3 (0.38%) CMS
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.25%) Appian
7 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
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%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 108 (13.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (2.17%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.51%) Notion
6 4 (0.51%) Trello
7 3 (0.38%) Sketch
7 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.25%) InVision
9 1 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.13%) SPSS
9 1 (0.13%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.51%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.51%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.51%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.25%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.25%) Lorenzo
5 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.25%) SystmOne
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 151 (19.24%) Power Platform
2 123 (15.67%) Azure
3 90 (11.46%) AWS
4 40 (5.10%) GCP
5 34 (4.33%) SaaS
6 27 (3.44%) GitHub
7 24 (3.06%) Snowflake
8 20 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.04%) dbt
11 13 (1.66%) Amazon S3
11 13 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (1.53%) PaaS
12 12 (1.53%) Serverless
13 11 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.27%) ChatGPT
14 10 (1.27%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.76%) Firewall
2 5 (0.64%) Network Security
2 5 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.51%) Internet
3 4 (0.51%) Multicast
3 4 (0.51%) tcpdump
3 4 (0.51%) Wireless
3 4 (0.51%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.38%) 5G
4 3 (0.38%) Broadband
4 3 (0.38%) HTTP
4 3 (0.38%) VPN
5 2 (0.25%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.25%) Calico
5 2 (0.25%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.25%) Intelligent Network
5 2 (0.25%) ISDN
5 2 (0.25%) PSTN
5 2 (0.25%) VSAN
5 2 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (18.34%) Power BI
2 48 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (4.59%) Tableau
4 29 (3.69%) Metadata
5 27 (3.44%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.93%) Big Data
6 23 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (2.68%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (1.78%) Power Query
11 13 (1.66%) Hadoop
11 13 (1.66%) Star Schema
12 11 (1.40%) Oracle Database
13 10 (1.27%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.02%) Apache Hive
14 8 (1.02%) Looker
14 8 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (6.37%) JIRA
2 31 (3.95%) Git
3 15 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.15%) GitLab
5 5 (0.64%) MLflow
5 5 (0.64%) SonarQube
5 5 (0.64%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.51%) Selenium
7 3 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.25%) Postman
8 2 (0.25%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.13%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.13%) Gradle
9 1 (0.13%) LSMW
9 1 (0.13%) Maven
9 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 315 (40.13%) Social Skills
2 270 (34.39%) Finance
3 261 (33.25%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (14.01%) Public Sector
5 101 (12.87%) Banking
6 42 (5.35%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (5.22%) Marketing
7 41 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (3.82%) Legal
9 26 (3.31%) Front Office
10 25 (3.18%) Publishing
11 23 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (2.55%) Financial Institution
12 20 (2.55%) Local Government
12 20 (2.55%) Retail
13 18 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 16 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.91%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 173 (22.04%) Analyst
2 105 (13.38%) Senior
3 84 (10.70%) Business Analyst
4 79 (10.06%) Lead
5 60 (7.64%) Developer
6 51 (6.50%) Architect
7 47 (5.99%) Data Analyst
8 46 (5.86%) Project Manager
9 37 (4.71%) Data Engineer
10 33 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (3.69%) Consultant
12 22 (2.80%) Data Scientist
12 22 (2.80%) Senior Manager
13 20 (2.55%) Senior Business Analyst
14 19 (2.42%) Senior Data Engineer
15 18 (2.29%) Product Manager
16 17 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (1.91%) User Researcher
18 12 (1.53%) Operations Manager
18 12 (1.53%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.55%) Kafka
2 17 (2.17%) AngularJS
2 17 (2.17%) Pandas
2 17 (2.17%) REST
3 15 (1.91%) scikit-learn
4 14 (1.78%) Middleware
4 14 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (1.78%) React
4 14 (1.78%) XML
5 13 (1.66%) TensorFlow
6 12 (1.53%) NumPy
6 12 (1.53%) Plotly
6 12 (1.53%) PySpark
6 12 (1.53%) PyTorch
7 10 (1.27%) RESTful
8 9 (1.15%) .NET
8 9 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (1.15%) JSON
9 8 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (1.02%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.84%) Analytical Mindset
3 36 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.69%) Cloud Native
5 25 (3.18%) Algorithms
5 25 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.04%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.66%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.53%) Derivative
12 11 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.27%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.15%) NHS
15 8 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.18%) Linux
2 16 (2.04%) Windows
3 5 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Unix
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
2 207 (26.37%) Agile
3 191 (24.33%) Analytics
4 169 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 162 (20.64%) Business Intelligence
6 123 (15.67%) AI
7 122 (15.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 121 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 118 (15.03%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 111 (14.14%) Roadmaps
11 106 (13.50%) Actionable Insight
12 101 (12.87%) Data Modelling
13 100 (12.74%) Data Analysis
14 99 (12.61%) Visualisation
15 89 (11.34%) Project Management
16 79 (10.06%) Data Governance
17 73 (9.30%) CI/CD
18 69 (8.79%) Data Science
18 69 (8.79%) DevOps
19 66 (8.41%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 173 (22.04%) SQL
2 146 (18.60%) Python
3 24 (3.06%) Java
4 19 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (2.29%) R
6 16 (2.04%) C++
7 15 (1.91%) Bash
8 14 (1.78%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.53%) C#
10 12 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.27%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.02%) Bicep
13 7 (0.89%) Scala
13 7 (0.89%) VBA
14 5 (0.64%) Korn
14 5 (0.64%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.51%) Groovy
15 4 (0.51%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 115 (14.65%) Degree
2 96 (12.23%) Security Cleared
3 81 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.20%) Master's Degree
5 32 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.31%) PMI Certification
6 26 (3.31%) PMP
7 11 (1.40%) ACCA
7 11 (1.40%) CIMA
8 10 (1.27%) CISSP
8 10 (1.27%) PhD
9 8 (1.02%) CBAP
10 7 (0.89%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.76%) CISM
11 6 (0.76%) MBA
11 6 (0.76%) MCP
11 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.64%) APMP
12 5 (0.64%) IIBA
13 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (12.48%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.71%) PMO
3 32 (4.08%) QA
4 31 (3.95%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.68%) GDPR
6 13 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.66%) NIST
7 9 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 8 (1.02%) GRC
9 7 (0.89%) EU AI Act
9 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.64%) GMP
11 5 (0.64%) WCAG
12 4 (0.51%) COBIT
12 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.38%) IFRS
13 3 (0.38%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (4.08%) Docker
2 8 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.76%) HDFS
4 5 (0.64%) zsh
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (4.33%) Terraform
2 31 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.15%) Grafana
3 9 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.51%) Ansible
4 4 (0.51%) Kibana
4 4 (0.51%) logstash
4 4 (0.51%) Rancher
5 2 (0.25%) Control-M
5 2 (0.25%) Istio
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.13%) Consul
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Packer
6 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 100 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.99%) Oracle
3 38 (4.84%) SAP
4 31 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.18%) Databricks
7 18 (2.29%) Google
8 13 (1.66%) Adobe
9 9 (1.15%) Solace
10 8 (1.02%) Cisco
10 8 (1.02%) TIBCO
10 8 (1.02%) Workday
11 7 (0.89%) Software AG
12 6 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.76%) Planview
13 4 (0.51%) Ariba
13 4 (0.51%) Dataiku
13 4 (0.51%) Juniper
13 4 (0.51%) UiPath
13 4 (0.51%) Xero