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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 48 90
Rank change year-on-year +19 +42 -4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,473 680 447
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.24% 5.07% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.14% 5.48% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 453 268
10th Percentile £371 £355 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £685
90th Percentile £800 £770 £779
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 6
10th Percentile £24.05 £18.25 £31.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £29.07 £33.44
Median hourly rate £34.23 £32.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% -20.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £64.25 £42.54 £47.50
90th Percentile £68.79 £47.20 £53.13
England median hourly rate £54.40 £31.20 £38.59
% change year-on-year +74.36% -19.15% -15.89%

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 18,094 12,405 14,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,846 8,173 9,340
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 241 182
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% -18.14% -7.51%
75th Percentile £58.44 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 +13 215 £625 +13.64% 386
West London +21 71 £713 +35.71% 107
South London -1 13 £650 +4.00% 38
East London +5 6 £613 +6.52% 28
North London 0 1 £550 -15.38% 4
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 41 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 41 (2.78%) Confluence
2 30 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.02%) Apache
5 7 (0.48%) CMS
6 5 (0.34%) SAS
7 4 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.27%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.14%) nginx
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.068%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 98 (6.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.41%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.20%) Productboard
8 1 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.068%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.068%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 264 (17.92%) Azure
2 260 (17.65%) AWS
3 186 (12.63%) Power Platform
4 83 (5.63%) GCP
5 69 (4.68%) Snowflake
6 61 (4.14%) SaaS
7 54 (3.67%) dbt
8 42 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
9 36 (2.44%) GitHub
10 35 (2.38%) Amazon S3
11 33 (2.24%) Serverless
12 28 (1.90%) Entra ID
13 25 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (1.29%) OCI
16 18 (1.22%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.02%) WAN
2 13 (0.88%) Network Security
3 12 (0.81%) Firewall
4 11 (0.75%) Broadband
5 9 (0.61%) VPN
6 8 (0.54%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
7 5 (0.34%) LAN
8 4 (0.27%) IPsec
8 4 (0.27%) Modbus
8 4 (0.27%) MPLS
8 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.20%) BGP
9 3 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.20%) OSPF
9 3 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.20%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.20%) X.509
10 2 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.14%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (12.15%) Power BI
2 71 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (3.87%) Metadata
4 54 (3.67%) Tableau
5 35 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 33 (2.24%) Power Query
7 30 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 28 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 27 (1.83%) Data Lake
10 25 (1.70%) Delta Lake
11 24 (1.63%) Looker
12 23 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
13 18 (1.22%) Big Data
14 17 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
14 17 (1.15%) Star Schema
15 16 (1.09%) Data Vault
15 16 (1.09%) DynamoDB
16 15 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.02%) Oracle Database
16 15 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (3.87%) JIRA
2 43 (2.92%) Git
3 26 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.75%) GitLab
5 8 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.41%) JUnit
7 5 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 4 (0.27%) Selenium
9 3 (0.20%) Maven
9 3 (0.20%) Mockito
9 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.20%) VTune
9 3 (0.20%) Xcode
10 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.14%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.14%) MLflow
10 2 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.14%) Serenity BDD
General
1 574 (38.97%) Social Skills
2 494 (33.54%) Finance
3 362 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (16.02%) Public Sector
5 171 (11.61%) Banking
6 131 (8.89%) Influencing Skills
7 89 (6.04%) Retail
8 73 (4.96%) Marketing
9 47 (3.19%) Legal
9 47 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.44%) Local Government
13 34 (2.31%) Front Office
14 33 (2.24%) Investment Banking
15 22 (1.49%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.43%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.36%) Aviation
18 19 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 234 (15.89%) Analyst
2 219 (14.87%) Senior
3 204 (13.85%) Lead
4 187 (12.70%) Architect
5 102 (6.92%) Business Analyst
6 85 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 76 (5.16%) Developer
8 74 (5.02%) Data Engineer
9 69 (4.68%) Data Analyst
10 60 (4.07%) Consultant
11 52 (3.53%) Data Scientist
12 47 (3.19%) Product Manager
12 47 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (3.05%) Senior Manager
14 44 (2.99%) Data Architect
15 41 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
16 32 (2.17%) Technical Leader
17 28 (1.90%) Designer
17 28 (1.90%) Product Owner
18 27 (1.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.77%) Terraform
2 41 (2.78%) REST
3 40 (2.72%) Kafka
4 34 (2.31%) React
5 26 (1.77%) PySpark
6 18 (1.22%) .NET
6 18 (1.22%) Pandas
7 15 (1.02%) RESTful
7 15 (1.02%) Spring
8 14 (0.95%) HTML
8 14 (0.95%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.88%) Middleware
9 13 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (0.81%) FastAPI
11 11 (0.75%) ATL
11 11 (0.75%) Node.js
11 11 (0.75%) OAuth
12 10 (0.68%) LangChain
13 9 (0.61%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.61%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.13%) Product Ownership
2 100 (6.79%) Cloud Native
3 71 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.94%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.58%) AI Agents
7 35 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 28 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.77%) Operational Technology
12 24 (1.63%) NHS
13 21 (1.43%) Taxonomies
14 20 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.29%) Data Centre
16 16 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
17 15 (1.02%) Social Media
18 14 (0.95%) CMDB
18 14 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.36%) Windows
2 18 (1.22%) Linux
3 8 (0.54%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.41%) Unix
5 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (38.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 408 (27.70%) Agile
3 395 (26.82%) Analytics
4 339 (23.01%) AI
5 313 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 298 (20.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 296 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (19.35%) Roadmaps
9 211 (14.32%) Business Intelligence
10 191 (12.97%) Data Modelling
11 183 (12.42%) CI/CD
12 174 (11.81%) DevOps
13 155 (10.52%) Validation
14 154 (10.45%) Actionable Insight
15 144 (9.78%) Risk Management
16 142 (9.64%) Migration
17 140 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
18 139 (9.44%) Data Governance
19 137 (9.30%) Data-Driven Decision Making
20 130 (8.83%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 301 (20.43%) SQL
2 266 (18.06%) Python
3 63 (4.28%) Java
4 46 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 46 (3.12%) TypeScript
5 32 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 28 (1.90%) C#
7 19 (1.29%) R
8 15 (1.02%) Bash
9 10 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.54%) Scala
11 7 (0.48%) Bicep
12 6 (0.41%) C++
12 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.41%) SPARQL
12 6 (0.41%) VBA
13 5 (0.34%) Cypher
13 5 (0.34%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 262 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 205 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 115 (7.81%) Degree
4 52 (3.53%) PMP
5 47 (3.19%) PMI Certification
6 41 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (2.58%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.36%) ACCA
9 19 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.22%) CISSP
11 15 (1.02%) CIMA
12 14 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.75%) CISM
14 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (14.46%) Data Quality
2 79 (5.36%) PMO
3 74 (5.02%) QA
4 56 (3.80%) GDPR
5 51 (3.46%) Accessibility
6 33 (2.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 31 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.77%) NIST
9 24 (1.63%) GRC
10 11 (0.75%) IFRS
11 9 (0.61%) NCSC
12 8 (0.54%) SLA
13 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.34%) SEPA
15 4 (0.27%) COREP
15 4 (0.27%) FINREP
16 3 (0.20%) GAAP
16 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (4.21%) Docker
2 22 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) IAG
4 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) vSphere
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.068%) Firmware
7 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.068%) NFS
Systems Management
1 74 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.95%) Ansible
3 12 (0.81%) Grafana
3 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.61%) Kibana
5 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Control-M
6 4 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.20%) Istio
7 3 (0.20%) Rancher
7 3 (0.20%) SCCM
7 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.14%) Packer
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 206 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.18%) Databricks
3 47 (3.19%) ServiceNow
4 45 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 44 (2.99%) Oracle
6 43 (2.92%) SAP
7 37 (2.51%) Google
8 14 (0.95%) Workday
9 12 (0.81%) Adobe
10 10 (0.68%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.61%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.61%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.61%) IBM
11 9 (0.61%) Informatica
11 9 (0.61%) Murex
11 9 (0.61%) Splunk
12 7 (0.48%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.48%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.48%) Teradata
13 6 (0.41%) VMware