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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 58 66
Rank change year-on-year +21 +8 +33
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 892 511 589
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.82% 3.76% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.41% 4.14% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 323 441
10th Percentile £363 £340 £363
25th Percentile £431 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +4.63% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £693 £645
90th Percentile £765 £875 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 25
10th Percentile - £28.53 £19.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £29.08 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £34.75 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -42.45% +24.96% -43.74%
75th Percentile £35.75 £51.07 £36.33
90th Percentile £41.84 £59.10 £54.50
England median hourly rate £40.62 £30.81 £27.81
% change year-on-year +31.85% +10.77% -46.65%

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 13,905 12,332 16,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.68% 90.64% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,265 7,884 11,766
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 219 153 341
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £50.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +13 121 £550 +15.79% 112
South London -20 14 £519 -13.58% 15
West London -17 11 £513 -40.58% 20
North London +5 2 £413 - 13
East London +1 2 £675 -12.90% 15
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 39 (4.37%) Confluence
2 22 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.01%) nginx
5 5 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.56%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.34%) CMS
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.22%) Appian
7 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.22%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.22%) SAS
7 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 116 (13.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.91%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (2.24%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.35%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.34%) Notion
7 3 (0.34%) Sketch
7 3 (0.34%) Trello
8 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.22%) InVision
9 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.45%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.45%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.34%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.34%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.22%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 172 (19.28%) Azure
2 167 (18.72%) Power Platform
3 126 (14.13%) AWS
4 48 (5.38%) GCP
5 38 (4.26%) SaaS
6 28 (3.14%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.03%) Serverless
8 25 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (2.69%) GitHub
10 23 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (2.24%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.68%) Collibra
15 13 (1.46%) PaaS
16 12 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (1.35%) Power Automate
17 11 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.46%) Firewall
1 13 (1.46%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.12%) VPN
3 9 (1.01%) DNS
4 7 (0.78%) HTTP
4 7 (0.78%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.67%) Network Security
6 4 (0.45%) Multicast
6 4 (0.45%) NAS
6 4 (0.45%) SAN
6 4 (0.45%) tcpdump
6 4 (0.45%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.34%) 5G
7 3 (0.34%) Broadband
7 3 (0.34%) Internet
7 3 (0.34%) Wireless
8 2 (0.22%) Calico
8 2 (0.22%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.22%) ISDN
8 2 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (17.94%) Power BI
2 51 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (4.60%) Metadata
3 41 (4.60%) Tableau
4 34 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 28 (3.14%) Data Lake
6 27 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.13%) Big Data
8 17 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (1.79%) Delta Lake
10 15 (1.68%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.46%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.46%) Power Query
12 12 (1.35%) Hadoop
13 10 (1.12%) Looker
14 9 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.01%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 67 (7.51%) JIRA
2 35 (3.92%) Git
3 12 (1.35%) GitLab
4 10 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.12%) MLflow
5 8 (0.90%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.45%) ERwin
8 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.34%) Toad
10 2 (0.22%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.22%) JUnit
10 2 (0.22%) Postman
10 2 (0.22%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.22%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.22%) TestRail
11 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
General
1 367 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 312 (34.98%) Finance
3 266 (29.82%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (13.57%) Public Sector
5 105 (11.77%) Banking
6 42 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
7 40 (4.48%) Marketing
8 39 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
9 31 (3.48%) Legal
10 29 (3.25%) Retail
11 28 (3.14%) Front Office
12 27 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (2.80%) Publishing
14 24 (2.69%) Telecoms
15 21 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (2.35%) Local Government
16 18 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (2.02%) Financial Institution
17 17 (1.91%) Billing
18 15 (1.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 178 (19.96%) Analyst
2 118 (13.23%) Senior
3 101 (11.32%) Lead
4 86 (9.64%) Business Analyst
5 72 (8.07%) Developer
6 62 (6.95%) Architect
7 55 (6.17%) Project Manager
8 50 (5.61%) Data Analyst
9 45 (5.04%) Data Engineer
10 32 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
11 30 (3.36%) Consultant
12 26 (2.91%) User Researcher
13 22 (2.47%) Data Scientist
13 22 (2.47%) Senior Business Analyst
13 22 (2.47%) Senior Manager
14 21 (2.35%) Product Manager
14 21 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (1.91%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (1.79%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (1.68%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.91%) Kafka
2 21 (2.35%) Pandas
3 20 (2.24%) scikit-learn
4 19 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 18 (2.02%) REST
6 17 (1.91%) React
7 16 (1.79%) Middleware
7 16 (1.79%) NumPy
7 16 (1.79%) PySpark
8 14 (1.57%) .NET
8 14 (1.57%) PyTorch
9 13 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (1.46%) RESTful
10 12 (1.35%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.23%) Plotly
12 10 (1.12%) LangChain
13 9 (1.01%) XML
14 8 (0.90%) HTML
14 8 (0.90%) JSON
14 8 (0.90%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.38%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 37 (4.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 31 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 27 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.02%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.35%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.35%) Derivative
10 12 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.12%) Replication
13 9 (1.01%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.24%) Linux
2 16 (1.79%) Windows
3 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.34%) VMS
4 3 (0.34%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (28.36%) Agile
2 236 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
3 210 (23.54%) Analytics
4 195 (21.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 180 (20.18%) Business Intelligence
6 146 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 140 (15.70%) AI
8 134 (15.02%) Roadmaps
8 134 (15.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 125 (14.01%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 118 (13.23%) Actionable Insight
11 109 (12.22%) Data Modelling
12 103 (11.55%) Visualisation
13 95 (10.65%) Data Analysis
14 94 (10.54%) CI/CD
14 94 (10.54%) Project Management
15 92 (10.31%) Data Governance
16 90 (10.09%) DevOps
17 89 (9.98%) ETL
18 85 (9.53%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 198 (22.20%) SQL
2 167 (18.72%) Python
3 23 (2.58%) Java
4 21 (2.35%) TypeScript
5 16 (1.79%) C#
5 16 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (1.68%) Bash
6 15 (1.68%) PL/SQL
7 14 (1.57%) R
8 13 (1.46%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.46%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.35%) C++
10 9 (1.01%) Bicep
10 9 (1.01%) VBA
11 7 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.56%) Korn
13 4 (0.45%) Groovy
14 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.34%) Rust
14 3 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 127 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 116 (13.00%) Degree
3 109 (12.22%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.04%) Master's Degree
5 34 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.69%) PMI Certification
6 24 (2.69%) PMP
7 15 (1.68%) ACCA
7 15 (1.68%) CIMA
8 12 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.23%) CISSP
10 10 (1.12%) CBAP
11 8 (0.90%) CISM
11 8 (0.90%) PhD
12 7 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.78%) IIBA
12 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.67%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.27%) PMO
3 44 (4.93%) QA
4 39 (4.37%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.69%) GDPR
6 17 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.91%) NIST
7 10 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (1.12%) GRC
7 10 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.78%) SLA
8 7 (0.78%) WCAG
9 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.56%) COBIT
10 5 (0.56%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.45%) GMP
11 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (3.48%) Docker
2 8 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.78%) Squid
4 6 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.56%) zsh
6 4 (0.45%) HDFS
6 4 (0.45%) NFS
7 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.22%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 47 (5.27%) Terraform
2 46 (5.16%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.68%) Grafana
3 15 (1.68%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.78%) Consul
5 7 (0.78%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.45%) Ansible
8 4 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (0.45%) Rancher
8 4 (0.45%) vMotion
9 3 (0.34%) Control-M
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.22%) Argo
10 2 (0.22%) Istio
10 2 (0.22%) Kibana
10 2 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 119 (13.34%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.83%) Oracle
3 41 (4.60%) Databricks
4 39 (4.37%) SAP
5 31 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 28 (3.14%) Salesforce
7 23 (2.58%) Google
8 11 (1.23%) Adobe
8 11 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.12%) Workday
10 9 (1.01%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.01%) Software AG
11 8 (0.90%) Cisco
11 8 (0.90%) VMware
12 7 (0.78%) Planview
13 6 (0.67%) Ariba
13 6 (0.67%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.67%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.67%) Solace
13 6 (0.67%) TIBCO