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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 82 84
Rank change year-on-year +33 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 683 460 577
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.10% 2.91% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.51% 3.26% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 280 405
10th Percentile £348 £356 £360
25th Percentile £419 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £656 £690 £650
90th Percentile £775 £801 £738
England median daily rate £513 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -4.43% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile - £29.90 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £31.81 £35.35
Median hourly rate £31.50 £36.25 £41.85
Median % change year-on-year -13.12% -13.37% -23.92%
75th Percentile £40.77 £45.00 £57.69
90th Percentile £46.98 £51.38 £67.66
England median hourly rate £30.65 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -12.42% -24.21% +44.72%

All Process and 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 12,395 14,106 18,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.47% 89.30% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,151 9,098 13,466
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 172 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.55 £18.36
25th Percentile £25.01 £24.88 £21.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £38.75 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -20.01% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.81 £63.75
90th Percentile £64.83 £78.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025. 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 +7 91 £550 - 517
West London +8 14 £525 -15.15% 24
South London -2 3 £653 +30.50% 13
East London +3 2 £575 +72.93% 17
North London 0 1 £650 - 2
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 26 (3.81%) Confluence
2 14 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.17%) CMS
5 4 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.44%) Apache
6 3 (0.44%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.29%) Appian
7 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.29%) nginx
7 2 (0.29%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 74 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.32%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.44%) Trello
7 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.15%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.15%) Notion
8 1 (0.15%) Sketch
8 1 (0.15%) SPSS
8 1 (0.15%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.59%) Oracle Payroll
4 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.44%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.44%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Endur
5 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.29%) Shopify
5 2 (0.29%) Workfront
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.15%) iTrent
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.15%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 125 (18.30%) Power Platform
2 90 (13.18%) Azure
3 81 (11.86%) AWS
4 40 (5.86%) GCP
5 33 (4.83%) SaaS
6 25 (3.66%) Snowflake
7 21 (3.07%) GitHub
8 18 (2.64%) dbt
9 16 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.46%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (1.46%) ChatGPT
12 9 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
12 9 (1.32%) PaaS
13 7 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (1.02%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.02%) Serverless
14 6 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.88%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.73%) Multicast
3 4 (0.59%) tcpdump
3 4 (0.59%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.44%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) Internet
5 2 (0.29%) ISDN
5 2 (0.29%) PSTN
5 2 (0.29%) Softphone
5 2 (0.29%) SSL
5 2 (0.29%) VPN
5 2 (0.29%) Wireless
6 1 (0.15%) BGP
6 1 (0.15%) DHCP
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.15%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.15%) OSPF
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (17.57%) Power BI
2 48 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (6.44%) Tableau
4 26 (3.81%) Metadata
5 19 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.64%) Big Data
6 18 (2.64%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.64%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.49%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.34%) Power Query
9 13 (1.90%) Looker
10 11 (1.61%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.61%) Hadoop
11 10 (1.46%) Star Schema
12 9 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (1.02%) Apache Hive
14 7 (1.02%) Data Vault
14 7 (1.02%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (6.00%) JIRA
2 25 (3.66%) Git
3 12 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.32%) GitLab
5 6 (0.88%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.59%) Maven
8 3 (0.44%) Selenium
8 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.29%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.15%) DbUnit
10 1 (0.15%) jMock
10 1 (0.15%) MLflow
10 1 (0.15%) Mockito
10 1 (0.15%) Postman
10 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 281 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 253 (37.04%) Finance
3 215 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (14.64%) Banking
5 90 (13.18%) Public Sector
6 49 (7.17%) Marketing
7 36 (5.27%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (4.25%) Legal
10 28 (4.10%) Front Office
11 27 (3.95%) Retail
12 26 (3.81%) Financial Institution
13 24 (3.51%) Investment Banking
14 21 (3.07%) Publishing
15 20 (2.93%) Local Government
16 15 (2.20%) Telecoms
17 14 (2.05%) Back Office
18 13 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (1.61%) Retail Banking
20 10 (1.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 156 (22.84%) Analyst
2 78 (11.42%) Business Analyst
3 73 (10.69%) Senior
4 66 (9.66%) Lead
5 56 (8.20%) Developer
6 49 (7.17%) Architect
7 43 (6.30%) Project Manager
8 42 (6.15%) Data Analyst
9 37 (5.42%) Data Engineer
10 22 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
11 19 (2.78%) Data Scientist
12 18 (2.64%) Consultant
13 17 (2.49%) Data Business Analyst
13 17 (2.49%) Senior Data Engineer
14 14 (2.05%) Data Architect
14 14 (2.05%) Product Manager
15 13 (1.90%) Senior Developer
16 12 (1.76%) Risk Analyst
16 12 (1.76%) Technical Analyst
17 11 (1.61%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.93%) AngularJS
2 19 (2.78%) React
3 18 (2.64%) Kafka
4 16 (2.34%) REST
5 14 (2.05%) Pandas
6 12 (1.76%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (1.61%) scikit-learn
7 11 (1.61%) XML
8 10 (1.46%) .NET
8 10 (1.46%) JSON
8 10 (1.46%) RESTful
8 10 (1.46%) TensorFlow
9 9 (1.32%) NumPy
9 9 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (1.17%) Plotly
10 8 (1.17%) Ultra Messaging
11 7 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (1.02%) Vue
12 6 (0.88%) Node.js
12 6 (0.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.00%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.98%) Management Information System
3 28 (4.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 25 (3.66%) Algorithms
5 24 (3.51%) Cloud Native
6 22 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 17 (2.49%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.05%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (1.32%) Derivative
13 9 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.32%) Reinsurance
14 8 (1.17%) Equities
14 8 (1.17%) Life Science
14 8 (1.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.81%) Linux
2 14 (2.05%) Windows
3 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.15%) Unix
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (27.96%) Agile
2 187 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
3 174 (25.48%) Analytics
4 139 (20.35%) Business Intelligence
5 115 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 109 (15.96%) Data Analysis
7 102 (14.93%) Visualisation
8 100 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (13.62%) AI
10 91 (13.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 89 (13.03%) Actionable Insight
11 89 (13.03%) Data Modelling
12 88 (12.88%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 82 (12.01%) Roadmaps
14 70 (10.25%) Project Management
15 66 (9.66%) Data Governance
16 65 (9.52%) Risk Management
17 62 (9.08%) DevOps
18 60 (8.78%) Data Science
18 60 (8.78%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 166 (24.30%) SQL
2 143 (20.94%) Python
3 25 (3.66%) Java
4 23 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (2.34%) TypeScript
6 13 (1.90%) Bash
6 13 (1.90%) C++
6 13 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.90%) R
7 9 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.17%) Scala
9 7 (1.02%) C#
10 6 (0.88%) Korn
11 4 (0.59%) Bicep
11 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.44%) Groovy
12 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.44%) Rust
13 2 (0.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 86 (12.59%) Degree
2 83 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 68 (9.96%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.07%) PMP
6 19 (2.78%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.61%) ACCA
8 11 (1.61%) CIMA
9 10 (1.46%) CISSP
10 6 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.73%) CISM
12 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.59%) PhD
12 4 (0.59%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.44%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.44%) MBA
13 3 (0.44%) MCP
14 2 (0.29%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (11.57%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.51%) PMO
4 19 (2.78%) GDPR
5 16 (2.34%) QA
6 14 (2.05%) NIST
7 13 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.17%) GRC
9 7 (1.02%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.73%) GMP
11 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.44%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.44%) NCSC
12 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.29%) COBIT
13 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (4.10%) Docker
2 7 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.73%) zsh
4 4 (0.59%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 29 (4.25%) Terraform
2 21 (3.07%) Kubernetes
3 13 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.76%) ITRS Geneos
5 9 (1.32%) Grafana
6 4 (0.59%) Kibana
6 4 (0.59%) logstash
7 3 (0.44%) Ansible
7 3 (0.44%) Rancher
8 1 (0.15%) Consul
8 1 (0.15%) Packer
8 1 (0.15%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.42%) SAP
3 28 (4.10%) Oracle
4 25 (3.66%) Google
5 16 (2.34%) Databricks
5 16 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.76%) Solace
8 9 (1.32%) TIBCO
9 8 (1.17%) Adobe
10 7 (1.02%) Dataiku
11 5 (0.73%) Foundry
11 5 (0.73%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.59%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.59%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.59%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.59%) FIS
12 4 (0.59%) Informatica
12 4 (0.59%) Refinitiv
12 4 (0.59%) Xero