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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 76 70
Rank change year-on-year +31 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 735 522 597
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.18% 3.29% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 3.68% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 329 425
10th Percentile £350 £356 £365
25th Percentile £419 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £838 £750
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 15
10th Percentile - £30.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £32.31 £35.44
Median hourly rate £31.49 £40.00 £42.31
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -5.45% -23.08%
75th Percentile £39.63 £50.75 £61.88
90th Percentile £42.67 £64.18 £65.06
England median hourly rate £31.20 £32.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.73% -29.08% +15.45%

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 13,062 14,204 17,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.11% 89.64% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,608 9,158 12,720
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £771 £800 £800
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 171 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +19.85%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +13 98 £520 -5.45% 72
West London -8 12 £525 -25.00% 33
South London -20 3 £750 +25.00% 5
East London +4 1 £575 +91.67% 22
North London +3 1 £650 - 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 32 (4.35%) Confluence
2 21 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.59%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.68%) Apache
5 5 (0.68%) CMS
6 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Appian
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 95 (12.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.77%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.54%) Trello
7 2 (0.27%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.14%) InVision
8 1 (0.14%) Notion
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) SPSS
8 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payroll
4 4 (0.54%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.41%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.27%) Endur
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) iTrent
7 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Shopify
7 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.14%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 133 (18.10%) Power Platform
2 105 (14.29%) Azure
3 92 (12.52%) AWS
4 43 (5.85%) GCP
5 33 (4.49%) SaaS
6 24 (3.27%) Snowflake
7 21 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (2.72%) GitHub
9 18 (2.45%) dbt
10 14 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.50%) ChatGPT
13 10 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.36%) Serverless
14 9 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
14 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (1.22%) PaaS
14 9 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.82%) Firewall
2 5 (0.68%) Network Security
2 5 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.54%) Internet
3 4 (0.54%) Multicast
3 4 (0.54%) tcpdump
3 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.41%) 5G
4 3 (0.41%) Broadband
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.27%) DMZ
5 2 (0.27%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.27%) ISDN
5 2 (0.27%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.27%) PSTN
5 2 (0.27%) Softphone
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) WAN
5 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (17.01%) Power BI
2 46 (6.26%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (5.44%) Tableau
4 24 (3.27%) Big Data
5 23 (3.13%) Metadata
6 21 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (2.45%) Data Lake
7 18 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.45%) SQL Server
8 15 (2.04%) Hadoop
9 13 (1.77%) Star Schema
10 12 (1.63%) Power Query
11 11 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (1.22%) Apache Hive
13 8 (1.09%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.09%) Looker
13 8 (1.09%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.95%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.95%) Data Vault
14 7 (0.95%) Impala
Development Applications
1 48 (6.53%) JIRA
2 30 (4.08%) Git
3 14 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.82%) GitLab
5 5 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.41%) MLflow
7 3 (0.41%) Selenium
7 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.27%) Maven
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) Log4j
9 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.14%) TestRail
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 302 (41.09%) Social Skills
2 262 (35.65%) Finance
3 245 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (13.61%) Public Sector
5 97 (13.20%) Banking
6 46 (6.26%) Influencing Skills
7 45 (6.12%) Marketing
8 44 (5.99%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (3.95%) Legal
10 27 (3.67%) Front Office
11 25 (3.40%) Publishing
12 24 (3.27%) Financial Institution
12 24 (3.27%) Retail
13 21 (2.86%) Local Government
14 18 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (2.04%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.77%) Manufacturing
18 11 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 160 (21.77%) Analyst
2 85 (11.56%) Senior
3 76 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 71 (9.66%) Lead
5 54 (7.35%) Developer
6 52 (7.07%) Architect
7 46 (6.26%) Project Manager
8 44 (5.99%) Data Analyst
9 38 (5.17%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
11 21 (2.86%) Data Scientist
12 19 (2.59%) Consultant
12 19 (2.59%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (2.45%) Data Business Analyst
14 17 (2.31%) Senior Manager
15 14 (1.90%) Product Manager
15 14 (1.90%) Senior Business Analyst
16 12 (1.63%) Operations Manager
16 12 (1.63%) User Researcher
17 11 (1.50%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.86%) Kafka
2 19 (2.59%) AngularJS
3 18 (2.45%) React
4 16 (2.18%) REST
5 15 (2.04%) Pandas
6 13 (1.77%) XML
7 12 (1.63%) NumPy
7 12 (1.63%) Plotly
7 12 (1.63%) scikit-learn
8 11 (1.50%) JSON
8 11 (1.50%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.36%) .NET
9 10 (1.36%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.36%) PySpark
10 9 (1.22%) PyTorch
11 8 (1.09%) CSS
11 8 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (1.09%) HTML
11 8 (1.09%) RESTful
11 8 (1.09%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.85%) Product Ownership
2 38 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 33 (4.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 29 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 26 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (3.40%) Algorithms
7 24 (3.27%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.18%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.77%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.50%) Derivative
14 10 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.36%) NHS
15 9 (1.22%) AI Agents
15 9 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (1.22%) Reinsurance
15 9 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.40%) Linux
2 14 (1.90%) Windows
3 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
4 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (28.57%) Agile
2 197 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
3 180 (24.49%) Analytics
4 142 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 139 (18.91%) Business Intelligence
6 110 (14.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 108 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 105 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 104 (14.15%) AI
10 100 (13.61%) Data Analysis
11 97 (13.20%) Visualisation
12 94 (12.79%) Data Modelling
13 93 (12.65%) Roadmaps
14 92 (12.52%) Actionable Insight
15 80 (10.88%) Project Management
16 71 (9.66%) Data Governance
17 68 (9.25%) Data Science
18 66 (8.98%) CI/CD
18 66 (8.98%) Machine Learning
19 65 (8.84%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 166 (22.59%) SQL
2 148 (20.14%) Python
3 27 (3.67%) Java
4 20 (2.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.31%) R
5 17 (2.31%) TypeScript
6 16 (2.18%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.04%) Bash
7 15 (2.04%) C++
8 11 (1.50%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.22%) C#
9 9 (1.22%) Scala
10 6 (0.82%) Bicep
10 6 (0.82%) Korn
11 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.68%) VBA
12 4 (0.54%) Groovy
12 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 100 (13.61%) Degree
2 91 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 74 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 22 (2.99%) PMP
6 11 (1.50%) ACCA
6 11 (1.50%) CIMA
6 11 (1.50%) CISSP
7 7 (0.95%) PhD
8 6 (0.82%) CISM
8 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.82%) MBA
9 5 (0.68%) MCP
10 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (10.75%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.81%) PMO
4 25 (3.40%) QA
5 19 (2.59%) GDPR
6 15 (2.04%) NIST
7 14 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.22%) GRC
9 7 (0.95%) EU AI Act
10 6 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.68%) GMP
12 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.54%) WCAG
13 3 (0.41%) COBIT
13 3 (0.41%) ISO 31000
13 3 (0.41%) NCSC
13 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (4.35%) Docker
2 8 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.82%) HDFS
4 5 (0.68%) zsh
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 32 (4.35%) Terraform
2 27 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.50%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
5 9 (1.22%) Grafana
6 4 (0.54%) Ansible
6 4 (0.54%) Kibana
6 4 (0.54%) logstash
6 4 (0.54%) Rancher
7 1 (0.14%) Consul
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.17%) SAP
3 34 (4.63%) Oracle
4 26 (3.54%) Google
4 26 (3.54%) Salesforce
5 25 (3.40%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.27%) Databricks
7 13 (1.77%) Adobe
8 10 (1.36%) Solace
9 9 (1.22%) TIBCO
10 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.95%) Workday
11 6 (0.82%) Cisco
11 6 (0.82%) Dataiku
11 6 (0.82%) Foundry
12 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.54%) Juniper
13 4 (0.54%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.54%) UiPath
13 4 (0.54%) Xero