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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 48 88
Rank change year-on-year +19 +40 +3
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,378 666 458
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.84% 4.98% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.68% 5.39% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 443 287
10th Percentile £391 £339 £308
25th Percentile £463 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £686 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £747 £775
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 10
10th Percentile £26.25 £26.86 £34.75
25th Percentile £26.52 £30.91 £37.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.23 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -27.94% +8.30%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.99 £53.25 £50.75
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.57 £27.00
% change year-on-year +12.54% +16.93% -41.15%

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 17,945 12,360 14,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.46% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,728 8,229 9,956
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 290 253 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.60 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +13 191 £625 +13.64% 270
West London +16 70 £706 +34.52% 142
South London -8 8 £550 -8.33% 26
East London +7 6 £600 +4.35% 16
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 36 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.54%) Confluence
3 26 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 23 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.16%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.36%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.29%) Camunda
8 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.29%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) Mendix
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 85 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.87%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.51%) CPLEX
6 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.073%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.36%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) Actimize
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.073%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 261 (18.94%) AWS
1 261 (18.94%) Azure
2 173 (12.55%) Power Platform
3 90 (6.53%) GCP
4 67 (4.86%) SaaS
5 64 (4.64%) Snowflake
6 47 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (3.19%) dbt
8 37 (2.69%) GitHub
9 35 (2.54%) Amazon S3
10 34 (2.47%) Serverless
11 29 (2.10%) Entra ID
12 25 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
15 18 (1.31%) Amazon Bedrock
15 18 (1.31%) OCI
15 18 (1.31%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.09%) WAN
2 13 (0.94%) Firewall
2 13 (0.94%) Network Security
3 10 (0.73%) VPN
4 8 (0.58%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.51%) Broadband
6 5 (0.36%) DNS
6 5 (0.36%) LAN
7 4 (0.29%) IPsec
7 4 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.22%) X.509
9 2 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.15%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (12.05%) Power BI
2 74 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (4.50%) Metadata
4 53 (3.85%) Tableau
5 36 (2.61%) BigQuery
6 30 (2.18%) Power Query
7 26 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.74%) Data Lake
8 24 (1.74%) Looker
8 24 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (1.45%) Delta Lake
9 20 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.38%) Big Data
11 18 (1.31%) SQL Server
12 17 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (1.23%) Star Schema
13 16 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.09%) MongoDB
15 14 (1.02%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.87%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 63 (4.57%) JIRA
2 35 (2.54%) Git
3 21 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.80%) GitLab
5 4 (0.29%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.29%) ERwin
5 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.22%) JUnit
6 3 (0.22%) Mockito
6 3 (0.22%) VTune
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) jMock
7 2 (0.15%) Maven
7 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
7 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 520 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 483 (35.05%) Finance
3 338 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (15.02%) Public Sector
5 155 (11.25%) Banking
6 109 (7.91%) Influencing Skills
7 82 (5.95%) Retail
8 76 (5.52%) Marketing
9 54 (3.92%) Legal
10 42 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 38 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (2.18%) Front Office
13 30 (2.18%) Investment Banking
13 30 (2.18%) Local Government
13 30 (2.18%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.74%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
16 22 (1.60%) Aviation
17 16 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 223 (16.18%) Analyst
2 211 (15.31%) Senior
3 178 (12.92%) Lead
4 162 (11.76%) Architect
5 97 (7.04%) Business Analyst
6 84 (6.10%) Data Engineer
7 82 (5.95%) Project Manager
8 67 (4.86%) Data Analyst
9 66 (4.79%) Developer
10 53 (3.85%) Consultant
10 53 (3.85%) Data Scientist
11 46 (3.34%) Senior Manager
12 45 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
13 41 (2.98%) Product Manager
14 38 (2.76%) Data Architect
14 38 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.18%) Designer
16 28 (2.03%) Product Owner
16 28 (2.03%) Senior Data Engineer
17 27 (1.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (6.02%) Terraform
2 40 (2.90%) REST
3 32 (2.32%) Kafka
4 31 (2.25%) React
5 26 (1.89%) PySpark
6 22 (1.60%) Pandas
7 17 (1.23%) Middleware
8 15 (1.09%) Spring
9 14 (1.02%) .NET
9 14 (1.02%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.94%) HTML
10 13 (0.94%) Node.js
10 13 (0.94%) RESTful
11 12 (0.87%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.87%) JSON
11 12 (0.87%) NumPy
12 11 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (0.73%) scikit-learn
14 9 (0.65%) LangChain
14 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.40%) Product Ownership
2 98 (7.11%) Cloud Native
3 57 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 49 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 40 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.76%) AI Agents
7 34 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 27 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 22 (1.60%) NHS
12 21 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.31%) FMCG
13 18 (1.31%) Operational Technology
14 17 (1.23%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.16%) CMDB
15 16 (1.16%) PMI
16 15 (1.09%) Taxonomies
17 13 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
18 12 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.23%) Windows
2 15 (1.09%) Linux
3 8 (0.58%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.44%) Unix
5 5 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.15%) Android
6 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.073%) Solaris
7 1 (0.073%) VMS
7 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (33.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 380 (27.58%) Agile
3 361 (26.20%) Analytics
4 310 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 302 (21.92%) AI
6 279 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
7 269 (19.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 235 (17.05%) Roadmaps
9 195 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
9 195 (14.15%) Data Modelling
10 183 (13.28%) CI/CD
11 178 (12.92%) DevOps
12 155 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
13 139 (10.09%) Actionable Insight
14 138 (10.01%) Validation
15 132 (9.58%) Data Governance
15 132 (9.58%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 131 (9.51%) Data Engineering
17 125 (9.07%) Migration
18 121 (8.78%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 274 (19.88%) SQL
2 269 (19.52%) Python
3 69 (5.01%) Java
4 46 (3.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 45 (3.27%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.03%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.31%) C#
7 18 (1.31%) R
8 10 (0.73%) PowerShell
9 9 (0.65%) Bash
10 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
10 8 (0.58%) VBA
11 7 (0.51%) Bicep
11 7 (0.51%) C++
12 6 (0.44%) Ruby
12 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.36%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.36%) Scala
13 5 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 234 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 177 (12.84%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.62%) Degree
4 53 (3.85%) PMP
5 49 (3.56%) PMI Certification
6 35 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.31%) ACCA
9 18 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.09%) CISSP
12 13 (0.94%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.87%) CIMA
14 9 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.58%) CISM
15 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
16 5 (0.36%) PhD
16 5 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 84 (6.10%) PMO
3 69 (5.01%) QA
4 51 (3.70%) GDPR
5 46 (3.34%) Accessibility
6 24 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
7 22 (1.60%) NIST
8 18 (1.31%) GRC
8 18 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.65%) IFRS
10 8 (0.58%) COREP
10 8 (0.58%) FINREP
10 8 (0.58%) SLA
11 7 (0.51%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.36%) NCSC
12 5 (0.36%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) GAAP
14 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (3.85%) Docker
2 21 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.51%) IAG
5 2 (0.15%) Postfix
5 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.073%) Firmware
6 1 (0.073%) NFS
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.073%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.073%) Squid
6 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.16%) Ansible
3 11 (0.80%) Grafana
3 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.44%) Kibana
4 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.36%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.22%) Istio
7 3 (0.22%) SCCM
8 2 (0.15%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.073%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.073%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.073%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.073%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 192 (13.93%) Microsoft
2 77 (5.59%) Databricks
3 46 (3.34%) ServiceNow
4 45 (3.27%) Oracle
5 44 (3.19%) SAP
6 43 (3.12%) Salesforce
7 41 (2.98%) Google
8 16 (1.16%) Workday
9 13 (0.94%) Adobe
10 12 (0.87%) Murex
11 11 (0.80%) Zscaler
12 9 (0.65%) Informatica
12 9 (0.65%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.65%) Splunk
13 8 (0.58%) Amplitude
13 8 (0.58%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.58%) Foundry
13 8 (0.58%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.51%) Anaplan
14 7 (0.51%) Teradata