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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 49 72
Rank change year-on-year +19 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,115 592 572
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.36% 4.65% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.17% 5.05% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 392 406
10th Percentile £375 £363 £331
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -10.94%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £645
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 26
10th Percentile £26.99 £27.72 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.81 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £66.06 £55.25 £47.44
90th Percentile £77.05 £81.30 £52.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £30.81 £18.00
% change year-on-year +96.40% +71.14% -64.71%

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 15,557 11,724 15,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.03% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,420 7,969 11,310
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 170 331
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £23.05 £19.96
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +19.22% -25.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +18 163 £575 +9.52% 169
West London -12 25 £520 -16.80% 31
South London -14 19 £519 -13.58% 7
East London +1 5 £697 -10.06% 19
North London - 2 £413 - 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 47 (4.22%) Confluence
2 24 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.99%) nginx
6 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.36%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.18%) Camunda
10 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.18%) Mendix
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.18%) SAS
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 106 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (3.14%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.52%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) Notion
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.18%) InVision
9 2 (0.18%) Sketch
9 2 (0.18%) Trello
10 1 (0.090%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.45%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.27%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.18%) Actimize
8 2 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.18%) Lorenzo
8 2 (0.18%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.18%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 224 (20.09%) Azure
2 185 (16.59%) AWS
3 172 (15.43%) Power Platform
4 94 (8.43%) GCP
5 64 (5.74%) SaaS
6 39 (3.50%) Snowflake
7 38 (3.41%) Amazon S3
7 38 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (3.41%) Serverless
8 33 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 31 (2.78%) GitHub
10 29 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (1.43%) Collibra
12 16 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (1.35%) Dagster
13 15 (1.35%) dbt
13 15 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.35%) Firewall
2 13 (1.17%) VPN
3 12 (1.08%) DNS
4 11 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.81%) OpenVPN
6 8 (0.72%) HTTP
6 8 (0.72%) Network Security
7 4 (0.36%) NAS
7 4 (0.36%) SAN
8 3 (0.27%) 5G
8 3 (0.27%) Broadband
8 3 (0.27%) WAN
9 2 (0.18%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.18%) Calico
9 2 (0.18%) DMZ
9 2 (0.18%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.18%) Internet
9 2 (0.18%) NaaS
9 2 (0.18%) VSAN
9 2 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (14.71%) Power BI
2 69 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.48%) Tableau
4 43 (3.86%) Metadata
5 32 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 28 (2.51%) BigQuery
7 26 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.70%) Big Data
8 19 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (1.61%) Looker
9 18 (1.61%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (1.35%) Oracle Database
10 15 (1.35%) Power Query
10 15 (1.35%) Relational Database
11 14 (1.26%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 93 (8.34%) JIRA
2 43 (3.86%) Git
3 18 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.17%) GitLab
5 12 (1.08%) MLflow
6 10 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.54%) ERwin
8 6 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.45%) JUnit
10 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.27%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.27%) jMock
10 3 (0.27%) Maven
10 3 (0.27%) Mockito
10 3 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.27%) Toad
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 410 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 400 (35.87%) Finance
3 281 (25.20%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (13.54%) Public Sector
5 132 (11.84%) Banking
6 59 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
6 59 (5.29%) Marketing
7 47 (4.22%) Legal
7 47 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (3.59%) Retail
9 38 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 26 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (2.24%) Financial Institution
13 24 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 22 (1.97%) Local Government
15 21 (1.88%) Front Office
16 19 (1.70%) Billing
17 17 (1.52%) Investment Banking
18 10 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 189 (16.95%) Analyst
2 166 (14.89%) Senior
3 121 (10.85%) Lead
4 94 (8.43%) Business Analyst
5 92 (8.25%) Architect
6 80 (7.17%) Developer
7 76 (6.82%) Data Engineer
8 74 (6.64%) Project Manager
9 65 (5.83%) Data Analyst
10 45 (4.04%) Consultant
11 34 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
11 34 (3.05%) Senior Manager
12 32 (2.87%) Data Scientist
13 29 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
14 26 (2.33%) User Researcher
15 24 (2.15%) Designer
16 23 (2.06%) Product Manager
17 22 (1.97%) Programme Manager
17 22 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.51%) Pandas
1 28 (2.51%) REST
2 21 (1.88%) Kafka
2 21 (1.88%) PySpark
3 20 (1.79%) Middleware
3 20 (1.79%) scikit-learn
4 19 (1.70%) NumPy
4 19 (1.70%) React
5 18 (1.61%) .NET
5 18 (1.61%) AngularJS
6 16 (1.43%) PyTorch
7 13 (1.17%) LangChain
7 13 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (1.17%) RESTful
8 12 (1.08%) Spring
8 12 (1.08%) Spring Boot
8 12 (1.08%) TensorFlow
9 10 (0.90%) JSON
9 10 (0.90%) OpenID
10 9 (0.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.46%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.01%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.51%) AI Agents
4 28 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (2.51%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.24%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.61%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.61%) PMI
8 16 (1.43%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.17%) FMCG
10 13 (1.17%) NHS
11 12 (1.08%) CMDB
11 12 (1.08%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.17%) Linux
2 12 (1.08%) Windows
3 3 (0.27%) VMS
3 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.090%) Solaris
5 1 (0.090%) Unix
5 1 (0.090%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (27.71%) Agile
2 266 (23.86%) Analytics
3 259 (23.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 242 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
5 207 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 205 (18.39%) AI
7 190 (17.04%) Business Intelligence
8 172 (15.43%) Data Modelling
9 169 (15.16%) Roadmaps
10 165 (14.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 137 (12.29%) CI/CD
11 137 (12.29%) DevOps
12 133 (11.93%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 123 (11.03%) Migration
13 123 (11.03%) Project Management
14 118 (10.58%) Actionable Insight
15 115 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
16 112 (10.04%) ETL
17 107 (9.60%) Data Governance
18 99 (8.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 233 (20.90%) SQL
2 214 (19.19%) Python
3 54 (4.84%) Java
4 27 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (2.24%) TypeScript
6 22 (1.97%) C#
7 21 (1.88%) R
8 15 (1.35%) PL/SQL
9 14 (1.26%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.99%) VBA
11 9 (0.81%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.63%) Bicep
14 6 (0.54%) C++
15 5 (0.45%) Bash
15 5 (0.45%) Scala
16 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.27%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 182 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 147 (13.18%) SC Cleared
3 115 (10.31%) Degree
4 41 (3.68%) PMP
5 38 (3.41%) PMI Certification
6 36 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (3.05%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.35%) ACCA
11 13 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 13 (1.17%) CISSP
12 12 (1.08%) CIMA
13 11 (0.99%) CBAP
13 11 (0.99%) PhD
14 10 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.81%) CISM
15 9 (0.81%) IIBA
16 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
17 6 (0.54%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (13.63%) Data Quality
2 69 (6.19%) PMO
3 68 (6.10%) QA
4 35 (3.14%) GDPR
5 29 (2.60%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.52%) NIST
7 14 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.99%) SLA
10 9 (0.81%) GRC
11 8 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.63%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.54%) COREP
13 6 (0.54%) FINREP
13 6 (0.54%) WCAG
14 5 (0.45%) COBIT
15 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (2.87%) Docker
2 9 (0.81%) Squid
3 8 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) NFS
6 3 (0.27%) IAG
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.090%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (5.74%) Terraform
2 59 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.61%) Grafana
4 15 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.81%) Ansible
6 9 (0.81%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.72%) Consul
8 7 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.36%) Control-M
9 4 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.36%) Kibana
9 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.36%) vMotion
10 3 (0.27%) Istio
11 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.18%) Argo
11 2 (0.18%) Rancher
11 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.090%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 162 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 55 (4.93%) Oracle
3 53 (4.75%) Databricks
4 51 (4.57%) SAP
5 48 (4.30%) ServiceNow
6 43 (3.86%) Google
7 36 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 22 (1.97%) Workday
9 17 (1.52%) Adobe
10 13 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.99%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.90%) Foundry
14 9 (0.81%) OpenAI
14 9 (0.81%) Software AG
14 9 (0.81%) VMware
15 7 (0.63%) Planview
16 6 (0.54%) Cisco
16 6 (0.54%) GoldenSource
16 6 (0.54%) Informatica