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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 57 65
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +34
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 910 512 594
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.86% 3.80% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 4.19% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 325 445
10th Percentile £363 £342 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -8.47%
75th Percentile £650 £698 £645
90th Percentile £761 £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% -46.82%

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 14,067 12,226 16,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.56% 90.66% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 7,826 11,604
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 221 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.34% -17.37%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +13 123 £550 +15.79% 210
South London -16 15 £519 -13.58% 12
West London -19 11 £513 -22.64% 20
North London +5 2 £413 - 14
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 (4.29%) Confluence
2 22 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.99%) nginx
5 6 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.33%) Apache
7 3 (0.33%) CMS
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.22%) Appian
8 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.22%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.22%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 114 (12.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (2.20%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.32%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.33%) Notion
8 3 (0.33%) Sketch
8 3 (0.33%) Trello
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.22%) InVision
10 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.44%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.44%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.44%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.33%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.22%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
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%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.22%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 176 (19.34%) Azure
2 168 (18.46%) Power Platform
3 130 (14.29%) AWS
4 52 (5.71%) GCP
5 38 (4.18%) SaaS
6 28 (3.08%) Snowflake
7 26 (2.86%) Serverless
8 25 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (2.64%) GitHub
10 23 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (2.31%) Amazon S3
12 21 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.54%) Collibra
13 14 (1.54%) PaaS
14 13 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (1.32%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
16 11 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.43%) Firewall
1 13 (1.43%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.10%) VPN
3 9 (0.99%) DNS
4 7 (0.77%) HTTP
4 7 (0.77%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.66%) Network Security
6 4 (0.44%) Multicast
6 4 (0.44%) NAS
6 4 (0.44%) SAN
6 4 (0.44%) tcpdump
6 4 (0.44%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.33%) 5G
7 3 (0.33%) Broadband
7 3 (0.33%) Internet
7 3 (0.33%) Wireless
8 2 (0.22%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.22%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.22%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.22%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (17.69%) Power BI
2 52 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (4.62%) Tableau
4 40 (4.40%) Metadata
5 34 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.08%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.09%) Big Data
9 17 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (1.76%) Delta Lake
11 15 (1.65%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.43%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.43%) Power Query
13 12 (1.32%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.10%) Looker
15 9 (0.99%) BigQuery
15 9 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (0.99%) NoSQL
15 9 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
16 8 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 69 (7.58%) JIRA
2 35 (3.85%) Git
3 12 (1.32%) GitLab
4 10 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.10%) MLflow
5 9 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.77%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.44%) ERwin
8 4 (0.44%) Selenium
9 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.33%) JUnit
9 3 (0.33%) Toad
10 2 (0.22%) Axure RP
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
1 370 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 315 (34.62%) Finance
3 270 (29.67%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (13.74%) Public Sector
5 106 (11.65%) Banking
6 42 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
6 42 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
7 40 (4.40%) Marketing
8 31 (3.41%) Legal
9 29 (3.19%) Front Office
10 28 (3.08%) Retail
11 27 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (2.75%) Publishing
13 24 (2.64%) Telecoms
14 21 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 21 (2.31%) Local Government
15 18 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (1.98%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.87%) Billing
17 16 (1.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 181 (19.89%) Analyst
2 121 (13.30%) Senior
3 103 (11.32%) Lead
4 87 (9.56%) Business Analyst
5 73 (8.02%) Developer
6 62 (6.81%) Architect
7 56 (6.15%) Project Manager
8 53 (5.82%) Data Analyst
9 48 (5.27%) Data Engineer
10 32 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
11 31 (3.41%) Consultant
12 29 (3.19%) User Researcher
13 22 (2.42%) Data Scientist
13 22 (2.42%) Product Manager
13 22 (2.42%) Senior Business Analyst
13 22 (2.42%) Senior Manager
14 21 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (1.87%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (1.76%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (1.65%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.64%) Kafka
2 23 (2.53%) Pandas
3 20 (2.20%) AngularJS
3 20 (2.20%) scikit-learn
4 19 (2.09%) REST
5 18 (1.98%) NumPy
6 16 (1.76%) Middleware
6 16 (1.76%) PySpark
6 16 (1.76%) React
7 14 (1.54%) .NET
7 14 (1.54%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (1.43%) RESTful
9 12 (1.32%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.21%) Plotly
11 10 (1.10%) LangChain
12 9 (0.99%) XML
13 8 (0.88%) HTML
13 8 (0.88%) JSON
13 8 (0.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.27%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.73%) Cloud Native
3 37 (4.07%) Analytical Mindset
4 31 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 28 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.20%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.98%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.98%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.43%) Derivative
10 13 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.21%) NHS
13 10 (1.10%) FMCG
14 9 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.42%) Linux
2 16 (1.76%) Windows
3 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.33%) VMS
4 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (28.46%) Agile
2 237 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
3 213 (23.41%) Analytics
4 199 (21.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 181 (19.89%) Business Intelligence
6 148 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 143 (15.71%) AI
8 138 (15.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 135 (14.84%) Roadmaps
10 126 (13.85%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 120 (13.19%) Actionable Insight
12 111 (12.20%) Data Modelling
13 105 (11.54%) Visualisation
14 97 (10.66%) Data Analysis
15 94 (10.33%) CI/CD
15 94 (10.33%) Project Management
16 92 (10.11%) Data Governance
17 90 (9.89%) ETL
18 89 (9.78%) DevOps
19 85 (9.34%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 204 (22.42%) SQL
2 171 (18.79%) Python
3 24 (2.64%) Java
4 21 (2.31%) TypeScript
5 16 (1.76%) C#
5 16 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (1.65%) PL/SQL
7 14 (1.54%) Bash
7 14 (1.54%) R
8 13 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.32%) C++
10 9 (0.99%) Bicep
10 9 (0.99%) VBA
11 7 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.55%) Korn
13 4 (0.44%) Scala
14 3 (0.33%) Groovy
14 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 131 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 116 (12.75%) Degree
3 111 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 36 (3.96%) Master's Degree
5 34 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.75%) PMI Certification
6 25 (2.75%) PMP
7 15 (1.65%) ACCA
7 15 (1.65%) CIMA
8 14 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.21%) CISSP
10 10 (1.10%) CBAP
11 8 (0.88%) CISM
11 8 (0.88%) PhD
12 7 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.77%) IIBA
12 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (12.42%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.27%) PMO
3 46 (5.05%) QA
4 40 (4.40%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.64%) GDPR
6 17 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.87%) NIST
7 12 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (1.10%) GRC
8 10 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.77%) SLA
9 7 (0.77%) WCAG
10 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.55%) COBIT
11 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.44%) EU AI Act
12 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 30 (3.30%) Docker
2 8 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.77%) Squid
4 6 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.55%) zsh
6 4 (0.44%) HDFS
6 4 (0.44%) NFS
7 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.22%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 47 (5.16%) Terraform
2 44 (4.84%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.65%) Grafana
4 14 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.77%) Consul
6 7 (0.77%) FortiGate
7 6 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.44%) Ansible
9 4 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.44%) vMotion
10 3 (0.33%) Control-M
10 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.33%) Rancher
11 2 (0.22%) Argo
11 2 (0.22%) Istio
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) logstash
12 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 117 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.71%) Oracle
3 44 (4.84%) Databricks
4 41 (4.51%) SAP
5 31 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 28 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.64%) Google
8 12 (1.32%) Adobe
9 10 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.10%) Workday
10 9 (0.99%) Red Hat
10 9 (0.99%) Software AG
11 8 (0.88%) Cisco
11 8 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.88%) Planview
11 8 (0.88%) VMware
12 7 (0.77%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.66%) Ariba
13 6 (0.66%) Solace
13 6 (0.66%) TIBCO