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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 51 91
Rank change year-on-year +23 +40 -2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,449 653 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.16% 4.92% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.07% 5.32% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 433 272
10th Percentile £387 £338 £350
25th Percentile £463 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £675
90th Percentile £809 £760 £775
England median daily rate £540 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 7
10th Percentile £22.95 £28.40 £31.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £31.09 £34.38
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -19.46% +6.70%
75th Percentile £56.63 £45.87 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.49 £49.78 £52.25
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.35 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.52% -26.25% -7.37%

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 17,965 12,280 14,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,777 8,103 9,542
10th Percentile £359 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
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 310 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +16 211 £625 +13.64% 443
West London +17 73 £700 +33.33% 129
South London 0 13 £650 +4.00% 39
East London +9 7 £600 +4.35% 20
North London 0 1 £550 -15.38% 7
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 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.62%) Confluence
3 26 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.66%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.04%) Apache
6 6 (0.41%) CMS
7 5 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.35%) SAS
8 4 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.28%) Mendix
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) Camunda
9 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.069%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.069%) IIS
10 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.069%) nginx
10 1 (0.069%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (6.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.62%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.48%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.28%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.21%) Endur
5 3 (0.21%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.14%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.069%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.069%) SAP FS
7 1 (0.069%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 270 (18.63%) Azure
2 266 (18.36%) AWS
3 177 (12.22%) Power Platform
4 82 (5.66%) GCP
5 70 (4.83%) Snowflake
6 66 (4.55%) SaaS
7 46 (3.17%) dbt
8 44 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 38 (2.62%) GitHub
11 35 (2.42%) Serverless
12 29 (2.00%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (1.38%) OCI
16 19 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (1.24%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
19 16 (1.10%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.97%) WAN
2 12 (0.83%) Network Security
3 11 (0.76%) Broadband
3 11 (0.76%) Firewall
4 8 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.48%) VPN
6 5 (0.35%) LAN
7 4 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.28%) IPsec
7 4 (0.28%) Modbus
7 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.21%) BGP
8 3 (0.21%) DNS
8 3 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.21%) MPLS
8 3 (0.21%) OSPF
8 3 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.21%) X.509
9 2 (0.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (11.73%) Power BI
2 70 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (4.28%) Metadata
4 51 (3.52%) Tableau
5 32 (2.21%) Power Query
6 31 (2.14%) BigQuery
7 28 (1.93%) Data Lake
8 26 (1.79%) Delta Lake
8 26 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (1.52%) Looker
11 18 (1.24%) Big Data
12 17 (1.17%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.17%) Star Schema
13 16 (1.10%) SQL Server
14 15 (1.04%) DynamoDB
14 15 (1.04%) MongoDB
15 14 (0.97%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 60 (4.14%) JIRA
2 41 (2.83%) Git
3 26 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.62%) GitLab
5 8 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.41%) JUnit
7 5 (0.35%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.21%) Maven
8 3 (0.21%) MLflow
8 3 (0.21%) Mockito
8 3 (0.21%) Selenium
8 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.21%) VTune
8 3 (0.21%) Xcode
9 2 (0.14%) ERwin
9 2 (0.14%) jMock
9 2 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 553 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 496 (34.23%) Finance
3 355 (24.50%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (15.73%) Public Sector
5 165 (11.39%) Banking
6 134 (9.25%) Influencing Skills
7 84 (5.80%) Retail
8 79 (5.45%) Marketing
9 54 (3.73%) Legal
10 44 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 44 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.35%) Front Office
12 34 (2.35%) Local Government
13 32 (2.21%) Investment Banking
14 22 (1.52%) Aviation
14 22 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.52%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.38%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 229 (15.80%) Analyst
2 223 (15.39%) Senior
3 201 (13.87%) Lead
4 184 (12.70%) Architect
5 99 (6.83%) Business Analyst
6 84 (5.80%) Project Manager
7 79 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 67 (4.62%) Data Analyst
9 66 (4.55%) Developer
10 59 (4.07%) Consultant
11 52 (3.59%) Data Scientist
12 48 (3.31%) Senior Manager
13 43 (2.97%) Data Architect
13 43 (2.97%) Product Manager
13 43 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
14 42 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (2.28%) Technical Leader
16 30 (2.07%) Designer
17 29 (2.00%) Senior Data Engineer
18 28 (1.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (6.14%) Terraform
2 39 (2.69%) Kafka
3 37 (2.55%) REST
4 30 (2.07%) React
5 28 (1.93%) PySpark
6 19 (1.31%) Pandas
7 17 (1.17%) Spring
8 16 (1.10%) Spring Boot
9 14 (0.97%) .NET
9 14 (0.97%) HTML
9 14 (0.97%) Middleware
9 14 (0.97%) Node.js
9 14 (0.97%) RESTful
10 13 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (0.76%) ATL
11 11 (0.76%) LangChain
12 10 (0.69%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.69%) NumPy
13 9 (0.62%) JSON
13 9 (0.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 104 (7.18%) Cloud Native
3 68 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 55 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.69%) AI Agents
7 34 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.86%) NHS
10 25 (1.73%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.59%) Operational Technology
12 21 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.31%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.31%) Taxonomies
14 15 (1.04%) CMDB
14 15 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.04%) FMCG
15 14 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.17%) Windows
2 15 (1.04%) Linux
3 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.41%) Unix
5 5 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.069%) Solaris
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (36.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 404 (27.88%) Agile
3 382 (26.36%) Analytics
4 330 (22.77%) AI
5 312 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 298 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
7 289 (19.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 266 (18.36%) Roadmaps
9 195 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
10 187 (12.91%) CI/CD
11 185 (12.77%) Data Modelling
12 174 (12.01%) DevOps
13 154 (10.63%) Actionable Insight
14 148 (10.21%) Validation
15 144 (9.94%) Data Pipeline
16 142 (9.80%) Data Governance
17 141 (9.73%) Risk Management
18 138 (9.52%) Machine Learning
19 129 (8.90%) Migration
20 127 (8.76%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 287 (19.81%) SQL
2 272 (18.77%) Python
3 72 (4.97%) Java
4 45 (3.11%) TypeScript
5 44 (3.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (1.93%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.45%) C#
8 19 (1.31%) R
9 15 (1.04%) Bash
10 9 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 9 (0.62%) Scala
11 8 (0.55%) VBA
12 7 (0.48%) Bicep
12 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.41%) C++
13 6 (0.41%) SPARQL
13 6 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.35%) Cypher
14 5 (0.35%) Ruby
14 5 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 252 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 198 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 111 (7.66%) Degree
4 56 (3.86%) PMP
5 52 (3.59%) PMI Certification
6 39 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 32 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.45%) ACCA
9 20 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.24%) CISSP
10 18 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (0.97%) CIMA
14 11 (0.76%) CISM
15 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 5 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
18 5 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 85 (5.87%) PMO
3 71 (4.90%) QA
4 56 (3.86%) GDPR
5 52 (3.59%) Accessibility
6 31 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 29 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.79%) NIST
9 22 (1.52%) GRC
10 12 (0.83%) IFRS
11 8 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.55%) NCSC
11 8 (0.55%) SLA
12 7 (0.48%) COREP
12 7 (0.48%) FINREP
13 5 (0.35%) SEPA
14 4 (0.28%) GAAP
15 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 62 (4.28%) Docker
2 21 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.48%) IAG
5 5 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.14%) Postfix
7 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.069%) Firmware
8 1 (0.069%) NFS
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (5.31%) Kubernetes
2 17 (1.17%) Ansible
3 12 (0.83%) Grafana
3 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.48%) Kibana
5 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.35%) Control-M
7 4 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.21%) Istio
8 3 (0.21%) Rancher
8 3 (0.21%) SCCM
8 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.14%) Packer
9 2 (0.14%) Puppet
10 1 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.069%) Argo
10 1 (0.069%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.069%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 201 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.35%) Databricks
3 48 (3.31%) ServiceNow
4 44 (3.04%) Salesforce
5 43 (2.97%) Oracle
6 41 (2.83%) SAP
7 39 (2.69%) Google
8 14 (0.97%) Workday
9 13 (0.90%) Adobe
10 10 (0.69%) Informatica
10 10 (0.69%) Murex
10 10 (0.69%) Splunk
10 10 (0.69%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.62%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.62%) IBM
11 9 (0.62%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.55%) Foundry
13 7 (0.48%) GoldenSource
13 7 (0.48%) Teradata