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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 46 72
Rank change year-on-year +16 +26 +24
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,135 591 546
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.31% 4.76% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.15% 5.16% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 388 382
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £440 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £643
90th Percentile £775 £775 £763
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 23
10th Percentile £26.52 £27.80 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.44 £28.60 -
Median hourly rate £34.87 £49.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -29.57% +77.99% -35.97%
75th Percentile £58.25 £52.25 £41.88
90th Percentile £76.15 £75.13 £50.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £31.08 £18.00
% change year-on-year +68.95% +72.64% -62.11%

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 15,883 11,458 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 7,744 11,113
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £809 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 179 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.11 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +22.13% -25.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +9 159 £575 +4.55% 261
West London -6 34 £520 -16.80% 32
South London +2 17 £519 -13.58% 7
East London -3 5 £697 -10.06% 26
North London - 2 £413 - 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 41 (3.61%) Confluence
2 22 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.88%) nginx
6 5 (0.44%) CMS
6 5 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.35%) Apache
7 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.18%) Camunda
9 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.18%) Mendix
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.41%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.26%) Notion
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.088%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.088%) InVision
9 1 (0.088%) Sketch
9 1 (0.088%) SPSS
9 1 (0.088%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.53%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.44%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.35%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.26%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.18%) Actimize
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 224 (19.74%) Azure
2 191 (16.83%) AWS
3 164 (14.45%) Power Platform
4 90 (7.93%) GCP
5 71 (6.26%) SaaS
6 38 (3.35%) Amazon S3
7 37 (3.26%) Serverless
7 37 (3.26%) Snowflake
8 36 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 30 (2.64%) GitHub
10 29 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (1.59%) Collibra
14 17 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (1.41%) dbt
16 15 (1.32%) Dagster
16 15 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.15%) DNS
1 13 (1.15%) Firewall
1 13 (1.15%) VPN
2 11 (0.97%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.79%) HTTP
3 9 (0.79%) OpenVPN
4 5 (0.44%) Network Security
5 4 (0.35%) NAS
5 4 (0.35%) SAN
6 3 (0.26%) WAN
7 2 (0.18%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.18%) Calico
7 2 (0.18%) Intelligent Network
7 2 (0.18%) Intranet
7 2 (0.18%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.18%) NaaS
7 2 (0.18%) VSAN
7 2 (0.18%) Wireless
8 1 (0.088%) RS-485
8 1 (0.088%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (13.74%) Power BI
2 64 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (4.58%) Tableau
4 49 (4.32%) Metadata
5 31 (2.73%) BigQuery
5 31 (2.73%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.11%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.59%) Looker
7 18 (1.59%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.50%) Oracle Database
8 17 (1.50%) Power Query
9 16 (1.41%) Big Data
9 16 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (1.41%) Relational Database
10 15 (1.32%) Delta Lake
10 15 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.15%) Parquet
12 12 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 85 (7.49%) JIRA
2 39 (3.44%) Git
3 17 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.15%) GitLab
5 12 (1.06%) MLflow
6 10 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.53%) ERwin
8 6 (0.53%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.44%) JUnit
10 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.26%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.26%) jMock
10 3 (0.26%) Maven
10 3 (0.26%) Mockito
10 3 (0.26%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.26%) Toad
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) Selenium
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 406 (35.77%) Social Skills
2 395 (34.80%) Finance
3 270 (23.79%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (13.66%) Public Sector
5 128 (11.28%) Banking
6 64 (5.64%) Marketing
7 57 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
8 46 (4.05%) Legal
9 45 (3.96%) Retail
10 38 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
11 32 (2.82%) Telecoms
12 27 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 25 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (2.11%) Financial Institution
15 19 (1.67%) Billing
15 19 (1.67%) Front Office
15 19 (1.67%) Local Government
16 16 (1.41%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 195 (17.18%) Analyst
2 172 (15.15%) Senior
3 130 (11.45%) Lead
4 95 (8.37%) Business Analyst
5 93 (8.19%) Architect
6 79 (6.96%) Data Engineer
7 76 (6.70%) Developer
8 75 (6.61%) Project Manager
9 67 (5.90%) Data Analyst
10 50 (4.41%) Consultant
11 36 (3.17%) Data Scientist
12 35 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
13 31 (2.73%) Product Manager
13 31 (2.73%) Senior Manager
13 31 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (2.20%) Senior Data Engineer
15 24 (2.11%) User Researcher
16 23 (2.03%) Designer
17 22 (1.94%) Product Owner
17 22 (1.94%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.82%) REST
2 31 (2.73%) Pandas
3 20 (1.76%) NumPy
3 20 (1.76%) React
4 19 (1.67%) Middleware
4 19 (1.67%) PySpark
4 19 (1.67%) scikit-learn
5 18 (1.59%) .NET
6 17 (1.50%) Kafka
7 16 (1.41%) AngularJS
8 15 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (1.32%) RESTful
9 14 (1.23%) Spring
9 14 (1.23%) Spring Boot
10 13 (1.15%) PyTorch
11 12 (1.06%) LangChain
12 10 (0.88%) HTML
12 10 (0.88%) OpenID
13 9 (0.79%) JSON
13 9 (0.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 66 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 25 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.59%) PMI
11 17 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.15%) FMCG
13 12 (1.06%) NHS
14 11 (0.97%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.97%) CMDB
15 10 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.06%) Windows
2 11 (0.97%) Linux
3 4 (0.35%) VMS
4 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.088%) Solaris
5 1 (0.088%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (27.14%) Agile
2 264 (23.26%) Analytics
3 259 (22.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 239 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
5 216 (19.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 215 (18.94%) AI
7 184 (16.21%) Business Intelligence
8 181 (15.95%) Roadmaps
9 176 (15.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 172 (15.15%) Data Modelling
11 143 (12.60%) CI/CD
11 143 (12.60%) DevOps
12 122 (10.75%) Project Management
13 120 (10.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 119 (10.48%) Actionable Insight
15 118 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
16 114 (10.04%) ETL
16 114 (10.04%) Migration
17 112 (9.87%) Data Governance
18 103 (9.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 232 (20.44%) SQL
2 217 (19.12%) Python
3 56 (4.93%) Java
4 32 (2.82%) TypeScript
5 26 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (2.11%) C#
7 20 (1.76%) R
8 16 (1.41%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.41%) PL/SQL
9 10 (0.88%) VBA
10 7 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.44%) Bicep
12 5 (0.44%) C++
12 5 (0.44%) Scala
13 4 (0.35%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.35%) Ruby
14 3 (0.26%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.088%) Bash
Qualifications
1 196 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 156 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.78%) Degree
4 46 (4.05%) PMP
5 41 (3.61%) PMI Certification
6 31 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.64%) Master's Degree
8 21 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.41%) ACCA
10 16 (1.41%) CISSP
11 13 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.06%) CBAP
13 11 (0.97%) CIMA
14 10 (0.88%) CISM
15 9 (0.79%) IIBA
15 9 (0.79%) PhD
15 9 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.70%) AWS Certification
17 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (14.54%) Data Quality
2 74 (6.52%) PMO
3 68 (5.99%) QA
4 37 (3.26%) GDPR
5 29 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.59%) NIST
7 15 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.97%) SLA
10 7 (0.62%) GRC
10 7 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.53%) COREP
11 6 (0.53%) FINREP
11 6 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.44%) COBIT
12 5 (0.44%) GAAP
12 5 (0.44%) IFRS
12 5 (0.44%) WCAG
13 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 31 (2.73%) Docker
2 9 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.79%) Squid
3 7 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.35%) NFS
5 3 (0.26%) IAG
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.18%) Postfix
6 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.18%) vSphere
7 1 (0.088%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 63 (5.55%) Terraform
2 59 (5.20%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.50%) Grafana
4 14 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.79%) Ansible
6 9 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.62%) Consul
7 7 (0.62%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 5 (0.44%) Kibana
8 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.35%) Control-M
9 4 (0.35%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.35%) vMotion
10 3 (0.26%) Istio
11 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.18%) Argo
11 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.18%) SCCM
12 1 (0.088%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 164 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 59 (5.20%) Oracle
3 53 (4.67%) Databricks
4 49 (4.32%) SAP
5 43 (3.79%) Google
6 42 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 39 (3.44%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.85%) Workday
9 14 (1.23%) Adobe
10 12 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.97%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.79%) Foundry
12 9 (0.79%) OpenAI
12 9 (0.79%) VMware
13 8 (0.70%) Software AG
14 7 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.62%) Planview
15 6 (0.53%) GoldenSource
15 6 (0.53%) Murex