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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 49 67
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 +36
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,074 581 588
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.21% 4.59% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.96% 5.00% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 384 422
10th Percentile £375 £358 £338
25th Percentile £431 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £645
90th Percentile £774 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 28
10th Percentile £18.44 £28.35 £19.57
25th Percentile £20.00 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £32.00 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.35% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £41.75 £55.25 £49.06
90th Percentile £74.75 £77.88 £54.13
England median hourly rate £57.50 £30.81 £18.94
% change year-on-year +86.66% +62.67% -63.79%

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 15,430 11,609 15,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.20% 91.65% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,356 7,870 11,343
10th Percentile £352 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £801 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 168 332
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.54 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.13 £50.86 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +14 152 £568 +8.10% 279
West London -19 22 £520 -16.80% 36
South London -22 18 £519 -13.58% 12
East London +1 5 £697 -10.06% 24
North London - 2 £413 - 1
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 24 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.02%) nginx
5 8 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.47%) Apache
6 5 (0.47%) CMS
6 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.19%) Camunda
8 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.19%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.093%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 112 (10.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (4.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (3.35%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (1.96%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.58%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.28%) Notion
8 3 (0.28%) Trello
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.19%) InVision
9 2 (0.19%) Sketch
10 1 (0.093%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 9 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.84%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.56%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.47%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.47%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.28%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.19%) Actimize
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.19%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 221 (20.58%) Azure
2 183 (17.04%) AWS
3 179 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 87 (8.10%) GCP
5 54 (5.03%) SaaS
6 41 (3.82%) Snowflake
7 38 (3.54%) Serverless
8 36 (3.35%) Amazon S3
8 36 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
10 31 (2.89%) GitHub
11 30 (2.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 29 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.49%) Collibra
15 16 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (1.40%) dbt
17 14 (1.30%) Dagster
17 14 (1.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.49%) Firewall
2 13 (1.21%) DNS
2 13 (1.21%) VPN
3 12 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.84%) Network Security
4 9 (0.84%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.74%) HTTP
6 4 (0.37%) NAS
6 4 (0.37%) SAN
6 4 (0.37%) WAN
7 3 (0.28%) 5G
7 3 (0.28%) Broadband
7 3 (0.28%) Internet
8 2 (0.19%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.19%) Calico
8 2 (0.19%) DHCP
8 2 (0.19%) DMZ
8 2 (0.19%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.19%) NaaS
8 2 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (16.01%) Power BI
2 68 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (4.66%) Tableau
4 44 (4.10%) Metadata
5 32 (2.98%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.14%) BigQuery
6 23 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 19 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (1.58%) Looker
8 17 (1.58%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.40%) Big Data
10 14 (1.30%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.21%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.21%) Power Query
12 12 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 90 (8.38%) JIRA
2 44 (4.10%) Git
3 16 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.21%) GitLab
5 12 (1.12%) MLflow
6 9 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.65%) ERwin
8 6 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.37%) JUnit
10 3 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.28%) Toad
11 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (0.19%) jMock
11 2 (0.19%) Maven
11 2 (0.19%) Postman
11 2 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.19%) Selenium
11 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 415 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 385 (35.85%) Finance
3 291 (27.09%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (14.25%) Public Sector
5 126 (11.73%) Banking
6 56 (5.21%) Marketing
7 55 (5.12%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (4.19%) Legal
9 43 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 40 (3.72%) Retail
11 37 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
12 30 (2.79%) Telecoms
13 26 (2.42%) Financial Institution
14 24 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (2.14%) Front Office
15 23 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (2.14%) Local Government
16 19 (1.77%) Billing
16 19 (1.77%) Investment Banking
17 16 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 189 (17.60%) Analyst
2 164 (15.27%) Senior
3 113 (10.52%) Lead
4 96 (8.94%) Business Analyst
5 85 (7.91%) Architect
6 82 (7.64%) Developer
7 71 (6.61%) Data Engineer
8 69 (6.42%) Project Manager
9 62 (5.77%) Data Analyst
10 39 (3.63%) Consultant
11 35 (3.26%) Senior Analyst
12 34 (3.17%) Senior Manager
13 29 (2.70%) Data Scientist
14 28 (2.61%) User Researcher
15 27 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (2.23%) Senior Data Engineer
17 23 (2.14%) Senior Business Analyst
18 21 (1.96%) Designer
18 21 (1.96%) Product Manager
18 21 (1.96%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.98%) Pandas
2 31 (2.89%) REST
3 25 (2.33%) Kafka
4 24 (2.23%) NumPy
4 24 (2.23%) scikit-learn
5 21 (1.96%) AngularJS
6 19 (1.77%) PySpark
6 19 (1.77%) React
7 18 (1.68%) .NET
7 18 (1.68%) Middleware
8 16 (1.49%) PyTorch
9 14 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
9 14 (1.30%) RESTful
10 12 (1.12%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.02%) LangChain
11 11 (1.02%) Plotly
12 10 (0.93%) JSON
12 10 (0.93%) OpenID
13 9 (0.84%) LDAP
13 9 (0.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 64 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.07%) Onboarding
4 30 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 26 (2.42%) AI Agents
6 26 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 23 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.40%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.40%) PMI
13 14 (1.30%) NHS
13 14 (1.30%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.21%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.12%) CMDB
15 12 (1.12%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.12%) Windows
2 10 (0.93%) Linux
3 3 (0.28%) VMS
3 3 (0.28%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.093%) Solaris
5 1 (0.093%) Unix
5 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (28.68%) Agile
2 259 (24.12%) Analytics
3 251 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
4 244 (22.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 200 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 198 (18.44%) Business Intelligence
7 188 (17.50%) AI
8 164 (15.27%) Data Modelling
9 163 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 159 (14.80%) Roadmaps
11 137 (12.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 132 (12.29%) DevOps
13 127 (11.82%) CI/CD
14 123 (11.45%) Actionable Insight
15 116 (10.80%) Project Management
16 115 (10.71%) ETL
17 112 (10.43%) Migration
18 111 (10.34%) Visualisation
19 107 (9.96%) Data Governance
20 106 (9.87%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 234 (21.79%) SQL
2 215 (20.02%) Python
3 47 (4.38%) Java
4 25 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 25 (2.33%) TypeScript
5 22 (2.05%) C#
6 19 (1.77%) R
7 16 (1.49%) PL/SQL
8 14 (1.30%) JavaScript
9 9 (0.84%) PowerShell
9 9 (0.84%) VBA
10 8 (0.74%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.65%) Bicep
11 7 (0.65%) C++
12 6 (0.56%) Bash
13 4 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.37%) Groovy
13 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.37%) Scala
14 3 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 178 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 144 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 118 (10.99%) Degree
4 37 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.26%) PMP
6 34 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 34 (3.17%) PMI Certification
7 16 (1.49%) ACCA
7 16 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.30%) CIMA
8 14 (1.30%) CISSP
9 12 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.02%) CBAP
11 10 (0.93%) PhD
11 10 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.84%) CISM
12 9 (0.84%) IIBA
13 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.56%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (13.41%) Data Quality
2 66 (6.15%) PMO
3 64 (5.96%) QA
4 35 (3.26%) GDPR
5 33 (3.07%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.30%) NIST
7 12 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.12%) SLA
8 10 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.84%) GRC
10 7 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.65%) WCAG
11 5 (0.47%) COBIT
11 5 (0.47%) COREP
11 5 (0.47%) FINREP
12 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (2.79%) Docker
2 9 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.84%) Squid
3 7 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.37%) NFS
5 3 (0.28%) IAG
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.093%) Postfix
7 1 (0.093%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.093%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (5.77%) Terraform
2 58 (5.40%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.58%) Grafana
4 16 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.74%) Ansible
7 8 (0.74%) Consul
8 7 (0.65%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.37%) Control-M
9 4 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.37%) vMotion
10 3 (0.28%) Rancher
10 3 (0.28%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.19%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.19%) Argo
11 2 (0.19%) Istio
12 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.093%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 151 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.21%) Oracle
3 53 (4.93%) Databricks
4 47 (4.38%) ServiceNow
5 46 (4.28%) SAP
6 42 (3.91%) Google
7 35 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.77%) Workday
9 18 (1.68%) Adobe
10 14 (1.30%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.12%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.93%) Foundry
13 9 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.84%) Software AG
13 9 (0.84%) VMware
14 8 (0.74%) Planview
15 7 (0.65%) Cisco
16 6 (0.56%) Ariba
16 6 (0.56%) Murex