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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 50 89
Rank change year-on-year +21 +39 -4
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,484 676 458
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.24% 5.05% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.13% 5.46% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 980 450 278
10th Percentile £375 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.98% - -1.43%
75th Percentile £686 £656 £687
90th Percentile £800 £775 £788
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 7
10th Percentile £23.50 £18.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £26.45 £25.11 £32.38
Median hourly rate £53.75 £31.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.29% -15.33% -5.85%
75th Percentile £64.25 £42.20 £46.25
90th Percentile £68.99 £47.13 £52.25
England median hourly rate £54.40 £31.20 £36.25
% change year-on-year +74.36% -13.93% -21.50%

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 18,249 12,388 14,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.48% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,954 8,186 9,270
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £665 £663 £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 345 242 178
10th Percentile £15.93 £18.25 £17.43
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.02 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.46% -8.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £64.98 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +19 216 £625 +13.64% 254
West London +19 73 £719 +36.90% 54
South London -3 14 £650 - 20
East London +8 6 £613 +6.52% 15
North London -2 1 £550 -15.38% 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 45 (3.03%) Confluence
2 42 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 26 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.01%) Apache
6 7 (0.47%) CMS
7 6 (0.40%) SAS
8 4 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.27%) Mendix
9 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.13%) Camunda
9 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.067%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.067%) Appian
10 1 (0.067%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.067%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.40%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.20%) Productboard
9 1 (0.067%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.067%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.067%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 267 (17.99%) Azure
2 265 (17.86%) AWS
3 183 (12.33%) Power Platform
4 78 (5.26%) GCP
5 73 (4.92%) Snowflake
6 56 (3.77%) dbt
6 56 (3.77%) SaaS
7 42 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.63%) Amazon S3
9 37 (2.49%) GitHub
10 36 (2.43%) Serverless
11 28 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 26 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 19 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
14 19 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (1.28%) OCI
15 18 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.01%) WAN
2 12 (0.81%) Firewall
2 12 (0.81%) Network Security
3 11 (0.74%) Broadband
4 9 (0.61%) VPN
5 8 (0.54%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.34%) LAN
7 4 (0.27%) IPsec
7 4 (0.27%) Modbus
7 4 (0.27%) MPLS
7 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.20%) BGP
8 3 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.20%) OSPF
8 3 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.20%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.20%) X.509
9 2 (0.13%) DNS
9 2 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (11.86%) Power BI
2 72 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (3.71%) Tableau
4 54 (3.64%) Metadata
5 33 (2.22%) Power Query
6 32 (2.16%) BigQuery
6 32 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 28 (1.89%) Relational Database
8 25 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.62%) Delta Lake
10 23 (1.55%) Looker
11 18 (1.21%) Big Data
12 17 (1.15%) DynamoDB
12 17 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
12 17 (1.15%) Star Schema
13 16 (1.08%) Data Vault
14 15 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.01%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 61 (4.11%) JIRA
2 44 (2.96%) Git
3 26 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.74%) GitLab
5 8 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.40%) JUnit
7 5 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 4 (0.27%) Selenium
9 3 (0.20%) Maven
9 3 (0.20%) Mockito
9 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.20%) VTune
9 3 (0.20%) Xcode
10 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.13%) DbUnit
10 2 (0.13%) MLflow
10 2 (0.13%) Postman
10 2 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.13%) Serenity BDD
General
1 586 (39.49%) Social Skills
2 510 (34.37%) Finance
3 360 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (15.90%) Public Sector
5 171 (11.52%) Banking
6 134 (9.03%) Influencing Skills
7 91 (6.13%) Retail
8 71 (4.78%) Marketing
9 47 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 44 (2.96%) Legal
11 40 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.29%) Front Office
13 32 (2.16%) Investment Banking
13 32 (2.16%) Local Government
14 24 (1.62%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.42%) Military
16 20 (1.35%) Aviation
16 20 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 238 (16.04%) Analyst
2 222 (14.96%) Senior
3 207 (13.95%) Lead
4 186 (12.53%) Architect
5 105 (7.08%) Business Analyst
6 93 (6.27%) Project Manager
7 77 (5.19%) Developer
8 71 (4.78%) Data Engineer
9 69 (4.65%) Data Analyst
10 60 (4.04%) Consultant
11 50 (3.37%) Data Scientist
11 50 (3.37%) Senior Manager
12 49 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
13 48 (3.23%) Product Manager
14 42 (2.83%) Data Architect
15 40 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
16 32 (2.16%) Technical Leader
17 29 (1.95%) Designer
18 28 (1.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 28 (1.89%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.59%) Terraform
2 42 (2.83%) Kafka
3 40 (2.70%) REST
4 33 (2.22%) React
5 25 (1.68%) PySpark
6 18 (1.21%) .NET
6 18 (1.21%) Pandas
7 16 (1.08%) RESTful
8 14 (0.94%) Spring
9 13 (0.88%) FastAPI
9 13 (0.88%) HTML
9 13 (0.88%) Middleware
9 13 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (0.88%) Spring Boot
10 12 (0.81%) OAuth
11 11 (0.74%) ATL
11 11 (0.74%) Node.js
12 9 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 9 (0.61%) LangChain
12 9 (0.61%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 103 (6.94%) Cloud Native
3 69 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 60 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 42 (2.83%) AI Agents
6 40 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (2.49%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (2.02%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.75%) Operational Technology
11 24 (1.62%) NHS
12 21 (1.42%) Taxonomies
13 20 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.28%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.08%) Social Media
16 15 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.88%) FMCG
17 13 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.35%) Windows
2 17 (1.15%) Linux
3 8 (0.54%) macOS
4 6 (0.40%) Unix
5 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.13%) Android
6 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.13%) VMS
6 2 (0.13%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (39.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 415 (27.96%) Agile
3 392 (26.42%) Analytics
4 339 (22.84%) AI
5 311 (20.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 307 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 294 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
8 288 (19.41%) Roadmaps
9 210 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
10 186 (12.53%) Data Modelling
11 184 (12.40%) CI/CD
12 177 (11.93%) DevOps
13 161 (10.85%) Actionable Insight
14 153 (10.31%) Validation
15 149 (10.04%) Migration
16 143 (9.64%) Risk Management
17 138 (9.30%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 136 (9.16%) Data Pipeline
19 134 (9.03%) Data Governance
20 129 (8.69%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 302 (20.35%) SQL
2 266 (17.92%) Python
3 61 (4.11%) Java
4 46 (3.10%) TypeScript
5 44 (2.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 27 (1.82%) C#
8 18 (1.21%) R
9 15 (1.01%) Bash
10 10 (0.67%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.47%) Bicep
11 7 (0.47%) Scala
12 6 (0.40%) C++
12 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.40%) LookML
12 6 (0.40%) SPARQL
12 6 (0.40%) VBA
13 5 (0.34%) Groovy
13 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 263 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 207 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 115 (7.75%) Degree
4 51 (3.44%) PMP
5 46 (3.10%) PMI Certification
6 42 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.35%) ACCA
8 20 (1.35%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.21%) CISSP
11 15 (1.01%) CIMA
12 13 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.74%) CISM
14 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 6 (0.40%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (14.42%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.46%) PMO
3 74 (4.99%) QA
4 57 (3.84%) GDPR
5 55 (3.71%) Accessibility
6 36 (2.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 31 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.75%) NIST
9 24 (1.62%) GRC
10 11 (0.74%) IFRS
11 9 (0.61%) NCSC
12 7 (0.47%) SLA
13 6 (0.40%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.34%) SEPA
15 4 (0.27%) COREP
15 4 (0.27%) FINREP
16 3 (0.20%) GAAP
16 3 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (4.18%) Docker
2 22 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) IAG
6 3 (0.20%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Postfix
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.067%) Firmware
8 1 (0.067%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.067%) NFS
Systems Management
1 75 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.94%) Ansible
3 12 (0.81%) Grafana
3 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.54%) Kibana
5 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Control-M
6 4 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.20%) Rancher
7 3 (0.20%) SCCM
7 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.13%) Istio
8 2 (0.13%) Packer
8 2 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.067%) Argo
9 1 (0.067%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 210 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.20%) Databricks
3 49 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 44 (2.96%) Oracle
4 44 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.90%) SAP
6 34 (2.29%) Google
7 13 (0.88%) Workday
8 11 (0.74%) Adobe
9 10 (0.67%) IBM
9 10 (0.67%) Zscaler
10 9 (0.61%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.61%) Bloomberg
10 9 (0.61%) Informatica
10 9 (0.61%) Murex
10 9 (0.61%) Splunk
11 8 (0.54%) Teradata
12 7 (0.47%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.47%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.40%) VMware