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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 51 82
Rank change year-on-year +21 +31 +18
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,267 602 512
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.57% 4.67% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.40% 5.06% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 404 349
10th Percentile £375 £358 £287
25th Percentile £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -10.45%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
England median daily rate £519 £515 £514
% change year-on-year +0.73% +0.19% -8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 21
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.44 £28.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £34.87 £38.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.44% +26.23% -29.77%
75th Percentile £57.69 £51.23 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.52 £30.81 £18.00
% change year-on-year +15.29% +71.14% -58.96%

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 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +9 174 £600 +9.09% 323
West London +5 43 £523 -8.20% 35
South London +11 20 £519 -13.58% 17
East London +3 6 £719 -7.23% 23
North London - 1 £325 - 5
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 (3.08%) Confluence
2 25 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.79%) nginx
6 8 (0.63%) Apache
7 7 (0.55%) CMS
8 5 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.16%) Camunda
10 2 (0.16%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.16%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.16%) Mendix
10 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.079%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.58%) Chatbot
4 20 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.079%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.079%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.39%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.39%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.32%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.16%) Actimize
6 2 (0.16%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.16%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 252 (19.89%) Azure
2 229 (18.07%) AWS
3 168 (13.26%) Power Platform
4 102 (8.05%) GCP
5 65 (5.13%) SaaS
6 50 (3.95%) Amazon S3
7 44 (3.47%) Serverless
8 43 (3.39%) Snowflake
9 42 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (2.37%) GitHub
12 26 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (1.82%) dbt
15 20 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (1.50%) Entra ID
17 17 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (1.26%) Collibra
18 16 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.26%) Firewall
1 16 (1.26%) VPN
2 14 (1.10%) DNS
3 11 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.71%) Network Security
4 9 (0.71%) OpenVPN
5 7 (0.55%) HTTP
5 7 (0.55%) WAN
6 5 (0.39%) NAS
6 5 (0.39%) SAN
7 3 (0.24%) BGP
7 3 (0.24%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.24%) MPLS
7 3 (0.24%) OSPF
7 3 (0.24%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.24%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.24%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.16%) IPsec
8 2 (0.16%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (12.79%) Power BI
2 66 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (4.58%) Metadata
4 57 (4.50%) Tableau
5 35 (2.76%) BigQuery
6 28 (2.21%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
8 23 (1.82%) Big Data
8 23 (1.82%) SQL Server
9 22 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 21 (1.66%) Looker
11 20 (1.58%) Power Query
11 20 (1.58%) Relational Database
12 18 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.42%) Oracle Database
13 16 (1.26%) Delta Lake
14 13 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.95%) Parquet
16 11 (0.87%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 81 (6.39%) JIRA
2 42 (3.31%) Git
3 20 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.95%) GitLab
5 11 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.55%) JUnit
7 7 (0.55%) MLflow
8 6 (0.47%) ERwin
9 5 (0.39%) Mockito
10 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (0.32%) DbUnit
10 4 (0.32%) jMock
10 4 (0.32%) Maven
10 4 (0.32%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.24%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.24%) Toad
11 3 (0.24%) VTune
11 3 (0.24%) Xcode
12 2 (0.16%) Cucumber
General
1 453 (35.75%) Finance
2 447 (35.28%) Social Skills
3 287 (22.65%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (14.05%) Public Sector
5 131 (10.34%) Banking
6 71 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
7 67 (5.29%) Marketing
8 64 (5.05%) Retail
9 49 (3.87%) Legal
10 39 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (2.76%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (2.13%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.82%) Local Government
16 22 (1.74%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.66%) Front Office
18 16 (1.26%) Billing
19 13 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 192 (15.15%) Analyst
2 187 (14.76%) Senior
3 158 (12.47%) Lead
4 118 (9.31%) Architect
5 94 (7.42%) Data Engineer
6 91 (7.18%) Business Analyst
7 86 (6.79%) Project Manager
8 77 (6.08%) Developer
9 66 (5.21%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.87%) Consultant
11 46 (3.63%) Data Scientist
12 39 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.76%) Product Manager
14 32 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (2.53%) User Researcher
15 30 (2.37%) Senior Manager
16 28 (2.21%) Designer
17 27 (2.13%) Product Owner
18 26 (2.05%) Technical Leader
19 24 (1.89%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.24%) REST
2 32 (2.53%) React
3 27 (2.13%) Kafka
3 27 (2.13%) Pandas
4 26 (2.05%) PySpark
5 20 (1.58%) Middleware
6 19 (1.50%) .NET
7 18 (1.42%) AngularJS
8 17 (1.34%) NumPy
8 17 (1.34%) RESTful
8 17 (1.34%) scikit-learn
9 15 (1.18%) JSON
9 15 (1.18%) Spring
9 15 (1.18%) Spring Boot
10 12 (0.95%) HTML
10 12 (0.95%) Node.js
10 12 (0.95%) PyTorch
11 10 (0.79%) LangChain
11 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (0.79%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 91 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 88 (6.95%) Product Ownership
3 43 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 38 (3.00%) Virtual Team
6 36 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.45%) AI Agents
7 31 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.42%) FMCG
11 18 (1.42%) NHS
11 18 (1.42%) Taxonomies
12 17 (1.34%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.26%) PMI
14 14 (1.10%) CMDB
14 14 (1.10%) Data Centre
15 13 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.26%) Windows
2 14 (1.10%) Linux
3 6 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.32%) Unix
6 3 (0.24%) VMS
6 3 (0.24%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.16%) Android
7 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.079%) Solaris
8 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (27.78%) Agile
2 319 (25.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 311 (24.55%) Analytics
4 264 (20.84%) AI
4 264 (20.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 254 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (16.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 200 (15.79%) Roadmaps
8 184 (14.52%) Data Modelling
9 182 (14.36%) Business Intelligence
10 178 (14.05%) CI/CD
11 171 (13.50%) DevOps
12 155 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
13 135 (10.66%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 128 (10.10%) Migration
15 126 (9.94%) Actionable Insight
16 123 (9.71%) Data Science
17 120 (9.47%) ETL
17 120 (9.47%) Validation
18 118 (9.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 253 (19.97%) SQL
2 251 (19.81%) Python
3 69 (5.45%) Java
4 51 (4.03%) TypeScript
5 32 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.66%) C#
8 16 (1.26%) R
9 10 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.63%) VBA
11 7 (0.55%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.47%) C++
12 6 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.47%) Ruby
13 5 (0.39%) Bicep
13 5 (0.39%) Scala
13 5 (0.39%) SPARQL
14 4 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 218 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 179 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 107 (8.45%) Degree
4 47 (3.71%) PMP
5 42 (3.31%) PMI Certification
6 29 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 24 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.89%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.26%) ACCA
9 16 (1.26%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.26%) CISSP
10 10 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.79%) CIMA
11 9 (0.71%) CISM
12 8 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.55%) CBAP
14 6 (0.47%) CISA
15 5 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (13.81%) Data Quality
2 83 (6.55%) PMO
3 68 (5.37%) QA
4 46 (3.63%) Accessibility
5 45 (3.55%) GDPR
6 19 (1.50%) NIST
7 15 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.87%) GRC
9 10 (0.79%) SLA
10 9 (0.71%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.55%) COREP
11 7 (0.55%) FINREP
11 7 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.32%) GAAP
12 4 (0.32%) IFRS
12 4 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.32%) WCAG
13 3 (0.24%) COBIT
System Software
1 37 (2.92%) Docker
2 14 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.71%) Squid
4 5 (0.39%) NFS
4 5 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.32%) IAG
6 3 (0.24%) Postfix
6 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.079%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (6.31%) Terraform
2 66 (5.21%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.50%) Grafana
4 15 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.10%) Ansible
6 12 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.55%) Consul
8 7 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.47%) Kibana
9 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.32%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.32%) vMotion
11 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.24%) SCCM
12 2 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.16%) Control-M
12 2 (0.16%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) Puppet
12 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 183 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.81%) Databricks
3 50 (3.95%) Oracle
4 49 (3.87%) Google
5 44 (3.47%) SAP
6 39 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.84%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.34%) Workday
9 14 (1.10%) Adobe
10 13 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 12 (0.95%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 9 (0.71%) Foundry
13 9 (0.71%) Murex
14 8 (0.63%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.63%) Splunk
15 7 (0.55%) Anaplan
15 7 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (0.55%) GoldenSource
15 7 (0.55%) VMware