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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 48 66
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 +35
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,015 563 590
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.11% 4.44% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.81% 4.86% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 373 429
10th Percentile £370 £356 £349
25th Percentile £433 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -10.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £645
90th Percentile £750 £838 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 27
10th Percentile - £28.32 £19.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £27.75 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £47.25 £53.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £76.13 £58.55 £54.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +62.16% -64.51%

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 14,898 11,581 15,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.39% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 7,826 11,435
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 164 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.06 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.54 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +15.57% -21.79%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.20 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +6.06% - -12.00%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +15 144 £560 +7.69% 260
South London -17 18 £519 -13.58% 10
West London -13 15 £518 -17.20% 36
East London -2 4 £719 -7.23% 22
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 (4.63%) Confluence
2 24 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.99%) nginx
6 5 (0.49%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.39%) Apache
7 4 (0.39%) CMS
8 3 (0.30%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.099%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.099%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.099%) SAS
Applications
1 112 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.97%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.67%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.30%) Notion
8 3 (0.30%) Trello
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) InVision
9 2 (0.20%) Sketch
10 1 (0.099%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 9 (0.89%) NetSuite
1 9 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.59%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.49%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.30%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.30%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.20%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 213 (20.99%) Azure
2 177 (17.44%) Power Platform
3 166 (16.35%) AWS
4 78 (7.68%) GCP
5 46 (4.53%) SaaS
6 36 (3.55%) Serverless
7 34 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (3.35%) Snowflake
8 31 (3.05%) Amazon S3
8 31 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (3.05%) GitHub
9 30 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 27 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (1.48%) Power Automate
15 14 (1.38%) Collibra
15 14 (1.38%) PaaS
16 13 (1.28%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.58%) Firewall
1 16 (1.58%) TCP/IP
2 13 (1.28%) VPN
3 12 (1.18%) DNS
4 9 (0.89%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.79%) Network Security
6 7 (0.69%) HTTP
7 4 (0.39%) Multicast
7 4 (0.39%) NAS
7 4 (0.39%) SAN
7 4 (0.39%) tcpdump
7 4 (0.39%) WAN
7 4 (0.39%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.30%) 5G
8 3 (0.30%) Broadband
8 3 (0.30%) Internet
9 2 (0.20%) Calico
9 2 (0.20%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.20%) NaaS
9 2 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (16.75%) Power BI
2 66 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
3 48 (4.73%) Tableau
4 40 (3.94%) Metadata
5 31 (3.05%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.27%) Data Lake
7 22 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (1.77%) Big Data
9 17 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 17 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (1.58%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.48%) NoSQL
12 14 (1.38%) Looker
13 13 (1.28%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.18%) Delta Lake
14 12 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (1.08%) Power Query
16 10 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 90 (8.87%) JIRA
2 41 (4.04%) Git
3 15 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.28%) GitLab
5 11 (1.08%) MLflow
6 9 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.59%) ERwin
7 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.39%) JUnit
9 3 (0.30%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.30%) Toad
10 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.20%) DbUnit
10 2 (0.20%) jMock
10 2 (0.20%) Maven
10 2 (0.20%) Postman
10 2 (0.20%) Selenium
10 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 407 (40.10%) Social Skills
2 370 (36.45%) Finance
3 275 (27.09%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (14.09%) Public Sector
5 116 (11.43%) Banking
6 48 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
7 46 (4.53%) Marketing
8 45 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (3.84%) Legal
10 38 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (3.45%) Retail
12 28 (2.76%) Telecoms
13 26 (2.56%) Front Office
14 24 (2.36%) Financial Institution
15 23 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (2.07%) Billing
16 21 (2.07%) Publishing
17 20 (1.97%) Local Government
18 18 (1.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 184 (18.13%) Analyst
2 147 (14.48%) Senior
3 109 (10.74%) Lead
4 93 (9.16%) Business Analyst
5 82 (8.08%) Developer
6 79 (7.78%) Architect
7 66 (6.50%) Project Manager
8 62 (6.11%) Data Engineer
9 56 (5.52%) Data Analyst
10 34 (3.35%) Consultant
11 33 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
12 29 (2.86%) Senior Manager
12 29 (2.86%) User Researcher
13 28 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
14 24 (2.36%) Data Scientist
14 24 (2.36%) Product Manager
15 22 (2.17%) Programme Manager
16 21 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
17 20 (1.97%) Senior Data Engineer
18 17 (1.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (3.05%) REST
2 26 (2.56%) Kafka
2 26 (2.56%) Pandas
3 23 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 23 (2.27%) scikit-learn
4 22 (2.17%) Middleware
5 20 (1.97%) NumPy
6 18 (1.77%) PySpark
6 18 (1.77%) React
7 15 (1.48%) .NET
7 15 (1.48%) PyTorch
8 14 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 14 (1.38%) RESTful
9 12 (1.18%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.08%) Plotly
11 10 (0.99%) LangChain
11 10 (0.99%) OpenID
12 9 (0.89%) JSON
12 9 (0.89%) LDAP
12 9 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 31 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
6 27 (2.66%) Virtual Team
7 23 (2.27%) AI Agents
8 22 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.48%) Data Centre
12 15 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.38%) FMCG
14 13 (1.28%) Derivative
14 13 (1.28%) Security Posture
15 10 (0.99%) Fixed Income
15 10 (0.99%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.67%) Linux
2 14 (1.38%) Windows
3 3 (0.30%) VMS
3 3 (0.30%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.099%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.099%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (28.18%) Agile
2 245 (24.14%) Analytics
3 236 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
4 225 (22.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 195 (19.21%) Business Intelligence
6 180 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 166 (16.35%) AI
8 159 (15.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 153 (15.07%) Roadmaps
10 145 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 139 (13.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 125 (12.32%) Actionable Insight
13 122 (12.02%) DevOps
14 117 (11.53%) CI/CD
15 109 (10.74%) ETL
15 109 (10.74%) Migration
16 107 (10.54%) Visualisation
17 104 (10.25%) Project Management
18 100 (9.85%) Data Governance
19 91 (8.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 225 (22.17%) SQL
2 196 (19.31%) Python
3 37 (3.65%) Java
4 27 (2.66%) TypeScript
5 20 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 19 (1.87%) C#
7 15 (1.48%) PL/SQL
7 15 (1.48%) R
8 14 (1.38%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.18%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.08%) Bash
11 9 (0.89%) C++
12 8 (0.79%) VBA
13 7 (0.69%) Bicep
13 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.39%) Groovy
14 4 (0.39%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.39%) Scala
15 3 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 167 (16.45%) Security Cleared
2 135 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 113 (11.13%) Degree
4 36 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 27 (2.66%) PMI Certification
6 27 (2.66%) PMP
7 15 (1.48%) ACCA
7 15 (1.48%) CIMA
7 15 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.38%) CISSP
9 11 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.08%) CBAP
9 11 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (0.89%) CISM
10 9 (0.89%) PhD
11 8 (0.79%) IIBA
11 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.59%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (13.60%) Data Quality
2 61 (6.01%) PMO
3 60 (5.91%) QA
4 37 (3.65%) Accessibility
5 33 (3.25%) GDPR
6 16 (1.58%) NIST
7 14 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (1.08%) GRC
10 10 (0.99%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.99%) SLA
11 7 (0.69%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.69%) WCAG
12 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.49%) COBIT
14 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.39%) Solvency II
15 3 (0.30%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 28 (2.76%) Docker
2 9 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.89%) Squid
3 6 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.39%) HDFS
4 4 (0.39%) NFS
5 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.20%) vSphere
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.099%) Postfix
6 1 (0.099%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.099%) zsh
Systems Management
1 55 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 52 (5.12%) Terraform
3 21 (2.07%) Grafana
4 20 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.89%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.79%) Consul
8 7 (0.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.59%) Ansible
10 5 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.39%) vMotion
12 3 (0.30%) Control-M
12 3 (0.30%) Rancher
12 3 (0.30%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.20%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.20%) Argo
13 2 (0.20%) Istio
14 1 (0.099%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 145 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 54 (5.32%) Oracle
3 50 (4.93%) Databricks
4 46 (4.53%) SAP
5 40 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 38 (3.74%) Google
7 33 (3.25%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.67%) Adobe
8 17 (1.67%) Workday
9 14 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.89%) Planview
12 9 (0.89%) Software AG
13 8 (0.79%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.79%) VMware
14 7 (0.69%) Cisco
14 7 (0.69%) Foundry
14 7 (0.69%) Informatica
15 6 (0.59%) Murex