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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 79
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,258 586 512
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.58% 4.64% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.40% 5.02% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 394 350
10th Percentile £376 £363 £287
25th Percentile £450 £421 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +1.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £649
90th Percentile £775 £763 £764
England median daily rate £519 £518 £514
% change year-on-year +0.29% +0.68% -7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 21
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.63 £28.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +26.23% -29.77%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.23 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.70 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.81 £18.50
% change year-on-year +15.34% +66.51% -56.98%

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 17,000 11,667 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.40% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,819 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 214 309
10th Percentile £18.01 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +6 174 £595 +8.18% 87
West London -4 41 £521 -8.42% 39
South London -4 19 £519 -13.58% 14
East London +3 6 £719 -7.23% 24
North London - 1 £325 - 7
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 38 (3.02%) Confluence
2 24 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.79%) nginx
6 7 (0.56%) Apache
7 6 (0.48%) CMS
8 5 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 89 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.51%) Chatbot
4 19 (1.51%) 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 13 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.40%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.40%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.16%) Actimize
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 251 (19.95%) Azure
2 221 (17.57%) AWS
3 170 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 100 (7.95%) GCP
5 66 (5.25%) SaaS
6 48 (3.82%) Amazon S3
7 43 (3.42%) Serverless
8 42 (3.34%) Snowflake
9 41 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.70%) GitHub
11 33 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (1.67%) dbt
15 20 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (1.51%) Entra ID
17 17 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
18 15 (1.19%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.27%) Firewall
1 16 (1.27%) VPN
2 14 (1.11%) DNS
3 11 (0.87%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.72%) HTTP
4 9 (0.72%) Network Security
4 9 (0.72%) OpenVPN
5 7 (0.56%) WAN
6 5 (0.40%) NAS
6 5 (0.40%) 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%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.16%) Intranet
8 2 (0.16%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (13.04%) Power BI
2 69 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (4.37%) Tableau
4 54 (4.29%) Metadata
5 34 (2.70%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.31%) Data Lake
7 26 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (2.07%) SQL Server
8 22 (1.75%) Big Data
8 22 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 21 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.59%) Looker
10 20 (1.59%) Power Query
11 18 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (1.43%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.19%) Delta Lake
13 12 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.95%) Parquet
13 12 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 82 (6.52%) JIRA
2 40 (3.18%) Git
3 19 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.95%) GitLab
5 11 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 9 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.64%) MLflow
8 7 (0.56%) JUnit
9 6 (0.48%) ERwin
10 5 (0.40%) Mockito
11 4 (0.32%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.32%) DbUnit
11 4 (0.32%) jMock
11 4 (0.32%) Maven
11 4 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.24%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.24%) Toad
12 3 (0.24%) Xcode
13 2 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
13 2 (0.16%) VTune
General
1 450 (35.77%) Finance
2 448 (35.61%) Social Skills
3 284 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (13.83%) Public Sector
5 131 (10.41%) Banking
6 69 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (5.41%) Marketing
8 62 (4.93%) Retail
9 51 (4.05%) Legal
10 41 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 40 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 36 (2.86%) Telecoms
14 27 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (2.15%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.67%) Investment Banking
15 21 (1.67%) Local Government
16 20 (1.59%) Front Office
17 16 (1.27%) Billing
18 13 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 191 (15.18%) Analyst
2 190 (15.10%) Senior
3 162 (12.88%) Lead
4 111 (8.82%) Architect
5 94 (7.47%) Data Engineer
6 93 (7.39%) Business Analyst
7 85 (6.76%) Project Manager
8 76 (6.04%) Developer
9 66 (5.25%) Data Analyst
10 52 (4.13%) Consultant
11 45 (3.58%) Data Scientist
12 41 (3.26%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (2.70%) Product Manager
14 32 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (2.54%) User Researcher
15 31 (2.46%) Senior Manager
16 29 (2.31%) Technical Leader
17 26 (2.07%) Designer
17 26 (2.07%) Product Owner
17 26 (2.07%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.26%) REST
2 31 (2.46%) React
3 28 (2.23%) Pandas
4 26 (2.07%) PySpark
5 24 (1.91%) Kafka
6 22 (1.75%) Middleware
7 19 (1.51%) .NET
8 18 (1.43%) AngularJS
8 18 (1.43%) scikit-learn
9 17 (1.35%) NumPy
9 17 (1.35%) RESTful
10 15 (1.19%) Spring
10 15 (1.19%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (1.03%) JSON
12 13 (1.03%) PyTorch
13 12 (0.95%) LangChain
14 11 (0.87%) HTML
14 11 (0.87%) Node.js
15 10 (0.79%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 90 (7.15%) Cloud Native
2 88 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.02%) Virtual Team
5 37 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (2.54%) AI Agents
8 29 (2.31%) Management Information System
9 26 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.51%) FMCG
11 19 (1.51%) NHS
12 18 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.35%) PMI
13 17 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.27%) Taxonomies
15 14 (1.11%) CMDB
16 13 (1.03%) Data Centre
16 13 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.43%) Windows
2 16 (1.27%) Linux
3 6 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.40%) 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
8 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (27.66%) Agile
2 314 (24.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 305 (24.24%) Analytics
4 262 (20.83%) AI
5 257 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 255 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
7 209 (16.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 195 (15.50%) Roadmaps
9 186 (14.79%) Business Intelligence
10 181 (14.39%) Data Modelling
11 174 (13.83%) CI/CD
12 167 (13.28%) DevOps
13 151 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
14 129 (10.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 129 (10.25%) Migration
15 127 (10.10%) Actionable Insight
16 125 (9.94%) Data Science
17 119 (9.46%) Project Management
18 118 (9.38%) ETL
19 116 (9.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 254 (20.19%) SQL
2 249 (19.79%) Python
3 68 (5.41%) Java
4 49 (3.90%) TypeScript
5 32 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (1.83%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.67%) C#
8 16 (1.27%) R
9 11 (0.87%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.64%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.64%) VBA
11 7 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.48%) Bicep
12 6 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.48%) Ruby
13 5 (0.40%) C++
13 5 (0.40%) Scala
14 4 (0.32%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.24%) Rust
15 3 (0.24%) Swift
Qualifications
1 217 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 179 (14.23%) SC Cleared
3 111 (8.82%) Degree
4 49 (3.90%) PMP
5 44 (3.50%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 25 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 23 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.35%) ACCA
11 16 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.27%) CISSP
12 11 (0.87%) CIMA
13 9 (0.72%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.72%) CISM
14 8 (0.64%) CBAP
14 8 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.48%) IIBA
16 6 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (13.91%) Data Quality
2 79 (6.28%) PMO
3 66 (5.25%) QA
4 43 (3.42%) Accessibility
5 42 (3.34%) GDPR
6 19 (1.51%) NIST
7 16 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.87%) GRC
8 11 (0.87%) SLA
9 10 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.56%) COREP
11 7 (0.56%) FINREP
11 7 (0.56%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.48%) GAAP
12 6 (0.48%) IFRS
12 6 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.32%) NCSC
13 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (2.86%) Docker
2 15 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.72%) Squid
4 5 (0.40%) NFS
4 5 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.24%) IAG
5 3 (0.24%) Postfix
5 3 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.079%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.079%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (6.36%) Terraform
2 64 (5.09%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.51%) Grafana
4 15 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.11%) Ansible
6 12 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.72%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.56%) Consul
8 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.48%) Kibana
10 4 (0.32%) Control-M
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%) Packer
12 2 (0.16%) Puppet
12 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 185 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.77%) Databricks
3 56 (4.45%) Oracle
4 47 (3.74%) Google
5 43 (3.42%) SAP
6 39 (3.10%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.59%) Workday
9 13 (1.03%) Adobe
9 13 (1.03%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.95%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.87%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.72%) Foundry
12 9 (0.72%) Murex
13 8 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.64%) Splunk
14 7 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.56%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.56%) Palantir
14 7 (0.56%) VMware