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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 47 90
Rank change year-on-year +18 +43 +1
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,361 674 455
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.77% 5.04% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.60% 5.44% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 449 285
10th Percentile £390 £342 £305
25th Percentile £463 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £676 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £748 £773
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 10
10th Percentile £26.25 £26.86 £34.75
25th Percentile £26.52 £30.91 £37.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.23 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -27.94% +8.30%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.99 £53.25 £50.75
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.49 £26.87
% change year-on-year +12.83% +17.22% -41.45%

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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +13 188 £625 +13.64% 199
West London +17 67 £650 +23.81% 117
South London -9 8 £550 -8.33% 14
East London +7 6 £600 +4.35% 13
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 35 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
1 35 (2.57%) Confluence
2 25 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.18%) Apache
5 6 (0.44%) CMS
6 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.29%) Camunda
7 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Mendix
8 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.073%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 84 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.88%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.073%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) Actimize
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 259 (19.03%) Azure
2 257 (18.88%) AWS
3 175 (12.86%) Power Platform
4 93 (6.83%) GCP
5 67 (4.92%) SaaS
6 63 (4.63%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (3.16%) dbt
9 36 (2.65%) GitHub
10 35 (2.57%) Amazon S3
11 33 (2.42%) Serverless
12 27 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
12 27 (1.98%) Entra ID
13 25 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 22 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.32%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (1.32%) OCI
16 18 (1.32%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.10%) WAN
2 12 (0.88%) Firewall
2 12 (0.88%) Network Security
3 10 (0.73%) VPN
4 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 5 (0.37%) Broadband
5 5 (0.37%) DNS
5 5 (0.37%) LAN
6 4 (0.29%) IPsec
6 4 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.22%) BGP
7 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.22%) MPLS
7 3 (0.22%) OSPF
7 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.22%) X.509
8 2 (0.15%) DHCP
8 2 (0.15%) Modbus
8 2 (0.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (12.34%) Power BI
2 76 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (4.56%) Metadata
4 53 (3.89%) Tableau
5 37 (2.72%) BigQuery
6 30 (2.20%) Power Query
7 26 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 24 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.69%) Looker
10 20 (1.47%) NoSQL
11 19 (1.40%) Big Data
11 19 (1.40%) Delta Lake
12 18 (1.32%) SQL Server
13 17 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (1.25%) Star Schema
14 16 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (1.10%) MongoDB
16 14 (1.03%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 63 (4.63%) JIRA
2 35 (2.57%) Git
3 21 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.81%) GitLab
5 4 (0.29%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.29%) ERwin
5 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.22%) JUnit
6 3 (0.22%) Mockito
6 3 (0.22%) VTune
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) jMock
7 2 (0.15%) Maven
7 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
7 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 514 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 481 (35.34%) Finance
3 329 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (14.84%) Public Sector
5 156 (11.46%) Banking
6 105 (7.71%) Influencing Skills
7 79 (5.80%) Retail
8 73 (5.36%) Marketing
9 54 (3.97%) Legal
10 42 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 38 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (2.20%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.13%) Front Office
14 29 (2.13%) Investment Banking
14 29 (2.13%) Local Government
15 25 (1.84%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.47%) Aviation
18 16 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 218 (16.02%) Analyst
2 209 (15.36%) Senior
3 173 (12.71%) Lead
4 164 (12.05%) Architect
5 97 (7.13%) Business Analyst
6 83 (6.10%) Data Engineer
7 80 (5.88%) Project Manager
8 68 (5.00%) Developer
9 66 (4.85%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.75%) Consultant
10 51 (3.75%) Data Scientist
11 45 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
11 45 (3.31%) Senior Manager
12 40 (2.94%) Product Manager
13 39 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (2.79%) Data Architect
15 30 (2.20%) Designer
16 28 (2.06%) Product Owner
16 28 (2.06%) Senior Data Engineer
17 26 (1.91%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (5.88%) Terraform
2 41 (3.01%) REST
3 33 (2.42%) Kafka
4 31 (2.28%) React
5 26 (1.91%) PySpark
6 22 (1.62%) Pandas
7 18 (1.32%) Middleware
8 15 (1.10%) Spring
9 14 (1.03%) .NET
9 14 (1.03%) JSON
9 14 (1.03%) RESTful
9 14 (1.03%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.96%) HTML
10 13 (0.96%) Node.js
11 12 (0.88%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.88%) NumPy
12 11 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (0.73%) scikit-learn
14 9 (0.66%) LangChain
14 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 104 (7.64%) Product Ownership
2 98 (7.20%) Cloud Native
3 56 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 48 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 40 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.79%) AI Agents
7 34 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (2.28%) Virtual Team
9 27 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.76%) Data Structures
11 22 (1.62%) NHS
12 21 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.32%) FMCG
14 17 (1.25%) CMDB
14 17 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.18%) Operational Technology
15 16 (1.18%) PMI
16 15 (1.10%) Taxonomies
17 12 (0.88%) Derivative
17 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.25%) Windows
2 15 (1.10%) Linux
3 6 (0.44%) Mac OS
3 6 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.073%) Solaris
6 1 (0.073%) VMS
6 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (33.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 377 (27.70%) Agile
3 358 (26.30%) Analytics
4 305 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 298 (21.90%) AI
6 271 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
7 263 (19.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 232 (17.05%) Roadmaps
9 197 (14.47%) Business Intelligence
9 197 (14.47%) Data Modelling
10 181 (13.30%) CI/CD
11 174 (12.78%) DevOps
12 155 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
13 137 (10.07%) Validation
14 135 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
15 130 (9.55%) Data Governance
16 129 (9.48%) Data Engineering
16 129 (9.48%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 126 (9.26%) Migration
18 120 (8.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 273 (20.06%) SQL
2 262 (19.25%) Python
3 69 (5.07%) Java
4 47 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 44 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 29 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.32%) C#
7 18 (1.32%) R
8 11 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 8 (0.59%) Bash
9 8 (0.59%) Kotlin
9 8 (0.59%) VBA
10 7 (0.51%) Bicep
10 7 (0.51%) C++
11 6 (0.44%) Ruby
11 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
12 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
12 5 (0.37%) Scala
12 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 230 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 172 (12.64%) SC Cleared
3 102 (7.49%) Degree
4 51 (3.75%) PMP
5 47 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 35 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.32%) ACCA
9 18 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.88%) CIMA
11 12 (0.88%) CISSP
12 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.51%) CISM
13 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
14 5 (0.37%) PhD
14 5 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (14.03%) Data Quality
2 84 (6.17%) PMO
3 67 (4.92%) QA
4 50 (3.67%) GDPR
5 46 (3.38%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 20 (1.47%) NIST
8 16 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.10%) GRC
10 9 (0.66%) IFRS
11 8 (0.59%) COREP
11 8 (0.59%) FINREP
11 8 (0.59%) SLA
12 7 (0.51%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.37%) SEPA
14 4 (0.29%) GAAP
14 4 (0.29%) NCSC
15 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (3.75%) Docker
2 19 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.51%) IAG
5 2 (0.15%) Postfix
5 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.073%) Firmware
6 1 (0.073%) NFS
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.073%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.073%) Squid
6 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.18%) Ansible
3 11 (0.81%) Grafana
3 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.44%) Kibana
4 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.37%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.22%) Istio
7 3 (0.22%) SCCM
8 2 (0.15%) Packer
8 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 1 (0.073%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.073%) Amdocs OSS
9 1 (0.073%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.073%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.073%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 188 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.80%) Databricks
3 47 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 45 (3.31%) Oracle
5 44 (3.23%) SAP
6 43 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 42 (3.09%) Google
8 16 (1.18%) Workday
9 13 (0.96%) Adobe
10 12 (0.88%) Murex
11 11 (0.81%) Zscaler
12 9 (0.66%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.59%) Amplitude
13 8 (0.59%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.59%) Foundry
13 8 (0.59%) GoldenSource
13 8 (0.59%) Informatica
14 7 (0.51%) IBM
14 7 (0.51%) Splunk
14 7 (0.51%) Teradata