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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 46 83
Rank change year-on-year +16 +37 +7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,360 685 473
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.71% 5.01% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 5.43% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 876 462 308
10th Percentile £395 £356 £288
25th Percentile £455 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.87% -10.83%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £750 £764
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 9
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.63 £29.48 £36.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £40.49 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% -14.76% +8.30%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.99 £55.25 £51.50
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.81 £16.06
% change year-on-year +15.34% +91.81% -65.00%

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 18,064 12,618 14,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.16% 92.32% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,886 8,438 10,119
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.59 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -16.31% -15.06%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +8 193 £625 +14.68% 289
West London +10 59 £575 +6.80% 79
South London -2 16 £513 -14.58% 18
East London +6 6 £660 - 17
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 37 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
1 37 (2.72%) Confluence
2 28 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.18%) Apache
5 7 (0.51%) CMS
6 6 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.29%) nginx
8 3 (0.22%) Mendix
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.15%) Camunda
9 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (6.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 34 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.59%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.29%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.074%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 270 (19.85%) Azure
2 261 (19.19%) AWS
3 179 (13.16%) Power Platform
4 108 (7.94%) GCP
5 68 (5.00%) SaaS
6 60 (4.41%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 39 (2.87%) dbt
10 35 (2.57%) Serverless
11 34 (2.50%) GitHub
12 29 (2.13%) Entra ID
13 27 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 27 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 21 (1.54%) Power Automate
15 19 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.25%) Azure AI
17 17 (1.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.10%) Firewall
1 15 (1.10%) WAN
2 12 (0.88%) VPN
3 10 (0.74%) Network Security
4 7 (0.51%) DNS
4 7 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.29%) LAN
5 4 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.22%) BGP
6 3 (0.22%) Broadband
6 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (0.22%) IPsec
6 3 (0.22%) MPLS
6 3 (0.22%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.22%) OSPF
6 3 (0.22%) SAN
6 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.15%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (12.79%) Power BI
2 77 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (4.19%) Tableau
4 52 (3.82%) Metadata
5 40 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 28 (2.06%) Power Query
7 27 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.84%) Data Lake
8 25 (1.84%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.62%) Big Data
10 21 (1.54%) Looker
10 21 (1.54%) NoSQL
11 18 (1.32%) SQL Server
12 17 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (1.25%) Delta Lake
13 16 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.18%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.03%) MongoDB
15 13 (0.96%) Oracle Database
16 11 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (5.59%) JIRA
2 40 (2.94%) Git
3 24 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.96%) GitLab
5 6 (0.44%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.37%) JUnit
6 5 (0.37%) Mockito
7 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.29%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.29%) ERwin
7 4 (0.29%) jMock
7 4 (0.29%) Maven
7 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.22%) MLflow
8 3 (0.22%) VTune
8 3 (0.22%) Xcode
9 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 499 (36.69%) Finance
2 482 (35.44%) Social Skills
3 331 (24.34%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (14.56%) Public Sector
5 155 (11.40%) Banking
6 97 (7.13%) Influencing Skills
7 81 (5.96%) Retail
8 75 (5.51%) Marketing
9 51 (3.75%) Legal
10 45 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 28 (2.06%) Financial Institution
14 28 (2.06%) Investment Banking
15 25 (1.84%) Front Office
15 25 (1.84%) Local Government
16 22 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.25%) Aviation
18 15 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 212 (15.59%) Analyst
2 205 (15.07%) Senior
3 174 (12.79%) Lead
4 148 (10.88%) Architect
5 96 (7.06%) Business Analyst
6 95 (6.99%) Data Engineer
7 91 (6.69%) Project Manager
8 78 (5.74%) Developer
9 71 (5.22%) Data Analyst
10 54 (3.97%) Data Scientist
11 49 (3.60%) Consultant
12 42 (3.09%) Product Manager
12 42 (3.09%) Senior Manager
13 41 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.21%) Data Architect
15 30 (2.21%) Designer
15 30 (2.21%) Product Owner
16 28 (2.06%) Senior Data Engineer
17 25 (1.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.01%) REST
2 35 (2.57%) Kafka
3 29 (2.13%) React
4 28 (2.06%) Pandas
4 28 (2.06%) PySpark
5 18 (1.32%) Middleware
5 18 (1.32%) NumPy
6 17 (1.25%) scikit-learn
7 16 (1.18%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.18%) JSON
8 15 (1.10%) .NET
8 15 (1.10%) RESTful
9 14 (1.03%) Spring
9 14 (1.03%) Spring Boot
10 13 (0.96%) Node.js
11 12 (0.88%) HTML
12 11 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (0.74%) PyTorch
14 8 (0.59%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 106 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 92 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 50 (3.68%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.87%) Virtual Team
7 36 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.35%) AI Agents
9 26 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 22 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.47%) NHS
12 19 (1.40%) FMCG
13 17 (1.25%) CMDB
13 17 (1.25%) PMI
14 16 (1.18%) Data Centre
14 16 (1.18%) Operational Technology
15 15 (1.10%) Security Posture
16 14 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.25%) Windows
2 16 (1.18%) Linux
3 7 (0.51%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.44%) Unix
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.074%) Solaris
6 1 (0.074%) VMS
6 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (30.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 383 (28.16%) Agile
3 353 (25.96%) Analytics
4 297 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 294 (21.62%) AI
6 269 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
7 242 (17.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 223 (16.40%) Roadmaps
9 199 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
9 199 (14.63%) Data Modelling
10 183 (13.46%) CI/CD
11 174 (12.79%) Data Pipeline
11 174 (12.79%) DevOps
12 141 (10.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 133 (9.78%) Validation
14 132 (9.71%) Data Engineering
15 131 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
16 130 (9.56%) Machine Learning
17 129 (9.49%) Data Science
18 125 (9.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 280 (20.59%) SQL
2 273 (20.07%) Python
3 70 (5.15%) Java
4 46 (3.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 43 (3.16%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.32%) C#
8 16 (1.18%) R
9 12 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.59%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) C++
11 7 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 7 (0.51%) VBA
12 6 (0.44%) Ruby
12 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Cypher
13 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 224 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 174 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.57%) Degree
4 55 (4.04%) PMP
5 50 (3.68%) PMI Certification
6 35 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 20 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.18%) CISSP
11 14 (1.03%) ACCA
12 10 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.74%) CISM
13 8 (0.59%) CIMA
13 8 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.51%) PhD
15 5 (0.37%) CISA
15 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 94 (6.91%) PMO
3 70 (5.15%) QA
4 46 (3.38%) Accessibility
5 43 (3.16%) GDPR
6 22 (1.62%) NIST
7 21 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 15 (1.10%) GRC
10 9 (0.66%) COREP
10 9 (0.66%) FINREP
11 8 (0.59%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.59%) SLA
12 7 (0.51%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.44%) IFRS
13 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.37%) NCSC
14 5 (0.37%) SEPA
15 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (3.68%) Docker
2 20 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.51%) IAG
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
5 3 (0.22%) Squid
6 2 (0.15%) NFS
6 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 78 (5.74%) Terraform
2 65 (4.78%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.25%) Ansible
4 13 (0.96%) Grafana
5 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.66%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.44%) Kibana
9 5 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.29%) Control-M
10 4 (0.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.22%) SCCM
12 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.15%) Consul
12 2 (0.15%) Packer
12 2 (0.15%) Puppet
12 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.074%) EMC VPLEX
13 1 (0.074%) vMotion
Vendors
1 191 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.29%) Databricks
3 51 (3.75%) Google
4 47 (3.46%) SAP
5 45 (3.31%) Oracle
6 43 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.18%) Adobe
8 16 (1.18%) Workday
9 11 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 10 (0.74%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.66%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.66%) GoldenSource
11 9 (0.66%) Murex
12 8 (0.59%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.59%) Foundry
13 7 (0.51%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.51%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.51%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.51%) Splunk