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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 50 77
Rank change year-on-year +21 +27 +19
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,202 579 525
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.43% 4.74% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.24% 5.13% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 379 363
10th Percentile £375 £363 £288
25th Percentile £448 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +5.77% -11.60%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £763
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 22
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.63 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £29.16
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +9.76% -33.53%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.22 £45.31
90th Percentile £75.70 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.20 £18.25
% change year-on-year +13.88% +70.96% -59.44%

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 16,594 11,281 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.27% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,070 7,533 11,092
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 198 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.70 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% +14.72% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%

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 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 9 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 9 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 +8 164 £581 +5.68% 226
West London +2 36 £520 -8.64% 33
South London +2 18 £519 -13.58% 9
East London -3 5 £697 -10.06% 27
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 36 (3.00%) Confluence
2 21 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.16%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.83%) nginx
6 5 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.33%) Apache
7 4 (0.33%) CMS
7 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 89 (7.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (1.33%) Chatbot
6 14 (1.16%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.083%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.083%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 11 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.42%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.42%) Loan IQ
2 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.17%) Actimize
5 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 239 (19.88%) Azure
2 202 (16.81%) AWS
3 164 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 93 (7.74%) GCP
5 72 (5.99%) SaaS
6 39 (3.24%) Amazon S3
7 38 (3.16%) Snowflake
8 36 (3.00%) Serverless
9 35 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (2.58%) GitHub
12 27 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 23 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.50%) Collibra
15 18 (1.50%) dbt
16 17 (1.41%) Entra ID
16 17 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (1.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.33%) VPN
2 13 (1.08%) DNS
2 13 (1.08%) Firewall
3 11 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.75%) HTTP
4 9 (0.75%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.67%) Network Security
6 5 (0.42%) WAN
7 4 (0.33%) NAS
7 4 (0.33%) SAN
8 3 (0.25%) BGP
8 3 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.25%) MPLS
8 3 (0.25%) OSPF
8 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.25%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.17%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.17%) IPsec
9 2 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (13.14%) Power BI
2 63 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
3 52 (4.33%) Metadata
4 51 (4.24%) Tableau
5 30 (2.50%) BigQuery
6 28 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 28 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 22 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (1.66%) Oracle Database
8 20 (1.66%) Power Query
9 19 (1.58%) Looker
9 19 (1.58%) NoSQL
9 19 (1.58%) Relational Database
10 17 (1.41%) Big Data
11 14 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.16%) Delta Lake
11 14 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (1.08%) Parquet
13 12 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 76 (6.32%) JIRA
2 37 (3.08%) Git
3 15 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.16%) GitLab
5 11 (0.92%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.83%) MLflow
7 9 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.50%) ERwin
8 6 (0.50%) JUnit
9 5 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (0.33%) DbUnit
10 4 (0.33%) jMock
10 4 (0.33%) Maven
10 4 (0.33%) Mockito
10 4 (0.33%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.25%) Toad
12 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.17%) Selenium
12 2 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 426 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 416 (34.61%) Finance
3 278 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 123 (10.23%) Banking
6 66 (5.49%) Marketing
7 56 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
8 53 (4.41%) Retail
9 49 (4.08%) Legal
10 40 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 40 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (3.00%) Telecoms
12 31 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
13 27 (2.25%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.41%) Local Government
15 16 (1.33%) Billing
15 16 (1.33%) Front Office
16 15 (1.25%) Investment Banking
17 12 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 190 (15.81%) Senior
2 188 (15.64%) Analyst
3 146 (12.15%) Lead
4 98 (8.15%) Architect
5 89 (7.40%) Business Analyst
6 87 (7.24%) Data Engineer
6 87 (7.24%) Project Manager
7 75 (6.24%) Developer
8 67 (5.57%) Data Analyst
9 52 (4.33%) Consultant
10 41 (3.41%) Data Scientist
11 37 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (2.91%) Product Manager
13 32 (2.66%) Senior Manager
14 31 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.50%) User Researcher
16 28 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
17 24 (2.00%) Technical Leader
18 23 (1.91%) Designer
18 23 (1.91%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (3.08%) REST
2 28 (2.33%) Pandas
3 26 (2.16%) React
4 21 (1.75%) Middleware
4 21 (1.75%) PySpark
5 20 (1.66%) .NET
6 19 (1.58%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.50%) scikit-learn
8 17 (1.41%) Kafka
8 17 (1.41%) RESTful
9 16 (1.33%) NumPy
9 16 (1.33%) Spring
9 16 (1.33%) Spring Boot
10 15 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (1.00%) PyTorch
12 11 (0.92%) LangChain
12 11 (0.92%) Node.js
13 10 (0.83%) OpenID
14 9 (0.75%) HTML
14 9 (0.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 85 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 76 (6.32%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.08%) Virtual Team
4 36 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 34 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 28 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 23 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.66%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.50%) FMCG
9 18 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.41%) PMI
11 16 (1.33%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.25%) NHS
13 11 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 11 (0.92%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.83%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.25%) Windows
2 12 (1.00%) Linux
3 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.33%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.25%) Unix
4 3 (0.25%) VMS
4 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.083%) Android
5 1 (0.083%) Solaris
5 1 (0.083%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (26.37%) Agile
2 286 (23.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 280 (23.29%) Analytics
4 245 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
5 242 (20.13%) AI
6 240 (19.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 196 (16.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 190 (15.81%) Roadmaps
9 182 (15.14%) Business Intelligence
10 171 (14.23%) Data Modelling
11 157 (13.06%) CI/CD
12 150 (12.48%) DevOps
13 132 (10.98%) Data Pipeline
14 127 (10.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 125 (10.40%) Project Management
16 122 (10.15%) Actionable Insight
17 119 (9.90%) Migration
18 115 (9.57%) ETL
19 111 (9.23%) Data Governance
19 111 (9.23%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 241 (20.05%) SQL
2 230 (19.13%) Python
3 62 (5.16%) Java
4 42 (3.49%) TypeScript
5 29 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (1.75%) C#
7 18 (1.50%) JavaScript
8 17 (1.41%) R
9 15 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.67%) VBA
11 7 (0.58%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.50%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.50%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.42%) Bicep
13 5 (0.42%) Ruby
13 5 (0.42%) Scala
14 4 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
15 2 (0.17%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.17%) Objective-C
15 2 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 213 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 175 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.23%) Degree
4 49 (4.08%) PMP
5 43 (3.58%) PMI Certification
6 29 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.00%) DV Cleared
9 23 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.41%) ACCA
10 17 (1.41%) CISSP
11 15 (1.25%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.92%) CIMA
13 10 (0.83%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.83%) CISM
14 8 (0.67%) CBAP
14 8 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.50%) APMP
16 6 (0.50%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (14.06%) Data Quality
2 79 (6.57%) PMO
3 65 (5.41%) QA
4 39 (3.24%) GDPR
5 31 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.66%) NIST
7 18 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.92%) GRC
8 11 (0.92%) SLA
9 10 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.58%) COREP
10 7 (0.58%) FINREP
10 7 (0.58%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.50%) GAAP
11 6 (0.50%) IFRS
12 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.42%) NCSC
13 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (2.50%) Docker
2 13 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.75%) Squid
4 7 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.33%) NFS
6 3 (0.25%) IAG
6 3 (0.25%) Postfix
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.17%) vSphere
8 1 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.083%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.083%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 75 (6.24%) Terraform
2 60 (4.99%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.50%) Grafana
4 14 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.92%) Ansible
7 9 (0.75%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.58%) Consul
8 7 (0.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.42%) Kibana
11 4 (0.33%) Control-M
11 4 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
11 4 (0.33%) vMotion
12 3 (0.25%) Istio
12 3 (0.25%) SCCM
13 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
13 2 (0.17%) Argo
13 2 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.17%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 172 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.91%) Oracle
3 53 (4.41%) Databricks
4 46 (3.83%) Google
5 44 (3.66%) SAP
6 39 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.66%) Workday
9 13 (1.08%) Adobe
10 12 (1.00%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.00%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.92%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.75%) Foundry
12 9 (0.75%) VMware
13 8 (0.67%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.58%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.58%) Informatica
14 7 (0.58%) Murex
14 7 (0.58%) Splunk