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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 50 88
Rank change year-on-year +21 +38 0
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,451 672 447
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.21% 5.03% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 5.43% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 446 267
10th Percentile £376 £355 £350
25th Percentile £465 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £662 £686
90th Percentile £800 £773 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 6
10th Percentile £23.50 £21.91 £31.50
25th Percentile £26.45 £30.86 £33.44
Median hourly rate £32.25 £33.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -16.35% +3.45%
75th Percentile £60.13 £44.98 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.12 £49.45 £53.13
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.35 £39.68
% change year-on-year +59.52% -21.01% -13.51%

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 17,861 12,373 14,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.58% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,170 9,513
10th Percentile £358 £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 £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 241 181
10th Percentile £16.19 £17.08 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.15
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -17.81% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +17 211 £625 +13.64% 397
West London +17 69 £706 +34.52% 137
South London -2 13 £650 +4.00% 33
East London +8 7 £600 +4.35% 29
North London 0 1 £550 -15.38% 4
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 39 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.62%) Confluence
3 29 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.96%) Apache
6 5 (0.34%) CMS
7 4 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.28%) Mendix
7 4 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.069%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.069%) IIS
9 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.069%) nginx
9 1 (0.069%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 90 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
4 21 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.41%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.28%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.21%) Endur
5 3 (0.21%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.14%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.069%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.069%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.069%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 259 (17.85%) Azure
2 258 (17.78%) AWS
3 181 (12.47%) Power Platform
4 83 (5.72%) GCP
5 70 (4.82%) Snowflake
6 62 (4.27%) SaaS
7 51 (3.51%) dbt
8 42 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (2.62%) Amazon S3
10 36 (2.48%) GitHub
11 34 (2.34%) Serverless
12 29 (2.00%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 18 (1.24%) Amazon Bedrock
16 18 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.24%) OCI
17 17 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.96%) WAN
2 12 (0.83%) Network Security
3 11 (0.76%) Broadband
3 11 (0.76%) Firewall
4 8 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 7 (0.48%) VPN
6 5 (0.34%) LAN
7 4 (0.28%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (0.28%) IPsec
7 4 (0.28%) Modbus
7 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.21%) BGP
8 3 (0.21%) DNS
8 3 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.21%) MPLS
8 3 (0.21%) OSPF
8 3 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.21%) X.509
9 2 (0.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (11.99%) Power BI
2 72 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (4.14%) Metadata
4 56 (3.86%) Tableau
5 33 (2.27%) BigQuery
6 31 (2.14%) Power Query
7 28 (1.93%) Data Lake
7 28 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.72%) Delta Lake
10 24 (1.65%) Looker
11 22 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.24%) Big Data
12 18 (1.24%) Star Schema
13 16 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
13 16 (1.10%) SQL Server
14 15 (1.03%) Data Vault
14 15 (1.03%) DynamoDB
14 15 (1.03%) NoSQL
15 14 (0.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (4.00%) JIRA
2 38 (2.62%) Git
3 25 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.62%) GitLab
5 8 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.41%) JUnit
7 5 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.21%) Maven
8 3 (0.21%) MLflow
8 3 (0.21%) Mockito
8 3 (0.21%) Selenium
8 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.21%) VTune
8 3 (0.21%) Xcode
9 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.14%) jMock
9 2 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 556 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 488 (33.63%) Finance
3 352 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (15.99%) Public Sector
5 164 (11.30%) Banking
6 128 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
7 91 (6.27%) Retail
8 79 (5.44%) Marketing
9 51 (3.51%) Legal
10 45 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (2.55%) Local Government
13 35 (2.41%) Front Office
13 35 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.21%) Investment Banking
15 21 (1.45%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.38%) Aviation
16 20 (1.38%) Manufacturing
16 20 (1.38%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (16.06%) Analyst
2 221 (15.23%) Senior
3 197 (13.58%) Lead
4 189 (13.03%) Architect
5 100 (6.89%) Business Analyst
6 82 (5.65%) Project Manager
7 76 (5.24%) Data Engineer
8 71 (4.89%) Developer
9 70 (4.82%) Data Analyst
10 58 (4.00%) Consultant
11 50 (3.45%) Data Scientist
12 45 (3.10%) Data Architect
12 45 (3.10%) Senior Manager
13 44 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.96%) Product Manager
14 43 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
15 32 (2.21%) Technical Leader
16 28 (1.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 28 (1.93%) Senior Data Engineer
17 27 (1.86%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.93%) Terraform
2 39 (2.69%) Kafka
2 39 (2.69%) REST
3 31 (2.14%) React
4 27 (1.86%) PySpark
5 17 (1.17%) Pandas
5 17 (1.17%) Spring
6 16 (1.10%) RESTful
6 16 (1.10%) Spring Boot
7 14 (0.96%) .NET
7 14 (0.96%) HTML
8 13 (0.90%) Middleware
8 13 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (0.83%) Node.js
10 11 (0.76%) ATL
11 10 (0.69%) LangChain
11 10 (0.69%) OAuth
12 9 (0.62%) FastAPI
13 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.24%) Product Ownership
2 100 (6.89%) Cloud Native
3 68 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 55 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.62%) AI Agents
7 33 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 28 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.86%) Data Structures
9 27 (1.86%) NHS
10 23 (1.59%) Operational Technology
11 20 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.38%) Taxonomies
12 19 (1.31%) Data Centre
13 15 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.96%) FMCG
14 14 (0.96%) Social Media
15 13 (0.90%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.24%) Windows
2 16 (1.10%) Linux
3 8 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 6 (0.41%) Unix
5 5 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.14%) Android
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.069%) Solaris
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (37.01%) Stakeholder Management
2 400 (27.57%) Agile
3 382 (26.33%) Analytics
4 333 (22.95%) AI
5 300 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 293 (20.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 291 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
8 270 (18.61%) Roadmaps
9 203 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
10 189 (13.03%) Data Modelling
11 179 (12.34%) CI/CD
12 172 (11.85%) DevOps
13 149 (10.27%) Actionable Insight
14 146 (10.06%) Validation
15 144 (9.92%) Data Governance
16 141 (9.72%) Risk Management
17 139 (9.58%) Data Pipeline
18 135 (9.30%) Migration
19 132 (9.10%) Machine Learning
20 126 (8.68%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 295 (20.33%) SQL
2 264 (18.19%) Python
3 69 (4.76%) Java
4 45 (3.10%) TypeScript
5 44 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 30 (2.07%) JavaScript
7 23 (1.59%) C#
8 20 (1.38%) R
9 15 (1.03%) Bash
10 9 (0.62%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.55%) Scala
12 7 (0.48%) Bicep
12 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.48%) VBA
13 6 (0.41%) C++
13 6 (0.41%) SPARQL
13 6 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.34%) Cypher
14 5 (0.34%) Gremlin
14 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 251 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 195 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 109 (7.51%) Degree
4 54 (3.72%) PMP
5 50 (3.45%) PMI Certification
6 38 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.38%) ACCA
9 19 (1.31%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.24%) CISSP
11 17 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.10%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (0.96%) CIMA
15 11 (0.76%) CISM
16 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
19 5 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (14.06%) Data Quality
2 82 (5.65%) PMO
3 69 (4.76%) QA
4 56 (3.86%) GDPR
5 50 (3.45%) Accessibility
6 33 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 30 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.79%) NIST
9 22 (1.52%) GRC
10 12 (0.83%) IFRS
11 9 (0.62%) NCSC
12 8 (0.55%) SLA
13 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.41%) COREP
14 6 (0.41%) FINREP
15 5 (0.34%) SEPA
16 4 (0.28%) GAAP
17 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
17 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 3 (0.21%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 61 (4.20%) Docker
2 21 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) IAG
4 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.21%) vSphere
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.069%) Firmware
7 1 (0.069%) NFS
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.10%) Ansible
3 12 (0.83%) Grafana
3 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.55%) Kibana
5 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.28%) Control-M
6 4 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.21%) Istio
7 3 (0.21%) Rancher
7 3 (0.21%) SCCM
7 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.14%) Packer
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.069%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.069%) Argo
9 1 (0.069%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.069%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 201 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.27%) Databricks
3 46 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 44 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 41 (2.83%) Oracle
6 40 (2.76%) SAP
7 38 (2.62%) Google
8 13 (0.90%) Workday
9 12 (0.83%) Adobe
10 10 (0.69%) IBM
10 10 (0.69%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.62%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.62%) Informatica
11 9 (0.62%) Murex
11 9 (0.62%) Splunk
12 8 (0.55%) Foundry
13 7 (0.48%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.48%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.48%) Teradata