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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 49 68
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 +34
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,116 586 582
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.33% 4.63% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 5.02% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 766 385 412
10th Percentile £375 £363 £331
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -10.75%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £645
90th Percentile £775 £808 £775
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 26
10th Percentile £26.99 £27.72 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.81 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £49.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% +62.30% -30.46%
75th Percentile £66.06 £55.25 £47.44
90th Percentile £77.05 £81.30 £52.50
England median hourly rate £60.50 £30.81 £18.25
% change year-on-year +96.40% +68.79% -64.61%

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 15,626 11,665 15,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.10% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,463 7,932 11,228
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £759 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 173 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.65 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +14 163 £575 +9.52% 231
West London -10 26 £520 -16.80% 35
South London -12 19 £519 -13.58% 7
East London -1 5 £697 -10.06% 17
North London - 2 £413 - 1
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 47 (4.21%) Confluence
2 24 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.99%) nginx
6 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.36%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.18%) Camunda
10 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.18%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.18%) Mendix
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.18%) SAS
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 106 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (3.14%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (1.88%) MS Visio
6 17 (1.52%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) Notion
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.18%) InVision
9 2 (0.18%) Sketch
9 2 (0.18%) Trello
10 1 (0.090%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.45%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.27%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.18%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.18%) Lorenzo
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.18%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.18%) SystmOne
8 2 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 221 (19.80%) Azure
2 185 (16.58%) AWS
3 170 (15.23%) Power Platform
4 93 (8.33%) GCP
5 64 (5.73%) SaaS
6 38 (3.41%) Amazon S3
6 38 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (3.41%) Snowflake
7 37 (3.32%) Serverless
8 33 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 32 (2.87%) GitHub
10 31 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 28 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (1.52%) Collibra
14 16 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (1.34%) Dagster
15 15 (1.34%) dbt
15 15 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.34%) Firewall
2 13 (1.16%) VPN
3 12 (1.08%) DNS
4 11 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.81%) OpenVPN
6 8 (0.72%) HTTP
6 8 (0.72%) Network Security
7 4 (0.36%) NAS
7 4 (0.36%) SAN
8 3 (0.27%) 5G
8 3 (0.27%) Broadband
8 3 (0.27%) WAN
9 2 (0.18%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.18%) Calico
9 2 (0.18%) DMZ
9 2 (0.18%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.18%) Internet
9 2 (0.18%) NaaS
9 2 (0.18%) VSAN
9 2 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (14.52%) Power BI
2 69 (6.18%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (4.39%) Tableau
4 44 (3.94%) Metadata
5 32 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 28 (2.51%) BigQuery
7 26 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 19 (1.70%) Big Data
9 18 (1.61%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 17 (1.52%) Looker
11 16 (1.43%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 15 (1.34%) Power Query
12 15 (1.34%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 93 (8.33%) JIRA
2 42 (3.76%) Git
3 17 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.16%) GitLab
5 12 (1.08%) MLflow
6 10 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 9 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.54%) ERwin
8 6 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.45%) JUnit
10 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (0.27%) DbUnit
10 3 (0.27%) jMock
10 3 (0.27%) Maven
10 3 (0.27%) Mockito
10 3 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.27%) Toad
11 2 (0.18%) Postman
11 2 (0.18%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.18%) TestRail
General
1 408 (36.56%) Social Skills
2 403 (36.11%) Finance
3 281 (25.18%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (13.62%) Public Sector
5 132 (11.83%) Banking
6 62 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 58 (5.20%) Marketing
8 47 (4.21%) Legal
8 47 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (3.58%) Retail
10 38 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (2.78%) Telecoms
12 26 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (2.15%) Financial Institution
13 24 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (2.06%) Local Government
15 21 (1.88%) Front Office
16 19 (1.70%) Billing
17 17 (1.52%) Investment Banking
18 10 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 190 (17.03%) Analyst
2 168 (15.05%) Senior
3 120 (10.75%) Lead
4 94 (8.42%) Business Analyst
5 92 (8.24%) Architect
6 80 (7.17%) Developer
7 76 (6.81%) Data Engineer
7 76 (6.81%) Project Manager
8 64 (5.73%) Data Analyst
9 45 (4.03%) Consultant
10 35 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
10 35 (3.14%) Senior Manager
11 33 (2.96%) Data Scientist
12 29 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
13 26 (2.33%) Senior Data Engineer
14 25 (2.24%) User Researcher
15 24 (2.15%) Designer
15 24 (2.15%) Product Manager
16 22 (1.97%) Programme Manager
16 22 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.51%) Pandas
1 28 (2.51%) REST
2 21 (1.88%) PySpark
3 20 (1.79%) Kafka
3 20 (1.79%) Middleware
4 19 (1.70%) NumPy
4 19 (1.70%) React
4 19 (1.70%) scikit-learn
5 18 (1.61%) .NET
6 17 (1.52%) AngularJS
7 15 (1.34%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.16%) LangChain
8 13 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (1.16%) RESTful
8 13 (1.16%) Spring
8 13 (1.16%) Spring Boot
9 11 (0.99%) TensorFlow
10 10 (0.90%) JSON
10 10 (0.90%) OpenID
11 9 (0.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 38 (3.41%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.51%) AI Agents
4 28 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (2.51%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 27 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 25 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.24%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.61%) Data Structures
7 18 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.61%) PMI
8 16 (1.43%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.16%) FMCG
9 13 (1.16%) NHS
10 12 (1.08%) CMDB
10 12 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 11 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.16%) Linux
2 11 (0.99%) Windows
3 3 (0.27%) VMS
3 3 (0.27%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.090%) Solaris
5 1 (0.090%) Unix
5 1 (0.090%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 310 (27.78%) Agile
2 265 (23.75%) Analytics
3 261 (23.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 243 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
5 209 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 204 (18.28%) AI
7 189 (16.94%) Business Intelligence
8 174 (15.59%) Data Modelling
9 169 (15.14%) Roadmaps
10 165 (14.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 138 (12.37%) CI/CD
11 138 (12.37%) DevOps
12 129 (11.56%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 124 (11.11%) Project Management
14 123 (11.02%) Migration
15 116 (10.39%) Actionable Insight
16 115 (10.30%) Data Pipeline
17 112 (10.04%) ETL
18 109 (9.77%) Data Governance
19 100 (8.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 234 (20.97%) SQL
2 212 (19.00%) Python
3 55 (4.93%) Java
4 27 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (2.24%) TypeScript
6 22 (1.97%) C#
7 21 (1.88%) R
8 16 (1.43%) PL/SQL
9 15 (1.34%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.99%) VBA
11 8 (0.72%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.63%) Bicep
12 7 (0.63%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.54%) C++
14 5 (0.45%) Scala
15 4 (0.36%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.36%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.36%) Ruby
16 3 (0.27%) Apex Code
17 2 (0.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 181 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 146 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 113 (10.13%) Degree
4 42 (3.76%) PMP
5 39 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 35 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.87%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.34%) ACCA
10 13 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.16%) CISSP
11 12 (1.08%) CIMA
12 11 (0.99%) CBAP
13 10 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.81%) CISM
14 9 (0.81%) IIBA
14 9 (0.81%) PhD
15 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
16 6 (0.54%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (13.62%) Data Quality
2 69 (6.18%) PMO
3 68 (6.09%) QA
4 35 (3.14%) GDPR
5 30 (2.69%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.52%) NIST
7 14 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.99%) SLA
10 9 (0.81%) GRC
11 8 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.63%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.54%) COREP
13 6 (0.54%) FINREP
13 6 (0.54%) WCAG
14 5 (0.45%) COBIT
15 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (2.87%) Docker
2 9 (0.81%) Squid
3 8 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 7 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) NFS
6 3 (0.27%) IAG
7 2 (0.18%) HDFS
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.18%) Postfix
7 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
8 1 (0.090%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (5.47%) Terraform
2 59 (5.29%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.61%) Grafana
4 15 (1.34%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.81%) Ansible
6 9 (0.81%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.72%) Consul
8 7 (0.63%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.45%) Kibana
10 4 (0.36%) Control-M
10 4 (0.36%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.36%) vMotion
11 3 (0.27%) Istio
12 2 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.18%) Argo
12 2 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.090%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.090%) Rancher
Vendors
1 163 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 56 (5.02%) Oracle
3 53 (4.75%) Databricks
4 51 (4.57%) SAP
5 47 (4.21%) ServiceNow
6 43 (3.85%) Google
7 36 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.06%) Workday
9 17 (1.52%) Adobe
10 12 (1.08%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.08%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.99%) Atlassian
12 10 (0.90%) Foundry
13 9 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.81%) Software AG
13 9 (0.81%) VMware
14 7 (0.63%) Planview
15 6 (0.54%) Cisco
15 6 (0.54%) GoldenSource
15 6 (0.54%) Informatica