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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 48 90
Rank change year-on-year +18 +42 +1
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,353 679 457
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.75% 5.04% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.57% 5.45% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 455 286
10th Percentile £382 £346 £300
25th Percentile £455 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -6.18%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £742 £772
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.08%
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 £20.00
% change year-on-year +12.83% +57.45% -56.41%

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 17,870 12,469 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 92.49% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,292 9,981
10th Percentile £360 £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 £675 £688
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 287 258 190
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.68 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -14.89% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +11 185 £625 +13.64% 188
West London +14 63 £625 +19.05% 77
South London -2 9 £525 -12.50% 14
East London +7 5 £600 +4.35% 16
North London -2 1 £550 -15.38% 6
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 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.59%) Confluence
3 27 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 26 (1.92%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.18%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) CMS
7 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.30%) Camunda
8 4 (0.30%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.30%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) Mendix
9 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.22%) nginx
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 85 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.89%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.074%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 260 (19.22%) Azure
2 253 (18.70%) AWS
3 172 (12.71%) Power Platform
4 96 (7.10%) GCP
5 70 (5.17%) SaaS
6 60 (4.43%) Snowflake
7 45 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (3.10%) dbt
9 36 (2.66%) Amazon S3
10 35 (2.59%) GitHub
11 31 (2.29%) Serverless
12 28 (2.07%) Entra ID
13 27 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 22 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (1.40%) Power Automate
18 17 (1.26%) Amazon Bedrock
18 17 (1.26%) OCI
19 16 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.18%) WAN
2 13 (0.96%) Firewall
3 11 (0.81%) Network Security
3 11 (0.81%) VPN
4 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 6 (0.44%) DNS
6 5 (0.37%) Broadband
6 5 (0.37%) LAN
7 4 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) IPsec
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) Modbus
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.34%) Power BI
2 73 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (4.51%) Metadata
4 51 (3.77%) Tableau
5 37 (2.73%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.14%) Power Query
7 26 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.77%) Data Lake
9 23 (1.70%) NoSQL
10 22 (1.63%) Big Data
11 21 (1.55%) Looker
12 19 (1.40%) Delta Lake
13 18 (1.33%) SQL Server
14 17 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (1.18%) MongoDB
15 16 (1.18%) Star Schema
16 14 (1.03%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 68 (5.03%) JIRA
2 36 (2.66%) Git
3 23 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.81%) GitLab
5 4 (0.30%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.30%) ERwin
5 4 (0.30%) JUnit
5 4 (0.30%) Mockito
5 4 (0.30%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.30%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.22%) DbUnit
6 3 (0.22%) jMock
6 3 (0.22%) Maven
6 3 (0.22%) VTune
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) MLflow
7 2 (0.15%) REST Assured
General
1 499 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 483 (35.70%) Finance
3 323 (23.87%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (14.56%) Public Sector
5 159 (11.75%) Banking
6 104 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 81 (5.99%) Retail
8 77 (5.69%) Marketing
9 54 (3.99%) Legal
10 43 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.14%) Investment Banking
14 29 (2.14%) Local Government
15 28 (2.07%) Front Office
16 25 (1.85%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.40%) Aviation
19 17 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 212 (15.67%) Analyst
2 205 (15.15%) Senior
3 173 (12.79%) Lead
4 164 (12.12%) Architect
5 96 (7.10%) Business Analyst
6 86 (6.36%) Data Engineer
7 85 (6.28%) Project Manager
8 72 (5.32%) Developer
9 65 (4.80%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.84%) Data Scientist
11 50 (3.70%) Consultant
12 46 (3.40%) Senior Manager
13 43 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
14 40 (2.96%) Product Manager
15 39 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
16 38 (2.81%) Data Architect
17 29 (2.14%) Designer
17 29 (2.14%) Product Owner
18 28 (2.07%) Senior Data Engineer
19 25 (1.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (5.91%) Terraform
2 43 (3.18%) REST
3 34 (2.51%) Kafka
4 30 (2.22%) React
5 29 (2.14%) PySpark
6 22 (1.63%) Pandas
7 18 (1.33%) Middleware
8 15 (1.11%) JSON
8 15 (1.11%) RESTful
8 15 (1.11%) Spring
8 15 (1.11%) Spring Boot
9 14 (1.03%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.89%) .NET
10 12 (0.89%) HTML
10 12 (0.89%) Node.js
10 12 (0.89%) NumPy
10 12 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (0.81%) scikit-learn
12 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
13 8 (0.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.91%) Product Ownership
2 99 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 54 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 42 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.66%) AI Agents
7 35 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.37%) Virtual Team
9 26 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 21 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.48%) NHS
13 18 (1.33%) FMCG
14 17 (1.26%) CMDB
14 17 (1.26%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.26%) PMI
15 16 (1.18%) Operational Technology
16 14 (1.03%) Taxonomies
17 13 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
18 12 (0.89%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.26%) Windows
2 16 (1.18%) Linux
3 6 (0.44%) Unix
4 5 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
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 Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (32.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 373 (27.57%) Agile
3 355 (26.24%) Analytics
4 301 (22.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 297 (21.95%) AI
6 270 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
7 251 (18.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 231 (17.07%) Roadmaps
9 196 (14.49%) Data Modelling
10 193 (14.26%) Business Intelligence
11 181 (13.38%) CI/CD
12 173 (12.79%) DevOps
13 155 (11.46%) Data Pipeline
14 135 (9.98%) Validation
15 132 (9.76%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 131 (9.68%) Actionable Insight
17 129 (9.53%) Data Engineering
18 127 (9.39%) Data Governance
19 126 (9.31%) Migration
20 122 (9.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 274 (20.25%) SQL
2 262 (19.36%) Python
3 72 (5.32%) Java
4 46 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 41 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 27 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.33%) R
8 15 (1.11%) C#
9 11 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 8 (0.59%) Bash
10 8 (0.59%) C++
10 8 (0.59%) VBA
11 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.44%) Bicep
12 6 (0.44%) Ruby
12 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
13 5 (0.37%) Cypher
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 225 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 170 (12.56%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.61%) Degree
4 54 (3.99%) PMP
5 49 (3.62%) PMI Certification
6 33 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.26%) ACCA
9 17 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 13 (0.96%) CISSP
11 12 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 11 (0.81%) CIMA
13 8 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.52%) CISM
14 7 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.44%) PhD
16 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (13.67%) Data Quality
2 86 (6.36%) PMO
3 67 (4.95%) QA
4 48 (3.55%) GDPR
5 44 (3.25%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.40%) NIST
8 13 (0.96%) GRC
8 13 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.67%) SLA
10 8 (0.59%) COREP
10 8 (0.59%) FINREP
10 8 (0.59%) IFRS
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.37%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) SEPA
13 4 (0.30%) GAAP
13 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 50 (3.70%) Docker
2 19 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 3 (0.22%) Postfix
6 2 (0.15%) Squid
6 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) NFS
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (4.95%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.33%) Ansible
3 13 (0.96%) Grafana
4 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.44%) Kibana
6 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.37%) Control-M
8 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.22%) Istio
9 3 (0.22%) SCCM
10 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
10 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Puppet
10 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.074%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.074%) Consul
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 190 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.99%) Databricks
3 46 (3.40%) Oracle
4 45 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 44 (3.25%) SAP
6 43 (3.18%) Google
6 43 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.18%) Workday
8 14 (1.03%) Adobe
9 12 (0.89%) Murex
10 11 (0.81%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.67%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.59%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.59%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.59%) Foundry
12 8 (0.59%) GoldenSource
12 8 (0.59%) Informatica
13 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.52%) Teradata