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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 48 75
Rank change year-on-year +18 +27 +22
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,180 568 537
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.42% 4.69% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 5.08% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 790 372 370
10th Percentile £375 £363 £288
25th Percentile £450 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £639
90th Percentile £775 £775 £763
England median daily rate £512 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 24
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.25 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £34.23 £32.00 £29.16
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +9.76% -33.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.22 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.60 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £50.00 £31.08 £19.38
% change year-on-year +60.90% +60.39% -58.11%

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 16,287 11,179 15,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.56% 92.25% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,870 7,505 11,106
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £433 £431 £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 £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 190 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £31.17 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% +11.33% -29.34%
75th Percentile £58.88 £49.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.74 £63.03 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +6 159 £575 +4.55% 152
West London -8 36 £520 -13.33% 20
South London 0 18 £519 -13.58% 14
East London -4 5 £697 -10.06% 21
North London - 2 £413 - 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 38 (3.22%) Confluence
2 21 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.85%) nginx
6 5 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.34%) Apache
7 4 (0.34%) CMS
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.17%) Camunda
9 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.17%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.17%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 93 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.44%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.36%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) Notion
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.085%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.085%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.085%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.085%) InVision
9 1 (0.085%) Sketch
9 1 (0.085%) SPSS
9 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.42%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.42%) Loan IQ
5 4 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.17%) Actimize
7 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.17%) Lorenzo
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 239 (20.25%) Azure
2 196 (16.61%) AWS
3 164 (13.90%) Power Platform
4 91 (7.71%) GCP
5 73 (6.19%) SaaS
6 37 (3.14%) Amazon S3
6 37 (3.14%) Serverless
6 37 (3.14%) Snowflake
7 36 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (2.63%) GitHub
10 27 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 22 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (1.61%) Collibra
13 18 (1.53%) dbt
14 17 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (1.36%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.19%) VPN
2 13 (1.10%) DNS
2 13 (1.10%) Firewall
3 11 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.76%) HTTP
4 9 (0.76%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.51%) Network Security
6 4 (0.34%) NAS
6 4 (0.34%) SAN
7 3 (0.25%) WAN
8 2 (0.17%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.17%) Calico
8 2 (0.17%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.17%) Intranet
8 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.17%) IPsec
8 2 (0.17%) NaaS
8 2 (0.17%) VSAN
8 2 (0.17%) Wireless
9 1 (0.085%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (13.39%) Power BI
2 63 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
3 53 (4.49%) Metadata
3 53 (4.49%) Tableau
4 30 (2.54%) BigQuery
5 29 (2.46%) SQL Server
6 27 (2.29%) Data Lake
7 21 (1.78%) NoSQL
8 19 (1.61%) Looker
8 19 (1.61%) Power Query
8 19 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 18 (1.53%) Oracle Database
9 18 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (1.27%) Big Data
11 14 (1.19%) Delta Lake
11 14 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (1.10%) Parquet
13 12 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 81 (6.86%) JIRA
2 37 (3.14%) Git
3 16 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.10%) GitLab
5 11 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.85%) MLflow
7 9 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.51%) ERwin
8 6 (0.51%) JUnit
8 6 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.34%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.34%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.34%) jMock
9 4 (0.34%) Maven
9 4 (0.34%) Mockito
10 3 (0.25%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.25%) Toad
11 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.17%) Selenium
11 2 (0.17%) Xcode
General
1 417 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 413 (35.00%) Finance
3 275 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 131 (11.10%) Banking
6 66 (5.59%) Marketing
7 56 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
8 50 (4.24%) Retail
9 47 (3.98%) Legal
10 40 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.63%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.37%) Financial Institution
13 28 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.61%) Local Government
16 18 (1.53%) Front Office
17 17 (1.44%) Billing
18 16 (1.36%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 192 (16.27%) Analyst
2 180 (15.25%) Senior
3 138 (11.69%) Lead
4 98 (8.31%) Architect
5 93 (7.88%) Business Analyst
6 82 (6.95%) Data Engineer
7 80 (6.78%) Developer
7 80 (6.78%) Project Manager
8 67 (5.68%) Data Analyst
9 54 (4.58%) Consultant
10 39 (3.31%) Data Scientist
11 35 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
12 34 (2.88%) Product Manager
13 31 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (2.46%) Senior Manager
14 29 (2.46%) User Researcher
15 27 (2.29%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (2.03%) Designer
17 23 (1.95%) Product Owner
18 21 (1.78%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.97%) REST
2 30 (2.54%) Pandas
3 23 (1.95%) React
4 21 (1.78%) .NET
4 21 (1.78%) Middleware
5 20 (1.69%) PySpark
6 19 (1.61%) scikit-learn
7 18 (1.53%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.53%) Kafka
7 18 (1.53%) NumPy
7 18 (1.53%) RESTful
8 16 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
8 16 (1.36%) Spring
8 16 (1.36%) Spring Boot
9 13 (1.10%) PyTorch
10 11 (0.93%) LangChain
10 11 (0.93%) Node.js
11 10 (0.85%) HTML
11 10 (0.85%) OpenID
11 10 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (2.63%) Virtual Team
6 28 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 26 (2.20%) AI Agents
8 24 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.53%) PMI
11 18 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.27%) FMCG
13 15 (1.27%) NHS
14 11 (0.93%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.85%) CMDB
16 9 (0.76%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.19%) Windows
2 12 (1.02%) Linux
3 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
3 3 (0.25%) Unix
3 3 (0.25%) VMS
3 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.085%) Solaris
4 1 (0.085%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (26.69%) Agile
2 280 (23.73%) Analytics
3 274 (23.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 244 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
5 233 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 229 (19.41%) AI
7 191 (16.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 190 (16.10%) Roadmaps
9 182 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
10 175 (14.83%) Data Modelling
11 152 (12.88%) CI/CD
12 149 (12.63%) DevOps
13 124 (10.51%) Data Pipeline
13 124 (10.51%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 122 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
14 122 (10.34%) Project Management
15 117 (9.92%) ETL
16 115 (9.75%) Data Governance
16 115 (9.75%) Migration
17 107 (9.07%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 243 (20.59%) SQL
2 225 (19.07%) Python
3 61 (5.17%) Java
4 37 (3.14%) TypeScript
5 32 (2.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (1.95%) C#
7 18 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.36%) R
9 15 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.68%) VBA
11 7 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.42%) Bicep
12 5 (0.42%) Ruby
12 5 (0.42%) Scala
12 5 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.34%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.25%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.25%) C++
15 2 (0.17%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 206 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 168 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 109 (9.24%) Degree
4 45 (3.81%) PMP
5 40 (3.39%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.12%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.53%) ACCA
11 16 (1.36%) CISSP
12 15 (1.27%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.02%) CBAP
13 12 (1.02%) CIMA
14 10 (0.85%) CISM
15 9 (0.76%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.76%) IIBA
16 8 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (14.49%) Data Quality
2 75 (6.36%) PMO
3 68 (5.76%) QA
4 40 (3.39%) GDPR
5 32 (2.71%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.69%) NIST
7 18 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
9 11 (0.93%) SLA
10 10 (0.85%) GRC
10 10 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.59%) COREP
11 7 (0.59%) FINREP
11 7 (0.59%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.51%) GAAP
12 6 (0.51%) IFRS
13 5 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.42%) NCSC
14 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (2.54%) Docker
2 11 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.76%) Squid
4 7 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.34%) NFS
6 3 (0.25%) IAG
6 3 (0.25%) Postfix
7 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.17%) vSphere
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.085%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (5.76%) Terraform
2 61 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.53%) Grafana
4 14 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.85%) Ansible
7 9 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.59%) Consul
8 7 (0.59%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.42%) Kibana
9 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.34%) Control-M
10 4 (0.34%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.34%) vMotion
11 3 (0.25%) Istio
12 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.17%) Argo
12 2 (0.17%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.17%) SCCM
13 1 (0.085%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 166 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.83%) Oracle
3 53 (4.49%) Databricks
4 45 (3.81%) Google
5 43 (3.64%) SAP
6 39 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.69%) Workday
9 13 (1.10%) Adobe
10 12 (1.02%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.76%) Foundry
12 9 (0.76%) VMware
13 8 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.59%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.59%) Software AG
14 7 (0.59%) Splunk
15 6 (0.51%) Planview