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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 53 79
Rank change year-on-year +22 +26 +15
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,310 641 516
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.63% 4.74% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 5.14% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 431 341
10th Percentile £375 £348 £283
25th Percentile £450 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -9.48%
75th Percentile £675 £653 £663
90th Percentile £788 £763 £769
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 20
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £19.38
25th Percentile £31.44 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £34.87 £32.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -2.29% -25.33%
75th Percentile £57.69 £51.22 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.40 £18.00
% change year-on-year +16.87% +68.90% -60.00%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +11 186 £625 +13.64% 124
West London +9 49 £523 -2.95% 40
South London +3 20 £519 -13.58% 15
East London +6 6 £719 -7.23% 22
North London - 1 £325 - 8
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 (2.98%) Confluence
2 27 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.76%) nginx
6 9 (0.69%) Apache
7 7 (0.53%) CMS
8 5 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.23%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.23%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 2 (0.15%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.15%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.076%) WordPress
Applications
1 91 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 38 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.45%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.76%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.076%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.076%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.38%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.38%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) Actimize
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 255 (19.47%) Azure
2 242 (18.47%) AWS
3 169 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 103 (7.86%) GCP
5 66 (5.04%) SaaS
6 50 (3.82%) Amazon S3
7 46 (3.51%) Snowflake
8 44 (3.36%) Serverless
9 42 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (1.98%) dbt
12 25 (1.91%) GitHub
13 24 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
14 21 (1.60%) Entra ID
15 20 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 17 (1.30%) Power Automate
18 16 (1.22%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.22%) Firewall
1 16 (1.22%) VPN
2 14 (1.07%) DNS
3 11 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.69%) Network Security
4 9 (0.69%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.61%) WAN
6 5 (0.38%) HTTP
6 5 (0.38%) NAS
6 5 (0.38%) SAN
7 4 (0.31%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.23%) BGP
8 3 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.23%) MPLS
8 3 (0.23%) OSPF
8 3 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.23%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) Intranet
9 2 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.15%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (12.44%) Power BI
2 63 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (4.35%) Tableau
4 56 (4.27%) Metadata
5 37 (2.82%) BigQuery
6 25 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (1.83%) Power Query
8 23 (1.76%) Big Data
9 22 (1.68%) Data Lake
9 22 (1.68%) NoSQL
10 21 (1.60%) Looker
11 19 (1.45%) Relational Database
12 18 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.37%) SQL Server
13 17 (1.30%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.92%) Delta Lake
15 12 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.92%) Star Schema
16 11 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (6.26%) JIRA
2 43 (3.28%) Git
3 20 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.84%) GitLab
4 11 (0.84%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.53%) JUnit
7 5 (0.38%) ERwin
7 5 (0.38%) MLflow
7 5 (0.38%) Mockito
8 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.31%) DbUnit
8 4 (0.31%) jMock
8 4 (0.31%) Maven
9 3 (0.23%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.23%) VTune
9 3 (0.23%) Xcode
10 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
10 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 470 (35.88%) Finance
2 465 (35.50%) Social Skills
3 305 (23.28%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (14.05%) Public Sector
5 138 (10.53%) Banking
6 78 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
7 72 (5.50%) Marketing
8 68 (5.19%) Retail
9 51 (3.89%) Legal
10 40 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
11 38 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.52%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (2.06%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.83%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.83%) Local Government
16 22 (1.68%) Front Office
17 17 (1.30%) Billing
18 13 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 201 (15.34%) Analyst
2 184 (14.05%) Senior
3 162 (12.37%) Lead
4 130 (9.92%) Architect
5 91 (6.95%) Data Engineer
6 90 (6.87%) Business Analyst
7 88 (6.72%) Project Manager
8 77 (5.88%) Developer
9 70 (5.34%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.97%) Data Scientist
11 45 (3.44%) Consultant
12 39 (2.98%) Product Manager
13 35 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
14 34 (2.60%) Senior Manager
15 33 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.29%) Designer
17 29 (2.21%) Product Owner
17 29 (2.21%) User Researcher
18 24 (1.83%) Senior Data Engineer
19 23 (1.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.98%) REST
2 31 (2.37%) React
3 29 (2.21%) Kafka
4 28 (2.14%) Pandas
5 22 (1.68%) PySpark
6 19 (1.45%) Middleware
7 18 (1.37%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.37%) NumPy
8 17 (1.30%) .NET
8 17 (1.30%) scikit-learn
9 16 (1.22%) RESTful
10 15 (1.15%) JSON
10 15 (1.15%) Spring
10 15 (1.15%) Spring Boot
11 12 (0.92%) HTML
11 12 (0.92%) Node.js
12 11 (0.84%) PyTorch
13 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
13 10 (0.76%) Next.js
13 10 (0.76%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 89 (6.79%) Product Ownership
2 88 (6.72%) Cloud Native
3 45 (3.44%) Onboarding
4 43 (3.28%) Virtual Team
5 42 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 31 (2.37%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.45%) FMCG
11 19 (1.45%) NHS
12 18 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 17 (1.30%) PMI
13 17 (1.30%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.22%) CMDB
14 16 (1.22%) Taxonomies
15 14 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.07%) Data Centre
16 12 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.15%) Linux
1 15 (1.15%) Windows
2 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.38%) Mac OS
3 5 (0.38%) Unix
4 3 (0.23%) VMS
4 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.076%) Solaris
6 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (27.48%) Agile
2 349 (26.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 325 (24.81%) Analytics
4 285 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 269 (20.53%) AI
6 256 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
7 224 (17.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 220 (16.79%) Roadmaps
9 187 (14.27%) Business Intelligence
10 185 (14.12%) Data Modelling
11 171 (13.05%) CI/CD
12 170 (12.98%) DevOps
13 162 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
14 139 (10.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 130 (9.92%) Validation
16 129 (9.85%) Migration
17 128 (9.77%) Actionable Insight
18 124 (9.47%) Data Science
19 122 (9.31%) Data Governance
19 122 (9.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 254 (19.39%) Python
2 253 (19.31%) SQL
3 72 (5.50%) Java
4 49 (3.74%) TypeScript
5 37 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.45%) C#
8 16 (1.22%) R
9 9 (0.69%) VBA
10 8 (0.61%) C++
10 8 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.46%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.46%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.46%) Ruby
11 6 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.38%) Scala
12 5 (0.38%) SPARQL
13 4 (0.31%) Cypher
13 4 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.31%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 221 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 182 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 106 (8.09%) Degree
4 50 (3.82%) PMP
5 46 (3.51%) PMI Certification
6 27 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.37%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.22%) CISSP
12 13 (0.99%) ACCA
13 11 (0.84%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.69%) CISM
15 8 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.53%) CIMA
16 7 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.46%) CBAP
18 5 (0.38%) CISA
19 4 (0.31%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (13.59%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.79%) PMO
3 69 (5.27%) QA
4 50 (3.82%) Accessibility
5 48 (3.66%) GDPR
6 20 (1.53%) NIST
7 15 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
7 15 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.92%) GRC
9 10 (0.76%) SLA
10 8 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.53%) COREP
11 7 (0.53%) FINREP
11 7 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.31%) GAAP
13 4 (0.31%) IFRS
13 4 (0.31%) SEPA
13 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (2.98%) Docker
2 16 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.69%) Squid
4 6 (0.46%) IAG
5 5 (0.38%) NFS
5 5 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.23%) Postfix
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.076%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 77 (5.88%) Terraform
2 68 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.45%) Grafana
4 15 (1.15%) Ansible
4 15 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.69%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.53%) Consul
7 7 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.46%) Kibana
8 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.31%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.31%) vMotion
10 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.23%) SCCM
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) Control-M
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 179 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.43%) Databricks
3 49 (3.74%) Google
4 48 (3.66%) Oracle
4 48 (3.66%) SAP
5 39 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.22%) Workday
8 14 (1.07%) Adobe
9 13 (0.99%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.92%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.84%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.76%) Murex
12 10 (0.76%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.69%) Foundry
14 8 (0.61%) Splunk
15 7 (0.53%) Anaplan
15 7 (0.53%) Bloomberg
15 7 (0.53%) GoldenSource
15 7 (0.53%) VMware