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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 51 90
Rank change year-on-year +23 +39 -2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,476 681 444
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.25% 5.05% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% 5.46% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 451 265
10th Percentile £370 £355 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £661 £684
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
England median daily rate £546 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 6
10th Percentile £24.05 £18.25 £31.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £29.91 £33.44
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.73 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -18.18% +3.45%
75th Percentile £64.25 £44.10 £47.50
90th Percentile £68.79 £49.13 £53.13
England median hourly rate £54.40 £31.20 £39.68
% change year-on-year +74.36% -21.37% -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 18,082 12,478 14,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.59% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,221 9,471
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 246 179
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +14 215 £625 +13.64% 381
West London +17 70 £719 +36.90% 139
South London -1 13 £650 +4.00% 38
East London +8 7 £600 +4.35% 23
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 41 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (2.71%) Confluence
3 30 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.95%) Apache
6 5 (0.34%) CMS
7 4 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.27%) Mendix
7 4 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.068%) Appian
9 1 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.068%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 95 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.41%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.14%) Productboard
9 1 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.27%) SAP HCM
4 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.20%) Endur
5 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) BambooHR
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
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 (0.068%) Actimize
7 1 (0.068%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 263 (17.82%) Azure
2 258 (17.48%) AWS
3 184 (12.47%) Power Platform
4 84 (5.69%) GCP
5 70 (4.74%) Snowflake
6 62 (4.20%) SaaS
7 54 (3.66%) dbt
8 43 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (2.64%) Amazon S3
10 36 (2.44%) GitHub
11 35 (2.37%) Serverless
12 29 (1.96%) Entra ID
13 26 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 18 (1.22%) Amazon Bedrock
15 18 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
15 18 (1.22%) OCI
16 17 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.02%) WAN
2 13 (0.88%) Network Security
3 12 (0.81%) Firewall
4 11 (0.75%) Broadband
5 8 (0.54%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.47%) VPN
7 5 (0.34%) LAN
8 4 (0.27%) Cisco IPT
8 4 (0.27%) IPsec
8 4 (0.27%) Modbus
8 4 (0.27%) MPLS
8 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.20%) BGP
9 3 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (0.20%) OSPF
9 3 (0.20%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.20%) VXLAN
9 3 (0.20%) X.509
10 2 (0.14%) DNS
10 2 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (11.99%) Power BI
2 72 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (3.93%) Metadata
4 55 (3.73%) Tableau
5 34 (2.30%) BigQuery
6 32 (2.17%) Power Query
7 28 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 28 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.63%) Delta Lake
8 24 (1.63%) Looker
9 23 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
10 18 (1.22%) Big Data
10 18 (1.22%) Star Schema
11 17 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
12 16 (1.08%) Data Vault
12 16 (1.08%) DynamoDB
13 15 (1.02%) NoSQL
13 15 (1.02%) SQL Server
14 14 (0.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (3.93%) JIRA
2 43 (2.91%) Git
3 25 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.61%) GitLab
5 8 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.41%) JUnit
7 5 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.20%) Maven
8 3 (0.20%) Mockito
8 3 (0.20%) Selenium
8 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.20%) VTune
8 3 (0.20%) Xcode
9 2 (0.14%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.14%) ERwin
9 2 (0.14%) jMock
9 2 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.14%) TestNG
General
1 567 (38.41%) Social Skills
2 498 (33.74%) Finance
3 362 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 168 (11.38%) Banking
6 129 (8.74%) Influencing Skills
7 92 (6.23%) Retail
8 78 (5.28%) Marketing
9 49 (3.32%) Legal
10 47 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 38 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.51%) Local Government
14 36 (2.44%) Front Office
15 33 (2.24%) Investment Banking
16 23 (1.56%) Telecoms
17 20 (1.36%) Aviation
17 20 (1.36%) Manufacturing
18 19 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
18 19 (1.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 239 (16.19%) Analyst
2 225 (15.24%) Senior
3 203 (13.75%) Lead
4 189 (12.80%) Architect
5 104 (7.05%) Business Analyst
6 85 (5.76%) Project Manager
7 76 (5.15%) Data Engineer
8 75 (5.08%) Developer
9 71 (4.81%) Data Analyst
10 62 (4.20%) Consultant
11 52 (3.52%) Data Scientist
12 47 (3.18%) Senior Manager
13 45 (3.05%) Data Architect
13 45 (3.05%) Product Manager
14 44 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
16 33 (2.24%) Technical Leader
17 28 (1.90%) Designer
17 28 (1.90%) Enterprise Architect
17 28 (1.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.89%) Terraform
2 40 (2.71%) Kafka
3 38 (2.57%) REST
4 32 (2.17%) React
5 27 (1.83%) PySpark
6 21 (1.42%) Pandas
7 17 (1.15%) Spring
8 16 (1.08%) .NET
8 16 (1.08%) RESTful
8 16 (1.08%) Spring Boot
9 14 (0.95%) HTML
10 13 (0.88%) Middleware
10 13 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (0.81%) FastAPI
11 12 (0.81%) Node.js
12 11 (0.75%) ATL
12 11 (0.75%) NumPy
12 11 (0.75%) OAuth
13 10 (0.68%) LangChain
14 9 (0.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 101 (6.84%) Cloud Native
3 70 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.93%) Management Information System
5 40 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.57%) AI Agents
7 35 (2.37%) Virtual Team
8 33 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.69%) NHS
12 24 (1.63%) Operational Technology
13 20 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.36%) Taxonomies
14 19 (1.29%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.02%) Social Media
17 13 (0.88%) CMDB
17 13 (0.88%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.22%) Windows
2 17 (1.15%) Linux
3 8 (0.54%) 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
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (37.06%) Stakeholder Management
2 409 (27.71%) Agile
3 390 (26.42%) Analytics
4 334 (22.63%) AI
5 308 (20.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 297 (20.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 296 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
8 275 (18.63%) Roadmaps
9 211 (14.30%) Business Intelligence
10 192 (13.01%) Data Modelling
11 184 (12.47%) CI/CD
12 174 (11.79%) DevOps
13 153 (10.37%) Actionable Insight
13 153 (10.37%) Validation
14 142 (9.62%) Data Pipeline
15 141 (9.55%) Data Governance
16 139 (9.42%) Risk Management
17 138 (9.35%) Migration
18 134 (9.08%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 132 (8.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 300 (20.33%) SQL
2 268 (18.16%) Python
3 68 (4.61%) Java
4 46 (3.12%) TypeScript
5 45 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 31 (2.10%) JavaScript
7 25 (1.69%) C#
8 20 (1.36%) R
9 15 (1.02%) Bash
10 10 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.54%) Scala
12 7 (0.47%) Bicep
12 7 (0.47%) VBA
13 6 (0.41%) C++
13 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
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
1 259 (17.55%) Security Cleared
2 203 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.45%) Degree
4 55 (3.73%) PMP
5 50 (3.39%) PMI Certification
6 38 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.36%) ACCA
8 19 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.22%) CISSP
10 17 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 15 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (0.95%) CIMA
13 11 (0.75%) CISM
14 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (14.43%) Data Quality
2 81 (5.49%) PMO
3 71 (4.81%) QA
4 57 (3.86%) GDPR
5 50 (3.39%) Accessibility
6 33 (2.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 31 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.76%) NIST
9 22 (1.49%) GRC
10 11 (0.75%) IFRS
11 9 (0.61%) NCSC
12 8 (0.54%) SLA
13 7 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.34%) COREP
14 5 (0.34%) FINREP
14 5 (0.34%) SEPA
15 4 (0.27%) GAAP
16 3 (0.20%) JSP 440
16 3 (0.20%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (4.13%) Docker
2 22 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) IAG
4 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) vSphere
6 2 (0.14%) Postfix
6 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.068%) Firmware
7 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.068%) NFS
Systems Management
1 77 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 15 (1.02%) Ansible
3 12 (0.81%) Grafana
3 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.54%) Kibana
5 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Control-M
6 4 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.20%) Istio
7 3 (0.20%) Rancher
7 3 (0.20%) SCCM
7 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.14%) Packer
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.068%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 207 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.10%) Databricks
3 47 (3.18%) Salesforce
4 44 (2.98%) ServiceNow
5 41 (2.78%) Oracle
5 41 (2.78%) SAP
6 39 (2.64%) Google
7 14 (0.95%) Workday
8 12 (0.81%) Adobe
9 10 (0.68%) Zscaler
10 9 (0.61%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.61%) Bloomberg
10 9 (0.61%) IBM
10 9 (0.61%) Informatica
10 9 (0.61%) Murex
10 9 (0.61%) Splunk
11 7 (0.47%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.47%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.47%) Teradata
12 6 (0.41%) VMware