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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 47 91
Rank change year-on-year +18 +44 0
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,357 669 457
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.76% 5.00% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.59% 5.41% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 448 286
10th Percentile £390 £341 £300
25th Percentile £463 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £744 £772
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.98%
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 £26.73
% change year-on-year +12.83% +17.81% -41.74%

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 17,880 12,372 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.50% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,699 8,236 9,976
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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 191
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.16% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +12 187 £625 +14.94% 199
West London +19 68 £675 +28.57% 120
South London -7 8 £550 -8.33% 14
East London +5 5 £600 +4.35% 14
North London -2 1 £550 -15.38% 2
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 35 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
1 35 (2.58%) Confluence
2 26 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.18%) Apache
5 6 (0.44%) CMS
6 5 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.29%) Camunda
7 4 (0.29%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Mendix
8 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 84 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.88%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.37%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.29%) 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%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 256 (18.87%) Azure
2 254 (18.72%) AWS
3 173 (12.75%) Power Platform
4 94 (6.93%) GCP
5 69 (5.08%) SaaS
6 61 (4.50%) Snowflake
7 44 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (3.17%) dbt
9 35 (2.58%) Amazon S3
9 35 (2.58%) GitHub
10 32 (2.36%) Serverless
11 27 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 25 (1.84%) Entra ID
13 22 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
15 18 (1.33%) OCI
15 18 (1.33%) Power Automate
16 17 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
17 15 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.18%) WAN
2 12 (0.88%) Firewall
3 11 (0.81%) Network Security
4 10 (0.74%) VPN
5 8 (0.59%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.37%) Broadband
6 5 (0.37%) DNS
6 5 (0.37%) LAN
7 4 (0.29%) IPsec
7 4 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.22%) X.509
9 2 (0.15%) Modbus
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (12.31%) Power BI
2 74 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (4.57%) Metadata
4 53 (3.91%) Tableau
5 37 (2.73%) BigQuery
6 29 (2.14%) Power Query
7 26 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 25 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.77%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.55%) Looker
10 21 (1.55%) NoSQL
11 20 (1.47%) Big Data
12 19 (1.40%) Delta Lake
13 18 (1.33%) SQL Server
14 17 (1.25%) 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 (0.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 63 (4.64%) JIRA
2 34 (2.51%) Git
3 20 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.81%) GitLab
5 4 (0.29%) Claude Code
5 4 (0.29%) ERwin
5 4 (0.29%) Terragrunt
6 3 (0.22%) JUnit
6 3 (0.22%) Mockito
6 3 (0.22%) VTune
6 3 (0.22%) Xcode
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.15%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.15%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.15%) jMock
7 2 (0.15%) Maven
7 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
7 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 509 (37.51%) Social Skills
2 481 (35.45%) Finance
3 326 (24.02%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 157 (11.57%) Banking
6 106 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
7 80 (5.90%) Retail
8 74 (5.45%) Marketing
9 54 (3.98%) Legal
10 43 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.14%) Local Government
15 28 (2.06%) Front Office
15 28 (2.06%) Investment Banking
16 25 (1.84%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
18 21 (1.55%) Aviation
19 16 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 216 (15.92%) Analyst
2 204 (15.03%) Senior
3 173 (12.75%) Lead
4 165 (12.16%) Architect
5 96 (7.07%) Business Analyst
6 84 (6.19%) Data Engineer
7 82 (6.04%) Project Manager
8 68 (5.01%) Developer
9 67 (4.94%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.76%) Consultant
10 51 (3.76%) Data Scientist
11 45 (3.32%) Senior Manager
12 43 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
13 41 (3.02%) Product Manager
14 38 (2.80%) Data Architect
14 38 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.21%) Designer
16 28 (2.06%) Product Owner
16 28 (2.06%) Senior Data Engineer
17 26 (1.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (5.82%) Terraform
2 42 (3.10%) REST
3 34 (2.51%) Kafka
4 31 (2.28%) React
5 26 (1.92%) PySpark
6 22 (1.62%) Pandas
7 18 (1.33%) Middleware
8 14 (1.03%) JSON
8 14 (1.03%) RESTful
8 14 (1.03%) Spring
8 14 (1.03%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.96%) .NET
9 13 (0.96%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.96%) HTML
10 12 (0.88%) Node.js
10 12 (0.88%) NumPy
10 12 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
11 10 (0.74%) scikit-learn
12 8 (0.59%) LangChain
12 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 98 (7.22%) Cloud Native
3 56 (4.13%) Onboarding
4 48 (3.54%) Management Information System
5 41 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
6 36 (2.65%) AI Agents
7 34 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.36%) Virtual Team
9 25 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.77%) Data Structures
11 22 (1.62%) NHS
12 21 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (1.33%) FMCG
14 17 (1.25%) CMDB
14 17 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.18%) Operational Technology
15 16 (1.18%) PMI
16 15 (1.11%) Taxonomies
17 12 (0.88%) Derivative
17 12 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (1.25%) Windows
2 15 (1.11%) 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
1 447 (32.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 375 (27.63%) Agile
3 355 (26.16%) Analytics
4 301 (22.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 293 (21.59%) AI
6 271 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
7 258 (19.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 233 (17.17%) Roadmaps
9 195 (14.37%) Data Modelling
10 194 (14.30%) Business Intelligence
11 177 (13.04%) CI/CD
12 172 (12.68%) DevOps
13 153 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
14 137 (10.10%) Validation
15 135 (9.95%) Actionable Insight
16 131 (9.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 129 (9.51%) Data Governance
18 127 (9.36%) Data Engineering
18 127 (9.36%) Migration
19 120 (8.84%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 273 (20.12%) SQL
2 261 (19.23%) Python
3 68 (5.01%) Java
4 46 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (3.10%) TypeScript
6 28 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.33%) R
8 16 (1.18%) 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%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.37%) Scala
13 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 229 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 172 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.59%) Degree
4 53 (3.91%) PMP
5 48 (3.54%) PMI Certification
6 35 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.33%) ACCA
10 17 (1.25%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 12 (0.88%) CIMA
11 12 (0.88%) CISSP
12 9 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.52%) CISM
13 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
15 5 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (13.85%) Data Quality
2 85 (6.26%) PMO
3 67 (4.94%) QA
4 49 (3.61%) GDPR
5 46 (3.39%) Accessibility
6 21 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.40%) NIST
8 15 (1.11%) GRC
8 15 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.66%) IFRS
10 8 (0.59%) COREP
10 8 (0.59%) FINREP
10 8 (0.59%) SLA
11 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.37%) NCSC
12 5 (0.37%) SEPA
13 4 (0.29%) GAAP
14 3 (0.22%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (3.68%) Docker
2 18 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 2 (0.15%) Postfix
5 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.074%) Firmware
6 1 (0.074%) NFS
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.074%) Squid
6 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.18%) Ansible
3 11 (0.81%) Grafana
3 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.44%) Kibana
6 5 (0.37%) Control-M
7 4 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.22%) Istio
8 3 (0.22%) SCCM
9 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
9 2 (0.15%) Packer
9 2 (0.15%) Puppet
9 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.074%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.074%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.074%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 187 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.82%) Databricks
3 48 (3.54%) ServiceNow
4 46 (3.39%) Oracle
5 45 (3.32%) SAP
6 43 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 41 (3.02%) Google
8 16 (1.18%) Workday
9 13 (0.96%) Adobe
10 12 (0.88%) Murex
11 11 (0.81%) Zscaler
12 8 (0.59%) Amplitude
12 8 (0.59%) Bloomberg
12 8 (0.59%) GoldenSource
12 8 (0.59%) Informatica
12 8 (0.59%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.52%) Anaplan
13 7 (0.52%) Teradata
14 6 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (0.44%) IBM