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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 51 91
Rank change year-on-year +23 +40 -7
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,462 683 452
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.24% 5.08% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.13% 5.49% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 453 271
10th Percentile £375 £353 £350
25th Percentile £465 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £682 £663 £679
90th Percentile £800 £770 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 6
10th Percentile £22.95 £18.25 £31.50
25th Percentile £26.38 £25.11 £33.44
Median hourly rate £53.00 £31.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.93% -20.63% +0.43%
75th Percentile £64.25 £42.20 £47.50
90th Percentile £69.19 £47.13 £53.13
England median hourly rate £54.40 £31.20 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.36% -16.80% -19.68%

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 17,972 12,434 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.55% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,197 9,428
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £664 £675
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 333 243 184
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.01 £24.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.55 £78.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +19 213 £625 +13.64% 411
West London +22 71 £719 +36.90% 101
South London -2 14 £650 +4.00% 37
East London +8 6 £613 +6.52% 23
North London 0 1 £550 -15.38% 3
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 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
1 41 (2.80%) Confluence
2 29 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.03%) Apache
5 7 (0.48%) CMS
6 5 (0.34%) SAS
7 4 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 4 (0.27%) Mendix
8 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.14%) nginx
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.068%) IIS
9 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 97 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.41%) CPLEX
8 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.21%) Productboard
9 1 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.34%) SAP HCM
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%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.21%) Endur
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.14%) Cloudability
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%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.068%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 261 (17.85%) Azure
2 259 (17.72%) AWS
3 181 (12.38%) Power Platform
4 77 (5.27%) GCP
5 68 (4.65%) Snowflake
6 58 (3.97%) SaaS
7 54 (3.69%) dbt
8 40 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (2.60%) Amazon S3
10 36 (2.46%) GitHub
11 35 (2.39%) Serverless
12 28 (1.92%) Entra ID
13 25 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
15 19 (1.30%) OCI
16 18 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.03%) WAN
2 12 (0.82%) Firewall
2 12 (0.82%) Network Security
3 11 (0.75%) Broadband
4 9 (0.62%) VPN
5 8 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (0.34%) LAN
7 4 (0.27%) IPsec
7 4 (0.27%) Modbus
7 4 (0.27%) MPLS
7 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.21%) BGP
8 3 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.21%) OSPF
8 3 (0.21%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.21%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.21%) X.509
9 2 (0.14%) DNS
9 2 (0.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (11.90%) Power BI
2 70 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (3.69%) Metadata
4 53 (3.63%) Tableau
5 32 (2.19%) Power Query
6 31 (2.12%) BigQuery
7 30 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 26 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.64%) Delta Lake
11 22 (1.50%) Looker
12 18 (1.23%) Big Data
13 17 (1.16%) DynamoDB
13 17 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
13 17 (1.16%) Star Schema
14 16 (1.09%) Data Vault
15 15 (1.03%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.96%) MongoDB
16 14 (0.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 56 (3.83%) JIRA
2 43 (2.94%) Git
3 26 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.75%) GitLab
5 8 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 6 (0.41%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.41%) JUnit
7 5 (0.34%) Terragrunt
8 4 (0.27%) Selenium
9 3 (0.21%) Maven
9 3 (0.21%) Mockito
9 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.21%) VTune
9 3 (0.21%) Xcode
10 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.14%) MLflow
10 2 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.14%) PowerBuilder
10 2 (0.14%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.14%) Serenity BDD
General
1 572 (39.12%) Social Skills
2 495 (33.86%) Finance
3 356 (24.35%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (16.14%) Public Sector
5 169 (11.56%) Banking
6 130 (8.89%) Influencing Skills
7 88 (6.02%) Retail
8 71 (4.86%) Marketing
9 46 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (3.08%) Legal
11 43 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 39 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.33%) Local Government
14 33 (2.26%) Front Office
15 32 (2.19%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.50%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.44%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (1.37%) Military
18 20 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 230 (15.73%) Analyst
2 218 (14.91%) Senior
3 208 (14.23%) Lead
4 185 (12.65%) Architect
5 100 (6.84%) Business Analyst
6 86 (5.88%) Project Manager
7 74 (5.06%) Developer
8 72 (4.92%) Data Engineer
9 65 (4.45%) Data Analyst
10 60 (4.10%) Consultant
11 52 (3.56%) Data Scientist
12 49 (3.35%) Product Manager
13 48 (3.28%) Senior Manager
14 47 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (2.94%) Data Architect
16 39 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
17 33 (2.26%) Technical Leader
18 27 (1.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 27 (1.85%) Designer
18 27 (1.85%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (5.75%) Terraform
2 41 (2.80%) Kafka
3 40 (2.74%) REST
4 34 (2.33%) React
5 26 (1.78%) PySpark
6 18 (1.23%) .NET
6 18 (1.23%) Pandas
7 15 (1.03%) RESTful
7 15 (1.03%) Spring
8 14 (0.96%) HTML
8 14 (0.96%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.89%) FastAPI
9 13 (0.89%) Middleware
9 13 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (0.82%) OAuth
11 11 (0.75%) ATL
11 11 (0.75%) Node.js
12 10 (0.68%) LangChain
13 9 (0.62%) NumPy
13 9 (0.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 104 (7.11%) Product Ownership
2 101 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 69 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.97%) Management Information System
5 40 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (2.60%) AI Agents
7 36 (2.46%) Virtual Team
8 32 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.92%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.78%) Operational Technology
11 24 (1.64%) NHS
12 21 (1.44%) Taxonomies
13 20 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.30%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.09%) Social Media
16 15 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.89%) FMCG
17 13 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.37%) Windows
2 18 (1.23%) Linux
3 8 (0.55%) 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
1 564 (38.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 401 (27.43%) Agile
3 387 (26.47%) Analytics
4 334 (22.85%) AI
5 307 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 301 (20.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 290 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (19.49%) Roadmaps
9 206 (14.09%) Business Intelligence
10 183 (12.52%) Data Modelling
11 182 (12.45%) CI/CD
12 172 (11.76%) DevOps
13 154 (10.53%) Actionable Insight
14 153 (10.47%) Validation
15 145 (9.92%) Migration
16 141 (9.64%) Risk Management
17 137 (9.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 135 (9.23%) Data Pipeline
19 134 (9.17%) Data Governance
20 127 (8.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 295 (20.18%) SQL
2 263 (17.99%) Python
3 61 (4.17%) Java
4 46 (3.15%) TypeScript
5 43 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 26 (1.78%) C#
8 17 (1.16%) R
9 15 (1.03%) Bash
10 10 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.48%) Bicep
11 7 (0.48%) Scala
12 6 (0.41%) C++
12 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.41%) SPARQL
12 6 (0.41%) VBA
13 5 (0.34%) Cypher
13 5 (0.34%) Groovy
13 5 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 260 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 205 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 113 (7.73%) Degree
4 50 (3.42%) PMP
5 45 (3.08%) PMI Certification
6 41 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.37%) ACCA
9 19 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 18 (1.23%) CISSP
11 15 (1.03%) CIMA
12 14 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.75%) CISM
14 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (14.64%) Data Quality
2 79 (5.40%) PMO
3 72 (4.92%) QA
4 57 (3.90%) GDPR
5 51 (3.49%) Accessibility
6 33 (2.26%) Actionable Recommendations
7 31 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.78%) NIST
9 24 (1.64%) GRC
10 11 (0.75%) IFRS
11 8 (0.55%) NCSC
12 7 (0.48%) SLA
13 6 (0.41%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.34%) SEPA
15 4 (0.27%) COREP
15 4 (0.27%) FINREP
16 3 (0.21%) GAAP
16 3 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (4.24%) Docker
2 22 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.27%) IAG
6 3 (0.21%) vSphere
7 2 (0.14%) Postfix
7 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.068%) Firmware
8 1 (0.068%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.068%) NFS
Systems Management
1 74 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 14 (0.96%) Ansible
3 12 (0.82%) Grafana
3 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (0.62%) Kibana
5 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Control-M
6 4 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.21%) Istio
7 3 (0.21%) Rancher
7 3 (0.21%) SCCM
7 3 (0.21%) 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 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.16%) Databricks
3 48 (3.28%) Salesforce
4 44 (3.01%) SAP
4 44 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.94%) Oracle
6 35 (2.39%) Google
7 13 (0.89%) Workday
8 11 (0.75%) Adobe
9 10 (0.68%) Zscaler
10 9 (0.62%) Amplitude
10 9 (0.62%) Bloomberg
10 9 (0.62%) IBM
10 9 (0.62%) Informatica
10 9 (0.62%) Murex
10 9 (0.62%) Splunk
11 8 (0.55%) Teradata
12 7 (0.48%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.48%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.41%) VMware