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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 51 69
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 +28
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 978 553 591
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.01% 4.12% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 4.53% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 360 439
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +1.80% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £645
90th Percentile £750 £839 £775
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.62% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 28
10th Percentile - £28.32 £19.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £28.60 £27.81
Median hourly rate £19.69 £34.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.93% +13.11% -30.46%
75th Percentile £41.78 £53.22 £38.12
90th Percentile £61.56 £58.55 £54.13
England median hourly rate £45.23 £27.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year +64.47% +32.79% -60.40%

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 14,655 12,200 16,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.11% 90.98% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,838 8,002 11,621
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 162 351
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.13 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.42 £77.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +8 135 £550 +5.26% 247
South London -16 18 £519 -13.58% 27
West London -19 12 £513 -18.00% 58
East London +4 3 £697 -10.06% 46
North London +2 2 £413 - 11
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 44 (4.50%) Confluence
2 25 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.92%) nginx
6 5 (0.51%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) Apache
9 2 (0.20%) Appian
9 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Camunda
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 116 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (3.27%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (2.25%) MS Visio
6 15 (1.53%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.31%) Notion
8 3 (0.31%) Trello
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) InVision
9 2 (0.20%) Sketch
10 1 (0.10%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 9 (0.92%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.61%) Loan IQ
4 5 (0.51%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.41%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.31%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.31%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.31%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.20%) Lorenzo
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.20%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
7 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 198 (20.25%) Azure
2 179 (18.30%) Power Platform
3 141 (14.42%) AWS
4 67 (6.85%) GCP
5 42 (4.29%) SaaS
6 33 (3.37%) Snowflake
7 30 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 29 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (2.97%) Serverless
9 28 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (2.66%) Amazon S3
11 24 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (2.45%) GitHub
12 23 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (1.43%) Collibra
14 14 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.33%) PaaS
15 13 (1.33%) Power Automate
15 13 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.64%) Firewall
2 14 (1.43%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.12%) VPN
4 10 (1.02%) DNS
5 8 (0.82%) Network Security
5 8 (0.82%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.72%) HTTP
7 4 (0.41%) Multicast
7 4 (0.41%) NAS
7 4 (0.41%) SAN
7 4 (0.41%) tcpdump
7 4 (0.41%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.31%) 5G
8 3 (0.31%) Broadband
8 3 (0.31%) Internet
8 3 (0.31%) WAN
9 2 (0.20%) IOS XR
9 2 (0.20%) ISDN
9 2 (0.20%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.20%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (17.48%) Power BI
2 62 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (4.81%) Tableau
4 39 (3.99%) Metadata
5 29 (2.97%) Data Lake
5 29 (2.97%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (1.94%) Big Data
8 17 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 15 (1.53%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.43%) Looker
11 13 (1.33%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.33%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.23%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.12%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.02%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 79 (8.08%) JIRA
2 34 (3.48%) Git
3 13 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.12%) GitLab
4 11 (1.12%) SonarQube
5 10 (1.02%) MLflow
6 8 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.72%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.41%) ERwin
8 4 (0.41%) JUnit
8 4 (0.41%) Selenium
9 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.31%) Toad
10 2 (0.20%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.20%) DbUnit
10 2 (0.20%) Postman
10 2 (0.20%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 396 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 348 (35.58%) Finance
3 274 (28.02%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (14.11%) Public Sector
5 112 (11.45%) Banking
6 47 (4.81%) Marketing
7 46 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
8 45 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
9 36 (3.68%) Legal
10 35 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (3.48%) Retail
12 29 (2.97%) Front Office
13 27 (2.76%) Telecoms
14 26 (2.66%) Publishing
15 22 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (2.15%) Local Government
17 19 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.94%) Financial Institution
18 18 (1.84%) Billing
19 14 (1.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 187 (19.12%) Analyst
2 131 (13.39%) Senior
3 111 (11.35%) Lead
4 93 (9.51%) Business Analyst
5 81 (8.28%) Developer
6 69 (7.06%) Architect
7 63 (6.44%) Project Manager
8 56 (5.73%) Data Engineer
9 53 (5.42%) Data Analyst
10 33 (3.37%) Consultant
11 32 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
12 31 (3.17%) User Researcher
13 26 (2.66%) Product Manager
14 25 (2.56%) Senior Manager
15 23 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
16 22 (2.25%) Data Scientist
16 22 (2.25%) Senior Business Analyst
17 18 (1.84%) Senior Data Engineer
18 17 (1.74%) Data Business Analyst
19 16 (1.64%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.66%) REST
2 24 (2.45%) Kafka
3 23 (2.35%) Pandas
4 21 (2.15%) scikit-learn
5 20 (2.04%) AngularJS
6 18 (1.84%) Middleware
6 18 (1.84%) NumPy
6 18 (1.84%) PySpark
7 16 (1.64%) .NET
7 16 (1.64%) PyTorch
7 16 (1.64%) React
7 16 (1.64%) RESTful
8 14 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (1.33%) TensorFlow
10 12 (1.23%) XML
11 11 (1.12%) JSON
11 11 (1.12%) Plotly
12 10 (1.02%) LangChain
13 9 (0.92%) OpenID
14 8 (0.82%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 58 (5.93%) Product Ownership
2 56 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 31 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 29 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (2.45%) Virtual Team
8 23 (2.35%) AI Agents
9 19 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 15 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.53%) Derivative
11 15 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.12%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.12%) FMCG
14 11 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.94%) Linux
2 14 (1.43%) Windows
3 3 (0.31%) VMS
3 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (28.73%) Agile
2 243 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
3 235 (24.03%) Analytics
4 217 (22.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 195 (19.94%) Business Intelligence
6 169 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 156 (15.95%) AI
8 150 (15.34%) Roadmaps
9 149 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 134 (13.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 130 (13.29%) Data Modelling
12 121 (12.37%) Actionable Insight
13 113 (11.55%) Visualisation
14 108 (11.04%) CI/CD
15 107 (10.94%) DevOps
16 103 (10.53%) ETL
17 101 (10.33%) Migration
18 100 (10.22%) Project Management
19 97 (9.92%) Data Analysis
19 97 (9.92%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 220 (22.49%) SQL
2 185 (18.92%) Python
3 29 (2.97%) Java
4 23 (2.35%) TypeScript
5 18 (1.84%) C#
6 17 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (1.53%) PL/SQL
7 15 (1.53%) R
8 14 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.33%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.12%) Bash
11 10 (1.02%) C++
12 9 (0.92%) VBA
13 7 (0.72%) Bicep
13 7 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.41%) Scala
15 3 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.31%) Groovy
15 3 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 150 (15.34%) Security Cleared
2 123 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 118 (12.07%) Degree
4 37 (3.78%) Master's Degree
5 35 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.86%) PMP
7 15 (1.53%) ACCA
7 15 (1.53%) CIMA
7 15 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.33%) CISSP
10 11 (1.12%) CBAP
11 9 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.92%) CISM
11 9 (0.92%) PhD
11 9 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (0.82%) IIBA
12 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.61%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 57 (5.83%) PMO
3 51 (5.21%) QA
4 44 (4.50%) Accessibility
5 30 (3.07%) GDPR
6 17 (1.74%) NIST
7 16 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (1.02%) GRC
9 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.82%) SLA
10 8 (0.82%) WCAG
11 6 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.51%) COBIT
13 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.41%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (2.86%) Docker
2 8 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.82%) Squid
3 6 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.41%) HDFS
4 4 (0.41%) NFS
5 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.20%) vSphere
5 2 (0.20%) zsh
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 47 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.70%) Terraform
3 18 (1.84%) Grafana
4 17 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.82%) Ansible
6 8 (0.82%) Consul
6 8 (0.82%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.72%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.41%) vMotion
10 3 (0.31%) Control-M
10 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.31%) Rancher
11 2 (0.20%) Argo
11 2 (0.20%) Istio
11 2 (0.20%) Kibana
11 2 (0.20%) logstash
11 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 131 (13.39%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.42%) Oracle
3 50 (5.11%) Databricks
4 43 (4.40%) SAP
5 35 (3.58%) ServiceNow
6 33 (3.37%) Google
7 31 (3.17%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.53%) Adobe
9 13 (1.33%) Workday
10 12 (1.23%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.02%) Planview
11 10 (1.02%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.92%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.92%) Cisco
12 9 (0.92%) Software AG
13 8 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.82%) VMware
14 7 (0.72%) Foundry
15 6 (0.61%) Ariba
15 6 (0.61%) Murex