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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 57 65
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +31
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 903 511 597
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.87% 3.82% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.48% 4.21% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 324 447
10th Percentile £363 £341 £363
25th Percentile £431 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -8.47%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £645
90th Percentile £756 £875 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 25
10th Percentile - £28.53 £19.57
25th Percentile £18.25 £29.08 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £34.75 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -42.45% +24.96% -43.74%
75th Percentile £35.75 £51.07 £36.33
90th Percentile £41.84 £59.10 £54.50
England median hourly rate £40.62 £30.81 £27.81
% change year-on-year +31.85% +10.77% -46.82%

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 13,941 12,133 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.57% 90.64% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,301 7,761 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 151 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.88 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +14 123 £550 +15.79% 222
South London -18 14 £519 -13.58% 24
West London -19 11 £513 -22.64% 28
North London +5 2 £413 - 14
East London -1 2 £675 -12.90% 21
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 (4.32%) Confluence
2 22 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.77%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.00%) nginx
5 6 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.33%) Apache
7 3 (0.33%) CMS
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.22%) Appian
8 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.22%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.22%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
Applications
1 115 (12.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (2.21%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.33%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.33%) Notion
8 3 (0.33%) Sketch
8 3 (0.33%) Trello
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.22%) InVision
10 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 9 (1.00%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.44%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.44%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.44%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.33%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.33%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.22%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 175 (19.38%) Azure
2 168 (18.60%) Power Platform
3 128 (14.17%) AWS
4 51 (5.65%) GCP
5 38 (4.21%) SaaS
6 28 (3.10%) Snowflake
7 26 (2.88%) Serverless
8 25 (2.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (2.66%) GitHub
10 23 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (2.21%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.55%) Collibra
14 14 (1.55%) PaaS
15 12 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (1.33%) Power Automate
16 11 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
16 11 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.44%) Firewall
1 13 (1.44%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.11%) VPN
3 9 (1.00%) DNS
4 7 (0.78%) HTTP
4 7 (0.78%) OpenVPN
5 6 (0.66%) Network Security
6 4 (0.44%) Multicast
6 4 (0.44%) NAS
6 4 (0.44%) SAN
6 4 (0.44%) tcpdump
6 4 (0.44%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.33%) 5G
7 3 (0.33%) Broadband
7 3 (0.33%) Internet
7 3 (0.33%) Wireless
8 2 (0.22%) Calico
8 2 (0.22%) Intelligent Network
8 2 (0.22%) ISDN
8 2 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (17.83%) Power BI
2 52 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (4.65%) Tableau
4 40 (4.43%) Metadata
5 34 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.10%) Data Lake
7 25 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
8 19 (2.10%) Big Data
9 17 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (1.77%) Delta Lake
11 15 (1.66%) Relational Database
12 13 (1.44%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.44%) Power Query
13 12 (1.33%) Hadoop
14 10 (1.11%) Looker
15 9 (1.00%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.00%) NoSQL
15 9 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (0.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 69 (7.64%) JIRA
2 33 (3.65%) Git
3 12 (1.33%) GitLab
4 10 (1.11%) MLflow
5 9 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 8 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.44%) ERwin
9 4 (0.44%) Selenium
10 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.33%) Toad
11 2 (0.22%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.22%) JUnit
11 2 (0.22%) Postman
11 2 (0.22%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.22%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
11 2 (0.22%) TestRail
12 1 (0.11%) Claude Code
General
1 370 (40.97%) Social Skills
2 314 (34.77%) Finance
3 268 (29.68%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (13.73%) Public Sector
5 105 (11.63%) Banking
6 42 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
6 42 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 40 (4.43%) Marketing
8 31 (3.43%) Legal
9 29 (3.21%) Front Office
9 29 (3.21%) Retail
10 28 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (2.77%) Publishing
12 24 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 21 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.33%) Local Government
14 18 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.99%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.88%) Billing
16 16 (1.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 181 (20.04%) Analyst
2 120 (13.29%) Senior
3 101 (11.18%) Lead
4 87 (9.63%) Business Analyst
5 72 (7.97%) Developer
6 63 (6.98%) Architect
7 55 (6.09%) Project Manager
8 53 (5.87%) Data Analyst
9 48 (5.32%) Data Engineer
10 32 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (3.21%) Consultant
12 27 (2.99%) User Researcher
13 22 (2.44%) Data Scientist
13 22 (2.44%) Product Manager
13 22 (2.44%) Senior Business Analyst
13 22 (2.44%) Senior Manager
14 21 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
15 17 (1.88%) Senior Data Engineer
16 16 (1.77%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (1.66%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.66%) Kafka
2 23 (2.55%) Pandas
3 20 (2.21%) scikit-learn
4 19 (2.10%) AngularJS
5 18 (1.99%) NumPy
5 18 (1.99%) REST
6 16 (1.77%) Middleware
6 16 (1.77%) PySpark
6 16 (1.77%) React
7 14 (1.55%) .NET
7 14 (1.55%) PyTorch
8 13 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (1.33%) RESTful
9 12 (1.33%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.22%) Plotly
11 10 (1.11%) LangChain
12 9 (1.00%) XML
13 8 (0.89%) HTML
13 8 (0.89%) JSON
13 8 (0.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.32%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 37 (4.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 31 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.21%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 18 (1.99%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.44%) Derivative
11 12 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.22%) NHS
13 10 (1.11%) FMCG
14 9 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.33%) Linux
2 16 (1.77%) Windows
3 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.33%) VMS
4 3 (0.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (28.35%) Agile
2 235 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
3 213 (23.59%) Analytics
4 199 (22.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 181 (20.04%) Business Intelligence
6 148 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 141 (15.61%) AI
8 136 (15.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 135 (14.95%) Roadmaps
10 126 (13.95%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 119 (13.18%) Actionable Insight
12 111 (12.29%) Data Modelling
13 105 (11.63%) Visualisation
14 97 (10.74%) Data Analysis
15 93 (10.30%) CI/CD
15 93 (10.30%) Project Management
16 92 (10.19%) Data Governance
17 90 (9.97%) ETL
18 89 (9.86%) DevOps
19 85 (9.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 203 (22.48%) SQL
2 170 (18.83%) Python
3 23 (2.55%) Java
4 21 (2.33%) TypeScript
5 16 (1.77%) C#
5 16 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 15 (1.66%) PL/SQL
7 14 (1.55%) Bash
7 14 (1.55%) R
8 13 (1.44%) JavaScript
8 13 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.33%) C++
10 9 (1.00%) Bicep
10 9 (1.00%) VBA
11 7 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.55%) Korn
13 4 (0.44%) Scala
14 3 (0.33%) Groovy
14 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 130 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 116 (12.85%) Degree
3 110 (12.18%) SC Cleared
4 36 (3.99%) Master's Degree
5 34 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.77%) PMI Certification
6 25 (2.77%) PMP
7 15 (1.66%) ACCA
7 15 (1.66%) CIMA
8 14 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.22%) CISSP
10 10 (1.11%) CBAP
11 8 (0.89%) CISM
11 8 (0.89%) PhD
12 7 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.78%) IIBA
12 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.66%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (12.51%) Data Quality
2 48 (5.32%) PMO
3 45 (4.98%) QA
4 40 (4.43%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.66%) GDPR
6 17 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.88%) NIST
7 11 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (1.11%) GRC
8 10 (1.11%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.78%) SLA
9 7 (0.78%) WCAG
10 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.55%) COBIT
11 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.44%) GMP
12 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 29 (3.21%) Docker
2 8 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.78%) Squid
4 6 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.55%) zsh
6 4 (0.44%) HDFS
6 4 (0.44%) NFS
7 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.22%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 47 (5.20%) Terraform
2 44 (4.87%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.55%) Grafana
3 14 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.78%) Consul
5 7 (0.78%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (0.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.44%) Ansible
8 4 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
8 4 (0.44%) vMotion
9 3 (0.33%) Control-M
9 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.33%) Rancher
10 2 (0.22%) Argo
10 2 (0.22%) Istio
10 2 (0.22%) Kibana
10 2 (0.22%) logstash
11 1 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 118 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.76%) Oracle
3 44 (4.87%) Databricks
4 40 (4.43%) SAP
5 31 (3.43%) ServiceNow
6 28 (3.10%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.66%) Google
8 12 (1.33%) Adobe
9 10 (1.11%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.11%) Workday
10 9 (1.00%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.00%) Software AG
11 8 (0.89%) Cisco
11 8 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 8 (0.89%) Planview
11 8 (0.89%) VMware
12 6 (0.66%) Ariba
12 6 (0.66%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.66%) Solace
12 6 (0.66%) TIBCO