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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 48 88
Rank change year-on-year +20 +40 -6
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,462 680 454
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.23% 5.07% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 5.48% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 449 273
10th Percentile £375 £348 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £682 £656 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 7
10th Percentile £23.50 £18.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £26.45 £25.11 £32.38
Median hourly rate £53.75 £31.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.29% -15.33% -5.85%
75th Percentile £64.25 £42.20 £46.25
90th Percentile £68.99 £47.13 £52.25
England median hourly rate £54.45 £31.20 £36.25
% change year-on-year +74.52% -13.93% -20.99%

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 17,999 12,398 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.52% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 8,176 9,391
10th Percentile £360 £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 £664 £663 £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 337 243 184
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.03 £17.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £47.25 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.55 £78.75
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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +16 214 £625 +13.64% 407
West London +21 72 £719 +36.90% 99
South London -6 14 £650 - 32
East London +9 6 £613 +6.52% 28
North London -2 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 42 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
2 41 (2.80%) Confluence
3 30 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 26 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.03%) Apache
6 7 (0.48%) CMS
7 5 (0.34%) SAS
8 4 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 4 (0.27%) Mendix
9 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.14%) Camunda
9 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.068%) IIS
10 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.068%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
4 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.55%) Chatbot
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 8 (0.55%) 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%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.21%) Endur
5 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
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
1 264 (18.06%) Azure
2 263 (17.99%) AWS
3 182 (12.45%) Power Platform
4 78 (5.34%) GCP
5 70 (4.79%) Snowflake
6 57 (3.90%) SaaS
7 55 (3.76%) 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 26 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
14 25 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 19 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
16 19 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (1.30%) OCI
17 18 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (1.23%) PowerApps
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
1 175 (11.97%) Power BI
2 70 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (3.69%) Metadata
3 54 (3.69%) Tableau
4 33 (2.26%) Power Query
5 31 (2.12%) BigQuery
5 31 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (1.92%) Data Lake
7 27 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 24 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.64%) Delta Lake
9 22 (1.50%) Looker
10 18 (1.23%) Big Data
11 17 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 17 (1.16%) Semantic Layer
11 17 (1.16%) Star Schema
12 16 (1.09%) Data Vault
13 15 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.03%) Oracle Database
14 14 (0.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 56 (3.83%) JIRA
2 44 (3.01%) 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
1 575 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 497 (33.99%) Finance
3 355 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (15.94%) Public Sector
5 170 (11.63%) Banking
6 130 (8.89%) Influencing Skills
7 90 (6.16%) Retail
8 72 (4.92%) 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 33 (2.26%) Front Office
14 32 (2.19%) Investment Banking
14 32 (2.19%) Local Government
15 23 (1.57%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.37%) Military
17 20 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 231 (15.80%) Analyst
2 218 (14.91%) Senior
3 206 (14.09%) Lead
4 184 (12.59%) Architect
5 100 (6.84%) Business Analyst
6 89 (6.09%) Project Manager
7 76 (5.20%) Developer
8 73 (4.99%) Data Engineer
9 66 (4.51%) Data Analyst
10 61 (4.17%) Consultant
11 50 (3.42%) Data Scientist
12 48 (3.28%) Product Manager
12 48 (3.28%) Senior Manager
12 48 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (2.87%) Data Architect
14 39 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
15 33 (2.26%) Technical Leader
16 27 (1.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (1.85%) Designer
17 26 (1.78%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (5.75%) Terraform
2 42 (2.87%) Kafka
3 40 (2.74%) REST
4 33 (2.26%) React
5 26 (1.78%) PySpark
6 19 (1.30%) Pandas
7 18 (1.23%) .NET
8 16 (1.09%) RESTful
9 15 (1.03%) Spring
10 14 (0.96%) HTML
10 14 (0.96%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.89%) FastAPI
11 13 (0.89%) Middleware
11 13 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (0.82%) OAuth
13 11 (0.75%) ATL
13 11 (0.75%) Node.js
14 9 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.62%) NumPy
14 9 (0.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 105 (7.18%) Product Ownership
2 101 (6.91%) Cloud Native
3 68 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.97%) Management Information System
5 40 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (2.53%) AI Agents
7 36 (2.46%) Virtual Team
8 30 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.98%) Data Structures
10 28 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.78%) Operational Technology
12 24 (1.64%) NHS
13 21 (1.44%) Taxonomies
14 20 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.30%) Data Centre
16 16 (1.09%) Social Media
17 15 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
17 15 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
18 13 (0.89%) FMCG
18 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
3 386 (26.40%) Analytics
4 332 (22.71%) AI
5 307 (21.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 300 (20.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 291 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
8 283 (19.36%) Roadmaps
9 208 (14.23%) Business Intelligence
10 184 (12.59%) CI/CD
10 184 (12.59%) Data Modelling
11 172 (11.76%) DevOps
12 153 (10.47%) Actionable Insight
13 150 (10.26%) Validation
14 145 (9.92%) Migration
15 140 (9.58%) Risk Management
16 136 (9.30%) Data Pipeline
17 135 (9.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
18 133 (9.10%) Data Governance
19 127 (8.69%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 297 (20.31%) SQL
2 263 (17.99%) Python
3 61 (4.17%) Java
4 45 (3.08%) TypeScript
5 44 (3.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 27 (1.85%) 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
1 258 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 203 (13.89%) 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%) AWS Certification
9 19 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.30%) Master's Degree
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
1 213 (14.57%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.47%) PMO
3 73 (4.99%) QA
4 57 (3.90%) GDPR
5 50 (3.42%) Accessibility
6 34 (2.33%) 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%) Rancher
7 3 (0.21%) SCCM
7 3 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.14%) Istio
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
1 206 (14.09%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.29%) Databricks
3 48 (3.28%) Salesforce
4 44 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.94%) SAP
6 42 (2.87%) Oracle
7 34 (2.33%) Google
8 13 (0.89%) Workday
9 11 (0.75%) Adobe
10 10 (0.68%) Zscaler
11 9 (0.62%) Amplitude
11 9 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 9 (0.62%) IBM
11 9 (0.62%) Informatica
11 9 (0.62%) Murex
11 9 (0.62%) Splunk
12 8 (0.55%) Teradata
13 7 (0.48%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.48%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.41%) VMware