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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 75
Rank change year-on-year +20 +25 +26
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,221 576 524
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.47% 4.68% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.29% 5.07% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 383 359
10th Percentile £375 £363 £288
25th Percentile £449 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +3.53% -13.33%
75th Percentile £668 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £770 £765
England median daily rate £516 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.72% -0.95% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 22
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.64 £19.57
25th Percentile £31.63 £28.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £29.16
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +32.05% -33.53%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.23 £45.31
90th Percentile £75.70 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £31.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +14.60% +67.58% -57.82%

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 16,752 11,363 15,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.32% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,163 7,612 11,136
10th Percentile £360 £345 £343
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £516 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.77% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 204 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -23.90%
75th Percentile £58.88 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.72% -26.59% +5.63%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +8 168 £590 +7.27% 230
West London -2 36 £520 -8.64% 49
South London +5 18 £519 -13.58% 9
East London -1 5 £697 -10.06% 31
North London - 1 £325 - 8
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 (2.87%) Confluence
2 21 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.82%) nginx
6 5 (0.41%) CMS
6 5 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.33%) Apache
8 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.16%) Camunda
9 2 (0.16%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.16%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.16%) Mendix
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 89 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (3.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (1.47%) Chatbot
6 14 (1.15%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.082%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.082%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.41%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.41%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.33%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.25%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.16%) Endur
6 2 (0.16%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.16%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.16%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 244 (19.98%) Azure
2 203 (16.63%) AWS
3 168 (13.76%) Power Platform
4 95 (7.78%) GCP
5 70 (5.73%) SaaS
6 40 (3.28%) Amazon S3
6 40 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.19%) Snowflake
8 37 (3.03%) Serverless
9 34 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 34 (2.78%) GitHub
10 27 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (2.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 24 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (1.56%) dbt
13 18 (1.47%) Entra ID
13 18 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (1.39%) Collibra
15 16 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (1.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.31%) VPN
2 15 (1.23%) Firewall
3 13 (1.06%) DNS
4 11 (0.90%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.74%) HTTP
5 9 (0.74%) Network Security
5 9 (0.74%) OpenVPN
6 6 (0.49%) WAN
7 4 (0.33%) NAS
7 4 (0.33%) SAN
8 3 (0.25%) BGP
8 3 (0.25%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.25%) MPLS
8 3 (0.25%) OSPF
8 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.25%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.25%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.16%) Intelligent Network
9 2 (0.16%) IPsec
9 2 (0.16%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (13.27%) Power BI
2 66 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 54 (4.42%) Metadata
4 52 (4.26%) Tableau
5 30 (2.46%) BigQuery
5 30 (2.46%) Data Lake
6 28 (2.29%) SQL Server
7 23 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
8 22 (1.80%) Power Query
9 21 (1.72%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.56%) Big Data
10 19 (1.56%) Looker
10 19 (1.56%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.23%) Delta Lake
12 14 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (1.06%) Parquet
14 12 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 77 (6.31%) JIRA
2 38 (3.11%) Git
3 18 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.15%) GitLab
5 11 (0.90%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.82%) MLflow
7 9 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.57%) JUnit
9 6 (0.49%) ERwin
10 5 (0.41%) Mockito
10 5 (0.41%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.33%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.33%) DbUnit
11 4 (0.33%) jMock
11 4 (0.33%) Maven
12 3 (0.25%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.25%) Toad
13 2 (0.16%) Postman
13 2 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
13 2 (0.16%) Xcode
General
1 433 (35.46%) Social Skills
2 428 (35.05%) Finance
3 277 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 122 (9.99%) Banking
6 66 (5.41%) Marketing
7 58 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
8 57 (4.67%) Retail
9 50 (4.10%) Legal
10 40 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.95%) Telecoms
13 33 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
15 26 (2.13%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.64%) Local Government
17 16 (1.31%) Billing
17 16 (1.31%) Front Office
18 15 (1.23%) Investment Banking
19 12 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 192 (15.72%) Senior
2 189 (15.48%) Analyst
3 149 (12.20%) Lead
4 103 (8.44%) Architect
5 92 (7.53%) Business Analyst
6 91 (7.45%) Data Engineer
7 87 (7.13%) Project Manager
8 76 (6.22%) Developer
9 65 (5.32%) Data Analyst
10 53 (4.34%) Consultant
11 43 (3.52%) Data Scientist
12 38 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.87%) Product Manager
14 34 (2.78%) User Researcher
15 32 (2.62%) Senior Manager
15 32 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (2.29%) Senior Data Engineer
17 26 (2.13%) Technical Leader
18 24 (1.97%) Product Owner
19 23 (1.88%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.19%) REST
2 28 (2.29%) Pandas
2 28 (2.29%) React
3 25 (2.05%) PySpark
4 21 (1.72%) Middleware
5 20 (1.64%) .NET
5 20 (1.64%) Kafka
6 19 (1.56%) scikit-learn
7 18 (1.47%) AngularJS
8 17 (1.39%) RESTful
9 16 (1.31%) NumPy
9 16 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (1.23%) Spring
10 15 (1.23%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.06%) PyTorch
12 11 (0.90%) LangChain
12 11 (0.90%) Node.js
13 10 (0.82%) HTML
13 10 (0.82%) JSON
13 10 (0.82%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 88 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 78 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 34 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.38%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.56%) FMCG
11 18 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.39%) NHS
12 17 (1.39%) PMI
13 16 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (1.23%) Data Structures
15 13 (1.06%) Taxonomies
16 11 (0.90%) Algorithms
16 11 (0.90%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.31%) Windows
2 12 (0.98%) Linux
3 5 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.41%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.25%) Unix
4 3 (0.25%) VMS
4 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.082%) Solaris
6 1 (0.082%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (26.95%) Agile
2 296 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 290 (23.75%) Analytics
4 248 (20.31%) AI
5 245 (20.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 245 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
6 198 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 192 (15.72%) Roadmaps
8 184 (15.07%) Business Intelligence
9 179 (14.66%) Data Modelling
10 167 (13.68%) CI/CD
11 156 (12.78%) DevOps
12 139 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
13 129 (10.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 127 (10.40%) Migration
15 126 (10.32%) Actionable Insight
16 125 (10.24%) Project Management
17 118 (9.66%) ETL
18 115 (9.42%) Data Science
19 113 (9.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 249 (20.39%) SQL
2 237 (19.41%) Python
3 65 (5.32%) Java
4 44 (3.60%) TypeScript
5 33 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (1.72%) C#
7 19 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.31%) R
9 13 (1.06%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.66%) VBA
11 7 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.49%) Bicep
12 6 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.41%) Ruby
13 5 (0.41%) Scala
14 4 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.25%) C++
16 2 (0.16%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.16%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 213 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 175 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.09%) Degree
4 49 (4.01%) PMP
5 43 (3.52%) PMI Certification
6 28 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.97%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.39%) ACCA
10 17 (1.39%) CISSP
11 14 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.90%) CIMA
13 10 (0.82%) CISM
14 9 (0.74%) AWS Certification
14 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.66%) CBAP
16 7 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.49%) APMP
17 6 (0.49%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (14.00%) Data Quality
2 78 (6.39%) PMO
3 65 (5.32%) QA
4 40 (3.28%) GDPR
5 34 (2.78%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.64%) NIST
7 18 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.90%) GRC
8 11 (0.90%) SLA
9 10 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.57%) COREP
10 7 (0.57%) FINREP
10 7 (0.57%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.49%) GAAP
11 6 (0.49%) IFRS
12 5 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.41%) NCSC
13 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (2.54%) Docker
2 14 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.74%) Squid
4 6 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.33%) NFS
6 3 (0.25%) IAG
6 3 (0.25%) Postfix
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.082%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.082%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.082%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.082%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (6.39%) Terraform
2 60 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.47%) Grafana
4 14 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.06%) Ansible
6 12 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.74%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.57%) Consul
8 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.41%) Kibana
10 4 (0.33%) Control-M
10 4 (0.33%) EMC VPLEX
10 4 (0.33%) vMotion
11 3 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.25%) SCCM
12 2 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.16%) Argo
12 2 (0.16%) Istio
12 2 (0.16%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 179 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.75%) Oracle
3 55 (4.50%) Databricks
4 47 (3.85%) Google
5 43 (3.52%) SAP
6 37 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.64%) Workday
9 14 (1.15%) Adobe
10 12 (0.98%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.98%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 9 (0.74%) Foundry
13 8 (0.66%) Murex
13 8 (0.66%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.66%) VMware
14 7 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (0.57%) GoldenSource
14 7 (0.57%) Informatica
14 7 (0.57%) Splunk