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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 74 73
Rank change year-on-year +30 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 737 515 590
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.17% 3.29% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 3.67% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 324 420
10th Percentile £351 £356 £374
25th Percentile £419 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £698 £650
90th Percentile £750 £838 £750
England median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 14
10th Percentile - £30.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £32.31 £35.79
Median hourly rate £31.49 £40.00 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -7.15% -21.67%
75th Percentile £39.63 £50.75 £63.44
90th Percentile £42.67 £64.18 £65.07
England median hourly rate £30.11 £32.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -8.08% -29.08% +16.91%

All Process and 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 13,094 14,043 17,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.85% 89.80% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,631 9,077 12,422
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 166 232
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.59
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.69
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +3.60% -9.55%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +10 97 £513 -4.65% 79
West London -7 12 £525 -25.00% 30
South London -21 3 £750 +25.00% 5
North London +3 1 £650 - 4
East London +3 1 £575 +91.67% 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 33 (4.48%) Confluence
2 21 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.68%) Apache
5 5 (0.68%) CMS
6 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.27%) Appian
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 98 (13.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 30 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.54%) Trello
7 2 (0.27%) Notion
7 2 (0.27%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.14%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.14%) InVision
8 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) SPSS
8 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.09%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payroll
4 4 (0.54%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.41%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.27%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.27%) Endur
6 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.14%) Shopify
7 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 135 (18.32%) Power Platform
2 106 (14.38%) Azure
3 93 (12.62%) AWS
4 43 (5.83%) GCP
5 31 (4.21%) SaaS
6 25 (3.39%) Snowflake
7 20 (2.71%) GitHub
8 19 (2.58%) dbt
8 19 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (1.49%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.49%) ChatGPT
12 10 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
13 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (1.22%) PaaS
13 9 (1.22%) Power Automate
13 9 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.68%) Firewall
1 5 (0.68%) Network Security
1 5 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.54%) Internet
2 4 (0.54%) Multicast
2 4 (0.54%) tcpdump
2 4 (0.54%) Wireshark
3 3 (0.41%) 5G
3 3 (0.41%) Broadband
3 3 (0.41%) VPN
4 2 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.27%) DMZ
4 2 (0.27%) ISDN
4 2 (0.27%) Junos
4 2 (0.27%) PSTN
4 2 (0.27%) Softphone
4 2 (0.27%) SSL
4 2 (0.27%) WAN
4 2 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (17.37%) Power BI
2 47 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (5.43%) Tableau
4 24 (3.26%) Big Data
5 23 (3.12%) Metadata
6 21 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (2.58%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.44%) SQL Server
9 17 (2.31%) Data Lake
10 14 (1.90%) Hadoop
11 13 (1.76%) Star Schema
12 12 (1.63%) Power Query
13 10 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (1.22%) Apache Hive
15 8 (1.09%) Delta Lake
15 8 (1.09%) Looker
15 8 (1.09%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.95%) Data Vault
16 7 (0.95%) Impala
17 6 (0.81%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 50 (6.78%) JIRA
2 30 (4.07%) Git
3 14 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.81%) GitLab
5 5 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.54%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.41%) MLflow
7 3 (0.41%) Selenium
7 3 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.27%) Maven
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.14%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.14%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.14%) ERwin
9 1 (0.14%) Log4j
9 1 (0.14%) LSMW
9 1 (0.14%) TestRail
9 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 305 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 264 (35.82%) Finance
3 246 (33.38%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (13.57%) Public Sector
5 98 (13.30%) Banking
6 46 (6.24%) Influencing Skills
7 44 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (5.83%) Marketing
9 30 (4.07%) Legal
10 26 (3.53%) Front Office
11 25 (3.39%) Publishing
12 24 (3.26%) Financial Institution
12 24 (3.26%) Retail
13 20 (2.71%) Local Government
14 18 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (2.04%) Investment Banking
16 15 (2.04%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.76%) Manufacturing
18 11 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 160 (21.71%) Analyst
2 84 (11.40%) Senior
3 76 (10.31%) Business Analyst
4 71 (9.63%) Lead
5 53 (7.19%) Architect
5 53 (7.19%) Developer
6 47 (6.38%) Project Manager
7 45 (6.11%) Data Analyst
8 37 (5.02%) Data Engineer
9 27 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
10 21 (2.85%) Data Scientist
11 20 (2.71%) Consultant
12 18 (2.44%) Senior Data Engineer
13 17 (2.31%) Data Business Analyst
13 17 (2.31%) Senior Manager
14 14 (1.90%) Product Manager
15 13 (1.76%) Operations Manager
15 13 (1.76%) Senior Business Analyst
16 12 (1.63%) Data Architect
16 12 (1.63%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.85%) Kafka
2 19 (2.58%) AngularJS
3 18 (2.44%) React
4 15 (2.04%) REST
5 14 (1.90%) Pandas
6 13 (1.76%) XML
7 12 (1.63%) Plotly
7 12 (1.63%) scikit-learn
8 11 (1.49%) NumPy
8 11 (1.49%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.36%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (1.36%) JSON
9 10 (1.36%) PySpark
10 9 (1.22%) .NET
10 9 (1.22%) PyTorch
11 8 (1.09%) CSS
11 8 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (1.09%) HTML
11 8 (1.09%) RESTful
11 8 (1.09%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.97%) Product Ownership
2 38 (5.16%) Management Information System
3 35 (4.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 29 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 26 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (3.39%) Algorithms
6 25 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.76%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.49%) Derivative
11 11 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.36%) NHS
13 9 (1.22%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.22%) Reinsurance
14 8 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.26%) Linux
2 13 (1.76%) Windows
3 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (27.95%) Agile
2 200 (27.14%) Problem-Solving
3 181 (24.56%) Analytics
4 144 (19.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 142 (19.27%) Business Intelligence
6 111 (15.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 108 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 108 (14.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 105 (14.25%) AI
9 99 (13.43%) Data Analysis
10 98 (13.30%) Visualisation
11 96 (13.03%) Data Modelling
12 94 (12.75%) Actionable Insight
13 91 (12.35%) Roadmaps
14 81 (10.99%) Project Management
15 74 (10.04%) Data Governance
16 67 (9.09%) Data Science
17 66 (8.96%) Risk Management
18 65 (8.82%) CI/CD
19 63 (8.55%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 168 (22.80%) SQL
2 145 (19.67%) Python
3 25 (3.39%) Java
4 21 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (2.31%) R
6 16 (2.17%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.04%) Bash
7 15 (2.04%) C++
7 15 (2.04%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.49%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.22%) Scala
10 8 (1.09%) C#
11 6 (0.81%) Bicep
11 6 (0.81%) Korn
12 5 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.68%) VBA
13 4 (0.54%) Groovy
13 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 100 (13.57%) Degree
2 92 (12.48%) Security Cleared
3 74 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 22 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 22 (2.99%) PMP
6 12 (1.63%) ACCA
6 12 (1.63%) CIMA
7 10 (1.36%) CISSP
8 8 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.95%) PhD
10 6 (0.81%) CISM
10 6 (0.81%) MBA
11 5 (0.68%) MCP
12 4 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.41%) CBAP
13 3 (0.41%) CISA
13 3 (0.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (11.40%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.93%) PMO
3 28 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 23 (3.12%) QA
5 20 (2.71%) GDPR
6 14 (1.90%) NIST
7 13 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.22%) GRC
9 7 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.95%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.68%) GMP
11 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.54%) WCAG
12 3 (0.41%) COBIT
12 3 (0.41%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.41%) NCSC
12 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 32 (4.34%) Docker
2 7 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.81%) HDFS
4 5 (0.68%) zsh
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 32 (4.34%) Terraform
2 27 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.49%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
5 9 (1.22%) Grafana
6 4 (0.54%) Ansible
6 4 (0.54%) Kibana
6 4 (0.54%) logstash
6 4 (0.54%) Rancher
7 1 (0.14%) Consul
7 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.29%) SAP
3 34 (4.61%) Oracle
4 26 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 25 (3.39%) Databricks
5 25 (3.39%) Google
5 25 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.63%) Adobe
7 10 (1.36%) Solace
8 9 (1.22%) TIBCO
9 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.95%) Workday
10 6 (0.81%) Cisco
10 6 (0.81%) Dataiku
10 6 (0.81%) Foundry
11 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.54%) Juniper
12 4 (0.54%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.54%) UiPath
12 4 (0.54%) Xero