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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 50 87
Rank change year-on-year +20 +37 +5
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,343 666 473
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.71% 4.90% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.54% 5.31% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 455 309
10th Percentile £392 £354 £288
25th Percentile £452 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% -9.79%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £750 £763
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 12
10th Percentile £27.94 £26.43 £17.93
25th Percentile £32.03 £28.00 £31.14
Median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -9.41% -3.10%
75th Percentile £62.50 £52.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £55.25 -
England median hourly rate £35.53 £29.08 £16.06
% change year-on-year +22.20% +81.04% -64.31%

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 17,817 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,764 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.89 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.81 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +9 190 £625 +13.64% 161
West London +10 54 £550 +2.16% 69
South London -7 16 £513 -14.58% 16
East London +7 6 £660 -14.90% 14
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 36 (2.68%) Confluence
2 33 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (2.31%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.12%) Apache
6 7 (0.52%) CMS
7 6 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.37%) nginx
9 3 (0.22%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.074%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.074%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 89 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (1.27%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.30%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
4 5 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.22%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.15%) Actimize
7 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.15%) Endur
7 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.074%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 267 (19.88%) Azure
2 258 (19.21%) AWS
3 173 (12.88%) Power Platform
4 106 (7.89%) GCP
5 68 (5.06%) SaaS
6 55 (4.10%) Snowflake
7 43 (3.20%) Amazon S3
7 43 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.83%) Serverless
9 35 (2.61%) dbt
10 30 (2.23%) GitHub
11 29 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 25 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 25 (1.86%) Entra ID
14 21 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (1.41%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.19%) Azure AI
16 16 (1.19%) OCI
17 15 (1.12%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.04%) Firewall
2 13 (0.97%) WAN
3 11 (0.82%) VPN
4 9 (0.67%) DNS
4 9 (0.67%) Network Security
5 6 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.37%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.30%) LAN
7 4 (0.30%) NAS
7 4 (0.30%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.30%) SAN
8 3 (0.22%) BGP
8 3 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.22%) IPsec
8 3 (0.22%) MPLS
8 3 (0.22%) OSPF
8 3 (0.22%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.22%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) NaaS
9 2 (0.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (12.51%) Power BI
2 74 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (4.10%) Tableau
4 52 (3.87%) Metadata
5 41 (3.05%) BigQuery
6 28 (2.08%) Power Query
7 26 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.64%) Big Data
10 21 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.56%) Looker
10 21 (1.56%) NoSQL
11 18 (1.34%) SQL Server
12 17 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.19%) Delta Lake
13 16 (1.19%) Star Schema
14 14 (1.04%) Oracle Database
15 12 (0.89%) MongoDB
15 12 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 75 (5.58%) JIRA
2 43 (3.20%) Git
3 23 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.89%) GitLab
5 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.37%) JUnit
6 5 (0.37%) MLflow
6 5 (0.37%) Mockito
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
7 4 (0.30%) ERwin
7 4 (0.30%) jMock
7 4 (0.30%) Maven
8 3 (0.22%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.22%) VTune
8 3 (0.22%) Xcode
9 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.15%) PowerBuilder
9 2 (0.15%) PowerDesigner
General
1 493 (36.71%) Finance
2 479 (35.67%) Social Skills
3 324 (24.13%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (14.59%) Public Sector
5 151 (11.24%) Banking
6 93 (6.92%) Influencing Skills
7 76 (5.66%) Retail
8 72 (5.36%) Marketing
9 51 (3.80%) Legal
10 44 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (2.38%) Telecoms
14 27 (2.01%) Financial Institution
15 26 (1.94%) Investment Banking
16 25 (1.86%) Local Government
17 24 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (1.79%) Front Office
18 15 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (0.97%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (15.34%) Analyst
2 196 (14.59%) Senior
3 171 (12.73%) Lead
4 146 (10.87%) Architect
5 94 (7.00%) Business Analyst
6 93 (6.92%) Data Engineer
7 92 (6.85%) Project Manager
8 78 (5.81%) Developer
9 69 (5.14%) Data Analyst
10 55 (4.10%) Data Scientist
11 48 (3.57%) Consultant
12 40 (2.98%) Product Manager
13 39 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
14 38 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
15 37 (2.76%) Senior Manager
16 31 (2.31%) Designer
16 31 (2.31%) Product Owner
17 27 (2.01%) Senior Data Engineer
18 25 (1.86%) Data Architect
19 24 (1.79%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.90%) REST
2 33 (2.46%) Kafka
3 29 (2.16%) React
4 28 (2.08%) Pandas
5 26 (1.94%) PySpark
6 18 (1.34%) Middleware
6 18 (1.34%) NumPy
7 17 (1.27%) scikit-learn
8 16 (1.19%) AngularJS
8 16 (1.19%) JSON
9 15 (1.12%) .NET
9 15 (1.12%) RESTful
10 13 (0.97%) Node.js
10 13 (0.97%) Spring
10 13 (0.97%) Spring Boot
11 12 (0.89%) HTML
11 12 (0.89%) PyTorch
12 11 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
14 9 (0.67%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 90 (6.70%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 42 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 41 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (2.53%) AI Agents
9 25 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 23 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.56%) NHS
12 19 (1.41%) FMCG
13 17 (1.27%) CMDB
13 17 (1.27%) PMI
14 16 (1.19%) Security Posture
15 15 (1.12%) Data Centre
15 15 (1.12%) Operational Technology
16 14 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (1.19%) Linux
2 15 (1.12%) Windows
3 6 (0.45%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.37%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.30%) Unix
6 3 (0.22%) VMS
7 2 (0.15%) Android
7 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.074%) Solaris
8 1 (0.074%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (29.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 381 (28.37%) Agile
3 336 (25.02%) Analytics
4 290 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 286 (21.30%) AI
6 258 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
7 234 (17.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 223 (16.60%) Roadmaps
9 195 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
10 194 (14.45%) Data Modelling
11 180 (13.40%) CI/CD
12 170 (12.66%) DevOps
13 169 (12.58%) Data Pipeline
14 136 (10.13%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 132 (9.83%) Validation
16 130 (9.68%) Machine Learning
17 127 (9.46%) Data Engineering
18 126 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
18 126 (9.38%) Data Science
18 126 (9.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 270 (20.10%) SQL
2 265 (19.73%) Python
3 69 (5.14%) Java
4 43 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 42 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 27 (2.01%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.34%) C#
8 17 (1.27%) R
9 8 (0.60%) C++
9 8 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 7 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 7 (0.52%) VBA
11 6 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.45%) Ruby
11 6 (0.45%) SPARQL
11 6 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.37%) Bash
12 5 (0.37%) Gremlin
12 5 (0.37%) Scala
12 5 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 229 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 183 (13.63%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.82%) Degree
4 55 (4.10%) PMP
5 50 (3.72%) PMI Certification
6 32 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.27%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.27%) CISSP
9 12 (0.89%) ACCA
10 10 (0.74%) AWS Certification
10 10 (0.74%) CISM
11 8 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.52%) PhD
13 6 (0.45%) CIMA
14 5 (0.37%) CISA
14 5 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (13.70%) Data Quality
2 94 (7.00%) PMO
3 71 (5.29%) QA
4 50 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 44 (3.28%) GDPR
6 20 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 20 (1.49%) NIST
7 15 (1.12%) GRC
7 15 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.67%) COREP
8 9 (0.67%) FINREP
9 8 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.60%) SLA
10 7 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.37%) IFRS
11 5 (0.37%) SEPA
12 4 (0.30%) NCSC
12 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (3.65%) Docker
2 19 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.52%) IAG
5 4 (0.30%) NFS
5 4 (0.30%) Squid
5 4 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.22%) Postfix
7 1 (0.074%) Firmware
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.074%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 77 (5.73%) Terraform
2 68 (5.06%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.27%) Ansible
4 14 (1.04%) Grafana
5 10 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.45%) Kibana
8 6 (0.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.22%) SCCM
10 3 (0.22%) vMotion
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) Consul
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.074%) Control-M
Vendors
1 184 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 70 (5.21%) Databricks
3 49 (3.65%) Google
4 47 (3.50%) SAP
5 45 (3.35%) Oracle
6 41 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.19%) Workday
9 13 (0.97%) Adobe
10 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.67%) GoldenSource
11 9 (0.67%) Murex
11 9 (0.67%) Zscaler
12 8 (0.60%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.60%) Foundry
13 7 (0.52%) Bloomberg
13 7 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
13 7 (0.52%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.52%) Splunk
13 7 (0.52%) VMware