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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 53 74
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 +13
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 1,316 640 519
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.63% 4.73% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.44% 5.13% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 429 346
10th Percentile £375 £352 £285
25th Percentile £450 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £663
90th Percentile £788 £763 £769
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 20
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.75 £19.38
25th Percentile £31.44 £28.40 £27.81
Median hourly rate £34.87 £32.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -2.29% -25.33%
75th Percentile £57.69 £51.22 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £55.25 £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £30.40 £18.00
% change year-on-year +16.87% +68.90% -59.49%

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 17,684 12,469 15,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.20% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,337 11,045
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £769 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 233 283
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.73 £24.66 £20.03
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% +6.24% -27.42%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.65 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +7 184 £625 +13.64% 216
West London +4 47 £523 -3.98% 41
South London +7 21 £519 -13.58% 17
East London +4 6 £719 -7.23% 21
North London - 1 £325 - 7
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 (2.96%) Confluence
2 27 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.76%) nginx
6 8 (0.61%) Apache
7 7 (0.53%) CMS
8 5 (0.38%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.23%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.23%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.15%) Camunda
10 2 (0.15%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.15%) Hyperledger
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
10 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.076%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.076%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 91 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.52%) Chatbot
4 20 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.076%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.076%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.38%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.38%) Loan IQ
3 5 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.23%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.15%) Actimize
6 2 (0.15%) CA PPM
6 2 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.15%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP CAR
6 2 (0.15%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 257 (19.53%) Azure
2 243 (18.47%) AWS
3 173 (13.15%) Power Platform
4 103 (7.83%) GCP
5 66 (5.02%) SaaS
6 50 (3.80%) Amazon S3
7 45 (3.42%) Snowflake
8 44 (3.34%) Serverless
9 43 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 27 (2.05%) GitHub
12 26 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (1.90%) dbt
14 22 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 20 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (1.44%) Entra ID
17 17 (1.29%) Collibra
17 17 (1.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.22%) Firewall
1 16 (1.22%) VPN
2 14 (1.06%) DNS
3 11 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.68%) Network Security
4 9 (0.68%) OpenVPN
5 8 (0.61%) WAN
6 5 (0.38%) HTTP
6 5 (0.38%) NAS
6 5 (0.38%) SAN
7 4 (0.30%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.23%) BGP
8 3 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.23%) MPLS
8 3 (0.23%) OSPF
8 3 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.23%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.15%) DHCP
9 2 (0.15%) Intranet
9 2 (0.15%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (12.61%) Power BI
2 66 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (4.56%) Tableau
4 59 (4.48%) Metadata
5 35 (2.66%) BigQuery
6 26 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (1.90%) Data Lake
8 23 (1.75%) Big Data
9 22 (1.67%) Looker
9 22 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 22 (1.67%) Power Query
10 21 (1.60%) SQL Server
11 20 (1.52%) Relational Database
12 18 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.37%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.14%) Delta Lake
14 13 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.91%) Star Schema
16 11 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (6.31%) JIRA
2 44 (3.34%) Git
3 20 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.84%) GitLab
4 11 (0.84%) SonarQube
5 9 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.53%) JUnit
7 6 (0.46%) ERwin
7 6 (0.46%) MLflow
8 5 (0.38%) Mockito
9 4 (0.30%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.30%) DbUnit
9 4 (0.30%) jMock
9 4 (0.30%) Maven
10 3 (0.23%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.23%) Toad
10 3 (0.23%) VTune
10 3 (0.23%) Xcode
11 2 (0.15%) Cucumber
General
1 472 (35.87%) Finance
2 464 (35.26%) Social Skills
3 302 (22.95%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (14.21%) Public Sector
5 138 (10.49%) Banking
6 76 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
7 70 (5.32%) Marketing
8 65 (4.94%) Retail
9 52 (3.95%) Legal
10 40 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 38 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 29 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (2.05%) Financial Institution
15 24 (1.82%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.82%) Local Government
16 22 (1.67%) Front Office
17 17 (1.29%) Billing
18 13 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 203 (15.43%) Analyst
2 186 (14.13%) Senior
3 161 (12.23%) Lead
4 127 (9.65%) Architect
5 94 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 93 (7.07%) Data Engineer
7 89 (6.76%) Project Manager
8 80 (6.08%) Developer
9 71 (5.40%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.88%) Data Scientist
11 49 (3.72%) Consultant
12 37 (2.81%) Product Manager
13 36 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
14 33 (2.51%) Senior Manager
15 32 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.28%) User Researcher
17 29 (2.20%) Designer
17 29 (2.20%) Product Owner
18 23 (1.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 23 (1.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.96%) REST
2 32 (2.43%) React
3 29 (2.20%) Kafka
4 28 (2.13%) Pandas
5 25 (1.90%) PySpark
6 19 (1.44%) .NET
6 19 (1.44%) Middleware
7 18 (1.37%) AngularJS
7 18 (1.37%) NumPy
8 17 (1.29%) RESTful
8 17 (1.29%) scikit-learn
9 15 (1.14%) JSON
9 15 (1.14%) Spring
9 15 (1.14%) Spring Boot
10 12 (0.91%) HTML
10 12 (0.91%) Node.js
11 11 (0.84%) PyTorch
12 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
12 10 (0.76%) Next.js
12 10 (0.76%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 91 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 87 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 44 (3.34%) Onboarding
4 42 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (3.19%) Virtual Team
5 38 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 29 (2.20%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.44%) NHS
11 18 (1.37%) FMCG
11 18 (1.37%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.29%) PMI
12 17 (1.29%) Taxonomies
13 16 (1.22%) CMDB
14 14 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.06%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.91%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.14%) Linux
1 15 (1.14%) Windows
2 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.38%) Mac OS
3 5 (0.38%) Unix
4 3 (0.23%) VMS
4 3 (0.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.15%) Android
5 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.076%) Solaris
6 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (27.43%) Agile
2 343 (26.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 323 (24.54%) Analytics
4 280 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 270 (20.52%) AI
6 259 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
7 222 (16.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 216 (16.41%) Roadmaps
9 190 (14.44%) Business Intelligence
10 189 (14.36%) Data Modelling
11 176 (13.37%) CI/CD
12 173 (13.15%) DevOps
13 161 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
14 142 (10.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 131 (9.95%) Migration
16 130 (9.88%) Actionable Insight
17 127 (9.65%) Validation
18 125 (9.50%) Data Science
19 121 (9.19%) Data Governance
19 121 (9.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 260 (19.76%) SQL
2 259 (19.68%) Python
3 72 (5.47%) Java
4 51 (3.88%) TypeScript
5 35 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.60%) C#
8 16 (1.22%) R
9 10 (0.76%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.68%) VBA
11 8 (0.61%) C++
12 7 (0.53%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.46%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.46%) Ruby
14 5 (0.38%) Scala
14 5 (0.38%) SPARQL
15 4 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
15 4 (0.30%) Rust
15 4 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 224 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 184 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.98%) Degree
4 48 (3.65%) PMP
5 45 (3.42%) PMI Certification
6 27 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.22%) CISSP
11 14 (1.06%) ACCA
12 11 (0.84%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.68%) CISM
14 8 (0.61%) CIMA
14 8 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.46%) CBAP
15 6 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.38%) CISA
17 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (13.45%) Data Quality
2 89 (6.76%) PMO
3 71 (5.40%) QA
4 50 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 47 (3.57%) GDPR
6 20 (1.52%) NIST
7 15 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.91%) GRC
10 10 (0.76%) SLA
11 8 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.53%) COREP
12 7 (0.53%) FINREP
12 7 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.38%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.30%) GAAP
14 4 (0.30%) IFRS
14 4 (0.30%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.30%) WCAG
15 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (2.96%) Docker
2 14 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.68%) Squid
4 5 (0.38%) IAG
4 5 (0.38%) NFS
4 5 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.23%) Postfix
5 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.076%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.076%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.076%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (6.00%) Terraform
2 68 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.44%) Grafana
4 15 (1.14%) Ansible
4 15 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 12 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.53%) Consul
7 7 (0.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 6 (0.46%) Kibana
8 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.30%) EMC VPLEX
9 4 (0.30%) vMotion
10 3 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.23%) SCCM
11 2 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 2 (0.15%) Control-M
11 2 (0.15%) Packer
11 2 (0.15%) Puppet
11 2 (0.15%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 183 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.56%) Databricks
3 50 (3.80%) Google
3 50 (3.80%) Oracle
4 47 (3.57%) SAP
5 39 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.66%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.37%) Workday
8 14 (1.06%) Adobe
9 13 (0.99%) Atlassian
10 12 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.84%) Dynatrace
12 10 (0.76%) Murex
13 9 (0.68%) Foundry
13 9 (0.68%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.61%) Splunk
15 7 (0.53%) Anaplan
15 7 (0.53%) Bloomberg
15 7 (0.53%) GoldenSource
15 7 (0.53%) VMware