Decision-Making Contracts in London

Decision-Making
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 76 97
Rank change year-on-year +27 +21 -12
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 585 528 662
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.71% 2.98% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 3.37% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 361 423
10th Percentile £363 £288 £363
25th Percentile £425 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £644 £688
90th Percentile £763 £763 £788
England median daily rate £520 £520 £560
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 16
10th Percentile £26.64 £19.57 £26.35
25th Percentile £28.31 £27.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £29.16 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -33.53% +30.63%
75th Percentile £51.23 £45.31 £56.55
90th Percentile £55.25 £50.00 £78.13
England median hourly rate £30.81 £18.94 £43.86
% change year-on-year +62.67% -56.82% -2.53%

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 11,466 15,659 22,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.27% 88.23% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,696 11,170 16,512
10th Percentile £341 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 315 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.01 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -24.29% +9.45%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £67.60 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £35.38
% change year-on-year -27.67% +6.01% +37.75%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in London

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in London.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in London

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in London over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in London

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in London.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in London

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in London over the 6 months to 18 June 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 18 June 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 +24 118 £550 +12.82% 650
West London +18 15 £569 +46.89% 174
South London +1 6 £600 +26.32% 32
East London +9 3 £775 +68.48% 139
Decision-Making
England

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.59%) Confluence
2 15 (2.56%) CMS
3 13 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.22%) Headless CMS
4 8 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
6 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 37 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.05%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.34%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.68%) iTrent
3 4 (0.68%) Loan IQ
3 4 (0.68%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.68%) Shopify
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payroll
4 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (0.34%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.17%) Bankmaster
5 1 (0.17%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 92 (15.73%) Azure
2 91 (15.56%) Power Platform
3 83 (14.19%) AWS
4 39 (6.67%) GCP
5 33 (5.64%) Snowflake
6 19 (3.25%) SaaS
7 17 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (2.39%) dbt
9 13 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (2.05%) GitHub
11 9 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.03%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.03%) Serverless
13 5 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.68%) BigCommerce
14 4 (0.68%) OCI
14 4 (0.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.85%) Firewall
1 5 (0.85%) Network Security
2 4 (0.68%) SSL
3 3 (0.51%) IPsec
3 3 (0.51%) Multicast
3 3 (0.51%) WAN
3 3 (0.51%) Wireless
4 2 (0.34%) BGP
4 2 (0.34%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.34%) DMZ
4 2 (0.34%) DNS
4 2 (0.34%) DWDM
4 2 (0.34%) Internet
4 2 (0.34%) L2TP
4 2 (0.34%) MPLS
4 2 (0.34%) OSPF
4 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.34%) VPN
4 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (15.04%) Power BI
2 44 (7.52%) Tableau
3 40 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.74%) Metadata
5 14 (2.39%) BigQuery
5 14 (2.39%) Data Lake
5 14 (2.39%) SQL Server
6 13 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.22%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.05%) Big Data
8 11 (1.88%) Looker
8 11 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (1.54%) Power Query
10 7 (1.20%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.20%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
11 6 (1.03%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 41 (7.01%) JIRA
2 9 (1.54%) Git
2 9 (1.54%) GitLab
3 6 (1.03%) ERwin
4 3 (0.51%) Liquibase
4 3 (0.51%) Maven
4 3 (0.51%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.51%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.34%) MagicDraw
5 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.17%) DbUnit
6 1 (0.17%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.17%) JMeter
6 1 (0.17%) jMock
6 1 (0.17%) Log4j
6 1 (0.17%) Mockito
6 1 (0.17%) Snyk
General
1 254 (43.42%) Social Skills
2 221 (37.78%) Finance
3 188 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (12.82%) Banking
5 57 (9.74%) Public Sector
6 42 (7.18%) Marketing
7 35 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
8 32 (5.47%) Retail
9 29 (4.96%) Investment Banking
10 22 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (3.59%) Legal
12 20 (3.42%) Local Government
13 19 (3.25%) Front Office
14 16 (2.74%) Financial Institution
15 13 (2.22%) Police
15 13 (2.22%) Retail Banking
16 12 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
17 10 (1.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 148 (25.30%) Analyst
2 85 (14.53%) Business Analyst
3 62 (10.60%) Senior
4 57 (9.74%) Developer
5 56 (9.57%) Architect
6 40 (6.84%) Lead
7 38 (6.50%) Data Analyst
8 34 (5.81%) Project Manager
9 33 (5.64%) Data Engineer
10 23 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (3.59%) Consultant
12 17 (2.91%) Data Architect
12 17 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (2.74%) Data Business Analyst
13 16 (2.74%) Python Developer
14 14 (2.39%) Business Manager
14 14 (2.39%) Data Scientist
15 13 (2.22%) Technical Architect
16 12 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (2.05%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.91%) AngularJS
1 17 (2.91%) React
2 15 (2.56%) Kafka
2 15 (2.56%) Next.js
3 14 (2.39%) Vue
4 11 (1.88%) Pandas
4 11 (1.88%) REST
5 8 (1.37%) TensorFlow
6 7 (1.20%) NumPy
6 7 (1.20%) PySpark
6 7 (1.20%) scikit-learn
7 6 (1.03%) .NET
7 6 (1.03%) CSS
7 6 (1.03%) HTML
8 5 (0.85%) SOAP
9 4 (0.68%) Node.js
9 4 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.68%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.68%) RESTful
9 4 (0.68%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.47%) Management Information System
2 26 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 18 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.71%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.54%) Equities
10 9 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.37%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.20%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.03%) NHS
14 5 (0.85%) Life Science
14 5 (0.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.05%) Linux
2 4 (0.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.17%) Android
3 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.17%) Unix
3 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
2 156 (26.67%) Agile
2 156 (26.67%) Analytics
3 110 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 109 (18.63%) Business Intelligence
5 103 (17.61%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 97 (16.58%) Data Analysis
7 89 (15.21%) Project Management
7 89 (15.21%) Visualisation
8 83 (14.19%) Data Modelling
9 80 (13.68%) Roadmaps
10 71 (12.14%) Risk Management
11 68 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 64 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
13 59 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 57 (9.74%) Data Pipeline
15 55 (9.40%) ETL
16 53 (9.06%) Artificial Intelligence
17 51 (8.72%) Data Visualisation
18 50 (8.55%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 139 (23.76%) SQL
2 126 (21.54%) Python
3 24 (4.10%) Java
4 22 (3.76%) R
5 14 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (1.20%) C++
6 7 (1.20%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.20%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.20%) VBA
7 6 (1.03%) Bash
7 6 (1.03%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.51%) C#
8 3 (0.51%) Perl
8 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.34%) C
9 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.34%) Rust
9 2 (0.34%) Scala
9 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.17%) LookML
Qualifications
1 86 (14.70%) Degree
2 71 (12.14%) Security Cleared
3 55 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.91%) PMP
6 13 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.22%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.20%) CISSP
8 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.85%) CISM
10 4 (0.68%) ACCA
10 4 (0.68%) CCNP
10 4 (0.68%) CIMA
10 4 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.51%) IIBA
11 3 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.42%) QA
4 19 (3.25%) GDPR
5 16 (2.74%) PMO
6 7 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.03%) NIST
8 4 (0.68%) NCSC
8 4 (0.68%) WCAG
9 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.34%) COBIT
10 2 (0.34%) GRC
10 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.17%) Basel III
11 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.17%) GMP
11 1 (0.17%) ITGC
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
11 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (2.74%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.17%) Postfix
4 1 (0.17%) RACF
Systems Management
1 15 (2.56%) Terraform
2 12 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.20%) Ansible
4 5 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.51%) Packer
6 2 (0.34%) Grafana
6 2 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) Consul
7 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.17%) Istio
7 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 66 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.47%) SAP
3 24 (4.10%) Oracle
4 23 (3.93%) Google
5 21 (3.59%) Databricks
6 19 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.37%) Workday
9 7 (1.20%) Adobe
10 6 (1.03%) Foundry
10 6 (1.03%) Informatica
10 6 (1.03%) Talend
11 5 (0.85%) Splunk
12 4 (0.68%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.68%) DocuSign
12 4 (0.68%) FIS
12 4 (0.68%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.68%) Palantir
12 4 (0.68%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.51%) Dataiku
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