Commercial Awareness Contracts in Central London

Commercial Awareness
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Commercial Awareness over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 127 161
Rank change year-on-year +5 +34 +27
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 4 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% 0.083% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.092% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £559
25th Percentile £700 £713 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £701 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £701 £738 £734
90th Percentile - - £738
London median daily rate £537 £625 £633
% change year-on-year -14.16% -1.19% +5.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Commercial Awareness 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,833 2,177 3,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.09% 90.63% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,550 2,356
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.18
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.75 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £30.41 £55.00
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.47 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.92 £39.00
% change year-on-year +21.78% -28.41% +5.41%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Commercial Awareness as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Commercial Awareness in Central London

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Commercial Awareness in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Commercial Awareness in Central London

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Commercial Awareness in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Commercial Awareness in Central London

Commercial Awareness
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Commercial Awareness within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
City of London +8 4 £701 -3.38% 6
Commercial Awareness
London

Commercial Awareness
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Head of IT
1 1 (25.00%) Head of IT Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Service Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) CAFM
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow