Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in Central London

Commercial Awareness
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 123 135
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +63
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.28% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £604 £548
25th Percentile £719 £609 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £638 £638
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £756 £684 £697
90th Percentile - £701 £714
London median daily rate £581 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -13.87% +12.50% +9.09%

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 1,818 2,145 2,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.54% 92.18% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 1,342 1,727
10th Percentile £343 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £674 £676 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.57% -4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 16
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £37.44 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.88 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
% change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.64%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Commercial Awareness relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in Central London

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Commercial Awareness

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 22 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
City of London -9 4 £738 +15.69% 34
Commercial Awareness
London

Commercial Awareness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior User Experience Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience Researcher
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Matrix Management
2 2 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Cognitive Psychology
3 1 (25.00%) Diary Studies
3 1 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (25.00%) Source to Pay
3 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Ariba
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Hotjar