Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in Central London

Data-Driven Decision Making
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 120 162
Rank change year-on-year +17 +42 +24
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 26 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.30% 0.53% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 0.59% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 8
10th Percentile £408 £425 £509
25th Percentile £425 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £723
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -23.88% +31.30%
75th Percentile £550 £941 £875
90th Percentile £646 £974 -
London median daily rate £550 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.39 - -
Median hourly rate £28.15 - -
75th Percentile £28.91 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £42.42 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +21.21% -26.32% -22.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data-Driven 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in Central London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in Central London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in Central London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in Central London

Data-Driven Decision Making
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 Data-Driven Decision Making within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +11 16 £550 - 20
West End of London - 5 £550 - 6
City of Westminster - 3 £625 - 1
Southwark - 2 £375 -
Camden - 1 £550 - 1
Data-Driven Decision Making
London

Data-Driven Decision Making
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 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) dbt
4 2 (7.69%) OCI
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Social Studio
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud9 IDE
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.85%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
1 4 (15.38%) Tableau
2 3 (11.54%) Data Mining
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Metadata
2 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.85%) Looker
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
General
1 15 (57.69%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (42.31%) Finance
3 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
4 5 (19.23%) Retail
5 4 (15.38%) Marketing
5 4 (15.38%) Police
6 3 (11.54%) Back Office
6 3 (11.54%) Banking
6 3 (11.54%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (11.54%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Advertising
7 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Business Manager
2 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Business Operations Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Data Modeller
3 3 (11.54%) Data Scientist
3 3 (11.54%) Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Operations Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Product Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Product Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Pandas
1 3 (11.54%) PySpark
1 3 (11.54%) scikit-learn
1 3 (11.54%) TensorFlow
2 2 (7.69%) CSS
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Next.js
3 1 (3.85%) NumPy
3 1 (3.85%) OpenCV
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.85%) pydantic
3 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Decision-Making
2 9 (34.62%) Analytics
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (26.92%) Data Engineering
3 7 (26.92%) Data Management
3 7 (26.92%) Data Modelling
3 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (23.08%) Data Science
5 5 (19.23%) Analytical Modelling
5 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (19.23%) Predictive Modelling
5 5 (19.23%) Visualisation
6 4 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 4 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (15.38%) Fintech
6 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 3 (11.54%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) R
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft