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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 124 172
Rank change year-on-year +13 +48 +34
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 25 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.22% 0.46% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 0.50% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 5
10th Percentile - £525 £478
25th Percentile £425 £528 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +28.57% -17.97%
75th Percentile - £844 £630
90th Percentile £600 £925 £755
London median daily rate £543 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -1.36% -5.17% -7.20%
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 £53.50 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +52.86% -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 1,920 2,189 3,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.61% 91.40% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 1,516 2,311
10th Percentile £338 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.04% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £724
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 27
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.28 £17.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.75 £42.15 £53.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £85.63 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £30.16 £41.04
% change year-on-year +6.10% -26.51% +14.00%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +15 19 £550 -18.52% 56
West End of London - 2 £588 - 3
Camden - 1 £550 - 2
City of Westminster - 1 £625 - 3
Southwark - 1 £375 - 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 5 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
1 7 (28.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (12.00%) SaaS
3 2 (8.00%) dbt
3 2 (8.00%) OCI
3 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Social Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Power BI
2 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.00%) Metadata
2 5 (20.00%) Tableau
3 4 (16.00%) Data Mining
3 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.00%) Looker
5 1 (4.00%) Power Query
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 17 (68.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (40.00%) Finance
4 8 (32.00%) Police
5 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (12.00%) Retail
8 2 (8.00%) Back Office
8 2 (8.00%) Banking
8 2 (8.00%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (8.00%) Investment Banking
8 2 (8.00%) Marketing
8 2 (8.00%) Retail Banking
9 1 (4.00%) Advertising
9 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Business Manager
2 4 (16.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (12.00%) Business Operations Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Operations Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Product Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Communications Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Governance Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Power BI Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Kafka
1 4 (16.00%) Pandas
1 4 (16.00%) scikit-learn
1 4 (16.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (8.00%) PySpark
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (16.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Decision-Making
2 10 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (32.00%) Actionable Insight
3 8 (32.00%) Analytics
3 8 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (32.00%) Data Engineering
3 8 (32.00%) Data Science
3 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) Data Management
4 7 (28.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (24.00%) Analytical Modelling
5 6 (24.00%) Data Governance
5 6 (24.00%) Data Integration
5 6 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (24.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.00%) Data Security
6 5 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 5 (20.00%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) SQL
2 11 (44.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) R
4 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Tagetik