Decision-Making Contract Job Trends in Central London

Decision-Making
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 50 53
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +51
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 106 86 93
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.25% 3.76% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 4.07% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 50 52
10th Percentile £313 £312 £331
25th Percentile £410 £457 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £634 £628 £700
90th Percentile £775 £692 £749
London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - £27.81
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £43.91
75th Percentile £41.75 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £39.90
% change year-on-year -18.72% -2.89% -27.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,822 2,112 2,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.24% 92.35% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,316 1,696
10th Percentile £350 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Central London

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Decision-Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Central London

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Decision-Making.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Decision-Making

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 Decision-Making within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 98 £501 -8.91% 173
City of Westminster +2 2 £736 +57.99% 6
West End of London +6 1 £773 +46.72% 5
Decision-Making
London

Decision-Making
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.55%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.66%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) Appian
4 1 (0.94%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.72%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.94%) SPSS
5 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.92%) Power Platform
2 17 (16.04%) AWS
2 17 (16.04%) Azure
3 10 (9.43%) GCP
4 5 (4.72%) Amazon S3
4 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.83%) dbt
5 3 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.83%) GitHub
5 3 (2.83%) SaaS
5 3 (2.83%) Serverless
6 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.89%) ChatGPT
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.89%) OCI
6 2 (1.89%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.89%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) Softphone
1 2 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.04%) Power BI
2 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.77%) Big Data
4 3 (2.83%) Metadata
4 3 (2.83%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.83%) Tableau
5 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.89%) MySQL
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.89%) Power Query
5 2 (1.89%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Git
1 7 (6.60%) JIRA
2 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.94%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.94%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) MLflow
3 1 (0.94%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.94%) Selenium
3 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (39.62%) Finance
2 39 (36.79%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
4 17 (16.04%) Banking
5 12 (11.32%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.72%) Front Office
6 5 (4.72%) Legal
6 5 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.77%) Retail
8 3 (2.83%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.83%) Marketing
8 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.89%) Back Office
9 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.94%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (23.58%) Analyst
2 17 (16.04%) Senior
3 12 (11.32%) Lead
4 11 (10.38%) Data Analyst
5 10 (9.43%) Business Analyst
5 10 (9.43%) Consultant
6 9 (8.49%) Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Cloud Consultant
7 7 (6.60%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.66%) Oracle Consultant
8 6 (5.66%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Oracle Consultant
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 6 (5.66%) Technical Consultant
9 4 (3.77%) Architect
9 4 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Data Scientist
9 4 (3.77%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.72%) LangChain
2 5 (4.72%) PyTorch
3 4 (3.77%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.83%) Dask
4 3 (2.83%) Google JAX
4 3 (2.83%) JAX
4 3 (2.83%) LightGBM
4 3 (2.83%) NumPy
4 3 (2.83%) Pandas
4 3 (2.83%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.83%) SciPy
4 3 (2.83%) XGBoost
4 3 (2.83%) XML
5 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.89%) HTML
5 2 (1.89%) JSON
5 2 (1.89%) LangGraph
5 2 (1.89%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.94%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (5.66%) Derivative
3 6 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.72%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.77%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.77%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.83%) Equities
6 3 (2.83%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.89%) AS400
7 2 (1.89%) iPad
7 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Windows
2 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.42%) Analytics
2 27 (25.47%) Agile
3 25 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (20.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (18.87%) Data Modelling
5 20 (18.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (16.04%) Actionable Insight
6 17 (16.04%) AI
6 17 (16.04%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (13.21%) Data Analysis
8 13 (12.26%) Project Management
9 12 (11.32%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 12 (11.32%) Machine Learning
10 11 (10.38%) Roadmaps
10 11 (10.38%) Visualisation
11 10 (9.43%) Data Governance
11 10 (9.43%) Data Science
11 10 (9.43%) Migration
12 9 (8.49%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.81%) Python
2 19 (17.92%) SQL
3 5 (4.72%) C++
3 5 (4.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.83%) C#
4 3 (2.83%) Korn
5 2 (1.89%) Java
5 2 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.89%) R
5 2 (1.89%) RPG
6 1 (0.94%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.94%) Scala
6 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) Degree
2 15 (14.15%) Security Cleared
3 12 (11.32%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.66%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.72%) PMP
6 3 (2.83%) PhD
6 3 (2.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.94%) ACCA
7 1 (0.94%) APMP
7 1 (0.94%) CBAP
7 1 (0.94%) CISA
7 1 (0.94%) CISM
7 1 (0.94%) CISSP
7 1 (0.94%) MBA
7 1 (0.94%) MCP
7 1 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.94%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.94%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) PMO
3 4 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.83%) GDPR
5 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.94%) GRC
6 1 (0.94%) NIST
6 1 (0.94%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.94%) QA
6 1 (0.94%) SLA
6 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.60%) Docker
2 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.94%) Ansible
2 1 (0.94%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 18 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.21%) Oracle
3 6 (5.66%) Databricks
4 4 (3.77%) Google
5 3 (2.83%) SAP
6 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.89%) Planview
6 2 (1.89%) Polycom
6 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.89%) Workday
7 1 (0.94%) Adobe
7 1 (0.94%) Ariba
7 1 (0.94%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.94%) eFront
7 1 (0.94%) Foundry
7 1 (0.94%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.94%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.94%) Progress
7 1 (0.94%) Tagetik
7 1 (0.94%) Veracode