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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 53 66
Rank change year-on-year +11 +13 +41
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 99 85 83
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.93% 3.64% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 3.95% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 49 47
10th Percentile £313 £311 £346
25th Percentile £407 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% +6.60%
75th Percentile £637 £638 £700
90th Percentile £779 £695 £765
London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £41.75 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £31.49 £37.50 £43.08
% change year-on-year -16.03% -12.96% -21.67%

All Process and 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 1,821 2,153 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.69% 92.09% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,350 1,738
10th Percentile £343 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.54 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £35.88 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £50.63 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 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 +5 91 £501 -8.91% 40
City of Westminster +1 2 £736 +57.99% 5
West End of London +4 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 9 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.06%) Confluence
3 2 (2.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.01%) Appian
4 1 (1.01%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.05%) MS Visio
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.01%) SPSS
5 1 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.01%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.19%) Power Platform
2 17 (17.17%) AWS
3 16 (16.16%) Azure
4 11 (11.11%) GCP
5 5 (5.05%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.03%) dbt
6 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.03%) GitHub
6 3 (3.03%) Serverless
7 2 (2.02%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.02%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.02%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.02%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.02%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.02%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) Softphone
1 2 (2.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.17%) Power BI
2 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.04%) Big Data
4 3 (3.03%) Metadata
4 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.03%) Tableau
5 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.02%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.02%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.02%) MySQL
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.02%) Power Query
5 2 (2.02%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.01%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Git
1 7 (7.07%) JIRA
2 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.01%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.01%) GitLab
3 1 (1.01%) MLflow
3 1 (1.01%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.01%) Selenium
3 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (42.42%) Finance
2 39 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 18 (18.18%) Banking
5 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.06%) Legal
7 5 (5.05%) Front Office
7 5 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.04%) Retail
9 3 (3.03%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.03%) Marketing
9 3 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.02%) Back Office
10 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.02%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.02%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (25.25%) Analyst
2 11 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 11 (11.11%) Lead
2 11 (11.11%) Senior
3 10 (10.10%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.09%) Developer
5 6 (6.06%) Consultant
5 6 (6.06%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.04%) Architect
6 4 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (4.04%) Data Engineer
6 4 (4.04%) Data Scientist
7 3 (3.03%) Cloud Consultant
7 3 (3.03%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (3.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 3 (3.03%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (3.03%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (2.02%) IT Project Manager
8 2 (2.02%) Senior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.05%) PyTorch
2 4 (4.04%) TensorFlow
3 3 (3.03%) Dask
3 3 (3.03%) Google JAX
3 3 (3.03%) JAX
3 3 (3.03%) LangChain
3 3 (3.03%) LightGBM
3 3 (3.03%) NumPy
3 3 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.03%) Pandas
3 3 (3.03%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.03%) SciPy
3 3 (3.03%) XGBoost
3 3 (3.03%) XML
4 2 (2.02%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.02%) HTML
4 2 (2.02%) JSON
4 2 (2.02%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.01%) ADO
5 1 (1.01%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.10%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.07%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (6.06%) Derivative
3 6 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.05%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.03%) Equities
6 3 (3.03%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.02%) AS400
7 2 (2.02%) iPad
7 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.02%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.27%) Agile
2 26 (26.26%) Analytics
3 23 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (20.20%) Data Modelling
6 18 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (17.17%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (15.15%) Actionable Insight
8 15 (15.15%) AI
9 14 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (14.14%) Data Analysis
10 12 (12.12%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 12 (12.12%) Machine Learning
10 12 (12.12%) Project Management
11 11 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 11 (11.11%) Visualisation
12 10 (10.10%) Data Governance
12 10 (10.10%) Migration
13 9 (9.09%) CI/CD
13 9 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.21%) Python
2 19 (19.19%) SQL
3 5 (5.05%) C++
3 5 (5.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.03%) C#
4 3 (3.03%) Korn
5 2 (2.02%) Java
5 2 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.02%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.02%) R
5 2 (2.02%) RPG
6 1 (1.01%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.01%) Scala
6 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (16.16%) Degree
2 15 (15.15%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.05%) PMP
6 3 (3.03%) PhD
6 3 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.02%) CISA
7 2 (2.02%) CISM
7 2 (2.02%) CISSP
8 1 (1.01%) ACCA
8 1 (1.01%) APMP
8 1 (1.01%) CBAP
8 1 (1.01%) CEH
8 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.01%) MBA
8 1 (1.01%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (1.01%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (1.01%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.05%) PMO
3 4 (4.04%) GDPR
4 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.02%) NIST
5 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.01%) GRC
5 1 (1.01%) NCSC
5 1 (1.01%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.01%) QA
5 1 (1.01%) SLA
5 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Docker
2 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.01%) Ansible
2 1 (1.01%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 18 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.09%) Oracle
3 6 (6.06%) Databricks
4 4 (4.04%) Google
5 3 (3.03%) SAP
6 2 (2.02%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.02%) Planview
6 2 (2.02%) Polycom
6 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.01%) Adobe
7 1 (1.01%) Ariba
7 1 (1.01%) AVEVA
7 1 (1.01%) eFront
7 1 (1.01%) Foundry
7 1 (1.01%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.01%) Tagetik
7 1 (1.01%) Veracode
7 1 (1.01%) Workday