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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 33 64
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 +33
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 160 117 79
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.41% 6.12% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 6.55% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 77 43
10th Percentile £325 £363 £353
25th Percentile £466 £453 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £684 £663 £556
90th Percentile £799 £735 £682
London median daily rate £536 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% -10.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Median hourly rate - £28.15 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year - +1.22% -30.18%
London median hourly rate £34.23 £32.00 £29.16
% change year-on-year +6.97% +9.76% -33.53%

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 2,143 1,787 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.82% 93.46% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,464 1,161 1,537
10th Percentile £355 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £799
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 22
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.04 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £23.03
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.97 £32.09
90th Percentile £60.25 £50.75 £41.65
London median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
% change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.59%

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 June 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 June 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 +12 151 £575 +4.07% 271
West End of London -3 1 - - 6
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 5 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.25%) Confluence
2 2 (1.25%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.25%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.88%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.13%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.63%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.38%) Azure
2 20 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 16 (10.00%) AWS
4 14 (8.75%) GCP
5 8 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.13%) Dagster
6 5 (3.13%) dbt
6 5 (3.13%) Prefect
7 4 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.88%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.88%) OCI
8 3 (1.88%) SaaS
9 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.25%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.25%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.25%) HTTP
1 2 (1.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.63%) Power BI
2 13 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.00%) Tableau
4 7 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.38%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.75%) Looker
6 4 (2.50%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.50%) Metadata
6 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.25%) Data Mart
8 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.25%) OLAP
8 2 (1.25%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.25%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.88%) JIRA
2 3 (1.88%) Git
3 2 (1.25%) JUnit
4 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.63%) ERwin
4 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
General
1 72 (45.00%) Finance
2 43 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 28 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (15.00%) Banking
5 13 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.00%) Legal
6 8 (5.00%) Marketing
7 7 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.38%) Retail
8 5 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Front Office
11 2 (1.25%) Military
11 2 (1.25%) Police
11 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Electronics
12 1 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (20.00%) Senior
2 21 (13.13%) Analyst
2 21 (13.13%) Project Manager
3 20 (12.50%) Lead
4 16 (10.00%) Architect
5 14 (8.75%) Data Engineer
6 13 (8.13%) Consultant
7 10 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
8 9 (5.63%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.63%) Product Manager
9 8 (5.00%) Cloud Consultant
10 7 (4.38%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.38%) Developer
10 7 (4.38%) Oracle Consultant
10 7 (4.38%) Oracle Technical Consultant
10 7 (4.38%) Senior Manager
10 7 (4.38%) Senior Oracle Consultant
10 7 (4.38%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
10 7 (4.38%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 7 (4.38%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.13%) React
2 5 (3.13%) REST
3 4 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.50%) LangChain
3 4 (2.50%) LangGraph
4 3 (1.88%) Kafka
4 3 (1.88%) Middleware
4 3 (1.88%) Pandas
4 3 (1.88%) RESTful
4 3 (1.88%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.88%) Spring
4 3 (1.88%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.25%) gRPC
5 2 (1.25%) J2EE
5 2 (1.25%) NumPy
5 2 (1.25%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.25%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.25%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.63%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.13%) AI Agents
3 5 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.88%) FMCG
5 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.25%) CMDB
6 2 (1.25%) Derivative
7 1 (0.63%) Clustering
7 1 (0.63%) Equities
7 1 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.63%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (32.50%) Analytics
2 40 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (23.13%) AI
4 36 (22.50%) Agile
5 31 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (14.38%) Data Modelling
7 23 (14.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 18 (11.25%) Data Engineering
10 17 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (10.00%) ETL
11 16 (10.00%) Risk Management
12 15 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
12 15 (9.38%) Project Management
13 14 (8.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 13 (8.13%) Machine Learning
15 12 (7.50%) Data Governance
15 12 (7.50%) Data Science
15 12 (7.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.50%) SQL
2 26 (16.25%) Python
3 9 (5.63%) Java
4 3 (1.88%) C#
4 3 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.88%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.63%) C++
6 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.50%) Degree
4 9 (5.63%) PMP
5 7 (4.38%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.25%) CISM
8 2 (1.25%) CISSP
9 1 (0.63%) ACCA
9 1 (0.63%) APMP
9 1 (0.63%) CIMA
9 1 (0.63%) CISA
9 1 (0.63%) CRISC
9 1 (0.63%) IIBA
9 1 (0.63%) ISEB
9 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.63%) MOS
9 1 (0.63%) PhD
9 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.63%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.88%) PMO
3 10 (6.25%) GDPR
4 9 (5.63%) QA
5 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.88%) NIST
7 2 (1.25%) GRC
7 2 (1.25%) NCSC
7 2 (1.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) GMP
8 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.25%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Ansible
2 1 (0.63%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 21 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.13%) Oracle
3 12 (7.50%) Databricks
4 9 (5.63%) Workday
5 8 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.13%) Google
6 5 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.50%) Planview
8 2 (1.25%) Informatica
8 2 (1.25%) SAP
9 1 (0.63%) Adobe
9 1 (0.63%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco
9 1 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.63%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.63%) Splunk
9 1 (0.63%) Virgin Media