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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 38 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 +35
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 211 107 87
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 8.51% 5.54% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.50% 5.91% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 73 56
10th Percentile £410 £363 £425
25th Percentile £506 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.15% -2.03%
75th Percentile £738 £669 £675
90th Percentile £863 £725 £738
London median daily rate £563 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +5.14% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £51.98 £18.68 -
25th Percentile £52.69 £21.95 -
Median hourly rate £55.25 £28.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.27% - -
75th Percentile £57.69 £64.46 -
90th Percentile £58.33 £85.78 -
London median hourly rate £32.25 £34.23 £42.50
% change year-on-year -5.78% -19.46% +1.57%

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 2,220 1,811 2,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.55% 93.83% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,531 1,210 1,378
10th Percentile £358 £316 £375
25th Percentile £456 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £788
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 32 26
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.50 £22.28
Median hourly rate £25.57 £31.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% -10.71% +30.84%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £41.75
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £115.00
London median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +14 189 £625 +13.64% 327
West End of London - 8 £583 - 20
City of Westminster -5 4 £725 +77.26% 94
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £713 - 1
Southwark -2 1 £650 - 3
Camden - 1 £583 - 3
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 6 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.37%) Confluence
2 5 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) BambooHR
1 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.47%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.64%) Azure
2 24 (11.37%) Power Platform
3 20 (9.48%) AWS
4 15 (7.11%) Snowflake
5 10 (4.74%) dbt
6 8 (3.79%) GCP
7 7 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.90%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.90%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.42%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.95%) Alation
12 2 (0.95%) Collibra
12 2 (0.95%) Dagster
12 2 (0.95%) Harvey AI
12 2 (0.95%) Prefect
12 2 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) Network Security
2 3 (1.42%) Broadband
2 3 (1.42%) Firewall
3 2 (0.95%) LAN
3 2 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.95%) Power BI
2 16 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.79%) Metadata
4 6 (2.84%) Tableau
5 5 (2.37%) Looker
6 4 (1.90%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.90%) Data Mart
6 4 (1.90%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.90%) Power Query
7 3 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.42%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.42%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.95%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.95%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (3.32%) JIRA
2 3 (1.42%) Git
3 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.47%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.47%) Gatling
4 1 (0.47%) GitLab
4 1 (0.47%) JUnit
4 1 (0.47%) Mockito
General
1 86 (40.76%) Finance
2 72 (34.12%) Social Skills
3 43 (20.38%) Banking
4 36 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (13.27%) Public Sector
6 27 (12.80%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (6.16%) Retail
8 12 (5.69%) Marketing
9 9 (4.27%) Legal
10 7 (3.32%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.32%) Military
10 7 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.37%) Front Office
11 5 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.37%) Local Government
11 5 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.37%) Police
11 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.90%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.42%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (18.48%) Senior
2 37 (17.54%) Lead
3 36 (17.06%) Analyst
4 30 (14.22%) Architect
5 28 (13.27%) Project Manager
6 17 (8.06%) Business Analyst
7 12 (5.69%) Senior Manager
8 11 (5.21%) Consultant
9 10 (4.74%) Product Manager
10 9 (4.27%) Data Analyst
11 8 (3.79%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Senior Project Manager
12 7 (3.32%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.32%) Developer
12 7 (3.32%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (3.32%) Transformation Manager
12 7 (3.32%) Transformation Project Manager
13 6 (2.84%) Finance Project Manager
13 6 (2.84%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.84%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.84%) Terraform
2 4 (1.90%) Kafka
2 4 (1.90%) React
2 4 (1.90%) REST
3 3 (1.42%) ATL
3 3 (1.42%) PySpark
3 3 (1.42%) Spring
3 3 (1.42%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.95%) .NET
4 2 (0.95%) Middleware
4 2 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.95%) Playwright
4 2 (0.95%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.47%) ADO
5 1 (0.47%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.47%) Node.js
5 1 (0.47%) NumPy
5 1 (0.47%) Pandas
5 1 (0.47%) Swagger
5 1 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.85%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.53%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.84%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.84%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.42%) NHS
6 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.42%) Social Media
7 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.95%) CMDB
7 2 (0.95%) Cyberattack
7 2 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.95%) FMCG
7 2 (0.95%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.95%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.95%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (37.91%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (27.96%) AI
3 56 (26.54%) Analytics
4 52 (24.64%) Agile
5 44 (20.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 40 (18.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (18.48%) Roadmaps
8 33 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (13.27%) Data Modelling
10 26 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (11.85%) Project Management
12 24 (11.37%) Machine Learning
13 23 (10.90%) Project Delivery
14 22 (10.43%) Data Engineering
15 21 (9.95%) Data Governance
15 21 (9.95%) Migration
16 20 (9.48%) CI/CD
16 20 (9.48%) DevOps
17 19 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
18 18 (8.53%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (17.54%) SQL
2 27 (12.80%) Python
3 13 (6.16%) Java
4 6 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.90%) C#
6 3 (1.42%) Bicep
7 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.95%) LookML
7 2 (0.95%) Scala
7 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.47%) COBOL
8 1 (0.47%) Cypher
8 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.47%) R
8 1 (0.47%) RPG
8 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (11.37%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.06%) PMI Certification
2 17 (8.06%) PMP
3 16 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.74%) Degree
5 6 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.95%) CISM
7 2 (0.95%) CISSP
7 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CSPO
8 1 (0.47%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (0.47%) NVQ Level 4
8 1 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.47%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.85%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.58%) GDPR
3 12 (5.69%) QA
4 11 (5.21%) PMO
5 8 (3.79%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.42%) GRC
6 3 (1.42%) NIST
7 2 (0.95%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.95%) SLA
7 2 (0.95%) WCAG
8 1 (0.47%) Basel III
8 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.47%) IFRS
8 1 (0.47%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (1.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 28 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.90%) Databricks
3 7 (3.32%) Oracle
4 6 (2.84%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.84%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.37%) Workday
6 2 (0.95%) Foundry
6 2 (0.95%) Informatica
6 2 (0.95%) SAP
7 1 (0.47%) Adobe
7 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.47%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.47%) Google
7 1 (0.47%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.47%) IBM
7 1 (0.47%) Lotus
7 1 (0.47%) Splunk
7 1 (0.47%) Teradata
7 1 (0.47%) VocaLink