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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 28 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 +35 +37
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 170 118 79
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.52% 6.15% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.54% 6.58% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 80 45
10th Percentile £327 £363 £372
25th Percentile £463 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £625
90th Percentile £800 £728 £738
London median daily rate £550 £535 £520
% change year-on-year +2.80% +2.88% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £51.98 £18.68 -
25th Percentile £52.69 £21.95 -
Median hourly rate £55.25 £28.15 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +96.27% +1.22% -30.18%
75th Percentile £57.69 £64.46 -
90th Percentile £58.33 £85.78 -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £38.50 £29.16
% change year-on-year -7.79% +32.05% -32.87%

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 2,255 1,793 2,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.43% 93.48% 90.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,522 1,159 1,535
10th Percentile £356 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £683
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 28 24
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.78 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £22.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.04 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% +8.00% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.50 £49.25 £30.28
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £41.29
London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year +10.29% +16.24% -26.88%

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 22 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 22 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 +8 157 £593 +6.53% 123
West End of London -3 3 - - 7
City of Westminster -8 3 £725 +77.26% 10
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £375 -
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 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.18%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.18%) Hyperledger
2 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.94%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.59%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.59%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.41%) Azure
2 25 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 14 (8.24%) AWS
3 14 (8.24%) GCP
4 8 (4.71%) Snowflake
5 5 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (2.94%) Dagster
5 5 (2.94%) dbt
5 5 (2.94%) Prefect
6 4 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.76%) SaaS
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.18%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.18%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.18%) OCI
8 2 (1.18%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.76%) Network Security
2 2 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.94%) Power BI
2 14 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.71%) BigQuery
3 8 (4.71%) Tableau
4 7 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.53%) Looker
6 4 (2.35%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.76%) Data Mart
7 3 (1.76%) Metadata
7 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.18%) OLAP
8 2 (1.18%) Power Query
8 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.59%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.59%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 11 (6.47%) JIRA
2 3 (1.76%) JUnit
3 2 (1.18%) Git
4 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.59%) ERwin
4 1 (0.59%) Gatling
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Mockito
General
1 76 (44.71%) Finance
2 50 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.12%) Banking
5 14 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.29%) Retail
7 8 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.71%) Legal
7 8 (4.71%) Marketing
8 7 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.53%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.94%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.35%) Military
12 3 (1.76%) Electronics
12 3 (1.76%) Police
13 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (18.82%) Senior
2 27 (15.88%) Lead
3 23 (13.53%) Analyst
3 23 (13.53%) Project Manager
4 16 (9.41%) Architect
4 16 (9.41%) Data Engineer
5 11 (6.47%) Business Analyst
5 11 (6.47%) Consultant
6 9 (5.29%) Product Manager
7 8 (4.71%) Senior Manager
8 7 (4.12%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.12%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (4.12%) Senior Project Manager
8 7 (4.12%) Technical Leader
9 6 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (2.94%) Cloud Consultant
10 5 (2.94%) Developer
10 5 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.53%) React
1 6 (3.53%) REST
2 5 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.35%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.35%) Kafka
3 4 (2.35%) LangChain
3 4 (2.35%) LangGraph
4 3 (1.76%) Middleware
4 3 (1.76%) RESTful
4 3 (1.76%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.76%) Spring
4 3 (1.76%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.18%) gRPC
5 2 (1.18%) J2EE
5 2 (1.18%) Pandas
5 2 (1.18%) PySpark
5 2 (1.18%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.18%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.18%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.59%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.59%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.65%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.94%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.35%) FMCG
6 3 (1.76%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.18%) CMDB
7 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.18%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.59%) Clustering
8 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.59%) IoT
8 1 (0.59%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.18%) Analytics
2 45 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (22.94%) Agile
4 38 (22.35%) AI
5 31 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (15.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (14.12%) Data Modelling
9 22 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (11.76%) Data Engineering
11 17 (10.00%) ETL
11 17 (10.00%) Project Management
11 17 (10.00%) Roadmaps
12 16 (9.41%) Machine Learning
13 15 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
13 15 (8.82%) CI/CD
13 15 (8.82%) Data Science
13 15 (8.82%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 15 (8.82%) Risk Management
14 14 (8.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.24%) SQL
2 27 (15.88%) Python
3 10 (5.88%) Java
4 4 (2.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.76%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.18%) C#
6 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.59%) R
7 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.65%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.06%) Degree
4 11 (6.47%) PMP
5 10 (5.88%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.18%) CISM
8 2 (1.18%) CISSP
8 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.59%) CBAP
9 1 (0.59%) CIMA
9 1 (0.59%) CRISC
9 1 (0.59%) IIBA
9 1 (0.59%) ISEB
9 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.59%) MOS
9 1 (0.59%) RIBA
9 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.65%) PMO
3 11 (6.47%) GDPR
4 9 (5.29%) QA
5 6 (3.53%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.76%) NIST
7 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.18%) GRC
7 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.59%) GMP
8 1 (0.59%) NCSC
8 1 (0.59%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.18%) Terraform
2 1 (0.59%) Ansible
2 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.59%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 24 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.65%) Databricks
3 11 (6.47%) Oracle
4 9 (5.29%) Workday
5 7 (4.12%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.94%) Google
6 5 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.35%) Planview
8 2 (1.18%) Informatica
8 2 (1.18%) SAP
9 1 (0.59%) Adobe
9 1 (0.59%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.59%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.59%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.59%) Cisco
9 1 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.59%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.59%) Splunk
9 1 (0.59%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.59%) Zscaler