Decision-Making Contracts in Central London

Decision-Making
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 57 94
Rank change year-on-year +20 +37 -2
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 107 86 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.36% 3.52% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 3.88% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 44 47
10th Percentile £306 £354 £268
25th Percentile £425 £410 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £638
90th Percentile £705 £796 £875
London median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% +3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £34.65 - -
25th Percentile £45.54 - -
Median hourly rate £64.08 £27.81 -
Median % change year-on-year +130.40% - -
75th Percentile £82.23 - -
90th Percentile £92.89 £65.00 -
London median hourly rate £49.50 £30.50 £43.86
% change year-on-year +62.30% -30.46% +30.63%

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 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Central London

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Central London

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Central London

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Central London

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in Central London

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 May 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 +23 90 £550 +10.00% 73
City of Westminster +7 7 £409 - 4
Southwark - 3 £375 -
West End of London - 3 £520 - 12
Decision-Making
London

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.54%) Confluence
2 5 (4.67%) CMS
2 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.74%) Headless CMS
4 3 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.74%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.87%) Actimize
3 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.63%) Azure
1 21 (19.63%) Power Platform
2 14 (13.08%) AWS
3 5 (4.67%) GCP
3 5 (4.67%) Snowflake
3 5 (4.67%) SuccessFactors
4 4 (3.74%) SaaS
5 3 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.80%) dbt
5 3 (2.80%) GitHub
5 3 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.80%) OCI
6 2 (1.87%) Slack
6 2 (1.87%) Social Studio
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Intranet
1 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.89%) Power BI
2 11 (10.28%) Tableau
3 6 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.74%) Metadata
5 3 (2.80%) Big Data
5 3 (2.80%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.80%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.80%) Looker
5 3 (2.80%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.93%) MS Access
7 1 (0.93%) MySQL
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.93%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.93%) JUnit
3 1 (0.93%) Serena SBM
3 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.93%) Subversion
3 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.93%) Terragrunt
General
1 48 (44.86%) Finance
2 42 (39.25%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (39.25%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.89%) Banking
4 11 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.54%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.54%) Marketing
5 7 (6.54%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.61%) Police
6 6 (5.61%) Retail
7 4 (3.74%) Local Government
7 4 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.80%) Back Office
8 3 (2.80%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.87%) Advertising
9 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Law
9 2 (1.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Analyst
2 17 (15.89%) Business Analyst
3 11 (10.28%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Project Manager
5 8 (7.48%) Data Analyst
6 7 (6.54%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (6.54%) Lead
7 6 (5.61%) Business Manager
7 6 (5.61%) Data Business Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Developer
8 5 (4.67%) Architect
9 4 (3.74%) ERP Manager
9 4 (3.74%) HR Manager
9 4 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) Business Operations Manager
10 3 (2.80%) Data Scientist
10 3 (2.80%) Insurance Business Analyst
10 3 (2.80%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) SAP Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.74%) Next.js
1 4 (3.74%) PySpark
1 4 (3.74%) React
1 4 (3.74%) Vue
2 3 (2.80%) CSS
2 3 (2.80%) HTML
2 3 (2.80%) Pandas
2 3 (2.80%) scikit-learn
2 3 (2.80%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.87%) Kafka
3 2 (1.87%) Swagger
4 1 (0.93%) NumPy
4 1 (0.93%) OpenCV
4 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.93%) REST
4 1 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.93%) SciPy
4 1 (0.93%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.80%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.87%) Derivative
5 2 (1.87%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.87%) Equities
5 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.87%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.80%) Linux
1 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (2.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) Solaris
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (34.58%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (29.91%) Analytics
3 29 (27.10%) Agile
4 21 (19.63%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 21 (19.63%) Project Management
5 20 (18.69%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (16.82%) Risk Management
8 16 (14.95%) Visualisation
9 15 (14.02%) Data Analysis
10 14 (13.08%) Data Engineering
10 14 (13.08%) Data Management
11 13 (12.15%) Data Modelling
11 13 (12.15%) Data Science
11 13 (12.15%) Data Visualisation
12 12 (11.21%) Actionable Insight
13 11 (10.28%) Data Analytics
13 11 (10.28%) Data Governance
13 11 (10.28%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.10%) SQL
2 19 (17.76%) Python
3 5 (4.67%) Java
4 3 (2.80%) R
5 2 (1.87%) Bash
5 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.93%) Ada
6 1 (0.93%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) C++
6 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) Perl
6 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (14.95%) Degree
2 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.87%) CISM
4 2 (1.87%) CISSP
4 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.87%) CRISC
4 2 (1.87%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.87%) PMP
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) CBAP
5 1 (0.93%) CCAB
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.67%) GDPR
2 5 (4.67%) PMO
3 2 (1.87%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (1.87%) EMIR
3 2 (1.87%) MiFID
3 2 (1.87%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.93%) COBIT
4 1 (0.93%) GRC
4 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) ITGC
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (2.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Terraform
2 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
3 1 (0.93%) Control-M
3 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (0.93%) Istio
3 1 (0.93%) Podman
3 1 (0.93%) QRadar
3 1 (0.93%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.93%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) Microsoft
1 9 (8.41%) Oracle
2 8 (7.48%) SAP
3 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.80%) Databricks
5 3 (2.80%) Google
6 2 (1.87%) Planview
6 2 (1.87%) Qualys
6 2 (1.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Workday
7 1 (0.93%) Ariba
7 1 (0.93%) BMC
7 1 (0.93%) EMC
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.93%) Pega
7 1 (0.93%) Progress
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.93%) Sybase