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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 39 55
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 +26
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 215 98 90
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.00% 5.19% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.87% 5.52% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 65 56
10th Percentile £402 £334 £438
25th Percentile £511 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -
75th Percentile £763 £700 £675
90th Percentile £898 £786 £738
London median daily rate £572 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.98% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.90 £17.59 -
25th Percentile £44.75 £19.22 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £22.58 -
Median % change year-on-year +141.42% - -
75th Percentile £64.25 £26.06 -
90th Percentile - £27.77 -
London median hourly rate £53.75 £31.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.29% -15.33% -5.85%

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 2,179 1,774 2,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.25% 93.96% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,515 1,208 1,376
10th Percentile £360 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £685
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 24 27
10th Percentile £15.92 £17.61 £19.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.04 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -22.76% +27.27%
75th Percentile £43.00 £35.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.15 £61.65 £122.20
London median hourly rate £33.30 £30.25 £36.65
% change year-on-year +10.08% -17.46% -8.38%

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 13 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in Central London over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

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 13 October 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 +13 190 £625 +13.64% 204
City of Westminster -2 8 £825 +6.80% 43
West End of London -3 7 £583 -24.60% 11
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £713 - 1
Camden - 1 £583 -
Southwark - 1 £650 - 1
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 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.33%) Confluence
3 4 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) Apache
5 1 (0.47%) Appian
5 1 (0.47%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.47%) Mendix
Applications
1 15 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.35%) Azure
2 22 (10.23%) Power Platform
3 18 (8.37%) AWS
4 15 (6.98%) Snowflake
5 8 (3.72%) dbt
5 8 (3.72%) GCP
6 7 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.86%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.40%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.40%) GitHub
9 3 (1.40%) Harvey AI
9 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.40%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.93%) Collibra
10 2 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.93%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.33%) Network Security
2 3 (1.40%) Broadband
2 3 (1.40%) Firewall
3 2 (0.93%) LAN
3 2 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.84%) Power BI
2 14 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.72%) Metadata
4 7 (3.26%) Tableau
5 4 (1.86%) Data Mart
5 4 (1.86%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.86%) Power Query
5 4 (1.86%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.40%) Looker
6 3 (1.40%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.40%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.93%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.47%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 7 (3.26%) JIRA
2 3 (1.40%) Git
3 2 (0.93%) 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 85 (39.53%) Finance
2 81 (37.67%) Social Skills
3 43 (20.00%) Banking
4 35 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (13.02%) Influencing Skills
5 28 (13.02%) Public Sector
6 18 (8.37%) Retail
7 14 (6.51%) Marketing
8 7 (3.26%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.26%) Legal
9 6 (2.79%) Military
9 6 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.33%) Front Office
10 5 (2.33%) Local Government
10 5 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.33%) Police
11 4 (1.86%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.40%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.40%) Electronics
12 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (16.74%) Lead
1 36 (16.74%) Senior
2 35 (16.28%) Analyst
3 30 (13.95%) Project Manager
4 29 (13.49%) Architect
5 16 (7.44%) Business Analyst
6 13 (6.05%) Senior Manager
7 12 (5.58%) Consultant
7 12 (5.58%) Product Manager
8 10 (4.65%) Senior Project Manager
9 8 (3.72%) Data Analyst
9 8 (3.72%) Data Architect
9 8 (3.72%) Developer
10 7 (3.26%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.79%) Programme Manager
11 6 (2.79%) Security Architect
11 6 (2.79%) Technical Leader
11 6 (2.79%) Technical Manager
11 6 (2.79%) Transformation Manager
11 6 (2.79%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.33%) REST
1 5 (2.33%) Terraform
2 4 (1.86%) Kafka
3 3 (1.40%) .NET
3 3 (1.40%) ATL
3 3 (1.40%) PySpark
3 3 (1.40%) React
4 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.93%) Middleware
4 2 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.93%) Playwright
4 2 (0.93%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.93%) Spring
4 2 (0.93%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.47%) ADO
5 1 (0.47%) AssertJ
5 1 (0.47%) NumPy
5 1 (0.47%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.47%) Pandas
5 1 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.56%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.72%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.72%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.86%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.40%) AI Agents
5 3 (1.40%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.40%) Life Science
5 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.40%) Social Media
5 3 (1.40%) Taxonomies
6 2 (0.93%) Cyberattack
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.93%) FMCG
6 2 (0.93%) NHS
6 2 (0.93%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (38.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (27.44%) AI
3 58 (26.98%) Analytics
4 52 (24.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 51 (23.72%) Agile
6 44 (20.47%) Roadmaps
7 40 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (12.56%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (12.09%) Data Modelling
10 26 (12.09%) Project Management
11 25 (11.63%) Project Delivery
12 24 (11.16%) Migration
13 22 (10.23%) CI/CD
13 22 (10.23%) Data Governance
13 22 (10.23%) DevOps
14 21 (9.77%) Machine Learning
15 19 (8.84%) Data Engineering
16 18 (8.37%) Requirements Gathering
16 18 (8.37%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (17.21%) SQL
2 26 (12.09%) Python
3 11 (5.12%) Java
4 7 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.86%) C#
6 3 (1.40%) Bicep
6 3 (1.40%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.93%) LookML
7 2 (0.93%) Scala
8 1 (0.47%) COBOL
8 1 (0.47%) Cypher
8 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.47%) Korn
8 1 (0.47%) RPG
8 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (11.16%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.44%) PMI Certification
2 16 (7.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.98%) PMP
4 11 (5.12%) Degree
5 6 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.86%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.93%) CISM
8 2 (0.93%) CISSP
8 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.47%) ACCA
9 1 (0.47%) CIMA
9 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) CSPO
9 1 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.47%) RIBA
9 1 (0.47%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.70%) Data Quality
2 21 (9.77%) GDPR
3 12 (5.58%) QA
4 8 (3.72%) Accessibility
5 7 (3.26%) PMO
6 3 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.40%) GRC
6 3 (1.40%) NIST
6 3 (1.40%) SLA
7 2 (0.93%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.93%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.93%) 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 (1.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.70%) Databricks
3 11 (5.12%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.26%) Oracle
5 4 (1.86%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.40%) Workday
7 2 (0.93%) Foundry
7 2 (0.93%) Google
7 2 (0.93%) SAP
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe
8 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.47%) IBM
8 1 (0.47%) Informatica
8 1 (0.47%) JDA
8 1 (0.47%) Lotus
8 1 (0.47%) Pega
8 1 (0.47%) Planview
8 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.47%) Teradata
8 1 (0.47%) VMware