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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 32 69
Rank change year-on-year +9 +37 +35
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 170 116 75
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.49% 5.96% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 6.37% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 78 44
10th Percentile £326 £363 £385
25th Percentile £463 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £644
90th Percentile £800 £733 £738
London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
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 £30.50
% change year-on-year -7.79% +26.23% -29.77%

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 2,264 1,821 2,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.38% 93.53% 91.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,531 1,178 1,517
10th Percentile £359 £350 £356
25th Percentile £453 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 30 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.51 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.39 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.82% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.00 £50.25 £36.50
90th Percentile £64.13 £63.75 £48.57
London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -25.93%

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 29 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 29 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 +10 157 £600 +9.09% 77
West End of London -4 3 - - 6
City of Westminster -7 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 Office
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
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%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (2.94%) Dagster
5 5 (2.94%) dbt
5 5 (2.94%) Prefect
6 3 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.18%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.18%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.18%) OCI
7 2 (1.18%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.18%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.18%) SaaS
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 5 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.35%) Data Mart
7 4 (2.35%) Metadata
7 4 (2.35%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.35%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.76%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.18%) OLAP
9 2 (1.18%) Power Query
9 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.59%) GIS
10 1 (0.59%) Star Schema
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 80 (47.06%) Finance
2 51 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.88%) Banking
5 14 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.88%) Retail
7 9 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.71%) Legal
8 8 (4.71%) Marketing
9 7 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.53%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.94%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.35%) Military
13 3 (1.76%) Electronics
13 3 (1.76%) Police
14 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (17.65%) Senior
2 26 (15.29%) Lead
3 25 (14.71%) Analyst
4 22 (12.94%) Project Manager
5 17 (10.00%) Architect
5 17 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.65%) Business Analyst
7 10 (5.88%) Consultant
8 9 (5.29%) Product Manager
9 8 (4.71%) Senior Manager
10 7 (4.12%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) Senior Project Manager
11 6 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (3.53%) Senior Consultant
12 5 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Developer
12 5 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.53%) React
1 6 (3.53%) REST
2 4 (2.35%) AngularJS
2 4 (2.35%) Kafka
2 4 (2.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.76%) Middleware
3 3 (1.76%) RESTful
3 3 (1.76%) scikit-learn
3 3 (1.76%) Spring
3 3 (1.76%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.18%) gRPC
4 2 (1.18%) J2EE
4 2 (1.18%) LangChain
4 2 (1.18%) LangGraph
4 2 (1.18%) Pandas
4 2 (1.18%) PySpark
4 2 (1.18%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.18%) Spring Batch
4 2 (1.18%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.59%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 14 (8.24%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.94%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.35%) FMCG
6 3 (1.76%) AI Agents
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%) AS400
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%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.76%) Analytics
2 45 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (24.12%) Agile
4 38 (22.35%) AI
5 30 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (15.29%) Data Modelling
7 26 (15.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 22 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (12.35%) Data Engineering
10 18 (10.59%) ETL
10 18 (10.59%) Machine Learning
10 18 (10.59%) Roadmaps
11 16 (9.41%) CI/CD
11 16 (9.41%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 16 (9.41%) Project Management
12 15 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (8.82%) Risk Management
13 14 (8.24%) Migration
13 14 (8.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.41%) SQL
2 28 (16.47%) 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%) COBOL
7 1 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.59%) R
7 1 (0.59%) RPG
7 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.65%) Degree
3 12 (7.06%) PMP
3 12 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.47%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) CISM
7 2 (1.18%) CISSP
7 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.59%) ACCA
8 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.59%) CIMA
8 1 (0.59%) CISA
8 1 (0.59%) IIBA
8 1 (0.59%) ISEB
8 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.59%) MOS
8 1 (0.59%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.65%) PMO
3 12 (7.06%) GDPR
4 10 (5.88%) QA
5 5 (2.94%) 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%) SLA
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 25 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.82%) Databricks
3 10 (5.88%) Oracle
4 8 (4.71%) 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%) 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%) IBM
9 1 (0.59%) Splunk
9 1 (0.59%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.59%) Zscaler