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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 55 76
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 +34
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 98 87 77
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.93% 3.62% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.37% 3.95% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 54 44
10th Percentile £313 £328 £366
25th Percentile £406 £458 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £544 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -4.61% +6.29%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £701
90th Percentile £762 £738 £776
London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £41.75 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £31.49 £40.00 £43.08
% change year-on-year -21.28% -7.15% -21.67%

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 1,825 2,205 2,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.80% 91.65% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 1,386 1,770
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £778 £825
London median daily rate £526 £550 £567
% change year-on-year -4.45% -3.04% -3.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 £48.13 £51.31
90th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £29.75 £37.25 £36.28
% change year-on-year -20.13% +2.67% -7.57%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 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 +10 89 £492 -10.55% 53
City of Westminster 0 2 £736 +57.99%
West End of London +6 1 £773 +44.93% 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 9 (9.18%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.12%) Confluence
3 5 (5.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.04%) Apache
5 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.02%) Appian
5 1 (1.02%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (15.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.10%) MS Visio
4 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.02%) SPSS
5 1 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.02%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 17 (17.35%) Azure
3 15 (15.31%) AWS
4 10 (10.20%) GCP
5 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.06%) dbt
7 3 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.06%) GitHub
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.04%) Asana
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.04%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.04%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.04%) Serverless
8 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.04%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) Softphone
1 2 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.39%) Power BI
2 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.06%) Big Data
3 3 (3.06%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.06%) Metadata
3 3 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.06%) Tableau
4 2 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.04%) MySQL
4 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.04%) Power Query
4 2 (2.04%) Spatial Data
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.02%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) JIRA
2 6 (6.12%) Git
3 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.02%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.02%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) MLflow
4 1 (1.02%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.02%) Selenium
4 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (40.82%) Finance
2 37 (37.76%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (35.71%) Social Skills
4 16 (16.33%) Banking
5 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.12%) Legal
7 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.08%) Front Office
9 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.06%) Local Government
9 3 (3.06%) Marketing
9 3 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.06%) Retail
9 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.04%) Back Office
10 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.04%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (27.55%) Analyst
2 12 (12.24%) Business Analyst
3 11 (11.22%) Data Analyst
3 11 (11.22%) Lead
3 11 (11.22%) Senior
4 9 (9.18%) Developer
5 8 (8.16%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.10%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Consultant
7 4 (4.08%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.06%) Architect
8 3 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (3.06%) IT Manager
8 3 (3.06%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (3.06%) Senior Manager
9 2 (2.04%) Business Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.04%) Programme Manager
9 2 (2.04%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.06%) LangChain
2 3 (3.06%) TensorFlow
2 3 (3.06%) XML
3 2 (2.04%) Dask
3 2 (2.04%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.04%) Google JAX
3 2 (2.04%) HTML
3 2 (2.04%) JAX
3 2 (2.04%) JSON
3 2 (2.04%) LightGBM
3 2 (2.04%) NumPy
3 2 (2.04%) Pandas
3 2 (2.04%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.04%) SciPy
3 2 (2.04%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (2.04%) XGBoost
4 1 (1.02%) LESS
4 1 (1.02%) PySpark
4 1 (1.02%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.08%) Derivative
5 4 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.06%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.06%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.04%) AS400
7 2 (2.04%) Equities
7 2 (2.04%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.04%) iPad
7 2 (2.04%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.04%) Reinsurance
7 2 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Windows
2 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.67%) Agile
2 26 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (25.51%) Analytics
4 22 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (21.43%) Data Modelling
6 20 (20.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (19.39%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (16.33%) Data Analysis
9 15 (15.31%) Actionable Insight
10 14 (14.29%) AI
11 13 (13.27%) Project Management
11 13 (13.27%) Visualisation
12 12 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 11 (11.22%) Machine Learning
14 10 (10.20%) Data Governance
14 10 (10.20%) Migration
15 9 (9.18%) Project Delivery
16 8 (8.16%) Change Management
16 8 (8.16%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) Python
2 21 (21.43%) SQL
3 7 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.08%) C++
5 3 (3.06%) Korn
6 2 (2.04%) C#
6 2 (2.04%) Java
6 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.04%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.04%) R
6 2 (2.04%) RPG
7 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.02%) Scala
7 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Degree
1 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) PMP
4 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.10%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.06%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.04%) CISA
6 2 (2.04%) CISM
6 2 (2.04%) CISSP
6 2 (2.04%) PhD
7 1 (1.02%) ACCA
7 1 (1.02%) CBAP
7 1 (1.02%) CEH
7 1 (1.02%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.02%) MBA
7 1 (1.02%) MCP
7 1 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (1.02%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.12%) PMO
3 4 (4.08%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) NIST
5 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.02%) GRC
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.02%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.02%) SLA
5 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Ansible
2 1 (1.02%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.18%) Oracle
3 8 (8.16%) Databricks
4 5 (5.10%) SAP
5 4 (4.08%) Google
6 3 (3.06%) Workday
7 2 (2.04%) Dataiku
7 2 (2.04%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.04%) Planview
7 2 (2.04%) Polycom
7 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.02%) Adobe
8 1 (1.02%) Ariba
8 1 (1.02%) AVEVA
8 1 (1.02%) Cisco
8 1 (1.02%) Foundry
8 1 (1.02%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.02%) Progress
8 1 (1.02%) Veracode