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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 31 63
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 +40
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 182 122 79
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.91% 5.90% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.95% 6.30% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 81 47
10th Percentile £337 £363 £390
25th Percentile £475 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -4.98%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £669
90th Percentile £869 £725 £738
London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
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 £34.87 £32.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year +8.95% -2.29% -25.33%

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 2,288 1,936 2,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.86% 93.62% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,551 1,262 1,513
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £453 £432 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £796
London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 32 25
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -24.72% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.00 £50.75 £41.84
90th Percentile £64.13 £63.75 £71.75
London median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
% change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%

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 July 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 13 July 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 +16 168 £625 +13.64% 177
West End of London -2 3 - - 110
City of Westminster -8 3 £725 +77.26% 42
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £450 -
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 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.10%) Confluence
3 2 (1.10%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.10%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.55%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 10 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.75%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.55%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.55%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.58%) Azure
2 27 (14.84%) Power Platform
3 15 (8.24%) AWS
4 13 (7.14%) GCP
5 11 (6.04%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (2.75%) Dagster
6 5 (2.75%) dbt
6 5 (2.75%) Prefect
7 3 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.10%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.10%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.10%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.10%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) Network Security
2 2 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.64%) Power BI
2 15 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.95%) Tableau
4 8 (4.40%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.30%) Looker
7 5 (2.75%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.20%) Data Mart
8 4 (2.20%) Metadata
8 4 (2.20%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.20%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.65%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.10%) OLAP
10 2 (1.10%) Power Query
10 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (6.04%) JIRA
2 3 (1.65%) Git
2 3 (1.65%) JUnit
3 2 (1.10%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.55%) ERwin
4 1 (0.55%) Gatling
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) Mockito
General
1 84 (46.15%) Finance
2 56 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 35 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.84%) Banking
5 17 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.04%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.49%) Retail
8 9 (4.95%) Legal
9 8 (4.40%) Marketing
10 6 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.30%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.75%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.20%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.20%) Military
13 3 (1.65%) Electronics
13 3 (1.65%) Police
14 2 (1.10%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.10%) Local Government
14 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (16.48%) Analyst
2 27 (14.84%) Lead
3 26 (14.29%) Senior
4 20 (10.99%) Architect
4 20 (10.99%) Project Manager
5 17 (9.34%) Data Engineer
6 16 (8.79%) Business Analyst
7 9 (4.95%) Product Manager
8 8 (4.40%) Consultant
8 8 (4.40%) Data Analyst
8 8 (4.40%) Senior Manager
9 7 (3.85%) Developer
9 7 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
10 6 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.75%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (2.75%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.30%) React
1 6 (3.30%) REST
2 4 (2.20%) AngularJS
2 4 (2.20%) Kafka
2 4 (2.20%) scikit-learn
3 3 (1.65%) Middleware
3 3 (1.65%) Pandas
3 3 (1.65%) RESTful
3 3 (1.65%) Spring
3 3 (1.65%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.10%) gRPC
4 2 (1.10%) J2EE
4 2 (1.10%) NumPy
4 2 (1.10%) Playwright
4 2 (1.10%) PySpark
4 2 (1.10%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.10%) Spring Batch
4 2 (1.10%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.55%) AssertJ
5 1 (0.55%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.24%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.75%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.65%) CMDB
5 3 (1.65%) FMCG
5 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.65%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.10%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.10%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (32.97%) Analytics
2 51 (28.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (23.08%) Agile
4 39 (21.43%) AI
5 33 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (15.93%) Data Modelling
7 28 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 25 (13.74%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (12.09%) Data Engineering
9 22 (12.09%) Roadmaps
10 19 (10.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 19 (10.44%) ETL
10 19 (10.44%) Machine Learning
11 17 (9.34%) CI/CD
12 16 (8.79%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (8.79%) Risk Management
13 15 (8.24%) Data Governance
13 15 (8.24%) Migration
13 15 (8.24%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.23%) SQL
2 30 (16.48%) Python
3 10 (5.49%) Java
4 4 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.65%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.10%) C#
7 1 (0.55%) COBOL
7 1 (0.55%) Cypher
7 1 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.55%) Gremlin
7 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.55%) R
7 1 (0.55%) RPG
7 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (9.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.14%) Degree
4 12 (6.59%) PMI Certification
4 12 (6.59%) PMP
5 5 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) CISM
7 2 (1.10%) CISSP
7 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) CBAP
8 1 (0.55%) CRISC
8 1 (0.55%) IIBA
8 1 (0.55%) ISEB
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.44%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.24%) GDPR
3 13 (7.14%) PMO
4 11 (6.04%) QA
5 6 (3.30%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.65%) NIST
7 2 (1.10%) GRC
7 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.55%) GMP
8 1 (0.55%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.55%) SLA
8 1 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.55%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.10%) Terraform
2 1 (0.55%) Ansible
2 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.55%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.69%) Databricks
3 8 (4.40%) Workday
4 6 (3.30%) Oracle
4 6 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.20%) Google
5 4 (2.20%) Planview
6 2 (1.10%) Informatica
6 2 (1.10%) SAP
7 1 (0.55%) Adobe
7 1 (0.55%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.55%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco
7 1 (0.55%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.55%) IBM
7 1 (0.55%) Lotus
7 1 (0.55%) Splunk
7 1 (0.55%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.55%) Zscaler