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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 56 55
Rank change year-on-year +20 -1 +42
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 109 77 93
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.42% 3.62% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.07% 3.92% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 41 48
10th Percentile £332 £306 £328
25th Percentile £424 £455 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -2.35% +1.43%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £691
90th Percentile £759 £675 £761
London median daily rate £545 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £27.81
75th Percentile £41.75 - £46.41
90th Percentile - - £65.00
London median hourly rate £31.49 £38.75 £35.32
% change year-on-year -18.74% +9.73% -28.56%

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 1,797 1,964 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.36% 92.34% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 1,227 1,666
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £433 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -1.51%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £755 £787 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 21
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.41 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.85 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £38.63 £38.94 £38.00
90th Percentile £42.65 £105.18 £65.00
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £31.13
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.45% -14.98%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +15 101 £525 - 147
City of Westminster +1 2 £736 +57.99% 5
West End of London +3 1 £773 +46.72% 7
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 8 (7.34%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.42%) Confluence
3 6 (5.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.92%) Appian
5 1 (0.92%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (12.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (5.50%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.92%) SPSS
5 1 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.10%) Azure
2 19 (17.43%) Power Platform
3 18 (16.51%) AWS
4 12 (11.01%) GCP
5 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.75%) dbt
6 3 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.75%) GitHub
6 3 (2.75%) Serverless
7 2 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.83%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.83%) OCI
7 2 (1.83%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.83%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.83%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) Softphone
1 2 (1.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.60%) Power BI
2 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.67%) Big Data
3 4 (3.67%) Metadata
3 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.75%) MySQL
4 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.75%) Tableau
5 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.83%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.92%) Power Query
6 1 (0.92%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (7.34%) JIRA
2 7 (6.42%) Git
3 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.92%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.92%) ERwin
4 1 (0.92%) GitLab
4 1 (0.92%) MLflow
4 1 (0.92%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.92%) Selenium
4 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (37.61%) Finance
2 36 (33.03%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (26.61%) Social Skills
4 15 (13.76%) Banking
5 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.50%) Front Office
7 5 (4.59%) Legal
7 5 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.67%) Retail
9 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.83%) Back Office
10 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.83%) Marketing
11 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.92%) Military
11 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (22.02%) Analyst
2 18 (16.51%) Senior
3 14 (12.84%) Lead
4 11 (10.09%) Consultant
5 10 (9.17%) Data Analyst
5 10 (9.17%) Project Manager
6 9 (8.26%) Business Analyst
6 9 (8.26%) Cloud Consultant
7 8 (7.34%) Developer
8 7 (6.42%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (6.42%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 7 (6.42%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (6.42%) Senior Oracle Consultant
8 7 (6.42%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
8 7 (6.42%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 7 (6.42%) Technical Consultant
9 5 (4.59%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.67%) Architect
10 4 (3.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (6.42%) LangChain
3 5 (4.59%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.67%) LangGraph
4 4 (3.67%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.75%) Dask
5 3 (2.75%) Google JAX
5 3 (2.75%) JAX
5 3 (2.75%) LightGBM
5 3 (2.75%) NumPy
5 3 (2.75%) Pandas
5 3 (2.75%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.75%) SciPy
5 3 (2.75%) XGBoost
5 3 (2.75%) XML
6 2 (1.83%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.83%) JSON
6 2 (1.83%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.92%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.50%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (5.50%) Derivative
3 6 (5.50%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.67%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.75%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.75%) Equities
6 3 (2.75%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.83%) AS400
7 2 (1.83%) iPad
7 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.52%) Analytics
2 28 (25.69%) Agile
3 25 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (19.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (18.35%) Data Modelling
7 19 (17.43%) AI
8 17 (15.60%) Actionable Insight
8 17 (15.60%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (11.93%) Project Management
9 13 (11.93%) Roadmaps
10 12 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (10.09%) Data Analysis
11 11 (10.09%) Data Governance
11 11 (10.09%) Data Science
11 11 (10.09%) Machine Learning
11 11 (10.09%) Migration
12 10 (9.17%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 9 (8.26%) CI/CD
13 9 (8.26%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.18%) Python
2 19 (17.43%) SQL
3 5 (4.59%) C++
4 4 (3.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.75%) C#
5 3 (2.75%) Korn
6 2 (1.83%) Java
6 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.83%) R
6 2 (1.83%) RPG
7 1 (0.92%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.76%) Degree
3 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.50%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.59%) PMP
6 3 (2.75%) PhD
6 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.92%) ACCA
7 1 (0.92%) APMG
7 1 (0.92%) APMP
7 1 (0.92%) CBAP
7 1 (0.92%) CISSP
7 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.92%) IIBA
7 1 (0.92%) ISEB
7 1 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.92%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.92%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.59%) PMO
3 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.75%) GDPR
4 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.83%) NCSC
5 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.92%) GRC
5 1 (0.92%) NIST
5 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.92%) QA
5 1 (0.92%) SLA
5 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.42%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.92%) Ansible
2 1 (0.92%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.60%) Oracle
3 8 (7.34%) Databricks
4 6 (5.50%) Google
5 3 (2.75%) SAP
5 3 (2.75%) Workday
6 2 (1.83%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.83%) Planview
6 2 (1.83%) Polycom
6 2 (1.83%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.92%) Adobe
7 1 (0.92%) Ariba
7 1 (0.92%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.92%) Cisco
7 1 (0.92%) eFront
7 1 (0.92%) Foundry
7 1 (0.92%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.92%) Progress