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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 35 55
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +50
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 163 107 83
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.67% 5.41% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.80% 5.82% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 71 45
10th Percentile £328 £306 £355
25th Percentile £463 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +13.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £625
90th Percentile £788 £700 £795
London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £34.65 -
25th Percentile £39.25 £45.54 -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £64.08 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -36.79% +130.40% -
75th Percentile £41.75 £82.23 -
90th Percentile - £92.89 £38.97
London median hourly rate £35.50 £49.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -28.28% +62.30% -30.46%

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 2,091 1,838 2,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.56% 92.97% 90.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,185 1,560
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £801
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 23
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £19.13 £22.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £45.03 £43.97 £30.41
90th Percentile £59.64 £50.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +4.26% +20.18% -26.92%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +16 151 £575 +4.55% 251
West End of London +1 1 - - 8
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 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.45%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.45%) Confluence
3 2 (1.23%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.23%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.07%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.07%) BambooHR
2 3 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.61%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.61%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.47%) Azure
2 25 (15.34%) Power Platform
3 22 (13.50%) AWS
4 17 (10.43%) GCP
5 8 (4.91%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.07%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.07%) Dagster
6 5 (3.07%) dbt
6 5 (3.07%) Prefect
7 4 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.45%) Serverless
8 3 (1.84%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.84%) OCI
8 3 (1.84%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.88%) Power BI
2 12 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (4.29%) Tableau
4 6 (3.68%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.68%) Looker
5 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.84%) Big Data
6 3 (1.84%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.84%) Metadata
6 3 (1.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.23%) MySQL
7 2 (1.23%) OLAP
7 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (7.98%) JIRA
2 7 (4.29%) Git
3 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.23%) JUnit
5 1 (0.61%) ERwin
5 1 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 78 (47.85%) Finance
2 44 (26.99%) Social Skills
3 38 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (14.72%) Banking
5 14 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.13%) Legal
7 8 (4.91%) Marketing
8 7 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.68%) Retail
10 5 (3.07%) Front Office
10 5 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.07%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.45%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.84%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.23%) Military
14 1 (0.61%) Electronics
14 1 (0.61%) Law
14 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (22.09%) Senior
2 24 (14.72%) Analyst
3 18 (11.04%) Project Manager
4 17 (10.43%) Lead
5 16 (9.82%) Architect
6 13 (7.98%) Consultant
6 13 (7.98%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Business Analyst
7 11 (6.75%) Developer
8 10 (6.13%) Senior Consultant
9 9 (5.52%) Cloud Consultant
10 8 (4.91%) Senior Manager
11 7 (4.29%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.29%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (4.29%) Product Manager
11 7 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (4.29%) Senior Oracle Consultant
11 7 (4.29%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
11 7 (4.29%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 7 (4.29%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (4.29%) LangChain
3 5 (3.07%) Pandas
3 5 (3.07%) PyTorch
3 5 (3.07%) React
4 4 (2.45%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.45%) LangGraph
4 4 (2.45%) NumPy
4 4 (2.45%) REST
4 4 (2.45%) scikit-learn
4 4 (2.45%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.84%) Kafka
5 3 (1.84%) Middleware
5 3 (1.84%) RESTful
5 3 (1.84%) SciPy
5 3 (1.84%) Spring
5 3 (1.84%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.23%) J2EE
6 2 (1.23%) JSON
6 2 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.59%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.29%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.07%) Derivative
4 5 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.84%) Equities
6 3 (1.84%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.84%) FMCG
7 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.23%) CMDB
7 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (32.52%) Analytics
2 38 (23.31%) Agile
3 37 (22.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 36 (22.09%) AI
5 31 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (15.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (13.50%) Data Modelling
8 21 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (11.66%) Roadmaps
10 18 (11.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (11.04%) Data Engineering
11 16 (9.82%) Machine Learning
12 15 (9.20%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 15 (9.20%) Project Management
12 15 (9.20%) Risk Management
13 14 (8.59%) Actionable Insight
13 14 (8.59%) ETL
14 13 (7.98%) Data Governance
15 12 (7.36%) Migration
15 12 (7.36%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.40%) Python
2 25 (15.34%) SQL
3 9 (5.52%) Java
4 5 (3.07%) C#
5 4 (2.45%) C++
6 3 (1.84%) R
6 3 (1.84%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (10.43%) Degree
2 15 (9.20%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.75%) PMP
3 11 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.91%) PMI Certification
5 6 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.07%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.84%) PhD
8 2 (1.23%) ACCA
8 2 (1.23%) CISM
8 2 (1.23%) CISSP
8 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.61%) CIMA
9 1 (0.61%) CISA
9 1 (0.61%) MBA
9 1 (0.61%) MOS
9 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.61%) RIBA
9 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.04%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.36%) PMO
3 9 (5.52%) GDPR
4 8 (4.91%) QA
5 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.23%) NCSC
7 2 (1.23%) NIST
7 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.61%) GMP
8 1 (0.61%) GRC
8 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.23%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Ansible
3 1 (0.61%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.59%) Oracle
3 12 (7.36%) Databricks
4 10 (6.13%) Workday
5 7 (4.29%) Google
6 6 (3.68%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.68%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.07%) Planview
8 4 (2.45%) SAP
9 2 (1.23%) Adobe
9 2 (1.23%) Informatica
9 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.61%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.61%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco
10 1 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.61%) Foundry
10 1 (0.61%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.61%) Splunk