Decision-Making Contracts in Central London

Decision-Making
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 63 99
Rank change year-on-year +33 +36 -10
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 117 73 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.94% 3.09% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.34% 3.39% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 43 47
10th Percentile £363 £387 £312
25th Percentile £455 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £656
90th Percentile £733 £738 £853
London median daily rate £525 £525 £586
% change year-on-year - -10.45% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £21.95 - £37.34
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.81 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -30.18% -
75th Percentile £64.46 - £42.32
90th Percentile £85.78 - -
London median hourly rate £38.50 £30.50 £43.43
% change year-on-year +26.23% -29.77% +29.35%

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 1,844 2,156 3,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.56% 91.20% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,194 1,513 2,267
10th Percentile £350 £361 £325
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 27
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%
75th Percentile £49.75 £36.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.25 £30.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +7.50% -25.93% +12.50%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Decision-Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Decision-Making in Central London

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Decision-Making in Central London

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Central London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Decision-Making in Central London

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Decision-Making in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Decision-Making in Central London

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in Central London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in Central London

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 2 July 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 +29 101 £550 +10.00% 583
City of Westminster +6 6 £409 - 19
Southwark - 2 £375 - 2
West End of London - 1 £625 - 9
Decision-Making
London

Decision-Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.27%) CMS
2 4 (3.42%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) SAP ERP
2 3 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.22%) Azure
1 26 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 14 (11.97%) AWS
3 5 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (4.27%) GCP
3 5 (4.27%) Snowflake
3 5 (4.27%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (2.56%) dbt
4 3 (2.56%) OCI
4 3 (2.56%) SaaS
5 2 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.85%) Alation
6 1 (0.85%) Asana
6 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.85%) Collibra
6 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.85%) Kong
6 1 (0.85%) Slack
6 1 (0.85%) Social Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.37%) Power BI
2 13 (11.11%) Tableau
3 9 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.13%) Metadata
4 6 (5.13%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.42%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.56%) Big Data
6 3 (2.56%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.56%) Looker
6 3 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.71%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.85%) MS Access
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.85%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.85%) Spotfire
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) Git
2 1 (0.85%) GitLab
2 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 56 (47.86%) Finance
2 50 (42.74%) Social Skills
3 45 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.97%) Banking
5 12 (10.26%) Public Sector
6 10 (8.55%) Police
7 6 (5.13%) Financial Institution
7 6 (5.13%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.13%) Local Government
7 6 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.42%) Back Office
9 4 (3.42%) Marketing
10 3 (2.56%) Legal
10 3 (2.56%) Retail
10 3 (2.56%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.71%) Advertising
11 2 (1.71%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.71%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (23.93%) Analyst
2 19 (16.24%) Business Analyst
3 12 (10.26%) Data Engineer
3 12 (10.26%) Project Manager
4 10 (8.55%) Data Analyst
5 9 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
6 8 (6.84%) Developer
7 7 (5.98%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (5.98%) Lead
8 6 (5.13%) Architect
8 6 (5.13%) Business Manager
8 6 (5.13%) Senior
9 4 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Data Scientist
9 4 (3.42%) ERP Manager
9 4 (3.42%) HR Manager
9 4 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.56%) Business Operations Manager
10 3 (2.56%) SAP Delivery Manager
10 3 (2.56%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.42%) AngularJS
1 4 (3.42%) Kafka
1 4 (3.42%) Next.js
1 4 (3.42%) Pandas
1 4 (3.42%) React
1 4 (3.42%) scikit-learn
1 4 (3.42%) TensorFlow
1 4 (3.42%) Vue
2 2 (1.71%) CSS
2 2 (1.71%) HTML
2 2 (1.71%) PySpark
2 2 (1.71%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.85%) .NET
3 1 (0.85%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.85%) REST
3 1 (0.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.55%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.27%) Reinsurance
3 4 (3.42%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.71%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.85%) Derivative
5 1 (0.85%) Equities
5 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.85%) NHS
5 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
1 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (33.33%) Agile
1 39 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (30.77%) Analytics
3 28 (23.93%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (21.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (20.51%) Project Management
6 21 (17.95%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 21 (17.95%) Visualisation
7 20 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (16.24%) Data Analysis
8 19 (16.24%) Risk Management
9 18 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (13.68%) Data Modelling
10 16 (13.68%) Project Delivery
10 16 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (12.82%) Data Engineering
11 15 (12.82%) Data Science
12 14 (11.97%) Data Governance
12 14 (11.97%) Data Visualisation
13 13 (11.11%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.91%) SQL
2 28 (23.93%) Python
3 5 (4.27%) R
4 4 (3.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.42%) Java
5 1 (0.85%) Ada
5 1 (0.85%) C++
5 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (11.11%) Degree
1 13 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) PMP
4 3 (2.56%) CISM
4 3 (2.56%) CISSP
5 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.71%) CRISC
5 2 (1.71%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.85%) ACCA
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) CBAP
6 1 (0.85%) CIMA
6 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.27%) PMO
4 4 (3.42%) GDPR
5 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.85%) COBIT
6 1 (0.85%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.85%) EMIR
6 1 (0.85%) GRC
6 1 (0.85%) ITGC
6 1 (0.85%) MiFID
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.42%) Terraform
2 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.85%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) Istio
3 1 (0.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (8.55%) SAP
2 8 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.98%) Oracle
4 6 (5.13%) Databricks
5 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.42%) Workday
6 3 (2.56%) Dataiku
6 3 (2.56%) Google
6 3 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.71%) FIS
7 2 (1.71%) Planview
8 1 (0.85%) Ariba
8 1 (0.85%) Aruba
8 1 (0.85%) Cegedim Rx
8 1 (0.85%) Citrix
8 1 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.85%) Pega
8 1 (0.85%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.85%) Qualys
8 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud