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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 33 58
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +42
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 187 121 80
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 7.13% 5.86% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.17% 6.25% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 81 51
10th Percentile £327 £363 £392
25th Percentile £480 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £750 £669 £675
90th Percentile £872 £725 £738
London median daily rate £550 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +3.29% +1.43% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
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 £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -20.20%

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 2,290 1,935 2,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.30% 93.70% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 1,263 1,503
10th Percentile £359 £338 £357
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £683
90th Percentile £775 £775 £792
London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 24
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £44.25
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £88.38
London median hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £33.53
% change year-on-year +16.13% -7.53% -22.03%

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 20 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 20 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 +13 172 £625 +13.64% 113
West End of London -3 4 - - 5
City of Westminster -11 4 £725 +77.26% 12
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 6 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.07%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.07%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.67%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.53%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.04%) Azure
2 26 (13.90%) Power Platform
3 15 (8.02%) AWS
4 12 (6.42%) GCP
4 12 (6.42%) Snowflake
5 6 (3.21%) dbt
6 5 (2.67%) Dagster
6 5 (2.67%) Prefect
7 4 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.60%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.07%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.07%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.07%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) Network Security
2 2 (1.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.76%) Power BI
2 15 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.28%) BigQuery
3 8 (4.28%) Tableau
4 7 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.21%) Looker
6 5 (2.67%) Metadata
7 4 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.14%) Data Mart
7 4 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.60%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.07%) Power Query
9 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.07%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.53%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 10 (5.35%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) Git
2 3 (1.60%) JUnit
3 2 (1.07%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.53%) Gatling
4 1 (0.53%) GitLab
4 1 (0.53%) Mockito
General
1 87 (46.52%) Finance
2 57 (30.48%) Social Skills
3 36 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.51%) Banking
5 19 (10.16%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.95%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.35%) Legal
8 9 (4.81%) Marketing
8 9 (4.81%) Retail
9 7 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.67%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.14%) Police
13 3 (1.60%) Electronics
13 3 (1.60%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.60%) Military
13 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.07%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (16.58%) Analyst
2 28 (14.97%) Lead
2 28 (14.97%) Senior
3 21 (11.23%) Architect
4 20 (10.70%) Project Manager
5 16 (8.56%) Business Analyst
5 16 (8.56%) Data Engineer
6 11 (5.88%) Product Manager
7 9 (4.81%) Data Analyst
7 9 (4.81%) Senior Manager
8 8 (4.28%) Consultant
9 7 (3.74%) Developer
9 7 (3.74%) Senior Project Manager
10 6 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.67%) Lead Data Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) Finance Project Manager
12 4 (2.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.21%) React
2 5 (2.67%) REST
3 4 (2.14%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.14%) Kafka
3 4 (2.14%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.60%) Middleware
4 3 (1.60%) Pandas
4 3 (1.60%) RESTful
4 3 (1.60%) Spring
4 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.07%) gRPC
5 2 (1.07%) Jakarta EE
5 2 (1.07%) NumPy
5 2 (1.07%) Playwright
5 2 (1.07%) PySpark
5 2 (1.07%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.07%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.07%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.53%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.16%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.95%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.67%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.14%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.60%) CMDB
6 3 (1.60%) FMCG
6 3 (1.60%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.07%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.07%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.07%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.53%) AS400
8 1 (0.53%) Clustering
8 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.53%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.53%) NHS
8 1 (0.53%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.62%) Analytics
2 57 (30.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 47 (25.13%) Agile
4 43 (22.99%) AI
5 35 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 29 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.97%) Data Modelling
9 25 (13.37%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (12.83%) Roadmaps
11 23 (12.30%) Data Engineering
12 20 (10.70%) Machine Learning
13 19 (10.16%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 19 (10.16%) ETL
14 18 (9.63%) Risk Management
15 17 (9.09%) CI/CD
15 17 (9.09%) Data Governance
16 16 (8.56%) Project Management
17 15 (8.02%) DevOps
17 15 (8.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.18%) SQL
2 28 (14.97%) Python
3 10 (5.35%) Java
4 4 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.14%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.07%) C#
7 1 (0.53%) COBOL
7 1 (0.53%) Cypher
7 1 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.53%) Gremlin
7 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.53%) R
7 1 (0.53%) RPG
7 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.02%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.95%) PMI Certification
3 13 (6.95%) PMP
4 11 (5.88%) Degree
5 6 (3.21%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.60%) CISM
7 3 (1.60%) CISSP
8 2 (1.07%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.53%) ACCA
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.53%) CIMA
9 1 (0.53%) CISA
9 1 (0.53%) CRISC
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.53%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.70%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.56%) GDPR
3 13 (6.95%) PMO
4 11 (5.88%) QA
5 6 (3.21%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.60%) GRC
6 3 (1.60%) NIST
7 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.53%) GMP
8 1 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.53%) NCSC
8 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.53%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.53%) Firmware
1 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.07%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) Ansible
2 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 24 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.95%) Databricks
3 8 (4.28%) Workday
4 6 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.67%) Oracle
5 5 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.14%) Planview
7 3 (1.60%) Google
8 2 (1.07%) Informatica
8 2 (1.07%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.07%) SAP
9 1 (0.53%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.53%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco
9 1 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.53%) eFront
9 1 (0.53%) Lotus
9 1 (0.53%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.53%) Zscaler