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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 42 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +41
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 131 92 89
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.99% 4.51% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.74% 4.90% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 51 48
10th Percentile £325 £303 £331
25th Percentile £463 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% +1.46% -2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £784 £675 £761
London median daily rate £538 £563 £540
% change year-on-year -4.44% +4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £27.81
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £65.00
London median hourly rate £19.69 £34.50 £29.16
% change year-on-year -42.93% +18.33% -41.02%

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 1,944 1,877 2,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.89% 91.96% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,328 1,196 1,634
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £445 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £684
90th Percentile £770 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 26
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.93 £17.97
25th Percentile £21.37 £27.97 £20.79
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £40.63 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £55.08 £57.63
London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -16.67%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +18 122 £550 +4.76% 226
City of Westminster -2 2 £736 +61.11% 16
West End of London +3 1 £773 +44.93% 4
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 7 (5.34%) Confluence
2 6 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.53%) Apache
3 2 (1.53%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.53%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.76%) Appian
4 1 (0.76%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (4.58%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.76%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.76%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.72%) Azure
2 21 (16.03%) AWS
3 19 (14.50%) GCP
4 18 (13.74%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.82%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.29%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.29%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.29%) SaaS
7 3 (2.29%) Serverless
7 3 (2.29%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.29%) Vertex AI
8 2 (1.53%) Collibra
8 2 (1.53%) dbt
8 2 (1.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) Power BI
2 7 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.58%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.05%) Big Data
4 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.05%) Metadata
4 4 (3.05%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.29%) MySQL
5 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.29%) Tableau
6 2 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.53%) OLAP
7 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (11.45%) JIRA
2 8 (6.11%) Git
3 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.53%) JUnit
5 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.76%) ERwin
5 1 (0.76%) GitLab
5 1 (0.76%) MLflow
5 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (43.51%) Finance
2 44 (33.59%) Social Skills
3 41 (31.30%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.98%) Banking
5 16 (12.21%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.34%) Legal
7 6 (4.58%) Front Office
8 5 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.82%) Retail
9 4 (3.05%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.29%) Marketing
11 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
11 1 (0.76%) Military
11 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (16.79%) Senior
2 21 (16.03%) Analyst
3 14 (10.69%) Lead
4 12 (9.16%) Data Engineer
4 12 (9.16%) Project Manager
5 11 (8.40%) Consultant
5 11 (8.40%) Developer
6 10 (7.63%) Business Analyst
7 9 (6.87%) Cloud Consultant
8 8 (6.11%) Architect
8 8 (6.11%) Senior Consultant
9 7 (5.34%) Data Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Oracle Consultant
9 7 (5.34%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 7 (5.34%) Senior Oracle Consultant
9 7 (5.34%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
9 7 (5.34%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 7 (5.34%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (3.82%) Technical Leader
10 5 (3.82%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.34%) LangChain
1 7 (5.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (4.58%) PyTorch
3 5 (3.82%) Pandas
3 5 (3.82%) scikit-learn
3 5 (3.82%) TensorFlow
4 4 (3.05%) LangGraph
4 4 (3.05%) NumPy
5 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.29%) Dask
5 3 (2.29%) Google JAX
5 3 (2.29%) JAX
5 3 (2.29%) JSON
5 3 (2.29%) Kafka
5 3 (2.29%) LightGBM
5 3 (2.29%) REST
5 3 (2.29%) RESTful
5 3 (2.29%) SciPy
5 3 (2.29%) XGBoost
5 3 (2.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.92%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.34%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.58%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.58%) Derivative
4 5 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.05%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.29%) Equities
6 3 (2.29%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.53%) FMCG
7 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) VMS
1 1 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.06%) Analytics
2 35 (26.72%) Agile
3 28 (21.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (20.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (19.08%) AI
5 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (13.74%) Data Modelling
7 17 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (11.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 15 (11.45%) Roadmaps
10 14 (10.69%) Data Science
10 14 (10.69%) Machine Learning
11 13 (9.92%) Data Governance
11 13 (9.92%) Project Management
11 13 (9.92%) Risk Management
12 12 (9.16%) Actionable Insight
12 12 (9.16%) CI/CD
13 11 (8.40%) Data Engineering
13 11 (8.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.85%) Python
2 20 (15.27%) SQL
3 5 (3.82%) Java
4 4 (3.05%) C#
4 4 (3.05%) C++
5 2 (1.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.53%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.53%) R
5 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.76%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.76%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.76%) Korn
6 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Degree
1 17 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.11%) PMP
4 6 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.58%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.58%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.29%) CISM
5 3 (2.29%) CISSP
5 3 (2.29%) PhD
6 2 (1.53%) CISA
6 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.76%) ACCA
7 1 (0.76%) CEH
7 1 (0.76%) ISEB
7 1 (0.76%) MBA
7 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.76%) RIBA
7 1 (0.76%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.11%) PMO
3 4 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.05%) GDPR
3 4 (3.05%) QA
4 3 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.53%) GRC
5 2 (1.53%) NCSC
5 2 (1.53%) NIST
5 2 (1.53%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.76%) GMP
6 1 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.76%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.76%) Ansible
2 1 (0.76%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 19 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Oracle
3 8 (6.11%) Databricks
3 8 (6.11%) Google
4 6 (4.58%) Planview
5 4 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.29%) SAP
6 3 (2.29%) Workday
7 2 (1.53%) Adobe
7 2 (1.53%) Cisco
7 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.76%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.76%) Ariba
8 1 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.76%) Foundry
8 1 (0.76%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.76%) Informatica
8 1 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.76%) Veracode