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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 39 52
Rank change year-on-year +16 +13 +46
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 161 108 83
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.54% 5.40% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.64% 5.81% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 71 44
10th Percentile £350 £306 £354
25th Percentile £463 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +10.26% -7.14%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £628
90th Percentile £788 £700 £796
London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -10.64%
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 2,108 1,860 2,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.66% 92.95% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,204 1,571
10th Percentile £356 £357 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 24 24
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.01
25th Percentile £19.48 £22.75 £22.38
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.97 £29.11
90th Percentile £59.48 £50.75 £41.29
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.45%

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 3 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 3 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 +12 147 £575 +4.55% 323
West End of London +1 1 - - 13
City of Westminster -5 1 £700 +71.15% 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 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.11%) Apache Spark
1 5 (3.11%) Confluence
1 5 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.24%) Apache
2 2 (1.24%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.24%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.62%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.11%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.62%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.62%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.62%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.62%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.62%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.36%) Azure
2 25 (15.53%) Power Platform
3 23 (14.29%) AWS
4 18 (11.18%) GCP
5 8 (4.97%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.73%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.73%) dbt
7 5 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.11%) Dagster
7 5 (3.11%) Prefect
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.48%) Serverless
9 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.86%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.86%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) HTTP
2 1 (0.62%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.04%) Power BI
2 12 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.35%) Tableau
5 6 (3.73%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.73%) Looker
6 5 (3.11%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.86%) Big Data
8 3 (1.86%) Metadata
8 3 (1.86%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.24%) MySQL
9 2 (1.24%) OLAP
9 2 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.62%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (8.70%) JIRA
2 7 (4.35%) Git
3 3 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.24%) JUnit
5 1 (0.62%) ERwin
5 1 (0.62%) MLflow
General
1 76 (47.20%) Finance
2 42 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 39 (24.22%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (14.29%) Banking
5 14 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.21%) Legal
7 7 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.73%) Marketing
8 6 (3.73%) Retail
9 5 (3.11%) Front Office
9 5 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.11%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.24%) Military
12 1 (0.62%) Law
12 1 (0.62%) Local Government
12 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (22.98%) Senior
2 23 (14.29%) Analyst
3 18 (11.18%) Lead
4 17 (10.56%) Project Manager
5 15 (9.32%) Architect
6 14 (8.70%) Data Engineer
7 13 (8.07%) Consultant
8 11 (6.83%) Developer
9 10 (6.21%) Business Analyst
9 10 (6.21%) Senior Consultant
10 9 (5.59%) Cloud Consultant
11 8 (4.97%) Senior Manager
12 7 (4.35%) Data Analyst
12 7 (4.35%) Oracle Consultant
12 7 (4.35%) Oracle Technical Consultant
12 7 (4.35%) Senior Oracle Consultant
12 7 (4.35%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
12 7 (4.35%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 7 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
13 6 (3.73%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.35%) LangChain
1 7 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.11%) Pandas
2 5 (3.11%) PyTorch
2 5 (3.11%) React
3 4 (2.48%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.48%) LangGraph
3 4 (2.48%) NumPy
3 4 (2.48%) REST
3 4 (2.48%) scikit-learn
3 4 (2.48%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.86%) Kafka
4 3 (1.86%) Middleware
4 3 (1.86%) RESTful
4 3 (1.86%) SciPy
4 3 (1.86%) Spring
4 3 (1.86%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.24%) J2EE
5 2 (1.24%) JSON
5 2 (1.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.32%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.83%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.11%) Derivative
5 5 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.86%) Equities
7 3 (1.86%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.86%) FMCG
7 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.24%) CMDB
8 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.24%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (34.16%) Analytics
2 38 (23.60%) Agile
3 36 (22.36%) AI
4 33 (20.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (14.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 23 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 21 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (11.18%) Data Engineering
9 18 (11.18%) Machine Learning
9 18 (11.18%) Roadmaps
10 17 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (8.70%) Actionable Insight
11 14 (8.70%) Data Governance
11 14 (8.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 14 (8.70%) ETL
11 14 (8.70%) Project Management
11 14 (8.70%) Risk Management
12 13 (8.07%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (8.07%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 31 (19.25%) Python
2 26 (16.15%) SQL
3 9 (5.59%) Java
4 5 (3.11%) C#
5 4 (2.48%) C++
6 3 (1.86%) R
6 3 (1.86%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.24%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.62%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (10.56%) Degree
2 15 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.21%) PMP
5 7 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 6 (3.73%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.86%) CISM
7 3 (1.86%) CISSP
7 3 (1.86%) PhD
8 2 (1.24%) CISA
8 2 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.62%) CEH
9 1 (0.62%) ISEB
9 1 (0.62%) MBA
9 1 (0.62%) MOS
9 1 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.62%) RIBA
9 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.56%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.45%) PMO
3 9 (5.59%) GDPR
4 7 (4.35%) QA
5 4 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.86%) NIST
7 2 (1.24%) NCSC
7 2 (1.24%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.62%) GMP
8 1 (0.62%) GRC
8 1 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.24%) Terraform
3 1 (0.62%) Ansible
3 1 (0.62%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.07%) Oracle
3 12 (7.45%) Databricks
4 10 (6.21%) Workday
5 9 (5.59%) Google
6 6 (3.73%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.11%) Planview
7 5 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.86%) SAP
9 2 (1.24%) Adobe
9 2 (1.24%) Informatica
9 2 (1.24%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.62%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.62%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.62%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.62%) Cisco
10 1 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.62%) Foundry
10 1 (0.62%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.62%) Splunk