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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 39 56
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 +54
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 152 102 83
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.43% 5.13% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.40% 5.56% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 67 43
10th Percentile £363 £307 £353
25th Percentile £463 £417 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £694
90th Percentile £775 £700 £798
London median daily rate £534 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.76% -11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 £100.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -59.50% +259.58% -
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £65.00
London median hourly rate £32.00 £49.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -35.35% +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 2,055 1,835 2,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.97% 92.35% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 1,197 1,581
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.37%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 26
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.93 £19.42
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.66 £22.13
Median hourly rate £26.56 £32.83 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +18.03% -20.54%
75th Percentile £46.29 £45.65 £38.25
90th Percentile £59.48 £52.05 £57.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +19 142 £563 +4.65% 214
West End of London +3 1 - - 6
City of Westminster -7 1 £700 +71.15% 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 6 (3.95%) Confluence
2 5 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.32%) Apache
3 2 (1.32%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.32%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.66%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (8.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (3.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.66%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.66%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.66%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.68%) Azure
2 24 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 22 (14.47%) AWS
4 19 (12.50%) GCP
5 9 (5.92%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.61%) dbt
7 6 (3.95%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.29%) Dagster
8 5 (3.29%) Prefect
9 4 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.63%) Serverless
10 3 (1.97%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.97%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.97%) SaaS
10 3 (1.97%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) HTTP
2 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.82%) Power BI
2 13 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.61%) Tableau
5 6 (3.95%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.95%) Looker
6 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.97%) Big Data
8 3 (1.97%) Metadata
8 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.32%) MySQL
9 2 (1.32%) OLAP
9 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.32%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (9.87%) JIRA
2 7 (4.61%) Git
3 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.32%) JUnit
5 1 (0.66%) ERwin
5 1 (0.66%) MLflow
General
1 71 (46.71%) Finance
2 43 (28.29%) Social Skills
3 40 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.82%) Banking
5 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.24%) Legal
7 6 (3.95%) Marketing
7 6 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.95%) Retail
8 5 (3.29%) Front Office
8 5 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.29%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.97%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.32%) Military
12 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (20.39%) Senior
2 23 (15.13%) Analyst
3 16 (10.53%) Lead
4 14 (9.21%) Data Engineer
4 14 (9.21%) Project Manager
5 13 (8.55%) Architect
5 13 (8.55%) Consultant
6 11 (7.24%) Business Analyst
6 11 (7.24%) Developer
7 9 (5.92%) Cloud Consultant
7 9 (5.92%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (4.61%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.61%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (4.61%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 7 (4.61%) Senior Oracle Consultant
8 7 (4.61%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
8 7 (4.61%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 7 (4.61%) Technical Consultant
9 6 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.95%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.61%) LangChain
1 7 (4.61%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.29%) Pandas
2 5 (3.29%) PyTorch
3 4 (2.63%) LangGraph
3 4 (2.63%) NumPy
3 4 (2.63%) REST
3 4 (2.63%) scikit-learn
3 4 (2.63%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.97%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.97%) Kafka
4 3 (1.97%) React
4 3 (1.97%) RESTful
4 3 (1.97%) SciPy
4 3 (1.97%) Spring
4 3 (1.97%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.32%) J2EE
5 2 (1.32%) JSON
5 2 (1.32%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.61%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.29%) Derivative
5 5 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.97%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.97%) Equities
7 3 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.32%) CMDB
8 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.32%) FMCG
8 2 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.66%) VMS
1 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (32.24%) Analytics
2 38 (25.00%) Agile
3 34 (22.37%) AI
4 33 (21.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (17.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 25 (16.45%) Data Modelling
8 21 (13.82%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (11.84%) Roadmaps
10 17 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (11.18%) Data Engineering
10 17 (11.18%) Machine Learning
11 15 (9.87%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 15 (9.87%) Project Management
12 14 (9.21%) Actionable Insight
12 14 (9.21%) Data Governance
12 14 (9.21%) ETL
13 13 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (8.55%) Data Science
14 12 (7.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.05%) Python
2 27 (17.76%) SQL
3 7 (4.61%) Java
4 5 (3.29%) C#
5 4 (2.63%) C++
6 3 (1.97%) R
7 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.66%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (11.18%) Degree
2 16 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.26%) PMP
5 7 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.95%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.29%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.97%) CISM
8 3 (1.97%) CISSP
8 3 (1.97%) PhD
9 2 (1.32%) CISA
9 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.66%) APMP
10 1 (0.66%) CBAP
10 1 (0.66%) CRISC
10 1 (0.66%) IIBA
10 1 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.66%) RIBA
10 1 (0.66%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 13 (8.55%) PMO
3 9 (5.92%) GDPR
4 6 (3.95%) QA
5 3 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.32%) NCSC
6 2 (1.32%) NIST
6 2 (1.32%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.66%) GMP
7 1 (0.66%) GRC
7 1 (0.66%) SLA
7 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.66%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.32%) Terraform
3 1 (0.66%) Ansible
3 1 (0.66%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 23 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.55%) Oracle
3 12 (7.89%) Databricks
4 9 (5.92%) Google
4 9 (5.92%) Workday
5 6 (3.95%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.29%) Planview
7 4 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.97%) SAP
9 2 (1.32%) Adobe
9 2 (1.32%) Informatica
9 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.66%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.66%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.66%) Ariba
10 1 (0.66%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.66%) Cisco
10 1 (0.66%) Foundry
10 1 (0.66%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.66%) MicroStrategy