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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 34 57
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +43
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 159 109 78
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.50% 5.54% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.62% 5.95% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 73 42
10th Percentile £343 £307 £351
25th Percentile £463 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £559
90th Percentile £779 £720 £683
London median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -11.02%
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 £34.87 £49.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -29.57% +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 2,087 1,833 2,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.32% 93.09% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,409 1,182 1,550
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -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% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 23
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £19.13 £22.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £45.03 £43.75 £30.41
90th Percentile £59.64 £50.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
% change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%

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 14 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 14 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 +13 147 £575 +4.55% 247
West End of London -1 1 - - 9
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 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.52%) Confluence
2 4 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.26%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.26%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.63%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.14%) BambooHR
2 3 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.63%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.63%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.50%) Azure
2 23 (14.47%) Power Platform
3 19 (11.95%) AWS
4 14 (8.81%) GCP
5 8 (5.03%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.14%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.14%) Dagster
6 5 (3.14%) dbt
6 5 (3.14%) Prefect
7 4 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.52%) Serverless
8 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.89%) OCI
8 3 (1.89%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.26%) HTTP
2 1 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.58%) Power BI
2 12 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (4.40%) Tableau
4 6 (3.77%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.77%) Looker
5 4 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.26%) Metadata
7 2 (1.26%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.26%) OLAP
7 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.26%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.63%) MySQL
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (8.18%) JIRA
2 6 (3.77%) Git
3 3 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.26%) JUnit
5 1 (0.63%) ERwin
5 1 (0.63%) MLflow
General
1 75 (47.17%) Finance
2 43 (27.04%) Social Skills
3 36 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (15.09%) Banking
5 13 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.29%) Legal
7 8 (5.03%) Marketing
8 7 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.77%) Retail
10 5 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.52%) Front Office
11 4 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.89%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.26%) Military
14 1 (0.63%) Electronics
14 1 (0.63%) Law
14 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (22.01%) Senior
2 24 (15.09%) Analyst
3 18 (11.32%) Project Manager
4 16 (10.06%) Architect
4 16 (10.06%) Lead
5 14 (8.81%) Consultant
6 13 (8.18%) Data Engineer
7 11 (6.92%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.29%) Senior Consultant
9 9 (5.66%) Cloud Consultant
9 9 (5.66%) Developer
10 8 (5.03%) Product Manager
10 8 (5.03%) Senior Manager
11 7 (4.40%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.40%) Oracle Consultant
11 7 (4.40%) Oracle Technical Consultant
11 7 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (4.40%) Senior Oracle Consultant
11 7 (4.40%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 7 (4.40%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.14%) LangChain
2 5 (3.14%) Pandas
2 5 (3.14%) React
3 4 (2.52%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.52%) LangGraph
3 4 (2.52%) NumPy
3 4 (2.52%) REST
4 3 (1.89%) Kafka
4 3 (1.89%) Middleware
4 3 (1.89%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.89%) RESTful
4 3 (1.89%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.89%) SciPy
4 3 (1.89%) Spring
4 3 (1.89%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.26%) gRPC
5 2 (1.26%) J2EE
5 2 (1.26%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.18%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.77%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.52%) Derivative
5 4 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.89%) Equities
6 3 (1.89%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.89%) FMCG
7 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.26%) CMDB
7 2 (1.26%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.08%) Analytics
2 38 (23.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (23.27%) Agile
4 35 (22.01%) AI
5 30 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (16.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 21 (13.21%) Data Modelling
8 20 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (11.95%) Roadmaps
10 16 (10.06%) Data Engineering
11 15 (9.43%) Project Management
11 15 (9.43%) Risk Management
12 14 (8.81%) Actionable Insight
12 14 (8.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 14 (8.81%) ETL
13 13 (8.18%) Machine Learning
14 12 (7.55%) Data Governance
14 12 (7.55%) Data Science
14 12 (7.55%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.35%) Python
2 23 (14.47%) SQL
3 8 (5.03%) Java
4 5 (3.14%) C#
5 3 (1.89%) C++
5 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.26%) R
7 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (10.06%) Degree
2 15 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.92%) PMP
3 11 (6.92%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.03%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.89%) PhD
7 2 (1.26%) ACCA
7 2 (1.26%) CISM
7 2 (1.26%) CISSP
7 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.63%) CBAP
8 1 (0.63%) CIMA
8 1 (0.63%) IIBA
8 1 (0.63%) MBA
8 1 (0.63%) MOS
8 1 (0.63%) RIBA
8 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.69%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.55%) PMO
3 9 (5.66%) GDPR
4 8 (5.03%) QA
5 4 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.89%) NIST
7 2 (1.26%) NCSC
7 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.63%) GMP
8 1 (0.63%) GRC
8 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (2.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.26%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.18%) Oracle
3 10 (6.29%) Databricks
3 10 (6.29%) Workday
4 7 (4.40%) Google
5 6 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.14%) Planview
7 4 (2.52%) SAP
8 2 (1.26%) Adobe
8 2 (1.26%) Informatica
8 2 (1.26%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.63%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.63%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco
9 1 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.63%) Splunk
9 1 (0.63%) Virgin Media