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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 32 64
Rank change year-on-year +7 +32 +38
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 157 114 75
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.31% 6.01% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.39% 6.44% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 76 40
10th Percentile £325 £311 £349
25th Percentile £463 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -12.64%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £539
90th Percentile £800 £725 £638
London median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
Median hourly rate - £64.08 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year - +130.40% -30.18%
London median hourly rate £34.23 £45.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -23.93% +61.81% -35.97%

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 2,125 1,770 2,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.44% 93.31% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 1,141 1,549
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
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 29 22 22
10th Percentile £18.45 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +2.88% -20.54%
75th Percentile £52.16 £44.40 £28.98
90th Percentile £59.72 £50.75 £40.00
London median hourly rate £37.00 £31.17 £27.92
% change year-on-year +18.69% +11.65% -28.79%

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 25 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 25 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 +7 146 £575 +4.55% 252
West End of London -3 1 - - 10
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 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.27%) Ethereum
2 2 (1.27%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.91%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) BambooHR
2 3 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.64%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.64%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.64%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.64%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.38%) Azure
2 21 (13.38%) Power Platform
3 18 (11.46%) AWS
4 15 (9.55%) GCP
5 8 (5.10%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (3.18%) Dagster
6 5 (3.18%) dbt
6 5 (3.18%) Prefect
7 4 (2.55%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.91%) OCI
8 3 (1.91%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.91%) SaaS
8 3 (1.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.46%) Power BI
2 12 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.10%) Tableau
4 7 (4.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (4.46%) BigQuery
5 6 (3.82%) Looker
6 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.91%) Metadata
8 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.27%) OLAP
8 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.27%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.64%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.64%) MySQL
9 1 (0.64%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (7.01%) JIRA
2 5 (3.18%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.27%) JUnit
4 1 (0.64%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.64%) ERwin
4 1 (0.64%) MLflow
General
1 72 (45.86%) Finance
2 44 (28.03%) Social Skills
3 30 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.01%) Banking
5 12 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.10%) Legal
6 8 (5.10%) Marketing
7 7 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.46%) Retail
8 5 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.18%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Front Office
10 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Military
12 1 (0.64%) Electronics
12 1 (0.64%) Law
12 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (21.02%) Senior
2 20 (12.74%) Analyst
3 19 (12.10%) Project Manager
4 18 (11.46%) Lead
5 16 (10.19%) Architect
6 14 (8.92%) Consultant
6 14 (8.92%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.37%) Business Analyst
7 10 (6.37%) Senior Consultant
8 9 (5.73%) Cloud Consultant
8 9 (5.73%) Product Manager
9 8 (5.10%) Developer
9 8 (5.10%) Senior Manager
10 7 (4.46%) Oracle Consultant
10 7 (4.46%) Oracle Technical Consultant
10 7 (4.46%) Senior Oracle Consultant
10 7 (4.46%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
10 7 (4.46%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 7 (4.46%) Technical Consultant
11 6 (3.82%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (3.18%) LangChain
2 5 (3.18%) React
2 5 (3.18%) REST
3 4 (2.55%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.55%) LangGraph
3 4 (2.55%) Pandas
4 3 (1.91%) Kafka
4 3 (1.91%) Middleware
4 3 (1.91%) NumPy
4 3 (1.91%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.91%) RESTful
4 3 (1.91%) scikit-learn
4 3 (1.91%) Spring
4 3 (1.91%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.27%) gRPC
5 2 (1.27%) J2EE
5 2 (1.27%) SciPy
5 2 (1.27%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.82%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.91%) Derivative
6 3 (1.91%) FMCG
6 3 (1.91%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.91%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.27%) CMDB
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.27%) Equities
7 2 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.64%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.64%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.85%) Analytics
2 39 (24.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (22.93%) AI
4 34 (21.66%) Agile
5 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (14.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (13.38%) Data Modelling
9 20 (12.74%) Roadmaps
10 18 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (10.83%) Data Engineering
12 16 (10.19%) ETL
13 15 (9.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 15 (9.55%) Risk Management
14 14 (8.92%) Machine Learning
15 13 (8.28%) Actionable Insight
15 13 (8.28%) Data Science
15 13 (8.28%) Project Management
16 12 (7.64%) Project Delivery
16 12 (7.64%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.56%) Python
2 25 (15.92%) SQL
3 9 (5.73%) Java
4 4 (2.55%) C#
5 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.27%) C++
6 2 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.64%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (9.55%) Degree
1 15 (9.55%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.01%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.73%) PMP
4 7 (4.46%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.27%) CISM
7 2 (1.27%) CISSP
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) PhD
8 1 (0.64%) ACCA
8 1 (0.64%) APMP
8 1 (0.64%) CIMA
8 1 (0.64%) CISA
8 1 (0.64%) CRISC
8 1 (0.64%) ISEB
8 1 (0.64%) MBA
8 1 (0.64%) MOS
8 1 (0.64%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.19%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.01%) PMO
3 10 (6.37%) GDPR
4 8 (5.10%) QA
5 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.91%) NIST
7 2 (1.27%) NCSC
7 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.64%) GMP
8 1 (0.64%) GRC
8 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.64%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
3 1 (0.64%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 21 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.64%) Oracle
3 11 (7.01%) Databricks
4 9 (5.73%) Workday
5 8 (5.10%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.18%) Google
6 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.55%) Planview
8 3 (1.91%) SAP
9 2 (1.27%) Informatica
10 1 (0.64%) Adobe
10 1 (0.64%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.64%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.64%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.64%) Cisco
10 1 (0.64%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.64%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.64%) Splunk
10 1 (0.64%) Virgin Media