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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 53 53
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 +50
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 106 78 93
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.36% 3.60% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.98% 3.89% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 46 50
10th Percentile £319 £309 £330
25th Percentile £424 £456 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.13% +3.81%
75th Percentile £637 £597 £699
90th Percentile £772 £675 £754
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £27.81
75th Percentile £41.75 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £31.49 £38.75 £36.92
% change year-on-year -18.74% +4.97% -32.88%

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 1,773 2,003 2,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.59% 92.35% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,232 1,255 1,689
10th Percentile £350 £363 £352
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £676 £688
90th Percentile £750 £778 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 19
10th Percentile £19.82 £19.36 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 £25.40 £20.72
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.19 £43.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £66.75
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +16 98 £525 - 121
City of Westminster +2 2 £736 +57.99% 4
West End of London +5 1 £773 +46.72% 6
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 8 (7.55%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.66%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) Appian
4 1 (0.94%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (13.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.72%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.94%) SPSS
5 1 (0.94%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.92%) Azure
2 18 (16.98%) Power Platform
3 17 (16.04%) AWS
4 10 (9.43%) GCP
5 5 (4.72%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.83%) dbt
6 3 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.83%) GitHub
6 3 (2.83%) Serverless
7 2 (1.89%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.89%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.89%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.89%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.89%) SaaS
7 2 (1.89%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.89%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) Softphone
1 2 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.09%) Power BI
2 5 (4.72%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.77%) Big Data
4 3 (2.83%) Metadata
4 3 (2.83%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.89%) MySQL
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.89%) Spatial Data
5 2 (1.89%) Tableau
6 1 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Git
1 7 (6.60%) JIRA
2 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.94%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.94%) GitLab
3 1 (0.94%) MLflow
3 1 (0.94%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.94%) Selenium
3 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (37.74%) Finance
2 38 (35.85%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (28.30%) Social Skills
4 17 (16.04%) Banking
5 12 (11.32%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.66%) Front Office
7 5 (4.72%) Legal
7 5 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.83%) Marketing
9 3 (2.83%) Retail
9 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.89%) Back Office
10 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.94%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (22.64%) Analyst
2 18 (16.98%) Senior
3 14 (13.21%) Lead
4 11 (10.38%) Consultant
5 10 (9.43%) Data Analyst
6 9 (8.49%) Business Analyst
6 9 (8.49%) Project Manager
7 8 (7.55%) Cloud Consultant
7 8 (7.55%) Developer
8 7 (6.60%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (6.60%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 7 (6.60%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (6.60%) Senior Oracle Consultant
8 7 (6.60%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
8 7 (6.60%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 7 (6.60%) Technical Consultant
9 5 (4.72%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.77%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (6.60%) LangChain
3 5 (4.72%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.77%) LangGraph
4 4 (3.77%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.83%) Dask
5 3 (2.83%) Google JAX
5 3 (2.83%) JAX
5 3 (2.83%) LightGBM
5 3 (2.83%) NumPy
5 3 (2.83%) Pandas
5 3 (2.83%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.83%) SciPy
5 3 (2.83%) XGBoost
5 3 (2.83%) XML
6 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.89%) JSON
6 2 (1.89%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.94%) Jinja
7 1 (0.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.49%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.66%) AI Agents
3 6 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (5.66%) Derivative
3 6 (5.66%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.72%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.77%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.83%) Equities
6 3 (2.83%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.89%) AS400
7 2 (1.89%) iPad
7 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.89%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Windows
2 2 (1.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.42%) Analytics
2 27 (25.47%) Agile
2 27 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (21.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (19.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (17.92%) AI
5 19 (17.92%) Data Modelling
6 17 (16.04%) Actionable Insight
7 16 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (13.21%) Project Management
9 13 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (12.26%) Data Analysis
10 12 (11.32%) Machine Learning
11 11 (10.38%) Data Science
11 11 (10.38%) Roadmaps
12 10 (9.43%) Change Management
12 10 (9.43%) Data Governance
12 10 (9.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 10 (9.43%) Migration
13 9 (8.49%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.87%) Python
2 17 (16.04%) SQL
3 5 (4.72%) C++
4 4 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.83%) C#
5 3 (2.83%) Korn
6 2 (1.89%) Java
6 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.89%) R
6 2 (1.89%) RPG
7 1 (0.94%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.15%) Degree
3 13 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.66%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.72%) PMP
6 3 (2.83%) PhD
6 3 (2.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.94%) ACCA
7 1 (0.94%) APMG
7 1 (0.94%) APMP
7 1 (0.94%) CBAP
7 1 (0.94%) CISSP
7 1 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.94%) MCP
7 1 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.94%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.94%) SSCP
7 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) PMO
3 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.83%) GDPR
4 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.89%) NCSC
5 1 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.94%) GRC
5 1 (0.94%) NIST
5 1 (0.94%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.94%) QA
5 1 (0.94%) SLA
5 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.60%) Docker
2 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.94%) Ansible
2 1 (0.94%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 16 (15.09%) Microsoft
1 16 (15.09%) Oracle
2 6 (5.66%) Databricks
3 4 (3.77%) Google
4 3 (2.83%) SAP
4 3 (2.83%) Workday
5 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.89%) Planview
5 2 (1.89%) Polycom
5 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.94%) Adobe
6 1 (0.94%) Ariba
6 1 (0.94%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco
6 1 (0.94%) Foundry
6 1 (0.94%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.94%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.94%) Progress
6 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.94%) Veracode