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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 51 73
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 +39
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 91 87 82
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.84% 3.74% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 4.08% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 54 51
10th Percentile £358 £425 £320
25th Percentile £417 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year - -0.90% -3.48%
75th Percentile £681 £675 £693
90th Percentile £788 £738 £738
London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £39.11
25th Percentile £16.50 - £41.76
Median hourly rate £17.00 - £49.92
75th Percentile £17.50 - £59.33
90th Percentile - - £62.73
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.25 £43.86
% change year-on-year -13.13% -17.35% -16.45%

All Process and 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 1,763 2,133 2,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.83% 91.78% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 1,335 1,874
10th Percentile £328 £363 £358
25th Percentile £424 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £693
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 26 19
10th Percentile £17.61 £19.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.86 £28.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.05%
75th Percentile £38.88 £74.38 £52.75
90th Percentile £61.65 £124.75 £69.75
London median hourly rate £31.49 £38.29 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.75% +2.09% -2.27%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 87 £553 -1.78% 589
West End of London +2 1 £773 +42.53% 4
City of Westminster -1 1 £773 +69.04% 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 5 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.30%) Confluence
3 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.10%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.10%) SPSS
5 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 13 (14.29%) Azure
3 9 (9.89%) AWS
4 5 (5.49%) GCP
5 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (3.30%) GitHub
7 2 (2.20%) Asana
7 2 (2.20%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 2 (2.20%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.20%) dbt
7 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.10%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.10%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) Softphone
1 2 (2.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.98%) Power BI
2 7 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.59%) Tableau
4 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.30%) Metadata
5 3 (3.30%) Power Query
6 2 (2.20%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.20%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.10%) Big Data
7 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.10%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Robot Framework
3 1 (1.10%) Selenium
3 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (41.76%) Social Skills
2 36 (39.56%) Finance
3 32 (35.16%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.29%) Banking
5 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.49%) Legal
8 4 (4.40%) Back Office
8 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Local Government
10 2 (2.20%) Marketing
10 2 (2.20%) Police
10 2 (2.20%) Private Banking
10 2 (2.20%) Retail
10 2 (2.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Analyst
2 14 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 11 (12.09%) Data Analyst
4 9 (9.89%) Lead
5 8 (8.79%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.59%) Data Business Analyst
6 6 (6.59%) Developer
6 6 (6.59%) Senior
7 5 (5.49%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.30%) Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.30%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.20%) Business Systems Analyst
10 2 (2.20%) Programme Manager
10 2 (2.20%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) FastAPI
1 2 (2.20%) scikit-learn
1 2 (2.20%) SQLAlchemy
1 2 (2.20%) TensorFlow
1 2 (2.20%) XML
2 1 (1.10%) CSS3
2 1 (1.10%) Dask
2 1 (1.10%) Google JAX
2 1 (1.10%) HTML5
2 1 (1.10%) JAX
2 1 (1.10%) Jinja
2 1 (1.10%) LightGBM
2 1 (1.10%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.10%) Pandas
2 1 (1.10%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.10%) React
2 1 (1.10%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.10%) Sass
2 1 (1.10%) XGBoost
2 1 (1.10%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.40%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.30%) Reinsurance
4 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.20%) AS400
5 2 (2.20%) iPad
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Derivative
6 1 (1.10%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.10%) iSeries
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Windows
2 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.07%) Agile
2 28 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (24.18%) Data Analysis
4 21 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (21.98%) Analytics
6 19 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (19.78%) Data Modelling
7 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (18.68%) Actionable Insight
8 17 (18.68%) Visualisation
9 11 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.09%) Project Management
10 9 (9.89%) AI
10 9 (9.89%) Roadmaps
11 8 (8.79%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (8.79%) Data Science
11 8 (8.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 8 (8.79%) Migration
11 8 (8.79%) Project Delivery
11 8 (8.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.37%) SQL
2 20 (21.98%) Python
3 8 (8.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.30%) Korn
5 2 (2.20%) Java
5 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.20%) RPG
6 1 (1.10%) C++
6 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.10%) R
6 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.89%) Degree
4 6 (6.59%) PMP
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.10%) ACCA
6 1 (1.10%) APMG
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) CBAP
6 1 (1.10%) CIMA
6 1 (1.10%) CISA
6 1 (1.10%) CISM
6 1 (1.10%) CISSP
6 1 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.49%) PMO
3 3 (3.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.10%) GRC
5 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) SLA
5 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Ansible
1 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle
3 4 (4.40%) Databricks
3 4 (4.40%) SAP
4 3 (3.30%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.20%) FIS
5 2 (2.20%) Polycom
5 2 (2.20%) Workday
6 1 (1.10%) Ariba
6 1 (1.10%) AVEVA
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco
6 1 (1.10%) Citrix
6 1 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.10%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.10%) Planview
6 1 (1.10%) Progress
6 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.10%) Tagetik
6 1 (1.10%) Veracode