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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 43 60
Rank change year-on-year +15 +17 +40
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 145 96 85
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.28% 4.85% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.13% 5.25% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 63 44
10th Percentile £325 £307 £349
25th Percentile £463 £417 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +1.46% -2.38%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £691
90th Percentile £776 £675 £796
London median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £27.81
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile - - £65.00
London median hourly rate £27.75 £49.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -43.94% +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 2,033 1,828 2,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.08% 92.28% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 1,200 1,624
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% -7.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.66 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £35.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.40 £46.27 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 +25 135 £563 +7.14% 262
West End of London +1 1 - - 9
City of Westminster -5 1 £700 +61.66% 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 7 (4.83%) Confluence
2 6 (4.14%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.38%) Apache
4 2 (1.38%) Ethereum
4 2 (1.38%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.69%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.14%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.69%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.69%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.69%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.83%) Azure
2 22 (15.17%) AWS
2 22 (15.17%) Power Platform
3 20 (13.79%) GCP
4 7 (4.83%) Snowflake
5 5 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.45%) dbt
6 4 (2.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.07%) Dagster
7 3 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.07%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.07%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.07%) Prefect
7 3 (2.07%) SaaS
7 3 (2.07%) Serverless
7 3 (2.07%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.10%) Power BI
2 11 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (4.14%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.14%) Tableau
4 4 (2.76%) Big Data
4 4 (2.76%) BigQuery
4 4 (2.76%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.76%) Looker
5 3 (2.07%) Metadata
5 3 (2.07%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.38%) MySQL
6 2 (1.38%) OLAP
6 2 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (11.03%) JIRA
2 7 (4.83%) Git
3 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.38%) JUnit
5 1 (0.69%) ERwin
5 1 (0.69%) MLflow
General
1 70 (48.28%) Finance
2 44 (30.34%) Social Skills
3 42 (28.97%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.48%) Banking
5 16 (11.03%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.21%) Legal
7 6 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.14%) Retail
8 5 (3.45%) Front Office
9 4 (2.76%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.76%) Marketing
9 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.38%) Military
11 1 (0.69%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (18.62%) Senior
2 23 (15.86%) Analyst
3 16 (11.03%) Lead
4 13 (8.97%) Consultant
4 13 (8.97%) Data Engineer
4 13 (8.97%) Project Manager
5 11 (7.59%) Business Analyst
6 10 (6.90%) Developer
7 9 (6.21%) Architect
7 9 (6.21%) Cloud Consultant
7 9 (6.21%) Senior Consultant
8 7 (4.83%) Data Analyst
8 7 (4.83%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (4.83%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 7 (4.83%) Senior Oracle Consultant
8 7 (4.83%) Senior Oracle Technical Consultant
8 7 (4.83%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 7 (4.83%) Technical Consultant
9 6 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.83%) LangChain
1 7 (4.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (4.14%) PyTorch
3 5 (3.45%) Pandas
3 5 (3.45%) scikit-learn
3 5 (3.45%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.76%) LangGraph
4 4 (2.76%) NumPy
5 3 (2.07%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.07%) Dask
5 3 (2.07%) Google JAX
5 3 (2.07%) JAX
5 3 (2.07%) Kafka
5 3 (2.07%) LightGBM
5 3 (2.07%) REST
5 3 (2.07%) RESTful
5 3 (2.07%) SciPy
5 3 (2.07%) XGBoost
6 2 (1.38%) JSON
6 2 (1.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.83%) AI Agents
2 7 (4.83%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.14%) Derivative
3 6 (4.14%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.07%) Equities
5 3 (2.07%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.38%) FMCG
6 2 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.38%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.69%) VMS
1 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.79%) Analytics
2 35 (24.14%) Agile
3 32 (22.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (21.38%) AI
5 26 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (17.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (13.79%) Data Modelling
7 17 (11.72%) Roadmaps
8 16 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (11.03%) Machine Learning
9 15 (10.34%) Data Engineering
9 15 (10.34%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 15 (10.34%) Project Management
10 14 (9.66%) Actionable Insight
10 14 (9.66%) Data Science
11 13 (8.97%) Data Governance
12 12 (8.28%) Migration
12 12 (8.28%) Risk Management
13 11 (7.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.69%) Python
2 25 (17.24%) SQL
3 5 (3.45%) C#
3 5 (3.45%) Java
4 4 (2.76%) C++
5 3 (2.07%) R
6 2 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.69%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.69%) Korn
7 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (11.72%) Degree
1 17 (11.72%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.66%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.52%) PMP
4 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.14%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.45%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.07%) CISM
7 3 (2.07%) CISSP
7 3 (2.07%) PhD
8 2 (1.38%) CISA
8 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.69%) CEH
9 1 (0.69%) ISEB
9 1 (0.69%) MBA
9 1 (0.69%) MOS
9 1 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.69%) RIBA
9 1 (0.69%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.28%) PMO
3 7 (4.83%) GDPR
4 6 (4.14%) QA
5 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.38%) GRC
6 2 (1.38%) NCSC
6 2 (1.38%) NIST
6 2 (1.38%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.69%) GMP
7 1 (0.69%) SLA
7 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.69%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.38%) RSA Archer
2 2 (1.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.97%) Oracle
3 10 (6.90%) Databricks
4 9 (6.21%) Google
5 7 (4.83%) Workday
6 6 (4.14%) Planview
7 5 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.76%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.07%) SAP
10 2 (1.38%) Adobe
10 2 (1.38%) Informatica
10 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.69%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.69%) Anaplan
11 1 (0.69%) Ariba
11 1 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.69%) Cisco
11 1 (0.69%) Foundry
11 1 (0.69%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.69%) MicroStrategy