Commercial Awareness Contracts in the City of London

Commercial Awareness
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Commercial Awareness over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 126 152
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 +29
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 4 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.092% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.10% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £536
25th Percentile £700 £713 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £701 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.57% +19.15%
75th Percentile £701 £738 £734
90th Percentile - - £738
Central London median daily rate £701 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.57% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Commercial Awareness 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,625 1,959 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.61% 90.44% 91.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 1,379 2,192
10th Percentile £356 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Commercial Awareness as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Commercial Awareness in the City of London

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Commercial Awareness in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the City of London

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Commercial Awareness in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the City of London

Commercial Awareness
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Head of IT
1 1 (25.00%) Head of IT Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Service Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) CAFM
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow