Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Commercial Awareness
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 113 134
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 +54
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £604 £548
25th Percentile £719 £609 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £638 £638
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £756 £684 £697
90th Percentile - £701 £714
Central London median daily rate £738 £638 £638
% change year-on-year +15.69% - +13.33%

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 1,653 1,895 2,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.53% 92.17% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,156 1,604
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £422 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Commercial Awareness relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in the City of London

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior User Experience Researcher
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience Researcher
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (50.00%) Matrix Management
2 2 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Cognitive Psychology
3 1 (25.00%) Diary Studies
3 1 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
3 1 (25.00%) Source to Pay
3 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Relationship Management
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Ariba
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Hotjar