Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the City of London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 114 168
Rank change year-on-year +11 +54 +12
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 16 13 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.59% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.65% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 8
10th Percentile £424 £425 £509
25th Percentile £466 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £723
Median % change year-on-year - -23.88% +31.30%
75th Percentile - £941 £875
90th Percentile £613 £974 -
Central London median daily rate £510 £550 £723
% change year-on-year -7.27% -23.88% +31.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.39 - -
Median hourly rate £28.15 - -
75th Percentile £28.91 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data-Driven 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the City of London

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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 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Metadata
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
1 3 (18.75%) Tableau
2 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 1 (6.25%) Looker
General
1 9 (56.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Police
3 4 (25.00%) Retail
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 3 (18.75%) Retail Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Marketing
6 1 (6.25%) Advertising
6 1 (6.25%) Back Office
6 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Data Modeller
2 3 (18.75%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Python Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.25%) Ad Operations Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.25%) React Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Change Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) Pandas
2 2 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 2 (12.50%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Next.js
3 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Decision-Making
2 7 (43.75%) Data Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) Analytical Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (31.25%) Data Science
4 5 (31.25%) Predictive Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Data Security
6 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (18.75%) ETL
6 3 (18.75%) Financial Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Metadata Management
6 3 (18.75%) Pricing Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
6 3 (18.75%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) R
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Google
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle
1 1 (6.25%) Salesforce