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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 122 160
Rank change year-on-year +15 +38 +39
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 18 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.96% 0.57% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.62% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 4
10th Percentile £425 £525 £474
25th Percentile £469 £530 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £663 £561
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% +18.20% -13.77%
75th Percentile - £841 £682
90th Percentile £580 £918 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £663 £561
% change year-on-year -16.98% +18.20% -13.77%
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 1,756 1,937 3,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.00% 91.41% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,324 2,086
10th Percentile £338 £363 £349
25th Percentile £434 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 21
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.88 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +14.29% -18.36%
75th Percentile £56.75 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £30.41 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.89% -13.13% -16.67%

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

Data-Driven Decision Making
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

Data-Driven Decision Making
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 21 July 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 4 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) OCI
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Power BI
2 5 (27.78%) Metadata
2 5 (27.78%) Tableau
3 4 (22.22%) Data Mining
3 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.56%) Looker
4 1 (5.56%) Power Query
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 12 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Police
3 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
5 4 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Advertising
6 1 (5.56%) Back Office
6 1 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Marketing
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Business Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Change Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Communications Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Governance Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.56%) Data Quality Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
1 4 (22.22%) Pandas
1 4 (22.22%) scikit-learn
1 4 (22.22%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Decision-Making
2 8 (44.44%) Actionable Insight
2 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 8 (44.44%) Data Science
3 7 (38.89%) Analytics
3 7 (38.89%) Data Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) Visualisation
4 6 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 6 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 5 (27.78%) Analytical Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) Data Management
5 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (27.78%) Data Security
5 5 (27.78%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (27.78%) Metadata Management
5 5 (27.78%) Predictive Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) Data Lineage
6 4 (22.22%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) SQL
2 10 (55.56%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) R
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) Tagetik