Decision-Making Contracts in the City of London

Decision-Making
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Decision-Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Decision-Making over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 64 99
Rank change year-on-year +30 +35 -15
Contract jobs citing Decision-Making 99 64 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.91% 2.96% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 3.26% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 38 44
10th Percentile £315 £357 £289
25th Percentile £500 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -12.64% +0.69%
75th Percentile £700 £542 £697
90th Percentile £763 £649 £864
Central London median daily rate £550 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +15.79% -11.63% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £21.95 - £37.34
Median hourly rate £28.15 - £39.83
75th Percentile £64.46 - £42.32
90th Percentile £85.78 - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £27.81 £39.83
% change year-on-year +1.22% -30.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,566 1,961 3,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.49% 90.83% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,374 2,130
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +5.22%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £821
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 24
10th Percentile £18.70 £19.95 £14.55
25th Percentile £22.88 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £39.21 £40.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £57.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.22% -20.54% -13.58%

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

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

Decision-Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Decision-Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

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

Decision-Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Decision-Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Decision-Making in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Decision-Making in the City of London

Decision-Making
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. 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
Moorgate - 1 £230 -
London Bridge - 1 - -
Decision-Making
Central London

Decision-Making
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 6 (6.06%) Confluence
2 5 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.01%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.02%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.01%) Actimize
2 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.01%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.01%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.24%) Azure
2 22 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 15 (15.15%) AWS
4 6 (6.06%) Snowflake
5 5 (5.05%) GCP
6 4 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.03%) dbt
7 3 (3.03%) GitHub
7 3 (3.03%) SaaS
8 2 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.02%) OCI
8 2 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.01%) Alation
9 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.01%) Collibra
9 1 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.01%) Rubrik
9 1 (1.01%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) Intranet
1 1 (1.01%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.01%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.21%) Power BI
2 13 (13.13%) Tableau
3 9 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (7.07%) Metadata
5 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.04%) Data Mining
6 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.03%) Big Data
7 3 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.03%) Looker
7 3 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.02%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.01%) MS Access
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.01%) Spotfire
9 1 (1.01%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (10.10%) JIRA
2 1 (1.01%) Git
2 1 (1.01%) GitLab
2 1 (1.01%) Serena SBM
2 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.01%) Subversion
2 1 (1.01%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.01%) Terragrunt
General
1 48 (48.48%) Finance
2 43 (43.43%) Social Skills
3 38 (38.38%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (17.17%) Banking
5 10 (10.10%) Police
6 9 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 8 (8.08%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (7.07%) Investment Banking
9 5 (5.05%) Financial Institution
9 5 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (4.04%) Retail
10 4 (4.04%) Retail Banking
11 3 (3.03%) Back Office
11 3 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (2.02%) Advertising
12 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (2.02%) Law
12 2 (2.02%) Legal
12 2 (2.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (28.28%) Analyst
2 18 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 12 (12.12%) Data Engineer
4 10 (10.10%) Data Analyst
5 8 (8.08%) Data Business Analyst
5 8 (8.08%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.06%) Architect
7 4 (4.04%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.04%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Business Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Consultant
8 3 (3.03%) Data Modeller
8 3 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.03%) Developer
8 3 (3.03%) Python Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.03%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.04%) Kafka
1 4 (4.04%) Pandas
1 4 (4.04%) PySpark
1 4 (4.04%) scikit-learn
1 4 (4.04%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.02%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.01%) .NET
3 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.01%) CSS
3 1 (1.01%) HTML
3 1 (1.01%) LDAP
3 1 (1.01%) REST
3 1 (1.01%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.04%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.03%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.02%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.02%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.01%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.01%) Clustering
5 1 (1.01%) Derivative
5 1 (1.01%) Equities
5 1 (1.01%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.01%) NHS
5 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.01%) Replication
5 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.01%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Linux
1 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.02%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) Solaris
2 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.34%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (33.33%) Analytics
3 29 (29.29%) Agile
4 25 (25.25%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (19.19%) Visualisation
6 18 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
6 18 (18.18%) Project Management
7 17 (17.17%) Data Analysis
7 17 (17.17%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 16 (16.16%) Risk Management
9 15 (15.15%) Data Engineering
9 15 (15.15%) Data Modelling
9 15 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (14.14%) Data Governance
10 14 (14.14%) Data Science
10 14 (14.14%) Data Visualisation
11 13 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (12.12%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.32%) SQL
2 25 (25.25%) Python
3 4 (4.04%) Java
3 4 (4.04%) R
4 2 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.01%) Ada
5 1 (1.01%) Bash
5 1 (1.01%) C#
5 1 (1.01%) C++
5 1 (1.01%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.01%) Perl
5 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.01%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (10.10%) Degree
1 10 (10.10%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.04%) PMP
4 2 (2.02%) CISM
4 2 (2.02%) CISSP
4 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.02%) CRISC
4 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.01%) ACCA
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.01%) CBAP
5 1 (1.01%) CCAB
5 1 (1.01%) CIMA
5 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.04%) GDPR
3 3 (3.03%) PMO
4 2 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.01%) COBIT
5 1 (1.01%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.01%) EMIR
5 1 (1.01%) GRC
5 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.01%) ITGC
5 1 (1.01%) MiFID
5 1 (1.01%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Terraform
2 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) Ansible
3 1 (1.01%) Control-M
3 1 (1.01%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (1.01%) Istio
3 1 (1.01%) Podman
3 1 (1.01%) QRadar
3 1 (1.01%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (8.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.06%) Oracle
2 6 (6.06%) SAP
3 4 (4.04%) Databricks
3 4 (4.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.03%) Google
5 2 (2.02%) Planview
5 2 (2.02%) Qualys
5 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.02%) Workday
6 1 (1.01%) Cegedim Rx
6 1 (1.01%) Citrix
6 1 (1.01%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.01%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.01%) EMC
6 1 (1.01%) FIS
6 1 (1.01%) IBM
6 1 (1.01%) Progress
6 1 (1.01%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.01%) Splunk