Trade-off Analysis Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Trade-off Analysis
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Trade-off Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Trade-off Analysis 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.091% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £499 - -
25th Percentile £534 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 - -
75th Percentile £674 - -
90th Percentile £712 - -
Central London median daily rate £603 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Trade-off Analysis 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 1,968 1,629 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.37% 94.33% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,358 1,094 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £455 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 19
10th Percentile £16.91 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £29.78 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £51.54 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.28% -18.57% +30.84%

Trade-off Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Trade-off Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Trade-off Analysis job vacancy trend in the City of London

Trade-off Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Trade-off Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Trade-off Analysis

Trade-off Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Trade-off Analysis in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Trade-off Analysis in the City of London

Trade-off Analysis
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 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) React Native
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Decision Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google