Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in London

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 223 305 444
Rank change year-on-year +82 +139 +33
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 130 86 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 0.48% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.54% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 59 39
10th Percentile £400 £415 £510
25th Percentile £428 £425 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £800
90th Percentile £715 £825 £875
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £28.37 - -
25th Percentile £29.85 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £42.42 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -26.32% -22.76%
75th Percentile £55.25 £37.13 £48.75
90th Percentile - £40.96 -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% +7.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in London

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +17 26 £510 -7.27% 28
West London +14 4 £1,000 +73.91% 13
Data-Driven Decision Making
England

Data-Driven Decision Making
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.54%) Confluence
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.77%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.77%) Sketch
2 1 (0.77%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.77%) Maximo
2 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.77%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.77%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.23%) AWS
1 25 (19.23%) Power Platform
2 22 (16.92%) Azure
3 8 (6.15%) GCP
3 8 (6.15%) Snowflake
4 6 (4.62%) SaaS
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (3.08%) Collibra
6 3 (2.31%) Alation
6 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.31%) dbt
6 3 (2.31%) Serverless
7 2 (1.54%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.54%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (1.54%) Figma
7 2 (1.54%) GitHub
7 2 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.54%) Social Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.23%) Power BI
2 20 (15.38%) Tableau
3 11 (8.46%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.69%) Metadata
5 5 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.08%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.31%) Big Data
7 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.31%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.31%) Looker
8 2 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.54%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.54%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.77%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.77%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 5 (3.85%) JIRA
2 4 (3.08%) ERwin
3 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.77%) Gatling
3 1 (0.77%) Git
3 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.77%) JMeter
3 1 (0.77%) Maven
3 1 (0.77%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (51.54%) Social Skills
2 59 (45.38%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (33.08%) Finance
4 21 (16.15%) Marketing
5 13 (10.00%) Retail
6 12 (9.23%) Banking
6 12 (9.23%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (8.46%) Public Sector
8 8 (6.15%) Investment Banking
8 8 (6.15%) Legal
9 6 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (3.85%) Police
11 4 (3.08%) Front Office
11 4 (3.08%) Retail Banking
12 3 (2.31%) Advertising
12 3 (2.31%) Back Office
12 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (13.08%) Analyst
2 15 (11.54%) Data Engineer
2 15 (11.54%) Lead
3 14 (10.77%) Senior
4 12 (9.23%) Developer
5 11 (8.46%) Product Manager
6 10 (7.69%) Architect
6 10 (7.69%) Consultant
6 10 (7.69%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.15%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.62%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.62%) Data Consultant
8 6 (4.62%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.85%) Data Modeller
9 5 (3.85%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.85%) Python Data Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.38%) Kafka
2 4 (3.08%) CSS
2 4 (3.08%) HTML
2 4 (3.08%) PySpark
3 3 (2.31%) Pandas
3 3 (2.31%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.31%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.54%) Jinja
4 2 (1.54%) RESTful
5 1 (0.77%) EDI
5 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.77%) Flash
5 1 (0.77%) Next.js
5 1 (0.77%) NumPy
5 1 (0.77%) OpenCV
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.77%) pydantic
5 1 (0.77%) React
5 1 (0.77%) SciPy
5 1 (0.77%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.46%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (6.92%) Data Structures
3 8 (6.15%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.31%) Equities
4 3 (2.31%) IoT
4 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.54%) Derivative
5 2 (1.54%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.54%) Life Science
5 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.77%) Android
2 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (85.38%) Decision-Making
2 51 (39.23%) Analytics
3 39 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (27.69%) Data Modelling
5 31 (23.85%) Data Governance
6 29 (22.31%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (19.23%) Roadmaps
9 24 (18.46%) Agile
10 23 (17.69%) Visualisation
11 21 (16.15%) Actionable Insight
11 21 (16.15%) Data Analysis
12 20 (15.38%) Data Science
13 18 (13.85%) Customer Experience
13 18 (13.85%) Project Management
14 17 (13.08%) ETL
15 16 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence
15 16 (12.31%) Data Integration
15 16 (12.31%) Data Visualisation
15 16 (12.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.92%) Python
2 34 (26.15%) SQL
3 7 (5.38%) R
4 4 (3.08%) Bash
5 3 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.54%) C++
6 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.77%) Go
7 1 (0.77%) Groovy
7 1 (0.77%) Java
7 1 (0.77%) Perl
7 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.77%) Ruby
7 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (16.92%) Degree
2 14 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.77%) CSPO
7 1 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.77%) ISEB
7 1 (0.77%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.77%) PMP
7 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.31%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.23%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.23%) GDPR
3 5 (3.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.08%) QA
5 2 (1.54%) PMO
6 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.08%) Terraform
2 3 (2.31%) Ansible
2 3 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (6.92%) Oracle
2 8 (6.15%) Google
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.15%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.62%) Databricks
4 5 (3.85%) Informatica
5 4 (3.08%) Adobe
5 4 (3.08%) SAP
6 3 (2.31%) Foundry
6 3 (2.31%) Palantir
7 2 (1.54%) Marketo
7 2 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Sparx
8 1 (0.77%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.77%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.77%) ClickSoftware Technologies
8 1 (0.77%) Pega
8 1 (0.77%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.77%) Talend
8 1 (0.77%) Zuora