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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 317 436
Rank change year-on-year +88 +119 +45
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 123 79 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.98% 0.45% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.51% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 56 34
10th Percentile £400 £415 £436
25th Percentile £427 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £688
90th Percentile £682 £825 £826
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 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 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% -22.76%

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 11,537 15,496 23,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.66% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,810 11,111 16,940
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 307 270
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.28
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +22 27 £550 - 33
West London +12 3 £1,000 +73.91% 11
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 7 (5.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.44%) Confluence
3 2 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.81%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.81%) Sketch
2 1 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.81%) Maximo
2 1 (0.81%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.81%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.81%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.14%) AWS
2 25 (20.33%) Power Platform
3 24 (19.51%) Azure
4 8 (6.50%) GCP
4 8 (6.50%) Snowflake
5 6 (4.88%) SaaS
6 5 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.25%) Collibra
7 4 (3.25%) dbt
8 3 (2.44%) Alation
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.44%) GitHub
8 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.63%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.63%) Figma
9 2 (1.63%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.33%) Power BI
2 19 (15.45%) Tableau
3 13 (10.57%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (10.57%) Metadata
4 7 (5.69%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.25%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.44%) Big Data
7 3 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.44%) Looker
7 3 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.63%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.63%) Power Query
8 2 (1.63%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.81%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 6 (4.88%) JIRA
2 4 (3.25%) ERwin
General
1 61 (49.59%) Social Skills
2 58 (47.15%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (34.96%) Finance
4 18 (14.63%) Marketing
5 13 (10.57%) Public Sector
6 12 (9.76%) Banking
6 12 (9.76%) Retail
7 10 (8.13%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (6.50%) Investment Banking
8 8 (6.50%) Police
9 7 (5.69%) Legal
10 5 (4.07%) Corporate Banking
10 5 (4.07%) Front Office
10 5 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (3.25%) Retail Banking
12 3 (2.44%) Advertising
12 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (13.82%) Analyst
2 15 (12.20%) Data Engineer
2 15 (12.20%) Senior
3 12 (9.76%) Developer
3 12 (9.76%) Lead
4 10 (8.13%) Architect
4 10 (8.13%) Data Architect
5 9 (7.32%) Business Analyst
5 9 (7.32%) Consultant
6 7 (5.69%) Data Scientist
6 7 (5.69%) Product Manager
7 6 (4.88%) Data Analyst
7 6 (4.88%) Data Consultant
7 6 (4.88%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.07%) Data Modeller
8 5 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.07%) Python Data Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.32%) Kafka
2 5 (4.07%) Pandas
2 5 (4.07%) scikit-learn
2 5 (4.07%) TensorFlow
3 4 (3.25%) PySpark
4 3 (2.44%) Jinja
5 2 (1.63%) CSS
5 2 (1.63%) HTML
5 2 (1.63%) RESTful
6 1 (0.81%) EDI
6 1 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.81%) Flash
6 1 (0.81%) Next.js
6 1 (0.81%) NumPy
6 1 (0.81%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.81%) pydantic
6 1 (0.81%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.81%) React
6 1 (0.81%) SciPy
6 1 (0.81%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (8.13%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.32%) Data Structures
3 9 (7.32%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.25%) Equities
5 3 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.63%) Derivative
6 2 (1.63%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.63%) IoT
6 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.63%) Life Science
6 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.63%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.63%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Android
2 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (88.62%) Decision-Making
2 48 (39.02%) Analytics
3 39 (31.71%) Data Modelling
4 36 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (25.20%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (21.95%) Data Governance
6 27 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (19.51%) Data Science
8 22 (17.89%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (17.07%) Agile
9 21 (17.07%) Data Analysis
9 21 (17.07%) Roadmaps
9 21 (17.07%) Visualisation
10 20 (16.26%) Artificial Intelligence
10 20 (16.26%) Machine Learning
11 19 (15.45%) Data Integration
12 17 (13.82%) ETL
13 16 (13.01%) Data Engineering
13 16 (13.01%) Data Management
13 16 (13.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (32.52%) Python
2 39 (31.71%) SQL
3 9 (7.32%) R
4 5 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.25%) Bash
6 2 (1.63%) C++
6 2 (1.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (16.26%) Degree
2 17 (13.82%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.44%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.81%) CSPO
6 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) ISEB
6 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PMP
6 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.57%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.76%) Accessibility
3 9 (7.32%) GDPR
4 3 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.63%) PMO
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.63%) Ansible
2 2 (1.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (6.50%) Google
2 7 (5.69%) Oracle
3 6 (4.88%) Databricks
3 6 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.07%) Informatica
5 4 (3.25%) SAP
6 3 (2.44%) Foundry
6 3 (2.44%) Palantir
7 2 (1.63%) Adobe
7 2 (1.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.63%) Sparx
8 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.81%) ClickSoftware Technologies
8 1 (0.81%) IBM
8 1 (0.81%) Pega
8 1 (0.81%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.81%) Talend
8 1 (0.81%) Zuora