Trade-off Analysis Contract Job Trends in London

Trade-off Analysis
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 446 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Trade-off Analysis 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £521 - -
25th Percentile £590 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £740 - -
90th Percentile £740 - -
England median daily rate £535 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,861 12,373 14,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.58% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,170 9,513
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 241 181
10th Percentile £16.19 £17.08 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.15
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -17.81% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

Trade-off Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Trade-off Analysis job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Trade-off Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Trade-off Analysis in London

Trade-off Analysis
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 Trade-off Analysis within the London region over the 6 months to 28 September 2026. 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 - 2 £603 -
Trade-off Analysis
England

Trade-off Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Neo4j
1 1 (14.29%) OLAP
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Military
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) gRPC
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) React Native
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) AI
1 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
1 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
1 3 (42.86%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) LLM
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) SAP