Problem-Solving Contracts in London

Problem Solving
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,830 2,128 2,941
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.33% 7.86% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.68% 8.62% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 1,366 1,918
10th Percentile £300 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 47 39
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.38 £20.85
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.11 £25.34
Median hourly rate £31.71 £43.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.26% +6.17% +1.25%
75th Percentile £51.06 £61.34 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.50 £64.15
England median hourly rate £17.50 £43.86 £20.00
% change year-on-year -60.10% +119.30% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in London.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
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 Problem-Solving within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +12 283 £538 -2.27% 138
West London +11 41 £463 -13.23% 80
South London +27 31 £406 -18.31% 39
East London +1 14 £435 +35.94% 55
North London +2 2 £425 +193.10% 12
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
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 53 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (1.69%) Confluence
4 26 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.71%) Apache
5 13 (0.71%) CMS
6 9 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
6 9 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (0.38%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 5 (0.27%) govService
9 5 (0.27%) WordPress
10 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.22%) CICS
10 4 (0.22%) Luigi
10 4 (0.22%) nginx
10 4 (0.22%) Tornado
11 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
Applications
1 99 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.87%) Sketch
7 12 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.60%) Adobe XD
8 11 (0.60%) Photoshop
9 7 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 7 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.38%) InVision
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.22%) InDesign
11 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.16%) Windchill
11 3 (0.16%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
12 2 (0.11%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 22 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.98%) Endur
3 13 (0.71%) Shopify
4 11 (0.60%) Aligne
4 11 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.38%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.27%) ION MarketView
8 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
8 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.16%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.16%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.16%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 353 (19.29%) Azure
2 229 (12.51%) AWS
3 124 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
4 108 (5.90%) Power Platform
5 86 (4.70%) GCP
6 72 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (2.68%) Serverless
8 43 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 39 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
10 34 (1.86%) Amazon S3
11 32 (1.75%) GitHub
12 30 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (1.58%) SaaS
14 28 (1.53%) PowerApps
15 26 (1.42%) Figma
16 25 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.37%) WhatsApp
17 24 (1.31%) Power Automate
18 19 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
19 18 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.22%) Firewall
2 54 (2.95%) VPN
3 41 (2.24%) Wireless
4 39 (2.13%) DNS
5 33 (1.80%) WAN
6 30 (1.64%) LAN
7 28 (1.53%) Network Security
8 27 (1.48%) BGP
9 25 (1.37%) OSPF
10 20 (1.09%) TCP/IP
11 19 (1.04%) HTTP
11 19 (1.04%) Internet
12 15 (0.82%) DHCP
12 15 (0.82%) IPsec
13 14 (0.77%) SSH
14 12 (0.66%) MPLS
14 12 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.66%) WLAN
15 11 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (0.60%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 87 (4.75%) Power BI
3 66 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (2.57%) Relational Database
6 43 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.91%) Big Data
8 26 (1.42%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.31%) Tableau
10 22 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 19 (1.04%) MySQL
13 17 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.87%) KDB
15 15 (0.82%) RDBMS
16 14 (0.77%) Hadoop
17 12 (0.66%) BigQuery
17 12 (0.66%) Data Lake
17 12 (0.66%) Metadata
18 10 (0.55%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 110 (6.01%) Git
2 92 (5.03%) JIRA
3 45 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.42%) GitLab
5 19 (1.04%) Selenium
6 16 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.82%) Maven
7 15 (0.82%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.77%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.71%) JUnit
10 11 (0.60%) Subversion
11 10 (0.55%) LoadRunner
12 9 (0.49%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.44%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.38%) Appium
15 6 (0.33%) Gradle
15 6 (0.33%) JMeter
15 6 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 1,049 (57.32%) Social Skills
2 820 (44.81%) Analytical Skills
3 533 (29.13%) Finance
4 167 (9.13%) Banking
5 120 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 114 (6.23%) Marketing
7 108 (5.90%) Presentation Skills
8 64 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
9 60 (3.28%) Investment Banking
10 56 (3.06%) Retail
11 55 (3.01%) Front Office
12 45 (2.46%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.30%) Legal
14 38 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
15 37 (2.02%) Manufacturing
16 29 (1.58%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 22 (1.20%) Law
19 19 (1.04%) Back Office
19 19 (1.04%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 281 (15.36%) Developer
2 256 (13.99%) Analyst
3 155 (8.47%) Senior
4 138 (7.54%) Architect
5 123 (6.72%) Consultant
6 113 (6.17%) Lead
7 98 (5.36%) Business Analyst
8 84 (4.59%) Project Manager
9 49 (2.68%) Java Developer
10 47 (2.57%) Data Engineer
11 41 (2.24%) DevOps Engineer
12 40 (2.19%) Network Engineer
13 39 (2.13%) Support Engineer
14 38 (2.08%) Software Engineer
15 37 (2.02%) Designer
16 36 (1.97%) Data Analyst
17 35 (1.91%) IT Engineer
18 32 (1.75%) Azure Engineer
18 32 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
19 31 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (4.81%) HTML
2 83 (4.54%) React
3 80 (4.37%) CSS
4 68 (3.72%) .NET
5 49 (2.68%) REST
6 46 (2.51%) Node.js
7 45 (2.46%) RESTful
8 43 (2.35%) Kafka
9 41 (2.24%) JSON
10 36 (1.97%) Spring
11 31 (1.69%) XML
12 27 (1.48%) Web Services
13 18 (0.98%) AngularJS
14 17 (0.93%) Spring Boot
15 16 (0.87%) .NET Framework
15 16 (0.87%) ASP.NET
16 15 (0.82%) .NET Core
16 15 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (0.82%) SOAP
17 14 (0.77%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 80 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
3 76 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 52 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
6 40 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 34 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 32 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (1.69%) Derivative
9 31 (1.69%) Onboarding
10 29 (1.58%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.26%) Fixed Income
13 21 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.04%) Cloud Native
14 19 (1.04%) Security Posture
15 18 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.87%) Hedge funds
16 16 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.74%) Windows
2 116 (6.34%) Linux
3 48 (2.62%) Unix
4 45 (2.46%) Windows 10
5 37 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.86%) Windows 7
7 32 (1.75%) Android
8 19 (1.04%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.82%) Mac OS X
10 11 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.49%) Mac OS
12 9 (0.49%) VMS
13 7 (0.38%) Solaris
14 6 (0.33%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
15 5 (0.27%) zOS
16 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
18 1 (0.055%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (28.20%) Agile
2 258 (14.10%) Project Management
3 232 (12.68%) Computer Science
4 231 (12.62%) DevOps
5 193 (10.55%) Decision-Making
6 185 (10.11%) Migration
7 179 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 165 (9.02%) Analytics
9 163 (8.91%) CI/CD
10 144 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 140 (7.65%) Business Intelligence
12 132 (7.21%) Data Modelling
13 125 (6.83%) Scrum
14 124 (6.78%) Customer Service
15 117 (6.39%) Data Analysis
16 110 (6.01%) Change Management
17 108 (5.90%) Risk Management
18 106 (5.79%) Mentoring
19 100 (5.46%) User Experience
20 98 (5.36%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 295 (16.12%) Python
2 281 (15.36%) SQL
3 180 (9.84%) Java
4 146 (7.98%) JavaScript
5 115 (6.28%) C#
6 79 (4.32%) PowerShell
7 52 (2.84%) TypeScript
8 37 (2.02%) Scala
9 34 (1.86%) C++
10 31 (1.69%) Bash
11 29 (1.58%) PL/SQL
12 28 (1.53%) T-SQL
13 27 (1.48%) Go
14 25 (1.37%) Shell Script
15 17 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 16 (0.87%) Perl
17 15 (0.82%) R
18 14 (0.77%) Bicep
18 14 (0.77%) Ruby
19 13 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 384 (20.98%) Degree
2 198 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 180 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 153 (8.36%) SC Cleared
5 68 (3.72%) Master's Degree
6 41 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (1.80%) CISSP
8 30 (1.64%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.64%) PMP
9 27 (1.48%) CCNP
9 27 (1.48%) CISM
9 27 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.98%) CCIE
12 17 (0.93%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.87%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.87%) PhD
14 15 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.14%) QA
2 93 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 44 (2.40%) SLA
4 37 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.31%) NIST
6 22 (1.20%) GDPR
6 22 (1.20%) PMO
7 17 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.49%) WCAG
10 8 (0.44%) NCSC
11 7 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.38%) ISO 31000
12 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
12 6 (0.33%) MiFID
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.27%) GRC
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 106 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 88 (4.81%) Docker
3 35 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.98%) Firmware
5 14 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.49%) KVM
7 9 (0.49%) vSphere
8 8 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 8 (0.44%) HDFS
9 7 (0.38%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.33%) NFS
11 4 (0.22%) vCloud
11 4 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.11%) XenApp
14 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.055%) RACF
Systems Management
1 93 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 77 (4.21%) Terraform
3 40 (2.19%) Ansible
4 32 (1.75%) SCCM
5 30 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (1.20%) Grafana
7 19 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.87%) Puppet
9 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.44%) Consul
13 7 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
14 5 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
14 5 (0.27%) PowerCLI
14 5 (0.27%) QRadar
14 5 (0.27%) VxRail
15 4 (0.22%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 353 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 125 (6.83%) Oracle
3 117 (6.39%) SAP
4 63 (3.44%) Google
5 58 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 54 (2.95%) Cisco
7 52 (2.84%) Adobe
8 47 (2.57%) VMware
9 42 (2.30%) Databricks
10 41 (2.24%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.58%) Apple
12 23 (1.26%) Dell
13 21 (1.15%) Juniper
13 21 (1.15%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.04%) IBM
15 18 (0.98%) Citrix
15 18 (0.98%) Splunk
16 16 (0.87%) Sitecore
17 15 (0.82%) Fortinet
18 12 (0.66%) F5