Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Central London

Problem Solving
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 237 366 279
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.09% 17.83% 12.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.39% 19.01% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 242 191
10th Percentile £226 £326 £313
25th Percentile £405 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -
75th Percentile £656 £688 £688
90th Percentile £738 £813 £775
London median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.71% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 1
10th Percentile £17.37 £20.53 -
25th Percentile - £31.80 -
Median hourly rate £17.60 £38.78 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year -54.61% +46.00% -49.41%
75th Percentile £29.14 £50.75 -
90th Percentile £71.25 £54.65 -
London median hourly rate £19.03 £35.00 £35.61
% change year-on-year -45.63% -1.70% -14.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Problem-Solving 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,281 1,925 2,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.46% 93.77% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,544 1,251 1,468
10th Percentile £363 £331 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 21
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Central London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Central London over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Central London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Central London over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Central London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
City of London -16 211 £520 -9.57% 115
West End of London +2 12 £400 +86.05% 6
City of Westminster -2 12 £560 +24.44% 19
Lambeth -1 1 - -
Southwark -3 1 £650 +44.44% 1
Problem-Solving
London

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.22%) Confluence
3 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.69%) CICS
5 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.84%) Apache
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.84%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.84%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.84%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.84%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.84%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.84%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.42%) Findur
4 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.42%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.42%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 47 (19.83%) Azure
2 33 (13.92%) AWS
3 25 (10.55%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (8.02%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.33%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.06%) GCP
7 11 (4.64%) GitHub
8 8 (3.38%) SaaS
9 6 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.53%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (2.53%) Serverless
10 5 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.69%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.69%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.69%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.64%) DNS
1 11 (4.64%) VPN
2 8 (3.38%) Firewall
2 8 (3.38%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.95%) Network Security
4 6 (2.53%) DHCP
5 4 (1.69%) LAN
5 4 (1.69%) WAN
6 3 (1.27%) HTTP
6 3 (1.27%) VLAN
6 3 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.84%) Internet
7 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.42%) 5G
8 1 (0.42%) BGP
8 1 (0.42%) DKIM
8 1 (0.42%) DMARC
8 1 (0.42%) Multicast
8 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.06%) Power BI
2 9 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.38%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.53%) Db2
4 6 (2.53%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.11%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.69%) Metadata
6 4 (1.69%) SAP BW
6 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.84%) Power Query
7 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (12.66%) JIRA
2 7 (2.95%) GitLab
2 7 (2.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.53%) Selenium
4 5 (2.11%) Git
5 4 (1.69%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.69%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.84%) JUnit
6 2 (0.84%) Mockito
7 1 (0.42%) Appium
7 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.42%) Gatling
7 1 (0.42%) Gradle
7 1 (0.42%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.42%) JMeter
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.42%) WebDriver
General
1 124 (52.32%) Social Skills
2 99 (41.77%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (29.54%) Finance
4 23 (9.70%) Banking
5 15 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.22%) Front Office
7 10 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.80%) Marketing
9 8 (3.38%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.95%) Retail
10 7 (2.95%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.11%) Law
12 5 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.27%) Advertising
13 3 (1.27%) Legal
13 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (18.14%) Analyst
2 22 (9.28%) Business Analyst
3 21 (8.86%) Architect
3 21 (8.86%) Senior
4 19 (8.02%) Developer
5 15 (6.33%) Support Engineer
6 12 (5.06%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.22%) Consultant
7 10 (4.22%) Lead
8 8 (3.38%) Data Engineer
8 8 (3.38%) Support Analyst
9 7 (2.95%) Digital Analyst
9 7 (2.95%) Digital Business Analyst
9 7 (2.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (2.95%) IT Analyst
9 7 (2.95%) IT Support
10 6 (2.53%) Applications Support
10 6 (2.53%) IT Engineer
10 6 (2.53%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.02%) REST
2 14 (5.91%) React
3 13 (5.49%) JSON
3 13 (5.49%) SOAP
4 10 (4.22%) Kafka
5 9 (3.80%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.38%) .NET
7 7 (2.95%) Web Services
7 7 (2.95%) XML
8 6 (2.53%) CSS
8 6 (2.53%) HTML
8 6 (2.53%) PySpark
8 6 (2.53%) RESTful
8 6 (2.53%) Spring
8 6 (2.53%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.11%) Middleware
9 5 (2.11%) Playwright
10 4 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.69%) WSDL
11 3 (1.27%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.44%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.22%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.38%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.95%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.11%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.11%) CMDB
8 4 (1.69%) DataPower
8 4 (1.69%) NHS
8 4 (1.69%) Online Banking
8 4 (1.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.92%) Windows
2 12 (5.06%) Mac OS
3 10 (4.22%) Linux
4 6 (2.53%) Windows 10
4 6 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.11%) Unix
6 4 (1.69%) Android
6 4 (1.69%) zOS
7 3 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.42%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (28.27%) Agile
2 58 (24.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (18.99%) AI
4 35 (14.77%) CI/CD
5 34 (14.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (12.24%) Analytics
6 29 (12.24%) DevOps
7 27 (11.39%) Decision-Making
8 26 (10.97%) Migration
9 25 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (10.13%) Validation
11 22 (9.28%) ITIL
12 20 (8.44%) Collaborative Working
12 20 (8.44%) Microservices
13 19 (8.02%) Customer Service
13 19 (8.02%) Data Modelling
14 18 (7.59%) Workflow
15 17 (7.17%) Change Management
15 17 (7.17%) Machine Learning
16 16 (6.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 45 (18.99%) SQL
2 42 (17.72%) Python
3 20 (8.44%) Java
4 16 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.06%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.64%) C#
7 10 (4.22%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.53%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.69%) JCL
10 3 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Bicep
11 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.84%) Go
12 1 (0.42%) ABAP
12 1 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.42%) RPG
12 1 (0.42%) SOQL
12 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.02%) Degree
4 7 (2.95%) CISSP
5 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.11%) CISA
6 5 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.11%) PMP
7 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.69%) CRISC
7 4 (1.69%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.27%) CISM
8 3 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.84%) CCNA
9 2 (0.84%) CSPO
9 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.75%) Data Quality
1 16 (6.75%) QA
2 8 (3.38%) GDPR
3 6 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.53%) NIST
3 6 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.11%) PMO
5 4 (1.69%) COBIT
5 4 (1.69%) GRC
5 4 (1.69%) ITGC
5 4 (1.69%) SLA
6 3 (1.27%) WCAG
7 2 (0.84%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.84%) GxP
7 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.42%) GAAP
8 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.42%) NCSC
8 1 (0.42%) PERC
System Software
1 24 (10.13%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.80%) Docker
3 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.84%) IAG
4 2 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.42%) Firmware
5 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.53%) Terraform
4 4 (1.69%) Grafana
4 4 (1.69%) SCCM
5 3 (1.27%) Ansible
5 3 (1.27%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.42%) Control-M
7 1 (0.42%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (23.63%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.86%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.06%) Google
3 12 (5.06%) SAP
4 9 (3.80%) Oracle
5 7 (2.95%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.95%) Splunk
5 7 (2.95%) Workday
6 6 (2.53%) Databricks
7 5 (2.11%) Apple
7 5 (2.11%) Cisco
7 5 (2.11%) Remedy
7 5 (2.11%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.69%) Informatica
9 3 (1.27%) BMC
9 3 (1.27%) Charles River
9 3 (1.27%) IBM
9 3 (1.27%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.27%) Zscaler