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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 216 351 275
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 8.83% 17.83% 11.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.35% 19.15% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 226 183
10th Percentile £320 £341 £313
25th Percentile £439 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £683
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
London median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £28.04 £30.87 £23.71
25th Percentile £39.34 £41.54 £24.78
Median hourly rate £41.02 £49.50 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +86.37% -48.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £50.75 £38.41
90th Percentile £48.20 £58.55 £45.51
London median hourly rate £35.71 £44.04 £26.97
% change year-on-year -18.91% +63.28% -38.51%

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 2,087 1,833 2,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.32% 93.09% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,409 1,182 1,550
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 23
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £19.13 £22.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £45.03 £43.75 £30.41
90th Percentile £59.64 £50.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.50 £27.92
% change year-on-year +3.51% +23.57% -28.41%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -18 193 £550 -1.79% 228
West End of London -2 7 £543 +11.86% 9
City of Westminster -3 7 £575 +17.95% 4
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 - 2
Southwark 0 1 £650 +52.94% 2
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 9 (4.17%) Confluence
2 8 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.85%) CICS
5 2 (0.93%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.39%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.93%) Summit
2 2 (0.93%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.46%) BASE24
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.46%) Findur
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.46%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.46%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.44%) Azure
2 25 (11.57%) AWS
3 20 (9.26%) Power Platform
4 15 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.70%) GCP
7 6 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.78%) GitHub
8 5 (2.31%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.31%) Serverless
8 5 (2.31%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.85%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.85%) SaaS
10 3 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.39%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.39%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.70%) Firewall
2 7 (3.24%) Network Security
3 5 (2.31%) VPN
4 3 (1.39%) DHCP
4 3 (1.39%) DNS
4 3 (1.39%) Internet
4 3 (1.39%) LAN
4 3 (1.39%) WAN
5 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.46%) 4G
6 1 (0.46%) 5G
6 1 (0.46%) BGP
6 1 (0.46%) Broadband
6 1 (0.46%) NAS
6 1 (0.46%) OSPF
6 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.46%) VLAN
6 1 (0.46%) Wireless
6 1 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.48%) Power BI
2 13 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.24%) Metadata
4 7 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.31%) DB2
6 5 (2.31%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.31%) Tableau
7 4 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.85%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.39%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.93%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.93%) Looker
9 2 (0.93%) Power Query
9 2 (0.93%) PowerCenter
9 2 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.46%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (10.19%) JIRA
2 8 (3.70%) Git
3 6 (2.78%) GitLab
4 4 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.39%) Selenium
6 2 (0.93%) Postman
6 2 (0.93%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) ERwin
7 1 (0.46%) JUnit
7 1 (0.46%) Mockito
7 1 (0.46%) Snyk
7 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.46%) Toad
7 1 (0.46%) Vite
General
1 105 (48.61%) Social Skills
2 86 (39.81%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (36.57%) Finance
4 24 (11.11%) Banking
5 15 (6.94%) Front Office
6 13 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (4.17%) Marketing
10 8 (3.70%) Legal
11 7 (3.24%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.78%) Telecoms
13 5 (2.31%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.31%) Retail
14 4 (1.85%) Law
14 4 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.39%) Advertising
15 3 (1.39%) Back Office
15 3 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (21.30%) Analyst
2 22 (10.19%) Business Analyst
3 21 (9.72%) Senior
4 16 (7.41%) Developer
4 16 (7.41%) Lead
5 12 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 12 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 10 (4.63%) Architect
7 9 (4.17%) Consultant
7 9 (4.17%) Data Analyst
8 8 (3.70%) IT Analyst
9 7 (3.24%) Digital Analyst
9 7 (3.24%) Technical Leader
10 6 (2.78%) Digital Business Analyst
10 6 (2.78%) Programme Manager
11 5 (2.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (2.31%) Network Engineer
11 5 (2.31%) Product Manager
11 5 (2.31%) Support Engineer
12 4 (1.85%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.94%) REST
2 9 (4.17%) SOAP
3 8 (3.70%) JSON
3 8 (3.70%) React
4 7 (3.24%) Kafka
5 6 (2.78%) RESTful
5 6 (2.78%) Web Services
6 5 (2.31%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (2.31%) LangChain
6 5 (2.31%) Middleware
7 4 (1.85%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.85%) CSS
7 4 (1.85%) HTML
7 4 (1.85%) LangGraph
7 4 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (1.85%) PySpark
7 4 (1.85%) Spring
7 4 (1.85%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.85%) WSDL
7 4 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.02%) Onboarding
1 13 (6.02%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (4.17%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.70%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.78%) Equities
7 5 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.31%) CMDB
7 5 (2.31%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.31%) Derivative
7 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.85%) DataPower
8 4 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.85%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.56%) Windows
2 5 (2.31%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.85%) Linux
3 4 (1.85%) zOS
4 3 (1.39%) Unix
4 3 (1.39%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.46%) Android
6 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.46%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.46%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (21.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (20.83%) Agile
3 34 (15.74%) AI
4 30 (13.89%) Decision-Making
5 28 (12.96%) Analytics
6 25 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 24 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (10.65%) Data Modelling
9 22 (10.19%) Migration
10 20 (9.26%) CI/CD
10 20 (9.26%) Validation
11 19 (8.80%) Computer Science
11 19 (8.80%) Project Management
12 18 (8.33%) Business Analysis
12 18 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (8.33%) Risk Management
13 17 (7.87%) Change Management
14 16 (7.41%) Data Governance
14 16 (7.41%) DevOps
15 15 (6.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (21.76%) SQL
2 38 (17.59%) Python
3 14 (6.48%) Java
4 11 (5.09%) C#
4 11 (5.09%) JavaScript
5 10 (4.63%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.24%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.31%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.85%) JCL
9 3 (1.39%) C++
10 2 (0.93%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.93%) Bicep
10 2 (0.93%) Go
10 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.46%) ABAP
11 1 (0.46%) Bash
11 1 (0.46%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.46%) Groovy
11 1 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (11.11%) Degree
2 17 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.63%) CISSP
5 8 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.24%) CRISC
7 6 (2.78%) CISM
7 6 (2.78%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.31%) CISA
8 5 (2.31%) PMP
9 4 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.93%) CASP
10 2 (0.93%) CCNA
10 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.93%) GSEC
10 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.09%) QA
3 8 (3.70%) GDPR
3 8 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.70%) PMO
4 7 (3.24%) NIST
5 6 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.31%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.85%) COBIT
7 4 (1.85%) ITGC
8 3 (1.39%) MiFID
8 3 (1.39%) WCAG
9 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.93%) GRC
9 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.93%) IFRS
9 2 (0.93%) SLA
10 1 (0.46%) EMIR
10 1 (0.46%) GMP
10 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 11 (5.09%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.78%) Docker
3 5 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.46%) NFS
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.39%) Ansible
3 3 (1.39%) Grafana
4 2 (0.93%) Terraform
5 1 (0.46%) Control-M
5 1 (0.46%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.46%) logstash
5 1 (0.46%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.46%) vMotion
5 1 (0.46%) vRealize
5 1 (0.46%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 45 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.02%) Oracle
3 12 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.70%) Google
4 8 (3.70%) SAP
5 7 (3.24%) Databricks
6 6 (2.78%) Bloomberg
6 6 (2.78%) Charles River
6 6 (2.78%) Workday
7 5 (2.31%) Informatica
7 5 (2.31%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.31%) Splunk
8 4 (1.85%) Cisco
9 3 (1.39%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.39%) Murex
9 3 (1.39%) VMware
10 2 (0.93%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft