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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 359 302 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 18.40% 13.02% 8.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.61% 14.13% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 195 184
10th Percentile £306 £339 £311
25th Percentile £401 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £800 £750 £850
London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
10th Percentile £18.28 £15.26 £16.65
25th Percentile £24.38 £17.14 £23.25
Median hourly rate £34.48 £20.78 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.93% -44.59% -31.19%
75th Percentile £49.22 £23.92 £54.75
90th Percentile £52.05 £25.50 £63.15
London median hourly rate £32.98 £40.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year -17.55% +1.47% +25.14%

All Process and 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 1,831 2,137 2,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.85% 92.11% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,382 2,004
10th Percentile £319 £375 £357
25th Percentile £419 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 17
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.56 £16.61
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £42.00 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £110.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
City of London +4 327 £550 -4.35% 430
City of Westminster +2 8 £463 +2.78% 4
West End of London +6 7 £450 -7.50% 8
Kensington and Chelsea 0 3 £450 - 3
Lambeth - 1 £240 -
Problem-Solving
London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 16 (4.46%) Confluence
1 16 (4.46%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.23%) Apache
4 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 2 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (10.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (5.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.39%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.11%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.84%) CA PPM
3 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.84%) ION Anvil
3 3 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.56%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.56%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.56%) SAP VC
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.28%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 59 (16.43%) Azure
2 38 (10.58%) AWS
3 34 (9.47%) Power Platform
4 21 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.90%) GCP
6 11 (3.06%) SaaS
6 11 (3.06%) Snowflake
7 9 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.51%) GitHub
8 6 (1.67%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.39%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.39%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.11%) Asana
10 4 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.11%) Serverless
11 3 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.84%) Datadog
11 3 (0.84%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.84%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.95%) Firewall
2 5 (1.39%) DNS
2 5 (1.39%) VPN
2 5 (1.39%) WAN
3 4 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.84%) BGP
4 3 (0.84%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.84%) IP Telephony
4 3 (0.84%) NAS
4 3 (0.84%) Network Security
4 3 (0.84%) OSPF
4 3 (0.84%) SSH
5 2 (0.56%) Intranet
5 2 (0.56%) LAN
5 2 (0.56%) MPLS
5 2 (0.56%) SAN
5 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.56%) Softphone
5 2 (0.56%) Wireless
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.08%) Power BI
2 10 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.51%) Hadoop
4 8 (2.23%) Data Mining
5 7 (1.95%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.95%) Tableau
6 6 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.67%) Redis
7 5 (1.39%) Big Data
7 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.11%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.11%) MemSQL
9 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.84%) DB2
9 3 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.84%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 32 (8.91%) JIRA
2 26 (7.24%) Git
3 17 (4.74%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.51%) JUnit
4 9 (2.51%) Postman
5 6 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.67%) REST Assured
6 5 (1.39%) GitLab
6 5 (1.39%) Maven
6 5 (1.39%) Mockito
6 5 (1.39%) Selenium
6 5 (1.39%) SoapUI
6 5 (1.39%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.39%) Subversion
6 5 (1.39%) Xcode
6 5 (1.39%) XCTest
7 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.84%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.56%) IntelliJ
General
1 208 (57.94%) Social Skills
2 152 (42.34%) Analytical Skills
3 142 (39.55%) Finance
4 60 (16.71%) Banking
5 21 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (5.57%) Front Office
7 18 (5.01%) Financial Institution
8 16 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.46%) Investment Banking
9 14 (3.90%) Public Sector
10 12 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.79%) Back Office
11 10 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.23%) Legal
13 6 (1.67%) Retail
13 6 (1.67%) Spanish Language
14 5 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.39%) International Banking
14 5 (1.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 73 (20.33%) Analyst
2 57 (15.88%) Developer
3 41 (11.42%) Business Analyst
4 30 (8.36%) Senior
5 24 (6.69%) Consultant
6 22 (6.13%) Java Developer
7 21 (5.85%) Lead
8 19 (5.29%) Architect
9 17 (4.74%) Project Manager
10 12 (3.34%) Support Analyst
11 11 (3.06%) Data Engineer
12 8 (2.23%) Data Analyst
12 8 (2.23%) Data Scientist
12 8 (2.23%) Programme Manager
13 7 (1.95%) IT Analyst
13 7 (1.95%) IT Support
13 7 (1.95%) Risk Consultant
13 7 (1.95%) Senior Consultant
14 6 (1.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 6 (1.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.74%) CSS
1 17 (4.74%) HTML
2 14 (3.90%) Spring
3 13 (3.62%) REST
3 13 (3.62%) RESTful
4 12 (3.34%) Kafka
5 10 (2.79%) AngularJS
6 9 (2.51%) .NET
6 9 (2.51%) HTML5
6 9 (2.51%) Spring Boot
6 9 (2.51%) Web Services
7 8 (2.23%) Hibernate
8 6 (1.67%) JPA
8 6 (1.67%) Pandas
8 6 (1.67%) scikit-learn
8 6 (1.67%) SOAP
8 6 (1.67%) Swagger
9 5 (1.39%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.39%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.74%) Algorithms
1 17 (4.74%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.34%) Market Risk
4 11 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.23%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.23%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.23%) Reinsurance
7 7 (1.95%) Fixed Income
7 7 (1.95%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.11%) iPhone
10 4 (1.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.91%) Windows
2 22 (6.13%) Linux
3 15 (4.18%) Unix
4 7 (1.95%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.56%) Android
6 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (32.59%) Agile
2 48 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (12.53%) Analytics
4 39 (10.86%) CI/CD
4 39 (10.86%) DevOps
4 39 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (10.31%) Decision-Making
5 37 (10.31%) Migration
6 36 (10.03%) Project Management
6 36 (10.03%) Scrum
7 34 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (9.19%) User Acceptance Testing
9 29 (8.08%) SDLC
10 27 (7.52%) Data Analysis
11 24 (6.69%) Risk Management
12 22 (6.13%) Collaborative Working
12 22 (6.13%) ITIL
12 22 (6.13%) Roadmaps
13 21 (5.85%) Computer Science
13 21 (5.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 79 (22.01%) Python
2 66 (18.38%) SQL
3 43 (11.98%) Java
4 25 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.74%) C#
6 14 (3.90%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.51%) Bash
8 7 (1.95%) R
9 6 (1.67%) C++
9 6 (1.67%) Groovy
10 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.11%) Go
11 4 (1.11%) Korn
11 4 (1.11%) VBA
12 3 (0.84%) ABAP
12 3 (0.84%) Scala
13 2 (0.56%) PromQL
13 2 (0.56%) RPG
13 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.28%) DAML
Qualifications
1 48 (13.37%) Degree
2 29 (8.08%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.29%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.95%) PMP
6 6 (1.67%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.11%) CISM
7 4 (1.11%) CISSP
7 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.84%) ACCA
8 3 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.56%) CBAP
9 2 (0.56%) CCAB
9 2 (0.56%) CCNP
9 2 (0.56%) CIMA
9 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.56%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.01%) QA
2 17 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.79%) PMO
4 7 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.95%) Basel II
5 6 (1.67%) GDPR
5 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.67%) NIST
6 3 (0.84%) SLA
7 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.56%) COBIT
7 2 (0.56%) GAAP
7 2 (0.56%) GRC
7 2 (0.56%) WCAG
8 1 (0.28%) IFRS
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (4.74%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.46%) Terraform
3 8 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.95%) Ansible
5 4 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.84%) Grafana
6 3 (0.84%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 2 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.56%) SCCM
8 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.28%) Nessus
8 1 (0.28%) Packer
8 1 (0.28%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) QRadar
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.28%) WMI
8 1 (0.28%) yum
8 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.69%) Oracle
3 14 (3.90%) Splunk
4 12 (3.34%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.79%) SAP
6 10 (2.79%) VMware
7 9 (2.51%) Databricks
7 9 (2.51%) Google
8 8 (2.23%) Citrix
9 7 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
10 6 (1.67%) Cisco
11 4 (1.11%) Adobe
11 4 (1.11%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.11%) IBM
11 4 (1.11%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.11%) Symantec
11 4 (1.11%) UiPath
11 4 (1.11%) Workday