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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 258 353 306
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.43% 18.20% 13.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.60% 19.41% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 236 197
10th Percentile £263 £306 £339
25th Percentile £405 £402 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £755
London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 4
10th Percentile £16.15 £17.70 £17.77
25th Percentile - £23.75 £23.42
Median hourly rate £17.60 £34.48 £69.28
Median % change year-on-year -48.96% -50.23% +84.75%
75th Percentile £24.00 £50.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £53.35 -
London median hourly rate £19.03 £32.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -40.52% -20.01% +1.47%

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 2,225 1,819 2,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.97% 93.76% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 1,218 1,374
10th Percentile £363 £320 £363
25th Percentile £453 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 30 28
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.69 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.00 £24.83
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%
75th Percentile £43.00 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.15 £63.75 £119.65
London median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
% change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%

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 September 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 September 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 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
City of London -17 230 £525 -5.41% 388
City of Westminster -6 12 £475 +2.70% 71
West End of London -4 11 £263 -41.67% 29
Lambeth -2 2 £225 -6.25% 3
Kensington and Chelsea -5 1 £750 +66.67%
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 14 (5.43%) Confluence
1 14 (5.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.55%) Apache
4 4 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) CICS
5 2 (0.78%) CMS
5 2 (0.78%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.16%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.78%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Shopify
5 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 58 (22.48%) Azure
2 33 (12.79%) AWS
3 30 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (8.91%) Power Platform
5 18 (6.98%) Entra ID
6 16 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (5.04%) GitHub
7 13 (5.04%) Serverless
8 12 (4.65%) GCP
8 12 (4.65%) SaaS
9 7 (2.71%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.71%) dbt
10 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (2.33%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.20%) DNS
2 14 (5.43%) VPN
3 11 (4.26%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.49%) DHCP
5 7 (2.71%) Firewall
6 5 (1.94%) VLAN
7 4 (1.55%) Network Security
8 3 (1.16%) HTTP
8 3 (1.16%) LAN
8 3 (1.16%) WAN
8 3 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.78%) BGP
9 2 (0.78%) SSL
9 2 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.39%) Multicast
10 1 (0.39%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.81%) Power BI
2 12 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.49%) Metadata
4 8 (3.10%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.71%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.55%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.55%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.55%) SAP BW
7 4 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.16%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.16%) Db2
8 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.16%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.16%) Power Query
8 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.16%) Tableau
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 38 (14.73%) JIRA
2 10 (3.88%) Git
3 9 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.33%) GitLab
4 6 (2.33%) Selenium
5 4 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.55%) JUnit
6 3 (1.16%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.16%) JMeter
6 3 (1.16%) Mockito
6 3 (1.16%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.78%) Appium
7 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.78%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.78%) Maven
7 2 (0.78%) Postman
7 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 133 (51.55%) Social Skills
2 107 (41.47%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (33.72%) Finance
4 35 (13.57%) Banking
5 21 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.04%) Front Office
7 13 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.26%) Marketing
9 9 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.49%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.10%) Retail
11 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.94%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.55%) Retail Banking
14 3 (1.16%) Law
14 3 (1.16%) Legal
Job Titles
1 48 (18.60%) Analyst
2 25 (9.69%) Developer
3 24 (9.30%) Senior
4 23 (8.91%) Business Analyst
5 22 (8.53%) Architect
6 18 (6.98%) Lead
7 16 (6.20%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.26%) Consultant
8 11 (4.26%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.26%) IT Support
8 11 (4.26%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.49%) Support Analyst
10 8 (3.10%) Applications Support
10 8 (3.10%) IT Engineer
10 8 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.33%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) IT Analyst
11 6 (2.33%) Technical Analyst
12 5 (1.94%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.30%) REST
2 17 (6.59%) .NET
3 16 (6.20%) React
3 16 (6.20%) SOAP
4 11 (4.26%) AngularJS
4 11 (4.26%) JSON
5 10 (3.88%) Terraform
5 10 (3.88%) Web Services
6 8 (3.10%) Spring
6 8 (3.10%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.71%) Kafka
7 7 (2.71%) PySpark
7 7 (2.71%) RESTful
8 6 (2.33%) CSS
8 6 (2.33%) HTML
8 6 (2.33%) XML
9 4 (1.55%) Middleware
9 4 (1.55%) Node.js
9 4 (1.55%) OAuth
9 4 (1.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.53%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.59%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.49%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.33%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.94%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.94%) CMDB
7 5 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.55%) Life Science
8 4 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.50%) Windows
2 13 (5.04%) Linux
3 12 (4.65%) Mac OS
4 9 (3.49%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.10%) Unix
5 8 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.16%) Android
6 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.78%) zOS
8 1 (0.39%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.39%) VMS
8 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 85 (32.95%) Agile
3 52 (20.16%) CI/CD
4 51 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (17.05%) AI
6 42 (16.28%) DevOps
7 37 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 34 (13.18%) Migration
9 33 (12.79%) Decision-Making
10 30 (11.63%) Analytics
11 26 (10.08%) Translating Business Requirements
12 25 (9.69%) Customer Service
13 24 (9.30%) ITIL
14 23 (8.91%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.91%) Scrum
14 23 (8.91%) Validation
15 22 (8.53%) Data Governance
16 21 (8.14%) Test Automation
17 20 (7.75%) Project Management
17 20 (7.75%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.99%) Python
2 48 (18.60%) SQL
3 22 (8.53%) Java
4 19 (7.36%) JavaScript
5 16 (6.20%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.20%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.81%) C#
7 5 (1.94%) Korn
7 5 (1.94%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.55%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.78%) Bash
9 2 (0.78%) JCL
9 2 (0.78%) Perl
10 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.39%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.39%) C++
10 1 (0.39%) COBOL
10 1 (0.39%) RPG
10 1 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.47%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.59%) Degree
4 6 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 6 (2.33%) PMP
5 5 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.55%) CISA
6 4 (1.55%) CISSP
6 4 (1.55%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.78%) CISM
8 2 (0.78%) CRISC
8 2 (0.78%) CSPO
9 1 (0.39%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.59%) QA
3 6 (2.33%) GDPR
3 6 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.33%) PMO
4 5 (1.94%) SLA
5 4 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.55%) GRC
6 3 (1.16%) NIST
6 3 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.78%) COBIT
7 2 (0.78%) GxP
7 2 (0.78%) ITGC
7 2 (0.78%) PSD2
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS
8 1 (0.39%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) SEPA
8 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (12.02%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.26%) Docker
3 6 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.78%) IAG
5 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.78%) vSphere
6 1 (0.39%) Firmware
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (5.04%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.10%) SCCM
4 5 (1.94%) Grafana
5 4 (1.55%) Ansible
5 4 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.16%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.78%) WSUS
8 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.39%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.39%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.39%) SCOM
8 1 (0.39%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (29.84%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.91%) ServiceNow
3 16 (6.20%) Oracle
4 15 (5.81%) Databricks
5 13 (5.04%) Google
5 13 (5.04%) SAP
6 7 (2.71%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.71%) VMware
7 6 (2.33%) Apple
7 6 (2.33%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.33%) Remedy
7 6 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.33%) Splunk
8 5 (1.94%) Cisco
9 4 (1.55%) BMC
9 4 (1.55%) IBM
9 4 (1.55%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.55%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.55%) Workday
10 3 (1.16%) MuleSoft