Problem-Solving Contracts in Central London

Problem Solving
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 348 285 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 17.43% 11.65% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.75% 12.87% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 187 190
10th Percentile £342 £313 £260
25th Percentile £450 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +4.27%
75th Percentile £675 £673 £692
90th Percentile £775 £775 £838
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £43.55 £24.07 £26.23
25th Percentile £46.57 £25.67 £35.24
Median hourly rate £49.50 £37.53 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.89% -27.13% -15.57%
75th Percentile £54.00 £53.94 £53.25
90th Percentile £59.85 £60.58 £53.55
London median hourly rate £43.04 £33.36 £43.00
% change year-on-year +29.03% -22.43% +6.17%

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 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Central London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Central London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Central London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +5 308 £550 - 200
West End of London +10 17 £474 -5.20% 31
Camden +8 10 £462 -7.60% 4
City of Westminster - 9 £488 - 8
Southwark -1 4 £425 -39.29%
Lambeth +2 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 24 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.74%) Apache
4 9 (2.59%) Confluence
5 5 (1.44%) CMS
5 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.15%) Drupal
6 4 (1.15%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.57%) SAS
8 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.29%) CICS
8 1 (0.29%) nginx
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 30 (8.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (7.18%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.44%) Trello
6 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.86%) CA PPM
3 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.57%) Actimize
4 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.29%) BASE24
5 1 (0.29%) CiviCRM
5 1 (0.29%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.29%) Magento
5 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 67 (19.25%) Azure
2 50 (14.37%) AWS
3 25 (7.18%) Power Platform
4 23 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.17%) GCP
6 15 (4.31%) SaaS
7 11 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.30%) GitHub
9 7 (2.01%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.01%) Asana
9 7 (2.01%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.72%) Serverless
11 5 (1.44%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.15%) PaaS
12 4 (1.15%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.45%) Firewall
2 6 (1.72%) S/MIME
2 6 (1.72%) SSL
3 5 (1.44%) DHCP
3 5 (1.44%) DNS
3 5 (1.44%) LAN
3 5 (1.44%) Network Security
4 4 (1.15%) SSH
4 4 (1.15%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.86%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.86%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.86%) VPN
5 3 (0.86%) Wireless
6 2 (0.57%) HTTP
6 2 (0.57%) NAS
6 2 (0.57%) VLAN
6 2 (0.57%) WAN
6 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.57%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.89%) Power BI
3 15 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.74%) Tableau
5 9 (2.59%) Big Data
6 8 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.01%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.01%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.15%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.15%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.15%) CockroachDB
8 4 (1.15%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.15%) Looker
9 3 (0.86%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.86%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.86%) Metadata
9 3 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (10.06%) JIRA
2 26 (7.47%) Git
3 18 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.72%) JUnit
5 5 (1.44%) Maven
5 5 (1.44%) Postman
5 5 (1.44%) Selenium
6 4 (1.15%) GitLab
6 4 (1.15%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.15%) RStudio
7 3 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.86%) Subversion
7 3 (0.86%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.57%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.57%) JMeter
8 2 (0.57%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.57%) Xcode
8 2 (0.57%) XCTest
General
1 204 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 138 (39.66%) Finance
3 128 (36.78%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (16.67%) Banking
5 24 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.60%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.74%) Financial Institution
9 11 (3.16%) Retail
10 10 (2.87%) Front Office
11 8 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (2.01%) Law
12 7 (2.01%) Legal
13 6 (1.72%) Billing
13 6 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.72%) Marketing
14 5 (1.44%) International Banking
14 5 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (18.10%) Developer
2 49 (14.08%) Analyst
3 36 (10.34%) Senior
4 31 (8.91%) Business Analyst
5 27 (7.76%) Project Manager
6 25 (7.18%) Lead
7 24 (6.90%) Architect
8 23 (6.61%) Consultant
9 17 (4.89%) Java Developer
10 15 (4.31%) Data Analyst
11 11 (3.16%) IT Support
12 10 (2.87%) Data Business Analyst
12 10 (2.87%) Data Engineer
13 9 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.30%) Full-Stack Developer
15 7 (2.01%) Business Manager
15 7 (2.01%) Product Manager
15 7 (2.01%) Senior Developer
15 7 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
15 7 (2.01%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.89%) .NET
2 16 (4.60%) HTML
2 16 (4.60%) RESTful
3 15 (4.31%) CSS
4 14 (4.02%) REST
5 12 (3.45%) Web Services
6 11 (3.16%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.59%) React
8 8 (2.30%) Kafka
8 8 (2.30%) SOAP
8 8 (2.30%) Spring
9 7 (2.01%) Middleware
9 7 (2.01%) PySpark
10 6 (1.72%) JSON
10 6 (1.72%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.72%) YAML
11 5 (1.44%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.44%) Hibernate
11 5 (1.44%) pydantic
11 5 (1.44%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (4.31%) Algorithms
3 14 (4.02%) Data Structures
3 14 (4.02%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.87%) Market Risk
7 8 (2.30%) Equities
7 8 (2.30%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.01%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.72%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.72%) PKI
10 5 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.15%) Replication
11 4 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.47%) Windows
2 25 (7.18%) Linux
3 15 (4.31%) Unix
4 9 (2.59%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.30%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.01%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.15%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.86%) Android
9 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.29%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.29%) Solaris
10 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (28.16%) Agile
2 55 (15.80%) Project Management
3 48 (13.79%) DevOps
4 46 (13.22%) CI/CD
5 45 (12.93%) Migration
5 45 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (10.92%) Analytics
7 37 (10.63%) Decision-Making
8 34 (9.77%) Risk Management
9 28 (8.05%) Computer Science
9 28 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (7.18%) Scrum
11 23 (6.61%) Software Engineering
11 23 (6.61%) User Acceptance Testing
12 22 (6.32%) Roadmaps
13 21 (6.03%) Change Management
14 20 (5.75%) Collaborative Working
14 20 (5.75%) SDLC
15 19 (5.46%) Cybersecurity
15 19 (5.46%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.99%) Python
2 69 (19.83%) SQL
3 33 (9.48%) Java
4 23 (6.61%) JavaScript
5 22 (6.32%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.46%) C#
7 11 (3.16%) Bash
8 7 (2.01%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.72%) C++
9 6 (1.72%) Scala
10 4 (1.15%) C
10 4 (1.15%) Groovy
11 3 (0.86%) Bicep
11 3 (0.86%) Perl
11 3 (0.86%) REXX
12 2 (0.57%) COBOL
12 2 (0.57%) JCL
12 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.57%) Ruby
12 2 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (17.53%) Degree
2 42 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.60%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.74%) PMP
7 7 (2.01%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.44%) CISM
9 5 (1.44%) CISSP
10 4 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.86%) CCNP
12 2 (0.57%) CCNA
12 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.57%) OCP
12 2 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.31%) GDPR
3 11 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.16%) QA
4 10 (2.87%) NIST
5 8 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.01%) PMO
7 6 (1.72%) MiFID
8 4 (1.15%) EMIR
8 4 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.57%) Basel II
10 2 (0.57%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.57%) GRC
10 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.57%) SEPA
10 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.29%) GAAP
11 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 17 (4.89%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.02%) Docker
3 5 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.57%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.29%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.29%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.29%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) XenApp
6 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.29%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 24 (6.90%) Kubernetes
1 24 (6.90%) Terraform
2 10 (2.87%) Ansible
3 8 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.44%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.44%) SCCM
5 3 (0.86%) Puppet
6 2 (0.57%) Cisco LMS
6 2 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.57%) Control-M
6 2 (0.57%) Grafana
6 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.57%) QRadar
6 2 (0.57%) WSUS
7 1 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.29%) Netcool
7 1 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.29%) OPNET
7 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 65 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.20%) Oracle
3 15 (4.31%) ServiceNow
4 13 (3.74%) Cisco
5 9 (2.59%) Google
5 9 (2.59%) SAP
6 8 (2.30%) Databricks
7 7 (2.01%) IBM
7 7 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.01%) VMware
8 5 (1.44%) Splunk
9 4 (1.15%) TOWER Software
10 3 (0.86%) Ab Initio
10 3 (0.86%) Adobe
10 3 (0.86%) Apple
10 3 (0.86%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.86%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.86%) Citrix
10 3 (0.86%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.86%) Red Hat