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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 226 342 283
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 8.75% 17.92% 11.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.12% 19.17% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 223 189
10th Percentile £263 £358 £313
25th Percentile £441 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £647 £690 £700
90th Percentile £753 £823 £775
London median daily rate £520 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +1.96% -5.56% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £17.29 £18.38 £23.71
25th Percentile £17.60 £28.20 £24.78
Median hourly rate £41.26 £46.29 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +74.28% -48.43%
75th Percentile £53.20 £50.75 £38.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £57.25 £45.51
London median hourly rate £24.86 £39.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% +11.54% -12.41%

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 2,233 1,784 2,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.45% 93.45% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 1,158 1,540
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 26 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.67 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £28.79 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +3.51% -20.54%
75th Percentile £55.56 £47.72 £31.19
90th Percentile £64.38 £63.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -24.68%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -15 198 £550 -4.35% 205
West End of London -1 10 £543 +14.81% 10
City of Westminster -4 9 £594 +39.71% 4
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 - 1
Southwark +1 1 £650 +44.44% 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 12 (5.31%) Confluence
2 9 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.77%) CICS
5 2 (0.88%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.77%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.33%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.88%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.44%) Findur
3 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.44%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.44%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.44%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 48 (21.24%) Azure
2 28 (12.39%) AWS
3 23 (10.18%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (4.87%) Entra ID
6 10 (4.42%) SaaS
7 9 (3.98%) GCP
8 7 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.65%) Serverless
10 5 (2.21%) GitHub
10 5 (2.21%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.21%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.77%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.77%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.98%) Firewall
2 7 (3.10%) Network Security
3 5 (2.21%) DNS
3 5 (2.21%) VPN
4 3 (1.33%) DHCP
4 3 (1.33%) Internet
4 3 (1.33%) LAN
4 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.33%) WAN
5 2 (0.88%) HTTP
5 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.44%) 4G
6 1 (0.44%) 5G
6 1 (0.44%) Multicast
6 1 (0.44%) NAS
6 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.44%) SAN
6 1 (0.44%) VLAN
6 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.08%) Power BI
2 11 (4.87%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.65%) Db2
6 5 (2.21%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.21%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.21%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.77%) Metadata
7 4 (1.77%) Tableau
8 3 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.88%) Looker
9 2 (0.88%) Power Query
9 2 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.44%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 25 (11.06%) JIRA
2 7 (3.10%) Git
2 7 (3.10%) GitLab
3 5 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.33%) REST Assured
4 3 (1.33%) Selenium
5 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.44%) ERwin
5 1 (0.44%) Gradle
5 1 (0.44%) JUnit
5 1 (0.44%) Mockito
5 1 (0.44%) Postman
5 1 (0.44%) Snyk
5 1 (0.44%) Vite
General
1 112 (49.56%) Social Skills
2 93 (41.15%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (32.30%) Finance
4 19 (8.41%) Banking
5 12 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (5.31%) Front Office
6 11 (4.87%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.98%) Marketing
9 7 (3.10%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.65%) Legal
10 6 (2.65%) Retail
11 5 (2.21%) Law
11 5 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.77%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.33%) Back Office
13 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.88%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 41 (18.14%) Analyst
2 21 (9.29%) Senior
3 19 (8.41%) Business Analyst
4 18 (7.96%) Developer
5 17 (7.52%) Architect
6 16 (7.08%) Lead
7 12 (5.31%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.42%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.54%) Consultant
9 8 (3.54%) IT Analyst
9 8 (3.54%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.10%) Digital Analyst
10 7 (3.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.10%) Technical Leader
11 6 (2.65%) Digital Business Analyst
11 6 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.65%) Support Analyst
12 5 (2.21%) Network Engineer
12 5 (2.21%) Programme Manager
13 4 (1.77%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.41%) REST
2 12 (5.31%) JSON
3 11 (4.87%) SOAP
4 10 (4.42%) React
5 9 (3.98%) Kafka
6 7 (3.10%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.10%) Middleware
7 6 (2.65%) PySpark
7 6 (2.65%) Web Services
8 5 (2.21%) CSS
8 5 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (2.21%) HTML
8 5 (2.21%) LangGraph
8 5 (2.21%) RESTful
8 5 (2.21%) Spring
8 5 (2.21%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.21%) XML
9 4 (1.77%) .NET
9 4 (1.77%) LangChain
9 4 (1.77%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.64%) Onboarding
1 15 (6.64%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.87%) Virtual Team
3 10 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.54%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.10%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.10%) Equities
7 6 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.21%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.21%) Derivative
8 5 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.77%) CMDB
9 4 (1.77%) DataPower
9 4 (1.77%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.29%) Windows
2 8 (3.54%) Mac OS
3 7 (3.10%) Linux
4 4 (1.77%) zOS
5 3 (1.33%) Unix
5 3 (1.33%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.88%) Android
7 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (24.78%) Agile
2 49 (21.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (17.70%) AI
4 33 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (13.27%) Decision-Making
6 29 (12.83%) Analytics
7 25 (11.06%) Migration
8 23 (10.18%) CI/CD
8 23 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 21 (9.29%) Validation
10 20 (8.85%) Data Modelling
10 20 (8.85%) Risk Management
11 19 (8.41%) Collaborative Working
11 19 (8.41%) DevOps
12 18 (7.96%) Project Management
13 17 (7.52%) Computer Science
13 17 (7.52%) ITIL
14 16 (7.08%) Change Management
15 15 (6.64%) Business Analysis
15 15 (6.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.80%) SQL
2 40 (17.70%) Python
3 16 (7.08%) Java
4 12 (5.31%) C#
4 12 (5.31%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.87%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.98%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.21%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.77%) JCL
9 3 (1.33%) C++
9 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.88%) Bicep
10 2 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.88%) Go
10 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.44%) ABAP
11 1 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
11 1 (0.44%) Korn
11 1 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 22 (9.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.85%) Degree
3 18 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.42%) CISSP
5 7 (3.10%) CRISC
6 6 (2.65%) CISM
6 6 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.21%) CISA
7 5 (2.21%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.21%) PMP
8 4 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.88%) CASP
10 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.88%) GSEC
10 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.42%) QA
3 9 (3.98%) GDPR
4 7 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.10%) PMO
5 6 (2.65%) NIST
5 6 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.21%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.77%) COBIT
7 4 (1.77%) ITGC
8 3 (1.33%) GRC
8 3 (1.33%) IFRS
9 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.88%) SLA
9 2 (0.88%) WCAG
10 1 (0.44%) Basel III
10 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.44%) GAAP
10 1 (0.44%) MiFID
10 1 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (7.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.10%) Docker
2 7 (3.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) IAG
4 1 (0.44%) NFS
4 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.77%) Ansible
4 3 (1.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.88%) Terraform
6 1 (0.44%) Control-M
6 1 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.44%) logstash
6 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.44%) vMotion
6 1 (0.44%) vRealize
6 1 (0.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.64%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.75%) Oracle
4 11 (4.87%) Google
5 9 (3.98%) SAP
6 8 (3.54%) Databricks
7 7 (3.10%) Workday
8 6 (2.65%) Bloomberg
8 6 (2.65%) Splunk
9 5 (2.21%) Charles River
9 5 (2.21%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.77%) Cisco
10 4 (1.77%) Informatica
10 4 (1.77%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.33%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.33%) Apple
11 3 (1.33%) BMC
11 3 (1.33%) Remedy
11 3 (1.33%) VMware
12 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft