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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 224 342 283
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 8.66% 17.95% 11.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.03% 19.20% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 223 189
10th Percentile £285 £358 £313
25th Percentile £445 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £647 £690 £700
90th Percentile £753 £823 £775
London median daily rate £520 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +1.46% -5.09% -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 £34.74 £34.04
% change year-on-year -28.45% +2.07% -15.96%

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 2,234 1,781 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.39% 93.49% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 1,153 1,541
10th Percentile £356 £351 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £678 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £792
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 25 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.36 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.75 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.25 £28.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +2.48% -20.54%
75th Percentile £55.56 £44.61 £31.19
90th Percentile £64.38 £58.55 £41.47
London median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
% change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -16 197 £550 -4.35% 175
West End of London -2 10 £543 +14.81% 8
City of Westminster -5 8 £594 +39.71% 3
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 (5.36%) Confluence
2 9 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.79%) CICS
5 2 (0.89%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.45%) IIS
6 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.34%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.89%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.45%) Findur
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.45%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.98%) Azure
2 27 (12.05%) AWS
3 23 (10.27%) Power Platform
4 19 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.46%) Entra ID
6 10 (4.46%) SaaS
7 9 (4.02%) GCP
8 7 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.68%) Serverless
10 5 (2.23%) GitHub
10 5 (2.23%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.23%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.79%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.79%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.34%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.34%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.57%) Firewall
2 7 (3.13%) Network Security
3 5 (2.23%) DNS
3 5 (2.23%) VPN
4 3 (1.34%) DHCP
4 3 (1.34%) Internet
4 3 (1.34%) LAN
4 3 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.34%) WAN
5 2 (0.89%) HTTP
5 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.45%) 5G
6 1 (0.45%) BGP
6 1 (0.45%) Broadband
6 1 (0.45%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.45%) OSPF
6 1 (0.45%) SAN
6 1 (0.45%) Wireless
6 1 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.14%) Power BI
2 11 (4.91%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.68%) Db2
6 5 (2.23%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.23%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.23%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.23%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.79%) Metadata
7 4 (1.79%) Tableau
8 3 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.89%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.89%) Looker
9 2 (0.89%) Power Query
9 2 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.45%) Big Data
10 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (11.16%) JIRA
2 7 (3.13%) Git
2 7 (3.13%) GitLab
3 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.34%) REST Assured
4 3 (1.34%) Selenium
5 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.45%) ERwin
5 1 (0.45%) Gradle
5 1 (0.45%) JUnit
5 1 (0.45%) Mockito
5 1 (0.45%) Postman
5 1 (0.45%) Snyk
5 1 (0.45%) Vite
General
1 111 (49.55%) Social Skills
2 92 (41.07%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (32.14%) Finance
4 19 (8.48%) Banking
5 13 (5.80%) Front Office
6 12 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.91%) Public Sector
8 10 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.02%) Marketing
10 7 (3.13%) Financial Institution
10 7 (3.13%) Legal
10 7 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.23%) Law
11 5 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.23%) Retail
12 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.79%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.34%) Back Office
14 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (18.75%) Analyst
2 21 (9.38%) Senior
3 20 (8.93%) Business Analyst
4 18 (8.04%) Developer
5 16 (7.14%) Architect
5 16 (7.14%) Lead
6 12 (5.36%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.46%) Data Engineer
8 8 (3.57%) Consultant
8 8 (3.57%) IT Analyst
9 7 (3.13%) Digital Analyst
9 7 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (3.13%) Technical Leader
10 6 (2.68%) Digital Business Analyst
10 6 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.68%) Support Analyst
10 6 (2.68%) Support Engineer
11 5 (2.23%) Network Engineer
11 5 (2.23%) Programme Manager
12 4 (1.79%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.04%) REST
2 12 (5.36%) JSON
3 11 (4.91%) SOAP
4 10 (4.46%) React
5 9 (4.02%) Kafka
6 7 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.13%) Middleware
7 6 (2.68%) PySpark
7 6 (2.68%) Web Services
8 5 (2.23%) CSS
8 5 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (2.23%) HTML
8 5 (2.23%) LangGraph
8 5 (2.23%) RESTful
8 5 (2.23%) Spring
8 5 (2.23%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.23%) XML
9 4 (1.79%) LangChain
9 4 (1.79%) WSDL
10 3 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.70%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.91%) Virtual Team
4 10 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.13%) Equities
7 6 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.23%) Derivative
8 5 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.79%) DataPower
9 4 (1.79%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.79%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.48%) Windows
2 7 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 6 (2.68%) Linux
4 4 (1.79%) zOS
5 3 (1.34%) Unix
5 3 (1.34%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.89%) Android
7 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.45%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.55%) Agile
2 48 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (17.41%) AI
4 32 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (13.39%) Decision-Making
6 28 (12.50%) Analytics
7 25 (11.16%) Migration
8 23 (10.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (9.82%) CI/CD
10 21 (9.38%) Validation
11 20 (8.93%) Data Modelling
11 20 (8.93%) Risk Management
12 19 (8.48%) Collaborative Working
13 18 (8.04%) DevOps
14 17 (7.59%) Computer Science
14 17 (7.59%) Project Management
15 16 (7.14%) Business Analysis
15 16 (7.14%) ITIL
16 15 (6.70%) Change Management
16 15 (6.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 46 (20.54%) SQL
2 38 (16.96%) Python
3 15 (6.70%) Java
4 12 (5.36%) C#
4 12 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.02%) PowerShell
5 9 (4.02%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.23%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.79%) JCL
8 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.89%) Bicep
9 2 (0.89%) C++
9 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.89%) Go
9 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.45%) ABAP
10 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.45%) R
10 1 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 22 (9.82%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.93%) Degree
3 18 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.46%) CISSP
5 7 (3.13%) CRISC
6 6 (2.68%) CISM
6 6 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.23%) CISA
7 5 (2.23%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.23%) PMP
8 4 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.34%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.34%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.89%) CASP
10 2 (0.89%) CCNA
10 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.46%) QA
3 9 (4.02%) GDPR
4 8 (3.57%) PMO
5 7 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.68%) NIST
6 6 (2.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (2.23%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.79%) COBIT
8 4 (1.79%) ITGC
9 3 (1.34%) GRC
9 3 (1.34%) IFRS
10 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.89%) MiFID
10 2 (0.89%) SLA
10 2 (0.89%) WCAG
11 1 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.45%) GAAP
11 1 (0.45%) GMP
11 1 (0.45%) GxP
System Software
1 16 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.13%) Docker
2 7 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) IAG
4 1 (0.45%) NFS
4 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (4.02%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.34%) Ansible
3 3 (1.34%) Grafana
4 2 (0.89%) Terraform
5 1 (0.45%) Control-M
5 1 (0.45%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.45%) logstash
5 1 (0.45%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.45%) vMotion
5 1 (0.45%) vRealize
5 1 (0.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 50 (22.32%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.70%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.80%) Oracle
4 11 (4.91%) Google
5 9 (4.02%) SAP
6 8 (3.57%) Databricks
7 7 (3.13%) Workday
8 6 (2.68%) Bloomberg
9 5 (2.23%) Charles River
9 5 (2.23%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.23%) Splunk
10 4 (1.79%) Cisco
10 4 (1.79%) Informatica
10 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.34%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.34%) VMware
12 2 (0.89%) Anaplan
12 2 (0.89%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.89%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.89%) Zscaler