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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 257 304 272
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.64% 14.92% 10.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.11% 16.25% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 211 179
10th Percentile £338 £358 £290
25th Percentile £416 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £751 £818
London median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £31.62 - £27.75
25th Percentile £39.44 - £34.88
Median hourly rate £41.26 £112.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.17% +130.93% -5.83%
75th Percentile £45.08 - £57.63
90th Percentile £50.00 - £62.05
London median hourly rate £35.71 £48.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -26.37% +37.59% -28.79%

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 1,961 1,871 2,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.81% 91.81% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,348 1,205 1,646
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £449 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £683
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £17.77
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £41.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £74.05 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
% change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -7 236 £525 -1.64% 333
West End of London -3 6 £555 +15.50% 9
City of Westminster -4 6 £593 +39.41% 3
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 - 1
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 13 (5.06%) Confluence
2 10 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.78%) CICS
4 2 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.17%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.17%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.78%) Summit
3 1 (0.39%) BASE24
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.39%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 59 (22.96%) Azure
2 37 (14.40%) AWS
3 28 (10.89%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (5.84%) GCP
4 15 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (3.89%) GitHub
6 9 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.11%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.72%) SaaS
9 6 (2.33%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.95%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.56%) Google Gemini
11 4 (1.56%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.56%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.56%) Serverless
12 3 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.72%) Firewall
1 7 (2.72%) Network Security
2 5 (1.95%) DNS
3 3 (1.17%) DHCP
3 3 (1.17%) Internet
3 3 (1.17%) VPN
4 2 (0.78%) NAS
4 2 (0.78%) SAN
5 1 (0.39%) 5G
5 1 (0.39%) Broadband
5 1 (0.39%) HTTP
5 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.39%) WAN
5 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.56%) Power BI
2 14 (5.45%) Relational Database
2 14 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.67%) Tableau
4 9 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (2.72%) Metadata
6 5 (1.95%) MySQL
6 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.17%) Big Data
8 3 (1.17%) DB2
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.78%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.78%) PowerCenter
9 2 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (10.51%) JIRA
2 18 (7.00%) Git
3 8 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.72%) Selenium
5 6 (2.33%) GitLab
6 5 (1.95%) Postman
7 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.56%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.78%) CocoaPods
9 2 (0.78%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.78%) fastlane
9 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.78%) Xcode
10 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.39%) ERwin
10 1 (0.39%) JUnit
10 1 (0.39%) Mockito
10 1 (0.39%) TestRail
10 1 (0.39%) Toad
General
1 138 (53.70%) Social Skills
2 109 (42.41%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (38.52%) Finance
4 36 (14.01%) Banking
5 24 (9.34%) Front Office
6 17 (6.61%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.67%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.67%) Marketing
8 11 (4.28%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.50%) Legal
9 9 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.11%) Retail
11 7 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.33%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.95%) Back Office
13 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.56%) Advertising
14 4 (1.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 49 (19.07%) Analyst
2 33 (12.84%) Developer
3 31 (12.06%) Senior
4 29 (11.28%) Business Analyst
5 16 (6.23%) Lead
5 16 (6.23%) Project Manager
6 12 (4.67%) Data Engineer
7 10 (3.89%) Consultant
7 10 (3.89%) Data Analyst
8 9 (3.50%) Architect
9 8 (3.11%) Python Engineer
10 7 (2.72%) Programme Manager
10 7 (2.72%) Technical Leader
11 6 (2.33%) Data Scientist
11 6 (2.33%) IT Analyst
11 6 (2.33%) Product Manager
11 6 (2.33%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.33%) Support Engineer
12 5 (1.95%) Data Business Analyst
12 5 (1.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.23%) REST
2 13 (5.06%) RESTful
3 10 (3.89%) SOAP
4 9 (3.50%) CSS
4 9 (3.50%) HTML
5 8 (3.11%) .NET
6 7 (2.72%) JSON
7 6 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (2.33%) Kafka
7 6 (2.33%) Middleware
7 6 (2.33%) Web Services
7 6 (2.33%) XML
8 5 (1.95%) LangChain
9 4 (1.56%) LangGraph
9 4 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.56%) PyTorch
9 4 (1.56%) React
9 4 (1.56%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.17%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.23%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (5.06%) Virtual Team
4 11 (4.28%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.89%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.50%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.50%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.11%) Derivative
7 8 (3.11%) Equities
7 8 (3.11%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.95%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.95%) CMDB
9 5 (1.95%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.95%) PMI
9 5 (1.95%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.56%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.84%) Windows
2 5 (1.95%) Linux
2 5 (1.95%) Unix
3 4 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.78%) zOS
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Solaris
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.12%) Agile
2 53 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (15.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 37 (14.40%) Analytics
4 37 (14.40%) CI/CD
5 31 (12.06%) Migration
6 27 (10.51%) AI
6 27 (10.51%) Data Modelling
7 25 (9.73%) Decision-Making
7 25 (9.73%) DevOps
8 24 (9.34%) Business Analysis
9 23 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (8.95%) Computer Science
9 23 (8.95%) Project Management
9 23 (8.95%) Test Automation
10 22 (8.56%) Process Improvement
10 22 (8.56%) Scrum
10 22 (8.56%) Validation
11 21 (8.17%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.96%) SQL
2 51 (19.84%) Python
3 19 (7.39%) Java
4 17 (6.61%) C#
5 14 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.28%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.95%) C++
7 5 (1.95%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.17%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.17%) Bash
8 3 (1.17%) PHP
8 3 (1.17%) R
8 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.17%) Swift
9 2 (0.78%) JCL
9 2 (0.78%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.39%) ABAP
10 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (12.84%) Degree
2 23 (8.95%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.28%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.33%) CISSP
7 6 (2.33%) PMP
8 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.95%) CISM
9 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.17%) CRISC
10 3 (1.17%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.78%) CBAP
11 2 (0.78%) CCNA
11 2 (0.78%) CFA
11 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.78%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.73%) QA
2 20 (7.78%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.33%) PMO
5 5 (1.95%) GDPR
6 3 (1.17%) GRC
6 3 (1.17%) ISO 8583
6 3 (1.17%) MiFID
6 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.17%) WCAG
7 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS
7 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.78%) NIST
7 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.78%) PSD2
8 1 (0.39%) Basel III
8 1 (0.39%) EMIR
8 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.39%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (5.84%) Docker
2 10 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) NFS
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.11%) Ansible
3 6 (2.33%) Terraform
4 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.17%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.39%) Control-M
7 1 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.39%) logstash
7 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
7 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.39%) vMotion
7 1 (0.39%) vRealize
7 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 53 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.23%) Oracle
3 12 (4.67%) Google
4 10 (3.89%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.50%) Databricks
6 8 (3.11%) VMware
7 7 (2.72%) Informatica
7 7 (2.72%) SAP
8 6 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.95%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.95%) Charles River
9 5 (1.95%) Commvault
9 5 (1.95%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.95%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.56%) Murex
10 4 (1.56%) Splunk
10 4 (1.56%) Workday
11 3 (1.17%) Adobe
11 3 (1.17%) Apple
11 3 (1.17%) HP