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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 322 337 261
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 16.37% 13.89% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.67% 15.16% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 214 185
10th Percentile £313 £338 £296
25th Percentile £402 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £850
London median daily rate £500 £530 £535
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -9.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £19.79 £33.60 £55.13
25th Percentile £24.73 £63.00 £55.31
Median hourly rate £34.48 £112.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -69.21% +82.86% +12.39%
75th Percentile £41.80 - £67.81
90th Percentile £43.61 - £68.38
London median hourly rate £33.46 £43.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.19% -21.82% +23.60%

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 1,822 2,223 2,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.63% 91.59% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,385 1,818
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £423 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £693
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
London median daily rate £530 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 18
10th Percentile £19.94 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £30.19 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%
75th Percentile £41.94 £65.63 £62.00
90th Percentile £60.95 £119.65 £70.25
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
% change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +2 294 £525 -4.55% 116
City of Westminster -1 8 £463 +5.71% 4
West End of London -2 5 £450 -5.06% 4
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £450 - 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 17 (5.28%) Confluence
2 8 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.62%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 30 (9.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.24%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (1.24%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.31%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (18.63%) Azure
2 43 (13.35%) AWS
3 25 (7.76%) Power Platform
4 19 (5.90%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (5.28%) GCP
6 12 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.80%) Snowflake
8 8 (2.48%) GitHub
9 7 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.17%) SaaS
10 6 (1.86%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.55%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.55%) IaaS
11 5 (1.55%) PaaS
12 4 (1.24%) Serverless
13 3 (0.93%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.93%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.86%) DNS
2 5 (1.55%) Firewall
3 4 (1.24%) Network Security
3 4 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.93%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.93%) IP Telephony
4 3 (0.93%) VPN
5 2 (0.62%) BGP
5 2 (0.62%) DHCP
5 2 (0.62%) Intranet
5 2 (0.62%) OSPF
5 2 (0.62%) Softphone
5 2 (0.62%) SSL
5 2 (0.62%) WAN
5 2 (0.62%) Wireless
6 1 (0.31%) ATM
6 1 (0.31%) HTTP
6 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.31%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.21%) Power BI
2 13 (4.04%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.80%) Tableau
5 8 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.86%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.86%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.86%) MySQL
6 6 (1.86%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.55%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.55%) Redis
8 4 (1.24%) MemSQL
9 3 (0.93%) DB2
9 3 (0.93%) KDB
9 3 (0.93%) Metadata
9 3 (0.93%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.93%) Sybase IQ
10 2 (0.62%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (10.56%) JIRA
2 25 (7.76%) Git
3 10 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.80%) Postman
5 7 (2.17%) Selenium
6 5 (1.55%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.55%) GitLab
6 5 (1.55%) REST Assured
6 5 (1.55%) SoapUI
6 5 (1.55%) Xcode
7 4 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.24%) JUnit
8 3 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.93%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.93%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.93%) Maven
8 3 (0.93%) Mockito
8 3 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.93%) Subversion
8 3 (0.93%) XCTest
General
1 178 (55.28%) Social Skills
2 133 (41.30%) Analytical Skills
3 117 (36.34%) Finance
4 41 (12.73%) Banking
5 22 (6.83%) Front Office
6 14 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.11%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.80%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.80%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.17%) Back Office
10 7 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.17%) Marketing
10 7 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.86%) Legal
11 6 (1.86%) Retail
12 5 (1.55%) Spanish Language
13 3 (0.93%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (20.50%) Analyst
2 54 (16.77%) Developer
3 41 (12.73%) Business Analyst
4 29 (9.01%) Senior
5 18 (5.59%) Lead
6 17 (5.28%) Consultant
7 15 (4.66%) Architect
7 15 (4.66%) Project Manager
8 13 (4.04%) Java Developer
9 8 (2.48%) Data Engineer
9 8 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (2.48%) IT Analyst
10 7 (2.17%) Data Analyst
10 7 (2.17%) Python Engineer
10 7 (2.17%) Support Analyst
10 7 (2.17%) Test Engineer
11 6 (1.86%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (1.86%) Data Scientist
11 6 (1.86%) IT Business Analyst
11 6 (1.86%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.97%) CSS
1 16 (4.97%) HTML
2 15 (4.66%) .NET
2 15 (4.66%) RESTful
3 13 (4.04%) REST
4 10 (3.11%) Spring
5 9 (2.80%) Kafka
6 8 (2.48%) SOAP
7 7 (2.17%) HTML5
7 7 (2.17%) Web Services
8 6 (1.86%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.55%) Hibernate
9 5 (1.55%) Middleware
9 5 (1.55%) Node.js
9 5 (1.55%) OAuth
9 5 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.55%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.55%) XML
10 4 (1.24%) JPA
10 4 (1.24%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.90%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.04%) Algorithms
3 12 (3.73%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.42%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.42%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.80%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.55%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.55%) PMI
10 5 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.24%) Derivative
11 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.39%) Windows
2 13 (4.04%) Linux
3 12 (3.73%) Unix
4 6 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Solaris
8 1 (0.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (30.12%) Agile
2 47 (14.60%) CI/CD
3 43 (13.35%) Analytics
3 43 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (11.49%) DevOps
6 36 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 34 (10.56%) Migration
8 30 (9.32%) Project Management
8 30 (9.32%) Scrum
9 27 (8.39%) Data Analysis
9 27 (8.39%) Decision-Making
10 26 (8.07%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (8.07%) User Acceptance Testing
11 25 (7.76%) Business Analysis
11 25 (7.76%) Computer Science
11 25 (7.76%) Roadmaps
11 25 (7.76%) Test Automation
12 22 (6.83%) SDLC
13 21 (6.52%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 70 (21.74%) Python
2 59 (18.32%) SQL
3 37 (11.49%) Java
4 23 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 21 (6.52%) C#
6 8 (2.48%) C++
6 8 (2.48%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.86%) R
8 5 (1.55%) Bash
8 5 (1.55%) Go
9 4 (1.24%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.24%) Groovy
9 4 (1.24%) Korn
9 4 (1.24%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.93%) PHP
10 3 (0.93%) Swift
10 3 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.93%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.93%) VBA
11 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (15.22%) Degree
2 26 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.48%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.55%) PMP
8 4 (1.24%) CBAP
9 3 (0.93%) ACCA
9 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.93%) CISSP
9 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.62%) CEH
10 2 (0.62%) CIMA
10 2 (0.62%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) CFA
11 1 (0.31%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.07%) QA
2 18 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.86%) PMO
5 4 (1.24%) WCAG
6 3 (0.93%) ISO 8583
6 3 (0.93%) NIST
6 3 (0.93%) PSD2
6 3 (0.93%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) Basel II
8 1 (0.31%) COBIT
8 1 (0.31%) GAAP
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 20 (6.21%) Docker
2 15 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.31%) Firmware
5 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.11%) Ansible
2 10 (3.11%) Terraform
3 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.93%) Grafana
4 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.93%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 2 (0.62%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.62%) SCCM
6 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.31%) Nessus
6 1 (0.31%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.31%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.31%) Puppet
6 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.31%) WMI
6 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.14%) Oracle
3 13 (4.04%) Google
4 9 (2.80%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.80%) VMware
5 8 (2.48%) Splunk
6 7 (2.17%) SAP
7 6 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.55%) Cisco
8 5 (1.55%) Citrix
8 5 (1.55%) Databricks
8 5 (1.55%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.24%) Apple
9 4 (1.24%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.24%) Commvault
9 4 (1.24%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.24%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.24%) Symantec
9 4 (1.24%) UiPath
10 3 (0.93%) Altiris