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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 250 379 285
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.72% 18.42% 12.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.03% 19.64% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 255 189
10th Percentile £256 £315 £313
25th Percentile £401 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 2
10th Percentile £17.45 £21.60 £15.26
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.14
Median hourly rate £17.60 £34.48 £20.78
Median % change year-on-year -48.96% +65.93% -44.59%
75th Percentile £26.13 £50.75 £23.92
90th Percentile £68.75 £53.35 £25.50
London median hourly rate £19.03 £34.74 £35.71
% change year-on-year -45.22% -2.72% -12.90%

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 2,267 1,930 2,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.14% 93.78% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,553 1,278 1,446
10th Percentile £363 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 32 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%
75th Percentile £47.75 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.50 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
% change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -17 225 £516 -9.43% 192
West End of London -3 11 £263 -41.67% 7
City of Westminster -5 11 £475 +5.56% 29
Lambeth -1 1 - - 2
Southwark -2 1 £650 +44.44% 4
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 (4.80%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.40%) Confluence
2 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.60%) CICS
4 3 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.80%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.80%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.80%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.80%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.40%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.40%) Findur
4 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (19.20%) Azure
2 33 (13.20%) AWS
3 24 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (8.40%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.00%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.40%) GitHub
7 11 (4.40%) SaaS
8 10 (4.00%) GCP
9 9 (3.60%) Serverless
10 6 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.00%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.60%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.80%) DNS
2 11 (4.40%) VPN
3 8 (3.20%) Firewall
3 8 (3.20%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.80%) Network Security
5 6 (2.40%) DHCP
6 4 (1.60%) LAN
6 4 (1.60%) VLAN
6 4 (1.60%) WAN
7 3 (1.20%) HTTP
7 3 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.80%) BGP
8 2 (0.80%) Internet
8 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.80%) SSL
8 2 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.80%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.40%) 4G
9 1 (0.40%) Multicast
9 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.20%) Power BI
2 8 (3.20%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.40%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.00%) Db2
4 5 (2.00%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.00%) Metadata
5 4 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.60%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.20%) Power Query
6 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.20%) Tableau
7 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.80%) Looker
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.40%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (12.40%) JIRA
2 9 (3.60%) GitLab
3 7 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.40%) Git
4 6 (2.40%) Selenium
5 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.20%) JMeter
5 3 (1.20%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.80%) Appium
6 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.80%) JDeveloper
6 2 (0.80%) JUnit
6 2 (0.80%) Mockito
6 2 (0.80%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 124 (49.60%) Social Skills
2 101 (40.40%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (30.40%) Finance
4 26 (10.40%) Banking
5 15 (6.00%) Marketing
6 14 (5.60%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.60%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.60%) Front Office
8 9 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.60%) Retail
9 8 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.80%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.60%) Law
13 3 (1.20%) Advertising
13 3 (1.20%) Legal
13 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (18.40%) Analyst
2 24 (9.60%) Architect
3 23 (9.20%) Senior
4 21 (8.40%) Business Analyst
4 21 (8.40%) Developer
5 16 (6.40%) Support Engineer
6 12 (4.80%) Consultant
6 12 (4.80%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.40%) Lead
8 9 (3.60%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.20%) Digital Analyst
9 8 (3.20%) IT Support
9 8 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.20%) Support Analyst
10 7 (2.80%) Digital Business Analyst
10 7 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (2.80%) IT Analyst
10 7 (2.80%) IT Engineer
10 7 (2.80%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (2.40%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.40%) REST
2 17 (6.80%) React
3 13 (5.20%) SOAP
4 12 (4.80%) JSON
5 10 (4.00%) .NET
5 10 (4.00%) Kafka
6 9 (3.60%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.80%) Web Services
8 6 (2.40%) RESTful
8 6 (2.40%) Spring
8 6 (2.40%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.40%) XML
9 5 (2.00%) CSS
9 5 (2.00%) HTML
9 5 (2.00%) PySpark
10 4 (1.60%) Django
10 4 (1.60%) Middleware
10 4 (1.60%) Playwright
10 4 (1.60%) WSDL
11 3 (1.20%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.80%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.80%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.60%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.20%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.80%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.40%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.40%) CMDB
7 6 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.60%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.60%) Life Science
9 4 (1.60%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.60%) Windows
2 12 (4.80%) Mac OS
3 11 (4.40%) Linux
4 7 (2.80%) Unix
4 7 (2.80%) Windows 10
4 7 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.60%) zOS
6 3 (1.20%) Android
6 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.80%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.40%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.40%) VMS
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (30.40%) Agile
2 64 (25.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (20.00%) AI
4 42 (16.80%) CI/CD
5 37 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (13.20%) DevOps
7 32 (12.80%) Analytics
8 27 (10.80%) Decision-Making
8 27 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (10.40%) Migration
10 23 (9.20%) Validation
11 22 (8.80%) Customer Service
11 22 (8.80%) ITIL
12 21 (8.40%) Microservices
13 20 (8.00%) Scrum
14 19 (7.60%) Test Automation
14 19 (7.60%) Translating Business Requirements
15 18 (7.20%) Machine Learning
15 18 (7.20%) Workflow
16 17 (6.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (19.20%) Python
1 48 (19.20%) SQL
2 21 (8.40%) Java
3 17 (6.80%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.40%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.20%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.80%) C#
7 6 (2.40%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.60%) JCL
8 4 (1.60%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.20%) Korn
10 2 (0.80%) Go
10 2 (0.80%) Perl
11 1 (0.40%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.40%) C++
11 1 (0.40%) COBOL
11 1 (0.40%) RPG
11 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (12.80%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.60%) Degree
4 7 (2.80%) CISSP
5 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.00%) CISA
5 5 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.00%) PMP
6 4 (1.60%) CRISC
6 4 (1.60%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.20%) CISM
7 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.80%) CSPO
8 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.20%) QA
2 15 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.80%) GDPR
3 7 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.80%) PMO
4 6 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.40%) NIST
4 6 (2.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.60%) COBIT
5 4 (1.60%) GRC
5 4 (1.60%) ITGC
5 4 (1.60%) SLA
6 3 (1.20%) WCAG
7 2 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.80%) GxP
8 1 (0.40%) Basel III
8 1 (0.40%) GAAP
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (10.40%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.40%) Docker
3 4 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) IAG
4 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.40%) Firmware
5 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (3.20%) Terraform
4 5 (2.00%) SCCM
5 4 (1.60%) Ansible
6 3 (1.20%) Grafana
6 3 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.80%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.80%) WSUS
8 1 (0.40%) Control-M
8 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.40%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.40%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (24.40%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.20%) ServiceNow
3 14 (5.60%) Google
4 13 (5.20%) SAP
5 12 (4.80%) Oracle
6 7 (2.80%) Cisco
6 7 (2.80%) Databricks
6 7 (2.80%) Splunk
6 7 (2.80%) Workday
7 6 (2.40%) Apple
7 6 (2.40%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.40%) Remedy
7 6 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.00%) VMware
9 4 (1.60%) BMC
9 4 (1.60%) IBM
10 3 (1.20%) Informatica
10 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.20%) Zscaler