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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 234 347 282
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.53% 17.37% 11.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.12% 18.70% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 227 188
10th Percentile £333 £342 £313
25th Percentile £422 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year - +1.15% -1.14%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £677
90th Percentile £760 £780 £775
London median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £18.84 £43.55 £23.71
25th Percentile £29.71 £46.57 £24.78
Median hourly rate £40.78 £49.50 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +86.37% -48.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £54.00 £38.41
90th Percentile £47.09 £59.85 £45.51
London median hourly rate £35.71 £43.04 £31.71
% change year-on-year -17.03% +35.72% -26.26%

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 2,105 1,856 2,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.71% 92.89% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 1,198 1,574
10th Percentile £356 £361 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
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 34 24 24
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.01
25th Percentile £19.48 £22.75 £22.38
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.97 £29.11
90th Percentile £59.48 £50.75 £41.29
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.92%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -19 212 £538 -2.93% 266
City of Westminster -1 7 £613 +25.64% 3
West End of London -4 6 £560 +12.68% 7
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 -
Southwark -2 1 £650 +52.94% 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 10 (4.27%) Confluence
2 8 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.71%) CICS
5 2 (0.85%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.28%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Summit
2 2 (0.85%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.43%) BASE24
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.43%) Findur
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 48 (20.51%) Azure
2 30 (12.82%) AWS
3 24 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.56%) GCP
4 13 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.56%) GitHub
7 6 (2.56%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.14%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.14%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.14%) Serverless
9 4 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.71%) Google Gemini
9 4 (1.71%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.71%) SaaS
10 3 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.28%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.42%) Firewall
2 7 (2.99%) Network Security
3 4 (1.71%) VPN
4 3 (1.28%) Internet
4 3 (1.28%) LAN
4 3 (1.28%) WAN
5 2 (0.85%) DHCP
5 2 (0.85%) DNS
5 2 (0.85%) NAS
5 2 (0.85%) SAN
5 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.43%) 4G
6 1 (0.43%) 5G
6 1 (0.43%) BGP
6 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.43%) OSPF
6 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.43%) VLAN
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.26%) Power BI
2 13 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.42%) Metadata
3 8 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.99%) Tableau
5 6 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.14%) DB2
6 5 (2.14%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.71%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.28%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.85%) Big Data
9 2 (0.85%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.85%) Looker
9 2 (0.85%) Power Query
9 2 (0.85%) PowerCenter
9 2 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.43%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 22 (9.40%) JIRA
2 10 (4.27%) Git
3 6 (2.56%) GitLab
4 4 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.71%) Selenium
5 3 (1.28%) Postman
5 3 (1.28%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) ERwin
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Mockito
7 1 (0.43%) Snyk
7 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) Toad
7 1 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 118 (50.43%) Social Skills
2 99 (42.31%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (36.75%) Finance
4 27 (11.54%) Banking
5 18 (7.69%) Front Office
6 14 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (5.98%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.85%) Legal
8 9 (3.85%) Marketing
9 8 (3.42%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.14%) Retail
12 4 (1.71%) Law
12 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.28%) Advertising
13 3 (1.28%) Back Office
13 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (20.51%) Analyst
2 26 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 23 (9.83%) Senior
4 21 (8.97%) Developer
5 17 (7.26%) Lead
6 13 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.13%) Project Manager
8 11 (4.70%) Data Analyst
9 9 (3.85%) Consultant
10 8 (3.42%) Architect
10 8 (3.42%) IT Analyst
10 8 (3.42%) Technical Leader
11 7 (2.99%) Digital Analyst
11 7 (2.99%) Programme Manager
12 6 (2.56%) Digital Business Analyst
13 5 (2.14%) Data Scientist
13 5 (2.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (2.14%) Network Engineer
13 5 (2.14%) Python Engineer
13 5 (2.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.26%) REST
2 11 (4.70%) SOAP
3 9 (3.85%) JSON
4 8 (3.42%) React
4 8 (3.42%) RESTful
5 7 (2.99%) Kafka
6 6 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (2.56%) Web Services
7 5 (2.14%) CSS
7 5 (2.14%) HTML
7 5 (2.14%) LangChain
7 5 (2.14%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (2.14%) Middleware
7 5 (2.14%) Spring
7 5 (2.14%) XML
8 4 (1.71%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.71%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.71%) PySpark
8 4 (1.71%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.71%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.41%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.27%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.99%) AI Agents
4 7 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.99%) Equities
4 7 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.56%) Derivative
5 6 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.14%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.14%) CMDB
6 5 (2.14%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.70%) Windows
2 4 (1.71%) zOS
3 3 (1.28%) Linux
3 3 (1.28%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.28%) Unix
3 3 (1.28%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (23.50%) Agile
2 48 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (15.38%) AI
4 31 (13.25%) Decision-Making
5 30 (12.82%) Analytics
6 28 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (10.68%) Data Modelling
9 24 (10.26%) Computer Science
9 24 (10.26%) Validation
10 23 (9.83%) CI/CD
11 22 (9.40%) Migration
12 21 (8.97%) Business Analysis
13 19 (8.12%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (8.12%) Project Management
13 19 (8.12%) Risk Management
14 18 (7.69%) Data Governance
14 18 (7.69%) Data Science
14 18 (7.69%) Test Automation
14 18 (7.69%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.37%) SQL
2 45 (19.23%) Python
3 19 (8.12%) Java
4 14 (5.98%) C#
5 12 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.71%) C++
9 4 (1.71%) JCL
9 4 (1.71%) R
10 3 (1.28%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.85%) Go
11 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.43%) ABAP
12 1 (0.43%) COBOL
12 1 (0.43%) Perl
12 1 (0.43%) PHP
12 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (12.82%) Degree
2 18 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.98%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.27%) CISSP
6 8 (3.42%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.99%) CRISC
8 6 (2.56%) CISM
9 5 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.14%) CISA
9 5 (2.14%) PMP
10 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.85%) CASP
12 2 (0.85%) CBAP
12 2 (0.85%) CCNA
12 2 (0.85%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.12%) QA
2 18 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.42%) GDPR
3 8 (3.42%) PMO
4 7 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.99%) NIST
5 6 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.71%) COBIT
6 4 (1.71%) ITGC
6 4 (1.71%) WCAG
7 3 (1.28%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.85%) GRC
8 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.85%) IFRS
8 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.85%) PSD2
8 2 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.85%) Docker
3 4 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.43%) NFS
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.71%) Ansible
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.28%) Grafana
4 2 (0.85%) Terraform
5 1 (0.43%) Control-M
5 1 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.43%) logstash
5 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.43%) vMotion
5 1 (0.43%) vRealize
5 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 45 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.13%) ServiceNow
3 11 (4.70%) Oracle
4 10 (4.27%) Google
5 9 (3.85%) Databricks
6 8 (3.42%) SAP
7 6 (2.56%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.56%) Charles River
7 6 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.56%) Workday
8 5 (2.14%) Informatica
8 5 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.71%) Cisco
9 4 (1.71%) Splunk
9 4 (1.71%) VMware
10 3 (1.28%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.28%) Murex
11 2 (0.85%) Anaplan
11 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.85%) Zscaler