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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 230 363 279
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 8.73% 17.70% 11.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.03% 18.91% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 240 190
10th Percentile £230 £331 £313
25th Percentile £404 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £738 £813 £775
London median daily rate £513 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 2
10th Percentile £17.37 £20.53 £28.58
25th Percentile - £31.80 £31.61
Median hourly rate £17.60 £38.78 £37.53
Median % change year-on-year -54.61% +3.32% -27.13%
75th Percentile £29.14 £50.75 £44.33
90th Percentile £71.25 £54.65 £47.88
London median hourly rate £21.00 £39.04 £35.50
% change year-on-year -46.21% +9.96% -14.46%

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 2,294 1,920 2,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.06% 93.61% 91.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 1,251 1,517
10th Percentile £359 £338 £363
25th Percentile £453 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 32 26
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £20.07
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.28
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £42.15
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £85.63
London median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -18 202 £513 -10.87% 92
West End of London 0 13 £500 +17.65% 10
City of Westminster -2 13 £560 +31.76% 8
Lambeth -1 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 10 (4.35%) Confluence
2 9 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.74%) CICS
5 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.87%) Apache
7 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.74%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.87%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.87%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.43%) Findur
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.43%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 46 (20.00%) Azure
2 33 (14.35%) AWS
3 21 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (9.13%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.09%) GCP
5 13 (5.65%) Entra ID
6 12 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.91%) SaaS
8 7 (3.04%) GitHub
8 7 (3.04%) Serverless
9 5 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.17%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.74%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.74%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.74%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.04%) Firewall
2 6 (2.61%) DNS
2 6 (2.61%) Network Security
2 6 (2.61%) VPN
3 4 (1.74%) LAN
3 4 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.74%) WAN
4 3 (1.30%) Internet
5 2 (0.87%) DHCP
5 2 (0.87%) HTTP
5 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.43%) BGP
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.43%) NAS
6 1 (0.43%) OSPF
6 1 (0.43%) SAN
6 1 (0.43%) VLAN
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.09%) Power BI
2 10 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.04%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.61%) Db2
4 6 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.74%) Metadata
6 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.30%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.30%) Tableau
8 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.87%) Looker
8 2 (0.87%) Power Query
8 2 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (11.30%) JIRA
2 8 (3.48%) GitLab
3 7 (3.04%) Git
4 6 (2.61%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.17%) REST Assured
5 5 (2.17%) Selenium
6 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.87%) JUnit
7 2 (0.87%) Mockito
7 2 (0.87%) Postman
8 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) ERwin
8 1 (0.43%) Gatling
8 1 (0.43%) JDeveloper
8 1 (0.43%) JMeter
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.43%) Snyk
8 1 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 121 (52.61%) Social Skills
2 97 (42.17%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (31.74%) Finance
4 19 (8.26%) Banking
5 13 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.48%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.48%) Marketing
9 6 (2.61%) Front Office
9 6 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.61%) Retail
9 6 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.17%) Law
11 4 (1.74%) Legal
11 4 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 42 (18.26%) Analyst
2 21 (9.13%) Senior
3 20 (8.70%) Architect
3 20 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 19 (8.26%) Developer
5 13 (5.65%) Data Engineer
6 12 (5.22%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.78%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.35%) Lead
9 9 (3.91%) Consultant
10 8 (3.48%) IT Analyst
11 7 (3.04%) Digital Analyst
11 7 (3.04%) Digital Business Analyst
11 7 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 7 (3.04%) Support Analyst
12 6 (2.61%) IT Support
12 6 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.17%) IT Engineer
13 5 (2.17%) Senior Manager
13 5 (2.17%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.26%) REST
2 13 (5.65%) JSON
2 13 (5.65%) React
3 12 (5.22%) SOAP
4 10 (4.35%) Kafka
5 7 (3.04%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.04%) PySpark
6 6 (2.61%) Middleware
6 6 (2.61%) RESTful
6 6 (2.61%) Spring
6 6 (2.61%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.61%) Web Services
6 6 (2.61%) XML
7 4 (1.74%) .NET
7 4 (1.74%) CSS
7 4 (1.74%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (1.74%) HTML
7 4 (1.74%) Playwright
7 4 (1.74%) WSDL
8 3 (1.30%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.35%) Virtual Team
3 8 (3.48%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.04%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.04%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.04%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.17%) Equities
6 5 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.74%) Derivative
7 4 (1.74%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.74%) NHS
7 4 (1.74%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.87%) Windows
2 11 (4.78%) Mac OS
3 8 (3.48%) Linux
4 4 (1.74%) Unix
4 4 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.74%) zOS
5 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.87%) Android
7 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.83%) Agile
2 53 (23.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (17.39%) AI
4 32 (13.91%) Analytics
4 32 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (13.48%) CI/CD
6 29 (12.61%) Migration
7 28 (12.17%) Decision-Making
8 26 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (10.87%) DevOps
10 24 (10.43%) Validation
11 23 (10.00%) Data Modelling
12 21 (9.13%) Collaborative Working
13 18 (7.83%) Computer Science
13 18 (7.83%) ITIL
13 18 (7.83%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (7.83%) Process Improvement
14 17 (7.39%) Microservices
14 17 (7.39%) Project Management
14 17 (7.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.87%) SQL
2 44 (19.13%) Python
3 18 (7.83%) Java
4 15 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.78%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.35%) C#
7 7 (3.04%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.61%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.74%) JCL
10 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.87%) Bicep
11 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.87%) Go
12 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.43%) Korn
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 29 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.00%) Degree
2 23 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.35%) CISSP
4 7 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.04%) CRISC
5 6 (2.61%) CISM
6 5 (2.17%) CISA
6 5 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.17%) PMP
7 4 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.74%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.87%) CASP
9 2 (0.87%) CCNA
9 2 (0.87%) CSPO
9 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.87%) GSEC
9 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.52%) QA
3 10 (4.35%) GDPR
4 6 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.61%) NIST
4 6 (2.61%) PMO
4 6 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.17%) GRC
6 4 (1.74%) COBIT
6 4 (1.74%) ITGC
7 3 (1.30%) IFRS
7 3 (1.30%) SLA
8 2 (0.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.87%) GxP
8 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.87%) WCAG
9 1 (0.43%) GAAP
9 1 (0.43%) GMP
9 1 (0.43%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (7.83%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.91%) Docker
3 4 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.87%) IAG
5 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) NFS
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.61%) Terraform
4 3 (1.30%) Grafana
5 2 (0.87%) Ansible
5 2 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.87%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.43%) Control-M
6 1 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.43%) logstash
6 1 (0.43%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.43%) vMotion
6 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 52 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.96%) ServiceNow
3 13 (5.65%) Google
4 12 (5.22%) SAP
5 11 (4.78%) Oracle
6 7 (3.04%) Databricks
6 7 (3.04%) Workday
7 6 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.17%) Apple
8 5 (2.17%) Bloomberg
8 5 (2.17%) Informatica
8 5 (2.17%) Splunk
9 4 (1.74%) Charles River
9 4 (1.74%) Cisco
10 3 (1.30%) BMC
10 3 (1.30%) IBM
10 3 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.30%) Remedy
10 3 (1.30%) VMware
10 3 (1.30%) Zscaler