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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 253 316 281
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.99% 16.04% 11.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 17.38% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 220 184
10th Percentile £346 £358 £297
25th Percentile £413 £443 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £753 £775
London median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £31.62 £43.51 £24.07
25th Percentile £39.44 £46.47 £25.67
Median hourly rate £41.26 £52.79 £37.53
Median % change year-on-year -21.85% +40.65% -27.13%
75th Percentile £45.08 £58.97 £53.94
90th Percentile £50.00 £61.84 £60.58
London median hourly rate £35.71 £45.29 £35.25
% change year-on-year -21.15% +28.48% -19.63%

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 2,029 1,818 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.14% 92.28% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 1,192 1,626
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.66 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £35.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.40 £46.27 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -9 233 £525 -2.33% 263
City of Westminster -4 7 £613 +40.00% 4
West End of London -4 6 £560 +18.14% 15
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 - 7
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 13 (5.14%) Confluence
2 10 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.19%) CICS
5 2 (0.79%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.58%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.19%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.19%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.79%) Summit
3 1 (0.40%) BASE24
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.40%) Findur
3 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 56 (22.13%) Azure
2 37 (14.62%) AWS
3 28 (11.07%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.93%) GCP
5 14 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (3.16%) GitHub
8 6 (2.37%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.98%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.98%) SaaS
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.58%) Google Gemini
10 4 (1.58%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.58%) Serverless
11 3 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.77%) Network Security
2 6 (2.37%) Firewall
3 3 (1.19%) DNS
3 3 (1.19%) VPN
4 2 (0.79%) DHCP
4 2 (0.79%) Internet
4 2 (0.79%) NAS
4 2 (0.79%) SAN
5 1 (0.40%) 4G
5 1 (0.40%) 5G
5 1 (0.40%) Broadband
5 1 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.30%) Power BI
2 14 (5.53%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.14%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.35%) Tableau
5 9 (3.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.77%) Metadata
6 7 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.98%) MySQL
8 4 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.58%) DB2
9 3 (1.19%) Big Data
9 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.79%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.79%) Looker
10 2 (0.79%) Redis
10 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.79%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (10.67%) JIRA
2 15 (5.93%) Git
3 7 (2.77%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.77%) Selenium
4 5 (1.98%) GitLab
4 5 (1.98%) Postman
5 4 (1.58%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.58%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.79%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.79%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.79%) fastlane
7 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.79%) Xcode
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) ERwin
8 1 (0.40%) JUnit
8 1 (0.40%) Mockito
8 1 (0.40%) TestRail
8 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 134 (52.96%) Social Skills
2 113 (44.66%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (38.34%) Finance
4 34 (13.44%) Banking
5 21 (8.30%) Front Office
6 15 (5.93%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (5.14%) Marketing
8 10 (3.95%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.95%) Legal
8 10 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.56%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.16%) Retail
11 6 (2.37%) Back Office
12 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.58%) Advertising
13 4 (1.58%) Law
13 4 (1.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (20.55%) Analyst
2 30 (11.86%) Senior
3 29 (11.46%) Developer
4 28 (11.07%) Business Analyst
5 16 (6.32%) Lead
5 16 (6.32%) Project Manager
6 13 (5.14%) Data Engineer
7 10 (3.95%) Architect
7 10 (3.95%) Data Analyst
8 9 (3.56%) Consultant
8 9 (3.56%) Python Engineer
9 8 (3.16%) Technical Leader
10 7 (2.77%) IT Analyst
10 7 (2.77%) Programme Manager
11 6 (2.37%) Product Manager
11 6 (2.37%) Senior Developer
12 5 (1.98%) Data Scientist
12 5 (1.98%) Digital Analyst
12 5 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (1.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.11%) REST
2 12 (4.74%) RESTful
3 11 (4.35%) SOAP
4 8 (3.16%) CSS
4 8 (3.16%) HTML
5 7 (2.77%) JSON
5 7 (2.77%) Kafka
5 7 (2.77%) Web Services
6 6 (2.37%) .NET
6 6 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (2.37%) Middleware
6 6 (2.37%) React
6 6 (2.37%) XML
7 5 (1.98%) LangChain
8 4 (1.58%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.58%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.58%) PySpark
8 4 (1.58%) Spring
9 3 (1.19%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.32%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (5.53%) Virtual Team
3 12 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.56%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.16%) Equities
5 8 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.77%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.77%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.77%) Derivative
6 7 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.77%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.98%) CMDB
8 5 (1.98%) PMI
9 4 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.53%) Windows
2 5 (1.98%) Linux
2 5 (1.98%) Unix
3 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.19%) zOS
4 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Solaris
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.51%) Agile
2 52 (20.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (14.23%) Analytics
4 36 (14.23%) CI/CD
5 34 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 33 (13.04%) AI
7 27 (10.67%) Migration
8 26 (10.28%) Data Modelling
8 26 (10.28%) Decision-Making
8 26 (10.28%) Test Automation
9 25 (9.88%) Business Analysis
9 25 (9.88%) Project Management
10 24 (9.49%) Computer Science
10 24 (9.49%) DevOps
11 23 (9.09%) Validation
12 21 (8.30%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (8.30%) Change Management
12 21 (8.30%) Scrum
12 21 (8.30%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (22.92%) SQL
2 52 (20.55%) Python
3 19 (7.51%) Java
4 17 (6.72%) C#
5 14 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.95%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.77%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.98%) C++
9 4 (1.58%) R
9 4 (1.58%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.19%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.19%) Bash
10 3 (1.19%) Go
10 3 (1.19%) JCL
10 3 (1.19%) PHP
11 2 (0.79%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.79%) Swift
11 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.79%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 34 (13.44%) Degree
2 21 (8.30%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.95%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.16%) CISSP
7 6 (2.37%) CRISC
7 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.37%) PMP
8 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.98%) CISM
9 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.58%) CISA
9 4 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.19%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.79%) CBAP
11 2 (0.79%) CCNA
11 2 (0.79%) CFA
11 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.88%) QA
2 20 (7.91%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.56%) PMO
4 6 (2.37%) NIST
4 6 (2.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.98%) GDPR
5 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.58%) WCAG
7 3 (1.19%) COBIT
7 3 (1.19%) GRC
7 3 (1.19%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.19%) ITGC
7 3 (1.19%) MiFID
8 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.79%) IFRS
8 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.79%) PSD2
8 2 (0.79%) SLA
9 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 15 (5.93%) Docker
2 9 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) NFS
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.37%) Ansible
2 6 (2.37%) Terraform
3 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.79%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.40%) Control-M
6 1 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.40%) logstash
6 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.40%) SCCM
6 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.40%) vMotion
6 1 (0.40%) vRealize
6 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 46 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.14%) Google
2 13 (5.14%) Oracle
3 11 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.56%) Databricks
5 7 (2.77%) Informatica
5 7 (2.77%) VMware
6 6 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.37%) SAP
6 6 (2.37%) Workday
7 5 (1.98%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.98%) Charles River
8 4 (1.58%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.58%) Splunk
9 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.19%) Apple
9 3 (1.19%) HP
9 3 (1.19%) Murex
9 3 (1.19%) Talend
10 2 (0.79%) Adobe