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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 256 377 290
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.06% 18.42% 12.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.39% 19.63% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 248 187
10th Percentile £259 £306 £335
25th Percentile £405 £413 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £741 £800 £775
London median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 2
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.28 £15.26
25th Percentile - £24.38 £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 £49.22 £23.92
90th Percentile £68.75 £52.05 £25.50
London median hourly rate £19.03 £34.48 £37.50
% change year-on-year -44.81% -8.05% -7.41%

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 2,247 1,921 2,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.33% 93.84% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,540 1,268 1,433
10th Percentile £363 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £423 £470
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 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.14 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.43
Median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%
75th Percentile £45.37 £49.22 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.88 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -16 230 £525 -6.67% 115
West End of London -4 11 £263 -41.67% 11
City of Westminster -6 11 £475 +5.56% 11
Lambeth 0 1 - - 1
Southwark -3 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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.30%) Confluence
2 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.56%) CICS
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.78%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.39%) Findur
4 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (19.14%) Azure
2 34 (13.28%) AWS
3 24 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 15 (5.86%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.30%) GitHub
7 11 (4.30%) SaaS
8 10 (3.91%) GCP
9 9 (3.52%) Serverless
10 6 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.95%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.56%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.08%) DNS
2 11 (4.30%) VPN
3 9 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.73%) Firewall
5 6 (2.34%) DHCP
5 6 (2.34%) Network Security
6 5 (1.95%) VLAN
7 3 (1.17%) HTTP
7 3 (1.17%) LAN
7 3 (1.17%) WAN
8 2 (0.78%) BGP
8 2 (0.78%) SSL
8 2 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.39%) 4G
9 1 (0.39%) Multicast
9 1 (0.39%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.08%) Power BI
2 9 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.34%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.95%) Db2
6 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.95%) Metadata
7 4 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.56%) SAP BW
8 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.17%) Power Query
8 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.17%) Tableau
9 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.78%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.78%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.78%) Looker
10 1 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 33 (12.89%) JIRA
2 9 (3.52%) GitLab
3 8 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.73%) Git
5 6 (2.34%) Selenium
6 3 (1.17%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.17%) JMeter
6 3 (1.17%) JUnit
6 3 (1.17%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.78%) Appium
7 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.78%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.78%) Mockito
7 2 (0.78%) Postman
8 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.39%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 127 (49.61%) Social Skills
2 102 (39.84%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (31.64%) Finance
4 28 (10.94%) Banking
5 16 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.47%) Marketing
7 12 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.52%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.52%) Front Office
9 9 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.52%) Retail
10 7 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.73%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.56%) Legal
13 3 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.17%) Law
13 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 47 (18.36%) Analyst
2 24 (9.38%) Architect
3 23 (8.98%) Developer
3 23 (8.98%) Senior
4 21 (8.20%) Business Analyst
5 17 (6.64%) Support Engineer
6 13 (5.08%) Lead
7 12 (4.69%) Consultant
7 12 (4.69%) Project Manager
8 10 (3.91%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.13%) Digital Analyst
9 8 (3.13%) IT Support
9 8 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.13%) Support Analyst
10 7 (2.73%) Applications Support
10 7 (2.73%) Digital Business Analyst
10 7 (2.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (2.73%) IT Analyst
10 7 (2.73%) IT Engineer
10 7 (2.73%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.81%) REST
2 17 (6.64%) React
3 13 (5.08%) SOAP
4 12 (4.69%) .NET
4 12 (4.69%) JSON
5 10 (3.91%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.52%) Kafka
7 8 (3.13%) Web Services
8 7 (2.73%) PySpark
8 7 (2.73%) RESTful
8 7 (2.73%) Spring
8 7 (2.73%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.34%) CSS
9 6 (2.34%) HTML
9 6 (2.34%) XML
10 4 (1.56%) Django
10 4 (1.56%) Playwright
10 4 (1.56%) WSDL
11 3 (1.17%) Next.js
11 3 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.59%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.69%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.52%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.73%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.73%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.34%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.34%) CMDB
8 5 (1.95%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.56%) Life Science
9 4 (1.56%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.67%) Windows
2 13 (5.08%) Linux
3 12 (4.69%) Mac OS
4 8 (3.13%) Unix
4 8 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.73%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.56%) zOS
7 3 (1.17%) Android
7 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.78%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.39%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.39%) VMS
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.25%) Agile
2 68 (26.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (19.53%) AI
4 43 (16.80%) CI/CD
5 40 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (14.06%) DevOps
7 31 (12.11%) Analytics
8 30 (11.72%) Decision-Making
8 30 (11.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 29 (11.33%) Migration
10 24 (9.38%) ITIL
10 24 (9.38%) Validation
11 23 (8.98%) Customer Service
12 21 (8.20%) Scrum
13 20 (7.81%) Microservices
13 20 (7.81%) Test Automation
14 19 (7.42%) Translating Business Requirements
15 18 (7.03%) Data Engineering
15 18 (7.03%) Machine Learning
15 18 (7.03%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 50 (19.53%) Python
1 50 (19.53%) SQL
2 22 (8.59%) Java
3 17 (6.64%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.25%) TypeScript
5 14 (5.47%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.69%) C#
7 6 (2.34%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.56%) JCL
10 3 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.17%) Korn
11 2 (0.78%) Bash
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) Perl
12 1 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.39%) COBOL
12 1 (0.39%) RPG
12 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.42%) Degree
4 7 (2.73%) CISSP
5 6 (2.34%) PMP
6 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.95%) CISA
6 5 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.95%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.56%) CRISC
7 4 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.17%) CISM
8 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CSPO
9 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.03%) Data Quality
1 18 (7.03%) QA
2 7 (2.73%) GDPR
2 7 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.73%) PMO
3 6 (2.34%) NIST
3 6 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.56%) COBIT
5 4 (1.56%) GRC
5 4 (1.56%) ITGC
5 4 (1.56%) SLA
6 2 (0.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.78%) GxP
6 2 (0.78%) WCAG
7 1 (0.39%) Basel III
7 1 (0.39%) GAAP
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) IFRS
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (10.16%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.30%) Docker
3 4 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) IAG
4 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (3.13%) Terraform
4 5 (1.95%) SCCM
5 4 (1.56%) Ansible
5 4 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.17%) Grafana
7 2 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.78%) WSUS
8 1 (0.39%) Control-M
8 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.39%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.39%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.38%) ServiceNow
3 15 (5.86%) Oracle
4 14 (5.47%) Google
5 13 (5.08%) SAP
6 9 (3.52%) Databricks
7 7 (2.73%) Splunk
7 7 (2.73%) Workday
8 6 (2.34%) Apple
8 6 (2.34%) Cisco
8 6 (2.34%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.34%) Remedy
8 6 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.95%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.95%) VMware
10 4 (1.56%) BMC
10 4 (1.56%) IBM
11 3 (1.17%) Informatica
11 3 (1.17%) ION Trading
11 3 (1.17%) MuleSoft