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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 266 300 269
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.36% 14.52% 10.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.86% 15.79% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 201 179
10th Percentile £356 £358 £290
25th Percentile £413 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £838
London median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £31.62 - £27.75
25th Percentile £39.44 - £34.88
Median hourly rate £41.26 £112.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.17% +130.93% -6.73%
75th Percentile £45.08 - £57.63
90th Percentile £50.00 - £62.05
London median hourly rate £35.36 £48.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.10% +38.57% -20.20%

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 1,919 1,900 2,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.17% 91.97% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,202 1,643
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £443 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £688
90th Percentile £768 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 26
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.97
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.07 £20.79
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £40.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.08 £48.75 £57.63
London median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -1.41% +18.33% -16.08%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -7 243 £525 - 224
City of Westminster -2 7 £560 +31.76% 6
West End of London -5 6 £555 +15.50% 4
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 - 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 15 (5.64%) Confluence
2 10 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.75%) CICS
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.13%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.13%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.75%) Summit
3 1 (0.38%) BASE24
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.38%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.38%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 62 (23.31%) Azure
2 39 (14.66%) AWS
3 28 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 17 (6.39%) GCP
5 16 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.38%) GitHub
7 9 (3.38%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.63%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.63%) SaaS
9 5 (1.88%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.50%) Google Gemini
10 4 (1.50%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.50%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.50%) Serverless
11 3 (1.13%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.01%) Firewall
1 8 (3.01%) Network Security
2 7 (2.63%) DNS
3 4 (1.50%) DHCP
3 4 (1.50%) VPN
4 3 (1.13%) Internet
5 2 (0.75%) NAS
5 2 (0.75%) SAN
5 2 (0.75%) SSL
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) BGP
6 1 (0.38%) Broadband
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.38%) HTTP
6 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.38%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
6 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.27%) Power BI
2 14 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.89%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.51%) Tableau
5 10 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.63%) Metadata
8 5 (1.88%) MySQL
9 4 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.50%) DB2
10 3 (1.13%) Big Data
10 3 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.75%) PowerCenter
11 2 (0.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (10.53%) JIRA
2 19 (7.14%) Git
3 7 (2.63%) Selenium
4 6 (2.26%) GitLab
4 6 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.26%) Postman
5 4 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.50%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.75%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.75%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.75%) fastlane
7 2 (0.75%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.75%) Xcode
8 1 (0.38%) ERwin
8 1 (0.38%) Snyk
8 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.38%) TestRail
8 1 (0.38%) Toad
General
1 144 (54.14%) Social Skills
2 113 (42.48%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (36.84%) Finance
4 36 (13.53%) Banking
5 26 (9.77%) Front Office
6 18 (6.77%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.51%) Investment Banking
8 11 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.14%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.14%) Marketing
9 10 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.38%) Legal
11 8 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.01%) Retail
12 6 (2.26%) Back Office
12 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.26%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.50%) Advertising
14 4 (1.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (19.17%) Analyst
2 35 (13.16%) Developer
3 31 (11.65%) Business Analyst
3 31 (11.65%) Senior
4 16 (6.02%) Lead
5 15 (5.64%) Project Manager
6 12 (4.51%) Data Engineer
7 11 (4.14%) Consultant
8 10 (3.76%) Architect
8 10 (3.76%) Data Analyst
9 8 (3.01%) IT Analyst
10 7 (2.63%) Programme Manager
10 7 (2.63%) Python Engineer
10 7 (2.63%) Technical Leader
11 6 (2.26%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (2.26%) Data Scientist
11 6 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.26%) IT Business Analyst
11 6 (2.26%) Java Developer
11 6 (2.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.26%) REST
2 13 (4.89%) RESTful
3 10 (3.76%) SOAP
4 9 (3.38%) CSS
4 9 (3.38%) HTML
5 8 (3.01%) .NET
6 7 (2.63%) JSON
7 6 (2.26%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (2.26%) Middleware
7 6 (2.26%) Web Services
7 6 (2.26%) XML
8 5 (1.88%) LangChain
8 5 (1.88%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.88%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.50%) Kafka
9 4 (1.50%) LangGraph
9 4 (1.50%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (1.13%) JMS
10 3 (1.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.77%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (4.51%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.14%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.14%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.76%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.01%) Equities
6 8 (3.01%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.63%) Derivative
7 7 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.88%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.88%) PMI
9 5 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.50%) CMDB
10 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.02%) Windows
2 5 (1.88%) Linux
2 5 (1.88%) Unix
3 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.75%) zOS
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (23.68%) Agile
2 54 (20.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 38 (14.29%) Analytics
4 38 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 38 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (12.78%) Migration
6 28 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 27 (10.15%) AI
8 26 (9.77%) DevOps
9 25 (9.40%) Business Analysis
9 25 (9.40%) Decision-Making
9 25 (9.40%) Scrum
10 24 (9.02%) Test Automation
11 23 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (8.65%) Computer Science
11 23 (8.65%) ETL
11 23 (8.65%) Validation
12 22 (8.27%) Process Improvement
12 22 (8.27%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (21.80%) SQL
2 55 (20.68%) Python
3 19 (7.14%) Java
4 18 (6.77%) C#
5 16 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.88%) C++
8 3 (1.13%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.13%) Bash
8 3 (1.13%) PHP
8 3 (1.13%) R
8 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.13%) Swift
8 3 (1.13%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.75%) JCL
9 2 (0.75%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.38%) ABAP
10 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (13.16%) Degree
2 25 (9.40%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.14%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.26%) CISSP
7 6 (2.26%) PMP
8 5 (1.88%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.88%) CISM
9 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.13%) CRISC
10 3 (1.13%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.75%) CBAP
11 2 (0.75%) CFA
11 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.75%) GSEC
11 2 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.77%) QA
2 19 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.26%) PMO
5 5 (1.88%) GDPR
6 4 (1.50%) WCAG
7 3 (1.13%) GRC
7 3 (1.13%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.13%) MiFID
8 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.75%) IFRS
8 2 (0.75%) NIST
8 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.75%) PSD2
8 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.38%) GMP
9 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (4.89%) Docker
2 11 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) NFS
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.01%) Ansible
3 7 (2.63%) Terraform
4 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.13%) Grafana
5 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.75%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.38%) logstash
7 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.38%) SCCM
7 1 (0.38%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.38%) vMotion
7 1 (0.38%) vRealize
7 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 59 (22.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.39%) Oracle
3 12 (4.51%) Google
4 9 (3.38%) Databricks
4 9 (3.38%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.38%) VMware
5 7 (2.63%) Informatica
5 7 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.63%) SAP
6 6 (2.26%) Zscaler
7 5 (1.88%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.88%) Charles River
7 5 (1.88%) Commvault
7 5 (1.88%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.88%) Splunk
7 5 (1.88%) Workday
8 4 (1.50%) Murex
9 3 (1.13%) Adobe
9 3 (1.13%) Cisco
9 3 (1.13%) HP