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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 251 314 274
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.19% 15.53% 10.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.64% 16.93% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 217 181
10th Percentile £344 £361 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £838
London median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -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% -5.83%
75th Percentile £45.08 - £57.63
90th Percentile £50.00 - £62.05
London median hourly rate £35.71 £49.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -27.86% +40.43% -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 1,986 1,855 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.50% 91.74% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,363 1,207 1,642
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £446 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £769 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 15 24
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.55 £19.23
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.33 £22.88
Median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £39.38 £40.46
90th Percentile £58.92 £86.70 £60.58
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
% change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%

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 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 18 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 18 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 -6 231 £525 -3.67% 256
West End of London -3 6 £555 +15.50% 8
City of Westminster -3 6 £593 +39.41% 8
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 - 2
Southwark -3 1 £650 +52.65% 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 14 (5.58%) Confluence
2 10 (3.98%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) CICS
4 2 (0.80%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (7.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.20%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.20%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.80%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.80%) Summit
3 1 (0.40%) BASE24
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
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 58 (23.11%) Azure
2 37 (14.74%) AWS
3 29 (11.55%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (5.98%) GCP
5 14 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.59%) GitHub
7 8 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.79%) SaaS
8 7 (2.79%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.39%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.99%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.59%) Google Gemini
11 4 (1.59%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.59%) Serverless
12 3 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (1.20%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.79%) Firewall
1 7 (2.79%) Network Security
2 4 (1.59%) DNS
3 3 (1.20%) DHCP
3 3 (1.20%) Internet
3 3 (1.20%) VPN
4 2 (0.80%) NAS
4 2 (0.80%) 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%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.76%) Power BI
2 14 (5.58%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.18%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.78%) Tableau
5 9 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.79%) Metadata
8 6 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.99%) MySQL
10 4 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.20%) Big Data
11 3 (1.20%) DB2
12 2 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.80%) PowerCenter
12 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.80%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (10.76%) JIRA
2 18 (7.17%) Git
3 8 (3.19%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.79%) Selenium
5 6 (2.39%) GitLab
6 5 (1.99%) Postman
7 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.59%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.80%) CocoaPods
9 2 (0.80%) Crashlytics
9 2 (0.80%) fastlane
9 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.80%) Xcode
10 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.40%) ERwin
10 1 (0.40%) JUnit
10 1 (0.40%) Mockito
10 1 (0.40%) TestRail
10 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 136 (54.18%) Social Skills
2 107 (42.63%) Analytical Skills
3 100 (39.84%) Finance
4 34 (13.55%) Banking
5 23 (9.16%) Front Office
6 16 (6.37%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.78%) Marketing
8 11 (4.38%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.38%) Investment Banking
9 10 (3.98%) Legal
9 10 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.19%) Retail
11 7 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.99%) Back Office
13 5 (1.99%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.59%) Advertising
14 4 (1.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 48 (19.12%) Analyst
2 32 (12.75%) Developer
3 29 (11.55%) Senior
4 28 (11.16%) Business Analyst
5 16 (6.37%) Lead
5 16 (6.37%) Project Manager
6 12 (4.78%) Data Engineer
7 10 (3.98%) Consultant
7 10 (3.98%) Data Analyst
8 8 (3.19%) Architect
8 8 (3.19%) Technical Leader
9 7 (2.79%) Programme Manager
9 7 (2.79%) Python Engineer
10 6 (2.39%) IT Analyst
10 6 (2.39%) Product Manager
10 6 (2.39%) Senior Developer
11 5 (1.99%) Business IT Analyst
11 5 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (1.99%) Support Engineer
11 5 (1.99%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.77%) REST
2 12 (4.78%) RESTful
3 10 (3.98%) SOAP
4 9 (3.59%) CSS
4 9 (3.59%) HTML
5 7 (2.79%) .NET
5 7 (2.79%) JSON
6 6 (2.39%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (2.39%) Kafka
6 6 (2.39%) Middleware
6 6 (2.39%) React
6 6 (2.39%) Web Services
6 6 (2.39%) XML
7 5 (1.99%) LangChain
8 4 (1.59%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.59%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.59%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.37%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (4.78%) Virtual Team
4 11 (4.38%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.59%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.59%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.19%) Derivative
6 8 (3.19%) Equities
6 8 (3.19%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.79%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.99%) CMDB
8 5 (1.99%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.99%) PMI
8 5 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.18%) Windows
2 5 (1.99%) Linux
2 5 (1.99%) Unix
3 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.80%) zOS
6 1 (0.40%) Android
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.70%) Agile
2 52 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (14.74%) CI/CD
4 37 (14.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 36 (14.34%) Analytics
6 28 (11.16%) AI
6 28 (11.16%) Migration
7 26 (10.36%) Data Modelling
8 25 (9.96%) Computer Science
8 25 (9.96%) DevOps
9 24 (9.56%) Decision-Making
9 24 (9.56%) Project Management
10 23 (9.16%) Business Analysis
10 23 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (9.16%) Test Automation
11 22 (8.76%) Process Improvement
11 22 (8.76%) Validation
12 21 (8.37%) ETL
12 21 (8.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (22.71%) SQL
2 51 (20.32%) Python
3 19 (7.57%) Java
4 15 (5.98%) C#
5 14 (5.58%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.38%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.99%) C++
7 5 (1.99%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.20%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.20%) Bash
8 3 (1.20%) PHP
8 3 (1.20%) R
8 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.20%) Swift
9 2 (0.80%) JCL
9 2 (0.80%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.80%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.40%) ABAP
10 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (13.55%) Degree
2 23 (9.16%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.38%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.79%) CISSP
6 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.39%) PMP
8 5 (1.99%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.99%) CISM
9 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.59%) CRISC
9 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.80%) CBAP
11 2 (0.80%) CCNA
11 2 (0.80%) CFA
11 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.80%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.56%) QA
2 20 (7.97%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.79%) PMO
5 5 (1.99%) GDPR
6 4 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.20%) GRC
7 3 (1.20%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.20%) MiFID
7 3 (1.20%) NIST
7 3 (1.20%) WCAG
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.80%) IFRS
8 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.80%) PSD2
9 1 (0.40%) COBIT
9 1 (0.40%) GMP
9 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (5.58%) Docker
2 9 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.59%) 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 12 (4.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.19%) Ansible
3 6 (2.39%) Terraform
4 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.20%) Grafana
6 2 (0.80%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.40%) logstash
7 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.40%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.40%) SCCM
7 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.40%) vMotion
7 1 (0.40%) vRealize
7 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 52 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.77%) Oracle
3 11 (4.38%) Google
4 10 (3.98%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.59%) Databricks
6 7 (2.79%) Informatica
6 7 (2.79%) SAP
6 7 (2.79%) VMware
7 6 (2.39%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.99%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.99%) Charles River
8 5 (1.99%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.99%) Workday
9 4 (1.59%) Commvault
9 4 (1.59%) Murex
9 4 (1.59%) Splunk
9 4 (1.59%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.20%) Apple
10 3 (1.20%) HP
10 3 (1.20%) Talend