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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 252 322 277
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.76% 16.27% 10.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.28% 17.61% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 220 180
10th Percentile £340 £358 £310
25th Percentile £414 £447 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% -
75th Percentile £636 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £753 £775
London median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £19.17 £43.55 £24.07
25th Percentile £34.48 £46.57 £25.67
Median hourly rate £41.02 £49.50 £37.53
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +31.89% -27.13%
75th Percentile £43.86 £54.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £49.38 £59.85 £60.58
London median hourly rate £35.71 £45.29 £35.61
% change year-on-year -21.15% +27.19% -18.82%

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 2,052 1,828 2,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.58% 92.37% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,197 1,603
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.56%
75th Percentile £667 £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 33 19 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.85 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £46.68 £40.00
90th Percentile £57.89 £53.35 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.12
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.20% -22.77%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -11 233 £525 -3.67% 263
City of Westminster -4 7 £613 +44.12% 4
West End of London -4 6 £560 +12.68% 15
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 - 7
Southwark -3 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 12 (4.76%) Confluence
2 10 (3.97%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.19%) CICS
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%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.98%) 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 57 (22.62%) Azure
2 34 (13.49%) AWS
3 28 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.35%) GCP
5 14 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.78%) GitHub
9 6 (2.38%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.98%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.98%) SaaS
11 4 (1.59%) Google Gemini
11 4 (1.59%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.59%) Serverless
12 3 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.17%) Network Security
2 7 (2.78%) Firewall
3 4 (1.59%) VPN
4 3 (1.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.79%) DHCP
5 2 (0.79%) DNS
5 2 (0.79%) LAN
5 2 (0.79%) NAS
5 2 (0.79%) SAN
5 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.79%) WAN
5 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.40%) 4G
6 1 (0.40%) 5G
6 1 (0.40%) Broadband
6 1 (0.40%) HTTP
6 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.33%) Power BI
2 14 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.37%) Tableau
4 10 (3.97%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.78%) Metadata
6 7 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.59%) DB2
7 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.19%) Big Data
8 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.19%) MySQL
9 2 (0.79%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.79%) Looker
9 2 (0.79%) Power Query
9 2 (0.79%) PowerCenter
9 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (10.32%) JIRA
2 13 (5.16%) Git
3 7 (2.78%) Selenium
4 5 (1.98%) GitLab
4 5 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.98%) Postman
5 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.59%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.40%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.40%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) fastlane
7 1 (0.40%) Mockito
7 1 (0.40%) Snyk
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) TestRail
7 1 (0.40%) Toad
7 1 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 132 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 112 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (38.49%) Finance
4 34 (13.49%) Banking
5 21 (8.33%) Front Office
6 16 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (5.16%) Marketing
9 10 (3.97%) Investment Banking
9 10 (3.97%) Legal
9 10 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.57%) Financial Institution
11 8 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (3.17%) Retail
12 6 (2.38%) Back Office
12 6 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.38%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.98%) Law
14 4 (1.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 54 (21.43%) Analyst
2 30 (11.90%) Business Analyst
3 25 (9.92%) Senior
4 24 (9.52%) Developer
5 16 (6.35%) Lead
5 16 (6.35%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 10 (3.97%) Data Analyst
8 9 (3.57%) Architect
8 9 (3.57%) Consultant
9 8 (3.17%) Python Engineer
9 8 (3.17%) Technical Leader
10 7 (2.78%) IT Analyst
10 7 (2.78%) Programme Manager
11 6 (2.38%) Digital Analyst
11 6 (2.38%) Product Manager
12 5 (1.98%) Data Scientist
12 5 (1.98%) Digital Business Analyst
12 5 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (1.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.14%) REST
2 11 (4.37%) RESTful
2 11 (4.37%) SOAP
3 7 (2.78%) JSON
3 7 (2.78%) Kafka
4 6 (2.38%) CSS
4 6 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (2.38%) HTML
4 6 (2.38%) Middleware
4 6 (2.38%) Web Services
4 6 (2.38%) XML
5 5 (1.98%) LangChain
5 5 (1.98%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (1.98%) React
5 5 (1.98%) Spring
6 4 (1.59%) .NET
6 4 (1.59%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.59%) LangGraph
6 4 (1.59%) PySpark
6 4 (1.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.16%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.17%) Equities
5 8 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.78%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.78%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.78%) Derivative
6 7 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.78%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.98%) CMDB
8 5 (1.98%) PMI
9 4 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.76%) Windows
2 5 (1.98%) Unix
3 4 (1.59%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.19%) Linux
4 3 (1.19%) zOS
5 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
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 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (23.81%) Agile
2 53 (21.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (14.68%) Analytics
4 35 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (13.49%) AI
5 34 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 30 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 27 (10.71%) Migration
8 26 (10.32%) Business Analysis
8 26 (10.32%) Data Modelling
8 26 (10.32%) Decision-Making
9 25 (9.92%) Project Management
9 25 (9.92%) Validation
10 24 (9.52%) Computer Science
11 23 (9.13%) Test Automation
12 22 (8.73%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (8.73%) DevOps
12 22 (8.73%) User Acceptance Testing
13 21 (8.33%) Change Management
13 21 (8.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.83%) SQL
2 50 (19.84%) Python
3 20 (7.94%) Java
4 15 (5.95%) C#
5 12 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.97%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.98%) C++
9 4 (1.59%) R
9 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.19%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.19%) JCL
11 2 (0.79%) Bash
11 2 (0.79%) Go
11 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.79%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.40%) ABAP
12 1 (0.40%) Bicep
12 1 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (13.49%) Degree
2 20 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.97%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.17%) CISSP
7 6 (2.38%) CRISC
7 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.38%) PMP
8 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.98%) CISM
9 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.59%) CISA
9 4 (1.59%) 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 26 (10.32%) QA
2 21 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.57%) PMO
4 7 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.38%) NIST
5 6 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.98%) GDPR
6 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.59%) WCAG
8 3 (1.19%) COBIT
8 3 (1.19%) GRC
8 3 (1.19%) ISO 8583
8 3 (1.19%) ITGC
8 3 (1.19%) MiFID
9 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS
9 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.79%) PSD2
9 2 (0.79%) SLA
10 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (5.16%) Docker
2 10 (3.97%) 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 13 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.98%) Terraform
3 3 (1.19%) Ansible
3 3 (1.19%) Grafana
4 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.79%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.40%) Control-M
5 1 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.40%) logstash
5 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.40%) SCCM
5 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.40%) vMotion
5 1 (0.40%) vRealize
5 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 48 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.16%) Oracle
3 12 (4.76%) Google
4 11 (4.37%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.57%) Databricks
6 7 (2.78%) Informatica
6 7 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.78%) VMware
7 6 (2.38%) SAP
7 6 (2.38%) Workday
8 5 (1.98%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.98%) Charles River
9 4 (1.59%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.59%) Splunk
10 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.19%) Cisco
10 3 (1.19%) HP
10 3 (1.19%) Murex
10 3 (1.19%) Talend
11 2 (0.79%) Adobe