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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 268 298 268
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 12.40% 14.40% 10.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.91% 15.66% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 195 183
10th Percentile £358 £353 £306
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £838
London median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -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 £49.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.58% +41.43% -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 1,926 1,903 2,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.08% 91.93% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,319 1,204 1,631
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £435 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.36% -6.21%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 26
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.97
25th Percentile £22.46 £29.55 £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 £38.94 £40.00
90th Percentile £55.30 £48.25 £57.63
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -5 245 £525 - 147
City of Westminster -2 7 £560 +31.76% 5
West End of London -5 6 £555 +15.50% 6
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 (5.60%) Confluence
2 9 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) CICS
5 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.12%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.75%) Summit
2 2 (0.75%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.37%) BASE24
3 1 (0.37%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.37%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.51%) Azure
2 39 (14.55%) AWS
3 28 (10.45%) Power Platform
4 19 (7.09%) GCP
5 16 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (3.36%) GitHub
7 9 (3.36%) Snowflake
8 8 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.61%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.61%) SaaS
10 5 (1.87%) Mimecast
10 5 (1.87%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.49%) Google Gemini
11 4 (1.49%) PaaS
11 4 (1.49%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.99%) Firewall
1 8 (2.99%) Network Security
2 7 (2.61%) DNS
3 4 (1.49%) DHCP
3 4 (1.49%) VPN
4 3 (1.12%) Internet
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (0.75%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.75%) NAS
5 2 (0.75%) SAN
5 2 (0.75%) SSL
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.37%) Broadband
6 1 (0.37%) HTTP
6 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
6 1 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.21%) Power BI
2 14 (5.22%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.85%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.48%) Tableau
5 10 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.61%) Metadata
8 5 (1.87%) MySQL
9 4 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.12%) Big Data
10 3 (1.12%) DB2
10 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.12%) 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 29 (10.82%) JIRA
2 19 (7.09%) Git
3 8 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.99%) Selenium
4 6 (2.24%) Postman
5 5 (1.87%) GitLab
6 4 (1.49%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.75%) CocoaPods
8 2 (0.75%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.75%) fastlane
8 2 (0.75%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.75%) Xcode
9 1 (0.37%) Snyk
9 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.37%) TestRail
9 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 147 (54.85%) Social Skills
2 111 (41.42%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (35.82%) Finance
4 35 (13.06%) Banking
5 26 (9.70%) Front Office
6 18 (6.72%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.48%) Investment Banking
8 11 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.10%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.36%) Legal
9 9 (3.36%) Marketing
10 8 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.61%) Retail
12 6 (2.24%) Back Office
12 6 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.49%) Advertising
14 4 (1.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (19.03%) Analyst
2 38 (14.18%) Developer
3 32 (11.94%) Senior
4 31 (11.57%) Business Analyst
5 16 (5.97%) Lead
6 15 (5.60%) Project Manager
7 12 (4.48%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.10%) Architect
9 10 (3.73%) Consultant
9 10 (3.73%) Data Analyst
10 8 (2.99%) IT Analyst
11 7 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.61%) Java Developer
11 7 (2.61%) Python Engineer
12 6 (2.24%) Business IT Analyst
12 6 (2.24%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.24%) IT Business Analyst
12 6 (2.24%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.24%) Technical Leader
12 6 (2.24%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.22%) REST
1 14 (5.22%) RESTful
2 10 (3.73%) CSS
2 10 (3.73%) HTML
3 9 (3.36%) .NET
3 9 (3.36%) SOAP
4 6 (2.24%) JSON
4 6 (2.24%) Middleware
4 6 (2.24%) XML
5 5 (1.87%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.87%) Kafka
5 5 (1.87%) LangChain
5 5 (1.87%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (1.87%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.87%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.87%) Web Services
6 4 (1.49%) LangGraph
6 4 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.12%) SAML
7 3 (1.12%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.72%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (4.48%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.10%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.10%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.73%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.73%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.36%) Fixed Income
7 8 (2.99%) Equities
8 7 (2.61%) Derivative
8 7 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.87%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.87%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.87%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.87%) PMI
10 5 (1.87%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.49%) CMDB
12 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.97%) Windows
2 5 (1.87%) Linux
2 5 (1.87%) Unix
3 4 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Solaris
5 1 (0.37%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.25%) Agile
2 53 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (14.93%) CI/CD
3 40 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 37 (13.81%) Analytics
4 37 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (12.31%) Migration
6 27 (10.07%) Data Modelling
6 27 (10.07%) DevOps
7 26 (9.70%) Scrum
8 25 (9.33%) AI
8 25 (9.33%) Business Analysis
8 25 (9.33%) Test Automation
9 24 (8.96%) Computer Science
9 24 (8.96%) Decision-Making
10 23 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (8.58%) Process Improvement
11 22 (8.21%) ETL
11 22 (8.21%) Validation
12 21 (7.84%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 58 (21.64%) SQL
2 54 (20.15%) Python
3 21 (7.84%) Java
4 19 (7.09%) C#
5 17 (6.34%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.22%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.87%) C++
8 4 (1.49%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.12%) Bash
9 3 (1.12%) PHP
9 3 (1.12%) R
9 3 (1.12%) Swift
9 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.75%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.37%) ABAP
11 1 (0.37%) COBOL
11 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (13.81%) Degree
2 28 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.73%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.24%) CISSP
8 5 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.87%) CISM
8 5 (1.87%) PMP
9 4 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.12%) CRISC
10 3 (1.12%) 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 (9.70%) QA
2 19 (7.09%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.87%) PMO
5 4 (1.49%) GDPR
5 4 (1.49%) WCAG
6 3 (1.12%) GRC
6 3 (1.12%) ISO 8583
6 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.12%) MiFID
7 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.75%) IFRS
7 2 (0.75%) NIST
7 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.75%) PSD2
7 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.37%) Basel III
8 1 (0.37%) EMIR
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (5.60%) Docker
2 11 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) NFS
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.99%) Ansible
3 7 (2.61%) Terraform
4 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.12%) Grafana
5 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.75%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.37%) logstash
7 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.37%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.37%) SCCM
7 1 (0.37%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.37%) vMotion
7 1 (0.37%) vRealize
7 1 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 59 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.34%) Oracle
3 14 (5.22%) Google
4 9 (3.36%) Databricks
4 9 (3.36%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.36%) VMware
5 8 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.61%) Informatica
6 7 (2.61%) SAP
7 6 (2.24%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.24%) Zscaler
8 5 (1.87%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.87%) Charles River
8 5 (1.87%) Cisco
8 5 (1.87%) Commvault
8 5 (1.87%) Splunk
9 4 (1.49%) Murex
9 4 (1.49%) Workday
10 3 (1.12%) Adobe
10 3 (1.12%) HP