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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 256 319 277
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 11.28% 15.86% 10.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.74% 17.22% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 219 183
10th Percentile £352 £363 £295
25th Percentile £413 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £795
London median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £31.62 - £27.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £41.54 £34.88
Median hourly rate £41.26 £43.08 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -11.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £45.08 £44.61 £57.63
90th Percentile £50.00 - £62.05
London median hourly rate £35.71 £48.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -26.37% +37.59% -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 2,010 1,852 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.59% 92.09% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,385 1,205 1,638
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £681
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 31 15 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.55 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.33 £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 £35.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.92 £44.27 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -19.47%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -8 236 £525 -2.33% 274
City of Westminster -3 6 £593 +39.41% 5
West End of London -4 6 £555 +13.96% 11
Kensington and Chelsea - 4 £588 - 5
Southwark -2 1 £650 +52.94% 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 (5.47%) Confluence
2 10 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.78%) CICS
4 2 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.17%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.17%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Summit
3 1 (0.39%) BASE24
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.39%) Findur
3 1 (0.39%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.39%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 58 (22.66%) Azure
2 38 (14.84%) AWS
3 29 (11.33%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.25%) GCP
5 15 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.52%) GitHub
8 8 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.73%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.34%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.95%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.95%) SaaS
12 4 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.56%) Google Gemini
12 4 (1.56%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.56%) Serverless
13 3 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.17%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.73%) Firewall
1 7 (2.73%) Network Security
2 4 (1.56%) DNS
3 3 (1.17%) DHCP
3 3 (1.17%) Internet
3 3 (1.17%) VPN
4 2 (0.78%) NAS
4 2 (0.78%) SAN
5 1 (0.39%) 4G
5 1 (0.39%) 5G
5 1 (0.39%) Broadband
5 1 (0.39%) HTTP
5 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.39%) WAN
5 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.59%) Power BI
2 13 (5.08%) Relational Database
2 13 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.69%) Tableau
4 9 (3.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.73%) Metadata
5 7 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.95%) MySQL
7 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.17%) Big Data
8 3 (1.17%) DB2
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.78%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.78%) PowerCenter
9 2 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.78%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (10.94%) JIRA
2 17 (6.64%) Git
3 8 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.73%) Selenium
5 5 (1.95%) GitLab
5 5 (1.95%) Postman
6 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.56%) REST Assured
7 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.78%) CocoaPods
8 2 (0.78%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.78%) fastlane
8 2 (0.78%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.78%) Xcode
9 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.39%) ERwin
9 1 (0.39%) JUnit
9 1 (0.39%) Mockito
9 1 (0.39%) TestRail
9 1 (0.39%) Toad
General
1 136 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 112 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (38.67%) Finance
4 35 (13.67%) Banking
5 22 (8.59%) Front Office
6 16 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (4.69%) Marketing
9 11 (4.30%) Investment Banking
9 11 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.91%) Legal
11 9 (3.52%) Financial Institution
12 8 (3.13%) Retail
13 7 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (2.34%) Back Office
14 6 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.56%) Advertising
16 4 (1.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (19.92%) Analyst
2 32 (12.50%) Senior
3 30 (11.72%) Business Analyst
3 30 (11.72%) Developer
4 17 (6.64%) Project Manager
5 16 (6.25%) Lead
6 12 (4.69%) Data Engineer
7 10 (3.91%) Architect
7 10 (3.91%) Consultant
7 10 (3.91%) Data Analyst
8 8 (3.13%) Python Engineer
8 8 (3.13%) Technical Leader
9 7 (2.73%) IT Analyst
9 7 (2.73%) Programme Manager
10 6 (2.34%) Product Manager
10 6 (2.34%) Senior Developer
11 5 (1.95%) Business IT Analyst
11 5 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (1.95%) Support Engineer
11 5 (1.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.03%) REST
2 11 (4.30%) RESTful
3 10 (3.91%) SOAP
4 8 (3.13%) CSS
4 8 (3.13%) HTML
5 7 (2.73%) .NET
5 7 (2.73%) Kafka
6 6 (2.34%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (2.34%) JSON
6 6 (2.34%) Middleware
6 6 (2.34%) Web Services
6 6 (2.34%) XML
7 5 (1.95%) LangChain
7 5 (1.95%) React
8 4 (1.56%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.56%) PySpark
8 4 (1.56%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.56%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.17%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (5.47%) Virtual Team
3 12 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.52%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.13%) Equities
6 7 (2.73%) AI Agents
6 7 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.73%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.73%) Derivative
6 7 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.73%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.95%) CMDB
8 5 (1.95%) PMI
9 4 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.08%) Windows
2 5 (1.95%) Linux
2 5 (1.95%) Unix
3 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.78%) zOS
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Solaris
5 1 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.22%) Agile
2 53 (20.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (14.45%) CI/CD
4 36 (14.06%) Analytics
4 36 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 33 (12.89%) AI
6 28 (10.94%) Migration
7 26 (10.16%) Business Analysis
7 26 (10.16%) Data Modelling
7 26 (10.16%) Decision-Making
7 26 (10.16%) DevOps
8 25 (9.77%) Computer Science
8 25 (9.77%) Test Automation
9 24 (9.38%) Project Management
10 23 (8.98%) Validation
11 22 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (8.20%) Scrum
13 20 (7.81%) Change Management
13 20 (7.81%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 57 (22.27%) SQL
2 53 (20.70%) Python
3 19 (7.42%) Java
4 16 (6.25%) C#
5 13 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.30%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.95%) C++
9 4 (1.56%) R
10 3 (1.17%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.17%) Bash
10 3 (1.17%) Go
10 3 (1.17%) PHP
10 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.78%) JCL
11 2 (0.78%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.78%) Swift
11 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 34 (13.28%) Degree
2 22 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.30%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.13%) CISSP
7 7 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.73%) PMP
8 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.95%) CISM
8 5 (1.95%) CRISC
9 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.17%) CISA
10 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.17%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.78%) CBAP
11 2 (0.78%) CCNA
11 2 (0.78%) CFA
11 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.77%) QA
2 20 (7.81%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.13%) PMO
5 5 (1.95%) GDPR
5 5 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.56%) NIST
6 4 (1.56%) WCAG
7 3 (1.17%) GRC
7 3 (1.17%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.17%) MiFID
8 2 (0.78%) COBIT
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.78%) IFRS
8 2 (0.78%) ITGC
8 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.78%) PSD2
9 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.39%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (5.86%) Docker
2 9 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) NFS
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.13%) Ansible
3 7 (2.73%) Terraform
4 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.17%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.78%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.39%) Control-M
7 1 (0.39%) EMC VPLEX
7 1 (0.39%) logstash
7 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.39%) SCCM
7 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.39%) vMotion
7 1 (0.39%) vRealize
7 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 51 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.47%) Oracle
3 12 (4.69%) Google
4 10 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.52%) Databricks
6 7 (2.73%) Informatica
6 7 (2.73%) VMware
7 6 (2.34%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.34%) SAP
8 5 (1.95%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.95%) Charles River
8 5 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.95%) Workday
9 4 (1.56%) Commvault
9 4 (1.56%) Murex
9 4 (1.56%) Splunk
9 4 (1.56%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.17%) Apple
10 3 (1.17%) HP
10 3 (1.17%) Talend