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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 257 343 307
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 10.79% 17.98% 13.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.87% 19.14% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 240 195
10th Percentile £262 £312 £339
25th Percentile £400 £402 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -1.14% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £758
London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile £16.08 £15.94 £33.60
25th Percentile - £20.09 £63.00
Median hourly rate £17.60 £26.00 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% -76.79% +198.67%
75th Percentile £26.13 £33.05 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £34.48 -
London median hourly rate £19.52 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -39.95% -18.75% -8.80%

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 2,166 1,792 2,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.97% 93.92% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 1,211 1,372
10th Percentile £357 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 29
10th Percentile £15.92 £17.79 £18.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.00 £25.40
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £64.15 £60.95 £117.10
London median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
% change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -15 230 £525 -4.55% 403
City of Westminster -4 11 £475 +5.56% 79
West End of London -3 10 £263 -41.67% 11
Lambeth 0 4 £225 -6.25% 1
Kensington and Chelsea -5 1 £750 +66.67%
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 (5.45%) Confluence
1 14 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.17%) Apache
6 2 (0.78%) CMS
6 2 (0.78%) SAS
7 1 (0.39%) CICS
7 1 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.56%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.78%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (22.18%) Azure
2 30 (11.67%) AWS
3 29 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (9.73%) Power Platform
5 19 (7.39%) Entra ID
6 18 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.45%) GitHub
8 12 (4.67%) GCP
8 12 (4.67%) SaaS
8 12 (4.67%) Serverless
9 7 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.72%) dbt
9 7 (2.72%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.33%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (2.33%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.95%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.23%) DNS
2 13 (5.06%) VPN
3 11 (4.28%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.50%) DHCP
5 7 (2.72%) Firewall
6 5 (1.95%) VLAN
7 4 (1.56%) Network Security
8 3 (1.17%) HTTP
8 3 (1.17%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.78%) BGP
9 2 (0.78%) LAN
9 2 (0.78%) SSL
9 2 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.78%) WAN
10 1 (0.39%) DKIM
10 1 (0.39%) DMARC
10 1 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.39%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.23%) Power BI
2 12 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.11%) Metadata
4 7 (2.72%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.95%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.95%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.56%) SAP BW
6 4 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.17%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.17%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.17%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.17%) Tableau
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.78%) Big Data
8 2 (0.78%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (14.40%) JIRA
2 10 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.50%) Git
4 6 (2.33%) GitLab
4 6 (2.33%) Selenium
5 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.56%) JUnit
6 3 (1.17%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.17%) JDeveloper
6 3 (1.17%) JMeter
6 3 (1.17%) Mockito
6 3 (1.17%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.78%) Appium
7 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.78%) Maven
7 2 (0.78%) Postman
7 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 129 (50.19%) Social Skills
2 104 (40.47%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (35.80%) Finance
4 37 (14.40%) Banking
5 20 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.84%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.06%) Front Office
8 11 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.28%) Marketing
9 9 (3.50%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.11%) Retail
11 6 (2.33%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.56%) Legal
13 4 (1.56%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 47 (18.29%) Analyst
2 28 (10.89%) Senior
3 27 (10.51%) Developer
4 23 (8.95%) Business Analyst
5 22 (8.56%) Architect
6 17 (6.61%) Lead
6 17 (6.61%) Support Engineer
7 15 (5.84%) Consultant
8 12 (4.67%) IT Support
8 12 (4.67%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.50%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Applications Support
10 8 (3.11%) IT Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.11%) Support Analyst
11 6 (2.33%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (2.33%) Java Developer
11 6 (2.33%) Technical Analyst
12 5 (1.95%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.34%) REST
2 17 (6.61%) .NET
3 15 (5.84%) React
3 15 (5.84%) SOAP
4 11 (4.28%) Terraform
5 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
5 10 (3.89%) JSON
6 9 (3.50%) Web Services
7 8 (3.11%) Kafka
8 7 (2.72%) PySpark
8 7 (2.72%) Spring
8 7 (2.72%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.33%) CSS
9 6 (2.33%) HTML
9 6 (2.33%) RESTful
9 6 (2.33%) XML
10 4 (1.56%) Middleware
10 4 (1.56%) Node.js
10 4 (1.56%) OAuth
10 4 (1.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.17%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.23%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.50%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.72%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.95%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.95%) CMDB
7 5 (1.95%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.56%) Life Science
8 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.56%) Windows
2 13 (5.06%) Linux
3 11 (4.28%) Mac OS
4 8 (3.11%) Unix
4 8 (3.11%) Windows 10
4 8 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.17%) Android
5 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.39%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.39%) VMS
7 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.02%) Stakeholder Management
2 84 (32.68%) Agile
3 51 (19.84%) CI/CD
3 51 (19.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (17.51%) DevOps
5 43 (16.73%) AI
6 37 (14.40%) Migration
7 36 (14.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 32 (12.45%) Decision-Making
9 29 (11.28%) Analytics
10 26 (10.12%) Translating Business Requirements
11 24 (9.34%) Customer Service
12 23 (8.95%) Scrum
13 22 (8.56%) Data Engineering
13 22 (8.56%) ITIL
14 21 (8.17%) Service Delivery
14 21 (8.17%) Validation
15 20 (7.78%) Data Governance
15 20 (7.78%) Test Automation
16 19 (7.39%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.68%) SQL
2 47 (18.29%) Python
3 21 (8.17%) Java
4 18 (7.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.61%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.84%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.06%) C#
8 5 (1.95%) Korn
8 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.17%) Bash
10 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.78%) Perl
12 1 (0.39%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.39%) C++
12 1 (0.39%) COBOL
12 1 (0.39%) JCL
12 1 (0.39%) RPG
12 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.61%) Degree
4 8 (3.11%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.72%) PMP
6 5 (1.95%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.17%) CISA
8 3 (1.17%) CISSP
8 3 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CCNP
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CISM
9 2 (0.78%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.61%) QA
3 6 (2.33%) GDPR
4 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.95%) PMO
4 5 (1.95%) SLA
5 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.56%) GRC
6 2 (0.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.78%) GxP
6 2 (0.78%) NIST
6 2 (0.78%) PSD2
6 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.39%) GAAP
7 1 (0.39%) GMP
7 1 (0.39%) IFRS
7 1 (0.39%) ITGC
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) SEPA
7 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.89%) Docker
3 6 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.78%) IAG
5 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.78%) vSphere
6 1 (0.39%) Firmware
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (5.06%) Kubernetes
1 13 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.11%) SCCM
3 6 (2.33%) Grafana
4 4 (1.56%) Ansible
4 4 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.78%) WSUS
7 1 (0.39%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.39%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.39%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.39%) SCOM
7 1 (0.39%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (31.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.95%) ServiceNow
3 18 (7.00%) Oracle
4 14 (5.45%) Databricks
5 13 (5.06%) Google
5 13 (5.06%) SAP
6 7 (2.72%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.72%) VMware
7 6 (2.33%) Apple
7 6 (2.33%) Remedy
7 6 (2.33%) Splunk
8 5 (1.95%) Cisco
8 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.56%) BMC
9 4 (1.56%) IBM
9 4 (1.56%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.56%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.56%) Workday
10 3 (1.17%) Citrix