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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 309 336 244
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 15.58% 14.35% 8.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.16% 15.61% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 215 170
10th Percentile £315 £338 £302
25th Percentile £403 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £697
90th Percentile £738 £735 £850
London median daily rate £507 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -5.67% - -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £19.92 £33.60 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £63.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £34.48 £112.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.21% +86.67% +10.09%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £65.00
90th Percentile £48.75 - -
London median hourly rate £34.48 £42.50 £46.06
% change year-on-year -18.87% -7.72% -2.01%

All Process and 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 1,801 2,152 2,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.82% 91.93% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 1,343 1,760
10th Percentile £340 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £750 £787 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 16
10th Percentile £19.86 £20.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -40.70%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £52.50 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £29.50 £36.65 £34.50
% change year-on-year -19.51% +6.23% -12.66%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 +1 281 £513 -6.82% 105
City of Westminster 0 9 £450 +2.86% 7
West End of London -2 5 £450 -5.06% 6
Kensington and Chelsea - 3 £450 - 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 (4.85%) Confluence
2 8 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.65%) CMS
4 2 (0.65%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.32%) IIS
5 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 30 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.29%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (1.29%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.97%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.32%) BASE24
4 1 (0.32%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.32%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.32%) Summit
4 1 (0.32%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (19.09%) Azure
2 41 (13.27%) AWS
3 22 (7.12%) Power Platform
4 20 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.83%) GCP
6 12 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.91%) GitHub
8 7 (2.27%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.94%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.94%) Mimecast
10 5 (1.62%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.62%) IaaS
10 5 (1.62%) PaaS
11 4 (1.29%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.29%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.29%) SaaS
11 4 (1.29%) Serverless
12 3 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.27%) DNS
2 5 (1.62%) Firewall
3 4 (1.29%) Network Security
3 4 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.29%) VPN
4 3 (0.97%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.97%) DHCP
4 3 (0.97%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.65%) Intranet
5 2 (0.65%) Softphone
5 2 (0.65%) SSL
5 2 (0.65%) Wireless
6 1 (0.32%) ATM
6 1 (0.32%) BGP
6 1 (0.32%) HTTP
6 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.32%) Internet
6 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.32%) OSPF
6 1 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.18%) Power BI
2 13 (4.21%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.24%) Tableau
4 7 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.94%) MySQL
5 6 (1.94%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.62%) Metadata
6 5 (1.62%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.62%) Redis
7 4 (1.29%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.29%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.97%) DB2
8 3 (0.97%) MemSQL
8 3 (0.97%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.97%) Sybase IQ
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.65%) Big Data
9 2 (0.65%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 33 (10.68%) JIRA
2 25 (8.09%) Git
3 10 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.24%) Postman
4 7 (2.27%) Selenium
5 5 (1.62%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.62%) GitLab
5 5 (1.62%) REST Assured
5 5 (1.62%) SoapUI
5 5 (1.62%) Xcode
6 4 (1.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.29%) JUnit
6 4 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.97%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.97%) Maven
7 3 (0.97%) Mockito
7 3 (0.97%) Subversion
7 3 (0.97%) XCTest
8 2 (0.65%) CocoaPods
General
1 164 (53.07%) Social Skills
2 127 (41.10%) Analytical Skills
3 112 (36.25%) Finance
4 42 (13.59%) Banking
5 23 (7.44%) Front Office
6 17 (5.50%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.24%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.24%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.91%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.59%) Legal
11 7 (2.27%) Back Office
11 7 (2.27%) Marketing
12 6 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.94%) Retail
13 5 (1.62%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.97%) French Language
Job Titles
1 64 (20.71%) Analyst
2 48 (15.53%) Developer
3 36 (11.65%) Business Analyst
4 29 (9.39%) Senior
5 18 (5.83%) Consultant
6 15 (4.85%) Architect
6 15 (4.85%) Lead
7 13 (4.21%) Project Manager
8 12 (3.88%) Data Analyst
8 12 (3.88%) Java Developer
9 8 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (2.59%) IT Analyst
10 7 (2.27%) Data Engineer
10 7 (2.27%) Python Engineer
10 7 (2.27%) Test Engineer
11 6 (1.94%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (1.94%) Data Scientist
11 6 (1.94%) IT Business Analyst
11 6 (1.94%) Programme Manager
12 5 (1.62%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.85%) RESTful
2 14 (4.53%) REST
3 13 (4.21%) .NET
3 13 (4.21%) CSS
3 13 (4.21%) HTML
4 9 (2.91%) SOAP
4 9 (2.91%) Spring
5 7 (2.27%) HTML5
5 7 (2.27%) Kafka
5 7 (2.27%) Web Services
6 6 (1.94%) XML
7 5 (1.62%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.62%) Hibernate
7 5 (1.62%) Node.js
7 5 (1.62%) OAuth
7 5 (1.62%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.29%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.29%) JPA
8 4 (1.29%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.85%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.21%) Algorithms
3 12 (3.88%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.91%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.94%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.62%) Derivative
10 5 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.62%) PMI
10 5 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.09%) Windows
2 11 (3.56%) Linux
2 11 (3.56%) Unix
3 6 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.29%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Android
6 1 (0.32%) Solaris
6 1 (0.32%) VMS
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (27.83%) Agile
2 47 (15.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 46 (14.89%) CI/CD
4 44 (14.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (13.27%) Analytics
6 40 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 37 (11.97%) DevOps
8 31 (10.03%) Migration
9 28 (9.06%) Project Management
10 26 (8.41%) Data Analysis
10 26 (8.41%) Test Automation
11 25 (8.09%) Computer Science
11 25 (8.09%) Scrum
12 24 (7.77%) Business Analysis
12 24 (7.77%) Decision-Making
12 24 (7.77%) User Acceptance Testing
13 23 (7.44%) Roadmaps
14 22 (7.12%) Business Intelligence
14 22 (7.12%) Validation
15 20 (6.47%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 63 (20.39%) Python
2 55 (17.80%) SQL
3 35 (11.33%) Java
4 20 (6.47%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.15%) C#
6 8 (2.59%) C++
6 8 (2.59%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.94%) R
8 5 (1.62%) Go
9 4 (1.29%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.29%) Bash
9 4 (1.29%) Korn
9 4 (1.29%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.97%) Groovy
10 3 (0.97%) PHP
10 3 (0.97%) Swift
10 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.97%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.97%) VBA
11 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (15.21%) Degree
2 27 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 21 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.59%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.29%) CBAP
7 4 (1.29%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.97%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.97%) CISSP
8 3 (0.97%) PMP
9 2 (0.65%) CEH
9 2 (0.65%) CISM
10 1 (0.32%) CFA
10 1 (0.32%) CISA
10 1 (0.32%) MBA
10 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.06%) QA
2 20 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.94%) PMO
5 4 (1.29%) ISO 8583
5 4 (1.29%) NIST
5 4 (1.29%) WCAG
6 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.97%) PSD2
7 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.65%) EMIR
7 2 (0.65%) GDPR
7 2 (0.65%) MiFID
7 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.65%) SLA
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 20 (6.47%) Docker
2 15 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.24%) Ansible
2 10 (3.24%) Terraform
3 8 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.97%) Grafana
4 3 (0.97%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.97%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 2 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.65%) SCCM
6 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.32%) Nessus
6 1 (0.32%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.32%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.32%) WMI
6 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 73 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.80%) Oracle
3 13 (4.21%) Google
4 9 (2.91%) Salesforce
4 9 (2.91%) VMware
5 7 (2.27%) SAP
5 7 (2.27%) Splunk
6 6 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.62%) Cisco
7 5 (1.62%) Citrix
7 5 (1.62%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.29%) Apple
8 4 (1.29%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.29%) Commvault
8 4 (1.29%) Databricks
8 4 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.29%) HP
8 4 (1.29%) Murex
8 4 (1.29%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.29%) Symantec