Problem-Solving Contracts in Central London

Problem Solving
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 11 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 343 282 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 17.97% 11.72% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.20% 12.93% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 187 177
10th Percentile £359 £313 £292
25th Percentile £448 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £689 £691 £678
90th Percentile £823 £775 £864
London median daily rate £515 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -4.63% -6.09% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £18.38 £23.71 £15.44
25th Percentile £28.20 £24.78 £20.22
Median hourly rate £46.29 £26.56 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.28% -48.43% -1.44%
75th Percentile £50.75 £38.41 £53.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £45.51 £62.75
London median hourly rate £32.91 £34.04 £40.50
% change year-on-year -3.30% -15.96% +2.14%

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 1,786 2,181 3,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.56% 90.65% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,535 2,272
10th Percentile £355 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £791 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 28
10th Percentile £19.36 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £16.33
Median hourly rate £28.50 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £44.61 £31.19 £53.19
90th Percentile £58.55 £41.47 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Central London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Central London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Central London over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Central London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Central London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Central London over the 6 months to 9 June 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 9 June 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 +6 314 £575 +4.55% 253
City of Westminster +8 7 £425 -5.56% 12
West End of London +6 6 £520 +4.00% 29
Southwark -3 2 £344 -50.83% 2
Lambeth - 1 £240 - 7
Problem-Solving
London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.79%) Apache
4 11 (3.21%) Confluence
5 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.17%) CMS
6 4 (1.17%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.58%) Drupal
7 2 (0.58%) SAS
8 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.29%) CICS
8 1 (0.29%) nginx
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 31 (9.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.58%) Trello
7 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.87%) CA PPM
2 3 (0.87%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.29%) Actimize
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.29%) Magento
4 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.29%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.29%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 65 (18.95%) Azure
2 47 (13.70%) AWS
3 33 (9.62%) Power Platform
4 18 (5.25%) GCP
4 18 (5.25%) SaaS
5 17 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.62%) GitHub
8 8 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (2.33%) Snowflake
9 7 (2.04%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.75%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.75%) Serverless
11 4 (1.17%) Asana
11 4 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.17%) IaaS
11 4 (1.17%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.17%) PaaS
12 3 (0.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.92%) Firewall
2 5 (1.46%) LAN
2 5 (1.46%) SSH
3 4 (1.17%) DNS
3 4 (1.17%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.17%) WAN
4 3 (0.87%) DHCP
4 3 (0.87%) NAS
4 3 (0.87%) Network Security
4 3 (0.87%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.87%) VPN
5 2 (0.58%) BGP
5 2 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.58%) HTTP
5 2 (0.58%) OSPF
5 2 (0.58%) SAN
5 2 (0.58%) VLAN
5 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.58%) Wireless
6 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.45%) Power BI
2 22 (6.41%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.21%) Tableau
5 10 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.62%) Hadoop
6 9 (2.62%) Oracle Database
7 8 (2.33%) Big Data
7 8 (2.33%) Data Mining
8 7 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (1.75%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.17%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.17%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.17%) Looker
11 4 (1.17%) Redis
12 3 (0.87%) Metadata
12 3 (0.87%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 37 (10.79%) JIRA
2 23 (6.71%) Git
3 20 (5.83%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.04%) JUnit
5 6 (1.75%) Selenium
6 5 (1.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.46%) Maven
6 5 (1.46%) Postman
6 5 (1.46%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.17%) GitLab
7 4 (1.17%) RStudio
7 4 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.17%) Subversion
8 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (0.87%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.87%) Mockito
8 3 (0.87%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.87%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.87%) Xcode
8 3 (0.87%) XCTest
General
1 211 (61.52%) Social Skills
2 150 (43.73%) Finance
3 139 (40.52%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (19.24%) Banking
5 21 (6.12%) Investment Banking
5 21 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.54%) Financial Institution
8 18 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (4.37%) Front Office
10 10 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.62%) Retail
12 8 (2.33%) Back Office
13 6 (1.75%) Billing
13 6 (1.75%) Law
13 6 (1.75%) Legal
14 5 (1.46%) International Banking
14 5 (1.46%) Police
14 5 (1.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (16.91%) Developer
2 55 (16.03%) Analyst
3 39 (11.37%) Senior
4 33 (9.62%) Business Analyst
5 27 (7.87%) Project Manager
6 25 (7.29%) Consultant
7 21 (6.12%) Architect
8 19 (5.54%) Lead
9 17 (4.96%) Java Developer
10 13 (3.79%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.50%) Data Analyst
12 10 (2.92%) Data Business Analyst
12 10 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (2.92%) IT Support
13 9 (2.62%) Support Analyst
14 8 (2.33%) Security Architect
15 7 (2.04%) Risk Consultant
15 7 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
15 7 (2.04%) Senior Consultant
15 7 (2.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.66%) HTML
2 15 (4.37%) CSS
2 15 (4.37%) REST
3 13 (3.79%) .NET
4 12 (3.50%) AngularJS
5 11 (3.21%) RESTful
6 10 (2.92%) Web Services
7 9 (2.62%) PySpark
7 9 (2.62%) SOAP
8 8 (2.33%) Kafka
8 8 (2.33%) Spring
9 6 (1.75%) Hibernate
9 6 (1.75%) HTML5
9 6 (1.75%) JSON
9 6 (1.75%) Middleware
9 6 (1.75%) Pandas
9 6 (1.75%) React
9 6 (1.75%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.46%) Spark Streaming
10 5 (1.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.37%) Market Risk
1 15 (4.37%) Product Ownership
2 14 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.50%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (3.21%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.92%) Fixed Income
5 10 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.04%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.04%) Equities
7 7 (2.04%) Reference Data
7 7 (2.04%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.46%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.17%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.16%) Linux
1 28 (8.16%) Windows
2 15 (4.37%) Unix
3 9 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.75%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.58%) Android
5 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.29%) Solaris
6 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.20%) Agile
2 50 (14.58%) Project Management
3 47 (13.70%) DevOps
4 46 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 43 (12.54%) Analytics
6 41 (11.95%) CI/CD
7 40 (11.66%) Decision-Making
8 39 (11.37%) Migration
9 34 (9.91%) Risk Management
9 34 (9.91%) Scrum
10 30 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (8.45%) User Acceptance Testing
12 25 (7.29%) SDLC
13 24 (7.00%) Roadmaps
14 23 (6.71%) Computer Science
15 21 (6.12%) Software Engineering
16 20 (5.83%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (5.83%) Mentoring
16 20 (5.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 76 (22.16%) Python
2 74 (21.57%) SQL
3 34 (9.91%) Java
4 23 (6.71%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.54%) C#
5 19 (5.54%) PowerShell
6 16 (4.66%) Bash
7 7 (2.04%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.75%) Groovy
8 6 (1.75%) Scala
9 5 (1.46%) C++
10 4 (1.17%) R
11 3 (0.87%) Bicep
11 3 (0.87%) Perl
12 2 (0.58%) ABAP
12 2 (0.58%) JCL
12 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.58%) Ruby
12 2 (0.58%) VBA
13 1 (0.29%) Ada
Qualifications
1 50 (14.58%) Degree
2 41 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.50%) PMI Certification
5 12 (3.50%) PMP
6 6 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.46%) CISM
7 5 (1.46%) CISSP
8 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.87%) CCNP
10 2 (0.58%) ACCA
10 2 (0.58%) CCAB
10 2 (0.58%) CIMA
10 2 (0.58%) OCP
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.96%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.50%) GDPR
2 12 (3.50%) QA
3 10 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.92%) NIST
4 8 (2.33%) PMO
5 7 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.04%) Basel II
6 4 (1.17%) MiFID
7 3 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.58%) EMIR
8 2 (0.58%) GAAP
8 2 (0.58%) GRC
8 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.58%) SEPA
8 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) COBIT
9 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
System Software
1 15 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.08%) Docker
3 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.58%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.29%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.29%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.29%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) XenApp
6 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.00%) Terraform
3 8 (2.33%) Ansible
4 5 (1.46%) SCCM
5 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.58%) Cisco LMS
6 2 (0.58%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (0.58%) Control-M
6 2 (0.58%) Puppet
6 2 (0.58%) QRadar
6 2 (0.58%) WSUS
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.29%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.29%) Netcool
7 1 (0.29%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.29%) yum
Vendors
1 54 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.75%) Oracle
3 15 (4.37%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.21%) Databricks
4 11 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 10 (2.92%) Cisco
5 10 (2.92%) VMware
6 9 (2.62%) Splunk
7 8 (2.33%) Google
7 8 (2.33%) SAP
8 7 (2.04%) IBM
9 5 (1.46%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.17%) Citrix
10 4 (1.17%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.17%) Workday
11 3 (0.87%) Adobe
11 3 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.87%) Logitech
11 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.87%) UiPath