Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Problem Solving
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 264 289 238
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 14.43% 14.71% 9.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.00% 15.98% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 181 171
10th Percentile £323 £338 £325
25th Percentile £405 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.44%
75th Percentile £659 £638 £683
90th Percentile £775 £738 £850
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £24.43 £33.60 -
25th Percentile £36.00 £63.00 -
Median hourly rate £41.02 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.38% - -
75th Percentile £43.86 - -
90th Percentile £49.38 - -
Central London median hourly rate £40.78 £112.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -63.59% +86.67% +10.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,650 1,808 2,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.21% 92.01% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,100 1,558
10th Percentile £348 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £46.05 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 16 (6.06%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.76%) Apache
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.76%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.14%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (1.14%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) BASE24
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Summit
3 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (17.42%) Azure
2 36 (13.64%) AWS
3 23 (8.71%) Power Platform
4 17 (6.44%) GCP
5 12 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.65%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.27%) GitHub
9 5 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.89%) IaaS
9 5 (1.89%) PaaS
9 5 (1.89%) SaaS
10 4 (1.52%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.14%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.14%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.14%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.76%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (0.76%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.27%) DNS
2 5 (1.89%) Firewall
3 4 (1.52%) Network Security
3 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.52%) VPN
4 3 (1.14%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.14%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.76%) DHCP
5 2 (0.76%) Softphone
5 2 (0.76%) SSL
5 2 (0.76%) Wireless
6 1 (0.38%) ATM
6 1 (0.38%) BGP
6 1 (0.38%) HTTP
6 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) SAN
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.20%) Power BI
2 13 (4.92%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.17%) Tableau
4 10 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.89%) Metadata
6 5 (1.89%) MySQL
6 5 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.52%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.14%) DB2
8 3 (1.14%) MemSQL
8 3 (1.14%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.14%) Sybase IQ
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.76%) Big Data
9 2 (0.76%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.76%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (10.23%) JIRA
2 17 (6.44%) Git
3 7 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.27%) Selenium
5 4 (1.52%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.52%) Postman
6 3 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.14%) GitLab
7 2 (0.76%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.76%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.76%) fastlane
7 2 (0.76%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.76%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.76%) Xcode
8 1 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.38%) JUnit
8 1 (0.38%) TestRail
8 1 (0.38%) Toad
General
1 143 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 118 (44.70%) Analytical Skills
3 99 (37.50%) Finance
4 37 (14.02%) Banking
5 22 (8.33%) Front Office
6 18 (6.82%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.41%) Legal
9 9 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (3.03%) Marketing
11 6 (2.27%) Back Office
11 6 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.89%) Retail
13 4 (1.52%) Spanish Language
14 3 (1.14%) French Language
14 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (20.45%) Analyst
2 39 (14.77%) Developer
3 28 (10.61%) Business Analyst
4 24 (9.09%) Senior
5 20 (7.58%) Lead
6 14 (5.30%) Consultant
7 13 (4.92%) Architect
8 12 (4.55%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.17%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.41%) Data Analyst
10 9 (3.41%) Programme Manager
11 7 (2.65%) Python Engineer
12 6 (2.27%) Data Engineer
12 6 (2.27%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.27%) Test Engineer
13 5 (1.89%) IT Analyst
13 5 (1.89%) Operations Manager
13 5 (1.89%) Product Manager
13 5 (1.89%) Senior Developer
14 4 (1.52%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.55%) .NET
2 11 (4.17%) RESTful
3 10 (3.79%) CSS
3 10 (3.79%) HTML
3 10 (3.79%) REST
4 6 (2.27%) SOAP
5 5 (1.89%) XML
6 4 (1.52%) HTML5
6 4 (1.52%) LangChain
6 4 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.52%) Node.js
6 4 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.52%) Spring
6 4 (1.52%) Web Services
7 3 (1.14%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.14%) LangGraph
7 3 (1.14%) Pandas
7 3 (1.14%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.14%) React
7 3 (1.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.82%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (4.92%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.41%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.65%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.27%) PMI
8 5 (1.89%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.89%) Derivative
8 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.95%) Windows
2 6 (2.27%) Linux
2 6 (2.27%) Unix
2 6 (2.27%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.14%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (25.76%) Agile
2 42 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (14.77%) Analytics
4 36 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 35 (13.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (13.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 28 (10.61%) Migration
7 26 (9.85%) Scrum
8 25 (9.47%) DevOps
8 25 (9.47%) Project Management
9 24 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (9.09%) Data Analysis
9 24 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 24 (9.09%) Test Automation
10 23 (8.71%) User Acceptance Testing
11 21 (7.95%) Computer Science
11 21 (7.95%) Data Modelling
11 21 (7.95%) Process Improvement
11 21 (7.95%) Roadmaps
12 20 (7.58%) AI
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.18%) Python
2 47 (17.80%) SQL
3 28 (10.61%) Java
4 18 (6.82%) C#
5 14 (5.30%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.27%) C++
8 5 (1.89%) R
9 4 (1.52%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.52%) Korn
10 3 (1.14%) Bash
10 3 (1.14%) Go
10 3 (1.14%) PHP
10 3 (1.14%) Swift
10 3 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.76%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.76%) RPG
11 2 (0.76%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (13.26%) Degree
2 26 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.79%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.52%) CBAP
7 4 (1.52%) PMP
8 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.14%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.76%) CFA
10 1 (0.38%) CISSP
10 1 (0.38%) IIBA
10 1 (0.38%) MBA
10 1 (0.38%) MCP
10 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.23%) QA
2 18 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.89%) PMO
5 4 (1.52%) ISO 8583
6 3 (1.14%) MiFID
6 3 (1.14%) PSD2
6 3 (1.14%) WCAG
7 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.76%) EMIR
7 2 (0.76%) GDPR
7 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.76%) NIST
7 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.38%) Basel III
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (6.06%) Docker
2 12 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Firmware
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.41%) Ansible
3 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.27%) Terraform
4 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.14%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 2 (0.76%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.76%) SCCM
6 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.58%) Oracle
3 13 (4.92%) Google
4 9 (3.41%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.41%) VMware
5 6 (2.27%) Databricks
5 6 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.89%) Cisco
6 5 (1.89%) SAP
7 4 (1.52%) Citrix
7 4 (1.52%) Murex
7 4 (1.52%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.52%) Symantec
8 3 (1.14%) Altiris
8 3 (1.14%) HP
8 3 (1.14%) Informatica
8 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.14%) OutSystems
8 3 (1.14%) Samsung
8 3 (1.14%) Workday