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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 8 17
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 273 302 226
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 14.97% 14.62% 8.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.51% 15.88% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 189 161
10th Percentile £321 £336 £308
25th Percentile £404 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £753 £738 £850
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £23.21 £33.60 -
25th Percentile £29.50 £63.00 -
Median hourly rate £40.64 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.71% - -
75th Percentile £46.11 - -
90th Percentile £50.63 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £112.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -69.21% +86.67% +10.09%

All Process and 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 1,654 1,902 2,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.68% 92.06% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,163 1,618
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.54 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.19% +37.25% -37.04%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025.

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 14 (5.13%) Confluence
2 6 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.73%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (9.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.83%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.47%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (1.47%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) BASE24
4 1 (0.37%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.37%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.37%) Summit
4 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (17.22%) Azure
2 38 (13.92%) AWS
3 22 (8.06%) Power Platform
4 17 (6.23%) GCP
5 13 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.93%) GitHub
8 7 (2.56%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.83%) IaaS
9 5 (1.83%) PaaS
9 5 (1.83%) SaaS
10 4 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.47%) Serverless
11 3 (1.10%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.10%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.10%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.10%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.20%) DNS
2 5 (1.83%) Firewall
3 4 (1.47%) Network Security
3 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.47%) VPN
4 3 (1.10%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.10%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.73%) DHCP
5 2 (0.73%) Softphone
5 2 (0.73%) SSL
5 2 (0.73%) Wireless
6 1 (0.37%) ATM
6 1 (0.37%) BGP
6 1 (0.37%) HTTP
6 1 (0.37%) Internet
6 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) OSPF
6 1 (0.37%) SAN
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.23%) Power BI
2 13 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.03%) Tableau
4 7 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.83%) Metadata
5 5 (1.83%) MySQL
5 5 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.47%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.47%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.10%) DB2
7 3 (1.10%) MemSQL
7 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.10%) Sybase IQ
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.73%) Big Data
8 2 (0.73%) KDB
8 2 (0.73%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.73%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (9.52%) JIRA
2 22 (8.06%) Git
3 7 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.56%) Selenium
4 5 (1.83%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.83%) Postman
5 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.10%) GitLab
7 2 (0.73%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.73%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.73%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.73%) fastlane
7 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.73%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.73%) Xcode
8 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.37%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.37%) JUnit
8 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 152 (55.68%) Social Skills
2 124 (45.42%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (38.46%) Finance
4 39 (14.29%) Banking
5 22 (8.06%) Front Office
6 16 (5.86%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.40%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.66%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.93%) Legal
11 7 (2.56%) Back Office
11 7 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.56%) Marketing
12 6 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.47%) Retail
13 4 (1.47%) Spanish Language
14 3 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (20.88%) Analyst
2 45 (16.48%) Developer
3 29 (10.62%) Business Analyst
4 24 (8.79%) Senior
5 16 (5.86%) Consultant
5 16 (5.86%) Lead
6 14 (5.13%) Architect
7 12 (4.40%) Java Developer
7 12 (4.40%) Project Manager
8 11 (4.03%) Data Analyst
9 7 (2.56%) Data Engineer
9 7 (2.56%) Programme Manager
9 7 (2.56%) Python Engineer
9 7 (2.56%) Test Engineer
10 6 (2.20%) Data Scientist
11 5 (1.83%) IT Analyst
11 5 (1.83%) Senior Developer
12 4 (1.47%) Support Analyst
12 4 (1.47%) Support Engineer
12 4 (1.47%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.76%) .NET
1 13 (4.76%) RESTful
2 11 (4.03%) REST
3 10 (3.66%) CSS
3 10 (3.66%) HTML
4 6 (2.20%) SOAP
4 6 (2.20%) Spring
5 5 (1.83%) XML
6 4 (1.47%) HTML5
6 4 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.47%) Node.js
6 4 (1.47%) OAuth
6 4 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.47%) Web Services
7 3 (1.10%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.10%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.10%) Pandas
7 3 (1.10%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.10%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.10%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.49%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.40%) Data Structures
3 12 (4.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.30%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.20%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.20%) PMI
7 5 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.83%) Derivative
7 5 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.10%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.69%) Windows
2 9 (3.30%) Linux
3 8 (2.93%) Unix
4 6 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) Solaris
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.37%) Agile
2 43 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (15.02%) Analytics
3 41 (15.02%) CI/CD
4 40 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (12.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 31 (11.36%) DevOps
7 28 (10.26%) Migration
8 27 (9.89%) Data Analysis
8 27 (9.89%) Project Management
8 27 (9.89%) User Acceptance Testing
9 25 (9.16%) Scrum
10 24 (8.79%) Computer Science
10 24 (8.79%) Test Automation
11 22 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (8.06%) Decision-Making
11 22 (8.06%) Roadmaps
11 22 (8.06%) Validation
12 21 (7.69%) Data Modelling
12 21 (7.69%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 58 (21.25%) Python
2 52 (19.05%) SQL
3 32 (11.72%) Java
4 19 (6.96%) C#
5 15 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.56%) C++
6 7 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.83%) Bash
7 5 (1.83%) Go
7 5 (1.83%) R
8 4 (1.47%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.47%) Korn
9 3 (1.10%) PHP
9 3 (1.10%) Swift
9 3 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.10%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.10%) VBA
10 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.73%) PromQL
10 2 (0.73%) RPG
Qualifications
1 40 (14.65%) Degree
2 25 (9.16%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.66%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.47%) CBAP
8 4 (1.47%) PMP
9 3 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.10%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.73%) CFA
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.37%) IIBA
11 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.37%) MBA
11 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.37%) VCAP
11 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.26%) QA
2 20 (7.33%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.83%) PMO
4 4 (1.47%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.10%) MiFID
5 3 (1.10%) PSD2
5 3 (1.10%) WCAG
6 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.73%) EMIR
6 2 (0.73%) GDPR
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) NIST
6 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Basel III
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (5.86%) Docker
2 13 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.66%) Ansible
3 8 (2.93%) Terraform
4 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.10%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.10%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.73%) SCCM
7 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.37%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.37%) WMI
7 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (21.98%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.59%) Oracle
3 13 (4.76%) Google
4 9 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.30%) VMware
5 7 (2.56%) SAP
6 6 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.83%) Cisco
7 5 (1.83%) Citrix
8 4 (1.47%) Databricks
8 4 (1.47%) HP
8 4 (1.47%) Murex
8 4 (1.47%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.47%) Symantec
9 3 (1.10%) Ivanti
9 3 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.10%) OutSystems
9 3 (1.10%) Samsung
9 3 (1.10%) Splunk
9 3 (1.10%) UiPath