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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 214 307 260
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.44% 17.26% 11.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.04% 18.58% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 198 174
10th Percentile £338 £355 £297
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% +0.68% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
90th Percentile £750 £778 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £18.84 - -
25th Percentile £29.71 £61.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £40.78 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.75% +28.87% -6.73%
75th Percentile £42.65 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £47.09 - -
Central London median hourly rate £40.78 £49.50 £37.53
% change year-on-year -17.62% +31.89% -27.83%

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 1,939 1,652 1,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.49% 92.86% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,051 1,415
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% +4.32% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 13
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -42.20%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 25 April 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 25 April 2026.

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

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
London Bridge -2 1 £650 +95.98% 1
Problem-Solving
Central 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 9 (4.21%) Confluence
2 4 (1.87%) CICS
2 4 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.93%) Apache
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.40%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.40%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.93%) Summit
3 1 (0.47%) BASE24
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.47%) Findur
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.47%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.63%) Azure
2 30 (14.02%) AWS
3 23 (10.75%) Power Platform
4 13 (6.07%) GCP
5 9 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.27%) GitHub
6 7 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.80%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.34%) SaaS
8 5 (2.34%) Serverless
9 4 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.87%) Google Gemini
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.40%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.40%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.34%) Network Security
2 4 (1.87%) VPN
3 3 (1.40%) Firewall
3 3 (1.40%) Internet
4 2 (0.93%) DHCP
4 2 (0.93%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) LAN
4 2 (0.93%) NAS
4 2 (0.93%) SAN
4 2 (0.93%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.93%) WAN
4 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.47%) 4G
5 1 (0.47%) 5G
5 1 (0.47%) Broadband
5 1 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.94%) Power BI
2 8 (3.74%) Metadata
2 8 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.74%) Tableau
3 7 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.27%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.34%) DB2
6 4 (1.87%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.87%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.93%) Big Data
7 2 (0.93%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.93%) Looker
7 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.93%) Power Query
7 2 (0.93%) PowerCenter
7 2 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.47%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 22 (10.28%) JIRA
2 10 (4.67%) Git
3 6 (2.80%) GitLab
4 5 (2.34%) Selenium
5 4 (1.87%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.40%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.93%) Postman
8 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.47%) ERwin
8 1 (0.47%) JUnit
8 1 (0.47%) Mockito
8 1 (0.47%) Snyk
8 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.47%) TestRail
8 1 (0.47%) Toad
General
1 109 (50.93%) Social Skills
2 100 (46.73%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (38.79%) Finance
4 25 (11.68%) Banking
5 18 (8.41%) Front Office
6 13 (6.07%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.21%) Marketing
8 9 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.74%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.74%) Legal
10 7 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.80%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.80%) Retail
12 4 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.87%) Law
12 4 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.40%) Advertising
13 3 (1.40%) Back Office
13 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (21.03%) Analyst
2 24 (11.21%) Business Analyst
3 20 (9.35%) Developer
4 15 (7.01%) Senior
5 13 (6.07%) Lead
6 11 (5.14%) Data Analyst
6 11 (5.14%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.67%) Data Engineer
8 9 (4.21%) Architect
8 9 (4.21%) Consultant
9 7 (3.27%) Programme Manager
9 7 (3.27%) Technical Leader
10 6 (2.80%) Digital Analyst
11 5 (2.34%) Data Scientist
11 5 (2.34%) Digital Business Analyst
11 5 (2.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (2.34%) IT Analyst
11 5 (2.34%) Product Manager
12 4 (1.87%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (1.87%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.94%) REST
2 11 (5.14%) SOAP
3 8 (3.74%) JSON
4 7 (3.27%) Kafka
4 7 (3.27%) RESTful
5 6 (2.80%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (2.80%) React
5 6 (2.80%) Web Services
6 5 (2.34%) LangChain
6 5 (2.34%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (2.34%) Middleware
7 4 (1.87%) CSS
7 4 (1.87%) HTML
7 4 (1.87%) LangGraph
7 4 (1.87%) PySpark
7 4 (1.87%) Spring
7 4 (1.87%) WSDL
7 4 (1.87%) XML
8 3 (1.40%) Django
8 3 (1.40%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.01%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.67%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.27%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.27%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.27%) Equities
6 6 (2.80%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.34%) CMDB
7 5 (2.34%) Derivative
7 5 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.34%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.87%) DataPower
8 4 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.87%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.87%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.74%) Windows
2 4 (1.87%) zOS
3 3 (1.40%) Linux
3 3 (1.40%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.23%) Agile
2 40 (18.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (17.29%) AI
4 29 (13.55%) Analytics
4 29 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 27 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (12.62%) Decision-Making
6 23 (10.75%) Computer Science
7 21 (9.81%) Data Modelling
7 21 (9.81%) Validation
8 20 (9.35%) CI/CD
9 19 (8.88%) Business Analysis
9 19 (8.88%) Data Governance
10 18 (8.41%) Data Science
10 18 (8.41%) Migration
10 18 (8.41%) Project Management
10 18 (8.41%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (7.94%) Change Management
11 17 (7.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.50%) SQL
2 44 (20.56%) Python
3 18 (8.41%) Java
4 12 (5.61%) C#
5 8 (3.74%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.80%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.34%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.87%) C++
8 4 (1.87%) JCL
8 4 (1.87%) R
9 3 (1.40%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.93%) Go
10 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.47%) ABAP
11 1 (0.47%) Bash
11 1 (0.47%) Bicep
11 1 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.47%) Groovy
11 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (13.55%) Degree
2 18 (8.41%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.21%) CISSP
6 8 (3.74%) PMI Certification
7 7 (3.27%) CRISC
8 5 (2.34%) CISM
8 5 (2.34%) PMP
9 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.87%) CISA
10 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.93%) CASP
11 2 (0.93%) CCNA
11 2 (0.93%) GSEC
11 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.93%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.88%) QA
2 18 (8.41%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.27%) GDPR
3 7 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.27%) PMO
3 7 (3.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.80%) NIST
5 4 (1.87%) COBIT
5 4 (1.87%) ITGC
5 4 (1.87%) WCAG
6 3 (1.40%) ISO 8583
6 3 (1.40%) MiFID
7 2 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.93%) GRC
7 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.93%) IFRS
7 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.93%) PSD2
8 1 (0.47%) Basel III
System Software
1 9 (4.21%) Docker
2 6 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) NFS
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.87%) Terraform
3 3 (1.40%) Ansible
3 3 (1.40%) Grafana
4 2 (0.93%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.47%) Control-M
5 1 (0.47%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.47%) logstash
5 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.47%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.47%) vMotion
5 1 (0.47%) vRealize
5 1 (0.47%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 38 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.14%) Oracle
3 10 (4.67%) Google
3 10 (4.67%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.21%) Databricks
5 7 (3.27%) SAP
6 6 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.34%) Bloomberg
7 5 (2.34%) Charles River
7 5 (2.34%) Informatica
7 5 (2.34%) VMware
7 5 (2.34%) Workday
8 4 (1.87%) Splunk
9 3 (1.40%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.40%) Cisco
9 3 (1.40%) HP
9 3 (1.40%) Murex
10 2 (0.93%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.93%) Zscaler