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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 233 273 259
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.84% 15.68% 11.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.34% 17.01% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 185 173
10th Percentile £335 £350 £295
25th Percentile £412 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £31.62 - -
25th Percentile £39.44 £61.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £41.26 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% +28.87% -5.83%
75th Percentile £45.08 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £50.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £41.26 £52.79 £37.53
% change year-on-year -21.85% +40.65% -27.13%

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 1,888 1,605 2,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.81% 92.19% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,036 1,469
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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%
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 12 (5.15%) Confluence
2 6 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.29%) CICS
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.29%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.29%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.86%) Summit
3 1 (0.43%) BASE24
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.43%) Findur
3 1 (0.43%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.17%) Azure
2 37 (15.88%) AWS
3 26 (11.16%) Power Platform
4 15 (6.44%) GCP
5 11 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.43%) GitHub
7 7 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.58%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.15%) SaaS
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.72%) Google Gemini
10 4 (1.72%) Serverless
11 3 (1.29%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.29%) Google Workspace
11 3 (1.29%) IaaS
11 3 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.15%) Network Security
2 3 (1.29%) DNS
2 3 (1.29%) VPN
3 2 (0.86%) DHCP
3 2 (0.86%) Firewall
3 2 (0.86%) Internet
3 2 (0.86%) NAS
3 2 (0.86%) SAN
4 1 (0.43%) 4G
4 1 (0.43%) 5G
4 1 (0.43%) Broadband
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.58%) Power BI
2 13 (5.58%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.72%) Tableau
4 9 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.00%) Metadata
5 7 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.15%) MySQL
6 5 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.72%) DB2
8 3 (1.29%) Big Data
8 3 (1.29%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.86%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.86%) Looker
9 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.86%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.86%) PowerCenter
9 2 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.86%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (11.16%) JIRA
2 15 (6.44%) Git
3 7 (3.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.00%) Selenium
4 5 (2.15%) GitLab
5 4 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.72%) Postman
5 4 (1.72%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.86%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.86%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.86%) fastlane
7 2 (0.86%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.86%) Xcode
8 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.43%) ERwin
8 1 (0.43%) JUnit
8 1 (0.43%) Mockito
8 1 (0.43%) Snyk
8 1 (0.43%) Toad
General
1 127 (54.51%) Social Skills
2 110 (47.21%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (40.34%) Finance
4 32 (13.73%) Banking
5 21 (9.01%) Front Office
6 14 (6.01%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (5.58%) Marketing
8 10 (4.29%) Investment Banking
9 9 (3.86%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.86%) Legal
9 9 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.43%) Retail
11 6 (2.58%) Back Office
11 6 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.72%) Advertising
13 4 (1.72%) Law
14 2 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (20.60%) Analyst
2 27 (11.59%) Developer
3 25 (10.73%) Business Analyst
4 24 (10.30%) Senior
5 15 (6.44%) Lead
5 15 (6.44%) Project Manager
6 10 (4.29%) Architect
6 10 (4.29%) Data Analyst
6 10 (4.29%) Data Engineer
7 9 (3.86%) Consultant
8 8 (3.43%) Python Engineer
9 7 (3.00%) Programme Manager
9 7 (3.00%) Technical Leader
10 6 (2.58%) Product Manager
11 5 (2.15%) Data Scientist
11 5 (2.15%) Digital Analyst
11 5 (2.15%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.15%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.15%) Test Engineer
12 4 (1.72%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.73%) REST
2 11 (4.72%) RESTful
2 11 (4.72%) SOAP
3 7 (3.00%) CSS
3 7 (3.00%) HTML
3 7 (3.00%) Kafka
3 7 (3.00%) Web Services
4 6 (2.58%) .NET
4 6 (2.58%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (2.58%) JSON
4 6 (2.58%) Middleware
5 5 (2.15%) LangChain
5 5 (2.15%) React
5 5 (2.15%) XML
6 4 (1.72%) LangGraph
6 4 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.72%) PySpark
7 3 (1.29%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.29%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.87%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.01%) Virtual Team
3 12 (5.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.43%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.43%) Equities
6 7 (3.00%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.00%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.00%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.00%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.58%) Derivative
7 6 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.15%) CMDB
8 5 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.15%) PMI
9 4 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.58%) Windows
2 5 (2.15%) Linux
2 5 (2.15%) Unix
3 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.29%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.29%) zOS
4 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) Solaris
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
5 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (25.32%) Agile
2 48 (20.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (15.45%) Analytics
3 36 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (14.16%) AI
4 33 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 32 (13.73%) CI/CD
6 24 (10.30%) Decision-Making
6 24 (10.30%) Test Automation
7 23 (9.87%) Computer Science
7 23 (9.87%) Migration
7 23 (9.87%) Project Management
8 22 (9.44%) Business Analysis
8 22 (9.44%) Data Modelling
9 21 (9.01%) Scrum
9 21 (9.01%) Validation
10 20 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (8.58%) Change Management
10 20 (8.58%) Data Governance
10 20 (8.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.75%) SQL
2 49 (21.03%) Python
3 18 (7.73%) Java
4 15 (6.44%) C#
5 11 (4.72%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.58%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.15%) C++
8 4 (1.72%) R
8 4 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.29%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.29%) Bash
9 3 (1.29%) Go
9 3 (1.29%) JCL
9 3 (1.29%) PHP
10 2 (0.86%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.86%) Swift
10 2 (0.86%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.86%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.43%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 33 (14.16%) Degree
2 21 (9.01%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.30%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.29%) PMI Certification
6 7 (3.00%) CISSP
7 6 (2.58%) CRISC
7 6 (2.58%) PMP
8 4 (1.72%) CISM
8 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.29%) CISA
9 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.86%) CASP
10 2 (0.86%) CCNA
10 2 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.86%) GSEC
10 2 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.73%) QA
2 20 (8.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.43%) PMO
5 6 (2.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.15%) GDPR
6 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.15%) NIST
7 4 (1.72%) WCAG
8 3 (1.29%) COBIT
8 3 (1.29%) GRC
8 3 (1.29%) ISO 8583
8 3 (1.29%) ITGC
8 3 (1.29%) MiFID
9 2 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.86%) IFRS
9 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.86%) PSD2
10 1 (0.43%) Basel III
10 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 15 (6.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) NFS
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.58%) Ansible
2 6 (2.58%) Terraform
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.29%) Grafana
5 2 (0.86%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.86%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.43%) Control-M
6 1 (0.43%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.43%) logstash
6 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.43%) SCCM
6 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.43%) vMotion
6 1 (0.43%) vRealize
6 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 38 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.58%) Google
2 13 (5.58%) Oracle
3 10 (4.29%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.86%) Databricks
5 7 (3.00%) Informatica
5 7 (3.00%) VMware
6 6 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.58%) SAP
7 5 (2.15%) Bloomberg
7 5 (2.15%) Charles River
8 4 (1.72%) Splunk
8 4 (1.72%) Workday
9 3 (1.29%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.29%) Apple
9 3 (1.29%) HP
9 3 (1.29%) Murex
9 3 (1.29%) Talend
10 2 (0.86%) Adobe
10 2 (0.86%) Cisco