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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 291 300 243
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 16.19% 14.04% 9.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.70% 15.30% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 189 175
10th Percentile £315 £331 £322
25th Percentile £401 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £850
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -0.05%
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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 10 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 10 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 (4.81%) Confluence
2 7 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.69%) CMS
4 2 (0.69%) SAS
5 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (9.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.37%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (1.37%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.34%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (16.84%) Azure
2 41 (14.09%) AWS
3 22 (7.56%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.84%) GCP
5 13 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.75%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.41%) Amazon S3
8 7 (2.41%) GitHub
9 5 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.72%) IaaS
9 5 (1.72%) PaaS
9 5 (1.72%) SaaS
10 4 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.37%) Serverless
11 3 (1.03%) Collibra
11 3 (1.03%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.03%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.03%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.06%) DNS
2 5 (1.72%) Firewall
3 4 (1.37%) Network Security
3 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.37%) VPN
4 3 (1.03%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.03%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.69%) BGP
5 2 (0.69%) DHCP
5 2 (0.69%) OSPF
5 2 (0.69%) Softphone
5 2 (0.69%) SSL
5 2 (0.69%) WAN
5 2 (0.69%) Wireless
6 1 (0.34%) ATM
6 1 (0.34%) HTTP
6 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.34%) Internet
6 1 (0.34%) LAN
6 1 (0.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.84%) Power BI
2 13 (4.47%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.44%) Tableau
4 7 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.72%) Metadata
5 5 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.72%) MySQL
5 5 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.37%) MemSQL
6 4 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.03%) DB2
7 3 (1.03%) KDB
7 3 (1.03%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.03%) Sybase IQ
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.69%) Big Data
8 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (9.62%) JIRA
2 22 (7.56%) Git
3 7 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.41%) Selenium
4 5 (1.72%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.72%) Postman
5 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.03%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.03%) GitLab
7 2 (0.69%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.69%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.69%) fastlane
7 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.69%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.69%) Xcode
8 1 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.34%) Gradle
8 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.34%) TestRail
General
1 161 (55.33%) Social Skills
2 123 (42.27%) Analytical Skills
3 113 (38.83%) Finance
4 35 (12.03%) Banking
5 23 (7.90%) Front Office
6 14 (4.81%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.44%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.75%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.41%) Back Office
11 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.41%) Marketing
11 7 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.06%) Legal
13 5 (1.72%) Retail
13 5 (1.72%) Spanish Language
14 3 (1.03%) French Language
14 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (20.62%) Analyst
2 51 (17.53%) Developer
3 32 (11.00%) Business Analyst
4 26 (8.93%) Senior
5 17 (5.84%) Consultant
6 16 (5.50%) Architect
7 15 (5.15%) Lead
8 14 (4.81%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.47%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.12%) Data Analyst
11 7 (2.41%) Data Engineer
11 7 (2.41%) Python Engineer
11 7 (2.41%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.06%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.06%) Programme Manager
13 5 (1.72%) Governance Analyst
13 5 (1.72%) IT Analyst
13 5 (1.72%) Product Manager
13 5 (1.72%) Senior Developer
13 5 (1.72%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.81%) .NET
1 14 (4.81%) RESTful
2 11 (3.78%) CSS
2 11 (3.78%) HTML
2 11 (3.78%) REST
3 7 (2.41%) Spring
4 6 (2.06%) Kafka
4 6 (2.06%) SOAP
5 5 (1.72%) Middleware
5 5 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.72%) XML
6 4 (1.37%) HTML5
6 4 (1.37%) jQuery
6 4 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.37%) Node.js
6 4 (1.37%) OAuth
6 4 (1.37%) Web Services
7 3 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.03%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.03%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.50%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.47%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.12%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.75%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.06%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.72%) PMI
9 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.37%) Derivative
10 4 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.03%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.90%) Windows
2 12 (4.12%) Linux
3 9 (3.09%) Unix
4 6 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.03%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (28.18%) Agile
2 46 (15.81%) CI/CD
3 42 (14.43%) Analytics
3 42 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (11.68%) DevOps
6 33 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 30 (10.31%) Project Management
8 27 (9.28%) Migration
9 25 (8.59%) Data Analysis
9 25 (8.59%) Scrum
10 24 (8.25%) Decision-Making
10 24 (8.25%) Roadmaps
10 24 (8.25%) User Acceptance Testing
11 23 (7.90%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (7.90%) Computer Science
11 23 (7.90%) Test Automation
12 20 (6.87%) Data Modelling
12 20 (6.87%) Process Improvement
12 20 (6.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.99%) Python
2 51 (17.53%) SQL
3 33 (11.34%) Java
4 20 (6.87%) C#
5 16 (5.50%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.75%) C++
7 7 (2.41%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.06%) R
9 5 (1.72%) Go
10 4 (1.37%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.37%) Bash
10 4 (1.37%) Korn
11 3 (1.03%) PHP
11 3 (1.03%) Swift
11 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.03%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.03%) VBA
12 2 (0.69%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.69%) RPG
Qualifications
1 43 (14.78%) Degree
2 25 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.53%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.75%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.37%) CBAP
8 4 (1.37%) PMP
9 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.34%) CFA
11 1 (0.34%) IIBA
11 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.34%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.34%) VCAP
11 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.93%) QA
2 20 (6.87%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.06%) PMO
4 5 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.03%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.03%) PSD2
5 3 (1.03%) WCAG
6 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.69%) GDPR
6 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.69%) NIST
6 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) EMIR
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (5.50%) Docker
2 13 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.34%) Firmware
5 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (6.87%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.09%) Ansible
3 8 (2.75%) Terraform
4 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.03%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.03%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (0.69%) Grafana
6 2 (0.69%) SCCM
7 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.34%) WMI
7 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (21.65%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.53%) Oracle
3 12 (4.12%) Google
4 9 (3.09%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.09%) VMware
5 8 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.41%) SAP
7 5 (1.72%) Cisco
7 5 (1.72%) Citrix
7 5 (1.72%) Databricks
8 4 (1.37%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.37%) Symantec
9 3 (1.03%) Altiris
9 3 (1.03%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.03%) HP
9 3 (1.03%) Informatica
9 3 (1.03%) Ivanti
9 3 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.03%) Murex
9 3 (1.03%) Splunk