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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 296 284 262
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 17.48% 13.40% 9.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.51% 14.58% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 178 186
10th Percentile £315 £345 £325
25th Percentile £404 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £568 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +0.67% +2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £790 £766 £850
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £15.15 £33.60 £16.65
25th Percentile £18.38 £63.00 £23.25
Median hourly rate £24.50 £112.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.13% +198.67% -31.19%
75th Percentile £27.00 - £54.75
90th Percentile £28.05 - £63.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.00 £112.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -76.79% +198.67% -31.19%

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 1,599 1,948 2,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.45% 91.93% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,204 1,777
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £767 £783 £811
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.06%

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 22 October 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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
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 14 (4.73%) Confluence
2 7 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) IIS
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
5 1 (0.34%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 31 (10.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.35%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (1.35%) Oracle Financials
1 4 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.01%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.68%) ION Anvil
3 2 (0.68%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.68%) SAP PLM
3 2 (0.68%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.85%) Azure
2 39 (13.18%) AWS
3 26 (8.78%) Power Platform
4 12 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (3.72%) GCP
6 10 (3.38%) Snowflake
7 9 (3.04%) SaaS
8 8 (2.70%) GitHub
9 7 (2.36%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.35%) PaaS
10 4 (1.35%) Serverless
11 3 (1.01%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.01%) IaaS
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.68%) Firebase
12 2 (0.68%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.03%) DNS
2 5 (1.69%) Firewall
2 5 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.69%) WAN
3 3 (1.01%) BGP
3 3 (1.01%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (1.01%) IP Telephony
3 3 (1.01%) Network Security
3 3 (1.01%) OSPF
3 3 (1.01%) VPN
4 2 (0.68%) Internet
4 2 (0.68%) LAN
4 2 (0.68%) MPLS
4 2 (0.68%) SAN
4 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.68%) Softphone
4 2 (0.68%) SSL
4 2 (0.68%) Wireless
5 1 (0.34%) Multicast
5 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.11%) Power BI
2 9 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (3.04%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.36%) Tableau
5 5 (1.69%) Data Mining
5 5 (1.69%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.69%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.69%) MySQL
5 5 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.35%) MemSQL
6 4 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.01%) DB2
7 3 (1.01%) KDB
7 3 (1.01%) Sybase IQ
8 2 (0.68%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.68%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (8.45%) JIRA
2 19 (6.42%) Git
3 8 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.36%) Selenium
5 4 (1.35%) GitLab
5 4 (1.35%) Postman
6 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.01%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.68%) CocoaPods
7 2 (0.68%) Crashlytics
7 2 (0.68%) fastlane
7 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.68%) Xcode
8 1 (0.34%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.34%) Gatling
8 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.34%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 168 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 128 (43.24%) Analytical Skills
3 117 (39.53%) Finance
4 44 (14.86%) Banking
5 22 (7.43%) Front Office
6 17 (5.74%) Financial Institution
7 13 (4.39%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.70%) Back Office
10 8 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.03%) Marketing
12 5 (1.69%) Retail
12 5 (1.69%) Spanish Language
13 4 (1.35%) Legal
13 4 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (18.92%) Analyst
2 51 (17.23%) Developer
3 30 (10.14%) Business Analyst
4 26 (8.78%) Senior
5 20 (6.76%) Consultant
5 20 (6.76%) Lead
6 17 (5.74%) Architect
7 16 (5.41%) Project Manager
8 11 (3.72%) Java Developer
9 7 (2.36%) Data Engineer
10 6 (2.03%) Programme Manager
10 6 (2.03%) Senior Developer
10 6 (2.03%) Support Analyst
10 6 (2.03%) Test Engineer
11 5 (1.69%) Data Analyst
11 5 (1.69%) Data Scientist
11 5 (1.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (1.69%) IT Analyst
11 5 (1.69%) Python Engineer
11 5 (1.69%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.73%) .NET
2 13 (4.39%) CSS
2 13 (4.39%) HTML
2 13 (4.39%) RESTful
3 8 (2.70%) REST
4 7 (2.36%) Spring
5 6 (2.03%) Kafka
6 5 (1.69%) HTML5
6 5 (1.69%) Middleware
6 5 (1.69%) Pandas
6 5 (1.69%) scikit-learn
6 5 (1.69%) Web Services
6 5 (1.69%) XML
7 4 (1.35%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.35%) jQuery
7 4 (1.35%) Node.js
7 4 (1.35%) OAuth
7 4 (1.35%) React
7 4 (1.35%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.01%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.39%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.72%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (2.70%) Reinsurance
4 8 (2.70%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.03%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.69%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.12%) Windows
2 18 (6.08%) Linux
3 8 (2.70%) Unix
4 7 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.34%) Solaris
8 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.08%) Agile
2 44 (14.86%) Analytics
3 40 (13.51%) CI/CD
4 38 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (11.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (11.15%) DevOps
6 33 (11.15%) Migration
6 33 (11.15%) Project Management
7 31 (10.47%) Decision-Making
8 30 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (9.46%) Scrum
10 24 (8.11%) Data Analysis
10 24 (8.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 23 (7.77%) Computer Science
11 23 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (7.77%) Test Automation
12 20 (6.76%) Roadmaps
13 19 (6.42%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (6.08%) SDLC
15 17 (5.74%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.62%) Python
2 51 (17.23%) SQL
3 32 (10.81%) Java
4 19 (6.42%) C#
5 18 (6.08%) JavaScript
6 10 (3.38%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.04%) Bash
8 7 (2.36%) C++
9 5 (1.69%) Go
9 5 (1.69%) R
10 4 (1.35%) Korn
11 3 (1.01%) Swift
11 3 (1.01%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.01%) VBA
12 2 (0.68%) ABAP
12 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.68%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
12 2 (0.68%) RPG
12 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (13.18%) Degree
2 27 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.36%) PMP
6 5 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.01%) ACCA
8 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) CBAP
9 2 (0.68%) CCAB
9 2 (0.68%) CCNP
9 2 (0.68%) CIMA
9 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.68%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.34%) CISSP
10 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.08%) QA
2 15 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.36%) PMO
4 5 (1.69%) Basel II
5 4 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.68%) COBIT
6 2 (0.68%) GAAP
6 2 (0.68%) GDPR
6 2 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (4.39%) Docker
2 12 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.38%) Terraform
3 9 (3.04%) Ansible
4 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.01%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (0.68%) Grafana
6 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.34%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.34%) Packer
7 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.34%) SCCM
7 1 (0.34%) WMI
7 1 (0.34%) yum
7 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.42%) Oracle
3 11 (3.72%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.38%) ServiceNow
4 10 (3.38%) VMware
5 9 (3.04%) SAP
6 8 (2.70%) Google
7 6 (2.03%) Citrix
7 6 (2.03%) Splunk
8 5 (1.69%) Cisco
9 4 (1.35%) Databricks
9 4 (1.35%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.35%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.35%) Symantec
9 4 (1.35%) UiPath
9 4 (1.35%) Workday
10 3 (1.01%) Alteryx
10 3 (1.01%) OutSystems
10 3 (1.01%) Samsung