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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 204 338 267
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.40% 18.15% 12.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.71% 19.33% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 223 183
10th Percentile £263 £331 £313
25th Percentile £438 £448 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £647 £695 £691
90th Percentile £738 £823 £775
Central London median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £17.22 £15.15 -
25th Percentile - £18.38 £46.75
Median hourly rate £17.60 £24.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% -49.48% +32.50%
75th Percentile - £44.50 £50.25
90th Percentile - £56.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £17.60 £38.78 £37.53
% change year-on-year -54.61% +3.32% +2.53%

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 2,101 1,749 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.53% 93.93% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,131 1,338
10th Percentile £369 £338 £363
25th Percentile £455 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -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 17 July 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
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 17 July 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 - 1 £650 -
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 8 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.43%) Confluence
3 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.96%) CICS
5 3 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.49%) IIS
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.98%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.98%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.98%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.98%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.49%) Findur
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.49%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.59%) Azure
2 32 (15.69%) AWS
3 17 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 13 (6.37%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (5.88%) GCP
6 8 (3.92%) GitHub
7 6 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (2.94%) SaaS
7 6 (2.94%) Serverless
7 6 (2.94%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.96%) Azure AI
9 4 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.47%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.47%) dbt
10 3 (1.47%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.43%) Firewall
1 7 (3.43%) VPN
2 6 (2.94%) DNS
2 6 (2.94%) Network Security
3 4 (1.96%) LAN
3 4 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.96%) WAN
4 3 (1.47%) DHCP
4 3 (1.47%) Internet
5 2 (0.98%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.49%) 5G
6 1 (0.49%) BGP
6 1 (0.49%) DKIM
6 1 (0.49%) DMARC
6 1 (0.49%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.49%) Multicast
6 1 (0.49%) OSPF
6 1 (0.49%) SAN
6 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.39%) Power BI
2 7 (3.43%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.94%) Db2
4 5 (2.45%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.45%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.47%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.47%) Metadata
6 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.47%) SAP BW
7 2 (0.98%) Looker
7 2 (0.98%) Power Query
7 2 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.98%) Tableau
8 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 24 (11.76%) JIRA
2 8 (3.92%) GitLab
3 7 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.94%) Git
5 5 (2.45%) Selenium
6 3 (1.47%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.98%) JUnit
7 2 (0.98%) Mockito
8 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.49%) Gradle
8 1 (0.49%) JDeveloper
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.49%) Postman
8 1 (0.49%) Snyk
8 1 (0.49%) Vite
8 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 111 (54.41%) Social Skills
2 95 (46.57%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (32.84%) Finance
4 19 (9.31%) Banking
5 13 (6.37%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.92%) Marketing
8 7 (3.43%) Front Office
8 7 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.94%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.45%) Law
11 4 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.96%) Retail
12 3 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.47%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (18.63%) Analyst
2 20 (9.80%) Business Analyst
3 19 (9.31%) Architect
4 16 (7.84%) Senior
5 15 (7.35%) Developer
6 13 (6.37%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.90%) Support Engineer
8 9 (4.41%) Consultant
9 8 (3.92%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.92%) Lead
10 7 (3.43%) Digital Analyst
10 7 (3.43%) Digital Business Analyst
10 7 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.43%) Support Analyst
11 6 (2.94%) IT Analyst
11 6 (2.94%) IT Support
11 6 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.45%) Applications Support
12 5 (2.45%) IT Engineer
12 5 (2.45%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.84%) REST
2 12 (5.88%) React
3 11 (5.39%) JSON
3 11 (5.39%) Kafka
3 11 (5.39%) SOAP
4 7 (3.43%) Web Services
4 7 (3.43%) XML
5 6 (2.94%) Middleware
5 6 (2.94%) PySpark
5 6 (2.94%) RESTful
6 5 (2.45%) Spring
6 5 (2.45%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.96%) .NET
7 4 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (1.96%) WSDL
8 3 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.47%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.84%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.39%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.92%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.43%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.43%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.45%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.96%) CMDB
7 4 (1.96%) DataPower
7 4 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.96%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.96%) NHS
7 4 (1.96%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.80%) Windows
2 10 (4.90%) Mac OS
3 7 (3.43%) Linux
4 4 (1.96%) Unix
4 4 (1.96%) zOS
5 3 (1.47%) Android
5 3 (1.47%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.49%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (30.39%) Agile
2 47 (23.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (20.59%) AI
4 29 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (13.24%) Analytics
5 27 (13.24%) CI/CD
6 26 (12.75%) Decision-Making
7 25 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (11.76%) Migration
9 23 (11.27%) Validation
10 22 (10.78%) DevOps
11 19 (9.31%) ITIL
12 18 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
13 17 (8.33%) Change Management
13 17 (8.33%) Data Modelling
13 17 (8.33%) Machine Learning
13 17 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
13 17 (8.33%) Workflow
14 16 (7.84%) Asset Management
14 16 (7.84%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.59%) SQL
2 36 (17.65%) Python
3 17 (8.33%) Java
4 10 (4.90%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.92%) C#
7 6 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.96%) JCL
9 3 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.98%) Bicep
10 2 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.98%) Go
11 1 (0.49%) ABAP
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.49%) RPG
11 1 (0.49%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (12.25%) Security Cleared
2 19 (9.31%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.82%) Degree
4 6 (2.94%) CISSP
4 6 (2.94%) PMP
5 5 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.45%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.96%) CISA
6 4 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.96%) CRISC
7 3 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.98%) CCNA
8 2 (0.98%) CISM
8 2 (0.98%) CSPO
8 2 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CCNP
9 1 (0.49%) CCSP
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.35%) QA
2 14 (6.86%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.90%) GDPR
4 6 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.45%) NIST
5 5 (2.45%) PMO
6 4 (1.96%) COBIT
6 4 (1.96%) ITGC
7 3 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.47%) GRC
7 3 (1.47%) SLA
8 2 (0.98%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.98%) GxP
8 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.98%) IFRS
8 2 (0.98%) WCAG
9 1 (0.49%) GAAP
9 1 (0.49%) GMP
9 1 (0.49%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.41%) Docker
3 2 (0.98%) IAG
3 2 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.49%) Firmware
4 1 (0.49%) NFS
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.45%) Terraform
4 3 (1.47%) Grafana
5 2 (0.98%) Ansible
5 2 (0.98%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.49%) Control-M
6 1 (0.49%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.49%) logstash
6 1 (0.49%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.49%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.49%) vMotion
6 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (24.02%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.35%) ServiceNow
3 11 (5.39%) Google
3 11 (5.39%) SAP
4 9 (4.41%) Oracle
5 6 (2.94%) Bloomberg
5 6 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.45%) Apple
6 5 (2.45%) Databricks
6 5 (2.45%) Splunk
6 5 (2.45%) Workday
7 4 (1.96%) Charles River
7 4 (1.96%) Cisco
7 4 (1.96%) Informatica
8 3 (1.47%) IBM
8 3 (1.47%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.47%) Remedy
8 3 (1.47%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.98%) Okta
9 2 (0.98%) YouTube