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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 246 257 248
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.87% 14.17% 10.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.47% 15.47% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 160 177
10th Percentile £338 £347 £311
25th Percentile £406 £462 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £631 £638 £675
90th Percentile £749 £751 £850
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £31.62 - -
25th Percentile £39.44 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £41.26 £112.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.17% +130.93% -7.62%
75th Percentile £45.08 - £50.25
90th Percentile £50.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £41.26 £112.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -63.17% +130.93% -7.62%

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 1,700 1,661 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.91% 91.57% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,001 1,526
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £775 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +24.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £43.86 £64.56 £45.52
90th Percentile £54.35 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.74% +25.85% -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 16 February 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 16 February 2026.

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 13 (5.28%) Confluence
2 4 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.81%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.03%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.81%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.81%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.81%) Summit
2 2 (0.81%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.41%) BASE24
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 51 (20.73%) Azure
2 37 (15.04%) AWS
3 25 (10.16%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.13%) GCP
5 11 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.66%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.25%) GitHub
9 7 (2.85%) SaaS
10 5 (2.03%) IaaS
10 5 (2.03%) PaaS
11 4 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.63%) Google Gemini
12 3 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.22%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.22%) Google Workspace
12 3 (1.22%) Serverless
12 3 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.85%) DNS
2 4 (1.63%) Network Security
2 4 (1.63%) VPN
3 3 (1.22%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (1.22%) DHCP
3 3 (1.22%) Firewall
3 3 (1.22%) IP Telephony
4 2 (0.81%) Internet
4 2 (0.81%) NAS
4 2 (0.81%) SAN
4 2 (0.81%) SSL
4 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.41%) BGP
5 1 (0.41%) Broadband
5 1 (0.41%) HTTP
5 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) OSPF
5 1 (0.41%) WAN
5 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.54%) Power BI
2 14 (5.69%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.47%) Tableau
4 9 (3.66%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.85%) Metadata
6 5 (2.03%) MySQL
7 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.22%) Big Data
8 3 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.81%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.81%) DB2
9 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.81%) PowerCenter
9 2 (0.81%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (10.57%) JIRA
2 19 (7.72%) Git
3 8 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.25%) Selenium
4 4 (1.63%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.63%) Postman
4 4 (1.63%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.22%) GitLab
6 2 (0.81%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.81%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.81%) fastlane
6 2 (0.81%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.81%) Xcode
7 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.41%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.41%) ERwin
7 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.41%) TestRail
7 1 (0.41%) Toad
General
1 138 (56.10%) Social Skills
2 107 (43.50%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (39.02%) Finance
4 33 (13.41%) Banking
5 27 (10.98%) Front Office
6 17 (6.91%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.88%) Investment Banking
8 11 (4.47%) Financial Institution
9 10 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (3.66%) Legal
10 9 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.85%) Marketing
12 7 (2.85%) Retail
13 6 (2.44%) Back Office
14 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.22%) French Language
15 3 (1.22%) Law
16 2 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (19.51%) Analyst
2 37 (15.04%) Developer
3 25 (10.16%) Business Analyst
4 23 (9.35%) Senior
5 16 (6.50%) Lead
6 14 (5.69%) Project Manager
7 12 (4.88%) Architect
8 11 (4.47%) Data Analyst
9 9 (3.66%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.25%) Consultant
10 8 (3.25%) Java Developer
11 6 (2.44%) Data Scientist
11 6 (2.44%) Programme Manager
11 6 (2.44%) Python Engineer
11 6 (2.44%) Test Engineer
12 5 (2.03%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.03%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.03%) Technical Leader
13 4 (1.63%) Salesforce Developer
13 4 (1.63%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.28%) REST
2 12 (4.88%) RESTful
3 11 (4.47%) .NET
4 9 (3.66%) CSS
4 9 (3.66%) HTML
5 8 (3.25%) SOAP
6 6 (2.44%) XML
7 5 (2.03%) LangChain
7 5 (2.03%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (2.03%) Middleware
7 5 (2.03%) PyTorch
7 5 (2.03%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.63%) JSON
8 4 (1.63%) Kafka
8 4 (1.63%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.63%) Web Services
9 3 (1.22%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.22%) jQuery
9 3 (1.22%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.47%) Virtual Team
5 10 (4.07%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.66%) Fixed Income
6 9 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.85%) Derivative
7 7 (2.85%) Equities
7 7 (2.85%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 5 (2.03%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.03%) PMI
10 4 (1.63%) CMDB
10 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.32%) Windows
2 5 (2.03%) Linux
2 5 (2.03%) Unix
2 5 (2.03%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Solaris
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (25.61%) Agile
2 44 (17.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (16.26%) Analytics
4 36 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (14.23%) CI/CD
6 34 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 27 (10.98%) Migration
8 25 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (10.16%) Computer Science
8 25 (10.16%) Scrum
8 25 (10.16%) Test Automation
9 24 (9.76%) Data Modelling
9 24 (9.76%) Decision-Making
9 24 (9.76%) Process Improvement
10 22 (8.94%) AI
10 22 (8.94%) Data Science
11 21 (8.54%) Data Governance
11 21 (8.54%) DevOps
11 21 (8.54%) User Acceptance Testing
12 20 (8.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 54 (21.95%) SQL
2 49 (19.92%) Python
3 22 (8.94%) Java
4 19 (7.72%) C#
5 14 (5.69%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.66%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.44%) C++
8 4 (1.63%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.22%) Bash
9 3 (1.22%) PHP
9 3 (1.22%) R
9 3 (1.22%) Swift
9 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.81%) Korn
10 2 (0.81%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.81%) RPG
10 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.81%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.41%) F#
Qualifications
1 38 (15.45%) Degree
2 27 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.66%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.63%) CISSP
8 4 (1.63%) PMP
9 3 (1.22%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.22%) CISM
9 3 (1.22%) CRISC
10 2 (0.81%) CASP
10 2 (0.81%) CBAP
10 2 (0.81%) CFA
10 2 (0.81%) GSEC
10 2 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.57%) QA
2 20 (8.13%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.63%) GDPR
4 4 (1.63%) PMO
5 3 (1.22%) GRC
5 3 (1.22%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.22%) MiFID
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.81%) EMIR
6 2 (0.81%) IFRS
6 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.81%) PSD2
6 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.81%) WCAG
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (6.10%) Docker
2 10 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) NFS
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.25%) Ansible
3 6 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.44%) Terraform
4 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.81%) Grafana
5 2 (0.81%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.81%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.41%) logstash
6 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.41%) SCCM
6 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.41%) vMotion
6 1 (0.41%) vRealize
6 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 51 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.32%) Oracle
3 14 (5.69%) Google
4 10 (4.07%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.07%) VMware
5 9 (3.66%) Databricks
6 7 (2.85%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.44%) Informatica
7 6 (2.44%) SAP
8 5 (2.03%) Cisco
9 4 (1.63%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.63%) Charles River
9 4 (1.63%) Murex
10 3 (1.22%) Citrix
10 3 (1.22%) HP
10 3 (1.22%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.22%) Samsung
10 3 (1.22%) Splunk
10 3 (1.22%) Symantec
10 3 (1.22%) Workday