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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 227 343 276
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.70% 18.52% 13.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.07% 19.64% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 224 177
10th Percentile £263 £315 £335
25th Percentile £416 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -3.48% -
75th Percentile £673 £685 £708
90th Percentile £738 £809 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £17.29 £16.23 -
25th Percentile - £21.06 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.60 £26.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +73.33% -60.00%
75th Percentile - £37.50 £16.00
90th Percentile £21.01 £53.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £17.60 £34.48 £20.78
% change year-on-year -48.96% +65.93% -44.59%

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 2,050 1,746 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.61% 94.28% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,142 1,266
10th Percentile £376 £325 £379
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £765 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% +5.73% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 - 1
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 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.96%) Confluence
4 4 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.76%) CICS
5 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.88%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.88%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.88%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.44%) Findur
4 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.44%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.70%) Azure
2 32 (14.10%) AWS
3 20 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (8.81%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.17%) Entra ID
5 13 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.29%) GitHub
7 10 (4.41%) GCP
7 10 (4.41%) Serverless
8 9 (3.96%) SaaS
9 7 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.20%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.20%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.76%) dbt
12 4 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.29%) DNS
2 11 (4.85%) VPN
3 8 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 7 (3.08%) Firewall
5 6 (2.64%) DHCP
5 6 (2.64%) Network Security
6 5 (2.20%) VLAN
7 3 (1.32%) LAN
7 3 (1.32%) WAN
8 2 (0.88%) BGP
8 2 (0.88%) SSL
8 2 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.88%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.44%) 5G
9 1 (0.44%) DKIM
9 1 (0.44%) Multicast
9 1 (0.44%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.73%) Power BI
2 10 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.08%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.64%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.20%) Db2
5 5 (2.20%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.20%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.76%) Metadata
6 4 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.76%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.32%) Power Query
7 3 (1.32%) Tableau
8 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.88%) Looker
Development Applications
1 30 (13.22%) JIRA
2 9 (3.96%) GitLab
3 8 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.08%) Git
5 4 (1.76%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.76%) Selenium
6 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.32%) JUnit
7 2 (0.88%) Appium
7 2 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.88%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.88%) JMeter
7 2 (0.88%) Mockito
8 1 (0.44%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.44%) Gradle
8 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.44%) Snyk
8 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (51.10%) Social Skills
2 95 (41.85%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (33.48%) Finance
4 26 (11.45%) Banking
5 14 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.29%) Marketing
7 10 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.96%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.96%) Front Office
8 9 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.52%) Retail
10 7 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.08%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.32%) Law
12 3 (1.32%) Legal
12 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (18.06%) Analyst
2 22 (9.69%) Architect
3 21 (9.25%) Developer
4 20 (8.81%) Business Analyst
4 20 (8.81%) Senior
5 16 (7.05%) Support Engineer
6 12 (5.29%) Consultant
7 11 (4.85%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.41%) Lead
9 8 (3.52%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.52%) Digital Analyst
9 8 (3.52%) IT Support
9 8 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.08%) Applications Support
10 7 (3.08%) Digital Business Analyst
10 7 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (3.08%) IT Engineer
10 7 (3.08%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (3.08%) Support Analyst
11 6 (2.64%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.05%) REST
2 15 (6.61%) React
3 12 (5.29%) .NET
4 11 (4.85%) SOAP
5 10 (4.41%) JSON
6 9 (3.96%) Kafka
7 8 (3.52%) Web Services
8 7 (3.08%) PySpark
8 7 (3.08%) RESTful
9 6 (2.64%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.64%) Spring
9 6 (2.64%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.64%) XML
10 4 (1.76%) CSS
10 4 (1.76%) HTML
10 4 (1.76%) WSDL
11 3 (1.32%) Django
11 3 (1.32%) Middleware
11 3 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.88%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.25%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.96%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.20%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.20%) CMDB
7 5 (2.20%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.20%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.76%) DataPower
8 4 (1.76%) Life Science
8 4 (1.76%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.76%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.78%) Windows
2 12 (5.29%) Linux
3 11 (4.85%) Mac OS
4 8 (3.52%) Unix
5 6 (2.64%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.64%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.76%) zOS
7 3 (1.32%) Android
7 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.88%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.44%) OpenVMS
9 1 (0.44%) VMS
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (32.16%) Agile
2 58 (25.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 47 (20.70%) AI
4 39 (17.18%) CI/CD
5 34 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (14.54%) DevOps
7 27 (11.89%) Analytics
7 27 (11.89%) Decision-Making
7 27 (11.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (10.57%) Migration
9 22 (9.69%) ITIL
10 19 (8.37%) Validation
10 19 (8.37%) Workflow
11 18 (7.93%) Data Engineering
11 18 (7.93%) Data Modelling
11 18 (7.93%) Machine Learning
11 18 (7.93%) Microservices
11 18 (7.93%) Scrum
11 18 (7.93%) Test Automation
12 17 (7.49%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.15%) SQL
2 46 (20.26%) Python
3 20 (8.81%) Java
4 14 (6.17%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.73%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.29%) C#
6 12 (5.29%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.64%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.20%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.76%) JCL
10 3 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.32%) Korn
11 2 (0.88%) Bash
11 2 (0.88%) Go
11 2 (0.88%) Perl
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) COBOL
12 1 (0.44%) RPG
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.93%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.49%) Degree
4 6 (2.64%) CISSP
4 6 (2.64%) PMP
5 5 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.76%) CISA
6 4 (1.76%) CRISC
6 4 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.88%) CISM
8 2 (0.88%) CSPO
8 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.05%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.61%) QA
3 7 (3.08%) GDPR
4 6 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.64%) PMO
4 6 (2.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.20%) NIST
6 4 (1.76%) COBIT
6 4 (1.76%) GRC
6 4 (1.76%) ITGC
7 3 (1.32%) SLA
8 2 (0.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.88%) GxP
8 2 (0.88%) WCAG
9 1 (0.44%) IFRS
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.44%) NCSC
9 1 (0.44%) PERC
9 1 (0.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 22 (9.69%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.85%) Docker
3 2 (0.88%) IAG
3 2 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.96%) Terraform
4 5 (2.20%) SCCM
5 4 (1.76%) Ansible
5 4 (1.76%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.32%) Grafana
7 2 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.88%) WSUS
8 1 (0.44%) Control-M
8 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.44%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.44%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.81%) ServiceNow
3 14 (6.17%) Oracle
4 12 (5.29%) Google
5 11 (4.85%) SAP
6 9 (3.96%) Databricks
7 7 (3.08%) Splunk
8 6 (2.64%) Apple
8 6 (2.64%) Cisco
9 5 (2.20%) Bloomberg
9 5 (2.20%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.20%) Remedy
9 5 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.20%) Workday
10 4 (1.76%) IBM
11 3 (1.32%) BMC
11 3 (1.32%) ION Trading
11 3 (1.32%) VMware
12 2 (0.88%) Adobe
12 2 (0.88%) Informatica