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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 234 305 289
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.88% 17.84% 13.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.99% 18.91% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 214 184
10th Percentile £281 £313 £348
25th Percentile £416 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +1.34%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £678
90th Percentile £725 £809 £759
Central London median daily rate £513 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -4.43% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.15 £33.60
25th Percentile - £18.38 £63.00
Median hourly rate £17.60 £24.50 £112.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% -78.13% +198.67%
75th Percentile - £27.00 -
90th Percentile £21.01 £28.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £17.60 £26.00 £112.00
% change year-on-year -32.31% -76.79% +198.67%

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 1,951 1,613 1,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.74% 94.33% 92.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,356 1,097 1,209
10th Percentile £368 £325 £367
25th Percentile £456 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 18
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £24.09
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -33.25% +29.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £107.13
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.53% -22.76% +27.27%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 14 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.13%) Confluence
3 11 (4.70%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.71%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.28%) SAS
7 2 (0.85%) Apache
8 1 (0.43%) CICS
8 1 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.43%) IIS
8 1 (0.43%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.71%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.28%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.85%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.85%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.43%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.43%) SAP BRIM
Cloud Services
1 55 (23.50%) Azure
2 27 (11.54%) AWS
2 27 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (10.68%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 17 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.98%) GitHub
7 11 (4.70%) GCP
7 11 (4.70%) Serverless
8 10 (4.27%) SaaS
9 7 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.99%) dbt
9 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (2.99%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.56%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.56%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.84%) DNS
2 14 (5.98%) VPN
3 11 (4.70%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.85%) DHCP
5 7 (2.99%) Firewall
6 6 (2.56%) VLAN
7 4 (1.71%) Network Security
8 3 (1.28%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.85%) BGP
9 2 (0.85%) LAN
9 2 (0.85%) SSL
9 2 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.85%) WAN
10 1 (0.43%) DKIM
10 1 (0.43%) DMARC
10 1 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.43%) Multicast
10 1 (0.43%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.84%) Power BI
2 12 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.42%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.99%) Metadata
5 5 (2.14%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.71%) SAP BW
6 4 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.71%) Tableau
7 3 (1.28%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.28%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.85%) Big Data
8 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.85%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.85%) Db2
Development Applications
1 36 (15.38%) JIRA
2 12 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.70%) Git
4 7 (2.99%) GitLab
5 5 (2.14%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.14%) Selenium
6 4 (1.71%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.71%) JUnit
7 3 (1.28%) JDeveloper
7 3 (1.28%) Mockito
7 3 (1.28%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.85%) Appium
8 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.85%) JMeter
8 2 (0.85%) Maven
8 2 (0.85%) Postman
8 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 120 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 100 (42.74%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (38.03%) Finance
4 36 (15.38%) Banking
5 18 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.56%) Front Office
7 11 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.70%) Marketing
8 9 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.42%) Retail
10 6 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.71%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.28%) Back Office
13 3 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (17.09%) Analyst
2 25 (10.68%) Developer
2 25 (10.68%) Senior
3 20 (8.55%) Business Analyst
4 17 (7.26%) Architect
4 17 (7.26%) Support Engineer
5 16 (6.84%) Lead
6 14 (5.98%) Consultant
7 12 (5.13%) IT Support
8 11 (4.70%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.85%) Applications Support
10 8 (3.42%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.42%) IT Engineer
10 8 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (3.42%) Support Analyst
11 7 (2.99%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.56%) Data Analyst
12 6 (2.56%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.97%) REST
2 18 (7.69%) .NET
3 14 (5.98%) React
4 13 (5.56%) SOAP
5 11 (4.70%) Terraform
6 9 (3.85%) Web Services
7 8 (3.42%) JSON
7 8 (3.42%) Kafka
8 7 (2.99%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.99%) PySpark
8 7 (2.99%) Spring
8 7 (2.99%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.56%) RESTful
9 6 (2.56%) XML
10 4 (1.71%) CSS
10 4 (1.71%) HTML
10 4 (1.71%) Middleware
10 4 (1.71%) Node.js
10 4 (1.71%) OAuth
11 3 (1.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.40%) Onboarding
2 18 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.41%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.56%) AI Agents
6 6 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.56%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.71%) Life Science
8 3 (1.28%) CMDB
8 3 (1.28%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.28%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.28%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.38%) Windows
2 13 (5.56%) Linux
3 10 (4.27%) macOS
4 8 (3.42%) Unix
4 8 (3.42%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.99%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.28%) Android
6 3 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.43%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.43%) VMS
8 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (34.19%) Agile
2 79 (33.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 49 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 48 (20.51%) CI/CD
5 42 (17.95%) DevOps
6 41 (17.52%) AI
7 35 (14.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 33 (14.10%) Migration
9 28 (11.97%) Decision-Making
10 26 (11.11%) Analytics
11 23 (9.83%) Translating Business Requirements
12 21 (8.97%) Data Engineering
12 21 (8.97%) ITIL
13 20 (8.55%) Data Governance
13 20 (8.55%) Scrum
13 20 (8.55%) Service Delivery
13 20 (8.55%) User Stories
14 19 (8.12%) Collaborative Working
14 19 (8.12%) Test Automation
14 19 (8.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.51%) SQL
2 45 (19.23%) Python
3 21 (8.97%) Java
4 17 (7.26%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.98%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.98%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.56%) C#
7 5 (2.14%) Korn
7 5 (2.14%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.71%) Bash
8 4 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.85%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) BeanShell
11 1 (0.43%) C++
11 1 (0.43%) COBOL
11 1 (0.43%) JCL
11 1 (0.43%) RPG
11 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.83%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.56%) Degree
4 7 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.56%) PMP
6 5 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.85%) CCNP
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.85%) CSPO
9 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.43%) CCIE
10 1 (0.43%) CISSP
10 1 (0.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.55%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.84%) QA
3 6 (2.56%) GDPR
4 5 (2.14%) PMO
4 5 (2.14%) SLA
5 4 (1.71%) GRC
6 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.85%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.85%) GxP
7 2 (0.85%) PSD2
8 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.43%) Basel III
8 1 (0.43%) GAAP
8 1 (0.43%) GMP
8 1 (0.43%) IFRS
8 1 (0.43%) NCSC
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.27%) Docker
3 4 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.85%) IAG
6 1 (0.43%) Firmware
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 13 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.42%) SCCM
3 7 (2.99%) Grafana
4 5 (2.14%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.71%) Ansible
5 4 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.85%) WSUS
8 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.43%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.43%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.43%) SCOM
8 1 (0.43%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (32.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.97%) ServiceNow
3 19 (8.12%) Oracle
4 14 (5.98%) Databricks
5 12 (5.13%) SAP
6 11 (4.70%) Google
7 7 (2.99%) Bloomberg
7 7 (2.99%) Splunk
8 6 (2.56%) Apple
8 6 (2.56%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.14%) Cisco
9 5 (2.14%) ION Trading
9 5 (2.14%) Remedy
9 5 (2.14%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.14%) VMware
9 5 (2.14%) Workday
10 4 (1.71%) IBM
10 4 (1.71%) Refinitiv
11 3 (1.28%) Citrix
11 3 (1.28%) MuleSoft