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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 9 17
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +15
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 294 290 259
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 16.90% 13.69% 9.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.09% 14.95% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 181 190
10th Percentile £313 £348 £304
25th Percentile £401 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.17%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £697
90th Percentile £775 £750 £851
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £15.15 £33.60 £16.65
25th Percentile £18.38 £63.00 £23.25
Median hourly rate £23.93 £112.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.64% +198.67% -31.19%
75th Percentile £33.44 - £54.75
90th Percentile £41.88 - £63.15
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £112.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -75.45% +86.67% +10.09%

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 1,625 1,940 2,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.39% 91.55% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,191 1,761
10th Percentile £327 £375 £363
25th Percentile £414 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £761 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -35.15%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

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 November 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 16 November 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 16 November 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 16 (5.44%) Confluence
2 6 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
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 (10.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.36%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (1.36%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.02%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
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%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.34%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (15.65%) Azure
2 43 (14.63%) AWS
3 25 (8.50%) Power Platform
4 16 (5.44%) GCP
5 11 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.06%) Snowflake
7 8 (2.72%) SaaS
8 7 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 7 (2.38%) GitHub
9 5 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.70%) IaaS
9 5 (1.70%) PaaS
10 4 (1.36%) Serverless
11 3 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.02%) Google Gemini
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.68%) Asana
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.04%) DNS
1 6 (2.04%) Firewall
2 5 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.36%) Network Security
4 3 (1.02%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.02%) IP Telephony
4 3 (1.02%) VPN
4 3 (1.02%) WAN
5 2 (0.68%) BGP
5 2 (0.68%) Internet
5 2 (0.68%) NAS
5 2 (0.68%) OSPF
5 2 (0.68%) SAN
5 2 (0.68%) Softphone
5 2 (0.68%) SSL
5 2 (0.68%) Wireless
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) MPLS
6 1 (0.34%) SSH
6 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.14%) Power BI
2 12 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.06%) Tableau
5 7 (2.38%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.04%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.70%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.70%) MySQL
7 5 (1.70%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.36%) MemSQL
8 4 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.02%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.02%) DB2
9 3 (1.02%) KDB
9 3 (1.02%) Metadata
9 3 (1.02%) Sybase IQ
10 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.68%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.68%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 26 (8.84%) JIRA
2 23 (7.82%) Git
3 8 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.38%) Selenium
5 5 (1.70%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.70%) Postman
6 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.02%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.02%) GitLab
8 2 (0.68%) CocoaPods
8 2 (0.68%) Crashlytics
8 2 (0.68%) fastlane
8 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.68%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.68%) Xcode
9 1 (0.34%) Gatling
9 1 (0.34%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.34%) TestRail
General
1 169 (57.48%) Social Skills
2 133 (45.24%) Analytical Skills
3 116 (39.46%) Finance
4 40 (13.61%) Banking
5 24 (8.16%) Front Office
6 13 (4.42%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.40%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.72%) Back Office
9 8 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.04%) Legal
10 6 (2.04%) Marketing
10 6 (2.04%) Retail
11 5 (1.70%) Spanish Language
12 4 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (21.43%) Analyst
2 52 (17.69%) Developer
3 35 (11.90%) Business Analyst
4 25 (8.50%) Senior
5 18 (6.12%) Consultant
6 17 (5.78%) Lead
7 15 (5.10%) Architect
8 14 (4.76%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.42%) Java Developer
10 8 (2.72%) Data Engineer
11 7 (2.38%) Python Engineer
11 7 (2.38%) Support Analyst
12 6 (2.04%) Data Analyst
12 6 (2.04%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.04%) IT Analyst
12 6 (2.04%) Programme Manager
12 6 (2.04%) Test Engineer
13 5 (1.70%) Senior Developer
14 4 (1.36%) IT Manager
14 4 (1.36%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.44%) .NET
2 14 (4.76%) RESTful
3 12 (4.08%) CSS
3 12 (4.08%) HTML
4 9 (3.06%) REST
5 7 (2.38%) Spring
6 6 (2.04%) Kafka
7 5 (1.70%) Middleware
7 5 (1.70%) XML
8 4 (1.36%) HTML5
8 4 (1.36%) jQuery
8 4 (1.36%) Node.js
8 4 (1.36%) OAuth
8 4 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.36%) SOAP
8 4 (1.36%) Web Services
9 3 (1.02%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.02%) Pandas
9 3 (1.02%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.78%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.42%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.74%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.06%) Virtual Team
5 8 (2.72%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.38%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.70%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.70%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.36%) Derivative
9 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.36%) PMI
9 4 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.84%) Windows
2 16 (5.44%) Linux
3 10 (3.40%) Unix
4 6 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.93%) Agile
2 47 (15.99%) Analytics
3 44 (14.97%) CI/CD
4 42 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (11.22%) DevOps
7 29 (9.86%) Migration
7 29 (9.86%) Project Management
7 29 (9.86%) Scrum
7 29 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
9 27 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (9.18%) Data Analysis
10 25 (8.50%) Computer Science
10 25 (8.50%) Decision-Making
10 25 (8.50%) Test Automation
11 21 (7.14%) Roadmaps
11 21 (7.14%) SDLC
12 19 (6.46%) Data Modelling
12 19 (6.46%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 70 (23.81%) Python
2 56 (19.05%) SQL
3 35 (11.90%) Java
4 23 (7.82%) C#
5 17 (5.78%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.72%) Bash
7 8 (2.72%) C++
8 6 (2.04%) R
9 5 (1.70%) Go
10 4 (1.36%) Korn
11 3 (1.02%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.02%) Swift
11 3 (1.02%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.02%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.02%) VBA
12 2 (0.68%) ABAP
12 2 (0.68%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.68%) PHP
12 2 (0.68%) RPG
Qualifications
1 43 (14.63%) Degree
2 21 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.78%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.70%) PMP
7 4 (1.36%) CBAP
8 3 (1.02%) ACCA
8 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) CCAB
9 2 (0.68%) CIMA
9 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.34%) CFA
10 1 (0.34%) IIBA
10 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.34%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.50%) QA
2 18 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.04%) PMO
4 5 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.02%) Basel II
5 3 (1.02%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.02%) PSD2
6 2 (0.68%) GDPR
6 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.68%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) EMIR
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) NIST
7 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (5.44%) Docker
2 11 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.34%) Firmware
5 1 (0.34%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.40%) Ansible
3 9 (3.06%) Terraform
4 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.02%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (0.68%) Grafana
6 2 (0.68%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.68%) SCCM
7 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.34%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.34%) Packer
7 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.34%) WMI
7 1 (0.34%) yum
7 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.46%) Oracle
3 11 (3.74%) Google
4 10 (3.40%) VMware
5 8 (2.72%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.38%) SAP
6 7 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.04%) Citrix
8 5 (1.70%) Cisco
8 5 (1.70%) Databricks
8 5 (1.70%) Splunk
8 5 (1.70%) UiPath
9 4 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.36%) Symantec
9 4 (1.36%) Workday
10 3 (1.02%) Altiris
10 3 (1.02%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.02%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.02%) Ivanti
10 3 (1.02%) Murex