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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 189 310 264
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.12% 18.49% 12.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.57% 19.76% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 198 175
10th Percentile £313 £344 £313
25th Percentile £438 £466 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £688
90th Percentile £770 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £23.74 £27.50 -
25th Percentile £34.10 £33.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £41.26 £43.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% -10.31% +34.34%
75th Percentile £45.43 £54.13 £50.25
90th Percentile £50.42 £59.90 -
Central London median hourly rate £41.26 £49.50 £26.56
% change year-on-year -16.66% +86.37% -26.43%

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 1,975 1,569 1,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.80% 93.56% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,351 985 1,379
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.61 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.74% +2.88% -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 23 May 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 23 May 2026.

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 23 May 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 1 £650 +172.72% 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 9 (4.76%) Confluence
2 4 (2.12%) CICS
2 4 (2.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.06%) Apache
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.65%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.59%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.06%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.06%) Summit
2 2 (1.06%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.53%) BASE24
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.53%) Findur
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 35 (18.52%) Azure
2 25 (13.23%) AWS
3 19 (10.05%) Power Platform
4 12 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.23%) GCP
6 7 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.17%) GitHub
8 5 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.65%) Serverless
8 5 (2.65%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.12%) SaaS
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.59%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.06%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.17%) VPN
2 5 (2.65%) Network Security
3 4 (2.12%) DHCP
3 4 (2.12%) DNS
3 4 (2.12%) Firewall
4 3 (1.59%) Internet
4 3 (1.59%) LAN
4 3 (1.59%) WAN
5 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.53%) 5G
6 1 (0.53%) BGP
6 1 (0.53%) Broadband
6 1 (0.53%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.53%) OSPF
6 1 (0.53%) SAN
6 1 (0.53%) VLAN
6 1 (0.53%) Wireless
6 1 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.41%) Power BI
2 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.17%) Metadata
4 5 (2.65%) DB2
4 5 (2.65%) Tableau
5 4 (2.12%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.12%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.12%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.06%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.06%) Looker
6 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.06%) Power Query
6 2 (1.06%) PowerCenter
6 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.53%) MySQL
7 1 (0.53%) OLAP
7 1 (0.53%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 23 (12.17%) JIRA
2 7 (3.70%) Git
2 7 (3.70%) GitLab
3 4 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.59%) Selenium
5 2 (1.06%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.53%) ERwin
6 1 (0.53%) JUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Mockito
6 1 (0.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.53%) Snyk
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 91 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 79 (41.80%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (38.62%) Finance
4 22 (11.64%) Banking
5 15 (7.94%) Front Office
6 12 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (4.23%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.23%) Marketing
9 7 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.70%) Legal
9 7 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.65%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.65%) Retail
11 4 (2.12%) Law
11 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.59%) Advertising
12 3 (1.59%) Back Office
12 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (20.63%) Analyst
2 16 (8.47%) Business Analyst
3 15 (7.94%) Senior
4 14 (7.41%) Lead
5 12 (6.35%) Developer
5 12 (6.35%) Project Manager
6 10 (5.29%) Architect
7 9 (4.76%) Data Analyst
8 8 (4.23%) Consultant
8 8 (4.23%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.70%) Technical Leader
10 6 (3.17%) Digital Analyst
10 6 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (3.17%) IT Analyst
11 5 (2.65%) Digital Business Analyst
11 5 (2.65%) Product Manager
11 5 (2.65%) Programme Manager
11 5 (2.65%) Support Analyst
12 4 (2.12%) Senior Manager
12 4 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.41%) REST
2 8 (4.23%) Kafka
2 8 (4.23%) React
2 8 (4.23%) SOAP
3 7 (3.70%) JSON
4 6 (3.17%) Web Services
5 5 (2.65%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (2.65%) LangChain
5 5 (2.65%) Middleware
5 5 (2.65%) PySpark
5 5 (2.65%) RESTful
6 4 (2.12%) LangGraph
6 4 (2.12%) WSDL
7 3 (1.59%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.59%) Django
7 3 (1.59%) JMS
7 3 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.59%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.59%) Spring
7 3 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.82%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 9 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.23%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.17%) Equities
6 5 (2.65%) CMDB
6 5 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.12%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.12%) DataPower
7 4 (2.12%) Derivative
7 4 (2.12%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.12%) Online Banking
7 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.82%) Windows
2 5 (2.65%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.12%) Linux
3 4 (2.12%) zOS
4 2 (1.06%) Android
4 2 (1.06%) Unix
4 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.53%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.53%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (24.87%) Agile
2 42 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (19.58%) AI
4 28 (14.81%) Decision-Making
5 25 (13.23%) Analytics
5 25 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (10.05%) Migration
8 18 (9.52%) Computer Science
8 18 (9.52%) Data Modelling
9 17 (8.99%) Project Management
10 16 (8.47%) Change Management
10 16 (8.47%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (8.47%) Data Governance
10 16 (8.47%) ITIL
10 16 (8.47%) Risk Management
10 16 (8.47%) Validation
11 15 (7.94%) CI/CD
12 14 (7.41%) DevOps
12 14 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 38 (20.11%) SQL
2 36 (19.05%) Python
3 14 (7.41%) Java
4 9 (4.76%) C#
5 8 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 6 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.12%) JCL
8 4 (2.12%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.59%) C++
10 2 (1.06%) Bicep
10 2 (1.06%) Go
10 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.53%) ABAP
11 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.53%) Bash
11 1 (0.53%) COBOL
11 1 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.53%) Groovy
11 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (11.64%) Degree
2 17 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.88%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.76%) CISSP
5 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.70%) CRISC
7 5 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.65%) CISM
7 5 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.65%) PMP
8 4 (2.12%) CISA
8 4 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.06%) CASP
9 2 (1.06%) CCNA
9 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.06%) GSEC
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.76%) QA
3 8 (4.23%) GDPR
4 7 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.70%) PMO
5 6 (3.17%) NIST
5 6 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.12%) COBIT
7 4 (2.12%) ITGC
8 3 (1.59%) MiFID
9 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.06%) GRC
9 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.06%) IFRS
9 2 (1.06%) WCAG
10 1 (0.53%) Basel III
10 1 (0.53%) EMIR
10 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.53%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.70%) Docker
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.53%) NFS
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.59%) Ansible
3 3 (1.59%) Grafana
4 2 (1.06%) Terraform
5 1 (0.53%) Control-M
5 1 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.53%) logstash
5 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.53%) vMotion
5 1 (0.53%) vRealize
5 1 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 38 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.35%) ServiceNow
3 10 (5.29%) Oracle
4 7 (3.70%) Bloomberg
4 7 (3.70%) Google
5 6 (3.17%) Charles River
5 6 (3.17%) Databricks
6 5 (2.65%) Informatica
6 5 (2.65%) SAP
6 5 (2.65%) Splunk
7 4 (2.12%) Cisco
7 4 (2.12%) Workday
8 3 (1.59%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.59%) Murex
8 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.59%) VMware
9 2 (1.06%) Adobe
9 2 (1.06%) BMC
9 2 (1.06%) Citrix
9 2 (1.06%) HP