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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 188 313 262
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.07% 18.38% 12.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 19.64% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 202 173
10th Percentile £312 £355 £315
25th Percentile £445 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £636 £700 £695
90th Percentile £775 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £17.06 £15.15 -
25th Percentile £17.41 £18.38 £46.75
Median hourly rate £29.43 £24.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% -49.48% -5.83%
75th Percentile £42.65 £44.50 £50.25
90th Percentile - £56.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.43 £46.29 £26.56
% change year-on-year -36.42% +74.28% -48.43%

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 1,985 1,594 1,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.23% 93.60% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 1,012 1,367
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £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 25 14 12
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +6.38% -23.93%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.46
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £49.41
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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% 2
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 (4.79%) Confluence
2 5 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.13%) CICS
4 2 (1.06%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.66%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.60%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.06%) Summit
2 2 (1.06%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.53%) Aladdin
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%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.53%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.09%) Azure
2 25 (13.30%) AWS
3 19 (10.11%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.26%) GCP
6 7 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.19%) GitHub
7 6 (3.19%) SaaS
7 6 (3.19%) Serverless
8 5 (2.66%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.66%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.60%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.60%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.60%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) Network Security
1 5 (2.66%) VPN
2 4 (2.13%) Firewall
3 3 (1.60%) DHCP
3 3 (1.60%) DNS
3 3 (1.60%) Internet
3 3 (1.60%) LAN
3 3 (1.60%) WAN
4 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.53%) 4G
5 1 (0.53%) 5G
5 1 (0.53%) BGP
5 1 (0.53%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.53%) NAS
5 1 (0.53%) OSPF
5 1 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.53%) VLAN
5 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.45%) Power BI
2 7 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.66%) DB2
4 5 (2.66%) Metadata
4 5 (2.66%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.66%) Tableau
5 4 (2.13%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.13%) 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%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.53%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 20 (10.64%) JIRA
2 7 (3.72%) Git
2 7 (3.72%) GitLab
3 4 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.60%) 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 96 (51.06%) Social Skills
2 83 (44.15%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (36.17%) Finance
4 20 (10.64%) Banking
5 14 (7.45%) Front Office
6 12 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (5.85%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.79%) Marketing
9 7 (3.72%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.72%) Legal
10 6 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.66%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.66%) Law
11 5 (2.66%) Retail
12 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.60%) Back Office
13 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.06%) Advertising
14 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (19.15%) Analyst
2 17 (9.04%) Business Analyst
3 14 (7.45%) Developer
3 14 (7.45%) Lead
4 12 (6.38%) Project Manager
5 11 (5.85%) Architect
5 11 (5.85%) Senior
6 8 (4.26%) Consultant
7 7 (3.72%) Data Engineer
7 7 (3.72%) Digital Analyst
7 7 (3.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (3.72%) Technical Leader
8 6 (3.19%) Digital Business Analyst
8 6 (3.19%) IT Analyst
9 5 (2.66%) Data Analyst
9 5 (2.66%) Programme Manager
9 5 (2.66%) Support Analyst
10 4 (2.13%) Java Engineer
10 4 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.45%) REST
2 9 (4.79%) React
3 8 (4.26%) Kafka
4 7 (3.72%) JSON
4 7 (3.72%) SOAP
5 6 (3.19%) Middleware
5 6 (3.19%) Web Services
6 5 (2.66%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (2.66%) LangChain
6 5 (2.66%) PySpark
6 5 (2.66%) RESTful
7 4 (2.13%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.13%) LangGraph
7 4 (2.13%) WSDL
8 3 (1.60%) .NET
8 3 (1.60%) Django
8 3 (1.60%) JMS
8 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.60%) TensorFlow
8 3 (1.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.98%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.79%) AI Agents
3 9 (4.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (4.79%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.72%) Equities
5 6 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.66%) Derivative
6 5 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.13%) CMDB
7 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.13%) DataPower
7 4 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.13%) Online Banking
7 4 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.85%) Windows
2 5 (2.66%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.13%) Linux
3 4 (2.13%) 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 48 (25.53%) Agile
2 41 (21.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (20.74%) AI
4 28 (14.89%) Decision-Making
5 27 (14.36%) Analytics
6 26 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (12.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (10.64%) Migration
9 18 (9.57%) Validation
10 17 (9.04%) Computer Science
10 17 (9.04%) Data Modelling
11 16 (8.51%) Collaborative Working
11 16 (8.51%) ITIL
11 16 (8.51%) Project Management
12 15 (7.98%) Change Management
12 15 (7.98%) CI/CD
12 15 (7.98%) Risk Management
13 14 (7.45%) Business Analysis
13 14 (7.45%) Requirements Gathering
14 13 (6.91%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.74%) SQL
2 35 (18.62%) Python
3 14 (7.45%) Java
4 10 (5.32%) C#
5 7 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.72%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.13%) JCL
7 4 (2.13%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.60%) C++
9 2 (1.06%) Bicep
9 2 (1.06%) Go
9 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.53%) Groovy
10 1 (0.53%) Korn
10 1 (0.53%) R
10 1 (0.53%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (10.64%) Degree
2 16 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.91%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.79%) CISSP
5 7 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.72%) CRISC
6 5 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.66%) CISM
6 5 (2.66%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.66%) PMP
7 4 (2.13%) CISA
7 4 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.06%) CASP
8 2 (1.06%) CCNA
8 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.06%) GSEC
8 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.85%) QA
3 8 (4.26%) GDPR
4 7 (3.72%) PMO
5 6 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.19%) NIST
5 6 (3.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
7 4 (2.13%) COBIT
7 4 (2.13%) ITGC
8 3 (1.60%) GRC
8 3 (1.60%) IFRS
8 3 (1.60%) MiFID
9 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.06%) WCAG
10 1 (0.53%) Basel III
10 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.53%) EMIR
10 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.53%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.72%) Docker
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.53%) IAG
4 1 (0.53%) NFS
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.60%) Ansible
2 3 (1.60%) Grafana
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.06%) Terraform
4 1 (0.53%) Control-M
4 1 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.53%) logstash
4 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.53%) vMotion
4 1 (0.53%) vRealize
4 1 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 39 (20.74%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 11 (5.85%) Oracle
4 8 (4.26%) Google
5 7 (3.72%) Bloomberg
5 7 (3.72%) Databricks
5 7 (3.72%) SAP
6 5 (2.66%) Charles River
6 5 (2.66%) Splunk
7 4 (2.13%) Cisco
7 4 (2.13%) Informatica
7 4 (2.13%) Workday
8 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.60%) BMC
8 3 (1.60%) Murex
8 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.60%) VMware
9 2 (1.06%) Aruba
9 2 (1.06%) Citrix
9 2 (1.06%) Remedy