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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 5 10
Rank change year-on-year -14 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 225 291 255
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.24% 16.67% 11.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.80% 18.02% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 192 170
10th Percentile £354 £339 £310
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -0.23% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £19.17 - -
25th Percentile £34.48 £61.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £41.02 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.37% +28.87% -5.83%
75th Percentile £43.86 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £49.38 - -
Central London median hourly rate £41.02 £49.50 £37.53
% change year-on-year -17.14% +31.89% -27.13%

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 1,906 1,615 2,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.72% 92.50% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,308 1,038 1,436
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 12
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.03
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.15
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +29.17% -40.74%
75th Percentile £52.16 £48.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £71.00 £49.41
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -2 1 £650 +95.98%
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 10 (4.44%) Confluence
2 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.33%) CICS
4 2 (0.89%) Apache
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.33%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.33%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (1.33%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.89%) Summit
3 1 (0.44%) BASE24
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.44%) Findur
3 1 (0.44%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 44 (19.56%) Azure
2 32 (14.22%) AWS
3 24 (10.67%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.11%) GCP
5 10 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.11%) GitHub
6 7 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.11%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.22%) SaaS
8 4 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.78%) Google Gemini
8 4 (1.78%) Serverless
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.33%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) Network Security
2 4 (1.78%) VPN
3 3 (1.33%) Firewall
3 3 (1.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.89%) DHCP
4 2 (0.89%) DNS
4 2 (0.89%) LAN
4 2 (0.89%) NAS
4 2 (0.89%) SAN
4 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.89%) WAN
4 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.44%) 4G
5 1 (0.44%) 5G
5 1 (0.44%) Broadband
5 1 (0.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.00%) Power BI
2 9 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 9 (4.00%) Tableau
3 8 (3.56%) Metadata
4 7 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.11%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.78%) DB2
5 4 (1.78%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.33%) Big Data
6 3 (1.33%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.89%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.89%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.89%) Looker
7 2 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.89%) Power Query
7 2 (0.89%) PowerCenter
7 2 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (11.11%) JIRA
2 13 (5.78%) Git
3 6 (2.67%) Selenium
4 5 (2.22%) GitLab
4 5 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.78%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.33%) Postman
7 2 (0.89%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.44%) CocoaPods
8 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.44%) ERwin
8 1 (0.44%) fastlane
8 1 (0.44%) JUnit
8 1 (0.44%) Mockito
8 1 (0.44%) Snyk
8 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.44%) Toad
8 1 (0.44%) Xcode
General
1 121 (53.78%) Social Skills
2 105 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (40.00%) Finance
4 27 (12.00%) Banking
5 20 (8.89%) Front Office
6 15 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.78%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.89%) Marketing
9 9 (4.00%) Legal
9 9 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.56%) Financial Institution
10 8 (3.56%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.67%) Retail
12 5 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.22%) Law
12 5 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.78%) Advertising
13 4 (1.78%) Back Office
14 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (21.33%) Analyst
2 26 (11.56%) Business Analyst
3 23 (10.22%) Developer
4 20 (8.89%) Senior
5 15 (6.67%) Lead
6 14 (6.22%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.89%) Data Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Architect
8 10 (4.44%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.00%) Consultant
10 7 (3.11%) Programme Manager
10 7 (3.11%) Technical Leader
11 6 (2.67%) Digital Analyst
11 6 (2.67%) Product Manager
11 6 (2.67%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.22%) Data Scientist
12 5 (2.22%) Digital Business Analyst
12 5 (2.22%) IT Analyst
12 5 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (1.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.00%) REST
2 11 (4.89%) SOAP
3 9 (4.00%) RESTful
4 7 (3.11%) Kafka
5 6 (2.67%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (2.67%) JSON
5 6 (2.67%) Web Services
6 5 (2.22%) CSS
6 5 (2.22%) HTML
6 5 (2.22%) LangChain
6 5 (2.22%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (2.22%) Middleware
7 4 (1.78%) LangGraph
7 4 (1.78%) PySpark
7 4 (1.78%) React
7 4 (1.78%) Spring
7 4 (1.78%) XML
8 3 (1.33%) .NET
8 3 (1.33%) Django
8 3 (1.33%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.33%) Virtual Team
4 8 (3.56%) Equities
5 7 (3.11%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.11%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.11%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.67%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.67%) Derivative
6 6 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.22%) CMDB
8 4 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.56%) Windows
2 4 (1.78%) Mac OS
2 4 (1.78%) Unix
3 3 (1.33%) Linux
3 3 (1.33%) zOS
4 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.44%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.44%) Agile
2 44 (19.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (15.11%) AI
4 32 (14.22%) Analytics
5 30 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (11.56%) CI/CD
7 25 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 24 (10.67%) Data Modelling
9 22 (9.78%) Computer Science
10 21 (9.33%) Business Analysis
10 21 (9.33%) Project Management
10 21 (9.33%) Validation
11 20 (8.89%) Change Management
11 20 (8.89%) Migration
11 20 (8.89%) Test Automation
11 20 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
12 19 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (8.44%) Data Governance
12 19 (8.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.33%) SQL
2 46 (20.44%) Python
3 18 (8.00%) Java
4 13 (5.78%) C#
5 9 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.22%) C++
6 5 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.22%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.78%) R
7 4 (1.78%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.33%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.33%) JCL
9 2 (0.89%) Go
9 2 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.44%) ABAP
10 1 (0.44%) Bicep
10 1 (0.44%) COBOL
10 1 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.44%) Swift
10 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (13.78%) Degree
2 20 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.11%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.00%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.56%) CISSP
7 7 (3.11%) CRISC
8 6 (2.67%) PMP
9 4 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.78%) CISA
9 4 (1.78%) CISM
9 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.89%) CBAP
11 2 (0.89%) CCNA
11 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.89%) GSEC
11 2 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.78%) QA
2 19 (8.44%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.11%) PMO
3 7 (3.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.67%) NIST
5 5 (2.22%) GDPR
6 4 (1.78%) COBIT
6 4 (1.78%) ITGC
6 4 (1.78%) WCAG
7 3 (1.33%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.33%) MiFID
8 2 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.89%) GRC
8 2 (0.89%) IFRS
8 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.89%) PSD2
9 1 (0.44%) EMIR
9 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 13 (5.78%) Docker
2 6 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) NFS
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.22%) Terraform
3 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.33%) Ansible
4 3 (1.33%) Grafana
5 2 (0.89%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.44%) Control-M
6 1 (0.44%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.44%) logstash
6 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.44%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.44%) SCCM
6 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.44%) vMotion
6 1 (0.44%) vRealize
6 1 (0.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 40 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.33%) Google
3 11 (4.89%) Oracle
4 10 (4.44%) Databricks
4 10 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.67%) VMware
7 5 (2.22%) Bloomberg
7 5 (2.22%) Charles River
7 5 (2.22%) Informatica
7 5 (2.22%) SAP
8 4 (1.78%) Splunk
8 4 (1.78%) Workday
9 3 (1.33%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.33%) Cisco
9 3 (1.33%) HP
9 3 (1.33%) Murex
10 2 (0.89%) Adobe
10 2 (0.89%) Apple
10 2 (0.89%) Juniper