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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 202 334 266
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.31% 17.94% 12.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.61% 19.11% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 219 181
10th Percentile £270 £331 £313
25th Percentile £413 £456 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £734 £815 £775
Central London median daily rate £520 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% +0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £17.22 £15.15 -
25th Percentile - £18.38 £46.75
Median hourly rate £17.60 £24.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% -49.48% -5.83%
75th Percentile - £44.50 £50.25
90th Percentile - £56.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £17.60 £38.78 £37.53
% change year-on-year -54.61% +3.32% -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 2,101 1,748 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.39% 93.88% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,127 1,351
10th Percentile £368 £344 £363
25th Percentile £453 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -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 15 July 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
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 15 July 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 £650 -
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 7 (3.47%) Confluence
1 7 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.98%) CICS
4 2 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.98%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Aladdin
1 3 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.99%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.99%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.99%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.99%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.50%) Findur
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.79%) Azure
2 31 (15.35%) AWS
3 19 (9.41%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (6.44%) GCP
6 12 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.94%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.47%) GitHub
7 7 (3.47%) SaaS
7 7 (3.47%) Serverless
8 5 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.48%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.98%) Azure AI
9 4 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.49%) dbt
10 3 (1.49%) Vertex AI
11 2 (0.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.47%) Firewall
2 6 (2.97%) Network Security
2 6 (2.97%) VPN
3 5 (2.48%) DNS
4 4 (1.98%) LAN
4 4 (1.98%) WAN
5 3 (1.49%) Internet
5 3 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.99%) DHCP
6 2 (0.99%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.50%) 4G
7 1 (0.50%) 5G
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco IPT
7 1 (0.50%) DKIM
7 1 (0.50%) Multicast
7 1 (0.50%) NAS
7 1 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.50%) VLAN
7 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.44%) Power BI
2 7 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.97%) Db2
3 6 (2.97%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.48%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.98%) Metadata
5 4 (1.98%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.98%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.49%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.49%) Tableau
7 2 (0.99%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.99%) Looker
7 2 (0.99%) Power Query
7 2 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (10.89%) JIRA
2 8 (3.96%) GitLab
3 7 (3.47%) Git
4 6 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.49%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.49%) Selenium
6 2 (0.99%) JUnit
6 2 (0.99%) Mockito
7 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.50%) ERwin
7 1 (0.50%) Gradle
7 1 (0.50%) JDeveloper
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.50%) Postman
7 1 (0.50%) Vite
General
1 110 (54.46%) Social Skills
2 90 (44.55%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (33.17%) Finance
4 17 (8.42%) Banking
5 12 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.96%) Financial Institution
7 8 (3.96%) Marketing
7 8 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.97%) Front Office
8 6 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.48%) Law
9 5 (2.48%) Retail
9 5 (2.48%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.98%) Legal
10 4 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.99%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 36 (17.82%) Analyst
2 19 (9.41%) Architect
3 18 (8.91%) Business Analyst
4 16 (7.92%) Senior
5 15 (7.43%) Developer
6 11 (5.45%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.95%) Support Engineer
8 9 (4.46%) Consultant
8 9 (4.46%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) Digital Analyst
9 7 (3.47%) Digital Business Analyst
9 7 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) Lead
10 6 (2.97%) IT Analyst
10 6 (2.97%) IT Support
10 6 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.97%) Support Analyst
11 5 (2.48%) Applications Support
11 5 (2.48%) Data Analyst
11 5 (2.48%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.43%) REST
2 12 (5.94%) React
3 11 (5.45%) JSON
4 10 (4.95%) Kafka
4 10 (4.95%) SOAP
5 7 (3.47%) PySpark
6 6 (2.97%) Middleware
6 6 (2.97%) RESTful
6 6 (2.97%) Web Services
6 6 (2.97%) XML
7 5 (2.48%) Spring
7 5 (2.48%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.98%) .NET
8 4 (1.98%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (1.98%) WSDL
9 3 (1.49%) Django
9 3 (1.49%) OAuth
9 3 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (1.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.43%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.96%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.47%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.47%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.47%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.97%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.48%) Equities
6 5 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.98%) DataPower
7 4 (1.98%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.98%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.98%) NHS
7 4 (1.98%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.41%) Windows
2 10 (4.95%) Mac OS
3 7 (3.47%) Linux
4 4 (1.98%) Unix
4 4 (1.98%) zOS
5 2 (0.99%) Android
5 2 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.72%) Agile
2 43 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (19.31%) AI
4 28 (13.86%) Analytics
5 27 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (12.87%) Migration
7 25 (12.38%) CI/CD
7 25 (12.38%) Decision-Making
8 24 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (10.89%) Validation
10 21 (10.40%) DevOps
11 19 (9.41%) Collaborative Working
11 19 (9.41%) Data Modelling
12 17 (8.42%) Computer Science
12 17 (8.42%) ITIL
12 17 (8.42%) Process Improvement
13 16 (7.92%) Data Governance
13 16 (7.92%) Machine Learning
13 16 (7.92%) Workflow
14 15 (7.43%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.28%) SQL
2 38 (18.81%) Python
3 16 (7.92%) Java
4 10 (4.95%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.96%) C#
7 6 (2.97%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.97%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.98%) JCL
9 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.49%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.99%) Bicep
10 2 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.99%) Go
11 1 (0.50%) C++
11 1 (0.50%) COBOL
11 1 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.50%) RPG
11 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 23 (11.39%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.89%) Degree
3 18 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.46%) CISSP
5 7 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.47%) CRISC
6 6 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.48%) CISM
7 5 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.48%) PMP
8 4 (1.98%) CISA
8 4 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.98%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.99%) CASP
10 2 (0.99%) CCNA
10 2 (0.99%) CSPO
10 2 (0.99%) GSEC
10 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.50%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.44%) QA
3 10 (4.95%) GDPR
4 6 (2.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.48%) GRC
5 5 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.48%) NIST
5 5 (2.48%) PMO
6 4 (1.98%) COBIT
6 4 (1.98%) ITGC
7 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.49%) IFRS
8 2 (0.99%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.99%) GxP
8 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.99%) SLA
8 2 (0.99%) WCAG
9 1 (0.50%) GAAP
9 1 (0.50%) GMP
9 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.46%) Docker
3 2 (0.99%) IAG
3 2 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) NFS
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.97%) Terraform
4 3 (1.49%) Grafana
5 2 (0.99%) Ansible
5 2 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.50%) Control-M
6 1 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.50%) logstash
6 1 (0.50%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.50%) vMotion
6 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (23.76%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.44%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.94%) Google
4 11 (5.45%) Oracle
4 11 (5.45%) SAP
5 7 (3.47%) Databricks
6 6 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.48%) Apple
7 5 (2.48%) Bloomberg
7 5 (2.48%) Informatica
7 5 (2.48%) Splunk
7 5 (2.48%) Workday
8 4 (1.98%) Charles River
8 4 (1.98%) Cisco
9 3 (1.49%) IBM
9 3 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.49%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.99%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.99%) Okta
10 2 (0.99%) YouTube