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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 189 315 258
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.16% 18.27% 11.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.64% 19.53% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 200 174
10th Percentile £316 £348 £313
25th Percentile £438 £472 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £688
90th Percentile £770 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
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 1,961 1,613 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.67% 93.56% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,012 1,391
10th Percentile £363 £351 £350
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +2.46% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 21 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 21 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 21 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
3 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.06%) Apache
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
5 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 34 (17.99%) Azure
2 25 (13.23%) AWS
3 18 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.23%) GCP
6 7 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.17%) GitHub
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%) Entra ID
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
11 2 (1.06%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
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 13 (6.88%) 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%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.53%) Metadata Repository
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 80 (42.33%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (39.15%) Finance
4 22 (11.64%) Banking
5 15 (7.94%) Front Office
6 13 (6.88%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.29%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (4.76%) Marketing
9 8 (4.23%) Financial Institution
9 8 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.70%) Legal
11 5 (2.65%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.65%) Retail
12 4 (2.12%) Law
12 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.59%) Advertising
13 3 (1.59%) Back Office
13 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (20.11%) Analyst
2 16 (8.47%) Business Analyst
3 15 (7.94%) Senior
4 14 (7.41%) Lead
5 12 (6.35%) Developer
6 11 (5.82%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.29%) Architect
8 9 (4.76%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.23%) Consultant
9 8 (4.23%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.70%) Technical Leader
11 6 (3.17%) Digital Analyst
11 6 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) Digital Business Analyst
12 5 (2.65%) IT Analyst
12 5 (2.65%) Product Manager
12 5 (2.65%) Programme Manager
13 4 (2.12%) Risk Analyst
13 4 (2.12%) Senior Manager
13 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%) Onboarding
1 12 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (4.23%) AI Agents
3 8 (4.23%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.17%) Equities
5 5 (2.65%) CMDB
5 5 (2.65%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.12%) DataPower
6 4 (2.12%) Derivative
6 4 (2.12%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.12%) Online Banking
6 4 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.29%) Windows
2 5 (2.65%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.12%) Linux
3 4 (2.12%) zOS
4 2 (1.06%) Unix
4 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.53%) Android
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 46 (24.34%) Agile
2 41 (21.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (19.05%) AI
4 28 (14.81%) Decision-Making
5 25 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 24 (12.70%) Analytics
7 23 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (10.05%) Migration
9 18 (9.52%) Computer Science
9 18 (9.52%) Data Modelling
10 16 (8.47%) Change Management
10 16 (8.47%) CI/CD
10 16 (8.47%) Project Management
10 16 (8.47%) Risk Management
10 16 (8.47%) Validation
11 15 (7.94%) Collaborative Working
11 15 (7.94%) Data Governance
11 15 (7.94%) ITIL
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 23 (12.17%) Degree
2 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.41%) 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%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
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 8 (4.23%) 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 3 (1.59%) Ansible
2 3 (1.59%) Grafana
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.06%) Terraform
4 1 (0.53%) Control-M
4 1 (0.53%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (0.53%) HP ALM
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 36 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.35%) ServiceNow
3 11 (5.82%) 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