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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 252 259 245
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.91% 14.21% 10.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.51% 15.52% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 164 174
10th Percentile £338 £348 £315
25th Percentile £405 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £643 £675
90th Percentile £744 £751 £846
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £31.62 - -
25th Percentile £39.44 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £41.26 £112.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.17% +130.93% -6.73%
75th Percentile £45.08 - £50.25
90th Percentile £50.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £41.26 £112.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -63.17% +130.93% -6.73%

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 1,737 1,669 2,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.99% 91.55% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,016 1,499
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £682 £688
90th Percentile £775 £778 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +24.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £45.08 £64.56 £45.52
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 19 February 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 19 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the City of 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 13 (5.16%) Confluence
2 4 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.79%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.19%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.79%) Summit
2 2 (0.79%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.40%) BASE24
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.63%) Azure
2 38 (15.08%) AWS
3 26 (10.32%) Power Platform
4 20 (7.94%) GCP
5 11 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (3.57%) GitHub
6 9 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.57%) Snowflake
7 7 (2.78%) SaaS
8 5 (1.98%) IaaS
8 5 (1.98%) PaaS
9 4 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.59%) Google Gemini
10 3 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.19%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.19%) Serverless
10 3 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) DNS
2 5 (1.98%) Network Security
2 5 (1.98%) VPN
3 4 (1.59%) Firewall
4 3 (1.19%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (1.19%) DHCP
4 3 (1.19%) Internet
4 3 (1.19%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.79%) LAN
5 2 (0.79%) NAS
5 2 (0.79%) SAN
5 2 (0.79%) SSL
5 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.79%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) BGP
6 1 (0.40%) Broadband
6 1 (0.40%) HTTP
6 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.33%) Power BI
2 14 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.37%) Tableau
4 9 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.78%) Metadata
6 5 (1.98%) MySQL
6 5 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.19%) Big Data
7 3 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.79%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.79%) DB2
8 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.79%) PowerCenter
8 2 (0.79%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 26 (10.32%) JIRA
2 19 (7.54%) Git
3 8 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.17%) Selenium
4 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.59%) Postman
4 4 (1.59%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.19%) GitLab
6 2 (0.79%) CocoaPods
6 2 (0.79%) Crashlytics
6 2 (0.79%) fastlane
6 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.79%) Xcode
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.40%) ERwin
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) TestRail
7 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 142 (56.35%) Social Skills
2 110 (43.65%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (38.10%) Finance
4 33 (13.10%) Banking
5 28 (11.11%) Front Office
6 18 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 11 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.37%) Financial Institution
8 11 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.57%) Legal
9 9 (3.57%) Marketing
10 8 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.78%) Retail
12 6 (2.38%) Back Office
13 4 (1.59%) Advertising
13 4 (1.59%) Law
13 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.19%) French Language
Job Titles
1 47 (18.65%) Analyst
2 38 (15.08%) Developer
3 25 (9.92%) Business Analyst
4 23 (9.13%) Senior
5 15 (5.95%) Lead
6 14 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 12 (4.76%) Architect
8 10 (3.97%) Data Analyst
8 10 (3.97%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.17%) Consultant
9 8 (3.17%) Java Developer
10 6 (2.38%) Data Scientist
10 6 (2.38%) Programme Manager
10 6 (2.38%) Python Engineer
10 6 (2.38%) Test Engineer
11 5 (1.98%) Product Manager
11 5 (1.98%) Senior Developer
11 5 (1.98%) Technical Leader
12 4 (1.59%) Salesforce Developer
12 4 (1.59%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.56%) REST
2 12 (4.76%) RESTful
3 11 (4.37%) .NET
4 9 (3.57%) CSS
4 9 (3.57%) HTML
5 8 (3.17%) SOAP
6 6 (2.38%) Middleware
6 6 (2.38%) XML
7 5 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (1.98%) Kafka
7 5 (1.98%) LangChain
7 5 (1.98%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (1.98%) PyTorch
7 5 (1.98%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.59%) JSON
8 4 (1.59%) LangGraph
8 4 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.59%) Web Services
9 3 (1.19%) JMS
9 3 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (5.16%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.37%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.37%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 9 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.17%) Equities
6 8 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.78%) Derivative
8 6 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.98%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.98%) PMI
10 4 (1.59%) CMDB
10 4 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.75%) Windows
2 5 (1.98%) Linux
2 5 (1.98%) Unix
3 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Solaris
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (25.40%) Agile
2 45 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (16.67%) Analytics
4 37 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 35 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 29 (11.51%) Migration
7 25 (9.92%) Computer Science
7 25 (9.92%) Scrum
7 25 (9.92%) Test Automation
8 24 (9.52%) AI
8 24 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (9.52%) Data Modelling
8 24 (9.52%) Process Improvement
9 23 (9.13%) Decision-Making
10 22 (8.73%) Data Science
11 21 (8.33%) DevOps
11 21 (8.33%) ETL
11 21 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 21 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (22.22%) SQL
2 50 (19.84%) Python
3 23 (9.13%) Java
4 20 (7.94%) C#
5 14 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.38%) C++
8 4 (1.59%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.19%) Bash
9 3 (1.19%) PHP
9 3 (1.19%) R
9 3 (1.19%) Swift
9 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.19%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.79%) Korn
10 2 (0.79%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.79%) RPG
10 2 (0.79%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.40%) F#
Qualifications
1 39 (15.48%) Degree
2 28 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.57%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.59%) CISSP
8 4 (1.59%) PMP
9 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.19%) CISM
9 3 (1.19%) CRISC
10 2 (0.79%) CASP
10 2 (0.79%) CBAP
10 2 (0.79%) CFA
10 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.79%) GSEC
10 2 (0.79%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.71%) QA
2 21 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.59%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) PMO
5 3 (1.19%) GRC
5 3 (1.19%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.19%) MiFID
5 3 (1.19%) WCAG
6 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.79%) EMIR
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS
6 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.79%) PSD2
6 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (5.95%) Docker
2 9 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) NFS
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.17%) Ansible
3 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.38%) Terraform
4 3 (1.19%) Grafana
4 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.79%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.79%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.40%) EMC VPLEX
6 1 (0.40%) logstash
6 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.40%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.40%) SCCM
6 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.40%) vMotion
6 1 (0.40%) vRealize
6 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 51 (20.24%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.54%) Oracle
3 14 (5.56%) Google
4 10 (3.97%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.97%) VMware
5 9 (3.57%) Databricks
6 8 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.78%) Informatica
7 7 (2.78%) SAP
8 6 (2.38%) Cisco
9 5 (1.98%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.98%) Charles River
10 4 (1.59%) Murex
10 4 (1.59%) Splunk
11 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.19%) Samsung
11 3 (1.19%) Talend
11 3 (1.19%) Workday