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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 9 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 329 282 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 18.67% 13.56% 8.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.81% 14.74% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 182 177
10th Percentile £318 £363 £325
25th Percentile £406 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £819 £761 £850
Central London median daily rate £538 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -5.70% +3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £16.23 - £16.65
25th Percentile £21.06 £14.00 £23.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £15.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -60.00% -31.19%
75th Percentile £37.50 £16.00 £54.75
90th Percentile £53.25 - £63.15
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £20.78 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.93% -44.59% -31.19%

All Process and 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 1,661 1,913 2,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 92.02% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,212 1,878
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 - 1
Problem-Solving
Central London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.26%) Confluence
2 13 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.43%) Apache
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.61%) CMS
6 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.61%) SAS
7 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.30%) IIS
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 37 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.22%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.91%) CA PPM
3 3 (0.91%) ION Anvil
3 3 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.61%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.61%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.61%) SAP VC
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.30%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 47 (14.29%) Azure
2 37 (11.25%) AWS
3 33 (10.03%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.95%) GCP
6 11 (3.34%) SaaS
6 11 (3.34%) Snowflake
7 9 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.43%) GitHub
9 6 (1.82%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.22%) Asana
11 4 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.22%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.22%) Serverless
12 3 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.91%) Collibra
12 3 (0.91%) IaaS
12 3 (0.91%) PaaS
13 2 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.82%) Firewall
2 5 (1.52%) WAN
3 4 (1.22%) DNS
3 4 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.91%) BGP
4 3 (0.91%) Cisco IPT
4 3 (0.91%) IP Telephony
4 3 (0.91%) NAS
4 3 (0.91%) Network Security
4 3 (0.91%) OSPF
4 3 (0.91%) SSH
4 3 (0.91%) VPN
5 2 (0.61%) LAN
5 2 (0.61%) MPLS
5 2 (0.61%) SAN
5 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.61%) Softphone
5 2 (0.61%) Wireless
6 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.81%) Power BI
2 10 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.04%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.74%) Hadoop
4 8 (2.43%) Data Mining
5 7 (2.13%) Tableau
6 5 (1.52%) Big Data
6 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.52%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.22%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.22%) MemSQL
8 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.91%) DB2
8 3 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.91%) Metadata
8 3 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (0.91%) Sybase IQ
9 2 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (7.60%) JIRA
2 21 (6.38%) Git
3 13 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.52%) Selenium
5 4 (1.22%) JUnit
6 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.91%) GitLab
6 3 (0.91%) Postman
7 2 (0.61%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.61%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.61%) RStudio
8 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) Gradle
8 1 (0.30%) JMeter
8 1 (0.30%) Maven
8 1 (0.30%) MSI
8 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 192 (58.36%) Social Skills
2 144 (43.77%) Analytical Skills
3 131 (39.82%) Finance
4 53 (16.11%) Banking
5 20 (6.08%) Front Office
5 20 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (5.47%) Financial Institution
7 16 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.86%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.95%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (3.34%) Back Office
10 11 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.13%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.82%) Legal
12 6 (1.82%) Spanish Language
13 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.52%) International Banking
13 5 (1.52%) Retail
14 4 (1.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 69 (20.97%) Analyst
2 55 (16.72%) Developer
3 38 (11.55%) Business Analyst
4 27 (8.21%) Senior
5 23 (6.99%) Consultant
6 21 (6.38%) Java Developer
6 21 (6.38%) Lead
7 20 (6.08%) Architect
8 16 (4.86%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.34%) Data Engineer
9 11 (3.34%) Support Analyst
10 8 (2.43%) Data Analyst
10 8 (2.43%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.13%) IT Analyst
11 7 (2.13%) IT Support
11 7 (2.13%) Programme Manager
11 7 (2.13%) Risk Consultant
11 7 (2.13%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (1.82%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.65%) CSS
1 12 (3.65%) HTML
1 12 (3.65%) RESTful
2 10 (3.04%) Spring
3 9 (2.74%) .NET
4 8 (2.43%) REST
5 7 (2.13%) Kafka
6 6 (1.82%) Pandas
6 6 (1.82%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.52%) jQuery
7 5 (1.52%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.52%) TensorFlow
7 5 (1.52%) XML
8 4 (1.22%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.22%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.22%) HTML5
8 4 (1.22%) Middleware
8 4 (1.22%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.17%) Algorithms
2 16 (4.86%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.65%) Market Risk
5 11 (3.34%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.43%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.43%) Reinsurance
8 7 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.13%) Fixed Income
8 7 (2.13%) Reference Data
8 7 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.22%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.22%) iPhone
11 4 (1.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 27 (8.21%) Windows
2 22 (6.69%) Linux
3 11 (3.34%) Unix
4 7 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (32.22%) Agile
2 45 (13.68%) Analytics
3 42 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (10.64%) CI/CD
4 35 (10.64%) Decision-Making
4 35 (10.64%) DevOps
5 34 (10.33%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (10.33%) Scrum
6 33 (10.03%) Migration
6 33 (10.03%) Project Management
6 33 (10.03%) User Acceptance Testing
7 30 (9.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (7.60%) Data Analysis
9 24 (7.29%) SDLC
10 22 (6.69%) Collaborative Working
10 22 (6.69%) Risk Management
11 21 (6.38%) Roadmaps
12 20 (6.08%) Computer Science
12 20 (6.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (5.78%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 77 (23.40%) Python
2 62 (18.84%) SQL
3 38 (11.55%) Java
4 18 (5.47%) JavaScript
5 17 (5.17%) C#
6 11 (3.34%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.74%) Bash
8 7 (2.13%) R
9 6 (1.82%) C++
10 4 (1.22%) Go
10 4 (1.22%) Korn
10 4 (1.22%) VBA
11 3 (0.91%) ABAP
11 3 (0.91%) Scala
12 2 (0.61%) PromQL
12 2 (0.61%) RPG
12 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.30%) DAML
13 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.30%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (12.46%) Degree
2 27 (8.21%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.82%) PMP
6 5 (1.52%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.91%) ACCA
8 3 (0.91%) CISM
8 3 (0.91%) CISSP
9 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.61%) CBAP
9 2 (0.61%) CCAB
9 2 (0.61%) CCNP
9 2 (0.61%) CIMA
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.61%) JNCIS
9 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.17%) Data Quality
1 17 (5.17%) QA
2 10 (3.04%) PMO
3 7 (2.13%) Basel II
3 7 (2.13%) GDPR
4 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.52%) NIST
5 4 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.61%) COBIT
6 2 (0.61%) GAAP
6 2 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) IFRS
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.74%) Docker
3 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.30%) Firmware
4 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.95%) Terraform
3 5 (1.52%) Ansible
4 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.91%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (0.61%) Grafana
6 2 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.30%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.30%) Packer
7 1 (0.30%) QRadar
7 1 (0.30%) SCCM
7 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.30%) WMI
7 1 (0.30%) yum
7 1 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.78%) Oracle
3 12 (3.65%) Salesforce
4 11 (3.34%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.04%) SAP
6 9 (2.74%) Databricks
6 9 (2.74%) VMware
7 8 (2.43%) Google
7 8 (2.43%) Splunk
8 7 (2.13%) Citrix
9 6 (1.82%) Cisco
10 4 (1.22%) Adobe
10 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.22%) IBM
10 4 (1.22%) OutSystems
10 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.22%) Symantec
10 4 (1.22%) UiPath
10 4 (1.22%) Workday
11 3 (0.91%) Samsung