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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 200 328 266
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.23% 18.67% 12.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.60% 19.90% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 210 177
10th Percentile £268 £348 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £708
90th Percentile £748 £825 £785
Central London median daily rate £538 £565 £556
% change year-on-year -4.87% +1.57% +1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £17.29 £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 £27.62 £56.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £17.60 £38.78 £26.56
% change year-on-year -54.61% +46.00% -48.43%

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 2,083 1,648 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.80% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,053 1,355
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.96 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.21 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.83 £52.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £68.75 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.39 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -18.82% +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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 - 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 8 (4.00%) Confluence
2 6 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.00%) CICS
5 2 (1.00%) Apache
5 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) IIS
6 1 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.50%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.00%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.00%) SAP GRC
2 2 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.00%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.50%) Findur
3 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.50%) SAP BRIM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.50%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 38 (19.00%) Azure
2 31 (15.50%) AWS
3 20 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 16 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 10 (5.00%) GCP
6 9 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.50%) GitHub
7 7 (3.50%) SaaS
7 7 (3.50%) Serverless
8 5 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.50%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.00%) Azure AI
9 4 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.50%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.00%) Network Security
1 6 (3.00%) VPN
2 5 (2.50%) DNS
2 5 (2.50%) Firewall
3 4 (2.00%) LAN
3 4 (2.00%) WAN
4 3 (1.50%) DHCP
4 3 (1.50%) Internet
5 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.50%) 5G
6 1 (0.50%) BGP
6 1 (0.50%) Broadband
6 1 (0.50%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.50%) Multicast
6 1 (0.50%) OSPF
6 1 (0.50%) SAN
6 1 (0.50%) Wireless
6 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.50%) Power BI
2 7 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.00%) Db2
3 6 (3.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.50%) Metadata
6 3 (1.50%) Tableau
7 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.00%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.00%) Looker
7 2 (1.00%) Power Query
7 2 (1.00%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.50%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.50%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 22 (11.00%) JIRA
2 8 (4.00%) GitLab
3 7 (3.50%) Git
4 6 (3.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.50%) REST Assured
5 3 (1.50%) Selenium
6 2 (1.00%) JUnit
6 2 (1.00%) 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%) Postman
7 1 (0.50%) Snyk
7 1 (0.50%) Vite
General
1 105 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 89 (44.50%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (35.00%) Finance
4 16 (8.00%) Banking
5 12 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.00%) Front Office
6 10 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.00%) Marketing
8 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.50%) Law
9 5 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.00%) Legal
10 4 (2.00%) Retail
11 3 (1.50%) Back Office
11 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.00%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 34 (17.00%) Analyst
2 18 (9.00%) Architect
3 16 (8.00%) Developer
4 15 (7.50%) Business Analyst
5 14 (7.00%) Senior
6 10 (5.00%) Consultant
6 10 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.50%) Lead
7 9 (4.50%) Support Engineer
8 8 (4.00%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) Digital Analyst
9 7 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Digital Business Analyst
10 6 (3.00%) IT Analyst
10 6 (3.00%) IT Support
10 6 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.00%) Support Analyst
11 5 (2.50%) IT Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) IT Support Engineer
11 5 (2.50%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.00%) REST
2 11 (5.50%) Kafka
3 10 (5.00%) JSON
3 10 (5.00%) React
4 9 (4.50%) SOAP
5 7 (3.50%) Middleware
5 7 (3.50%) PySpark
6 6 (3.00%) RESTful
6 6 (3.00%) Web Services
7 5 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (2.50%) Spring
7 5 (2.50%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.50%) XML
8 4 (2.00%) .NET
8 4 (2.00%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.00%) WSDL
9 3 (1.50%) Django
9 3 (1.50%) JMS
9 3 (1.50%) OAuth
9 3 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 13 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.00%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.50%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.50%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.00%) Equities
5 6 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.00%) DataPower
7 4 (2.00%) Mainframe
7 4 (2.00%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.00%) Windows
2 9 (4.50%) Mac OS
3 7 (3.50%) Linux
4 4 (2.00%) zOS
5 3 (1.50%) Unix
6 2 (1.00%) Android
6 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.50%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.50%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (27.50%) Agile
2 40 (20.00%) AI
3 39 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 31 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (13.50%) Analytics
5 27 (13.50%) Decision-Making
6 21 (10.50%) CI/CD
6 21 (10.50%) Migration
6 21 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (9.50%) Validation
8 18 (9.00%) DevOps
9 17 (8.50%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (8.50%) Computer Science
9 17 (8.50%) ITIL
10 16 (8.00%) Data Modelling
10 16 (8.00%) Microservices
10 16 (8.00%) Process Improvement
11 15 (7.50%) Data Governance
11 15 (7.50%) Integration Patterns
11 15 (7.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.50%) SQL
2 38 (19.00%) Python
3 16 (8.00%) Java
4 10 (5.00%) C#
5 9 (4.50%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.00%) JCL
10 3 (1.50%) C++
10 3 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.00%) Bicep
11 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.00%) Go
11 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.50%) ABAP
12 1 (0.50%) COBOL
12 1 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.50%) RPG
12 1 (0.50%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 20 (10.00%) Degree
1 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.50%) CISSP
4 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.50%) CRISC
5 5 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.50%) CISM
5 5 (2.50%) PMP
6 4 (2.00%) CISA
6 4 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.00%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.00%) CASP
8 2 (1.00%) CCNA
8 2 (1.00%) CSPO
8 2 (1.00%) GSEC
8 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.50%) QA
3 9 (4.50%) GDPR
4 6 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.50%) NIST
5 5 (2.50%) PMO
6 4 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.00%) COBIT
6 4 (2.00%) GRC
6 4 (2.00%) ITGC
7 3 (1.50%) IFRS
8 2 (1.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (1.00%) GxP
8 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.00%) SLA
8 2 (1.00%) WCAG
9 1 (0.50%) GAAP
9 1 (0.50%) GMP
9 1 (0.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.50%) Docker
3 2 (1.00%) IAG
3 2 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) NFS
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.00%) Grafana
3 4 (2.00%) Terraform
4 3 (1.50%) Ansible
5 1 (0.50%) Control-M
5 1 (0.50%) EMC VPLEX
5 1 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.50%) logstash
5 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.50%) vMotion
5 1 (0.50%) vRealize
5 1 (0.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 45 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.00%) Oracle
2 12 (6.00%) ServiceNow
3 10 (5.00%) Google
4 9 (4.50%) SAP
5 7 (3.50%) Databricks
6 6 (3.00%) Bloomberg
6 6 (3.00%) Splunk
7 5 (2.50%) Apple
7 5 (2.50%) Charles River
7 5 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.50%) Workday
8 4 (2.00%) Cisco
8 4 (2.00%) Informatica
9 3 (1.50%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.50%) IBM
10 2 (1.00%) Anaplan
10 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.00%) YouTube
10 2 (1.00%) Zscaler