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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 222 343 268
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.28% 18.31% 12.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.65% 19.49% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 230 184
10th Percentile £263 £331 £316
25th Percentile £413 £435 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% - -
75th Percentile £652 £698 £702
90th Percentile £738 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -6.82% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £17.22 £16.23 -
25th Percentile - £21.06 -
Median hourly rate £17.60 £26.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% - -
75th Percentile - £37.50 -
90th Percentile - £53.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £17.60 £34.48 £26.56
% change year-on-year -48.96% +29.82% -49.41%

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 2,085 1,760 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.17% 93.97% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,150 1,285
10th Percentile £364 £331 £365
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £797
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.19
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £85.63
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

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 31 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 31 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 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (4.05%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.15%) Confluence
3 4 (1.80%) CICS
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.90%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.90%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.90%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.90%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.90%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.45%) Findur
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.45%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 45 (20.27%) Azure
2 31 (13.96%) AWS
3 20 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (9.01%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (6.31%) Entra ID
5 11 (4.95%) GitHub
6 10 (4.50%) GCP
7 9 (4.05%) Serverless
8 7 (3.15%) SaaS
9 6 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.80%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.80%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.80%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.95%) DNS
1 11 (4.95%) VPN
2 8 (3.60%) Firewall
3 7 (3.15%) Network Security
3 7 (3.15%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.70%) DHCP
5 4 (1.80%) LAN
5 4 (1.80%) VLAN
5 4 (1.80%) WAN
6 3 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.90%) Internet
7 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.90%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.45%) 4G
8 1 (0.45%) 5G
8 1 (0.45%) DKIM
8 1 (0.45%) DMARC
8 1 (0.45%) Multicast
8 1 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.86%) Power BI
2 8 (3.60%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.70%) Db2
3 6 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.25%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.80%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.80%) Metadata
5 4 (1.80%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.90%) Big Data
6 2 (0.90%) Power Query
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.90%) Tableau
7 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.45%) Looker
Development Applications
1 26 (11.71%) JIRA
2 8 (3.60%) GitLab
2 8 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.70%) Git
4 4 (1.80%) Selenium
5 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.90%) JUnit
5 2 (0.90%) Mockito
5 2 (0.90%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.45%) JDeveloper
6 1 (0.45%) JMeter
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.45%) Vite
6 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 112 (50.45%) Social Skills
2 96 (43.24%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (31.08%) Finance
4 23 (10.36%) Banking
5 14 (6.31%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.41%) Marketing
7 10 (4.50%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.50%) Front Office
8 9 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.15%) Retail
9 7 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.25%) Law
10 5 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.80%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.35%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (18.92%) Analyst
2 23 (10.36%) Business Analyst
3 19 (8.56%) Architect
3 19 (8.56%) Senior
4 16 (7.21%) Developer
5 15 (6.76%) Support Engineer
6 11 (4.95%) Consultant
6 11 (4.95%) Project Manager
7 7 (3.15%) Data Analyst
7 7 (3.15%) Data Engineer
7 7 (3.15%) Digital Analyst
7 7 (3.15%) Digital Business Analyst
7 7 (3.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (3.15%) IT Support
7 7 (3.15%) Lead
7 7 (3.15%) Support Analyst
8 6 (2.70%) IT Analyst
8 6 (2.70%) IT Engineer
8 6 (2.70%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.66%) REST
2 15 (6.76%) React
3 10 (4.50%) JSON
3 10 (4.50%) Kafka
3 10 (4.50%) SOAP
4 9 (4.05%) .NET
5 6 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.70%) Middleware
5 6 (2.70%) PySpark
5 6 (2.70%) Web Services
5 6 (2.70%) XML
6 5 (2.25%) RESTful
6 5 (2.25%) Spring
6 5 (2.25%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (1.80%) WSDL
8 3 (1.35%) Django
8 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.01%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.05%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (3.15%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.25%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.80%) CMDB
7 4 (1.80%) DataPower
7 4 (1.80%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.80%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.80%) NHS
7 4 (1.80%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.61%) Windows
2 11 (4.95%) Mac OS
3 9 (4.05%) Linux
4 5 (2.25%) Unix
4 5 (2.25%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.80%) Android
5 4 (1.80%) zOS
6 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.90%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.45%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.45%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.45%) VMS
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.83%) Agile
2 52 (23.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (20.27%) AI
4 32 (14.41%) CI/CD
5 29 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (12.61%) Analytics
7 27 (12.16%) DevOps
8 26 (11.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (11.26%) Decision-Making
10 23 (10.36%) Migration
11 21 (9.46%) ITIL
11 21 (9.46%) Validation
12 19 (8.56%) Microservices
12 19 (8.56%) Workflow
13 18 (8.11%) Data Modelling
14 17 (7.66%) Integration Patterns
14 17 (7.66%) Machine Learning
15 16 (7.21%) Collaborative Working
15 16 (7.21%) Data Engineering
15 16 (7.21%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 45 (20.27%) SQL
2 39 (17.57%) Python
3 19 (8.56%) Java
4 14 (6.31%) TypeScript
5 13 (5.86%) C#
6 12 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.80%) JCL
10 3 (1.35%) Korn
10 3 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.90%) Bicep
11 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.90%) Go
12 1 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) RPG
12 1 (0.45%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 28 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.66%) Degree
4 6 (2.70%) CISSP
4 6 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.25%) PMP
6 4 (1.80%) CISA
6 4 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.80%) CRISC
6 4 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.90%) CCNA
8 2 (0.90%) CISM
8 2 (0.90%) CSPO
8 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.76%) Data Quality
1 15 (6.76%) QA
2 7 (3.15%) GDPR
3 6 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.25%) NIST
5 4 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.80%) COBIT
5 4 (1.80%) GRC
5 4 (1.80%) ITGC
5 4 (1.80%) PMO
6 3 (1.35%) SLA
6 3 (1.35%) WCAG
7 2 (0.90%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.90%) GxP
8 1 (0.45%) GAAP
8 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.45%) IFRS
8 1 (0.45%) NCSC
8 1 (0.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (9.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.05%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) IAG
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.45%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (3.15%) Terraform
4 4 (1.80%) Grafana
4 4 (1.80%) SCCM
5 3 (1.35%) Ansible
5 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.45%) Control-M
7 1 (0.45%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.45%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.45%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.45%) WSUS
7 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 12 (5.41%) SAP
4 11 (4.95%) Google
5 10 (4.50%) Oracle
6 8 (3.60%) Databricks
7 7 (3.15%) Bloomberg
7 7 (3.15%) Splunk
8 6 (2.70%) Cisco
9 5 (2.25%) Apple
9 5 (2.25%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.25%) Workday
10 4 (1.80%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.80%) Remedy
11 3 (1.35%) Charles River
11 3 (1.35%) IBM
11 3 (1.35%) Informatica
11 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.35%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.90%) Citrix