Problem-Solving Contracts in the City of London

Problem Solving
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 11 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 312 262 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 18.37% 12.17% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.63% 13.42% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 172 168
10th Percentile £355 £314 £278
25th Percentile £463 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -3.26% +9.00%
75th Percentile £700 £696 £699
90th Percentile £825 £775 £875
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £15.15 - £15.44
25th Percentile £18.38 £46.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £24.50 £48.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.48% -5.83% -1.44%
75th Percentile £44.50 £50.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £56.05 - £62.75
Central London median hourly rate £46.29 £26.56 £51.50
% change year-on-year +74.28% -48.43% -1.44%

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 1,589 1,953 3,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.58% 90.75% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,368 2,128
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the City of London

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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the City of London

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 2 £310 -24.85% 2
London Bridge -2 1 £238 -65.95%
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 15 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 13 (4.17%) Apache
4 10 (3.21%) Confluence
5 5 (1.60%) CMS
6 4 (1.28%) Jupyter
6 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.96%) Drupal
8 2 (0.64%) SAS
9 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.32%) CICS
9 1 (0.32%) nginx
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 32 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.64%) Trello
7 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.96%) CA PPM
3 3 (0.96%) ION Anvil
4 2 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.32%) Actimize
5 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.32%) Magento
5 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.32%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.32%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.32%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.32%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 59 (18.91%) Azure
2 43 (13.78%) AWS
3 30 (9.62%) Power Platform
4 16 (5.13%) GCP
4 16 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.17%) SaaS
6 10 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.56%) GitHub
8 7 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (2.24%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.60%) Serverless
11 4 (1.28%) Asana
11 4 (1.28%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.28%) IaaS
11 4 (1.28%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.28%) PaaS
12 3 (0.96%) Attraqt
12 3 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.88%) Firewall
2 5 (1.60%) SSH
3 4 (1.28%) DNS
3 4 (1.28%) LAN
3 4 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.96%) DHCP
4 3 (0.96%) NAS
4 3 (0.96%) Network Security
4 3 (0.96%) Unified Communications
4 3 (0.96%) WAN
5 2 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.64%) HTTP
5 2 (0.64%) SAN
6 1 (0.32%) BGP
6 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.32%) Internet
6 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.32%) MPLS
6 1 (0.32%) OSPF
6 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.33%) Power BI
2 22 (7.05%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.53%) Tableau
4 10 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.56%) Big Data
5 8 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.24%) Data Mining
6 7 (2.24%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.92%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.60%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.28%) Apache Hive
9 4 (1.28%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.28%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.28%) Looker
10 3 (0.96%) CockroachDB
10 3 (0.96%) Metadata
10 3 (0.96%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 30 (9.62%) JIRA
2 21 (6.73%) Git
3 17 (5.45%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.92%) Selenium
5 4 (1.28%) GitLab
5 4 (1.28%) JUnit
5 4 (1.28%) RStudio
6 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.96%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.96%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.64%) JMeter
7 2 (0.64%) Maven
7 2 (0.64%) Postman
7 2 (0.64%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.32%) Appium
8 1 (0.32%) Crucible
8 1 (0.32%) ESLint
8 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 184 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 132 (42.31%) Finance
3 131 (41.99%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (18.91%) Banking
5 22 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.73%) Investment Banking
7 18 (5.77%) Financial Institution
7 18 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (4.81%) Front Office
10 10 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (3.21%) Retail
11 9 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.56%) Back Office
13 6 (1.92%) Law
14 5 (1.60%) Billing
14 5 (1.60%) International Banking
14 5 (1.60%) Police
14 5 (1.60%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (18.27%) Developer
2 54 (17.31%) Analyst
3 36 (11.54%) Senior
4 32 (10.26%) Business Analyst
5 23 (7.37%) Project Manager
6 21 (6.73%) Architect
6 21 (6.73%) Consultant
7 18 (5.77%) Lead
8 16 (5.13%) Java Developer
9 12 (3.85%) Data Analyst
10 11 (3.53%) Data Engineer
11 10 (3.21%) IT Support
12 9 (2.88%) Data Business Analyst
12 9 (2.88%) Support Analyst
13 8 (2.56%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.56%) Security Architect
14 7 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (2.24%) Senior Developer
15 6 (1.92%) Coordinator
15 6 (1.92%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.81%) .NET
2 12 (3.85%) HTML
2 12 (3.85%) REST
2 12 (3.85%) RESTful
3 11 (3.53%) CSS
4 9 (2.88%) AngularJS
5 8 (2.56%) Web Services
6 7 (2.24%) PySpark
6 7 (2.24%) React
7 6 (1.92%) JSON
7 6 (1.92%) Middleware
7 6 (1.92%) SOAP
8 5 (1.60%) Kafka
8 5 (1.60%) Pandas
8 5 (1.60%) Spark Streaming
8 5 (1.60%) Spring
8 5 (1.60%) YAML
9 4 (1.28%) pydantic
9 4 (1.28%) scikit-learn
9 4 (1.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.49%) Market Risk
2 13 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.21%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.21%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.24%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.24%) Equities
6 7 (2.24%) Reference Data
6 7 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.92%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.28%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.28%) PMI
9 4 (1.28%) Replication
10 3 (0.96%) Derivative
10 3 (0.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.33%) Linux
1 26 (8.33%) Windows
2 13 (4.17%) Unix
3 9 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.24%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.64%) Android
6 2 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.32%) Solaris
7 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (29.81%) Agile
2 44 (14.10%) DevOps
2 44 (14.10%) Project Management
3 40 (12.82%) Analytics
4 39 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 38 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (11.22%) Decision-Making
7 33 (10.58%) Migration
8 30 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
9 29 (9.29%) Risk Management
10 27 (8.65%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (8.33%) Scrum
12 25 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (6.73%) Roadmaps
13 21 (6.73%) Software Engineering
13 21 (6.73%) Test Automation
14 20 (6.41%) Computer Science
14 20 (6.41%) SDLC
15 19 (6.09%) Data Governance
16 18 (5.77%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (22.76%) Python
2 68 (21.79%) SQL
3 30 (9.62%) Java
4 19 (6.09%) C#
4 19 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 14 (4.49%) Bash
7 6 (1.92%) Scala
8 5 (1.60%) C++
9 4 (1.28%) R
9 4 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.96%) Bicep
10 3 (0.96%) Perl
11 2 (0.64%) ABAP
11 2 (0.64%) C
11 2 (0.64%) Groovy
11 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.64%) Ruby
11 2 (0.64%) VBA
12 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 43 (13.78%) Degree
2 39 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.29%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.21%) PMI Certification
6 9 (2.88%) PMP
7 5 (1.60%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.60%) CISM
7 5 (1.60%) CISSP
8 4 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.96%) CCNP
9 3 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.64%) OCP
10 2 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.32%) ACCA
11 1 (0.32%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.85%) GDPR
3 11 (3.53%) QA
4 10 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.21%) NIST
5 8 (2.56%) PMO
6 7 (2.24%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.92%) Basel II
8 4 (1.28%) MiFID
8 4 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.64%) EMIR
9 2 (0.64%) GRC
9 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.64%) SEPA
9 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.32%) COBIT
10 1 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.21%) Docker
3 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.32%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.32%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.32%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) XenApp
5 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (6.73%) Terraform
2 19 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.24%) Ansible
4 4 (1.28%) SCCM
5 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.64%) Control-M
6 2 (0.64%) Puppet
6 2 (0.64%) QRadar
6 2 (0.64%) WSUS
7 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.32%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) OMEGAMON
7 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.32%) yum
Vendors
1 52 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.01%) Oracle
3 15 (4.81%) ServiceNow
4 11 (3.53%) Databricks
4 11 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.88%) Cisco
5 9 (2.88%) SAP
6 8 (2.56%) IBM
6 8 (2.56%) VMware
7 6 (1.92%) Google
8 5 (1.60%) Splunk
9 4 (1.28%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.28%) Workday
10 3 (0.96%) Adobe
10 3 (0.96%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.96%) Broadcom
10 3 (0.96%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.96%) Logitech
10 3 (0.96%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.96%) UiPath