Problem-Solving Contracts in the City of Westminster

Problem Solving
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - 7
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 9 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 20.45% - 13.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.68% - 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £388 - £365
25th Percentile £413 - £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £373
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.43%
75th Percentile £575 - £391
90th Percentile £625 - £396
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +4.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38 40 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 86.36% 90.91% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 24
10th Percentile £409 £435 £219
25th Percentile £425 £497 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +7.95% -
75th Percentile £636 £806 £650
90th Percentile £691 £956 £850
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the City of Westminster

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 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
Westminster - 3 £550 - 4
Paddington - 3 £425 -
Mayfair - 2 £513 -
Problem-Solving
Central London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (11.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (11.11%) CiviCRM
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) SaaS
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) Datadog
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) BGP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) HSRP
1 1 (11.11%) IPsec
1 1 (11.11%) IPv6
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) NX-OS
1 1 (11.11%) OSPF
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless Security
1 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Snyk
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Functional Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
2 1 (11.11%) Communications Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) IT Security Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Junior
2 1 (11.11%) Junior Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Payroll Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hedge funds
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Content Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Usability Testing
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
3 2 (22.22%) User Research
3 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CAPM
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco LMS
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) New Relic
2 1 (11.11%) Riverbed
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds