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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 5 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 11.90% 12.82% 7.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.89% 13.51% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £400 £440 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £370
Median % change year-on-year - +21.62% +114.49%
75th Percentile £525 £460 £385
90th Percentile £615 - £394
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +1.85%

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 36 37 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 85.71% 94.87% 80.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 39
10th Percentile £372 £448 £239
25th Percentile £409 £475 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £650 £693 £675
90th Percentile £800 £790 £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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
Paddington 0 3 £450 - 1
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) HSRP
1 1 (20.00%) IPsec
1 1 (20.00%) IPv6
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless Security
1 1 (20.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Mocha
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Junior
1 1 (20.00%) Junior Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Junior Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (20.00%) Fastify
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) Jest
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Application Security
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Blocking Code
3 1 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CAPM
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco LMS
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Netcool
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk