Problem-Solving Contracts in Croydon

Problem Solving
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 8 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 10.00% 11.29% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.96% 11.76% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 6
10th Percentile £488 £376 £309
25th Percentile £538 £397 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £486 £575
Median % change year-on-year +27.92% -15.43% -
75th Percentile £738 £572 £669
90th Percentile £741 £656 £713
South London median daily rate £622 £425 £497
% change year-on-year +46.35% -14.54% -5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
South London median hourly rate - £23.50 £62.68
% change year-on-year - -62.51% +35.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73 119 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.25% 95.97% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 81 120
10th Percentile £425 £377 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -5.09% -6.09%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £511 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.25% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +13.79%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Storybook
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Change and Release Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
2 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Debt
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) Data Deduplication
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (25.00%) SAP