Problem-Solving Contracts in East London

Problem Solving
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 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 16 21 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 4 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 3.81% 6.06% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 6.48% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 9
10th Percentile £390 - £165
25th Percentile £515 £400 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £435 £320
Median % change year-on-year +47.70% +35.94% -57.33%
75th Percentile £741 £533 £500
90th Percentile £769 £585 £566
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 216 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.33% 93.51% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 187 129
10th Percentile £285 £360 £198
25th Percentile £415 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £688
90th Percentile £675 £770 £755
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile £14.66 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 £11.95 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.60 £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +3.71% +14.49%
75th Percentile £37.00 £36.48 £23.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 -
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in East London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in East London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in East London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in East London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in East London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London 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
Tower Hamlets +5 1 £585 +8.33% 2
Lewisham - 1 £313 -
Problem-Solving
London

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SDH
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Identity Management Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Management Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) logstash
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee
2 1 (25.00%) Nokia
2 1 (25.00%) Nortel
2 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (25.00%) Workday