Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Problem Solving
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hounslow requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 8 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 13 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 25.49% 13.92% 9.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.66% 16.67% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £243 £329 £111
25th Percentile £300 £493 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% -1.00% +9.95%
75th Percentile £423 £498 £550
90th Percentile £440 £799 £638
West London median daily rate £475 £443 £500
% change year-on-year +7.34% -11.50% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - -44.03% +11.67%
West London median hourly rate £38.00 £37.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +1.32% +102.70% -69.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47 66 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 92.16% 83.54% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 65
10th Percentile £273 £301 £75
25th Percentile £350 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £433 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% -18.40% +1.92%
75th Percentile £531 £498 £600
90th Percentile £558 £685 £638
West London median daily rate £450 £440 £530
% change year-on-year +2.27% -16.98% +2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 14
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £20.75 £55.75
Median hourly rate £36.75 £26.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.35% -60.61% +3.94%
75th Percentile £41.31 £29.50 £74.25
90th Percentile £42.33 £35.05 £88.50
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -3.27% -51.63% -2.27%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Hounslow

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Hounslow over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Hounslow

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

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 Hounslow region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Feltham 0 3 £175 -
Osterley +5 1 £300 -
Problem-Solving
West London

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
1 1 (7.69%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.69%) Akamai
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DHCP
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
1 2 (15.38%) Wireless
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) FTP
2 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) NX-OS
2 1 (7.69%) RTP
2 1 (7.69%) SSH
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VLAN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Aviation
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) C++ Developer
1 2 (15.38%) Developer
1 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) IT Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Senior
1 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Network Support
2 1 (7.69%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Reliability Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Angular 2
1 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Code
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) BYOD
2 1 (7.69%) CCTV
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Media Streaming
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (7.69%) Smartphone
2 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Android
3 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
2 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (23.08%) Kanban
2 3 (23.08%) Project Management
2 3 (23.08%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Budget Management
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (15.38%) Memory Management
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) OO
3 2 (15.38%) OOP
3 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
3 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Debt
4 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C++
2 2 (15.38%) Go
2 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 2 (15.38%) OCA
3 2 (15.38%) OCP
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
3 2 (15.38%) PMP
4 1 (7.69%) CCNA
4 1 (7.69%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) MAPM
4 1 (7.69%) MCP
4 1 (7.69%) MCSA
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (7.69%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) NEC
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) VMware