Creative Problem-Solving Contracts in London

Creative Problem-Solving
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Creative Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Creative 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 337 371 455
Rank change year-on-year +34 +84 +69
Contract jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 16 20 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 28
10th Percentile £151 £298 £255
25th Percentile £308 £470 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -45.04% +11.65% -15.92%
75th Percentile £358 £750 £631
90th Percentile £411 - £683
England median daily rate £358 £569 £525
% change year-on-year -37.08% +8.38% -5.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £43.00 - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £34.68 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.99% -44.51% +31.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Creative 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in London

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in London

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in London

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in London

Creative Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the 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
Central London -1 2 - - 1
Creative Problem-Solving
England

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Network Security
2 4 (25.00%) BGP
2 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) OSPF
2 4 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (18.75%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) French Language
3 2 (12.50%) Games
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Firewall Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Animator
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Operational Security Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Operations Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Security Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco Network Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) RESTful
1 2 (12.50%) Unreal Engine
1 2 (12.50%) ZeroMQ
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) LangChain
2 1 (6.25%) Material-UI
2 1 (6.25%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Animation
2 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
3 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
3 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Workflow
4 2 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (12.50%) Business Case
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (12.50%) Due Diligence
4 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
4 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
4 2 (12.50%) Project Planning
4 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) SOAR
4 2 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 2 (12.50%) TOGAF
4 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) C++
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (12.50%) CCSP
3 2 (12.50%) CISSP
3 2 (12.50%) GCIH
3 2 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (25.00%) Meraki
1 4 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (18.75%) Zscaler
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Workday