Problem-Solving Contracts in London

Problem Solving
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,920 1,973 3,161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.80% 8.97% 8.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.23% 9.92% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,361 1,952
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £738
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 41 38
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.63 £15.93
25th Percentile £25.99 £21.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £42.50 £39.42 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% +29.25% -28.65%
75th Percentile £65.02 £63.75 £54.22
90th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £66.28
England median hourly rate £16.23 £54.56 £24.58
% change year-on-year -70.25% +121.97% +36.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,516 19,882 36,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.18% 90.36% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,653 14,414 26,066
10th Percentile £350 £363 £394
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +5.45%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 227 284
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.10 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.80 £21.25 £21.83
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +10.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.13 £58.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £74.86
England median hourly rate £43.00 £43.90 £29.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +51.38% +37.77%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in London

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 Problem-Solving within the London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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 +14 304 £560 +1.82% 133
West London +7 39 £473 -14.09% 60
South London +12 26 £450 -9.51% 36
East London +7 24 £528 +18.87% 43
North London +3 4 £255 -28.67% 10
Problem-Solving
England

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 55 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.45%) Confluence
3 41 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.93%) Apache
5 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (1.41%) CMS
7 21 (1.09%) SAS
8 12 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
9 11 (0.57%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.31%) CICS
11 6 (0.31%) Drupal
12 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.26%) Umbraco
13 4 (0.21%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.16%) Skype for Business
14 3 (0.16%) WordPress
15 2 (0.10%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 67 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 22 (1.15%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.31%) Trello
7 5 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.26%) SPSS
8 4 (0.21%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Camtasia
9 3 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.16%) SketchUp
9 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.10%) Maya
10 2 (0.10%) NUKE
10 2 (0.10%) Sketch
10 2 (0.10%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.052%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.052%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 43 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.68%) Endur
4 10 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.42%) SAP IBP
6 7 (0.36%) Aligne
6 7 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.36%) SAP PP
6 7 (0.36%) Shopify
7 6 (0.31%) ION MarketView
7 6 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.31%) SAP BPC
8 5 (0.26%) Misys Opics
8 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle SCM
8 5 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
8 5 (0.26%) SAP PP-PI
8 5 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 394 (20.52%) Azure
2 238 (12.40%) AWS
3 128 (6.67%) GCP
4 109 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 100 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
7 58 (3.02%) Serverless
8 47 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
8 47 (2.45%) GitHub
9 44 (2.29%) Entra ID
10 39 (2.03%) SaaS
11 37 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
12 32 (1.67%) Azure Functions
13 30 (1.56%) PowerApps
14 28 (1.46%) WhatsApp
15 27 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (1.30%) Power Automate
17 22 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (1.04%) Amazon S3
19 17 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (3.23%) Firewall
2 43 (2.24%) DNS
3 34 (1.77%) VPN
4 31 (1.61%) BGP
4 31 (1.61%) Network Security
5 29 (1.51%) DHCP
5 29 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.35%) OSPF
7 22 (1.15%) LAN
8 18 (0.94%) SD-WAN
9 17 (0.89%) WAN
10 16 (0.83%) SAN
11 15 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
11 15 (0.78%) MPLS
12 14 (0.73%) Wireless
13 13 (0.68%) VoIP
14 12 (0.63%) HTTP
14 12 (0.63%) SSL
15 11 (0.57%) BIG-IP
15 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.16%) SQL Server
2 87 (4.53%) Power BI
3 75 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 59 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
6 51 (2.66%) Big Data
7 44 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 44 (2.29%) Tableau
8 34 (1.77%) MongoDB
9 30 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 28 (1.46%) Hadoop
10 28 (1.46%) RDBMS
11 26 (1.35%) MySQL
12 24 (1.25%) Oracle Database
13 23 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 22 (1.15%) KDB
15 18 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.94%) Data Lake
16 15 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.78%) DB2
Development Applications
1 136 (7.08%) Git
2 123 (6.41%) JIRA
3 76 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.82%) GitLab
5 33 (1.72%) Selenium
6 22 (1.15%) LoadRunner
7 21 (1.09%) Maven
8 19 (0.99%) JUnit
9 17 (0.89%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.73%) TeamCity
11 12 (0.63%) Appium
12 11 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.57%) Postman
13 9 (0.47%) NeoLoad
13 9 (0.47%) WebDriver
14 8 (0.42%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.42%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.36%) Android Studio
15 7 (0.36%) Gradle
16 6 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,152 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 839 (43.70%) Analytical Skills
3 559 (29.11%) Finance
4 215 (11.20%) Banking
5 158 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 103 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
7 91 (4.74%) Marketing
8 67 (3.49%) Investment Banking
9 64 (3.33%) Legal
10 54 (2.81%) Retail
11 51 (2.66%) Front Office
11 51 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.55%) Telecoms
13 42 (2.19%) Manufacturing
14 33 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (1.41%) Electronics
16 26 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.25%) Back Office
17 24 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 351 (18.28%) Developer
2 274 (14.27%) Analyst
3 213 (11.09%) Senior
4 182 (9.48%) Architect
5 128 (6.67%) Lead
6 119 (6.20%) Business Analyst
7 103 (5.36%) Consultant
8 85 (4.43%) Project Manager
9 55 (2.86%) Data Analyst
10 53 (2.76%) Data Engineer
11 50 (2.60%) Senior Developer
12 43 (2.24%) Network Engineer
13 42 (2.19%) Java Developer
14 39 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
15 38 (1.98%) .NET Developer
16 36 (1.88%) Python Developer
16 36 (1.88%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (1.56%) Azure Engineer
18 29 (1.51%) Support Engineer
19 27 (1.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (5.57%) HTML
2 106 (5.52%) React
3 96 (5.00%) CSS
4 92 (4.79%) .NET
5 87 (4.53%) RESTful
6 61 (3.18%) REST
7 58 (3.02%) XML
8 55 (2.86%) AngularJS
9 45 (2.34%) Node.js
10 44 (2.29%) Spring
11 42 (2.19%) Web Services
12 41 (2.14%) JSON
13 40 (2.08%) Kafka
14 30 (1.56%) .NET Framework
15 26 (1.35%) Middleware
15 26 (1.35%) SOAP
16 25 (1.30%) ASP.NET
17 24 (1.25%) .NET Core
17 24 (1.25%) HTML5
17 24 (1.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 87 (4.53%) Management Information System
2 81 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
3 66 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 51 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 49 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 46 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 40 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 39 (2.03%) Virtual Team
9 35 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 34 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 31 (1.61%) Data Centre
11 31 (1.61%) Fixed Income
12 28 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 26 (1.35%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 22 (1.15%) Cloud Native
15 22 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
16 20 (1.04%) Derivative
17 19 (0.99%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 163 (8.49%) Windows
2 129 (6.72%) Linux
3 65 (3.39%) Unix
4 46 (2.40%) Android
5 36 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 28 (1.46%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.68%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.52%) Solaris
10 8 (0.42%) VMS
10 8 (0.42%) Windows 7
11 7 (0.36%) zOS
12 6 (0.31%) AIX
12 6 (0.31%) CentOS
12 6 (0.31%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (27.24%) Agile
2 303 (15.78%) Project Management
3 276 (14.38%) Computer Science
4 275 (14.32%) DevOps
5 249 (12.97%) CI/CD
6 203 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 198 (10.31%) Analytics
8 197 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 166 (8.65%) Migration
10 163 (8.49%) Data Modelling
11 148 (7.71%) Decision-Making
12 147 (7.66%) Risk Management
13 145 (7.55%) Scrum
14 140 (7.29%) Roadmaps
14 140 (7.29%) Test Automation
15 125 (6.51%) Data Analysis
16 123 (6.41%) SDLC
17 122 (6.35%) Business Intelligence
18 119 (6.20%) Microservices
19 115 (5.99%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 369 (19.22%) SQL
2 344 (17.92%) Python
3 192 (10.00%) Java
4 157 (8.18%) JavaScript
5 119 (6.20%) C#
6 94 (4.90%) PowerShell
7 56 (2.92%) Bash
8 54 (2.81%) TypeScript
9 45 (2.34%) C++
10 38 (1.98%) Scala
11 36 (1.88%) Kotlin
12 32 (1.67%) Go
12 32 (1.67%) T-SQL
13 31 (1.61%) Shell Script
14 29 (1.51%) PL/SQL
15 24 (1.25%) R
16 19 (0.99%) Perl
17 14 (0.73%) Bicep
18 11 (0.57%) C
18 11 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 427 (22.24%) Degree
2 228 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 206 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 185 (9.64%) SC Cleared
5 87 (4.53%) Master's Degree
6 52 (2.71%) CISSP
7 45 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 43 (2.24%) PMI Certification
9 42 (2.19%) CISM
10 40 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.93%) PMP
12 35 (1.82%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
14 28 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
15 26 (1.35%) CCNP
16 24 (1.25%) CISA
17 22 (1.15%) AWS Certification
18 17 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
19 15 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
20 14 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (6.30%) QA
2 93 (4.84%) Data Quality
3 41 (2.14%) GDPR
4 35 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.61%) SLA
7 29 (1.51%) NIST
8 23 (1.20%) PMO
9 16 (0.83%) GRC
10 14 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.31%) COBIT
14 5 (0.26%) ISO 15022
15 4 (0.21%) MiFID
16 3 (0.16%) Basel III
16 3 (0.16%) IFRS
16 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
16 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 127 (6.61%) Docker
2 105 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 39 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.57%) Firmware
7 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 7 (0.36%) KVM
10 5 (0.26%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.26%) NFS
10 5 (0.26%) XenApp
10 5 (0.26%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.21%) IAG
11 4 (0.21%) Veritas File System
11 4 (0.21%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 4 (0.21%) vSphere
12 3 (0.16%) ACF2
Systems Management
1 157 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 79 (4.11%) Terraform
3 60 (3.13%) Ansible
4 45 (2.34%) Grafana
5 38 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 35 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 27 (1.41%) SCCM
8 15 (0.78%) Puppet
9 12 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.52%) Control-M
10 10 (0.52%) Kibana
11 9 (0.47%) Consul
12 7 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.31%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.31%) logstash
13 6 (0.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (0.31%) VxRail
14 5 (0.26%) CASB
14 5 (0.26%) Netcool
14 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 329 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 122 (6.35%) Oracle
3 120 (6.25%) SAP
4 82 (4.27%) Google
5 63 (3.28%) Cisco
6 60 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.07%) VMware
8 53 (2.76%) Salesforce
9 40 (2.08%) IBM
10 37 (1.93%) Databricks
11 27 (1.41%) Splunk
12 22 (1.15%) Apple
12 22 (1.15%) F5
13 21 (1.09%) Adobe
14 20 (1.04%) Fortinet
15 18 (0.94%) CyberArk
15 18 (0.94%) Dell
16 17 (0.89%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.89%) Workday
17 16 (0.83%) iManage