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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 14 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,043 1,837 2,123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 16.27% 10.30% 7.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.66% 11.63% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 1,185 1,358
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.15% -2.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 68 47
10th Percentile £24.52 £16.25 £18.38
25th Percentile £27.24 £18.25 £20.11
Median hourly rate £43.04 £31.71 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% -26.26% +6.17%
75th Percentile £64.69 £51.06 £61.34
90th Percentile £93.75 £83.75 £73.50
England median hourly rate £21.95 £17.50 £45.68
% change year-on-year +25.43% -61.69% +128.40%

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 11,566 15,789 24,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.49% 91.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,853 11,316 17,713
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 169 325 278
10th Percentile £16.37 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -25.25% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.86 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.30 £76.78
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.27% -4.45% +53.20%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +4 348 £550 +1.15% 223
South London +5 36 £600 +47.69% 38
West London +5 34 £400 -13.51% 97
East London +4 4 £643 +47.70% 44
North London -2 3 £285 -32.94% 12
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 56 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.50%) Confluence
3 48 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.62%) Apache
5 24 (1.17%) SAS
6 17 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.64%) CMS
8 11 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.44%) Oracle Coherence
10 8 (0.39%) GemFire
10 8 (0.39%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.34%) Drupal
11 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.29%) nginx
13 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.098%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.098%) NetWeaver
15 2 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 109 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
3 43 (2.10%) MS Visio
4 42 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 33 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.64%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Adobe XD
7 8 (0.39%) Sketch
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
9 5 (0.24%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.15%) InDesign
11 3 (0.15%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.098%) Final Cut Pro
12 2 (0.098%) Revit
13 1 (0.049%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.049%) Blender
13 1 (0.049%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 35 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.64%) NEC Housing
4 11 (0.54%) Shopify
5 9 (0.44%) SAP FI
6 8 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.34%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.24%) Endur
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.20%) Actimize
10 4 (0.20%) CA PPM
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.20%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 365 (17.87%) Azure
2 325 (15.91%) AWS
3 154 (7.54%) Power Platform
4 108 (5.29%) GCP
5 96 (4.70%) Microsoft 365
6 83 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (2.89%) SaaS
8 53 (2.59%) GitHub
9 52 (2.55%) Serverless
10 47 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (2.20%) PaaS
11 45 (2.20%) Snowflake
12 43 (2.10%) Entra ID
13 36 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
14 34 (1.66%) IaaS
15 33 (1.62%) Amazon S3
16 32 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
16 32 (1.57%) PowerApps
17 27 (1.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.06%) Firewall
2 51 (2.50%) Network Security
3 40 (1.96%) VPN
4 35 (1.71%) DNS
5 27 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 24 (1.17%) WAN
7 21 (1.03%) BGP
7 21 (1.03%) DHCP
7 21 (1.03%) OSPF
8 20 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (0.98%) Wireless
9 19 (0.93%) LAN
10 18 (0.88%) 5G
11 16 (0.78%) 4G
11 16 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
12 13 (0.64%) HTTP
12 13 (0.64%) Internet
12 13 (0.64%) SAN
13 12 (0.59%) LTE
13 12 (0.59%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (6.41%) Power BI
2 81 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 72 (3.52%) SQL Server
5 70 (3.43%) Tableau
6 65 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 44 (2.15%) Big Data
8 32 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (1.57%) NoSQL
9 28 (1.37%) MongoDB
10 24 (1.17%) Data Lake
11 21 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (1.03%) Oracle Database
12 20 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (0.98%) Hadoop
12 20 (0.98%) Redis
13 18 (0.88%) MySQL
14 17 (0.83%) BigQuery
14 17 (0.83%) DB2
15 16 (0.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 147 (7.20%) JIRA
2 124 (6.07%) Git
3 98 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 47 (2.30%) GitLab
5 27 (1.32%) Selenium
6 26 (1.27%) JUnit
7 20 (0.98%) JMeter
8 17 (0.83%) Maven
8 17 (0.83%) Postman
9 15 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.64%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.49%) Appium
11 10 (0.49%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.44%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.44%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.39%) LoadRunner
13 8 (0.39%) QARun
13 8 (0.39%) Subversion
13 8 (0.39%) WinRunner
14 7 (0.34%) ERwin
General
1 1,210 (59.23%) Social Skills
2 825 (40.38%) Analytical Skills
3 633 (30.98%) Finance
4 250 (12.24%) Banking
5 141 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 98 (4.80%) Marketing
7 95 (4.65%) Investment Banking
8 82 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
9 71 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 65 (3.18%) Legal
11 61 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 60 (2.94%) Retail
13 58 (2.84%) Front Office
14 51 (2.50%) Financial Institution
15 48 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
16 44 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
17 34 (1.66%) Manufacturing
18 33 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
19 27 (1.32%) Law
20 24 (1.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 326 (15.96%) Developer
2 302 (14.78%) Analyst
3 222 (10.87%) Senior
4 177 (8.66%) Architect
5 165 (8.08%) Lead
6 156 (7.64%) Business Analyst
7 139 (6.80%) Consultant
8 107 (5.24%) Project Manager
9 68 (3.33%) Java Developer
10 61 (2.99%) Data Analyst
11 60 (2.94%) Senior Developer
12 56 (2.74%) Data Engineer
13 44 (2.15%) Support Engineer
14 40 (1.96%) DevOps Engineer
15 30 (1.47%) AWS Engineer
15 30 (1.47%) Software Engineer
16 29 (1.42%) Azure Engineer
16 29 (1.42%) Network Engineer
17 28 (1.37%) Senior Analyst
17 28 (1.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (4.26%) .NET
2 75 (3.67%) CSS
3 72 (3.52%) HTML
4 70 (3.43%) RESTful
5 67 (3.28%) Kafka
6 58 (2.84%) REST
7 55 (2.69%) React
8 49 (2.40%) Web Services
9 48 (2.35%) AngularJS
10 45 (2.20%) Spring
11 27 (1.32%) Node.js
12 23 (1.13%) Middleware
12 23 (1.13%) OAuth
12 23 (1.13%) SOAP
13 22 (1.08%) PySpark
14 20 (0.98%) .NET Framework
14 20 (0.98%) JSON
14 20 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (0.98%) Spring Boot
14 20 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (3.08%) Management Information System
2 61 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 55 (2.69%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 51 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 51 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 45 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 44 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 41 (2.01%) Cloud Native
9 37 (1.81%) Derivative
10 35 (1.71%) Equities
11 34 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.37%) Data Centre
12 28 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
12 28 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 28 (1.37%) Market Risk
13 26 (1.27%) Mobile App
14 25 (1.22%) Fixed Income
14 25 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 23 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 152 (7.44%) Windows
2 143 (7.00%) Linux
3 62 (3.03%) Unix
4 50 (2.45%) Apple iOS
5 35 (1.71%) Android
5 35 (1.71%) Windows 10
6 27 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 20 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 17 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.54%) Mac OS X
10 7 (0.34%) Solaris
11 5 (0.24%) CentOS
11 5 (0.24%) VMS
12 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 3 (0.15%) zOS
13 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.098%) SUSE
14 1 (0.049%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.049%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (25.70%) Agile
2 304 (14.88%) DevOps
3 267 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 264 (12.92%) Project Management
5 252 (12.33%) CI/CD
6 211 (10.33%) Computer Science
7 201 (9.84%) Analytics
8 197 (9.64%) Migration
9 191 (9.35%) Decision-Making
10 164 (8.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 160 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
12 151 (7.39%) Risk Management
13 144 (7.05%) Collaborative Working
14 135 (6.61%) Test Automation
15 131 (6.41%) Data Modelling
16 130 (6.36%) Data Analysis
17 128 (6.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 127 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence
19 117 (5.73%) User Experience
20 115 (5.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 446 (21.83%) Python
2 413 (20.22%) SQL
3 198 (9.69%) Java
4 139 (6.80%) JavaScript
5 114 (5.58%) C#
6 103 (5.04%) PowerShell
7 60 (2.94%) Bash
8 42 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 38 (1.86%) PL/SQL
10 37 (1.81%) C++
11 36 (1.76%) Scala
12 29 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.13%) R
14 19 (0.93%) Go
15 18 (0.88%) Bicep
16 16 (0.78%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.73%) PHP
18 14 (0.69%) Ruby
19 13 (0.64%) Kotlin
20 12 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 355 (17.38%) Degree
2 295 (14.44%) Security Cleared
3 246 (12.04%) SC Cleared
4 133 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (2.69%) PMI Certification
6 49 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 49 (2.40%) PMP
7 44 (2.15%) CISSP
8 37 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 36 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 34 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 34 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (1.42%) CCNP
11 29 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 29 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
12 25 (1.22%) Azure Certification
13 24 (1.17%) CISM
14 16 (0.78%) CEH
15 14 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
16 12 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 107 (5.24%) QA
3 66 (3.23%) GDPR
4 48 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 42 (2.06%) NIST
7 30 (1.47%) PMO
8 26 (1.27%) SLA
9 20 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.83%) GRC
11 14 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.64%) MiFID
13 10 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.44%) EMIR
14 9 (0.44%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (0.34%) NCSC
15 7 (0.34%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 109 (5.34%) Docker
2 98 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.39%) GridGain
6 7 (0.34%) Firmware
6 7 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.24%) vSphere
8 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.15%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.15%) IAG
9 3 (0.15%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.15%) OpenDJ
9 3 (0.15%) OpenIDM
9 3 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.049%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 148 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 141 (6.90%) Terraform
3 85 (4.16%) Ansible
4 30 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.27%) Grafana
6 23 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.08%) SCCM
8 20 (0.98%) Puppet
9 15 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.34%) NSN NetAct
13 6 (0.29%) Argo
13 6 (0.29%) Control-M
13 6 (0.29%) Istio
13 6 (0.29%) Nagios
14 5 (0.24%) Perfmon
14 5 (0.24%) QRadar
15 4 (0.20%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 332 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 135 (6.61%) Oracle
3 116 (5.68%) SAP
4 82 (4.01%) Google
5 74 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 72 (3.52%) ServiceNow
7 64 (3.13%) Cisco
8 49 (2.40%) Databricks
9 47 (2.30%) VMware
10 40 (1.96%) Adobe
11 33 (1.62%) IBM
12 31 (1.52%) Red Hat
13 29 (1.42%) Splunk
14 23 (1.13%) Workday
15 21 (1.03%) Sybase
16 19 (0.93%) Apple
16 19 (0.93%) Meraki
17 16 (0.78%) Ericsson
17 16 (0.78%) Palo Alto
18 14 (0.69%) Informatica