Problem-Solving Contracts in London

Problem Solving
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,818 2,123 2,920
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.27% 7.92% 7.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.59% 8.71% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,174 1,360 1,893
10th Percentile £290 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 46 43
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.31 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.06 £24.63
Median hourly rate £26.97 £43.86 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.51% +8.30% -7.95%
75th Percentile £49.50 £63.86 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £75.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £17.50 £50.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year -65.00% +146.97% +12.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,688 24,387 35,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 91.02% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,246 17,526 26,214
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 425
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.56 £17.20
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%
75th Percentile £47.34 £64.06 £50.75
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +14 282 £550 - 156
West London +12 42 £441 -24.01% 76
South London +23 30 £406 -14.47% 36
East London 0 14 £435 +35.94% 58
North London +2 2 £425 +193.10% 14
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 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.65%) Confluence
4 28 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.88%) CMS
6 14 (0.77%) Apache
7 9 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
7 9 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.33%) Skype for Business
10 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.28%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 5 (0.28%) govService
10 5 (0.28%) WordPress
11 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.22%) CICS
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) nginx
11 4 (0.22%) Tornado
12 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
Applications
1 98 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.88%) Sketch
7 12 (0.66%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.61%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.39%) InVision
10 6 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.22%) InDesign
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.17%) Windchill
12 3 (0.17%) Zeplin
13 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 22 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.05%) Endur
3 13 (0.72%) Shopify
4 11 (0.61%) Aligne
4 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.28%) ION MarketView
8 5 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.28%) SAP PM
8 5 (0.28%) Siebel CRM
8 5 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.17%) ENOVIA
10 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.17%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 359 (19.75%) Azure
2 227 (12.49%) AWS
3 128 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (6.11%) Power Platform
5 91 (5.01%) GCP
6 72 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.59%) Serverless
8 45 (2.48%) Entra ID
9 41 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
10 33 (1.82%) GitHub
11 30 (1.65%) Amazon S3
11 30 (1.65%) PowerApps
11 30 (1.65%) SaaS
12 27 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (1.43%) Power Automate
14 25 (1.38%) Figma
15 24 (1.32%) WhatsApp
16 23 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
18 18 (0.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.30%) Firewall
2 51 (2.81%) VPN
3 39 (2.15%) DNS
4 38 (2.09%) Wireless
5 32 (1.76%) WAN
6 30 (1.65%) LAN
7 28 (1.54%) Network Security
8 25 (1.38%) BGP
9 23 (1.27%) OSPF
10 19 (1.05%) HTTP
11 18 (0.99%) TCP/IP
12 17 (0.94%) Internet
13 15 (0.83%) DHCP
13 15 (0.83%) IPsec
14 14 (0.77%) SSH
15 12 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
15 12 (0.66%) WLAN
16 11 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
16 11 (0.61%) SD-WAN
17 10 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 89 (4.90%) Power BI
3 61 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 48 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.98%) Big Data
8 27 (1.49%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.43%) Tableau
10 20 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.94%) MySQL
13 16 (0.88%) KDB
14 15 (0.83%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.77%) BigQuery
15 14 (0.77%) RDBMS
16 13 (0.72%) Data Lake
17 12 (0.66%) Metadata
18 11 (0.61%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 111 (6.11%) Git
2 94 (5.17%) JIRA
3 45 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.43%) GitLab
5 19 (1.05%) Selenium
6 16 (0.88%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.83%) Maven
8 14 (0.77%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.77%) Visual Studio
9 12 (0.66%) JUnit
10 11 (0.61%) Subversion
11 10 (0.55%) LoadRunner
12 9 (0.50%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.44%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.39%) Appium
15 6 (0.33%) Gradle
15 6 (0.33%) JMeter
15 6 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 1,039 (57.15%) Social Skills
2 817 (44.94%) Analytical Skills
3 532 (29.26%) Finance
4 166 (9.13%) Banking
5 122 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 117 (6.44%) Marketing
7 109 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
8 62 (3.41%) Investment Banking
9 56 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (3.03%) Front Office
11 53 (2.92%) Retail
12 46 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 41 (2.26%) Legal
14 38 (2.09%) Manufacturing
15 36 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (1.54%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 21 (1.16%) Law
19 20 (1.10%) Back Office
20 19 (1.05%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 278 (15.29%) Developer
2 261 (14.36%) Analyst
3 161 (8.86%) Senior
4 139 (7.65%) Architect
5 120 (6.60%) Consultant
6 112 (6.16%) Lead
7 102 (5.61%) Business Analyst
8 86 (4.73%) Project Manager
9 48 (2.64%) Data Engineer
9 48 (2.64%) Java Developer
10 41 (2.26%) Data Analyst
10 41 (2.26%) Support Engineer
11 39 (2.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 39 (2.15%) Network Engineer
12 37 (2.04%) Designer
12 37 (2.04%) Software Engineer
13 33 (1.82%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (1.76%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (1.76%) IT Engineer
15 31 (1.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (4.84%) HTML
2 86 (4.73%) React
3 81 (4.46%) CSS
4 71 (3.91%) .NET
5 51 (2.81%) REST
6 47 (2.59%) Node.js
6 47 (2.59%) RESTful
7 42 (2.31%) Kafka
8 41 (2.26%) JSON
9 34 (1.87%) Spring
10 32 (1.76%) XML
11 30 (1.65%) Web Services
12 19 (1.05%) AngularJS
13 18 (0.99%) ASP.NET
14 17 (0.94%) .NET Core
15 16 (0.88%) .NET Framework
15 16 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (0.88%) SOAP
15 16 (0.88%) Spring Boot
16 15 (0.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 89 (4.90%) Management Information System
2 83 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
3 74 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.19%) Algorithms
5 48 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 38 (2.09%) Data Centre
7 37 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 34 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
9 32 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 31 (1.71%) Derivative
10 31 (1.71%) Onboarding
11 27 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.38%) Fixed Income
13 23 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.16%) Cloud Native
15 19 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (0.99%) Security Posture
17 17 (0.94%) Mobile App
18 16 (0.88%) PKI
18 16 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 157 (8.64%) Windows
2 112 (6.16%) Linux
3 47 (2.59%) Unix
4 44 (2.42%) Windows 10
5 35 (1.93%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.71%) Android
6 31 (1.71%) Windows 7
7 18 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.77%) Mac OS X
9 11 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.50%) VMS
12 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.39%) Solaris
14 6 (0.33%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
15 5 (0.28%) zOS
16 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
18 1 (0.055%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (29.04%) Agile
2 256 (14.08%) Project Management
3 234 (12.87%) Computer Science
4 230 (12.65%) DevOps
5 184 (10.12%) Migration
6 181 (9.96%) Decision-Making
7 175 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 168 (9.24%) Analytics
9 162 (8.91%) CI/CD
10 145 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
11 142 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (7.10%) Data Modelling
13 125 (6.88%) Scrum
14 121 (6.66%) Customer Service
15 117 (6.44%) Data Analysis
16 110 (6.05%) Change Management
17 109 (6.00%) Mentoring
17 109 (6.00%) Risk Management
18 100 (5.50%) Roadmaps
18 100 (5.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 296 (16.28%) Python
2 284 (15.62%) SQL
3 179 (9.85%) Java
4 144 (7.92%) JavaScript
5 113 (6.22%) C#
6 81 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.92%) TypeScript
8 38 (2.09%) Scala
9 34 (1.87%) C++
10 32 (1.76%) Bash
11 31 (1.71%) Go
12 30 (1.65%) T-SQL
13 28 (1.54%) PL/SQL
14 24 (1.32%) Shell Script
15 17 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.83%) Bicep
17 14 (0.77%) Perl
17 14 (0.77%) R
18 13 (0.72%) Ruby
19 12 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 380 (20.90%) Degree
2 190 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 181 (9.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 145 (7.98%) SC Cleared
5 69 (3.80%) Master's Degree
6 37 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (1.87%) CISSP
7 34 (1.87%) PMP
8 33 (1.82%) PMI Certification
9 26 (1.43%) CISM
9 26 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.38%) CCNP
11 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.94%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 17 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.88%) CCIE
13 16 (0.88%) PhD
14 15 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.45%) QA
2 91 (5.01%) Data Quality
3 43 (2.37%) SLA
4 39 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.27%) NIST
5 23 (1.27%) PMO
6 21 (1.16%) GDPR
7 17 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.50%) WCAG
9 8 (0.44%) NCSC
10 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
10 6 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.28%) GRC
11 5 (0.28%) ISO 31000
11 5 (0.28%) MiFID
11 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 108 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 89 (4.90%) Docker
3 35 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.99%) Firmware
5 14 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.50%) KVM
7 9 (0.50%) vSphere
8 8 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 8 (0.44%) HDFS
9 7 (0.39%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.33%) NFS
11 4 (0.22%) vCloud
11 4 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.11%) XenApp
14 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.055%) RACF
Systems Management
1 95 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 75 (4.13%) Terraform
3 38 (2.09%) Ansible
4 31 (1.71%) SCCM
5 30 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (1.27%) Grafana
7 20 (1.10%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.88%) Puppet
9 14 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.72%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 10 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (0.44%) Consul
13 7 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
14 5 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
14 5 (0.28%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.28%) PowerCLI
14 5 (0.28%) QRadar
14 5 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 360 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.82%) Oracle
3 117 (6.44%) SAP
4 64 (3.52%) Google
5 53 (2.92%) Cisco
5 53 (2.92%) ServiceNow
6 51 (2.81%) Adobe
7 47 (2.59%) VMware
8 46 (2.53%) Salesforce
9 43 (2.37%) Databricks
10 27 (1.49%) Apple
11 25 (1.38%) Dell
12 21 (1.16%) Juniper
12 21 (1.16%) Palo Alto
13 20 (1.10%) IBM
14 19 (1.05%) Splunk
15 17 (0.94%) Citrix
16 16 (0.88%) Sitecore
17 15 (0.83%) Fortinet
18 12 (0.66%) F5