Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Paddington

Problem Solving
City of Westminster > Paddington

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 4 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Paddington 21.05% 27.78% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.53% 27.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £255 - -
25th Percentile £291 £440 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% - -
75th Percentile £414 £460 -
90th Percentile £451 - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £450 £450 £515
% change year-on-year - -12.62% +157.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
City of Westminster median hourly rate £18.87 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Paddington

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 Paddington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17 18 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Paddington 89.47% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 3
10th Percentile £346 £440 £234
25th Percentile £409 £450 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -13.79%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £625
90th Percentile £620 £575 £670
City of Westminster median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
City of Westminster median hourly rate £18.87 - £26.00

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Paddington

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Paddington

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Paddington

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

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

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Paddington

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Paddington over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Paddington

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Paddington 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Mocha
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Fastify
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) Jest
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Application Security
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Blocking Code
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk