Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Problem Solving
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 4 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 12.90% 30.00% 11.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.79% 42.86% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile - £385 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £390 £590
Median % change year-on-year +60.26% -33.90% +31.11%
75th Percentile - £395 £625
90th Percentile - - -
West London median daily rate £505 £400 £480
% change year-on-year +26.13% -16.67% +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29 7 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 93.55% 70.00% 84.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 5 49
10th Percentile - - £360
25th Percentile £204 £188 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £390 £525
Median % change year-on-year +54.49% -25.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £573 £621
90th Percentile - - £713
West London median daily rate £523 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +27.75% -18.20% -0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.57 - -
25th Percentile £20.61 - -
Median hourly rate £22.17 - -
75th Percentile £23.68 - -
90th Percentile £23.70 - -
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £33.03
% change year-on-year +6.61% -28.57% -47.16%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) GCP Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks