Problem-Solving Contracts in South London

Problem Solving
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 13 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +23 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 30 17 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 12.30% 4.31% 6.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.04% 4.80% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £171 £137 £154
25th Percentile £185 £238 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% +5.56% -11.11%
75th Percentile £594 £525 £766
90th Percentile £769 £720 £800
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile £17.03 - £40.44
25th Percentile £20.25 - £43.50
Median hourly rate £23.50 £62.68 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year -62.51% +35.41% +4.02%
75th Percentile £83.75 - £48.58
90th Percentile - - £48.59
London median hourly rate £26.97 £43.86 £40.50
% change year-on-year -38.51% +8.30% -7.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 230 354 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 94.26% 89.85% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 285 248
10th Percentile £266 £300 £338
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £638 £765 £704
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 13
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £39.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.31 £41.32
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £47.34
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% -21.97% +1.99%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.94 £54.69
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
% change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in South London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in South London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in South London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in South London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in South London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in South London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in South London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in South London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South 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
Croydon +12 16 £461 -7.50% 18
Bromley +11 6 £190 -27.62% 9
Kingston Upon Thames +2 4 - - 10
Merton +4 3 £250 +56.25% 3
Problem-Solving
London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (16.67%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.67%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) Route 53
4 2 (6.67%) Serverless
4 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) Skype
2 1 (3.33%) SMTP
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Aerospace
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) IT Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Field Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Field Service Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) IT Support
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.67%) React
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) Mustache
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) Spring
2 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Derivative
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.33%) NHS
3 1 (3.33%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.67%) Android
4 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
4 2 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Customer Service
2 8 (26.67%) Break/Fix
3 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.33%) Code Quality
6 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) UML
7 3 (10.00%) Coaching
7 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (10.00%) ITIL
7 3 (10.00%) ITSM
7 3 (10.00%) Network Management
7 3 (10.00%) Scrum
7 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 3 (10.00%) Service Management
8 2 (6.67%) Matrix Management
8 2 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) Java
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Bash
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) Ruby
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) Degree
3 7 (23.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) DBS Check
4 4 (13.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
1 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) vSphere
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (13.33%) SCCM
3 3 (10.00%) Grafana
3 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.67%) Ansible
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.33%) OPNET
5 1 (3.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Google
3 3 (10.00%) Apple
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Remedy
4 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.33%) VMware