Problem-Solving Contracts in South London

Problem Solving
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 30
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 26 30 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 15.29% 13.39% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.57% 14.08% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 16
10th Percentile £218 £171 £141
25th Percentile £485 £185 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £395 £486
Median % change year-on-year +47.59% -18.75% +8.03%
75th Percentile £738 £594 £556
90th Percentile £738 £769 £663
London median daily rate £519 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -4.75% -5.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 1
Median hourly rate - £23.50 £62.68
Median % change year-on-year - -62.51% +35.76%
London median hourly rate £31.35 £31.71 £40.50
% change year-on-year -1.15% -21.70% +0.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 213 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.06% 95.09% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 150 259
10th Percentile £315 £246 £313
25th Percentile £463 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £567 £650
90th Percentile £750 £630 £752
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 12
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £20.25 £19.69
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -53.39% +12.04%
75th Percentile £20.38 £77.19 £51.06
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £55.50
London median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%

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 29 May 2025.

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
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 29 May 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
Croydon +1 11 £585 +30.73% 12
Kingston Upon Thames +9 6 £135 - 1
Bromley -4 4 £725 +281.58% 29
Merton 0 3 £238 -29.56% 2
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 (3.85%) Mattermost
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) Serverless
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.69%) Google Workspace
5 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) LAN
1 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
1 3 (11.54%) WAN
1 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) Skype
3 1 (3.85%) Softphone
3 1 (3.85%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.85%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Storybook
General
1 13 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Games
4 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Product Manager
3 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Messaging Support
5 1 (3.85%) Payments Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
1 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
1 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.85%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) Spring
2 1 (3.85%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.85%) NHS
2 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (7.69%) Android
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (30.77%) Customer Service
2 7 (26.92%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) Process Improvement
3 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
3 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (19.23%) ITIL
5 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
5 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 4 (15.38%) Microservices
5 4 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (15.38%) Product Management
5 4 (15.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (11.54%) Data Transformation
6 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (11.54%) Technical Debt
6 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) C#
3 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) A+ Certification
5 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.85%) MCSE
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
1 1 (3.85%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (7.69%) vSphere
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
3 1 (3.85%) SCOM
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Proofpoint
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) VMware