Problem-Solving Contracts in West London

Problem Solving
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 7 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 34 40 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 16.19% 11.27% 8.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.28% 12.82% 8.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 34
10th Percentile £172 £224 £386
25th Percentile £303 £293 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £547
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -15.45% +5.45%
75th Percentile £425 £559 £638
90th Percentile £521 £619 -
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 7
10th Percentile - £14.00 £40.20
25th Percentile £27.50 £16.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £17.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -73.08% +140.74%
75th Percentile £32.50 £18.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £39.38 -
London median hourly rate £43.04 £33.36 £43.00
% change year-on-year +29.03% -22.43% +6.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 312 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.57% 87.89% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 223 383
10th Percentile £231 £215 £350
25th Percentile £339 £316 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £483 £575 £638
90th Percentile £628 £650 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 49
10th Percentile £18.99 £16.25 £29.60
25th Percentile £20.24 £16.56 £52.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £30.16 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -52.88% +176.58%
75th Percentile £30.79 £50.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £59.50 £85.00
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in West London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in West London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in West London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in West London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in West London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hounslow +15 19 £400 - 19
Hillingdon +3 12 £400 -27.27% 11
Problem-Solving
London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (5.88%) Confluence
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) AutoCAD
1 2 (5.88%) Revit
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
3 1 (2.94%) BrowserStack
3 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.94%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) GitHub
3 1 (2.94%) Miro
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (17.65%) Wireless
3 5 (14.71%) WAN
4 4 (11.76%) Cisco Wireless
4 4 (11.76%) Firewall
5 3 (8.82%) BGP
5 3 (8.82%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (8.82%) DHCP
5 3 (8.82%) DMVPN
5 3 (8.82%) DNS
5 3 (8.82%) EIGRP
5 3 (8.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (8.82%) LAN
5 3 (8.82%) Network Security
5 3 (8.82%) OSPF
5 3 (8.82%) SD-WAN
5 3 (8.82%) SSL
5 3 (8.82%) VLAN
5 3 (8.82%) VPN
5 3 (8.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
1 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JUnit
1 5 (14.71%) Selenium
2 3 (8.82%) JIRA
3 2 (5.88%) Appium
4 1 (2.94%) HP UFT
4 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) Postman
4 1 (2.94%) Robot Framework
General
1 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 20 (58.82%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Telecoms
4 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Marketing
6 2 (5.88%) Aviation
6 2 (5.88%) Legal
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.94%) Finance
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Analyst
2 4 (11.76%) Cabling Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Project Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.76%) QA Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Administrator
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Senior
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) CCTV Project Manager
5 1 (2.94%) Juniper Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Juniper Support
5 1 (2.94%) Lead
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Digital Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Transformation Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Kafka
1 1 (2.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.82%) IoT
2 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.88%) CCTV
3 2 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
1 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.94%) Android
2 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Project Management
2 8 (23.53%) Agile
3 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (17.65%) Data Analysis
4 6 (17.65%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
5 5 (14.71%) Manual Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Regression Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Security Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
6 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
6 4 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (8.82%) Change Management
7 3 (8.82%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 3 (8.82%) Patch Management
7 3 (8.82%) Product Strategy
7 3 (8.82%) SDLC
7 3 (8.82%) Service Management
7 3 (8.82%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) Java
1 5 (14.71%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Degree
2 5 (14.71%) ISTQB
2 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) CCNP
3 4 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (11.76%) PMI Certification
4 3 (8.82%) CCSA
4 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.82%) PMP
4 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) BICSI Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CBAP
5 1 (2.94%) CCNA
5 1 (2.94%) CSPO
5 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.82%) Firmware
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Cisco
1 5 (14.71%) Juniper
2 4 (11.76%) CheckPoint
3 3 (8.82%) F5
3 3 (8.82%) Meraki
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Fujitsu
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) NEC
5 1 (2.94%) Nokia