Problem-Solving Contracts in the City of London

Problem Solving
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 262 266 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 12.15% 7.67% 7.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.41% 8.38% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 169 229
10th Percentile £315 £278 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% +6.00%
75th Percentile £695 £698 £638
90th Percentile £775 £875 £700
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £15.44 £27.55
25th Percentile £46.75 £20.22 £37.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £51.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -1.44% +248.33%
75th Percentile £50.25 £53.75 £64.81
90th Percentile - £62.75 £68.98
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £51.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year -48.43% -1.44% +161.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 3,173 3,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.63% 91.49% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 2,145 2,906
10th Percentile £350 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 44
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.33 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.63 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.46 £57.50 £55.38
90th Percentile £49.41 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the City of London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Moorgate - 2 £413 -
London Bridge - 2 £700 -
Problem-Solving
Central London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 10 (3.82%) Confluence
2 8 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.53%) Apache
4 4 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.15%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.76%) Luigi
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.82%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.76%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.76%) Adobe Premiere
5 2 (0.76%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.38%) InVision
6 1 (0.38%) Sketch
6 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Loan IQ
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.38%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.38%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.38%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.38%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 54 (20.61%) Azure
2 27 (10.31%) Power Platform
3 26 (9.92%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (8.02%) AWS
5 17 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.96%) GCP
7 10 (3.82%) WhatsApp
8 6 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.53%) GitHub
9 4 (1.53%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.15%) dbt
11 2 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.76%) Collibra
11 2 (0.76%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.76%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.76%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.29%) Firewall
2 5 (1.91%) DNS
2 5 (1.91%) LAN
2 5 (1.91%) VoIP
3 2 (0.76%) CTI
3 2 (0.76%) DHCP
3 2 (0.76%) Network Security
3 2 (0.76%) PBX
3 2 (0.76%) PSTN
3 2 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.76%) VPN
3 2 (0.76%) Wireless
4 1 (0.38%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.38%) SAN
4 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.38%) Skype
4 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.38%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.87%) Power BI
3 16 (6.11%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.44%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (2.29%) DB2
7 6 (2.29%) Metadata
8 5 (1.91%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.91%) Sybase ASE
9 4 (1.53%) MySQL
9 4 (1.53%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.53%) Power Query
9 4 (1.53%) Tableau
10 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.20%) Git
1 11 (4.20%) JIRA
2 7 (2.67%) GitLab
3 4 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.15%) Android Studio
4 3 (1.15%) JUnit
4 3 (1.15%) Subversion
4 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.76%) ERwin
5 2 (0.76%) Mockito
5 2 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.76%) ScalaTest
5 2 (0.76%) Selenium
5 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.38%) Babel
6 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.38%) GoCD
6 1 (0.38%) Postman
6 1 (0.38%) Pylint
6 1 (0.38%) Spinnaker
General
1 149 (56.87%) Social Skills
2 116 (44.27%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (25.57%) Finance
4 25 (9.54%) Banking
5 16 (6.11%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.96%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.82%) Legal
9 8 (3.05%) Marketing
10 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.91%) Retail
10 5 (1.91%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.53%) Front Office
11 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.76%) Advertising
13 2 (0.76%) Police
13 2 (0.76%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 42 (16.03%) Developer
2 30 (11.45%) Analyst
3 16 (6.11%) Consultant
4 14 (5.34%) Architect
4 14 (5.34%) Senior
5 12 (4.58%) Project Manager
6 11 (4.20%) Support Engineer
7 10 (3.82%) Business Analyst
7 10 (3.82%) Site Engineer
7 10 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (3.44%) Product Owner
9 8 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (3.05%) Power BI Developer
10 7 (2.67%) DBA
10 7 (2.67%) Python Developer
10 7 (2.67%) Python Engineer
10 7 (2.67%) Quantitative Developer
10 7 (2.67%) Security Engineer
11 6 (2.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 6 (2.29%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.11%) Kafka
1 16 (6.11%) RESTful
2 11 (4.20%) HTML
3 10 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (3.82%) React
4 8 (3.05%) .NET
5 7 (2.67%) CSS
6 6 (2.29%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.53%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.53%) REST
7 4 (1.53%) XML
8 3 (1.15%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.15%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.15%) JSON
8 3 (1.15%) Node.js
8 3 (1.15%) SOAP
8 3 (1.15%) Spring
8 3 (1.15%) Web Services
9 2 (0.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (5.73%) Algorithms
2 15 (5.73%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.96%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.29%) Replication
8 5 (1.91%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.53%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.15%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.15%) CMDB
10 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.76%) Graphic Design
11 2 (0.76%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.54%) Linux
2 15 (5.73%) Windows
3 6 (2.29%) Android
3 6 (2.29%) Unix
4 5 (1.91%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.15%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.15%) VMS
6 3 (1.15%) Windows 8
6 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.76%) Solaris
7 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.38%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (29.39%) Agile
2 57 (21.76%) DevOps
3 30 (11.45%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (10.69%) Decision-Making
5 27 (10.31%) CI/CD
5 27 (10.31%) Computer Science
6 25 (9.54%) Data Analysis
6 25 (9.54%) Project Management
7 23 (8.78%) Migration
8 22 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (8.02%) Microservices
10 20 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (7.63%) Data Modelling
11 19 (7.25%) SDLC
12 18 (6.87%) Analytical Thinking
13 17 (6.49%) Software Engineering
14 16 (6.11%) Data Management
14 16 (6.11%) Risk Management
14 16 (6.11%) Scrum
14 16 (6.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.85%) Python
2 45 (17.18%) SQL
3 28 (10.69%) Java
4 25 (9.54%) C#
5 18 (6.87%) PowerShell
6 13 (4.96%) C++
7 11 (4.20%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.20%) T-SQL
8 10 (3.82%) Go
8 10 (3.82%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.67%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.91%) Perl
11 5 (1.91%) Scala
12 4 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.15%) R
14 2 (0.76%) Bash
14 2 (0.76%) Bicep
15 1 (0.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 46 (17.56%) Degree
2 24 (9.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.05%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.05%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.91%) CISSP
5 4 (1.53%) CISM
5 4 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (1.53%) PMP
5 4 (1.53%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.15%) CCNP
6 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.76%) CCNA
7 2 (0.76%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.73%) QA
2 12 (4.58%) SLA
3 11 (4.20%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.76%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) PMO
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (6.49%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.58%) Docker
3 10 (3.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 6 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.76%) KVM
7 2 (0.76%) XenApp
8 1 (0.38%) Firmware
8 1 (0.38%) HDFS
8 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.58%) Grafana
3 10 (3.82%) Consul
3 10 (3.82%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.91%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (1.91%) Terraform
5 4 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.53%) QRadar
6 2 (0.76%) Ansible
6 2 (0.76%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.38%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.38%) CASB
7 1 (0.38%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.38%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) SCCM
7 1 (0.38%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 69 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.16%) Oracle
3 16 (6.11%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.20%) SAP
5 10 (3.82%) SaltStack
6 9 (3.44%) IBM
7 7 (2.67%) VMware
8 6 (2.29%) Cadence
8 6 (2.29%) Google
8 6 (2.29%) iManage
8 6 (2.29%) Sun
8 6 (2.29%) Veritas
9 5 (1.91%) Adobe
9 5 (1.91%) Apple
9 5 (1.91%) Sybase
9 5 (1.91%) Workday
10 4 (1.53%) Juniper
11 3 (1.15%) Alteryx
11 3 (1.15%) Ivanti
11 3 (1.15%) Salesforce