Creative Problem-Solving Contracts in London

Creative Problem-Solving
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Creative Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 442 523
Rank change year-on-year +66 +81 -74
Contract jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 20 40 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 32 45
10th Percentile £281 £230 £293
25th Percentile £400 £417 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £526 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -12.29% +23.08%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £750
90th Percentile - £650 -
England median daily rate £575 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% +16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £39.56 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.03% -16.72% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Creative 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,459 23,164 35,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.48% 90.85% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,105 16,758 26,272
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 266 410
10th Percentile £15.72 £18.25 £16.95
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.63 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -29.34% +12.29% +9.52%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.88 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +11.11%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in London

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in London

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in London

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in London

Creative Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +39 7 £575 +21.05% 2
Creative Problem-Solving
England

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (35.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (10.00%) InDesign
1 2 (10.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.00%) InVision
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) ChatGPT
4 1 (5.00%) Figma
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) ShareGate
4 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
1 1 (5.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Grunt
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Subversion
1 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Advertising
5 2 (10.00%) Front Office
5 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Automotive
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) French Language
6 1 (5.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Product Owner
2 4 (20.00%) Digital Product Owner
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Designer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Designer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 1 (5.00%) Products Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) HTML
1 5 (25.00%) React
2 4 (20.00%) GeoPandas
2 4 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) HTML5
4 2 (10.00%) jQuery
4 2 (10.00%) Matplotlib
4 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 2 (10.00%) NumPy
4 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
4 2 (10.00%) scikit-learn
5 1 (5.00%) .NET
5 1 (5.00%) ADO
5 1 (5.00%) Framer.js
5 1 (5.00%) Redux
5 1 (5.00%) RESTful
5 1 (5.00%) Sass
5 1 (5.00%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.00%) Animation
3 1 (5.00%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Social Media
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (5.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) Workflow
4 7 (35.00%) DevOps
5 6 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 6 (30.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 6 (30.00%) Business Case
5 6 (30.00%) Product Backlog
5 6 (30.00%) Product Requirements
5 6 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (30.00%) User Stories
5 6 (30.00%) Web Development
5 6 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.00%) Data Science
7 3 (15.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) MBA
2 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) ESRI
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow