Problem-Solving Contracts in London

Problem Solving
England > London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,833 2,123 2,924
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.30% 7.89% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.62% 8.66% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,353 1,897
10th Percentile £292 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 47 43
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.38 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.11 £24.63
Median hourly rate £31.71 £43.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.26% +6.17% -6.90%
75th Percentile £52.69 £61.34 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £17.50 £48.40 £20.00
% change year-on-year -63.84% +142.00% +8.77%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,770 24,518 35,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 91.07% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,304 17,620 26,197
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 277 426
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.58 £17.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.75 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.45% +6.43% +12.03%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.95 £67.81
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in London

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 Problem-Solving within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +14 284 £538 -2.27% 128
West London +12 42 £441 -24.01% 81
South London +24 30 £406 -9.45% 46
East London 0 14 £435 +35.94% 54
North London +2 2 £425 +193.10% 14
Problem-Solving
England

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 57 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (1.69%) Confluence
4 28 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.87%) CMS
6 14 (0.76%) Apache
7 9 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
7 9 (0.49%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (0.38%) Skype for Business
10 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 5 (0.27%) govService
10 5 (0.27%) WordPress
11 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.22%) CICS
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) nginx
11 4 (0.22%) Tornado
12 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
Applications
1 101 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 31 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.87%) Sketch
7 12 (0.65%) Photoshop
7 12 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.60%) Adobe XD
9 7 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.38%) InVision
10 6 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.22%) InDesign
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.16%) Windchill
12 3 (0.16%) Zeplin
13 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 22 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.04%) Endur
3 13 (0.71%) Shopify
4 11 (0.60%) Aligne
4 11 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.38%) SAP PM
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.27%) ION MarketView
9 5 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
9 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.16%) ENOVIA
11 3 (0.16%) SAP HCM
11 3 (0.16%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 363 (19.80%) Azure
2 227 (12.38%) AWS
3 129 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 92 (5.02%) GCP
6 73 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (2.62%) Serverless
8 46 (2.51%) Entra ID
9 41 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
10 34 (1.85%) GitHub
11 31 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 30 (1.64%) PowerApps
12 30 (1.64%) SaaS
13 28 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (1.42%) Power Automate
15 25 (1.36%) Figma
16 24 (1.31%) WhatsApp
17 23 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
18 22 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
19 18 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.22%) Firewall
2 53 (2.89%) VPN
3 40 (2.18%) Wireless
4 39 (2.13%) DNS
5 32 (1.75%) WAN
6 29 (1.58%) LAN
7 27 (1.47%) Network Security
8 26 (1.42%) BGP
9 24 (1.31%) OSPF
10 19 (1.04%) HTTP
10 19 (1.04%) TCP/IP
11 18 (0.98%) Internet
12 15 (0.82%) DHCP
12 15 (0.82%) IPsec
13 14 (0.76%) SSH
14 12 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.65%) WLAN
15 11 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (0.60%) MPLS
15 11 (0.60%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 89 (4.86%) Power BI
3 64 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 48 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (2.18%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.91%) Big Data
8 27 (1.47%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.36%) Tableau
10 20 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (0.98%) MySQL
11 18 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.87%) KDB
13 15 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.76%) BigQuery
14 14 (0.76%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.76%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.71%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.65%) Metadata
17 10 (0.55%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 113 (6.16%) Git
2 93 (5.07%) JIRA
3 46 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.42%) GitLab
5 20 (1.09%) Selenium
6 16 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 15 (0.82%) Maven
8 14 (0.76%) TeamCity
8 14 (0.76%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.71%) JUnit
10 11 (0.60%) Subversion
11 10 (0.55%) LoadRunner
12 9 (0.49%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.44%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.44%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.38%) Appium
15 6 (0.33%) Gradle
15 6 (0.33%) JMeter
15 6 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
15 6 (0.33%) webpack
General
1 1,051 (57.34%) Social Skills
2 815 (44.46%) Analytical Skills
3 535 (29.19%) Finance
4 166 (9.06%) Banking
5 122 (6.66%) Public Sector
6 116 (6.33%) Marketing
7 109 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
8 62 (3.38%) Investment Banking
9 56 (3.06%) Front Office
9 56 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (2.89%) Retail
11 46 (2.51%) Telecoms
12 41 (2.24%) Legal
13 38 (2.07%) Manufacturing
14 37 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.58%) Financial Institution
16 25 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (1.15%) Law
18 20 (1.09%) Back Office
19 19 (1.04%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 283 (15.44%) Developer
2 261 (14.24%) Analyst
3 160 (8.73%) Senior
4 140 (7.64%) Architect
5 123 (6.71%) Consultant
6 111 (6.06%) Lead
7 102 (5.56%) Business Analyst
8 85 (4.64%) Project Manager
9 48 (2.62%) Java Developer
10 47 (2.56%) Data Engineer
11 41 (2.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (2.24%) Support Engineer
12 39 (2.13%) Data Analyst
12 39 (2.13%) Network Engineer
12 39 (2.13%) Software Engineer
13 37 (2.02%) Designer
14 33 (1.80%) Azure Engineer
14 33 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (1.75%) IT Engineer
16 31 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (4.86%) HTML
2 86 (4.69%) React
3 82 (4.47%) CSS
4 71 (3.87%) .NET
5 51 (2.78%) REST
6 47 (2.56%) Node.js
6 47 (2.56%) RESTful
7 42 (2.29%) Kafka
8 41 (2.24%) JSON
9 36 (1.96%) Spring
10 32 (1.75%) XML
11 28 (1.53%) Web Services
12 19 (1.04%) AngularJS
13 18 (0.98%) ASP.NET
14 17 (0.93%) .NET Core
14 17 (0.93%) Spring Boot
15 16 (0.87%) .NET Framework
15 16 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (0.87%) SOAP
16 15 (0.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 93 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 84 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
3 75 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.16%) Algorithms
5 50 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 39 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 37 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 34 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
9 32 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 31 (1.69%) Derivative
10 31 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 27 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.31%) Fixed Income
13 23 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.15%) Cloud Native
15 19 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (0.98%) Security Posture
17 17 (0.93%) Mobile App
18 16 (0.87%) Hedge funds
18 16 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 160 (8.73%) Windows
2 113 (6.16%) Linux
3 47 (2.56%) Unix
4 45 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 36 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.85%) Windows 7
7 32 (1.75%) Android
8 18 (0.98%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.82%) Mac OS X
10 11 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.49%) VMS
13 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.38%) Solaris
15 6 (0.33%) Windows 8
16 5 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
16 5 (0.27%) zOS
17 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
18 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
19 1 (0.055%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (28.70%) Agile
2 259 (14.13%) Project Management
3 234 (12.77%) Computer Science
3 234 (12.77%) DevOps
4 187 (10.20%) Migration
5 184 (10.04%) Decision-Making
6 174 (9.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 166 (9.06%) Analytics
8 165 (9.00%) CI/CD
9 143 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
10 140 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 130 (7.09%) Data Modelling
12 125 (6.82%) Scrum
13 123 (6.71%) Customer Service
14 116 (6.33%) Data Analysis
15 110 (6.00%) Change Management
16 109 (5.95%) Risk Management
17 108 (5.89%) Mentoring
18 99 (5.40%) SDLC
18 99 (5.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 299 (16.31%) Python
2 282 (15.38%) SQL
3 182 (9.93%) Java
4 145 (7.91%) JavaScript
5 115 (6.27%) C#
6 80 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.89%) TypeScript
8 38 (2.07%) Scala
9 35 (1.91%) C++
10 32 (1.75%) Bash
11 31 (1.69%) Go
12 30 (1.64%) T-SQL
13 28 (1.53%) PL/SQL
14 24 (1.31%) Shell Script
15 17 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.82%) Bicep
16 15 (0.82%) Perl
17 14 (0.76%) R
17 14 (0.76%) Ruby
18 12 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 382 (20.84%) Degree
2 191 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 182 (9.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 147 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 68 (3.71%) Master's Degree
6 40 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (1.80%) CISSP
8 32 (1.75%) PMP
9 31 (1.69%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.47%) CISM
11 26 (1.42%) CCNP
11 26 (1.42%) DV Cleared
12 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 17 (0.93%) CCIE
13 17 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 17 (0.93%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.87%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.87%) PhD
15 15 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.24%) QA
2 91 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 44 (2.40%) SLA
4 39 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 23 (1.25%) NIST
5 23 (1.25%) PMO
6 21 (1.15%) GDPR
7 17 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.49%) WCAG
10 8 (0.44%) NCSC
11 7 (0.38%) ISO 31000
12 6 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
12 6 (0.33%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.27%) GRC
13 5 (0.27%) MiFID
13 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 108 (5.89%) Active Directory
2 90 (4.91%) Docker
3 35 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.98%) Firmware
5 14 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.49%) KVM
7 9 (0.49%) vSphere
8 8 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 8 (0.44%) HDFS
9 7 (0.38%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.33%) NFS
11 4 (0.22%) vCloud
11 4 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.11%) XenApp
14 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.055%) RACF
Systems Management
1 96 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 77 (4.20%) Terraform
3 38 (2.07%) Ansible
4 31 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (1.69%) SCCM
5 23 (1.25%) Grafana
6 20 (1.09%) Prometheus
7 16 (0.87%) Puppet
8 14 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 13 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.44%) Consul
12 7 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.27%) Hadoop YARN
13 5 (0.27%) Opsgenie
13 5 (0.27%) PowerCLI
13 5 (0.27%) QRadar
13 5 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 362 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 124 (6.76%) Oracle
3 119 (6.49%) SAP
4 65 (3.55%) Google
5 60 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 54 (2.95%) Cisco
7 52 (2.84%) Adobe
8 47 (2.56%) VMware
9 46 (2.51%) Salesforce
10 43 (2.35%) Databricks
11 28 (1.53%) Apple
12 25 (1.36%) Dell
13 21 (1.15%) Juniper
13 21 (1.15%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.09%) IBM
15 19 (1.04%) Splunk
16 18 (0.98%) Citrix
17 16 (0.87%) Sitecore
18 15 (0.82%) Fortinet
19 12 (0.65%) F5