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 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 15 19 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,781 2,053 2,957
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.17% 8.07% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.52% 8.88% 8.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,352 1,901
10th Percentile £300 £320 £351
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +11.38%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 44 44
10th Percentile £16.40 £14.12 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £19.75 £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.71 £39.96 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +0.34% +6.20%
75th Percentile £51.88 £60.67 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £71.75 £63.38
England median hourly rate £16.23 £51.90 £23.20
% change year-on-year -68.73% +123.74% +28.86%

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 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £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 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
Central London +14 276 £550 - 124
West London +16 42 £469 -20.55% 94
South London +16 29 £425 -14.54% 36
East London -6 11 £440 +37.50% 43
North London +2 2 £425 +193.10% 10
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 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.68%) Confluence
5 17 (0.95%) Apache
5 17 (0.95%) CMS
6 9 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
8 7 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
8 7 (0.39%) WordPress
9 6 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.28%) govService
10 5 (0.28%) SAS
10 5 (0.28%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.22%) CICS
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) nginx
12 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 82 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.73%) Sketch
7 12 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.56%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.45%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.22%) InVision
13 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
13 3 (0.17%) Windchill
14 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
14 2 (0.11%) InDesign
14 2 (0.11%) Mingle
14 2 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.79%) Endur
3 12 (0.67%) Shopify
4 11 (0.62%) Aligne
5 8 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.39%) ION MarketView
7 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
9 3 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 370 (20.77%) Azure
2 237 (13.31%) AWS
3 117 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
4 108 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 101 (5.67%) GCP
6 72 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.64%) Entra ID
8 42 (2.36%) Serverless
9 35 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
10 34 (1.91%) GitHub
11 29 (1.63%) Amazon S3
11 29 (1.63%) PowerApps
11 29 (1.63%) SaaS
11 29 (1.63%) WhatsApp
12 25 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (1.18%) Figma
16 20 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.14%) Firewall
2 45 (2.53%) VPN
3 38 (2.13%) DNS
4 30 (1.68%) Wireless
5 28 (1.57%) WAN
6 27 (1.52%) LAN
6 27 (1.52%) Network Security
7 23 (1.29%) BGP
8 20 (1.12%) OSPF
9 19 (1.07%) DHCP
10 17 (0.95%) Internet
11 15 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
11 15 (0.84%) SSH
11 15 (0.84%) TCP/IP
12 14 (0.79%) HTTP
12 14 (0.79%) MPLS
12 14 (0.79%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.62%) IPsec
14 10 (0.56%) VoIP
15 9 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 90 (5.05%) Power BI
3 65 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (3.20%) Relational Database
5 50 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (2.19%) Big Data
6 39 (2.19%) MongoDB
7 34 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.63%) Tableau
9 20 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (1.12%) KDB
10 19 (1.07%) MySQL
11 17 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 17 (0.95%) RDBMS
11 17 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 16 (0.90%) Data Lake
13 15 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 13 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (0.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 118 (6.63%) Git
2 96 (5.39%) JIRA
3 50 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 29 (1.63%) GitLab
5 23 (1.29%) Selenium
6 17 (0.95%) Maven
7 16 (0.90%) Visual Studio
8 14 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.67%) JUnit
10 12 (0.67%) LoadRunner
11 10 (0.56%) Appium
11 10 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 10 (0.56%) Subversion
12 9 (0.51%) Postman
13 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.39%) Gradle
13 7 (0.39%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 1,031 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 791 (44.41%) Analytical Skills
3 507 (28.47%) Finance
4 159 (8.93%) Banking
5 119 (6.68%) Public Sector
6 109 (6.12%) Marketing
7 103 (5.78%) Presentation Skills
8 55 (3.09%) Investment Banking
9 53 (2.98%) Front Office
10 51 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
11 49 (2.75%) Retail
12 41 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 37 (2.08%) Legal
14 36 (2.02%) Manufacturing
15 31 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (1.18%) Law
18 20 (1.12%) Back Office
19 18 (1.01%) Financial Institution
20 17 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 298 (16.73%) Developer
2 257 (14.43%) Analyst
3 160 (8.98%) Senior
4 141 (7.92%) Architect
5 111 (6.23%) Consultant
6 103 (5.78%) Lead
7 97 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 82 (4.60%) Project Manager
9 54 (3.03%) Java Developer
10 48 (2.70%) Data Engineer
11 47 (2.64%) Data Analyst
12 44 (2.47%) Network Engineer
13 42 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (2.19%) Support Engineer
15 34 (1.91%) Software Engineer
16 32 (1.80%) Azure Engineer
16 32 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (1.74%) Designer
17 31 (1.74%) Senior Developer
18 30 (1.68%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (4.83%) HTML
2 81 (4.55%) React
3 80 (4.49%) CSS
4 71 (3.99%) .NET
5 61 (3.43%) RESTful
6 51 (2.86%) REST
7 48 (2.70%) Kafka
8 45 (2.53%) JSON
9 42 (2.36%) Spring
10 40 (2.25%) XML
11 35 (1.97%) Node.js
12 32 (1.80%) Web Services
13 24 (1.35%) AngularJS
14 21 (1.18%) SOAP
15 19 (1.07%) .NET Core
15 19 (1.07%) Spring Boot
16 17 (0.95%) ASP.NET
16 17 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (0.84%) .NET Framework
17 15 (0.84%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 91 (5.11%) Management Information System
2 86 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
3 68 (3.82%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.43%) Algorithms
5 47 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 44 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 40 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 39 (2.19%) Data Centre
8 39 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 29 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 26 (1.46%) Derivative
12 24 (1.35%) Security Posture
13 22 (1.24%) Cloud Native
13 22 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
15 19 (1.07%) Fixed Income
16 18 (1.01%) Mobile App
17 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
18 15 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 147 (8.25%) Windows
2 122 (6.85%) Linux
3 52 (2.92%) Unix
4 36 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.63%) Android
7 26 (1.46%) Windows 7
8 20 (1.12%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.56%) Mac OS X
9 10 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (0.51%) VMS
11 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.34%) Solaris
13 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.28%) zOS
14 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (29.20%) Agile
2 251 (14.09%) Computer Science
3 241 (13.53%) Project Management
4 238 (13.36%) DevOps
5 176 (9.88%) Analytics
6 171 (9.60%) Migration
7 170 (9.55%) CI/CD
8 167 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 159 (8.93%) Decision-Making
10 139 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
11 138 (7.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 131 (7.36%) Data Modelling
13 123 (6.91%) Scrum
14 113 (6.34%) Data Analysis
15 109 (6.12%) Customer Service
16 108 (6.06%) Mentoring
17 107 (6.01%) Risk Management
18 103 (5.78%) SDLC
19 102 (5.73%) Microservices
20 95 (5.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 306 (17.18%) SQL
2 291 (16.34%) Python
3 181 (10.16%) Java
4 138 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 107 (6.01%) C#
6 75 (4.21%) PowerShell
7 45 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.30%) C++
9 37 (2.08%) Scala
10 36 (2.02%) Bash
11 32 (1.80%) Go
11 32 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.68%) PL/SQL
13 28 (1.57%) T-SQL
14 18 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 17 (0.95%) Perl
16 14 (0.79%) Bicep
17 13 (0.73%) R
18 11 (0.62%) Kotlin
19 10 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 389 (21.84%) Degree
2 191 (10.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 181 (10.16%) Security Cleared
4 132 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 76 (4.27%) Master's Degree
6 37 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (1.91%) CISSP
8 31 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.74%) PMP
9 29 (1.63%) PMI Certification
10 28 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 27 (1.52%) CISM
12 25 (1.40%) CCNP
12 25 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.18%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.90%) CCNA
14 16 (0.90%) ISTQB
15 15 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 14 (0.79%) CCIE
16 14 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.33%) QA
2 92 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 43 (2.41%) SLA
4 38 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.35%) NIST
6 22 (1.24%) GDPR
7 19 (1.07%) PMO
8 17 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.39%) NCSC
11 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
11 6 (0.34%) WCAG
12 5 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.28%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.28%) MiFID
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.22%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 104 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 102 (5.73%) Docker
3 38 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.01%) Firmware
5 14 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 9 (0.51%) KVM
7 9 (0.51%) vSphere
8 8 (0.45%) HDFS
9 5 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) vCloud
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.22%) XenApp
11 3 (0.17%) NFS
11 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 114 (6.40%) Kubernetes
2 86 (4.83%) Terraform
3 47 (2.64%) Ansible
4 31 (1.74%) SCCM
5 27 (1.52%) Grafana
6 26 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (1.35%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.84%) Puppet
9 12 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.62%) Consul
11 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 10 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
14 5 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
14 5 (0.28%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.28%) QRadar
14 5 (0.28%) VxRail
15 4 (0.22%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 347 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 122 (6.85%) Oracle
3 104 (5.84%) SAP
4 69 (3.87%) Google
5 57 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 50 (2.81%) Cisco
7 48 (2.70%) VMware
8 45 (2.53%) Salesforce
9 40 (2.25%) Adobe
10 37 (2.08%) Databricks
11 27 (1.52%) Dell
12 26 (1.46%) IBM
13 24 (1.35%) Apple
14 22 (1.24%) Splunk
15 18 (1.01%) Citrix
15 18 (1.01%) Juniper
16 15 (0.84%) F5
16 15 (0.84%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.84%) Palo Alto
17 14 (0.79%) Sitecore