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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,776 2,070 2,906
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.17% 8.00% 7.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.48% 8.80% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,329 1,879
10th Percentile £290 £325 £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 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 46 46
10th Percentile £16.33 £15.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.00 £24.44
Median hourly rate £29.34 £41.93 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.03% +4.17% -7.47%
75th Percentile £49.88 £63.86 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £17.00 £50.00 £23.39
% change year-on-year -66.00% +113.77% +17.24%

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 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £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 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +10 271 £550 - 148
West London +11 40 £441 -19.86% 68
South London +18 30 £406 -14.47% 41
East London 0 13 £435 +35.94% 56
North London +2 2 £425 +193.10% 11
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 55 (3.10%) SharePoint
2 40 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.86%) Confluence
4 28 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 17 (0.96%) CMS
6 14 (0.79%) Apache
7 9 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
9 7 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.34%) Skype for Business
11 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.28%) govService
11 5 (0.28%) WordPress
12 4 (0.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 4 (0.23%) CICS
12 4 (0.23%) Luigi
12 4 (0.23%) nginx
12 4 (0.23%) Tornado
13 3 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 91 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.84%) Sketch
7 13 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.62%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.56%) Adobe XD
10 6 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.34%) InVision
11 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.17%) InDesign
12 3 (0.17%) Windchill
13 2 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
13 2 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 22 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.90%) Endur
3 13 (0.73%) Shopify
4 11 (0.62%) Aligne
5 10 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.56%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.34%) ION MarketView
7 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.23%) Siebel CRM
8 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.17%) ENOVIA
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.17%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 358 (20.16%) Azure
2 231 (13.01%) AWS
3 123 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 93 (5.24%) GCP
6 70 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.65%) Entra ID
8 46 (2.59%) Serverless
9 38 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
10 35 (1.97%) GitHub
11 31 (1.75%) PowerApps
12 28 (1.58%) Amazon S3
12 28 (1.58%) SaaS
13 26 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (1.35%) Figma
14 24 (1.35%) WhatsApp
15 23 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (1.30%) Power Automate
16 18 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.98%) Firewall
2 48 (2.70%) VPN
3 36 (2.03%) DNS
4 32 (1.80%) Wireless
5 28 (1.58%) Network Security
5 28 (1.58%) WAN
6 26 (1.46%) LAN
7 20 (1.13%) BGP
7 20 (1.13%) OSPF
8 17 (0.96%) Internet
8 17 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.84%) HTTP
9 15 (0.84%) SSH
10 13 (0.73%) DHCP
11 12 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (0.62%) IPsec
12 11 (0.62%) MPLS
12 11 (0.62%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
14 9 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 91 (5.12%) Power BI
3 63 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (3.04%) Relational Database
5 49 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (2.14%) MongoDB
7 37 (2.08%) Big Data
8 29 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 27 (1.52%) Tableau
10 20 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (1.01%) KDB
11 18 (1.01%) MySQL
11 18 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 17 (0.96%) RDBMS
13 15 (0.84%) Hadoop
13 15 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.73%) BigQuery
14 13 (0.73%) Data Lake
15 12 (0.68%) DB2
15 12 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 112 (6.31%) Git
2 94 (5.29%) JIRA
3 47 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.52%) GitLab
5 22 (1.24%) Selenium
6 17 (0.96%) Visual Studio
7 16 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.84%) Maven
9 14 (0.79%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.73%) LoadRunner
11 11 (0.62%) JUnit
11 11 (0.62%) Subversion
12 10 (0.56%) Appium
13 8 (0.45%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.45%) Postman
13 8 (0.45%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.34%) Gradle
14 6 (0.34%) JMeter
14 6 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 1,017 (57.26%) Social Skills
2 790 (44.48%) Analytical Skills
3 521 (29.34%) Finance
4 167 (9.40%) Banking
5 122 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 112 (6.31%) Marketing
7 104 (5.86%) Presentation Skills
8 59 (3.32%) Investment Banking
9 54 (3.04%) Front Office
10 53 (2.98%) Retail
11 52 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.42%) Telecoms
13 40 (2.25%) Legal
14 36 (2.03%) Manufacturing
15 34 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
16 29 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (1.52%) Financial Institution
18 24 (1.35%) Law
19 21 (1.18%) Back Office
20 17 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 277 (15.60%) Developer
2 262 (14.75%) Analyst
3 163 (9.18%) Senior
4 136 (7.66%) Architect
5 109 (6.14%) Consultant
6 107 (6.02%) Lead
7 99 (5.57%) Business Analyst
8 84 (4.73%) Project Manager
9 47 (2.65%) Java Developer
10 46 (2.59%) Data Engineer
11 45 (2.53%) Data Analyst
12 41 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
13 40 (2.25%) Support Engineer
14 38 (2.14%) Network Engineer
15 34 (1.91%) Designer
15 34 (1.91%) Software Engineer
16 32 (1.80%) Azure Engineer
17 31 (1.75%) IT Engineer
17 31 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
18 30 (1.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (4.79%) React
2 82 (4.62%) HTML
3 75 (4.22%) CSS
4 74 (4.17%) .NET
5 50 (2.82%) RESTful
6 48 (2.70%) REST
7 45 (2.53%) Kafka
8 43 (2.42%) JSON
9 40 (2.25%) Node.js
10 36 (2.03%) Spring
11 35 (1.97%) XML
12 30 (1.69%) Web Services
13 20 (1.13%) AngularJS
14 18 (1.01%) .NET Core
14 18 (1.01%) SOAP
15 17 (0.96%) ASP.NET
15 17 (0.96%) Spring Boot
16 16 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
17 15 (0.84%) .NET Framework
18 14 (0.79%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 90 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 84 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
3 75 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.38%) Algorithms
5 44 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 39 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 36 (2.03%) Data Centre
9 35 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 31 (1.75%) Derivative
11 28 (1.58%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.46%) Fixed Income
12 26 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 22 (1.24%) Cloud Native
14 21 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
15 20 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
16 19 (1.07%) Security Posture
17 18 (1.01%) Mobile App
18 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
18 16 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 151 (8.50%) Windows
2 119 (6.70%) Linux
3 49 (2.76%) Unix
4 43 (2.42%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.69%) Android
5 30 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.63%) Windows 7
7 18 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.73%) Mac OS X
9 10 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (0.45%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.45%) VMS
10 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.34%) Solaris
12 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.28%) Windows 8
12 5 (0.28%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (29.45%) Agile
2 244 (13.74%) Computer Science
2 244 (13.74%) Project Management
3 236 (13.29%) DevOps
4 176 (9.91%) Analytics
5 171 (9.63%) Migration
6 169 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 166 (9.35%) Decision-Making
8 165 (9.29%) CI/CD
9 144 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
10 131 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 130 (7.32%) Data Modelling
12 126 (7.09%) Scrum
13 117 (6.59%) Customer Service
14 110 (6.19%) Data Analysis
14 110 (6.19%) Risk Management
15 107 (6.02%) Mentoring
16 106 (5.97%) Change Management
17 100 (5.63%) SDLC
18 97 (5.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 293 (16.50%) SQL
2 289 (16.27%) Python
3 175 (9.85%) Java
4 139 (7.83%) JavaScript
5 109 (6.14%) C#
6 76 (4.28%) PowerShell
7 51 (2.87%) TypeScript
8 38 (2.14%) Scala
9 36 (2.03%) C++
10 34 (1.91%) Bash
11 31 (1.75%) T-SQL
12 29 (1.63%) Go
13 28 (1.58%) Shell Script
14 27 (1.52%) PL/SQL
15 18 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 15 (0.84%) Perl
17 14 (0.79%) Bicep
17 14 (0.79%) R
18 10 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 10 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 383 (21.57%) Degree
2 188 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 173 (9.74%) Security Cleared
4 128 (7.21%) SC Cleared
5 70 (3.94%) Master's Degree
6 38 (2.14%) CISSP
7 34 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (1.69%) CISM
9 29 (1.63%) PMP
10 27 (1.52%) PMI Certification
11 26 (1.46%) DV Cleared
12 22 (1.24%) CCNP
12 22 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.07%) AWS Certification
14 18 (1.01%) Azure Certification
15 16 (0.90%) ISTQB
16 15 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.84%) PhD
16 15 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 14 (0.79%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.80%) QA
2 93 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.53%) SLA
4 40 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.35%) NIST
6 23 (1.30%) PMO
7 22 (1.24%) GDPR
8 17 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.45%) WCAG
11 7 (0.39%) NCSC
12 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
13 5 (0.28%) GRC
13 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.28%) ISO 31000
13 5 (0.28%) MiFID
13 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.23%) COBIT
System Software
1 105 (5.91%) Active Directory
2 91 (5.12%) Docker
3 36 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.01%) Firmware
5 13 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 9 (0.51%) KVM
6 9 (0.51%) vSphere
7 8 (0.45%) HDFS
8 5 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.23%) NFS
9 4 (0.23%) vCloud
9 4 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.11%) XenApp
12 1 (0.056%) RACF
12 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 104 (5.86%) Kubernetes
2 79 (4.45%) Terraform
3 43 (2.42%) Ansible
4 34 (1.91%) SCCM
5 28 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (1.35%) Grafana
7 21 (1.18%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.84%) Puppet
9 12 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.56%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.51%) Consul
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 (0.23%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 356 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 123 (6.93%) Oracle
3 112 (6.31%) SAP
4 62 (3.49%) Google
5 58 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 48 (2.70%) Adobe
7 46 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 46 (2.59%) VMware
8 45 (2.53%) Cisco
9 40 (2.25%) Databricks
10 27 (1.52%) Apple
11 26 (1.46%) Dell
11 26 (1.46%) IBM
12 22 (1.24%) Splunk
13 17 (0.96%) Citrix
13 17 (0.96%) Juniper
14 16 (0.90%) Sitecore
15 15 (0.84%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.68%) F5
16 12 (0.68%) Workday