Problem-Solving Contracts in West London

Problem Solving
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 26 17
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 42 45 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 11.38% 7.83% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.80% 8.52% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 31
10th Percentile £194 £328 £156
25th Percentile £296 £425 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £590 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% +18.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £555 £638 £650
90th Percentile £625 - £913
London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.82% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £14.00 £32.10 -
25th Percentile £16.25 £53.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £17.50 £77.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.42% +369.70% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £90.00 £28.00
90th Percentile £39.38 - £34.45
London median hourly rate £31.71 £39.96 £39.83
% change year-on-year -20.65% +0.34% +6.20%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 328 528 548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.89% 91.83% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 406 389
10th Percentile £225 £333 £244
25th Percentile £350 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% +13.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 45 28
10th Percentile £16.25 £28.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £43.00 £16.31
Median hourly rate £30.16 £65.00 £21.36
Median % change year-on-year -53.60% +204.27% -33.24%
75th Percentile £58.13 £75.00 £41.51
90th Percentile £65.60 £90.00 £43.21
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
% change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in West London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in West London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in West London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in West London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in West London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in West London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in West London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in West London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Hillingdon +29 13 £500 -20.00% 24
Hounslow +3 12 £400 - 18
Richmond upon Thames -4 6 £563 +25.00% 5
Harrow - 2 £441 - 7
Hammersmith -1 1 £150 -33.33% 5
Problem-Solving
London

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) IIS
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.76%) AWS
3 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) Azure API Management
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.38%) Boomi
4 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.38%) GitHub
4 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.38%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
2 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.38%) QlikView
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.38%) Git
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
1 1 (2.38%) Subversion
1 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (40.48%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Electronics
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Analyst
2 6 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) IT Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) C++ Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Cabling Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Field Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Field Service Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Desktop Support
6 2 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) CSS
1 5 (11.90%) JSON
2 4 (9.52%) HTML
2 4 (9.52%) REST
2 4 (9.52%) Swagger
2 4 (9.52%) XML
2 4 (9.52%) YAML
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.76%) Middleware
4 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.38%) Itk
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.38%) React
4 1 (2.38%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.76%) State Machine
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.38%) FMCG
3 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 5 (11.90%) Change Management
3 5 (11.90%) ITSM
3 5 (11.90%) Project Management
4 4 (9.52%) Agile
4 4 (9.52%) Break/Fix
4 4 (9.52%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (9.52%) ERP
4 4 (9.52%) OO
4 4 (9.52%) Project Planning
4 4 (9.52%) Risk Management
4 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
4 4 (9.52%) Unit Testing
4 4 (9.52%) Visualisation
4 4 (9.52%) Web Development
4 4 (9.52%) XML Parsing
5 3 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (7.14%) DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) C++
1 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.76%) C#
2 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.38%) Python
3 1 (2.38%) SQL
3 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) DBS Check
3 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.38%) CIMA
5 1 (2.38%) ISEB
5 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) PMO
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Firmware
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) SAP
2 5 (11.90%) ServiceNow
3 4 (9.52%) Dell
4 3 (7.14%) HP
5 2 (4.76%) Anaplan
5 2 (4.76%) Ariba
6 1 (2.38%) CA
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco
6 1 (2.38%) Citrix
6 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.38%) OpenText
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle
6 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.38%) Workday