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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 20 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,783 2,023 2,986
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.16% 8.04% 7.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.51% 8.85% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,336 1,913
10th Percentile £300 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.66% -0.94% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 47 42
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.78 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.70 £20.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £34.04 £40.50 £38.58
Median % change year-on-year -15.96% +4.99% +2.87%
75th Percentile £52.69 £59.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £71.00 £62.38
England median hourly rate £16.23 £52.40 £23.54
% change year-on-year -69.03% +122.57% +30.79%

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 15,493 22,867 35,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.25% 90.91% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,090 16,561 26,167
10th Percentile £340 £375 £393
25th Percentile £445 £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 £778
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 265 394
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.26
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.40 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +14 282 £550 - 137
West London +20 42 £469 -17.04% 91
South London +10 25 £436 -12.27% 39
East London -8 10 £445 +23.35% 47
North London +2 2 £425 +193.10% 12
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 56 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.68%) Confluence
5 19 (1.07%) Apache
6 18 (1.01%) CMS
7 9 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
9 7 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
9 7 (0.39%) WordPress
10 6 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.28%) govService
11 5 (0.28%) SAS
11 5 (0.28%) Skype for Business
12 4 (0.22%) CICS
12 4 (0.22%) Luigi
13 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 79 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.84%) 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 23 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.73%) 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%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.22%) Loan IQ
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 11i
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.17%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 371 (20.81%) Azure
2 238 (13.35%) AWS
3 114 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (6.17%) Power Platform
5 103 (5.78%) GCP
6 73 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (2.58%) Entra ID
8 39 (2.19%) Serverless
9 36 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
9 36 (2.02%) GitHub
10 30 (1.68%) WhatsApp
11 29 (1.63%) Amazon S3
11 29 (1.63%) PowerApps
11 29 (1.63%) SaaS
12 24 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (1.35%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
14 22 (1.23%) Figma
15 21 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.86%) Firewall
2 43 (2.41%) DNS
3 42 (2.36%) VPN
4 27 (1.51%) Wireless
5 26 (1.46%) Network Security
6 24 (1.35%) WAN
7 23 (1.29%) LAN
8 22 (1.23%) DHCP
9 20 (1.12%) BGP
10 17 (0.95%) Internet
10 17 (0.95%) OSPF
11 16 (0.90%) TCP/IP
12 15 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
12 15 (0.84%) HTTP
12 15 (0.84%) SSH
13 14 (0.79%) MPLS
13 14 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.56%) VoIP
15 9 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
15 9 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 92 (5.16%) Power BI
3 68 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (3.25%) Relational Database
5 50 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (2.36%) Big Data
7 40 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 37 (2.08%) NoSQL
9 29 (1.63%) Tableau
10 20 (1.12%) KDB
10 20 (1.12%) MySQL
11 19 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (1.01%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.01%) RDBMS
13 17 (0.95%) Hadoop
13 17 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 15 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (0.73%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.62%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 120 (6.73%) Git
2 98 (5.50%) JIRA
3 48 (2.69%) 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%) LoadRunner
9 13 (0.73%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.67%) JUnit
11 10 (0.56%) Appium
11 10 (0.56%) Artifactory
11 10 (0.56%) Subversion
12 9 (0.50%) Postman
13 7 (0.39%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.39%) SpecFlow
14 6 (0.34%) Gradle
14 6 (0.34%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 1,039 (58.27%) Social Skills
2 795 (44.59%) Analytical Skills
3 509 (28.55%) Finance
4 165 (9.25%) Banking
5 118 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 110 (6.17%) Marketing
7 100 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
8 56 (3.14%) Investment Banking
9 54 (3.03%) Front Office
10 53 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (2.69%) Retail
12 41 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 38 (2.13%) Legal
14 36 (2.02%) Manufacturing
15 31 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (1.07%) Back Office
17 19 (1.07%) Law
18 17 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 304 (17.05%) Developer
2 255 (14.30%) Analyst
3 165 (9.25%) Senior
4 142 (7.96%) Architect
5 110 (6.17%) Consultant
6 106 (5.95%) Lead
7 98 (5.50%) Business Analyst
8 80 (4.49%) Project Manager
9 56 (3.14%) Java Developer
10 51 (2.86%) Data Engineer
11 47 (2.64%) Data Analyst
12 43 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
13 42 (2.36%) Network Engineer
14 38 (2.13%) Support Engineer
15 36 (2.02%) Software Engineer
16 32 (1.79%) Senior Developer
16 32 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (1.74%) Azure Engineer
17 31 (1.74%) Designer
18 29 (1.63%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (4.77%) HTML
2 84 (4.71%) React
3 80 (4.49%) CSS
4 74 (4.15%) .NET
5 62 (3.48%) RESTful
6 52 (2.92%) REST
7 48 (2.69%) Kafka
8 46 (2.58%) JSON
9 42 (2.36%) Spring
10 41 (2.30%) XML
11 35 (1.96%) Node.js
12 32 (1.79%) Web Services
13 28 (1.57%) AngularJS
14 21 (1.18%) SOAP
15 20 (1.12%) .NET Core
16 19 (1.07%) Spring Boot
17 18 (1.01%) .NET Framework
18 17 (0.95%) ASP.NET
19 16 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
20 15 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 94 (5.27%) Management Information System
2 84 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
3 67 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.42%) Algorithms
5 47 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 43 (2.41%) Data Structures
8 42 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 39 (2.19%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 28 (1.57%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.46%) Derivative
13 24 (1.35%) Cloud Native
13 24 (1.35%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.29%) Fixed Income
15 21 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
16 20 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
17 18 (1.01%) Mobile App
18 16 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
18 16 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 144 (8.08%) Windows
2 118 (6.62%) Linux
3 50 (2.80%) Unix
4 36 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 30 (1.68%) Android
6 29 (1.63%) Windows Server
7 27 (1.51%) Windows 7
8 21 (1.18%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.56%) Mac OS X
9 10 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.50%) VMS
10 9 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.28%) Solaris
11 5 (0.28%) zOS
12 4 (0.22%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (29.28%) Agile
2 262 (14.69%) Computer Science
3 240 (13.46%) DevOps
4 239 (13.40%) Project Management
5 175 (9.81%) Analytics
6 174 (9.76%) CI/CD
7 166 (9.31%) Migration
7 166 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 162 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 138 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
9 138 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 131 (7.35%) Data Modelling
11 126 (7.07%) Scrum
12 113 (6.34%) Data Analysis
13 107 (6.00%) Mentoring
14 106 (5.95%) Customer Service
14 106 (5.95%) Risk Management
15 103 (5.78%) SDLC
16 101 (5.66%) Microservices
17 96 (5.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 305 (17.11%) SQL
2 290 (16.26%) Python
3 184 (10.32%) Java
4 139 (7.80%) JavaScript
5 110 (6.17%) C#
6 75 (4.21%) PowerShell
7 47 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.36%) C++
9 37 (2.08%) Scala
10 35 (1.96%) Bash
11 31 (1.74%) Go
11 31 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 27 (1.51%) T-SQL
14 18 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 18 (1.01%) Perl
15 14 (0.79%) Bicep
16 13 (0.73%) Kotlin
16 13 (0.73%) Ruby
17 12 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 397 (22.27%) Degree
2 196 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 182 (10.21%) Security Cleared
4 132 (7.40%) SC Cleared
5 78 (4.37%) Master's Degree
6 35 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.74%) CISSP
9 30 (1.68%) Azure Certification
9 30 (1.68%) PMP
10 29 (1.63%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.35%) CISM
11 24 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.29%) CCNP
13 20 (1.12%) AWS Certification
14 16 (0.90%) ISTQB
15 14 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (0.79%) CCNA
15 14 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
15 14 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.38%) QA
2 93 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 42 (2.36%) SLA
4 39 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.23%) GDPR
6 20 (1.12%) NIST
7 18 (1.01%) PMO
8 17 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
11 6 (0.34%) WCAG
12 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.28%) MiFID
12 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 15022
13 4 (0.22%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.22%) NCSC
13 4 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 104 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 101 (5.66%) Docker
3 38 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.01%) Firmware
5 15 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 15 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.62%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 10 (0.56%) vSphere
8 9 (0.50%) KVM
9 8 (0.45%) HDFS
10 5 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.28%) XenApp
11 4 (0.22%) vCloud
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.17%) NFS
12 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.17%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (6.39%) Kubernetes
2 89 (4.99%) Terraform
3 46 (2.58%) Ansible
4 30 (1.68%) SCCM
5 27 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (1.46%) Grafana
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%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.45%) FortiGate
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
1 341 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 121 (6.79%) Oracle
3 106 (5.95%) SAP
4 66 (3.70%) Google
5 57 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 49 (2.75%) VMware
7 47 (2.64%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.58%) Cisco
9 40 (2.24%) Adobe
10 38 (2.13%) Databricks
11 27 (1.51%) Dell
11 27 (1.51%) IBM
12 22 (1.23%) Apple
13 20 (1.12%) Splunk
14 18 (1.01%) Citrix
15 15 (0.84%) F5
15 15 (0.84%) Juniper
16 14 (0.79%) Sitecore
17 13 (0.73%) Informatica
18 12 (0.67%) Fortinet