Problem-Solving Contracts in the South East

Problem Solving
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 10 10 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 603 617 661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 10.69% 10.94% 8.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.88% 12.29% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 414 403
10th Percentile £205 £244 £205
25th Percentile £325 £376 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £598
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 44 23
10th Percentile £11.80 £26.81 £13.82
25th Percentile £13.05 £51.25 £32.56
Median hourly rate £20.24 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.81% +21.05% +138.10%
75th Percentile £60.50 £68.13 £60.39
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £77.67
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
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,022 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 89.03% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 3,452 4,710
10th Percentile £260 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 220 272
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.47 £15.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.15
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 the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +2 334 £470 -10.48% 325
Berkshire +2 267 £525 - 133
Hampshire -4 138 £554 +5.48% 193
Surrey +8 60 £500 -4.76% 112
Buckinghamshire -1 45 £425 -16.67% 93
West Sussex +3 31 £456 +10.21% 43
Oxfordshire +4 22 £279 -34.91% 101
East Sussex +5 13 £380 -41.54% 43
Kent +5 12 £516 +34.97% 85
Middlesex - 12 £275 - 14
Home Counties +3 2 £475 +7.04%
Sussex - 1 £600 -
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (2.16%) Confluence
2 11 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.66%) CMS
4 4 (0.66%) SAS
5 3 (0.50%) Appian
6 2 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.33%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Moodle
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 55 (9.12%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.50%) SPSS
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.17%) Stata
Business Applications
1 11 (1.82%) Oracle EBS R12
1 11 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 11 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.33%) Teamcenter
3 6 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.83%) Maximo
4 5 (0.83%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.17%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HRMS
7 1 (0.17%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 98 (16.25%) Azure
2 40 (6.63%) AWS
3 23 (3.81%) Snowflake
4 21 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (2.82%) OCI
6 15 (2.49%) Power Platform
7 14 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.49%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.49%) SaaS
9 7 (1.16%) IaaS
10 6 (1.00%) GCP
10 6 (1.00%) PaaS
10 6 (1.00%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.83%) Smartsheet
12 4 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (0.50%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.50%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.64%) LAN
2 33 (5.47%) Firewall
3 25 (4.15%) DHCP
4 24 (3.98%) DNS
5 21 (3.48%) SAN
6 19 (3.15%) WAN
7 16 (2.65%) Network Security
8 11 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (1.49%) Internet
10 8 (1.33%) 5G
10 8 (1.33%) Wireless
11 7 (1.16%) 3G
11 7 (1.16%) 4G
11 7 (1.16%) 802.11
11 7 (1.16%) VPN
12 6 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
12 6 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
13 5 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.81%) Tableau
2 24 (3.98%) SQL Server
3 18 (2.99%) Oracle Database
4 14 (2.32%) Power BI
5 11 (1.82%) SAP HANA
6 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.83%) Big Data
8 5 (0.83%) Power Query
9 4 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.33%) MySQL
11 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.33%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 48 (7.96%) Jenkins
2 35 (5.80%) JIRA
3 31 (5.14%) Git
4 29 (4.81%) Selenium
5 26 (4.31%) Cucumber
6 24 (3.98%) REST Assured
6 24 (3.98%) SonarQube
7 15 (2.49%) GitLab
8 14 (2.32%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.33%) Postman
11 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.17%) Appium
12 1 (0.17%) CMake
12 1 (0.17%) GoogleTest
12 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.17%) TestNG
12 1 (0.17%) Travis CI
General
1 356 (59.04%) Social Skills
2 256 (42.45%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (12.27%) Finance
4 40 (6.63%) Organisational Skills
5 39 (6.47%) Telecoms
6 33 (5.47%) Legal
7 31 (5.14%) Public Sector
8 27 (4.48%) Law
8 27 (4.48%) Marketing
9 20 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.65%) Police
11 16 (2.65%) Retail
12 12 (1.99%) Military
13 10 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.49%) Billing
15 8 (1.33%) Electronics
16 7 (1.16%) Banking
17 6 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 97 (16.09%) Analyst
2 61 (10.12%) Architect
3 60 (9.95%) Developer
4 51 (8.46%) Senior
5 43 (7.13%) Consultant
6 36 (5.97%) Lead
6 36 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (4.31%) IT Support
7 26 (4.31%) Support Engineer
8 25 (4.15%) Java Architect
9 24 (3.98%) Administrator
10 22 (3.65%) Java Solutions Architect
10 22 (3.65%) Project Manager
11 21 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (3.48%) Software Engineer
12 19 (3.15%) Network Engineer
13 18 (2.99%) Data Analyst
13 18 (2.99%) Java Engineer
14 17 (2.82%) Business Analyst
14 17 (2.82%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.98%) REST
2 27 (4.48%) .NET
3 25 (4.15%) Java EE
4 21 (3.48%) ASP.NET
5 14 (2.32%) HTML
6 12 (1.99%) ARM Templates
6 12 (1.99%) CSS
6 12 (1.99%) SAP Basis
7 9 (1.49%) AngularJS
7 9 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
8 8 (1.33%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (1.33%) Itk
8 8 (1.33%) Web Services
9 7 (1.16%) 802.1X
10 6 (1.00%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.00%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.66%) React
12 3 (0.50%) D3.js
12 3 (0.50%) Entity Framework
12 3 (0.50%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.80%) Driving Licence
2 33 (5.47%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.98%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.65%) Credit Risk
7 11 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.49%) Life Science
9 6 (1.00%) NHS
9 6 (1.00%) PKI
10 5 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.83%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.83%) Smartphone
10 5 (0.83%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.66%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.66%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 111 (18.41%) Windows
2 53 (8.79%) Windows 10
3 50 (8.29%) Linux
4 38 (6.30%) Windows Server
5 29 (4.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 28 (4.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (4.48%) Windows 7
8 19 (3.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.32%) Unix
9 14 (2.32%) Windows XP
10 8 (1.33%) Android
10 8 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.33%) Solaris
13 2 (0.33%) VMS
14 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (15.26%) Agile
2 91 (15.09%) Decision-Making
3 86 (14.26%) Project Management
4 72 (11.94%) Customer Service
5 70 (11.61%) DevOps
6 68 (11.28%) ITIL
7 51 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (7.79%) Software Engineering
9 46 (7.63%) Service Delivery
10 43 (7.13%) Analytics
11 40 (6.63%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (6.47%) Computer Science
13 37 (6.14%) Migration
14 35 (5.80%) Test Automation
15 33 (5.47%) Change Management
15 33 (5.47%) Translating Business Requirements
16 31 (5.14%) Continuous Integration
16 31 (5.14%) Disaster Recovery
17 30 (4.98%) Performance Tuning
17 30 (4.98%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 56 (9.29%) Java
2 55 (9.12%) PowerShell
3 37 (6.14%) SQL
4 36 (5.97%) C#
5 35 (5.80%) Python
6 25 (4.15%) C++
7 21 (3.48%) C
7 21 (3.48%) JavaScript
8 14 (2.32%) Bash
9 12 (1.99%) Perl
10 9 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.16%) ProC
11 7 (1.16%) Tcl
12 5 (0.83%) R
13 4 (0.66%) F#
13 4 (0.66%) PHP
14 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.33%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 215 (35.66%) Security Cleared
2 149 (24.71%) Degree
3 105 (17.41%) SC Cleared
4 96 (15.92%) DV Cleared
5 27 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (4.15%) CCNP
6 25 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (3.65%) Master's Degree
8 18 (2.99%) CCNA
9 7 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.00%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.00%) VCAP
11 5 (0.83%) CCSA
11 5 (0.83%) JNCIA
11 5 (0.83%) PhD
12 4 (0.66%) PMP
12 4 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.47%) SLA
2 23 (3.81%) QA
3 11 (1.82%) GDPR
3 11 (1.82%) PMO
4 4 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.66%) HL7
4 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.33%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.33%) GxP
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.17%) ITGC
7 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.81%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.15%) vSphere
5 18 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (2.82%) Docker
7 15 (2.49%) Firmware
8 12 (1.99%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.66%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.66%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (8.62%) SCCM
2 42 (6.97%) Ansible
3 19 (3.15%) Kubernetes
4 18 (2.99%) Terraform
5 16 (2.65%) NetBackup
5 16 (2.65%) SCOM
5 16 (2.65%) vCenter Server
5 16 (2.65%) WSUS
6 14 (2.32%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (1.99%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (1.99%) Podman
8 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.83%) vRealize
9 5 (0.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 3 (0.50%) MOM
10 3 (0.50%) Nessus
10 3 (0.50%) Netcool
11 2 (0.33%) Grafana
11 2 (0.33%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 128 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 61 (10.12%) Oracle
3 52 (8.62%) VMware
4 44 (7.30%) HP
5 34 (5.64%) Cisco
6 26 (4.31%) Juniper
7 25 (4.15%) SAP
8 24 (3.98%) Alteryx
9 23 (3.81%) Palo Alto
10 17 (2.82%) Dell
11 16 (2.65%) Extreme Networks
12 15 (2.49%) 3PAR
12 15 (2.49%) EMC
13 14 (2.32%) Symantec
13 14 (2.32%) Veeam
14 13 (2.16%) ServiceNow
15 9 (1.49%) CheckPoint
16 8 (1.33%) IBM
17 7 (1.16%) Google
17 7 (1.16%) OneTrust