Problem-Solving Contracts in the South West

Problem Solving
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 11 27 36
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 -13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 333 212 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.24% 6.27% 5.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 7.01% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 146 89
10th Percentile £175 £200 £302
25th Percentile £315 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £647 £655 £600
90th Percentile £700 £723 £693
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 20 34
10th Percentile £12.50 £48.05 £24.28
25th Percentile £14.54 £53.14 £42.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £56.30 £49.48
Median % change year-on-year -55.59% +13.78% -1.05%
75th Percentile £33.00 £75.62 £56.59
90th Percentile £52.58 £78.00 £63.60
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,671 3,026 3,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.16% 89.45% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 2,197 2,337
10th Percentile £226 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.49%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 316 204
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.36 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +24.03% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.91 £69.12
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +30 94 £475 -13.64% 73
Gloucestershire +16 72 £600 +23.08% 95
Bristol +13 67 £525 -4.55% 162
Somerset +9 31 £500 -20.00% 123
Dorset +16 23 £175 -66.67% 44
Devon +1 23 £165 -45.00% 64
Cornwall +5 11 £150 -40.00% 17
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 22 (6.61%) Confluence
2 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.20%) Apache Solr
3 4 (1.20%) nginx
4 3 (0.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 36 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (9.91%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (9.61%) Spreadsheet
4 26 (7.81%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.50%) SAP HCM
2 5 (1.50%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.90%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.90%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.90%) Shopify
5 2 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.30%) Primavera
6 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 30 (9.01%) Azure
2 22 (6.61%) AWS
2 22 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.40%) Power Platform
3 8 (2.40%) SuccessFactors
4 6 (1.80%) Entra ID
4 6 (1.80%) GCP
4 6 (1.80%) PaaS
5 4 (1.20%) SaaS
6 3 (0.90%) BigCommerce
7 2 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.60%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.60%) Slack
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.30%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.30%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.41%) Firewall
2 9 (2.70%) DNS
2 9 (2.70%) WAN
2 9 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.10%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.10%) VoIP
4 6 (1.80%) LAN
4 6 (1.80%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.50%) DHCP
5 5 (1.50%) SDH
6 4 (1.20%) HTTPS
6 4 (1.20%) IPsec
6 4 (1.20%) Junos
6 4 (1.20%) PBX
6 4 (1.20%) SAN
6 4 (1.20%) Structured Cabling
6 4 (1.20%) Wireless
7 3 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (0.90%) Network Security
7 3 (0.90%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.40%) Power BI
1 8 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.80%) MySQL
3 5 (1.50%) Metadata
4 4 (1.20%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.60%) Tableau
6 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.30%) Big Data
6 1 (0.30%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.30%) Flink
6 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 54 (16.22%) JIRA
2 23 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 20 (6.01%) Bitbucket
4 12 (3.60%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (1.20%) Git
6 2 (0.60%) JMeter
6 2 (0.60%) JUnit
6 2 (0.60%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.60%) Selenium
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
General
1 193 (57.96%) Social Skills
2 143 (42.94%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (15.32%) Finance
4 34 (10.21%) Presentation Skills
5 32 (9.61%) Public Sector
6 28 (8.41%) Aerospace
6 28 (8.41%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.80%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.20%) Legal
9 13 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.30%) Police
11 10 (3.00%) Marketing
11 10 (3.00%) Military
12 8 (2.40%) Retail
13 6 (1.80%) Electronics
14 5 (1.50%) Aeronautics
15 4 (1.20%) Banking
15 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.90%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 50 (15.02%) Analyst
2 39 (11.71%) Developer
3 32 (9.61%) Lead
4 28 (8.41%) Service Analyst
4 28 (8.41%) Service Desk Analyst
5 26 (7.81%) Support Engineer
6 25 (7.51%) Architect
6 25 (7.51%) Network Engineer
7 24 (7.21%) Project Leader
7 24 (7.21%) Technical Support
8 15 (4.50%) Support Specialist
9 14 (4.20%) Senior
10 13 (3.90%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.90%) Technical Engineer
10 13 (3.90%) Technical Support Engineer
11 12 (3.60%) Consultant
11 12 (3.60%) Desktop Engineer
11 12 (3.60%) Field Engineer
11 12 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.30%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.61%) .NET
2 20 (6.01%) .NET Core
3 14 (4.20%) React
4 13 (3.90%) AngularJS
5 11 (3.30%) Spring
6 4 (1.20%) JSON
6 4 (1.20%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.20%) YAML
7 3 (0.90%) VML
8 2 (0.60%) Django
8 2 (0.60%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (0.60%) Loki
8 2 (0.60%) REST
8 2 (0.60%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.30%) Flask
9 1 (0.30%) Kafka
9 1 (0.30%) React Native
9 1 (0.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.91%) Data Centre
2 21 (6.31%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.90%) Private Cloud
5 12 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.80%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.20%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.20%) CMDB
8 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.90%) Blog
9 3 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.21%) Windows
2 31 (9.31%) Linux
3 11 (3.30%) Windows 10
3 11 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.20%) CentOS
4 4 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.20%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.60%) Android
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (26.13%) Agile
2 80 (24.02%) Project Management
3 51 (15.32%) ITIL
4 49 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (12.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (12.01%) Project Delivery
7 37 (11.11%) Commercial Awareness
7 37 (11.11%) Data Management
8 35 (10.51%) Project Planning
9 33 (9.91%) OO
10 32 (9.61%) OOP
11 31 (9.31%) PRINCE2
12 29 (8.71%) CI/CD
13 28 (8.41%) Configuration Management
14 27 (8.11%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 26 (7.81%) Workshop Facilitation
16 24 (7.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 23 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
17 23 (6.91%) DevOps
17 23 (6.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.11%) Python
2 30 (9.01%) PowerShell
3 18 (5.41%) SQL
4 15 (4.50%) C
5 13 (3.90%) Java
6 12 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.20%) PHP
8 3 (0.90%) Bash
9 2 (0.60%) C++
9 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.60%) Perl
9 2 (0.60%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.30%) C#
10 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.30%) ProC
10 1 (0.30%) Ruby
10 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 173 (51.95%) Security Cleared
2 111 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 79 (23.72%) DV Cleared
4 45 (13.51%) Degree
5 25 (7.51%) APMP
6 22 (6.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (3.30%) CCNP
9 11 (3.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (2.40%) HND
12 6 (1.80%) JNCIA
12 6 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.90%) CCNA
14 3 (0.90%) CIPD
14 3 (0.90%) CISSP
14 3 (0.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (14.71%) SLA
2 30 (9.01%) PMO
3 17 (5.11%) QA
4 8 (2.40%) NIST
5 7 (2.10%) GDPR
6 6 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.50%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.20%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.30%) GRC
10 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.30%) SEPA
10 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) TARGET2
System Software
1 33 (9.91%) Active Directory
2 26 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.90%) vSphere
4 4 (1.20%) Docker
5 3 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.30%) Firmware
7 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 26 (7.81%) Ansible
2 20 (6.01%) PowerCLI
3 19 (5.71%) SCCM
4 13 (3.90%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.00%) Terraform
6 8 (2.40%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.90%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
9 2 (0.60%) Grafana
9 2 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.60%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.60%) MOM
9 2 (0.60%) OPNET
9 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.60%) SCOM
10 1 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.30%) vRealize
10 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 79 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.41%) VMware
3 25 (7.51%) Dell
4 21 (6.31%) HP
5 20 (6.01%) Atlassian
5 20 (6.01%) SAP
6 19 (5.71%) Cisco
7 13 (3.90%) Juniper
8 11 (3.30%) Google
8 11 (3.30%) Nokia
9 8 (2.40%) IBM
10 7 (2.10%) F5
10 7 (2.10%) Splunk
11 6 (1.80%) BT
11 6 (1.80%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.50%) Avaya
12 5 (1.50%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.20%) Databricks
13 4 (1.20%) Ericsson
13 4 (1.20%) Sparx