Problem-Solving Contracts in the UK excluding London

Problem Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 7 13 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,376 2,314 2,466
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.41% 10.16% 8.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.70% 11.39% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,382 1,413 1,458
10th Percentile £200 £205 £190
25th Percentile £319 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 203 209
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.05 £14.79 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £52.30 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -71.32% +179.65% +6.86%
75th Percentile £28.56 £63.75 £48.48
90th Percentile £61.35 £76.79 £56.07
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £51.50 £23.70
% change year-on-year -68.49% +117.35% +28.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East 0 603 £475 -7.77% 931
North of England +8 582 £488 -2.55% 1,040
South West +16 333 £500 -9.09% 583
Midlands -1 304 £450 -5.26% 813
North West +9 297 £488 +2.63% 559
Yorkshire +7 245 £475 -13.64% 356
East of England +4 244 £500 +8.11% 464
Scotland +7 233 £475 - 276
West Midlands -4 195 £475 -5.00% 497
East Midlands +2 105 £350 - 319
Wales +5 58 £380 -27.36% 97
North East +23 42 £563 +80.43% 146
Northern Ireland +2 24 £435 +82.20% 48
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 5
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 59 (2.48%) SharePoint
2 56 (2.36%) Confluence
3 32 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.51%) CMS
5 8 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.29%) Apache
6 7 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.29%) nginx
6 7 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.25%) SAS
7 6 (0.25%) WordPress
8 5 (0.21%) Appian
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.17%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 196 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 193 (8.12%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (2.02%) Spreadsheet
5 41 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.38%) Acrobat
8 7 (0.29%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.25%) Maya
10 5 (0.21%) Simulink
11 4 (0.17%) SPSS
12 3 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
12 3 (0.13%) Blender
12 3 (0.13%) Chatbot
12 3 (0.13%) InVision
12 3 (0.13%) Sketch
13 2 (0.084%) InfoPath
13 2 (0.084%) Trello
13 2 (0.084%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 41 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.34%) SAP CO
5 8 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.34%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
5 8 (0.34%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.29%) SAP HCM
6 7 (0.29%) SAP HR
6 7 (0.29%) SAP PM
7 6 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.21%) Maximo
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle HRMS
8 5 (0.21%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 309 (13.01%) Azure
2 174 (7.32%) AWS
3 157 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
4 111 (4.67%) Power Platform
5 68 (2.86%) GCP
6 45 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (1.85%) Snowflake
8 38 (1.60%) SaaS
9 36 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (1.30%) OCI
11 29 (1.22%) Entra ID
12 28 (1.18%) PowerApps
13 20 (0.84%) GitHub
14 19 (0.80%) PaaS
14 19 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
15 18 (0.76%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
16 15 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (0.63%) Serverless
17 14 (0.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 137 (5.77%) Firewall
2 83 (3.49%) LAN
3 76 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
4 67 (2.82%) VPN
5 65 (2.74%) WAN
6 56 (2.36%) DNS
7 44 (1.85%) DHCP
8 41 (1.73%) SAN
9 35 (1.47%) Network Security
10 33 (1.39%) Internet
11 32 (1.35%) TCP/IP
12 26 (1.09%) Wireless
13 18 (0.76%) 5G
14 17 (0.72%) OSPF
15 16 (0.67%) VLAN
15 16 (0.67%) VoIP
16 14 (0.59%) HTTP
17 13 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
18 12 (0.51%) SSL
19 11 (0.46%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (3.75%) Power BI
2 57 (2.40%) Tableau
3 49 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 40 (1.68%) Oracle Database
5 36 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (1.35%) Data Lake
7 27 (1.14%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.97%) Metadata
9 20 (0.84%) NoSQL
10 19 (0.80%) Big Data
11 16 (0.67%) MySQL
11 16 (0.67%) SAP HANA
12 11 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (0.46%) Power Query
13 10 (0.42%) Data Mining
13 10 (0.42%) GIS
14 9 (0.38%) Hadoop
14 9 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 157 (6.61%) JIRA
2 107 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 90 (3.79%) Git
4 38 (1.60%) Selenium
5 31 (1.30%) Cucumber
6 30 (1.26%) GitLab
6 30 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 25 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
9 24 (1.01%) REST Assured
10 22 (0.93%) Bitbucket
11 18 (0.76%) Visual Studio
12 15 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
13 12 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.46%) Maven
14 11 (0.46%) Travis CI
15 10 (0.42%) Gradle
16 8 (0.34%) JMeter
16 8 (0.34%) JUnit
General
1 1,393 (58.63%) Social Skills
2 934 (39.31%) Analytical Skills
3 328 (13.80%) Finance
4 200 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 109 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
6 92 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
7 86 (3.62%) Legal
8 81 (3.41%) Manufacturing
9 76 (3.20%) Telecoms
10 69 (2.90%) Marketing
11 67 (2.82%) Banking
12 43 (1.81%) Law
13 42 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 41 (1.73%) Retail
15 36 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
17 32 (1.35%) Police
18 28 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 25 (1.05%) Local Government
19 25 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 389 (16.37%) Analyst
2 237 (9.97%) Developer
3 176 (7.41%) Architect
4 163 (6.86%) Senior
5 125 (5.26%) Lead
6 123 (5.18%) Consultant
7 110 (4.63%) Project Manager
8 108 (4.55%) Service Analyst
9 104 (4.38%) Support Engineer
10 93 (3.91%) Service Desk Analyst
11 84 (3.54%) Network Engineer
12 80 (3.37%) IT Support
13 74 (3.11%) IT Engineer
14 73 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
15 72 (3.03%) Business Analyst
16 63 (2.65%) Administrator
17 62 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 61 (2.57%) Service Desk Agent
19 59 (2.48%) Data Analyst
20 47 (1.98%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (3.45%) .NET
2 59 (2.48%) HTML
3 57 (2.40%) CSS
4 53 (2.23%) REST
5 49 (2.06%) React
6 35 (1.47%) AngularJS
7 31 (1.30%) Spring
7 31 (1.30%) Web Services
8 27 (1.14%) JSON
8 27 (1.14%) RESTful
9 25 (1.05%) .NET Core
9 25 (1.05%) Java EE
10 23 (0.97%) Kafka
11 22 (0.93%) ASP.NET
12 19 (0.80%) YAML
13 17 (0.72%) XML
14 16 (0.67%) Middleware
15 15 (0.63%) OAuth
16 14 (0.59%) .NET Framework
17 13 (0.55%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 111 (4.67%) Management Information System
2 95 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 86 (3.62%) Data Centre
3 86 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 66 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 53 (2.23%) Driving Licence
6 43 (1.81%) Virtual Team
7 32 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.09%) Algorithms
9 25 (1.05%) CMDB
10 24 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 23 (0.97%) Credit Risk
12 22 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (0.93%) NHS
13 17 (0.72%) Life Science
13 17 (0.72%) Mobile App
13 17 (0.72%) PKI
14 16 (0.67%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.59%) Operational Technology
15 14 (0.59%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 340 (14.31%) Windows
2 148 (6.23%) Windows 10
3 142 (5.98%) Linux
4 84 (3.54%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.85%) Unix
6 39 (1.64%) Windows 7
6 39 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 36 (1.52%) Apple iOS
8 34 (1.43%) Android
8 34 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 28 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 26 (1.09%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.63%) Windows XP
12 13 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.29%) CentOS
14 5 (0.21%) AIX
14 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
15 4 (0.17%) VMS
16 3 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (16.92%) Agile
2 381 (16.04%) Customer Service
3 341 (14.35%) Project Management
4 255 (10.73%) Decision-Making
4 255 (10.73%) ITIL
5 227 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 218 (9.18%) DevOps
7 201 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
8 185 (7.79%) Computer Science
9 177 (7.45%) Service Delivery
10 172 (7.24%) Migration
11 135 (5.68%) Change Management
12 131 (5.51%) Analytics
13 129 (5.43%) Incident Management
14 127 (5.35%) Project Delivery
15 125 (5.26%) CI/CD
16 123 (5.18%) Business Intelligence
17 122 (5.13%) Time Management
18 112 (4.71%) Service Management
19 108 (4.55%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 203 (8.54%) Python
2 193 (8.12%) SQL
3 143 (6.02%) PowerShell
4 141 (5.93%) Java
5 85 (3.58%) JavaScript
6 71 (2.99%) C
7 62 (2.61%) C#
8 56 (2.36%) Bash
9 51 (2.15%) C++
10 29 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 28 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 25 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.67%) PHP
14 15 (0.63%) Perl
15 12 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.51%) R
16 11 (0.46%) Go
16 11 (0.46%) Tcl
17 10 (0.42%) ABAP
17 10 (0.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 561 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 453 (19.07%) Degree
3 360 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 186 (7.83%) DV Cleared
5 134 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 82 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 60 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (2.36%) CCNP
8 56 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 54 (2.27%) CCNA
10 38 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 32 (1.35%) HND
12 30 (1.26%) A+ Certification
13 26 (1.09%) HNC
14 25 (1.05%) APMP
14 25 (1.05%) PMP
15 23 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
16 20 (0.84%) PMI Certification
17 19 (0.80%) MCSE
18 18 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (7.15%) SLA
2 110 (4.63%) QA
3 56 (2.36%) PMO
4 51 (2.15%) Data Quality
5 43 (1.81%) GDPR
6 42 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
7 18 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.59%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.51%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.46%) NIST
11 8 (0.34%) GxP
11 8 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.21%) GAMP
13 5 (0.21%) HL7
14 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.17%) GRC
14 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.13%) IASME
System Software
1 175 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 126 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (2.90%) Docker
4 51 (2.15%) Hyper-V
5 41 (1.73%) vSphere
6 28 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
7 25 (1.05%) Firmware
8 17 (0.72%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.29%) KVM
11 6 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.17%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
15 2 (0.084%) HDFS
15 2 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.084%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 108 (4.55%) Ansible
2 105 (4.42%) SCCM
3 74 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 70 (2.95%) Terraform
5 45 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (1.64%) vCenter Server
7 21 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (0.84%) PowerCLI
8 20 (0.84%) WSUS
9 19 (0.80%) SCOM
10 16 (0.67%) NetBackup
11 15 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
11 15 (0.63%) Grafana
11 15 (0.63%) Puppet
12 12 (0.51%) Podman
12 12 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.46%) Kibana
13 11 (0.46%) logstash
13 11 (0.46%) Prometheus
14 10 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 569 (23.95%) Microsoft
2 137 (5.77%) VMware
3 123 (5.18%) Oracle
4 111 (4.67%) SAP
5 99 (4.17%) Cisco
6 71 (2.99%) HP
7 68 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.44%) Dell
9 56 (2.36%) Google
10 54 (2.27%) Juniper
11 47 (1.98%) Citrix
12 40 (1.68%) Splunk
13 37 (1.56%) Palo Alto
14 35 (1.47%) Salesforce
15 31 (1.30%) Alteryx
15 31 (1.30%) IBM
16 26 (1.09%) Apple
17 24 (1.01%) Atlassian
18 20 (0.84%) Adobe
19 19 (0.80%) CheckPoint