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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 13 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,343 2,299 2,450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.50% 10.03% 8.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.71% 11.23% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,372 1,402 1,438
10th Percentile £200 £204 £185
25th Percentile £325 £350 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £460
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +6.52% +8.24%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £554
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 204 220
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £14.43 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £49.20 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -69.51% +163.10% +3.89%
75th Percentile £30.00 £61.25 £48.50
90th Percentile £60.60 £75.00 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £50.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -67.54% +100.00% +33.16%

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 17,095 20,476 27,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.93% 89.37% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,219 14,070 18,908
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £377 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,248 1,358
10th Percentile £12.37 £10.63 £12.29
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.63 £62.18
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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
South East -2 592 £494 -3.19% 959
North of England +10 574 £490 -2.00% 1,047
South West +20 337 £500 -9.09% 533
Midlands -2 306 £450 -5.26% 836
North West +10 290 £493 +6.59% 580
Yorkshire +7 246 £475 -13.64% 349
East of England +4 240 £500 +11.11% 501
Scotland +8 220 £475 - 291
West Midlands -3 199 £475 -5.00% 500
East Midlands +1 103 £350 - 337
Wales +4 56 £403 -19.50% 110
North East +26 40 £550 +76.71% 134
Northern Ireland +1 23 £435 +82.20% 48
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 6
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 54 (2.30%) Confluence
2 52 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.43%) CMS
5 9 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.34%) Apache
7 7 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.30%) nginx
7 7 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.21%) Appian
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 5 (0.21%) SAS
8 5 (0.21%) WordPress
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 (8.37%) Microsoft Office
2 193 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 99 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (2.05%) Spreadsheet
5 41 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.47%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.38%) Acrobat
8 7 (0.30%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.26%) 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%) InVision
12 3 (0.13%) Sketch
13 2 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.085%) InfoPath
13 2 (0.085%) Trello
13 2 (0.085%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 42 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.34%) SAP HCM
5 8 (0.34%) SAP HR
5 8 (0.34%) SAP PM
5 8 (0.34%) Teamcenter
6 7 (0.30%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.21%) Maximo
8 5 (0.21%) Odoo
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle HRMS
8 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.21%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 295 (12.59%) Azure
2 168 (7.17%) AWS
3 145 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (4.82%) Power Platform
5 65 (2.77%) GCP
6 44 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
6 44 (1.88%) Snowflake
7 36 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (1.54%) SaaS
8 32 (1.37%) OCI
9 26 (1.11%) PowerApps
10 24 (1.02%) Entra ID
11 21 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
12 20 (0.85%) PaaS
13 19 (0.81%) GitHub
14 17 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (0.68%) Power Automate
16 15 (0.64%) Serverless
17 14 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
18 12 (0.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (5.63%) Firewall
2 84 (3.59%) LAN
3 78 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
4 64 (2.73%) WAN
5 63 (2.69%) VPN
6 56 (2.39%) DNS
7 44 (1.88%) DHCP
8 41 (1.75%) SAN
9 40 (1.71%) Network Security
10 32 (1.37%) Internet
11 31 (1.32%) TCP/IP
12 25 (1.07%) Wireless
13 17 (0.73%) 5G
13 17 (0.73%) OSPF
14 16 (0.68%) VoIP
15 15 (0.64%) VLAN
16 14 (0.60%) HTTP
17 13 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
18 12 (0.51%) SSL
19 11 (0.47%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (3.97%) Power BI
2 58 (2.48%) Tableau
3 46 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 39 (1.66%) Oracle Database
5 34 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (1.41%) Data Lake
7 29 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.90%) Metadata
9 20 (0.85%) Big Data
9 20 (0.85%) NoSQL
10 18 (0.77%) MySQL
11 14 (0.60%) SAP HANA
12 12 (0.51%) Data Mining
12 12 (0.51%) Power Query
13 11 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.38%) GIS
14 9 (0.38%) Hadoop
14 9 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 153 (6.53%) JIRA
2 107 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 87 (3.71%) Git
4 38 (1.62%) Selenium
5 31 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 31 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.28%) GitLab
7 29 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 25 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
9 24 (1.02%) REST Assured
10 23 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.73%) Visual Studio
12 15 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
13 12 (0.51%) Maven
13 12 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
14 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.47%) Travis CI
15 10 (0.43%) Gradle
16 8 (0.34%) JMeter
16 8 (0.34%) JUnit
General
1 1,380 (58.90%) Social Skills
2 918 (39.18%) Analytical Skills
3 317 (13.53%) Finance
4 193 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 112 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
6 88 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
7 86 (3.67%) Legal
8 78 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 75 (3.20%) Telecoms
10 68 (2.90%) Banking
10 68 (2.90%) Marketing
11 44 (1.88%) Aerospace
12 43 (1.84%) Law
13 41 (1.75%) Retail
14 37 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
16 32 (1.37%) Police
17 28 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.11%) Local Government
19 25 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 391 (16.69%) Analyst
2 228 (9.73%) Developer
3 172 (7.34%) Architect
4 162 (6.91%) Senior
5 128 (5.46%) Lead
6 124 (5.29%) Consultant
7 111 (4.74%) Project Manager
8 109 (4.65%) Service Analyst
9 103 (4.40%) Support Engineer
10 94 (4.01%) Service Desk Analyst
11 81 (3.46%) Network Engineer
12 80 (3.41%) IT Support
13 77 (3.29%) Business Analyst
14 74 (3.16%) IT Engineer
15 70 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
16 62 (2.65%) Administrator
16 62 (2.65%) Service Desk Agent
17 60 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 55 (2.35%) Data Analyst
19 49 (2.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (3.24%) .NET
2 55 (2.35%) HTML
3 54 (2.30%) CSS
4 51 (2.18%) REST
5 47 (2.01%) React
6 34 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 30 (1.28%) Spring
8 28 (1.20%) Web Services
9 27 (1.15%) JSON
10 25 (1.07%) .NET Core
10 25 (1.07%) Java EE
11 23 (0.98%) ASP.NET
11 23 (0.98%) Kafka
12 21 (0.90%) RESTful
13 17 (0.73%) XML
13 17 (0.73%) YAML
14 15 (0.64%) Middleware
15 14 (0.60%) OAuth
16 13 (0.55%) DirectX
16 13 (0.55%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 112 (4.78%) Management Information System
2 92 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
3 87 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 83 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 66 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 54 (2.30%) Driving Licence
7 41 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 34 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.11%) Algorithms
10 25 (1.07%) CMDB
11 23 (0.98%) Credit Risk
12 22 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (0.94%) NHS
12 22 (0.94%) Onboarding
13 17 (0.73%) Life Science
13 17 (0.73%) Mobile App
14 16 (0.68%) Operational Technology
14 16 (0.68%) PKI
15 15 (0.64%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.60%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 339 (14.47%) Windows
2 145 (6.19%) Windows 10
3 140 (5.98%) Linux
4 83 (3.54%) Windows Server
5 43 (1.84%) Unix
6 42 (1.79%) Windows 7
7 37 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 34 (1.45%) Apple iOS
9 33 (1.41%) Android
10 32 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 27 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 24 (1.02%) Mac OS
13 15 (0.64%) Windows XP
14 13 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.30%) CentOS
16 5 (0.21%) AIX
16 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
17 4 (0.17%) VMS
18 3 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (17.16%) Agile
2 375 (16.01%) Customer Service
3 340 (14.51%) Project Management
4 257 (10.97%) Decision-Making
5 256 (10.93%) ITIL
6 226 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 216 (9.22%) DevOps
8 203 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 189 (8.07%) Computer Science
10 177 (7.55%) Migration
11 173 (7.38%) Service Delivery
12 135 (5.76%) Change Management
13 130 (5.55%) Analytics
14 126 (5.38%) CI/CD
15 125 (5.34%) Business Intelligence
16 124 (5.29%) Incident Management
17 123 (5.25%) Project Delivery
18 119 (5.08%) Time Management
19 114 (4.87%) Service Management
20 105 (4.48%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 198 (8.45%) Python
2 193 (8.24%) SQL
3 139 (5.93%) Java
4 135 (5.76%) PowerShell
5 80 (3.41%) JavaScript
6 70 (2.99%) C
7 62 (2.65%) C#
8 55 (2.35%) Bash
9 50 (2.13%) C++
10 28 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 26 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 25 (1.07%) PL/SQL
13 18 (0.77%) PHP
14 16 (0.68%) Perl
15 14 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (0.51%) Tcl
17 11 (0.47%) Go
17 11 (0.47%) R
17 11 (0.47%) Swift
18 10 (0.43%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 560 (23.90%) Security Cleared
2 455 (19.42%) Degree
3 362 (15.45%) SC Cleared
4 187 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 136 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 85 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
7 57 (2.43%) CCNP
8 56 (2.39%) CCNA
8 56 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 56 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.41%) A+ Certification
11 32 (1.37%) HND
12 26 (1.11%) HNC
13 25 (1.07%) APMP
14 23 (0.98%) PMP
15 22 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
16 20 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
17 19 (0.81%) MCSE
17 19 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (7.30%) SLA
2 112 (4.78%) QA
3 57 (2.43%) PMO
4 51 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 42 (1.79%) GDPR
6 39 (1.66%) Disclosure Scotland
7 17 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.60%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 11 (0.47%) NIST
10 8 (0.34%) GxP
11 7 (0.30%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.21%) GAMP
13 5 (0.21%) HL7
14 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.13%) GRC
15 3 (0.13%) IASME
System Software
1 169 (7.21%) Active Directory
2 127 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (2.94%) Docker
4 53 (2.26%) Hyper-V
5 38 (1.62%) vSphere
6 28 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 26 (1.11%) Firmware
8 18 (0.77%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (0.34%) KVM
11 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.17%) VMware Server
13 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 3 (0.13%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 108 (4.61%) Ansible
2 104 (4.44%) SCCM
3 74 (3.16%) Kubernetes
4 66 (2.82%) Terraform
5 44 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (1.71%) vCenter Server
7 21 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (0.85%) PowerCLI
9 19 (0.81%) WSUS
10 18 (0.77%) SCOM
11 16 (0.68%) NetBackup
12 15 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (0.64%) Grafana
12 15 (0.64%) Puppet
13 12 (0.51%) Podman
13 12 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (0.47%) Kibana
14 11 (0.47%) logstash
14 11 (0.47%) Prometheus
15 10 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 557 (23.77%) Microsoft
2 136 (5.80%) VMware
3 123 (5.25%) Oracle
4 110 (4.69%) SAP
5 95 (4.05%) Cisco
6 71 (3.03%) HP
7 66 (2.82%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.48%) Dell
9 54 (2.30%) Juniper
10 53 (2.26%) Google
11 47 (2.01%) Citrix
12 38 (1.62%) Splunk
13 33 (1.41%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.41%) Salesforce
14 31 (1.32%) Alteryx
15 30 (1.28%) IBM
16 25 (1.07%) Apple
17 23 (0.98%) Atlassian
18 21 (0.90%) Adobe
19 19 (0.81%) CheckPoint