Problem-Solving Contracts with Work from Home Options

Problem Solving
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 18 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,453 1,987 2,955
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.88% 8.29% 6.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.29% 9.25% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,341 2,039
10th Percentile £300 £315 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +14.75%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 76 48
10th Percentile £11.00 £18.63 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £33.94 £13.06
Median hourly rate £22.56 £63.25 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -64.33% +220.25% +9.72%
75th Percentile £50.00 £74.06 £45.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £90.00 £55.93
UK median hourly rate £16.23 £52.30 £22.75
% change year-on-year -68.96% +129.87% +21.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,873 21,488 40,445
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.49% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,658 15,241 29,441
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 501 519
10th Percentile £14.91 £17.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.94
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.00 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +10.45%

Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Problem-Solving trend for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving.

Problem-Solving daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Problem-Solving daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving.

Problem-Solving hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Problem-Solving hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 39 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 37 (2.55%) Confluence
3 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.96%) CMS
5 11 (0.76%) SAS
6 7 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.34%) WordPress
9 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.28%) Appian
9 4 (0.28%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.28%) Luigi
9 4 (0.28%) nginx
9 4 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.21%) Apache
10 3 (0.21%) CICS
10 3 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 44 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 6 (0.41%) Photoshop
8 4 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.21%) Maya
9 3 (0.21%) Sketch
9 3 (0.21%) Trello
10 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.14%) InDesign
10 2 (0.14%) ZBrush
11 1 (0.069%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.069%) Elementor
11 1 (0.069%) Revit
11 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.69%) SAP HR
6 9 (0.62%) SAP HCM
7 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.48%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.34%) Endur
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.34%) SAP SD
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle 11i
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
12 3 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
12 3 (0.21%) Orchestrade
12 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 272 (18.72%) Azure
2 172 (11.84%) AWS
3 101 (6.95%) Power Platform
4 72 (4.96%) GCP
5 68 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (2.89%) Dynamics 365
8 38 (2.62%) PowerApps
9 30 (2.06%) GitHub
10 28 (1.93%) SaaS
11 26 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 26 (1.79%) Power Automate
12 22 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (1.31%) Serverless
14 16 (1.10%) PaaS
15 13 (0.89%) Amazon S3
15 13 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
16 12 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.34%) Firewall
2 34 (2.34%) DNS
3 32 (2.20%) VPN
4 28 (1.93%) Network Security
5 25 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.45%) Internet
7 21 (1.45%) WAN
8 20 (1.38%) DHCP
8 20 (1.38%) HTTP
9 14 (0.96%) Wireless
10 13 (0.89%) LAN
11 11 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
12 9 (0.62%) BGP
12 9 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
12 9 (0.62%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (0.55%) OSPF
13 8 (0.55%) SSL
13 8 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (5.85%) SQL Server
2 78 (5.37%) Power BI
3 44 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 31 (2.13%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.00%) MySQL
8 22 (1.51%) Oracle Database
9 16 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.10%) Tableau
10 15 (1.03%) Big Data
10 15 (1.03%) Metadata
11 14 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (0.96%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.69%) Power Query
14 9 (0.62%) GIS
14 9 (0.62%) QlikView
15 8 (0.55%) Qlik Sense
16 7 (0.48%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 88 (6.06%) JIRA
2 79 (5.44%) Git
3 39 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 32 (2.20%) GitLab
5 21 (1.45%) Selenium
6 15 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 14 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 12 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
9 11 (0.76%) JMeter
10 9 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.55%) LoadRunner
11 8 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.55%) PVCS
11 8 (0.55%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.41%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.41%) MLflow
14 5 (0.34%) Appium
14 5 (0.34%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.34%) WiX
General
1 832 (57.26%) Social Skills
2 607 (41.78%) Analytical Skills
3 299 (20.58%) Finance
4 90 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 86 (5.92%) Banking
6 57 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
7 55 (3.79%) Marketing
8 47 (3.23%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.34%) Retail
12 32 (2.20%) Legal
13 30 (2.06%) Front Office
13 30 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (1.65%) Law
15 23 (1.58%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
17 16 (1.10%) Police
18 14 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (15.97%) Developer
2 175 (12.04%) Analyst
3 145 (9.98%) Senior
4 131 (9.02%) Architect
5 122 (8.40%) Consultant
6 89 (6.13%) Project Manager
7 64 (4.40%) Business Analyst
7 64 (4.40%) Lead
8 46 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
9 41 (2.82%) Data Engineer
10 40 (2.75%) Software Engineer
11 37 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (2.06%) Support Engineer
13 28 (1.93%) Senior Developer
14 27 (1.86%) Data Analyst
15 26 (1.79%) Administrator
16 25 (1.72%) .NET Developer
17 24 (1.65%) Network Engineer
18 22 (1.51%) DBA
18 22 (1.51%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (4.68%) CSS
2 67 (4.61%) HTML
3 64 (4.40%) .NET
4 62 (4.27%) React
5 51 (3.51%) RESTful
6 43 (2.96%) REST
7 33 (2.27%) Kafka
7 33 (2.27%) Web Services
8 31 (2.13%) JSON
9 30 (2.06%) XML
10 25 (1.72%) AngularJS
11 20 (1.38%) .NET Framework
11 20 (1.38%) Middleware
12 19 (1.31%) Node.js
13 17 (1.17%) YAML
14 15 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (1.03%) Spring
15 14 (0.96%) ASP.NET
16 12 (0.83%) Entity Framework
16 12 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.89%) Management Information System
2 66 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (2.89%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.55%) Algorithms
5 34 (2.34%) Virtual Team
6 31 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 31 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 26 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (1.65%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.24%) Mobile App
11 17 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (0.96%) Cloud Native
13 14 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.89%) Derivative
15 12 (0.83%) CMDB
16 11 (0.76%) Security Posture
17 10 (0.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 111 (7.64%) Windows
2 97 (6.68%) Linux
3 26 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.58%) Unix
5 18 (1.24%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.17%) Android
7 13 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.48%) AIX
9 6 (0.41%) CentOS
9 6 (0.41%) VMS
9 6 (0.41%) zOS
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.34%) Solaris
10 5 (0.34%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (24.29%) Agile
2 197 (13.56%) Project Management
3 187 (12.87%) DevOps
4 167 (11.49%) Computer Science
5 142 (9.77%) Migration
6 132 (9.08%) CI/CD
6 132 (9.08%) Decision-Making
7 126 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 109 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 108 (7.43%) Analytics
10 107 (7.36%) Business Intelligence
11 90 (6.19%) ITIL
12 87 (5.99%) Data Modelling
12 87 (5.99%) Roadmaps
13 84 (5.78%) Mentoring
13 84 (5.78%) Scrum
14 78 (5.37%) Microservices
15 77 (5.30%) Data Analysis
15 77 (5.30%) User Experience
16 74 (5.09%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 197 (13.56%) SQL
2 171 (11.77%) Python
3 116 (7.98%) JavaScript
4 109 (7.50%) Java
5 78 (5.37%) C#
6 60 (4.13%) PowerShell
7 43 (2.96%) C++
8 39 (2.68%) TypeScript
9 37 (2.55%) Bash
10 36 (2.48%) PL/SQL
11 27 (1.86%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.79%) C
13 25 (1.72%) Scala
14 22 (1.51%) Go
15 19 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 14 (0.96%) Bicep
16 14 (0.96%) PHP
17 12 (0.83%) Perl
18 10 (0.69%) VB.NET
19 9 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 284 (19.55%) Degree
2 180 (12.39%) Security Cleared
3 137 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 121 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (3.51%) Master's Degree
6 37 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.51%) CISSP
9 22 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.51%) PMP
10 20 (1.38%) CCNP
11 17 (1.17%) CISM
11 17 (1.17%) PMI Certification
12 16 (1.10%) ISTQB
13 15 (1.03%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.96%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.96%) CCNA
14 14 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 12 (0.83%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.40%) QA
2 62 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 38 (2.62%) GDPR
4 33 (2.27%) SLA
5 19 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.31%) NIST
6 18 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.76%) PMO
8 9 (0.62%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.34%) NCSC
11 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.28%) CDISC
11 4 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.28%) MiFID
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.21%) GPG13
12 3 (0.21%) P3O
12 3 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 77 (5.30%) Docker
2 64 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 10 (0.69%) vSphere
6 9 (0.62%) Firmware
7 8 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.34%) KVM
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.21%) XenApp
10 3 (0.21%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.14%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.069%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.069%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.069%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 97 (6.68%) Kubernetes
2 70 (4.82%) Terraform
3 41 (2.82%) Ansible
4 24 (1.65%) Grafana
5 23 (1.58%) SCCM
6 22 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (0.96%) Puppet
9 13 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.76%) Consul
10 11 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.55%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.55%) Podman
11 8 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.34%) Nessus
13 5 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 4 (0.28%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.28%) QRadar
Vendors
1 229 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 103 (7.09%) Oracle
3 64 (4.40%) SAP
4 45 (3.10%) Google
5 43 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 35 (2.41%) VMware
7 31 (2.13%) Cisco
8 29 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 27 (1.86%) Databricks
10 19 (1.31%) Adobe
10 19 (1.31%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.03%) Splunk
12 14 (0.96%) Dell
12 14 (0.96%) IBM
13 13 (0.89%) Ariba
13 13 (0.89%) Juniper
14 11 (0.76%) Apple
14 11 (0.76%) Informatica
14 11 (0.76%) SaltStack
15 10 (0.69%) CheckPoint