Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Problem Solving
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 62 31 43
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 9.64% 15.35% 9.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.35% 16.40% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 21 33
10th Percentile £185 £185 £177
25th Percentile £356 £200 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £350 £416
Median % change year-on-year +33.71% -15.87% -9.57%
75th Percentile £560 £488 £488
90th Percentile £638 £588 £620
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £498 £368 £411
% change year-on-year +35.37% -10.58% -17.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £15.50 £12.82
Median % change year-on-year - +20.90% +28.20%
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £12.82
% change year-on-year - +10.76% +28.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 189 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.07% 93.56% 86.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 144 277
10th Percentile £313 £251 £267
25th Percentile £412 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -1.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £710
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £503 £490
% change year-on-year +4.48% +2.55% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 27
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.98 £15.85
25th Percentile - £14.44 £17.82
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -27.37% +137.50%
75th Percentile £18.32 £28.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.78 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.22% -31.00% +150.00%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.45%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (4.84%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) CMS
4 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle Assets
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (6.45%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.61%) SAP R/3
5 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.58%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) AWS
2 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.45%) dbt
3 4 (6.45%) OCI
3 4 (6.45%) SaaS
4 3 (4.84%) Collibra
4 3 (4.84%) GCP
4 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.23%) GitHub
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.61%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.61%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.45%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) SAN
3 2 (3.23%) Wireless
4 1 (1.61%) Firewall
4 1 (1.61%) Internet
4 1 (1.61%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Data Lake
2 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (4.84%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.23%) Metadata
4 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.61%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.61%) MySQL
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) Selenium
2 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (3.23%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) JUnit
3 1 (1.61%) Storybook
General
1 34 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 24 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (24.19%) Finance
4 7 (11.29%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.06%) Banking
6 4 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Retail
7 3 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.23%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.61%) Law
9 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Analyst
2 9 (14.52%) Senior
3 8 (12.90%) Developer
4 7 (11.29%) Oracle Specialist
5 5 (8.06%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) SOC Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Business Change Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Business Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Change Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Governance Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Tester
8 2 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Web Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (9.68%) REST
3 5 (8.06%) SOAP
4 4 (6.45%) PySpark
5 3 (4.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (3.23%) Playwright
7 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.61%) CSS
7 1 (1.61%) HTML
7 1 (1.61%) JSON
7 1 (1.61%) OAuth
7 1 (1.61%) React
7 1 (1.61%) Spring
7 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.61%) Vitest
7 1 (1.61%) Web Services
7 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (6.45%) Cyberattack
2 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.84%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.61%) Clustering
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Windows
2 7 (11.29%) Linux
3 2 (3.23%) Debian
3 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.94%) Agile
2 14 (22.58%) ETL
3 9 (14.52%) DevOps
3 9 (14.52%) Waterfall
4 7 (11.29%) Analytics
4 7 (11.29%) Customer Service
4 7 (11.29%) ERP
4 7 (11.29%) Incident Response
4 7 (11.29%) Project Management
4 7 (11.29%) Security Operations
4 7 (11.29%) Workflow
5 6 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (9.68%) Decision-Making
5 6 (9.68%) Logistics
5 6 (9.68%) Migration
5 6 (9.68%) Risk Management
5 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (8.06%) High Availability
6 5 (8.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) Python
3 6 (9.68%) PL/SQL
4 4 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.23%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
6 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) Degree
5 3 (4.84%) APMG
6 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.23%) PMP
7 1 (1.61%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.61%) CBAP
7 1 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.61%) ISEB
7 1 (1.61%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) SLA
2 6 (9.68%) QA
3 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.84%) GDPR
5 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) SCCM
2 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Oracle
2 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.68%) Databricks
4 5 (8.06%) Splunk
5 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.23%) VMware
7 1 (1.61%) IBM
7 1 (1.61%) MapR
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) SAP
7 1 (1.61%) Tanium