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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 57 32 46
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 9.47% 16.24% 9.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.05% 17.11% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 22 34
10th Percentile £183 £185 £178
25th Percentile £356 £200 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £368 £421
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -12.60% -8.59%
75th Percentile £560 £534 £487
90th Percentile £638 £599 £617
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £453 £420 £416
% change year-on-year +7.80% +0.96% -16.80%
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 473 187 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.57% 94.92% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 142 289
10th Percentile £310 £262 £249
25th Percentile £412 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% +3.95% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £701
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £522 £505 £475
% change year-on-year +3.37% +6.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 27
10th Percentile £15.15 £12.98 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.44 £17.82
Median hourly rate £17.34 £17.25 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -27.37% +137.50%
75th Percentile £29.61 £28.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.78 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.53 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -13.01% -24.00% +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 25 March 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 (7.02%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (5.26%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.51%) Apache
4 1 (1.75%) CMS
4 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Oracle Assets
1 7 (12.28%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (12.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.75%) SAP R/3
5 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.30%) Azure
2 5 (8.77%) AWS
3 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.02%) OCI
3 4 (7.02%) SaaS
4 3 (5.26%) Collibra
4 3 (5.26%) dbt
4 3 (5.26%) GCP
4 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.51%) GitHub
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.75%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.75%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.02%) DNS
3 2 (3.51%) SAN
3 2 (3.51%) Wireless
4 1 (1.75%) Firewall
4 1 (1.75%) Internet
4 1 (1.75%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Data Lake
2 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.51%) Metadata
4 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.51%) Power BI
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.75%) MySQL
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) JIRA
2 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.51%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) Selenium
2 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (3.51%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) JUnit
3 1 (1.75%) Storybook
General
1 31 (54.39%) Social Skills
2 22 (38.60%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (24.56%) Finance
4 7 (12.28%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.77%) Banking
6 4 (7.02%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Retail
7 2 (3.51%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (17.54%) Analyst
2 8 (14.04%) Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Oracle Specialist
4 4 (7.02%) Data Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Deployment Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (7.02%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Business Change Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Business Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Change Manager
5 3 (5.26%) Governance Analyst
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Tester
6 2 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.51%) IT Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Web Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (10.53%) REST
3 5 (8.77%) SOAP
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (5.26%) PySpark
5 2 (3.51%) Playwright
6 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.75%) CSS
6 1 (1.75%) HTML
6 1 (1.75%) JSON
6 1 (1.75%) OAuth
6 1 (1.75%) React
6 1 (1.75%) Spring
6 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.75%) Vitest
6 1 (1.75%) Web Services
6 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (7.02%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (7.02%) Cyberattack
2 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Clustering
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Windows
2 7 (12.28%) Linux
3 2 (3.51%) Debian
3 2 (3.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) Agile
2 13 (22.81%) ETL
3 9 (15.79%) Waterfall
4 7 (12.28%) Customer Service
4 7 (12.28%) DevOps
4 7 (12.28%) ERP
4 7 (12.28%) Security Operations
4 7 (12.28%) Workflow
5 6 (10.53%) Analytics
5 6 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (10.53%) Logistics
5 6 (10.53%) Project Management
5 6 (10.53%) Risk Management
5 6 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (8.77%) Data Governance
6 5 (8.77%) High Availability
6 5 (8.77%) SIEM
6 5 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.81%) SQL
2 6 (10.53%) PL/SQL
2 6 (10.53%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.51%) C#
5 2 (3.51%) Java
5 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (38.60%) Security Cleared
2 17 (29.82%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Degree
5 3 (5.26%) APMG
6 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.51%) PMP
7 1 (1.75%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.75%) CBAP
7 1 (1.75%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.75%) ISEB
7 1 (1.75%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) SLA
2 5 (8.77%) QA
3 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.26%) GDPR
5 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.77%) Databricks
3 5 (8.77%) Splunk
4 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.51%) VMware
6 1 (1.75%) IBM
6 1 (1.75%) MapR
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Tanium