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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 13 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,339 2,313 2,469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.54% 10.00% 8.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.70% 11.18% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 1,420 1,447
10th Percentile £200 £204 £187
25th Percentile £325 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £555
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 350 202 223
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.01 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £49.20 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -69.51% +163.10% +3.89%
75th Percentile £31.03 £61.25 £47.74
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £50.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -67.00% +100.00% +25.31%

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 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 0 602 £475 -8.65% 1,208
North of England +9 575 £490 -2.00% 1,116
South West +21 334 £500 -9.09% 530
Midlands -2 299 £459 -3.42% 879
North West +8 293 £493 +3.79% 602
Yorkshire +8 245 £475 -13.64% 387
East of England +4 236 £500 +11.11% 550
Scotland +10 219 £475 - 301
West Midlands -2 196 £475 -5.00% 538
East Midlands +4 99 £350 - 342
Wales +4 58 £425 -15.00% 130
North East +26 39 £550 +76.42% 141
Northern Ireland +1 21 £435 +82.20% 54
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 52 (2.22%) Confluence
2 49 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.43%) CMS
5 8 (0.34%) Apache
6 7 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.30%) nginx
6 7 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.26%) SAS
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 5 (0.21%) WordPress
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.17%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 198 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
2 188 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 94 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (2.01%) Spreadsheet
5 43 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.38%) Acrobat
6 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.30%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.26%) Maya
9 5 (0.21%) Simulink
10 4 (0.17%) SPSS
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.13%) Blender
12 2 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.086%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.086%) InfoPath
12 2 (0.086%) InVision
12 2 (0.086%) Sketch
12 2 (0.086%) Trello
12 2 (0.086%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 44 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.11%) 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
1 294 (12.57%) Azure
2 169 (7.23%) AWS
3 145 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (4.83%) Power Platform
5 65 (2.78%) GCP
6 46 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (1.88%) Snowflake
8 36 (1.54%) SaaS
9 35 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 33 (1.41%) OCI
11 26 (1.11%) PowerApps
12 23 (0.98%) Entra ID
13 21 (0.90%) PaaS
13 21 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
14 19 (0.81%) GitHub
15 17 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (0.68%) Power Automate
17 15 (0.64%) Serverless
18 14 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
18 14 (0.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (5.64%) Firewall
2 86 (3.68%) LAN
3 77 (3.29%) Wi-Fi
4 65 (2.78%) WAN
5 64 (2.74%) VPN
6 57 (2.44%) DNS
7 46 (1.97%) DHCP
8 41 (1.75%) SAN
9 40 (1.71%) Network Security
10 32 (1.37%) Internet
10 32 (1.37%) TCP/IP
11 27 (1.15%) Wireless
12 17 (0.73%) 5G
12 17 (0.73%) OSPF
13 16 (0.68%) VoIP
14 15 (0.64%) VLAN
15 14 (0.60%) HTTP
16 13 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
17 12 (0.51%) SSL
18 10 (0.43%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (3.98%) Power BI
2 59 (2.52%) Tableau
3 45 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 40 (1.71%) Oracle Database
5 32 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 32 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 21 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 19 (0.81%) Big Data
8 19 (0.81%) Metadata
9 18 (0.77%) MySQL
10 14 (0.60%) SAP HANA
11 12 (0.51%) Data Mining
12 11 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
12 11 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (0.47%) Power Query
13 10 (0.43%) Hadoop
14 9 (0.38%) GIS
15 8 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 153 (6.54%) JIRA
2 107 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 85 (3.63%) Git
4 38 (1.62%) Selenium
5 31 (1.33%) Cucumber
5 31 (1.33%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.28%) GitLab
7 29 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 26 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
9 24 (1.03%) REST Assured
10 23 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 17 (0.73%) Visual Studio
12 16 (0.68%) 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 1,376 (58.83%) Social Skills
2 915 (39.12%) Analytical Skills
3 316 (13.51%) Finance
4 195 (8.34%) Public Sector
5 115 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
6 91 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
7 84 (3.59%) Legal
8 78 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 76 (3.25%) Manufacturing
10 67 (2.86%) Marketing
11 65 (2.78%) Banking
12 45 (1.92%) Aerospace
13 43 (1.84%) Law
14 42 (1.80%) Retail
15 37 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
17 32 (1.37%) Police
18 28 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 26 (1.11%) Local Government
19 26 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 391 (16.72%) Analyst
2 228 (9.75%) Developer
3 170 (7.27%) Architect
4 160 (6.84%) Senior
5 130 (5.56%) Lead
6 125 (5.34%) Consultant
7 112 (4.79%) Service Analyst
8 109 (4.66%) Project Manager
9 105 (4.49%) Support Engineer
10 96 (4.10%) Service Desk Analyst
11 83 (3.55%) IT Support
12 80 (3.42%) Network Engineer
13 77 (3.29%) Business Analyst
13 77 (3.29%) IT Engineer
14 71 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.78%) Service Desk Agent
16 62 (2.65%) Administrator
17 61 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 56 (2.39%) Data Analyst
19 50 (2.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (3.33%) .NET
2 56 (2.39%) HTML
3 55 (2.35%) CSS
4 52 (2.22%) REST
5 48 (2.05%) React
6 34 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 30 (1.28%) Spring
8 28 (1.20%) JSON
9 26 (1.11%) .NET Core
9 26 (1.11%) Web Services
10 25 (1.07%) Java EE
11 24 (1.03%) Kafka
12 23 (0.98%) ASP.NET
13 20 (0.86%) RESTful
14 17 (0.73%) XML
14 17 (0.73%) YAML
15 15 (0.64%) Middleware
16 14 (0.60%) OAuth
17 13 (0.56%) DirectX
17 13 (0.56%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 112 (4.79%) Management Information System
2 89 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
3 87 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 81 (3.46%) Data Centre
5 64 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 55 (2.35%) Driving Licence
7 44 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 36 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.11%) CMDB
10 25 (1.07%) Algorithms
11 23 (0.98%) Credit Risk
12 22 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (0.90%) NHS
14 20 (0.86%) Onboarding
15 17 (0.73%) Life Science
16 16 (0.68%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.68%) Operational Technology
16 16 (0.68%) PKI
17 15 (0.64%) Data Structures
18 14 (0.60%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 341 (14.58%) Windows
2 147 (6.28%) Windows 10
3 141 (6.03%) Linux
4 82 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 45 (1.92%) Unix
5 45 (1.92%) Windows 7
6 37 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 35 (1.50%) Android
7 35 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 32 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 27 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 21 (0.90%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.64%) Windows XP
12 13 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.30%) 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
1 407 (17.40%) Agile
2 375 (16.03%) Customer Service
3 342 (14.62%) Project Management
4 261 (11.16%) Decision-Making
5 255 (10.90%) ITIL
6 226 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 216 (9.23%) DevOps
8 201 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 182 (7.78%) Computer Science
9 182 (7.78%) Migration
10 171 (7.31%) Service Delivery
11 134 (5.73%) Change Management
12 130 (5.56%) Analytics
13 124 (5.30%) Business Intelligence
13 124 (5.30%) CI/CD
14 123 (5.26%) Project Delivery
15 121 (5.17%) Incident Management
16 118 (5.04%) Time Management
17 116 (4.96%) Service Management
18 106 (4.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 195 (8.34%) Python
2 193 (8.25%) SQL
3 138 (5.90%) Java
4 132 (5.64%) PowerShell
5 80 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 69 (2.95%) C
7 64 (2.74%) C#
8 54 (2.31%) Bash
9 48 (2.05%) C++
10 28 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 28 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 26 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.77%) PHP
13 17 (0.73%) Perl
14 13 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.51%) Tcl
16 11 (0.47%) Go
16 11 (0.47%) Ruby
16 11 (0.47%) Swift
17 10 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 567 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 450 (19.24%) Degree
3 369 (15.78%) SC Cleared
4 193 (8.25%) DV Cleared
5 132 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 85 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
7 57 (2.44%) CCNA
7 57 (2.44%) CCNP
7 57 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 57 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.41%) A+ Certification
10 30 (1.28%) HND
11 25 (1.07%) APMP
11 25 (1.07%) HNC
12 23 (0.98%) PMP
13 22 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
14 20 (0.86%) Network+ Certification
15 19 (0.81%) MCSE
15 19 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (7.57%) SLA
2 112 (4.79%) QA
3 58 (2.48%) PMO
4 50 (2.14%) Data Quality
5 41 (1.75%) GDPR
6 40 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
7 18 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.51%) NIST
9 11 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.34%) GxP
10 8 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.21%) GAMP
12 5 (0.21%) HL7
13 4 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.13%) IASME
14 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 169 (7.23%) Active Directory
2 126 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (2.99%) Docker
4 53 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 37 (1.58%) vSphere
6 27 (1.15%) Firmware
6 27 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.34%) KVM
8 8 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.17%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.17%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.086%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 109 (4.66%) Ansible
2 104 (4.45%) SCCM
3 72 (3.08%) Kubernetes
4 65 (2.78%) Terraform
5 41 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (1.71%) vCenter Server
7 21 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (0.86%) PowerCLI
9 19 (0.81%) WSUS
10 18 (0.77%) SCOM
11 16 (0.68%) NetBackup
11 16 (0.68%) Puppet
12 15 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (0.64%) Grafana
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%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 554 (23.69%) Microsoft
2 134 (5.73%) VMware
3 126 (5.39%) Oracle
4 112 (4.79%) SAP
5 95 (4.06%) Cisco
6 74 (3.16%) HP
7 66 (2.82%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.48%) Dell
9 54 (2.31%) Juniper
10 51 (2.18%) Google
11 47 (2.01%) Citrix
12 38 (1.62%) Splunk
13 33 (1.41%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.41%) Salesforce
14 31 (1.33%) Alteryx
15 29 (1.24%) IBM
16 24 (1.03%) Apple
16 24 (1.03%) Atlassian
17 21 (0.90%) Adobe
18 19 (0.81%) CheckPoint