Problem-Solving Contracts in Berkshire

Problem Solving
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 267 207 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.86% 11.66% 7.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.76% 12.99% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 124 103
10th Percentile £205 £308 £200
25th Percentile £270 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £619 £610 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £640
South East median daily rate £475 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 1
10th Percentile £14.50 £42.42 -
25th Percentile £33.12 £48.40 -
Median hourly rate £61.30 £54.56 £80.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% -32.14% +689.01%
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.00 -
90th Percentile - £77.87 -
South East median hourly rate £20.24 £57.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -64.81% +21.05% +138.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,594 2,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.91% 89.75% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 998 1,333
10th Percentile £235 £348 £264
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Reading +2 184 £605 +15.24% 81
Bracknell +4 31 £298 -50.42% 6
Maidenhead +3 8 £234 -41.63% 7
Newbury +2 6 £355 +18.33% 3
Windsor -8 3 £625 - 4
Wokingham -12 2 £583 +13.66% 2
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (1.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) SAS
2 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Moodle
4 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 43 (16.10%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.12%) SPSS
4 2 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (4.12%) Oracle EBS R12
1 11 (4.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 11 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.00%) Teamcenter
3 6 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.87%) Maximo
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.37%) Magento
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (17.98%) Azure
2 22 (8.24%) Snowflake
3 14 (5.24%) AWS
3 14 (5.24%) OCI
4 7 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.87%) Smartsheet
6 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.12%) SaaS
8 2 (0.75%) Azure API Management
8 2 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.75%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.37%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.37%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.37%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.37%) PaaS
9 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Serverless
9 1 (0.37%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.74%) Firewall
2 19 (7.12%) LAN
3 15 (5.62%) SAN
4 14 (5.24%) DHCP
4 14 (5.24%) DNS
5 10 (3.75%) WAN
6 8 (3.00%) 5G
7 7 (2.62%) 3G
7 7 (2.62%) 4G
8 6 (2.25%) Radio Access Network
9 3 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.75%) Intranet
10 2 (0.75%) Network Security
11 1 (0.37%) Junos
11 1 (0.37%) LTE
11 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.37%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.49%) Tableau
2 13 (4.87%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.12%) SAP HANA
4 5 (1.87%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.50%) Power BI
6 3 (1.12%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.75%) Power Query
7 2 (0.75%) SSDT
8 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (12.36%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.74%) Selenium
3 25 (9.36%) Cucumber
4 24 (8.99%) REST Assured
4 24 (8.99%) SonarQube
5 20 (7.49%) JIRA
6 13 (4.87%) GitLab
7 12 (4.49%) Git
8 9 (3.37%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (2.62%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.37%) CMake
General
1 161 (60.30%) Social Skills
2 115 (43.07%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (13.11%) Finance
4 34 (12.73%) Telecoms
5 29 (10.86%) Organisational Skills
6 25 (9.36%) Legal
7 21 (7.87%) Law
8 17 (6.37%) Marketing
9 13 (4.87%) Police
9 13 (4.87%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.62%) Retail
12 5 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.87%) Military
13 4 (1.50%) Banking
13 4 (1.50%) Billing
14 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.37%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 50 (18.73%) Analyst
2 36 (13.48%) Consultant
3 33 (12.36%) Senior
4 23 (8.61%) Lead
5 17 (6.37%) Java Engineer
5 17 (6.37%) Support Engineer
6 16 (5.99%) Developer
7 15 (5.62%) 1st Line Support
7 15 (5.62%) Functional Consultant
8 14 (5.24%) Data Analyst
8 14 (5.24%) Desktop Engineer
8 14 (5.24%) Desktop Support
8 14 (5.24%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 14 (5.24%) Hardware Engineer
8 14 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.87%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
9 13 (4.87%) Oracle Consultant
9 13 (4.87%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 13 (4.87%) Project Manager
10 12 (4.49%) SAP Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.74%) REST
2 25 (9.36%) Java EE
3 12 (4.49%) ARM Templates
3 12 (4.49%) SAP Basis
4 9 (3.37%) .NET
4 9 (3.37%) ASP.NET
5 8 (3.00%) Itk
5 8 (3.00%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (2.25%) HTML
7 4 (1.50%) CSS
7 4 (1.50%) Web Services
8 3 (1.12%) D3.js
8 3 (1.12%) EDI
9 2 (0.75%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (0.75%) Flash
9 2 (0.75%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.75%) React
9 2 (0.75%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.75%) YAML
10 1 (0.37%) OpenVINO
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.74%) Driving Licence
2 17 (6.37%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.99%) Credit Risk
4 9 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.87%) Life Science
6 4 (1.50%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.12%) CCTV
7 3 (1.12%) SCADA
7 3 (1.12%) Social Media
7 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.75%) NHS
8 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.37%) Blog
9 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.37%) IoT
9 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.97%) Windows
2 40 (14.98%) Windows 10
3 26 (9.74%) Windows 7
4 25 (9.36%) Windows Server
5 23 (8.61%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (8.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (6.74%) Linux
7 15 (5.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (5.24%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.75%) Solaris
9 2 (0.75%) VMS
10 1 (0.37%) Android
10 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.34%) Decision-Making
2 50 (18.73%) ITIL
3 44 (16.48%) DevOps
4 41 (15.36%) Project Management
5 33 (12.36%) Customer Service
6 32 (11.99%) Analytics
6 32 (11.99%) Service Delivery
7 31 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
8 30 (11.24%) Agile
9 28 (10.49%) Change Management
10 27 (10.11%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (10.11%) Test Automation
11 25 (9.36%) Performance Tuning
11 25 (9.36%) Software Architecture
11 25 (9.36%) Software Engineering
12 24 (8.99%) Actionable Insight
13 23 (8.61%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (6.37%) Software Testing
14 17 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (5.99%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (10.49%) Java
2 24 (8.99%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.75%) C#
4 8 (3.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.00%) Python
4 8 (3.00%) SQL
5 7 (2.62%) C++
6 6 (2.25%) C
7 4 (1.50%) R
8 3 (1.12%) F#
9 2 (0.75%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) Bash
10 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 110 (41.20%) Security Cleared
2 74 (27.72%) Degree
3 56 (20.97%) SC Cleared
4 54 (20.22%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.37%) CCNA
5 17 (6.37%) CCNP
5 17 (6.37%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.75%) MBA
7 2 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) CSPO
8 1 (0.37%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.37%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.49%) SLA
2 11 (4.12%) QA
3 8 (3.00%) GDPR
4 2 (0.75%) HL7
4 2 (0.75%) PMO
5 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.37%) ITGC
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (7.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (5.99%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.62%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.24%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.87%) Docker
5 13 (4.87%) Firmware
6 3 (1.12%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.75%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (15.36%) SCCM
2 32 (11.99%) Ansible
3 16 (5.99%) SCOM
4 15 (5.62%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.62%) NetBackup
4 15 (5.62%) Terraform
5 14 (5.24%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (5.24%) vCenter Server
5 14 (5.24%) WSUS
6 12 (4.49%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (4.49%) Podman
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 76 (28.46%) Microsoft
2 44 (16.48%) Oracle
3 41 (15.36%) HP
4 24 (8.99%) Alteryx
5 22 (8.24%) Cisco
6 20 (7.49%) Juniper
6 20 (7.49%) VMware
7 18 (6.74%) Palo Alto
8 15 (5.62%) 3PAR
9 14 (5.24%) Dell
9 14 (5.24%) EMC
9 14 (5.24%) Extreme Networks
9 14 (5.24%) Symantec
9 14 (5.24%) Veeam
10 12 (4.49%) SAP
11 6 (2.25%) OneTrust
12 4 (1.50%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.50%) OpenText
12 4 (1.50%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.50%) Workday