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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 13 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,340 2,288 2,444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.53% 9.95% 8.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.66% 11.11% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,369 1,400 1,422
10th Percentile £200 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +5.95% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £550
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 352 201 227
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.04 £14.00 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £42.16 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -64.42% +132.71% +0.64%
75th Percentile £31.13 £61.25 £46.48
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £50.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -67.00% +104.08% +19.51%

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 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -1 602 £475 -8.65% 972
North of England +9 577 £490 -2.00% 1,072
South West +19 327 £500 -8.26% 530
Midlands -1 299 £475 - 821
North West +10 294 £493 +9.56% 593
Yorkshire +8 247 £475 -13.64% 360
East of England +4 238 £500 +5.26% 499
Scotland +12 222 £475 - 259
West Midlands -2 194 £500 - 496
East Midlands +4 101 £350 - 326
Wales +6 58 £425 -18.76% 124
North East +23 38 £563 +80.43% 132
Northern Ireland +1 22 £435 +82.20% 46
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4
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 50 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.37%) 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
7 6 (0.26%) SAS
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%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 199 (8.50%) Microsoft Office
2 189 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 96 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (2.01%) Spreadsheet
5 45 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.38%) Acrobat
8 7 (0.30%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.26%) Maya
10 5 (0.21%) Simulink
11 4 (0.17%) SPSS
12 3 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.13%) Blender
13 2 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.085%) InfoPath
13 2 (0.085%) InVision
13 2 (0.085%) Sketch
13 2 (0.085%) Trello
13 2 (0.085%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 46 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (1.20%) 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 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%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.21%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 4 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 294 (12.56%) Azure
2 169 (7.22%) AWS
3 144 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 110 (4.70%) Power Platform
5 63 (2.69%) GCP
6 48 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
7 43 (1.84%) Snowflake
8 36 (1.54%) SaaS
9 35 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (1.45%) OCI
11 26 (1.11%) PowerApps
12 23 (0.98%) Entra ID
13 21 (0.90%) PaaS
14 19 (0.81%) GitHub
14 19 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
15 17 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (0.68%) Power Automate
17 15 (0.64%) Serverless
18 14 (0.60%) IaaS
19 13 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 129 (5.51%) Firewall
2 86 (3.68%) LAN
3 75 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
4 65 (2.78%) WAN
5 63 (2.69%) VPN
6 55 (2.35%) DNS
7 44 (1.88%) DHCP
8 41 (1.75%) Network Security
8 41 (1.75%) SAN
9 32 (1.37%) Internet
10 30 (1.28%) TCP/IP
11 27 (1.15%) Wireless
12 17 (0.73%) OSPF
13 16 (0.68%) 5G
13 16 (0.68%) VoIP
14 14 (0.60%) HTTP
14 14 (0.60%) VLAN
15 13 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (0.51%) SSL
17 10 (0.43%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (3.85%) Power BI
2 57 (2.44%) Tableau
3 45 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 42 (1.79%) Oracle Database
5 32 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 32 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 21 (0.90%) Big Data
7 21 (0.90%) NoSQL
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
13 10 (0.43%) GIS
13 10 (0.43%) Hadoop
13 10 (0.43%) Power Query
14 8 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 153 (6.54%) JIRA
2 107 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 84 (3.59%) Git
4 38 (1.62%) Selenium
5 31 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 31 (1.32%) 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 13 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
14 12 (0.51%) Maven
15 11 (0.47%) CircleCI
15 11 (0.47%) Travis CI
16 10 (0.43%) Gradle
17 8 (0.34%) JMeter
18 7 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 1,377 (58.85%) Social Skills
2 915 (39.10%) Analytical Skills
3 318 (13.59%) Finance
4 194 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 115 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
6 92 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
7 84 (3.59%) Legal
8 78 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 77 (3.29%) Manufacturing
10 68 (2.91%) Marketing
11 65 (2.78%) Banking
12 45 (1.92%) Aerospace
13 44 (1.88%) Law
14 42 (1.79%) Retail
15 38 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
17 32 (1.37%) Police
18 28 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
20 26 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 392 (16.75%) Analyst
2 226 (9.66%) Developer
3 172 (7.35%) Architect
4 161 (6.88%) Senior
5 131 (5.60%) Lead
6 128 (5.47%) Consultant
7 114 (4.87%) Service Analyst
8 109 (4.66%) Project Manager
9 107 (4.57%) Support Engineer
10 98 (4.19%) Service Desk Analyst
11 84 (3.59%) IT Support
12 79 (3.38%) Business Analyst
13 78 (3.33%) IT Engineer
13 78 (3.33%) Network Engineer
14 73 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (2.78%) Service Desk Agent
16 63 (2.69%) Administrator
17 61 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 55 (2.35%) Data Analyst
19 50 (2.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (3.29%) .NET
2 56 (2.39%) HTML
3 55 (2.35%) CSS
4 52 (2.22%) REST
5 47 (2.01%) React
6 33 (1.41%) 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 (0.85%) 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
1 114 (4.87%) Management Information System
2 90 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 87 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 79 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 65 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 55 (2.35%) Driving Licence
7 45 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 38 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.11%) CMDB
10 24 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 23 (0.98%) Credit Risk
12 22 (0.94%) NHS
12 22 (0.94%) Onboarding
13 21 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (0.73%) Life Science
15 16 (0.68%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.68%) Operational Technology
15 16 (0.68%) PKI
16 15 (0.64%) Data Structures
17 14 (0.60%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 340 (14.53%) Windows
2 147 (6.28%) Windows 10
3 141 (6.03%) Linux
4 81 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 47 (2.01%) Unix
6 45 (1.92%) Windows 7
7 36 (1.54%) Android
7 36 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 35 (1.50%) Apple iOS
9 31 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 27 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 21 (0.90%) Mac OS
12 15 (0.64%) Windows XP
13 13 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.30%) CentOS
15 5 (0.21%) AIX
15 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
16 4 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (17.35%) Agile
2 376 (16.07%) Customer Service
3 341 (14.57%) Project Management
4 262 (11.20%) Decision-Making
5 251 (10.73%) ITIL
6 225 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 215 (9.19%) DevOps
8 202 (8.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 188 (8.03%) Migration
10 182 (7.78%) Computer Science
11 175 (7.48%) Service Delivery
12 134 (5.73%) Change Management
13 131 (5.60%) Analytics
14 123 (5.26%) Project Delivery
15 122 (5.21%) CI/CD
16 121 (5.17%) Incident Management
17 118 (5.04%) Time Management
18 116 (4.96%) Business Intelligence
18 116 (4.96%) Service Management
19 107 (4.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 191 (8.16%) Python
2 185 (7.91%) SQL
3 137 (5.85%) Java
4 130 (5.56%) 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 12 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.51%) Tcl
15 11 (0.47%) Go
15 11 (0.47%) Ruby
15 11 (0.47%) Swift
16 10 (0.43%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 565 (24.15%) Security Cleared
2 451 (19.27%) Degree
3 368 (15.73%) SC Cleared
4 191 (8.16%) DV Cleared
5 131 (5.60%) 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 24 (1.03%) PMP
13 22 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
14 20 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
15 19 (0.81%) MCSE
15 19 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (7.35%) SLA
2 115 (4.91%) QA
3 59 (2.52%) PMO
4 51 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 41 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 40 (1.71%) GDPR
7 17 (0.73%) 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%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.13%) GRC
14 3 (0.13%) IASME
14 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 168 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 124 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (2.95%) Docker
4 52 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.54%) vSphere
6 26 (1.11%) Firmware
6 26 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.68%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.34%) KVM
8 8 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
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%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.085%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 109 (4.66%) Ansible
2 104 (4.44%) SCCM
3 73 (3.12%) Kubernetes
4 65 (2.78%) Terraform
5 41 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 21 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
8 20 (0.85%) 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
1 556 (23.76%) Microsoft
2 132 (5.64%) VMware
3 124 (5.30%) Oracle
4 113 (4.83%) SAP
5 94 (4.02%) Cisco
6 74 (3.16%) HP
7 66 (2.82%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.48%) Dell
9 54 (2.31%) Juniper
10 48 (2.05%) Citrix
10 48 (2.05%) Google
11 38 (1.62%) Splunk
12 33 (1.41%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.41%) Salesforce
13 31 (1.32%) Alteryx
14 29 (1.24%) IBM
15 25 (1.07%) Apple
16 24 (1.03%) Atlassian
17 21 (0.90%) Adobe
18 19 (0.81%) CheckPoint