Problem-Solving Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Problem Solving
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 95 89 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 19.27% 14.83% 13.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.28% 16.73% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 26 40
10th Percentile £235 £205 £131
25th Percentile £500 £325 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £319
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +45.10% -32.89%
75th Percentile £650 £525 £500
90th Percentile £800 £538 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 38 64
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.29 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.48 £13.66 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +1.19% -
75th Percentile £15.12 £13.91 £14.75
90th Percentile £25.00 £15.81 £15.68
East of England median hourly rate £14.80 £22.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year -32.73% +62.96% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 408 532 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 82.76% 88.67% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 285 371
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £280 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £525
90th Percentile £683 £600 £588
East of England median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 153 244
10th Percentile - £13.41 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -
75th Percentile £21.46 £20.56 £15.75
90th Percentile £48.00 £22.00 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £39.55 £23.31 £15.50
% change year-on-year +69.67% +50.39% -11.93%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Peterborough +1 65 £200 -4.76% 27
Cambridge +3 28 £550 +15.79% 95
Problem-Solving
East of England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (2.11%) Confluence
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.05%) IIS
2 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 45 (47.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (38.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.05%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.05%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.05%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.05%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.68%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.05%) Azure
3 1 (1.05%) OCI
3 1 (1.05%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.63%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.05%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Tableau
2 2 (2.11%) Looker
2 2 (2.11%) Power BI
3 1 (1.05%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) JIRA
2 2 (2.11%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) Subversion
General
1 44 (46.32%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.26%) German Language
3 5 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.16%) Finance
4 3 (3.16%) Local Government
5 2 (2.11%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.11%) Automotive
5 2 (2.11%) Lithuanian Language
5 2 (2.11%) Military
5 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Dutch Language
6 1 (1.05%) Hungarian Language
6 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.05%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 46 (48.42%) Analyst
2 43 (45.26%) Service Analyst
3 31 (32.63%) Service Desk Analyst
4 27 (28.42%) Customer Analyst
4 27 (28.42%) Customer Service Analyst
5 15 (15.79%) Call Centre Analyst
6 13 (13.68%) Architect
7 12 (12.63%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
8 10 (10.53%) Software Architect
9 8 (8.42%) Administrator
10 7 (7.37%) Customer Service Administrator
11 3 (3.16%) Data Manager
11 3 (3.16%) Senior
11 3 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
12 2 (2.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 2 (2.11%) SAP Consultant
12 2 (2.11%) SAP Solutions Architect
12 2 (2.11%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 2 (2.11%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (2.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) DirectX
1 10 (10.53%) OpenGL
1 10 (10.53%) OpenGL ES
1 10 (10.53%) Vulkan
2 2 (2.11%) JSON
2 2 (2.11%) YAML
3 1 (1.05%) FFmpeg
3 1 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.05%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.53%) 3D Graphics
1 10 (10.53%) Ray Tracing
2 3 (3.16%) Life Science
3 2 (2.11%) ASIC
3 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.11%) FPGA
3 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.11%) Verilog
4 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.05%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.47%) Windows
2 3 (3.16%) Linux
3 2 (2.11%) Unix
4 1 (1.05%) Android
4 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.05%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (66.32%) Customer Service
2 55 (57.89%) Mathematics
3 53 (55.79%) Incident Management
3 53 (55.79%) Service Delivery
4 31 (32.63%) ITIL
5 18 (18.95%) Problem Management
6 10 (10.53%) Software Architecture
7 6 (6.32%) Validation
8 5 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (5.26%) Computer Science
8 5 (5.26%) Project Management
8 5 (5.26%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (5.26%) Time Management
9 4 (4.21%) Data Analysis
9 4 (4.21%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (4.21%) Migration
9 4 (4.21%) Software Engineering
9 4 (4.21%) Software Testing
9 4 (4.21%) Visualisation
10 3 (3.16%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.63%) C
2 11 (11.58%) C++
3 6 (6.32%) Python
4 5 (5.26%) SQL
5 2 (2.11%) Assembly Language
5 2 (2.11%) Bash
5 2 (2.11%) R
5 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.11%) SystemVerilog
5 2 (2.11%) Tcl
5 2 (2.11%) VB
6 1 (1.05%) C#
6 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (18.95%) Degree
1 18 (18.95%) MCP
2 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (12.63%) A+ Certification
3 12 (12.63%) MCSA
4 10 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 10 (10.53%) PhD
5 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) SLA
2 3 (3.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.05%) IFRS
System Software
1 14 (14.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 50 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.79%) Citrix
3 12 (12.63%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.21%) SAP
5 3 (3.16%) Cisco
5 3 (3.16%) NetApp
6 2 (2.11%) Cadence
6 2 (2.11%) Siemens
6 2 (2.11%) Synopsys
6 2 (2.11%) Xilinx
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce