Problem-Solving Contracts in the East of England

Problem Solving
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 4 8 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 243 264 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 12.82% 12.71% 9.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.88% 14.59% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 109 123
10th Percentile £192 £179 £135
25th Percentile £313 £250 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £595 £550 £540
90th Percentile £675 £638 £632
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 84 69
10th Percentile - £13.29 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.80 £22.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% +62.96% -10.00%
75th Percentile £20.25 £61.25 £14.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £76.03 £15.75
England median hourly rate £17.50 £43.86 £20.00
% change year-on-year -60.10% +119.30% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,633 1,810 2,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 87.14% 88.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 1,068 1,270
10th Percentile £207 £200 £185
25th Percentile £336 £313 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 344 388
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £23.31 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.67% +50.39% -11.93%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Cambridgeshire 0 95 £550 +18.92% 161
Hertfordshire -10 59 £413 -19.12% 133
Essex +5 39 £534 +59.17% 83
Bedfordshire +5 29 £400 -13.51% 31
Norfolk +5 12 £525 +174.51% 53
Suffolk +5 7 £550 -15.38% 31
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (1.65%) Confluence
1 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.23%) Apache
2 3 (1.23%) IIS
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Luigi
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 64 (26.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (17.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (7.82%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.65%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.82%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.82%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.82%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.82%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.82%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.41%) DELMIA
3 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (7.41%) Azure
3 15 (6.17%) AWS
4 14 (5.76%) GCP
5 10 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.06%) Google Sheets
7 3 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.23%) OCI
7 3 (1.23%) SaaS
8 2 (0.82%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.82%) GitHub
8 2 (0.82%) Serverless
8 2 (0.82%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.41%) CloudFront
9 1 (0.41%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.23%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (7.41%) VPN
3 16 (6.58%) Firewall
4 3 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.23%) LAN
4 3 (1.23%) Network Security
4 3 (1.23%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (1.23%) WAN
5 2 (0.82%) BGP
5 2 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.82%) H.323
5 2 (0.82%) HTTP
5 2 (0.82%) Internet
5 2 (0.82%) OSPF
5 2 (0.82%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.82%) Wireless
6 1 (0.41%) RTMP
6 1 (0.41%) RTP
6 1 (0.41%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.12%) Power BI
2 6 (2.47%) Tableau
3 5 (2.06%) GIS
4 3 (1.23%) Big Data
4 3 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.82%) Looker
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.41%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.41%) Metadata
6 1 (0.41%) MS Access
6 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.94%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (3.70%) JIRA
3 3 (1.23%) Git
4 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.82%) Subversion
5 1 (0.41%) CMake
5 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
General
1 128 (52.67%) Social Skills
2 67 (27.57%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (14.40%) Finance
4 9 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (3.29%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.88%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.47%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.47%) Banking
7 6 (2.47%) Marketing
7 6 (2.47%) Retail
8 5 (2.06%) Back Office
8 5 (2.06%) German Language
8 5 (2.06%) Local Government
8 5 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.65%) Automotive
9 4 (1.65%) Law
10 3 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 64 (26.34%) Analyst
2 45 (18.52%) Service Analyst
3 33 (13.58%) Service Desk Analyst
4 27 (11.11%) Customer Analyst
4 27 (11.11%) Customer Service Analyst
5 22 (9.05%) Architect
6 18 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.58%) Developer
8 15 (6.17%) Call Centre Analyst
9 12 (4.94%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
9 12 (4.94%) Administrator
9 12 (4.94%) C Software Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) Embedded Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) Support Engineer
10 11 (4.53%) Project Manager
10 11 (4.53%) Senior
11 10 (4.12%) Embedded C Engineer
11 10 (4.12%) Embedded C Software Engineer
11 10 (4.12%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.23%) HTML
2 18 (7.41%) CSS
3 13 (5.35%) React
4 10 (4.12%) DirectX
4 10 (4.12%) OpenGL
4 10 (4.12%) OpenGL ES
4 10 (4.12%) Vulkan
5 4 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.65%) REST
5 4 (1.65%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.82%) FFmpeg
6 2 (0.82%) JSON
6 2 (0.82%) YAML
7 1 (0.41%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.41%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.41%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.41%) Kafka
7 1 (0.41%) NumPy
7 1 (0.41%) Pandas
7 1 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.12%) 3D Graphics
1 10 (4.12%) Management Information System
1 10 (4.12%) Ray Tracing
2 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.47%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.23%) iPad
5 3 (1.23%) iPhone
5 3 (1.23%) Life Science
6 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.82%) BYOD
6 2 (0.82%) CMDB
6 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.82%) FPGA
6 2 (0.82%) IVR
6 2 (0.82%) NHS
6 2 (0.82%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.29%) Windows
2 13 (5.35%) Linux
3 5 (2.06%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.65%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.23%) Android
5 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.23%) Unix
5 3 (1.23%) Windows 8
6 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (37.45%) Customer Service
2 61 (25.10%) Service Delivery
3 59 (24.28%) Mathematics
4 54 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 41 (16.87%) ITIL
6 31 (12.76%) Agile
6 31 (12.76%) Software Engineering
7 24 (9.88%) Migration
8 23 (9.47%) DevOps
8 23 (9.47%) Project Management
9 22 (9.05%) Computer Science
10 19 (7.82%) Problem Management
11 18 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (7.41%) CI/CD
11 18 (7.41%) Identity Management
12 17 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (6.58%) Validation
14 15 (6.17%) Data Analysis
15 13 (5.35%) Decision-Making
16 12 (4.94%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.29%) C
2 22 (9.05%) C++
3 21 (8.64%) SQL
4 19 (7.82%) Java
5 16 (6.58%) Python
6 10 (4.12%) Embedded C
6 10 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.29%) Embedded C++
7 8 (3.29%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.65%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.65%) R
9 3 (1.23%) Bash
9 3 (1.23%) C#
10 2 (0.82%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.82%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.82%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (0.82%) Tcl
10 2 (0.82%) VB
11 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (19.75%) Degree
2 21 (8.64%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (7.41%) MCP
5 17 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (6.58%) Master's Degree
7 15 (6.17%) A+ Certification
7 15 (6.17%) MCSA
7 15 (6.17%) SC Cleared
8 10 (4.12%) PhD
9 8 (3.29%) CCNP
9 8 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.47%) CCNA
11 5 (2.06%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.23%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.23%) PMP
13 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.17%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.35%) SLA
3 6 (2.47%) QA
4 4 (1.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) IFRS
5 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.06%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.06%) SCCM
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.23%) Terraform
3 2 (0.82%) WSUS
4 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 84 (34.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.41%) SAP
3 17 (7.00%) Google
4 16 (6.58%) Citrix
5 14 (5.76%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.12%) Cisco
7 6 (2.47%) Oracle
8 5 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.06%) VMware
9 3 (1.23%) McAfee
9 3 (1.23%) NetApp
9 3 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.82%) F5
10 2 (0.82%) Siemens
10 2 (0.82%) Splunk
10 2 (0.82%) Synopsys
10 2 (0.82%) Talend
10 2 (0.82%) Twitter