Problem-Solving Contracts in Edinburgh

Problem Solving
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 7 55 27
Rank change year-on-year +48 -28 +2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 112 63 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.84% 4.88% 7.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.69% 5.13% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 44 96
10th Percentile £260 £245 £170
25th Percentile £415 £409 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £520
90th Percentile £634 £621 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 3
10th Percentile £13.30 £21.30 -
25th Percentile £15.10 £21.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £21.47 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% -54.81% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £21.57 £52.25
90th Percentile - £21.63 £54.35
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £18.88 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.96% -60.25% +26.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 714 1,229 1,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.26% 95.27% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 877 1,257
10th Percentile £227 £252 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £563
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 18
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.62 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.47 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -41.19% -32.99%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.94 £52.50
90th Percentile - £66.20 £53.92
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 6 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.89%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.89%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 17 (15.18%) AWS
2 12 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (10.71%) OCI
3 9 (8.04%) Azure
3 9 (8.04%) SaaS
4 6 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.46%) PaaS
6 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.57%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.68%) GCP
7 3 (2.68%) IaaS
8 1 (0.89%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.89%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.89%) Figma
8 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.14%) Firewall
2 6 (5.36%) SAN
3 4 (3.57%) VSAN
4 3 (2.68%) Internet
4 3 (2.68%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.79%) IPsec
5 2 (1.79%) VPN
6 1 (0.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.61%) Oracle Database
2 9 (8.04%) Metadata
3 6 (5.36%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.57%) Big Data
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database 11g
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (1.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (1.79%) Power BI
6 2 (1.79%) Tableau
7 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
2 9 (8.04%) Gradle
2 9 (8.04%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.25%) Git
3 7 (6.25%) Maven
4 5 (4.46%) JIRA
5 3 (2.68%) JMeter
5 3 (2.68%) LoadRunner
5 3 (2.68%) Selenium
6 2 (1.79%) JUnit
7 1 (0.89%) GitLab
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
General
1 61 (54.46%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (48.21%) Social Skills
3 34 (30.36%) Public Sector
4 19 (16.96%) Finance
5 7 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Banking
6 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Retail
7 4 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Publishing
9 1 (0.89%) French Language
9 1 (0.89%) Games
9 1 (0.89%) German Language
9 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.89%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (13.39%) Senior
2 13 (11.61%) Developer
3 12 (10.71%) Analyst
4 7 (6.25%) Architect
4 7 (6.25%) Designer
4 7 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 7 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (5.36%) Consultant
5 6 (5.36%) Field Engineer
5 6 (5.36%) Field Service Engineer
5 6 (5.36%) Site Manager
5 6 (5.36%) Site Reliability Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Administrator
6 5 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Lead
6 5 (4.46%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.57%) Coordinator
7 4 (3.57%) Service Designer
8 3 (2.68%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.57%) XML
3 3 (2.68%) CSS
3 3 (2.68%) HTML
3 3 (2.68%) Kafka
4 2 (1.79%) .NET
4 2 (1.79%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (1.79%) Dagger
4 2 (1.79%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.79%) React
4 2 (1.79%) REST
4 2 (1.79%) Retrofit
5 1 (0.89%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.89%) OAuth
5 1 (0.89%) RESTful
5 1 (0.89%) Spring
5 1 (0.89%) Spring Batch
5 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.57%) PKI
4 4 (3.57%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.79%) Tandem
7 1 (0.89%) Clustering
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Windows
2 9 (8.04%) Unix
3 7 (6.25%) Linux
4 2 (1.79%) Android
5 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.89%) Solaris
5 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.54%) Migration
2 22 (19.64%) Computer Science
3 20 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (10.71%) Analytics
7 11 (9.82%) ERP
7 11 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (8.93%) Agile
8 10 (8.93%) Customer Service
9 9 (8.04%) CI/CD
9 9 (8.04%) Data Protection
9 9 (8.04%) Mentoring
9 9 (8.04%) SQL Optimisation
10 8 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (7.14%) Change Management
11 7 (6.25%) Data Management
12 6 (5.36%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (5.36%) OWASP
12 6 (5.36%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.96%) SQL
2 16 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 10 (8.93%) Python
4 6 (5.36%) Bash
4 6 (5.36%) Groovy
4 6 (5.36%) Ruby
4 6 (5.36%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.79%) Java
6 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.89%) C#
7 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (28.57%) Degree
2 22 (19.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.14%) MCSE
3 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.36%) A+ Certification
4 6 (5.36%) CCNA
4 6 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.36%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.89%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.89%) CCSA
8 1 (0.89%) CCSE
8 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.89%) PMP
8 1 (0.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.61%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.57%) QA
3 3 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.79%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.04%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.46%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.57%) vSphere
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.89%) Firmware
7 1 (0.89%) KVM
Systems Management
1 10 (8.93%) Terraform
2 9 (8.04%) Ansible
3 8 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.57%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.57%) VxRail
5 3 (2.68%) Data Guard
5 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (28.57%) Oracle
2 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.93%) Dell
4 6 (5.36%) VMware
5 4 (3.57%) Nintex
6 3 (2.68%) Cisco
6 3 (2.68%) Okta
7 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.89%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.89%) Citrix
8 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.89%) Google
8 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.89%) SAP