Problem-Solving Contracts in Essex

Problem Solving
East of England > Essex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 3 8 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 39 32 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 17.33% 13.28% 11.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.31% 16.00% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 30
10th Percentile £113 £105 £323
25th Percentile £323 £215 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £336 £535
Median % change year-on-year +59.17% -37.29% +33.75%
75th Percentile £599 £509 £631
90th Percentile £673 £583 £639
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £10.42 - -
25th Percentile £11.88 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £20.25 - £30.75
90th Percentile £25.67 - £39.30
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
Essex

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 Essex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 183 200 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 81.33% 82.99% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 127 220
10th Percentile £250 £185 £205
25th Percentile £350 £262 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% +16.47%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £576
90th Percentile £600 £621 £631
East of England median daily rate £470 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 33
10th Percentile £10.42 £21.78 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.96 £24.62 £18.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% +59.38% +22.94%
75th Percentile £80.00 £60.63 £44.53
90th Percentile - £67.55 £68.99
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 Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Basildon +4 9 £575 +46.35% 15
Chelmsford +5 6 £190 +72.73% 9
Brentwood -8 5 £300 - 5
Epping - 2 £413 -
Colchester - 1 - - 6
Problem-Solving
East of England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Luigi
2 1 (2.56%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) GCP
2 5 (12.82%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (12.82%) Google Sheets
2 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.56%) Azure
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) Firewall
1 12 (30.77%) VPN
2 2 (5.13%) Internet
3 1 (2.56%) RTMP
3 1 (2.56%) RTP
3 1 (2.56%) RTSP
3 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) GIS
1 5 (12.82%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) Big Data
2 2 (5.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) CMake
1 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 17 (43.59%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (38.46%) Finance
3 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Banking
5 5 (12.82%) Back Office
5 5 (12.82%) Retail
6 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.13%) Law
7 2 (5.13%) Legal
7 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.56%) Automotive
8 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.56%) Local Government
8 1 (2.56%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Full Stack Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Java Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Digital Transformation
4 5 (12.82%) Digital Transformation Manager
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Transformation Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Field Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Field Service Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) CSS
1 12 (30.77%) HTML
1 12 (30.77%) React
2 1 (2.56%) FFmpeg
2 1 (2.56%) GStreamer
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) NumPy
2 1 (2.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.56%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (7.69%) Windows 7
2 3 (7.69%) Windows 8
3 1 (2.56%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Agile
2 18 (46.15%) DevOps
2 18 (46.15%) Identity Management
3 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 12 (30.77%) Load Balancing
3 12 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 11 (28.21%) Computer Science
5 10 (25.64%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (17.95%) Data Science
7 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (15.38%) Business Strategy
7 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
7 6 (15.38%) Data Analysis
7 6 (15.38%) Fintech
7 6 (15.38%) Migration
7 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 6 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (15.38%) TOGAF
7 6 (15.38%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) TypeScript
3 7 (17.95%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.56%) C
6 1 (2.56%) C++
6 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Degree
2 11 (28.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) A+ Certification
3 3 (7.69%) CCNA
3 3 (7.69%) CCNP
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.69%) MCSA
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Google
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Apple
3 1 (2.56%) Hortonworks
3 1 (2.56%) Informatica
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) Teradata