Problem-Solving Contracts in Reading

Problem Solving
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 15 27
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 199 107 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 16.79% 10.35% 6.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.62% 11.44% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 77 45
10th Percentile £205 £363 £188
25th Percentile £213 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £640
Berkshire median daily rate £465 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -11.43% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £30.46 -
25th Percentile £56.50 £48.40 -
Median hourly rate £59.80 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% - -
75th Percentile £61.60 - -
90th Percentile - £75.22 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £54.56 £80.40
% change year-on-year +12.90% -32.14% +689.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,069 935 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.21% 90.43% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 619 821
10th Percentile £213 £363 £238
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (1.01%) CMS
1 2 (1.01%) Confluence
1 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 39 (19.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.01%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (5.53%) Oracle EBS R12
1 11 (5.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (3.02%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (2.51%) Maximo
4 4 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.01%) Teamcenter
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.50%) Magento
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.50%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (21.11%) Azure
2 22 (11.06%) Snowflake
3 15 (7.54%) AWS
4 13 (6.53%) OCI
5 10 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.01%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.01%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.50%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.50%) PaaS
7 1 (0.50%) SaaS
7 1 (0.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.06%) LAN
2 21 (10.55%) Firewall
3 13 (6.53%) DHCP
3 13 (6.53%) DNS
3 13 (6.53%) SAN
4 7 (3.52%) 5G
5 6 (3.02%) 3G
5 6 (3.02%) 4G
5 6 (3.02%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (2.51%) WAN
7 2 (1.01%) Intranet
7 2 (1.01%) Network Security
7 2 (1.01%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.50%) Junos
8 1 (0.50%) MPLS
8 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.50%) SSL
8 1 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.06%) Tableau
2 4 (2.01%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.01%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.51%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.01%) Power BI
4 2 (1.01%) Power Query
5 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (16.58%) Jenkins
2 26 (13.07%) Selenium
3 25 (12.56%) Cucumber
4 24 (12.06%) REST Assured
4 24 (12.06%) SonarQube
5 16 (8.04%) JIRA
6 13 (6.53%) GitLab
7 11 (5.53%) Git
8 9 (4.52%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (3.52%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.50%) CMake
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 127 (63.82%) Social Skills
2 94 (47.24%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (19.10%) Organisational Skills
4 28 (14.07%) Finance
5 27 (13.57%) Telecoms
6 21 (10.55%) Law
7 19 (9.55%) Legal
8 13 (6.53%) Police
9 7 (3.52%) Retail
10 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.01%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.01%) Marketing
14 1 (0.50%) Billing
14 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (20.60%) Analyst
2 28 (14.07%) Senior
3 26 (13.07%) Consultant
3 26 (13.07%) Lead
4 22 (11.06%) Support Engineer
5 19 (9.55%) Desktop Engineer
5 19 (9.55%) Desktop Support
5 19 (9.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 19 (9.55%) Hardware Engineer
6 18 (9.05%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
7 17 (8.54%) Developer
7 17 (8.54%) Java Engineer
8 15 (7.54%) Functional Consultant
9 13 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.53%) Oracle Consultant
9 13 (6.53%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 10 (5.03%) Data Analyst
11 9 (4.52%) Storage Engineer
12 8 (4.02%) Architect
12 8 (4.02%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.07%) REST
2 25 (12.56%) Java EE
3 12 (6.03%) ARM Templates
4 10 (5.03%) .NET
4 10 (5.03%) ASP.NET
5 6 (3.02%) HTML
6 5 (2.51%) SAP Basis
7 4 (2.01%) CSS
7 4 (2.01%) Itk
7 4 (2.01%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (1.01%) Flash
9 1 (0.50%) Kafka
9 1 (0.50%) Mustache
9 1 (0.50%) Node.js
9 1 (0.50%) React
9 1 (0.50%) Spring
9 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.50%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.09%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.04%) Credit Risk
3 13 (6.53%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.01%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.01%) Social Media
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.50%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Handset
7 1 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.50%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 59 (29.65%) Windows
2 49 (24.62%) Windows 10
3 36 (18.09%) Windows 7
4 17 (8.54%) Windows Server
5 16 (8.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (8.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (7.04%) Linux
7 13 (6.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (6.53%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (27.64%) Decision-Making
2 53 (26.63%) ITIL
3 40 (20.10%) Customer Service
3 40 (20.10%) DevOps
4 34 (17.09%) Project Management
5 31 (15.58%) Technical Leadership
6 27 (13.57%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (12.56%) Analytics
7 25 (12.56%) Software Architecture
7 25 (12.56%) Test Automation
8 24 (12.06%) Software Engineering
9 23 (11.56%) Actionable Insight
9 23 (11.56%) Agile
10 20 (10.05%) Service Delivery
11 19 (9.55%) Customer Requirements
11 19 (9.55%) Software Testing
12 18 (9.05%) Hardware Maintenance
12 18 (9.05%) Software Deployment
13 17 (8.54%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (8.54%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.07%) Java
2 22 (11.06%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.02%) C#
4 7 (3.52%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.51%) Python
6 2 (1.01%) C++
7 1 (0.50%) Bash
7 1 (0.50%) C
7 1 (0.50%) F#
7 1 (0.50%) PHP
7 1 (0.50%) SQL
7 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (46.73%) Security Cleared
2 60 (30.15%) Degree
3 56 (28.14%) DV Cleared
4 46 (23.12%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.53%) CCNA
5 13 (6.53%) CCNP
5 13 (6.53%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.51%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.51%) PMP
7 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.50%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.52%) QA
2 2 (1.01%) PMO
3 1 (0.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.50%) ITGC
3 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (9.05%) Firmware
2 14 (7.04%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.04%) Hyper-V
2 14 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.53%) Docker
3 13 (6.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (25.13%) SCCM
2 32 (16.08%) Ansible
3 14 (7.04%) SCOM
4 13 (6.53%) EMC NetWorker
4 13 (6.53%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.53%) NetBackup
4 13 (6.53%) Terraform
4 13 (6.53%) vCenter Server
4 13 (6.53%) WSUS
5 12 (6.03%) Docker Swarm
5 12 (6.03%) Podman
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (28.64%) Microsoft
2 49 (24.62%) HP
3 34 (17.09%) Oracle
4 24 (12.06%) Alteryx
5 17 (8.54%) Cisco
5 17 (8.54%) Juniper
6 14 (7.04%) Palo Alto
6 14 (7.04%) VMware
7 13 (6.53%) 3PAR
7 13 (6.53%) Dell
7 13 (6.53%) EMC
7 13 (6.53%) Extreme Networks
7 13 (6.53%) Symantec
7 13 (6.53%) Veeam
8 5 (2.51%) SAP
9 2 (1.01%) IBM
9 2 (1.01%) Workday
10 1 (0.50%) Ericsson
10 1 (0.50%) Kenna
10 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow