Problem-Solving Contracts in the UK excluding London

Problem Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,384 2,305 2,477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.62% 9.81% 8.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.75% 10.95% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 1,414 1,436
10th Percentile £200 £204 £185
25th Percentile £323 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +8.70% +8.24%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £551
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 206 226
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.00 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £41.37 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.74% +129.85% -
75th Percentile £31.59 £61.25 £46.60
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £55.94
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £48.40 £23.35
% change year-on-year -64.88% +107.30% +19.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South East +1 615 £480 -8.10% 928
North of England +9 578 £490 -2.00% 1,072
South West +20 340 £500 -7.41% 533
Midlands -2 309 £459 -3.42% 793
North West +10 297 £493 +9.56% 593
Yorkshire +8 248 £475 -13.64% 360
East of England +4 238 £500 +11.11% 517
Scotland +11 228 £475 - 254
West Midlands -1 199 £500 -0.05% 484
East Midlands +6 106 £350 - 310
Wales +6 60 £450 -14.29% 126
North East +25 35 £575 +84.44% 132
Northern Ireland +4 22 £435 +82.20% 61
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 6
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 52 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 49 (2.06%) Confluence
3 36 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.42%) CMS
5 9 (0.38%) nginx
6 8 (0.34%) Apache
7 7 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.21%) SAS
8 5 (0.21%) WordPress
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.17%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.13%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 202 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
2 181 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 88 (3.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
5 45 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.38%) Acrobat
6 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.25%) Maya
9 5 (0.21%) Simulink
10 4 (0.17%) SPSS
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.13%) Blender
11 3 (0.13%) Sketch
12 2 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.084%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.084%) InfoPath
12 2 (0.084%) InVision
12 2 (0.084%) Trello
12 2 (0.084%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 45 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.38%) SAP HCM
5 9 (0.38%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.38%) SAP PM
6 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) Maximo
9 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.21%) Odoo
9 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.21%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 294 (12.33%) Azure
2 167 (7.01%) AWS
3 153 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
4 106 (4.45%) Power Platform
5 57 (2.39%) GCP
6 46 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
7 43 (1.80%) Snowflake
8 35 (1.47%) OCI
9 34 (1.43%) SaaS
10 33 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (1.05%) Entra ID
12 23 (0.96%) PowerApps
13 20 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
14 19 (0.80%) PaaS
15 17 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (0.71%) Serverless
16 16 (0.67%) GitHub
17 15 (0.63%) IaaS
17 15 (0.63%) Power Automate
18 11 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 136 (5.70%) Firewall
2 89 (3.73%) LAN
3 79 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
4 70 (2.94%) WAN
5 62 (2.60%) VPN
6 58 (2.43%) DNS
7 52 (2.18%) Network Security
8 46 (1.93%) DHCP
9 44 (1.85%) SAN
10 29 (1.22%) Wireless
11 28 (1.17%) Internet
12 25 (1.05%) TCP/IP
13 17 (0.71%) OSPF
14 16 (0.67%) 5G
15 15 (0.63%) VoIP
16 14 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (0.59%) Remote Desktop
17 12 (0.50%) 4G
17 12 (0.50%) HTTP
17 12 (0.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (3.65%) Power BI
2 57 (2.39%) Tableau
3 44 (1.85%) SQL Server
4 41 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 32 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (1.30%) Data Lake
7 30 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 23 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 21 (0.88%) Big Data
10 20 (0.84%) Metadata
10 20 (0.84%) MySQL
11 13 (0.55%) SAP HANA
12 12 (0.50%) Data Mining
12 12 (0.50%) GIS
12 12 (0.50%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (0.42%) Power Query
15 8 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 152 (6.38%) JIRA
2 100 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 76 (3.19%) Git
4 38 (1.59%) Selenium
5 31 (1.30%) Cucumber
5 31 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 29 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
7 28 (1.17%) GitLab
8 26 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 25 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 24 (1.01%) REST Assured
11 17 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
11 17 (0.71%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (0.50%) Maven
14 10 (0.42%) Gradle
15 8 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.34%) JMeter
15 8 (0.34%) Travis CI
16 7 (0.29%) JUnit
General
1 1,409 (59.10%) Social Skills
2 930 (39.01%) Analytical Skills
3 319 (13.38%) Finance
4 201 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 117 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
6 95 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
7 83 (3.48%) Legal
8 81 (3.40%) Telecoms
9 80 (3.36%) Manufacturing
10 71 (2.98%) Marketing
11 66 (2.77%) Banking
12 46 (1.93%) Aerospace
13 44 (1.85%) Law
14 43 (1.80%) Retail
15 40 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.38%) Police
17 32 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
18 29 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 27 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
20 25 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 397 (16.65%) Analyst
2 234 (9.82%) Developer
3 174 (7.30%) Architect
4 166 (6.96%) Senior
5 133 (5.58%) Lead
6 128 (5.37%) Consultant
7 118 (4.95%) Service Analyst
8 115 (4.82%) Support Engineer
9 111 (4.66%) Project Manager
10 101 (4.24%) Service Desk Analyst
11 87 (3.65%) IT Support
12 85 (3.57%) IT Engineer
13 83 (3.48%) Business Analyst
14 81 (3.40%) Network Engineer
15 75 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
16 67 (2.81%) Service Desk Agent
17 62 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 60 (2.52%) Administrator
19 59 (2.47%) Data Analyst
20 52 (2.18%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (3.27%) .NET
2 59 (2.47%) REST
3 58 (2.43%) HTML
4 56 (2.35%) CSS
5 54 (2.27%) React
6 36 (1.51%) AngularJS
7 32 (1.34%) Spring
8 30 (1.26%) JSON
9 27 (1.13%) Web Services
10 26 (1.09%) .NET Core
10 26 (1.09%) Kafka
11 25 (1.05%) Java EE
12 23 (0.96%) ASP.NET
13 19 (0.80%) XML
14 18 (0.76%) RESTful
15 15 (0.63%) Middleware
15 15 (0.63%) YAML
16 13 (0.55%) DirectX
16 13 (0.55%) OpenGL
16 13 (0.55%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 119 (4.99%) Management Information System
2 100 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
3 92 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 81 (3.40%) Data Centre
5 68 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 57 (2.39%) Driving Licence
7 46 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 39 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.09%) CMDB
10 23 (0.96%) Algorithms
10 23 (0.96%) Credit Risk
10 23 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (0.92%) NHS
12 20 (0.84%) Onboarding
13 16 (0.67%) Life Science
13 16 (0.67%) Mobile App
13 16 (0.67%) Operational Technology
14 15 (0.63%) PKI
15 14 (0.59%) Smartphone
16 13 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 349 (14.64%) Windows
2 153 (6.42%) Windows 10
3 148 (6.21%) Linux
4 80 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 51 (2.14%) Windows 7
6 47 (1.97%) Unix
7 40 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 38 (1.59%) Android
9 35 (1.47%) Apple iOS
10 33 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 23 (0.96%) Mac OS
13 17 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (0.63%) Windows XP
15 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.29%) CentOS
17 5 (0.21%) AIX
17 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
18 3 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (17.37%) Agile
2 380 (15.94%) Customer Service
3 350 (14.68%) Project Management
4 270 (11.33%) ITIL
5 266 (11.16%) Decision-Making
6 223 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 209 (8.77%) DevOps
8 200 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 196 (8.22%) Migration
10 189 (7.93%) Computer Science
11 178 (7.47%) Service Delivery
12 136 (5.70%) Analytics
13 135 (5.66%) Change Management
14 127 (5.33%) Project Delivery
15 121 (5.08%) Time Management
16 119 (4.99%) Service Management
17 117 (4.91%) Incident Management
18 113 (4.74%) Business Intelligence
18 113 (4.74%) CI/CD
19 111 (4.66%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 191 (8.01%) SQL
2 181 (7.59%) Python
3 141 (5.91%) Java
4 118 (4.95%) PowerShell
5 87 (3.65%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.02%) C
7 67 (2.81%) C#
8 51 (2.14%) C++
9 48 (2.01%) Bash
10 29 (1.22%) TypeScript
11 27 (1.13%) PL/SQL
12 26 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 19 (0.80%) PHP
14 18 (0.76%) Perl
15 13 (0.55%) Tcl
16 12 (0.50%) Ruby
17 11 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.46%) Go
17 11 (0.46%) Scala
17 11 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 587 (24.62%) Security Cleared
2 463 (19.42%) Degree
3 380 (15.94%) SC Cleared
4 195 (8.18%) DV Cleared
5 137 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 88 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
7 61 (2.56%) CCNP
8 60 (2.52%) CCNA
9 56 (2.35%) Master's Degree
10 55 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (1.38%) A+ Certification
13 30 (1.26%) HND
14 28 (1.17%) PMP
15 25 (1.05%) APMP
15 25 (1.05%) HNC
16 23 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
17 22 (0.92%) CISSP
17 22 (0.92%) PMI Certification
18 20 (0.84%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (7.34%) SLA
2 120 (5.03%) QA
3 57 (2.39%) PMO
4 52 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 42 (1.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 36 (1.51%) GDPR
7 19 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.50%) NIST
9 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.29%) GxP
10 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.21%) GAMP
12 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.17%) HL7
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 173 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 126 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (2.39%) Docker
4 53 (2.22%) Hyper-V
5 35 (1.47%) vSphere
6 28 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
7 26 (1.09%) Firmware
8 17 (0.71%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.50%) KVM
10 10 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
12 6 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 4 (0.17%) VMware Server
15 3 (0.13%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.13%) HDFS
15 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
15 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 109 (4.57%) SCCM
2 101 (4.24%) Ansible
3 61 (2.56%) Kubernetes
4 59 (2.47%) Terraform
5 48 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (1.80%) vCenter Server
7 20 (0.84%) PowerCLI
8 18 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
8 18 (0.76%) NetBackup
8 18 (0.76%) SCOM
8 18 (0.76%) WSUS
9 15 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.50%) Podman
12 11 (0.46%) Grafana
13 10 (0.42%) Puppet
14 9 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.38%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.34%) Kibana
15 8 (0.34%) logstash
Vendors
1 563 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 136 (5.70%) VMware
3 126 (5.29%) Oracle
4 117 (4.91%) SAP
5 101 (4.24%) Cisco
6 80 (3.36%) HP
7 66 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.39%) Dell
9 52 (2.18%) Juniper
10 49 (2.06%) Citrix
11 47 (1.97%) Google
12 40 (1.68%) Splunk
13 35 (1.47%) Salesforce
14 34 (1.43%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.30%) Alteryx
16 28 (1.17%) IBM
17 26 (1.09%) Atlassian
18 25 (1.05%) Apple
19 23 (0.96%) Adobe
20 19 (0.80%) CheckPoint