Problem-Solving Contracts in Wiltshire

Problem Solving
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 19 45 33
Rank change year-on-year +26 -12 -14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 91 47 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 9.64% 4.26% 5.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.70% 4.63% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 43 26
10th Percentile £263 £413 £331
25th Percentile £315 £471 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +5.26% +7.18%
75th Percentile £700 £694 £638
90th Percentile - £768 £763
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £14.12 - £22.55
25th Percentile - - £32.56
Median hourly rate £14.54 - £50.50
75th Percentile £16.94 - £53.25
90th Percentile £17.25 - £54.15
South West median hourly rate £25.00 £56.29 £49.48
% change year-on-year -55.59% +13.77% +11.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 778 1,016 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.42% 92.03% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 853 591
10th Percentile £315 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £524
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +9.84% +4.70%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £613
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 24
10th Percentile £12.00 £60.45 £15.26
25th Percentile - £62.75 £29.75
Median hourly rate £14.54 £68.15 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year -78.66% +15.02% +18.50%
75th Percentile £30.25 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £47.75 £85.25 £73.50
South West median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Wiltshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Wiltshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Wiltshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Wiltshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire 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
Corsham +20 58 £535 -2.73% 8
Swindon +20 17 £500 -28.57% 25
Devizes - 5 - - 2
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 20 (21.98%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.49%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (2.20%) AWS
2 2 (2.20%) Azure
2 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.10%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.68%) Firewall
2 2 (2.20%) DHCP
2 2 (2.20%) DNS
2 2 (2.20%) LAN
2 2 (2.20%) SAN
2 2 (2.20%) Skype
2 2 (2.20%) SMTP
2 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.20%) WAN
3 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.10%) Network Security
3 1 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.20%) MySQL
1 2 (2.20%) Power BI
1 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 20 (21.98%) Bitbucket
1 20 (21.98%) JIRA
2 19 (20.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) JMeter
3 2 (2.20%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.10%) Git
General
1 57 (62.64%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.88%) Aerospace
4 11 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.59%) Police
6 4 (4.40%) Finance
7 3 (3.30%) Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Military
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
9 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (32.97%) Analyst
2 24 (26.37%) Service Analyst
2 24 (26.37%) Service Desk Analyst
3 19 (20.88%) Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Network Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Field Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Field Service Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) IT Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) VMware Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (2.20%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) Senior Performance Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) Service Desk Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) SOC Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) SQL Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) SQL Data Analyst
9 2 (2.20%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.98%) .NET
1 20 (21.98%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.10%) React
2 1 (1.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.19%) Data Centre
1 12 (13.19%) Private Cloud
2 7 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (4.40%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.20%) Clustering
6 2 (2.20%) PKI
6 2 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.10%) Acoustics
7 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.18%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Windows
3 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.08%) Configuration Management
2 20 (21.98%) Agile
2 20 (21.98%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (21.98%) OO
2 20 (21.98%) OOP
2 20 (21.98%) Task Automation
3 19 (20.88%) CI/CD
3 19 (20.88%) Continuous Integration
3 19 (20.88%) Infrastructure Automation
4 16 (17.58%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (16.48%) Penetration Testing
6 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (13.19%) Resource Management
6 12 (13.19%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 12 (13.19%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 9 (9.89%) ITIL
8 7 (7.69%) Decision-Making
8 7 (7.69%) Project Management
9 5 (5.49%) Risk Assessment
9 5 (5.49%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.18%) PowerShell
2 21 (23.08%) Python
3 4 (4.40%) SQL
4 2 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (2.20%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.10%) Bash
5 1 (1.10%) C
5 1 (1.10%) C++
5 1 (1.10%) Java
5 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.10%) Perl
5 1 (1.10%) Ruby
5 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 48 (52.75%) SC Cleared
3 28 (30.77%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) Degree
5 2 (2.20%) CISSP
5 2 (2.20%) MCSE
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.10%) CCNP
6 1 (1.10%) CCSP
6 1 (1.10%) CEH
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.10%) GIAC
6 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.10%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (31.87%) SLA
2 3 (3.30%) GDPR
2 3 (3.30%) NIST
3 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.20%) PMO
4 1 (1.10%) GRC
4 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (19.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (14.29%) vSphere
3 3 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.10%) Firmware
5 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (21.98%) PowerCLI
2 19 (20.88%) Ansible
3 13 (14.29%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.20%) MOM
5 2 (2.20%) OPNET
5 2 (2.20%) SCCM
5 2 (2.20%) SCOM
6 1 (1.10%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.10%) Puppet
6 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (23.08%) HP
2 20 (21.98%) Atlassian
3 19 (20.88%) Dell
3 19 (20.88%) VMware
4 17 (18.68%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.30%) Remedy
6 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.20%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) Google
7 1 (1.10%) QinetiQ
7 1 (1.10%) SAP