Problem-Solving Contracts in Aberdeen

Problem Solving
Scotland > Aberdeen

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Aberdeen requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 7 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Aberdeen 28.00% 16.00% 16.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.82% 17.39% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £178 £573 £230
25th Percentile £219 £588 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -46.00% +31.58% +75.93%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £503
90th Percentile £656 - £531
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.11% - +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Aberdeen

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Aberdeen.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 23 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen 88.00% 92.00% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 17
10th Percentile £171 £256 £160
25th Percentile £284 £325 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +22.22% +17.65%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £538
90th Percentile £683 £633 £585
Scotland median daily rate £463 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -0.54% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £17.93 £17.26
25th Percentile - £19.31 £17.34
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +24.53% -1.44%
75th Percentile £26.55 £24.31 £17.59
90th Percentile £27.39 £25.78 £17.67
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.34 £14.50
% change year-on-year +3.28% +33.34% -61.26%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Aberdeen

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Aberdeen

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Aberdeen

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Aberdeen

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Aberdeen over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Aberdeen

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Aberdeen

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Aberdeen

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Wireless
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
2 1 (14.29%) OSPF
2 1 (14.29%) TACACS
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Database Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Database Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
1 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
1 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lineage
1 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
1 1 (14.29%) High Availability
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
1 1 (14.29%) Minimum Viable Product
1 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (14.29%) Project Management
1 1 (14.29%) Security Auditing
1 1 (14.29%) SIEM
1 1 (14.29%) Validation
1 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Riverbed
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds