Problem-Solving Contracts in Basildon

Problem Solving
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basildon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 10 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basildon 52.63% 18.37% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 55.56% 21.43% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile - £100 £297
25th Percentile £315 £104 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 £575 £393
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +46.35% -28.82%
75th Percentile £419 £619 £449
90th Percentile £423 £675 £480
Essex median daily rate £400 £534 £336
% change year-on-year -25.09% +59.17% -37.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
Essex median hourly rate £13.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -22.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basildon

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 Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 42 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 94.74% 85.71% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 16
10th Percentile £315 £102 £345
25th Percentile £320 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £503
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +14.43% +0.50%
75th Percentile £487 £600 £531
90th Percentile £488 £653 £563
Essex median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 4
10th Percentile £32.00 £52.50 £56.63
25th Percentile £35.00 £54.75 £57.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £80.00 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +27.49% +2.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 - £66.50
90th Percentile £48.00 - £67.85
Essex median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Basildon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Basildon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Basildon

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basildon 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 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) GCP
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) dbt
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (10.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
1 4 (40.00%) Tableau
2 3 (30.00%) Looker
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) TestRail
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) QA Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Defect Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Report Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Web Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (40.00%) PySpark
1 4 (40.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) NumPy
2 3 (30.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytics
1 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (40.00%) Data Security
1 4 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
1 4 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
1 4 (40.00%) User Stories
1 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (30.00%) Data Management
2 3 (30.00%) DataOps
2 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Open Source
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
2 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) QA
3 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (10.00%) MiFID
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) SAP