Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Problem Solving
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 5 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 29.41% 66.67% 20.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% 100.00% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £684 - £100
25th Percentile £687 £315 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £691 £318 £550
Median % change year-on-year +117.64% -42.27% -4.93%
75th Percentile £696 £320 £638
90th Percentile £698 £321 £675
Essex median daily rate £641 £318 £500
% change year-on-year +101.57% -36.40% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
Essex median hourly rate £16.25 £30.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -45.83% +66.67% -

All Process & 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 15 8 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 88.24% 66.67% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 19
10th Percentile £110 - £151
25th Percentile £195 £315 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £318 £450
Median % change year-on-year +28.35% -29.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £682 £320 £581
90th Percentile £693 £321 £621
Essex median daily rate £425 £318 £450
% change year-on-year +33.65% -29.33% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 15
10th Percentile £65.50 - £38.94
25th Percentile £66.25 - £49.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% -45.45% -10.57%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £72.03
90th Percentile £69.50 - £78.00
Essex median hourly rate £18.87 £32.50 £34.08
% change year-on-year -41.94% -4.62% -23.43%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Basildon

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) R Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Credit Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (40.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) People Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scorecard
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) System Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) StreamSets