Problem-Solving Contracts in Berkshire

Problem Solving
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 231 251 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.93% 12.75% 12.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.37% 14.70% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 119 129
10th Percentile £310 £211 £311
25th Percentile £403 £270 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £600
90th Percentile £655 £665 £675
South East median daily rate £499 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 9
10th Percentile £27.35 £14.50 £42.42
25th Percentile £34.23 £25.58 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £58.30 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -36.05% +6.85% -
75th Percentile £53.38 £61.60 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.07 - £77.87
South East median hourly rate £18.41 £21.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -14.37% -62.61% +21.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,081 1,708 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.27% 86.79% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 850 1,021
10th Percentile £325 £265 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 111 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.50 £17.70
25th Percentile £24.66 £41.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £58.49 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.53% -0.44% +179.43%
75th Percentile £77.19 £72.04 £74.00
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.47% -5.00% +122.22%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Berkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 2025. 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
Reading +2 84 £550 -8.33% 311
Wokingham +18 55 £500 -6.98% 15
Slough +11 29 £450 -28.00% 462
Bracknell +3 20 £475 +75.93% 33
Windsor -4 7 £588 -4.08% 8
Maidenhead +4 3 £200 -14.35% 40
Thatcham - 2 £600 - 5
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (1.73%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.87%) Apache
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.87%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (5.63%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (1.73%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.87%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.87%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle AGIS
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.43%) Primavera
7 1 (0.43%) Remedy AR System
7 1 (0.43%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.43%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.43%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.21%) Azure
2 35 (15.15%) AWS
3 15 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (5.19%) GCP
5 9 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.90%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.46%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.46%) OCI
7 7 (3.03%) SaaS
8 5 (2.16%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.16%) IaaS
8 5 (2.16%) PaaS
9 4 (1.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.73%) Figma
9 4 (1.73%) GitHub
10 3 (1.30%) dbt
10 3 (1.30%) Serverless
10 3 (1.30%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.36%) WAN
2 16 (6.93%) Ethernet
2 16 (6.93%) VPN
2 16 (6.93%) Wireshark
3 15 (6.49%) LAN
3 15 (6.49%) MPLS
3 15 (6.49%) SAN
4 14 (6.06%) ATM
4 14 (6.06%) Frame Relay
4 14 (6.06%) GPRS
4 14 (6.06%) GSM
4 14 (6.06%) LTE
4 14 (6.06%) SDH
4 14 (6.06%) UMTS
5 8 (3.46%) DHCP
5 8 (3.46%) DNS
5 8 (3.46%) Firewall
6 6 (2.60%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.03%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.60%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.60%) NoSQL
2 6 (2.60%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.16%) Power BI
4 4 (1.73%) Tableau
5 3 (1.30%) Big Data
6 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.43%) EDMS
7 1 (0.43%) GIS
7 1 (0.43%) MySQL
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.43%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 27 (11.69%) JIRA
2 11 (4.76%) Selenium
3 7 (3.03%) Cucumber
3 7 (3.03%) Git
4 6 (2.60%) GitLab
5 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.16%) REST Assured
5 5 (2.16%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.30%) Snyk
7 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.87%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.43%) CMake
8 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.43%) Subversion
8 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 126 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 95 (41.13%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (13.85%) Telecoms
4 24 (10.39%) Finance
5 12 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.46%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.03%) Legal
7 7 (3.03%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.16%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.16%) Retail
9 4 (1.73%) Law
9 4 (1.73%) Marketing
10 3 (1.30%) Billing
10 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Local Government
11 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Automotive
12 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (11.26%) Analyst
2 21 (9.09%) Architect
3 18 (7.79%) Developer
4 16 (6.93%) Lead
5 13 (5.63%) IP Engineer
5 13 (5.63%) Test Engineer
6 12 (5.19%) Consultant
6 12 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (5.19%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.76%) Administrator
7 11 (4.76%) Senior
8 9 (3.90%) Network Engineer
9 8 (3.46%) Resilience Manager
9 8 (3.46%) Security Architect
10 6 (2.60%) Data Analyst
11 5 (2.16%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (2.16%) IP Network Engineer
11 5 (2.16%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.16%) SIEM Engineer
11 5 (2.16%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.49%) REST
2 8 (3.46%) OAuth
3 7 (3.03%) Web Services
4 6 (2.60%) ARM Templates
4 6 (2.60%) React
5 5 (2.16%) CSS
5 5 (2.16%) HTML
5 5 (2.16%) Java EE
5 5 (2.16%) JSON
6 4 (1.73%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.73%) Playwright
6 4 (1.73%) RESTful
6 4 (1.73%) SOAP
7 3 (1.30%) .NET
7 3 (1.30%) Apollo GraphQL
7 3 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.30%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.30%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.87%) Apache Axis
8 2 (0.87%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.90%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.46%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.46%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.46%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.60%) Life Science
5 6 (2.60%) SCADA
6 5 (2.16%) CMDB
6 5 (2.16%) CSOC
6 5 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.73%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.30%) PKI
8 3 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.30%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.12%) Linux
2 23 (9.96%) Windows
3 16 (6.93%) Unix
4 11 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.87%) Android
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (17.75%) Project Management
2 39 (16.88%) DevOps
3 35 (15.15%) Agile
4 31 (13.42%) Migration
5 23 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 20 (8.66%) Test Automation
7 20 (8.66%) Validation
8 19 (8.23%) Cybersecurity
8 19 (8.23%) Test Strategy
9 16 (6.93%) Change Management
9 16 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (6.93%) Data Migration
10 15 (6.49%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (6.49%) Decision-Making
10 15 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (6.49%) SIEM
11 14 (6.06%) Fault Management
11 14 (6.06%) High Availability
11 14 (6.06%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (16.88%) Python
2 31 (13.42%) Java
2 31 (13.42%) SQL
3 15 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.33%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.90%) C#
6 8 (3.46%) PL/SQL
7 6 (2.60%) Bicep
8 5 (2.16%) Bash
9 4 (1.73%) C++
9 4 (1.73%) Perl
10 3 (1.30%) Ruby
11 2 (0.87%) ABAP
11 2 (0.87%) C
11 2 (0.87%) R
12 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.43%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.99%) Degree
3 25 (10.82%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.79%) CCNP
4 18 (7.79%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (7.36%) Master's Degree
6 14 (6.06%) ISEB
6 14 (6.06%) ISTQB
6 14 (6.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 12 (5.19%) CISSP
8 10 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.46%) CISM
9 8 (3.46%) PMP
10 6 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.60%) GIAC
10 6 (2.60%) PMI Certification
11 5 (2.16%) CEH
12 4 (1.73%) ACCA
12 4 (1.73%) CIMA
12 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.36%) QA
2 13 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.63%) GDPR
3 8 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.46%) NIST
4 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.73%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.30%) GRC
5 3 (1.30%) NCSC
5 3 (1.30%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.87%) EU AI Act
6 2 (0.87%) SLA
6 2 (0.87%) WCAG
7 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (8.66%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.90%) Docker
3 5 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.30%) NFS
6 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.87%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.63%) Terraform
2 11 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.46%) Ansible
4 6 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.16%) Docker Swarm
5 5 (2.16%) Podman
6 4 (1.73%) NetBackup
7 3 (1.30%) Puppet
8 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.43%) CASB
9 1 (0.43%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.43%) Grafana
9 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (18.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.36%) Juniper
2 17 (7.36%) Oracle
3 16 (6.93%) Cisco
4 15 (6.49%) SAP
5 10 (4.33%) VMware
6 9 (3.90%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.60%) Google
8 5 (2.16%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.16%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.16%) Splunk
9 4 (1.73%) 3PAR
9 4 (1.73%) Dell
9 4 (1.73%) HP
9 4 (1.73%) Remedy
9 4 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.73%) Veritas
10 3 (1.30%) Citrix
10 3 (1.30%) IFS
11 2 (0.87%) Workday