Problem-Solving Contracts in Brentwood

Problem Solving
Essex > Brentwood

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Brentwood 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 3 10 2
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brentwood 44.44% 11.76% 27.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 57.14% 14.81% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £457 - -
90th Percentile £469 - -
Essex median daily rate £400 £534 £336
% change year-on-year -25.09% +59.17% -37.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Brentwood

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 Brentwood.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7 27 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentwood 77.78% 79.41% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 0
10th Percentile £363 £290 -
25th Percentile - £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £428 £438 -
90th Percentile £457 £463 -
Essex median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.09
Median hourly rate - - £70.18
75th Percentile - - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
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 Brentwood

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Brentwood

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Brentwood

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Brentwood

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Brentwood

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Brentwood

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brentwood 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) POSIX
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes