Problem-Solving Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Problem Solving
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 4 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 51 41 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 21.61% 8.61% 10.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.29% 10.43% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 30 84
10th Percentile £185 £174 £245
25th Percentile £286 £355 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £625
90th Percentile £595 £625 £721
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £12.82 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% +28.20% -
75th Percentile - - £10.50
90th Percentile £19.24 - -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £19.38 £56.99
% change year-on-year -2.86% -66.00% +26.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 393 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 92.80% 82.56% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 271 663
10th Percentile £281 £255 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £575
90th Percentile £646 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 31 1
10th Percentile - £15.85 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%
75th Percentile £39.13 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Milton Keynes +9 33 £368 -20.10% 123
Bletchley - 6 - - 5
Amersham - 2 £463 - 13
Newport Pagnell - 1 £150 - 1
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (3.92%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (3.92%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.92%) AutoCAD
2 2 (3.92%) Revit
3 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle ASCP
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.49%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) AWS
2 7 (13.73%) GCP
3 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.84%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.88%) GitHub
4 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) Firewall
1 6 (11.76%) Internet
1 6 (11.76%) Wireless
2 1 (1.96%) DHCP
2 1 (1.96%) DNS
2 1 (1.96%) FTP
2 1 (1.96%) HTTP
2 1 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.88%) MS Access
3 3 (5.88%) MySQL
3 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.92%) Power BI
5 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Git
1 3 (5.88%) GitLab
2 2 (3.92%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) QARun
2 2 (3.92%) WinRunner
General
1 39 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 15 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Retail
4 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.96%) Automotive
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Marketing
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Analyst
1 11 (21.57%) Help Desk Support
2 8 (15.69%) Lead
3 6 (11.76%) Help Desk Agent
4 5 (9.80%) Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Consultant
6 3 (5.88%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Team Leader
7 2 (3.92%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) IT Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Senior
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Test Leader
7 2 (3.92%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) Django
1 3 (5.88%) FastAPI
1 3 (5.88%) Flask
1 3 (5.88%) RESTful
2 2 (3.92%) .NET
2 2 (3.92%) Middleware
2 2 (3.92%) Web Services
3 1 (1.96%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.96%) EDI
3 1 (1.96%) JSON
3 1 (1.96%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.96%) React
3 1 (1.96%) REST
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.96%) SOAP
3 1 (1.96%) WCF
3 1 (1.96%) XML
3 1 (1.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.84%) EPoS
3 2 (3.92%) CMDB
4 1 (1.96%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.49%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.92%) Unix
4 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.96%) Linux
4 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.53%) Time Management
2 11 (21.57%) Migration
3 8 (15.69%) Agile
3 8 (15.69%) Data Migration
3 8 (15.69%) Waterfall
4 7 (13.73%) Integration Testing
4 7 (13.73%) Validation
5 6 (11.76%) Logistics
5 6 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (11.76%) System Integration Testing
6 5 (9.80%) Data Modelling
6 5 (9.80%) Data Security
6 5 (9.80%) DevOps
6 5 (9.80%) Inventory Management
6 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
6 5 (9.80%) Microservices
6 5 (9.80%) Workflow
7 4 (7.84%) ITSM
7 4 (7.84%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.69%) Python
1 8 (15.69%) SQL
2 5 (9.80%) Bash
3 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (3.92%) VB
6 1 (1.96%) ABAP
6 1 (1.96%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.96%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.96%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 4 (7.84%) GDPR
2 4 (7.84%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (39.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Citrix
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (3.92%) Autodesk
3 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.92%) IBM
3 2 (3.92%) SAP
3 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow