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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 14 13
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 56 45 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 25.00% 9.32% 11.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 26.54% 11.34% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 80
10th Percentile £185 £182 £315
25th Percentile £286 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £510
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -16.67% +13.33%
75th Percentile £468 £500 £631
90th Percentile £550 £625 £744
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 1
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.54 -
25th Percentile - £17.12 £9.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £21.41 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% +114.10% -17.01%
75th Percentile - £25.71 £10.50
90th Percentile £17.27 £28.28 -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £19.81 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.97% -65.56% +21.05%

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 211 397 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 94.20% 82.19% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 276 642
10th Percentile £282 £271 £313
25th Percentile £377 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £474 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% -2.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £584
90th Percentile £645 £645 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 29 3
10th Percentile £14.11 £15.85 £10.31
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £11.54
Median hourly rate £15.12 £25.00 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +84.23% +10.24%
75th Percentile £20.50 £30.00 £16.16
90th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £17.71
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
% change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%

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 31 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 31 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 +10 36 £355 -21.11% 87
Bletchley - 6 - - 7
Marlow 0 4 - - 3
Amersham - 2 £463 - 3
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 3 (5.36%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (5.36%) CMS
1 3 (5.36%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.57%) AutoCAD
2 2 (3.57%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.57%) Revit
3 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle ASCP
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (12.50%) AWS
2 7 (12.50%) GCP
3 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.36%) GitHub
6 2 (3.57%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Firewall
1 6 (10.71%) Internet
1 6 (10.71%) Wireless
2 1 (1.79%) FTP
2 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.14%) MS Access
3 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.36%) MySQL
3 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.57%) Metadata
4 2 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Git
1 3 (5.36%) GitLab
2 2 (3.57%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) QARun
2 2 (3.57%) WinRunner
General
1 44 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Retail
4 3 (5.36%) Marketing
4 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.57%) Electronics
5 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.79%) Automotive
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Brand Awareness
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (19.64%) Analyst
1 11 (19.64%) Help Desk Support
2 7 (12.50%) Lead
3 6 (10.71%) Developer
3 6 (10.71%) Help Desk Agent
3 6 (10.71%) Test Analyst
4 3 (5.36%) Data Analyst
4 3 (5.36%) Python Developer
4 3 (5.36%) Senior
4 3 (5.36%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (5.36%) Senior Test Analyst
4 3 (5.36%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Team Leader
5 2 (3.57%) 1st Line Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) IT Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) Test Leader
5 2 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) .NET
1 3 (5.36%) Django
1 3 (5.36%) FastAPI
1 3 (5.36%) Flask
1 3 (5.36%) Middleware
1 3 (5.36%) RESTful
1 3 (5.36%) Web Services
2 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.57%) HTML
2 2 (3.57%) React
3 1 (1.79%) EDI
3 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.79%) JPA
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.79%) SOAP
3 1 (1.79%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.79%) WCF
3 1 (1.79%) XML
3 1 (1.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.14%) EPoS
3 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.79%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.36%) Unix
4 1 (1.79%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.00%) Time Management
2 13 (23.21%) Migration
3 9 (16.07%) Data Migration
3 9 (16.07%) Integration Testing
3 9 (16.07%) Waterfall
4 8 (14.29%) Agile
4 8 (14.29%) Logistics
4 8 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
5 7 (12.50%) Microservices
5 7 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (10.71%) DevOps
6 6 (10.71%) Software Testing
6 6 (10.71%) Test Planning
6 6 (10.71%) Validation
7 5 (8.93%) Inventory Management
7 5 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
7 5 (8.93%) Workflow
8 4 (7.14%) Product Analysis
8 4 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) SQL
2 7 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (7.14%) Bash
3 4 (7.14%) C#
3 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.36%) VB
5 1 (1.79%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.79%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (1.79%) Java
5 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.79%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
2 4 (7.14%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.57%) ARP4754
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Citrix
3 3 (5.36%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.36%) IBM
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.57%) Adobe
4 2 (3.57%) Autodesk
4 2 (3.57%) Google
4 2 (3.57%) Hotjar
5 1 (1.79%) SAP