Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Problem Solving
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 42 84 59
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.61% 24.42% 13.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.21% 28.47% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 11
10th Percentile £280 £339 £120
25th Percentile £372 £400 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £500 £526
90th Percentile £642 £616 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £446
% change year-on-year +11.11% +0.84% -8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 56 46
10th Percentile - - £13.35
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £13.41
Median hourly rate £37.50 £16.23 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +131.05% +14.62% +3.66%
75th Percentile £43.75 £16.85 -
90th Percentile - £19.42 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £17.05 £16.23 £18.50
% change year-on-year +5.05% -12.27% -55.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 344 295 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.87% 85.76% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 114 136
10th Percentile £270 £300 £216
25th Percentile £383 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +0.10% +0.95%
75th Percentile £619 £555 £570
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 78 191
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.58 £21.46 £18.42
90th Percentile £43.68 £34.87 £30.25
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.00
% change year-on-year -24.11% +31.76% -6.67%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Cambridge 0 31 £463 +13.92% 46
Peterborough -8 8 - - 18
Wisbech - 1 - -
Problem-Solving
East of England

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) Azure AKS
3 9 (21.43%) GitHub
3 9 (21.43%) PaaS
3 9 (21.43%) Serverless
4 8 (19.05%) Azure Functions
4 8 (19.05%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (11.90%) AWS
5 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.90%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (7.14%) GCP
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.38%) 802.11
2 1 (2.38%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) MQTT
2 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
2 1 (2.38%) UWB
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
2 1 (2.38%) WAN
2 1 (2.38%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.38%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) JMeter
1 2 (4.76%) Postman
1 2 (4.76%) Selenium
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (7.14%) Polish Language
3 2 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Developer
2 6 (14.29%) Senior
2 6 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Junior
3 5 (11.90%) Junior Software Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Junior Support Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Software Support Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Support Specialist
4 4 (9.52%) Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) IT Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Service Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Technical Services Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) .NET
2 12 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 12 (28.57%) TensorFlow
3 10 (23.81%) RESTful
4 8 (19.05%) Semantic Kernel
5 5 (11.90%) JSON
5 5 (11.90%) scikit-learn
5 5 (11.90%) XML
6 3 (7.14%) pytest
7 2 (4.76%) Pandas
8 1 (2.38%) 802.1X
8 1 (2.38%) Node.js
8 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (40.48%) Cloud Native
2 9 (21.43%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) CPLD
4 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.38%) FPGA
4 1 (2.38%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.38%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) AI
2 19 (45.24%) Agile
3 18 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 18 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 17 (40.48%) Test Automation
5 15 (35.71%) LLM
5 15 (35.71%) Prompt Engineering
6 14 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 12 (28.57%) Data Privacy
8 11 (26.19%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (26.19%) Data Science
9 10 (23.81%) API Management
9 10 (23.81%) Scrum
10 9 (21.43%) Deep Learning
10 9 (21.43%) Validation
11 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
12 7 (16.67%) API Design
12 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (16.67%) DevOps
13 6 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) Java
3 2 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (2.38%) C
4 1 (2.38%) C++
4 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.38%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (2.38%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) MCP
2 3 (7.14%) A+ Certification
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) MCSA
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.38%) CCIE
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.95%) EU AI Act
2 12 (28.57%) NIST
3 7 (16.67%) QA
4 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Firmware
3 1 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) SCCM
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) Foundry
3 5 (11.90%) Oracle
3 5 (11.90%) SAP
3 5 (11.90%) Workday
4 3 (7.14%) Citrix
4 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco
5 1 (2.38%) IBM
5 1 (2.38%) IFS
5 1 (2.38%) Meraki
5 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto