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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 1 6
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 29 82 90
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 7.49% 32.67% 18.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.29% 36.44% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 18
10th Percentile £157 - £218
25th Percentile £201 £296 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £484 £563 £716
90th Percentile £606 £650 £800
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 34 66
10th Percentile - £14.84 -
25th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 -
Median hourly rate £15.28 £16.12 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +13.81% +3.66%
75th Percentile £15.91 £17.28 £15.12
90th Percentile £17.21 £21.46 £25.00
East of England median hourly rate £16.95 £18.82 £14.80
% change year-on-year -9.96% +27.16% -41.41%

All Process & 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 312 225 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.62% 89.64% 84.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 125 155
10th Percentile £168 £296 £221
25th Percentile £308 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £529 £550 £563
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £477 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.70% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 45 188
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.90 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £18.50 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £25.25 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £50.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -54.74% +31.16% +53.65%

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 17 April 2026.

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
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 17 April 2026. 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 -4 22 £300 -25.56% 42
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 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
3 1 (3.45%) ChatGPT
3 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
3 1 (3.45%) Google Gemini
3 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.45%) PaaS
3 1 (3.45%) Route 53
3 1 (3.45%) Serverless
3 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.45%) DHCP
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) VLAN
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Git
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) MSI
General
1 20 (68.97%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Billing
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Local Government
3 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (17.24%) Project Officer
1 5 (17.24%) Project Support Officer
1 5 (17.24%) Support Officer
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Break Fix Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Coordinator
4 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Field Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Support Assistant
5 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) ADO
1 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
1 2 (6.90%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.45%) Flask
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.45%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (3.45%) Node.js
2 1 (3.45%) Pandas
2 1 (3.45%) PyArrow
2 1 (3.45%) React
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
1 1 (3.45%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.45%) CPLD
1 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (3.45%) FPGA
1 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.45%) PKI
1 1 (3.45%) Raspberry Pi
1 1 (3.45%) Smartphone
1 1 (3.45%) Verilog
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Reality
1 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Customer Service
2 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (17.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (17.24%) Project Management
2 5 (17.24%) Resource Management
3 4 (13.79%) Agile
3 4 (13.79%) Analytics
3 4 (13.79%) ETL
3 4 (13.79%) Operational Stability
3 4 (13.79%) Service Delivery
3 4 (13.79%) Validation
4 3 (10.34%) AI
4 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (10.34%) LLM
4 3 (10.34%) Logistics
4 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning
4 3 (10.34%) Prompt Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Korn
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.45%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (3.45%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) EU AI Act
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
1 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.45%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco
2 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Dell
3 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.90%) HP
4 1 (3.45%) Foundry
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.45%) jetNEXUS
4 1 (3.45%) Juniper
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI