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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 38 68 103
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.18% 21.25% 24.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.84% 23.94% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 15
10th Percentile £155 £198 £355
25th Percentile £164 £296 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +25.71%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £638
90th Percentile £675 £653 £698
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 30 82
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.88
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.14 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -6.72% +18.81%
75th Percentile £18.99 £18.85 £16.85
90th Percentile £20.44 £43.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year +20.00% +7.83% -32.86%

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 296 284 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.06% 88.75% 81.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 113 111
10th Percentile £168 £203 £220
25th Percentile £363 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £604 £550
90th Percentile £671 £698 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 69 147
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +0.43% +11.93%
75th Percentile £19.65 £24.15 £21.37
90th Percentile £38.18 £47.00 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +26.67% -12.79% +117.06%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 0 21 £400 -27.27% 34
Peterborough -9 3 £192 +0.95% 17
Huntingdon -7 1 £625 -7.06% 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 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.26%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
6 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Network Security
1 5 (13.16%) VPN
1 5 (13.16%) Wireless
2 2 (5.26%) DHCP
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (2.63%) VLAN
3 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.53%) MySQL
3 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.89%) Power BI
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Git
1 3 (7.89%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) MSI
3 1 (2.63%) Ranorex
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (71.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.26%) Back Office
4 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 4 (10.53%) Field Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Administrator
5 2 (5.26%) Break Fix Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Business Change Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Change Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) EPoS Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) EPoS Field Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Field Hardware Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) RESTful
2 4 (10.53%) Hibernate
2 4 (10.53%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (7.89%) .NET
4 2 (5.26%) ADO
5 1 (2.63%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.63%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.63%) Flask
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (2.63%) Pandas
5 1 (2.63%) Playwright
5 1 (2.63%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Life Science
1 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
1 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.26%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.26%) BYOD
2 2 (5.26%) EPoS
2 2 (5.26%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) PKI
3 1 (2.63%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Customer Service
2 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
3 8 (21.05%) Agile
3 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
4 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (18.42%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (18.42%) ETL
5 6 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (15.79%) ITSM
5 6 (15.79%) Service Management
6 5 (13.16%) Change Management
6 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
6 5 (13.16%) Data Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) Data Migration
6 5 (13.16%) DevOps
6 5 (13.16%) Informatics
6 5 (13.16%) Migration
6 5 (13.16%) Service Delivery
6 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) C#
4 4 (10.53%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.26%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) A+ Certification
3 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PMP
4 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) vSphere
3 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco
3 3 (7.89%) Dell
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.26%) HP
4 2 (5.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.63%) Juniper
5 1 (2.63%) SAP