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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 53 97 57
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 14.93% 24.74% 11.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.41% 30.03% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 11
10th Percentile £240 £375 £120
25th Percentile £363 £400 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £452 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% +6.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £623 £587 £450
90th Percentile £668 £638 £553
East of England median daily rate £500 £454 £450
% change year-on-year +10.13% +0.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 70 42
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.00 £13.30
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £13.41
Median hourly rate £24.48 £16.23 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% +18.81% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £16.85 £14.16
90th Percentile - - £59.13
East of England median hourly rate £17.30 £16.23 £18.51
% change year-on-year +6.59% -12.33% -62.98%

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 323 323 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 90.99% 82.40% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 113 182
10th Percentile £258 £275 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -
75th Percentile £625 £575 £560
90th Percentile £700 £638 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 97 195
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £23.00 £16.85 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £50.25 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -23.64% +38.82% -5.67%

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 25 October 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 25 October 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 25 October 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 +6 31 £475 -5.00% 48
Peterborough -2 15 £200 - 20
Huntingdon -4 1 £673 - 8
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:

Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) CANalyzer
2 1 (1.89%) Simulink
2 1 (1.89%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP CO
1 1 (1.89%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.89%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.89%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 10 (18.87%) Azure AKS
3 9 (16.98%) GitHub
3 9 (16.98%) PaaS
4 8 (15.09%) Azure Functions
4 8 (15.09%) GitHub Copilot
4 8 (15.09%) Serverless
5 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (9.43%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (7.55%) AWS
6 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.66%) GCP
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.89%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.89%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.77%) HTTP
3 1 (1.89%) 802.11
3 1 (1.89%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.89%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.89%) Firewall
3 1 (1.89%) MQTT
3 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.89%) SSL
3 1 (1.89%) UWB
3 1 (1.89%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) WAN
3 1 (1.89%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.89%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) JMeter
1 2 (3.77%) Postman
1 2 (3.77%) Selenium
2 1 (1.89%) CANoe
2 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.55%) Finance
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (5.66%) Polish Language
4 2 (3.77%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Spanish Language
5 1 (1.89%) Automotive
5 1 (1.89%) Electronics
5 1 (1.89%) German Language
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
5 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (13.21%) Analyst
1 7 (13.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 7 (13.21%) Developer
1 7 (13.21%) Senior
1 7 (13.21%) Software Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Service Analyst
3 5 (9.43%) Junior
3 5 (9.43%) Junior Software Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Junior Support Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Software Support Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Support Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Support Specialist
4 4 (7.55%) Service Desk Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Technical Services Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) IT Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) SAP Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
5 3 (5.66%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.30%) .NET
2 12 (22.64%) PyTorch
2 12 (22.64%) TensorFlow
3 11 (20.75%) RESTful
4 8 (15.09%) Semantic Kernel
5 5 (9.43%) JSON
5 5 (9.43%) scikit-learn
5 5 (9.43%) XML
6 3 (5.66%) pytest
7 2 (3.77%) Pandas
8 1 (1.89%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.89%) Express.js
8 1 (1.89%) NgRx
8 1 (1.89%) Playwright
8 1 (1.89%) REST
8 1 (1.89%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.08%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.98%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.77%) NHS
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) AI
2 20 (37.74%) Agile
2 20 (37.74%) Software Engineering
3 17 (32.08%) Machine Learning
4 16 (30.19%) Test Automation
5 14 (26.42%) LLM
5 14 (26.42%) Prompt Engineering
5 14 (26.42%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 11 (20.75%) Customer Service
6 11 (20.75%) Data Privacy
6 11 (20.75%) Data Science
6 11 (20.75%) Validation
7 10 (18.87%) API Management
7 10 (18.87%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (18.87%) Scrum
8 9 (16.98%) Deep Learning
8 9 (16.98%) Incident Management
8 9 (16.98%) Mathematics
8 9 (16.98%) Service Delivery
9 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) Python
2 5 (9.43%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) C
3 1 (1.89%) C++
3 1 (1.89%) MATLAB
3 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.89%) SQL
3 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) MCP
2 5 (9.43%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (7.55%) A+ Certification
3 4 (7.55%) MCSA
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.89%) CCIE
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.53%) EU AI Act
2 12 (22.64%) NIST
3 7 (13.21%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) IFRS
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Docker
3 1 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.66%) SCCM
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (50.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Foundry
2 8 (15.09%) SAP
3 5 (9.43%) Oracle
3 5 (9.43%) Workday
4 4 (7.55%) Citrix
4 4 (7.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) IBM
5 1 (1.89%) IFS
5 1 (1.89%) Meraki
5 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto