Problem-Solving Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Problem Solving
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 82 110 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.28% 21.48% 13.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.82% 25.88% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 17
10th Percentile £240 £218 £270
25th Percentile £296 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £558 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.32% +23.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £599 £638 £488
90th Percentile £650 £738 £506
East of England median daily rate £468 £494 £463
% change year-on-year -5.32% +6.76% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 83 37
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.14 £15.00 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +9.81% -
75th Percentile £18.85 £16.85 £13.91
90th Percentile £21.17 - £21.30
East of England median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +8.20% -37.95% +76.98%

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 275 425 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.14% 83.01% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 146 249
10th Percentile £250 £203 £223
25th Percentile £369 £316 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £684 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £428 £500
% change year-on-year +16.96% -14.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 179 169
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £20.88 £25.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £54.50 £23.05
East of England median hourly rate £32.07 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -19.83% +90.48% +7.69%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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
Peterborough +4 42 £200 - 83
Cambridge +2 23 £465 -22.50% 256
Huntingdon - 1 £673 - 7
Wisbech - 1 £185 -
Problem-Solving
East of England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 47 (57.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (56.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.22%) CANalyzer
4 1 (1.22%) Simulink
4 1 (1.22%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) SAP SCM
2 1 (1.22%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.22%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.22%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.73%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (4.88%) GitHub
3 2 (2.44%) npm
3 2 (2.44%) Nutanix
3 2 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (1.22%) Azure
4 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.51%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (6.10%) Network Security
3 4 (4.88%) Firewall
3 4 (4.88%) VSAN
4 3 (3.66%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (2.44%) HTTP
6 1 (1.22%) 802.11
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (1.22%) DNS
6 1 (1.22%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.22%) LAN
6 1 (1.22%) Multicast
6 1 (1.22%) VLAN
6 1 (1.22%) Wireless
6 1 (1.22%) Wireless Security
6 1 (1.22%) WLAN
6 1 (1.22%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.22%) Power BI
2 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Cypress.io
1 2 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (1.22%) CANoe
2 1 (1.22%) Git
General
1 30 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (12.20%) German Language
3 9 (10.98%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (6.10%) Finance
5 3 (3.66%) Spanish Language
6 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Automotive
7 1 (1.22%) Electronics
7 1 (1.22%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.22%) Hungarian Language
7 1 (1.22%) Legal
7 1 (1.22%) Lithuanian Language
7 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (31.71%) Analyst
2 25 (30.49%) Service Analyst
3 15 (18.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 15 (18.29%) Technical Analyst
3 15 (18.29%) Technical Services Analyst
4 10 (12.20%) Customer Analyst
4 10 (12.20%) Customer Service Analyst
5 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Consultant
6 5 (6.10%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Java Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Performance Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) SAP SCM Consultant
7 3 (3.66%) Senior
7 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.44%) AngularJS
1 2 (2.44%) Express.js
1 2 (2.44%) JSON
1 2 (2.44%) NgRx
1 2 (2.44%) Playwright
1 2 (2.44%) REST
1 2 (2.44%) RESTful
1 2 (2.44%) RxJS
1 2 (2.44%) XML
2 1 (1.22%) .NET
2 1 (1.22%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.10%) Replication
2 4 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.66%) Clustering
3 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.22%) PCIe
5 1 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Windows
2 4 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.22%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (54.88%) Customer Service
2 41 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 40 (48.78%) Incident Management
3 40 (48.78%) Mathematics
4 18 (21.95%) ITIL
5 10 (12.20%) Agile
6 8 (9.76%) CI/CD
6 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (8.54%) Data Management
8 6 (7.32%) Data Analysis
8 6 (7.32%) Software Engineering
9 5 (6.10%) Validation
9 5 (6.10%) Waterfall
9 5 (6.10%) Zero Trust
10 4 (4.88%) Change Management
10 4 (4.88%) Inventory Management
10 4 (4.88%) Network Virtualisation
10 4 (4.88%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (4.88%) Project Delivery
11 3 (3.66%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.10%) Java
1 5 (6.10%) Python
2 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.66%) Shell Script
3 3 (3.66%) SQL
4 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.22%) C
5 1 (1.22%) C++
5 1 (1.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 16 (19.51%) Microsoft Certification
1 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.29%) A+ Certification
2 15 (18.29%) MCSA
3 14 (17.07%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.88%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.88%) Degree
4 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.66%) VCAP
5 3 (3.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.22%) CCNP
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 20 (24.39%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.54%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.88%) vSphere
4 3 (3.66%) Docker
4 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.44%) Firmware
6 1 (1.22%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (1.22%) KVM
6 1 (1.22%) QEMU
6 1 (1.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (6.10%) Ansible
1 5 (6.10%) VxRail
2 4 (4.88%) PowerCLI
2 4 (4.88%) Terraform
2 4 (4.88%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.66%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.66%) Podman
3 3 (3.66%) SCCM
4 1 (1.22%) Avamar
4 1 (1.22%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 49 (59.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.29%) Citrix
2 15 (18.29%) ServiceNow
3 8 (9.76%) VMware
4 7 (8.54%) SAP
5 5 (6.10%) Dell
6 3 (3.66%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.44%) Oracle
7 2 (2.44%) Workday
8 1 (1.22%) AirMagnet
8 1 (1.22%) Apple
8 1 (1.22%) Cisco
8 1 (1.22%) Ekahau
8 1 (1.22%) Google