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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 5 2
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 52 55 109
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 13.83% 15.07% 25.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.46% 16.77% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 19
10th Percentile £164 £238 £360
25th Percentile £201 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +4.09% +25.71%
75th Percentile £533 £650 £619
90th Percentile £573 £667 £658
East of England median daily rate £450 £512 £454
% change year-on-year -12.11% +12.78% +0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 82
10th Percentile £13.19 £14.84 £14.84
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +16.14% +18.81%
75th Percentile £21.00 £32.23 £16.85
90th Percentile £29.03 £43.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £23.18 £17.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year +32.46% +7.83% -26.23%

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 316 328 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.04% 89.86% 82.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 118 122
10th Percentile £183 £258 £247
25th Percentile £400 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £452
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +16.15% -4.84%
75th Percentile £586 £625 £559
90th Percentile £638 £700 £636
East of England median daily rate £500 £512 £446
% change year-on-year -2.34% +14.80% -10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 100 123
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.80 £14.84
25th Percentile - £14.76 £15.31
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £27.78 £21.50 £18.11
90th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £51.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £22.53 £35.00
% change year-on-year +110.83% -35.63% +76.68%

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 6 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

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 6 October 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 +9 31 £375 -34.21% 221
Peterborough -7 5 £192 -4.10% 49
Huntingdon -11 1 £625 -7.06% 12
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 (1.92%) Apache
1 1 (1.92%) Confluence
1 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.85%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (3.85%) Infor M3
1 2 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (3.85%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.92%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.92%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.77%) GitHub
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (5.77%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.92%) AWS
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.92%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.92%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Network Security
1 4 (7.69%) VPN
1 4 (7.69%) Wireless
2 3 (5.77%) DNS
2 3 (5.77%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) DHCP
3 2 (3.85%) Ethernet
3 2 (3.85%) SSL
3 2 (3.85%) VLAN
4 1 (1.92%) BGP
4 1 (1.92%) Broadband
4 1 (1.92%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.92%) LAN
4 1 (1.92%) MPLS
4 1 (1.92%) OSPF
4 1 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.92%) VoIP
4 1 (1.92%) WAN
4 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (9.62%) MySQL
2 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.62%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.77%) Power BI
4 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.85%) Metadata
4 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.92%) SQLite
5 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (5.77%) LabVIEW
2 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.92%) Gerrit
3 1 (1.92%) GitLab
3 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.92%) Ranorex
3 1 (1.92%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (57.69%) Social Skills
2 20 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.62%) Electronics
5 4 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.85%) Advertising
6 2 (3.85%) Back Office
6 2 (3.85%) Hebrew Language
6 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.85%) Retail
6 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.92%) Billing
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) Developer
2 4 (7.69%) Senior
3 3 (5.77%) Administrator
3 3 (5.77%) Analyst
3 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (5.77%) IT Support
3 3 (5.77%) Support Engineer
3 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Change Analyst
4 2 (3.85%) Customer Service Administrator
4 2 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Electronics Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Field Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Lead
4 2 (3.85%) Network Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Project Manager
4 2 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) RESTful
2 4 (7.69%) Hibernate
2 4 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (5.77%) .NET
4 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.92%) Jolokia
4 1 (1.92%) LAMP
4 1 (1.92%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (1.92%) LDAP
4 1 (1.92%) Playwright
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) SAML
4 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Life Science
1 7 (13.46%) Onboarding
2 5 (9.62%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.77%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.77%) CMDB
5 2 (3.85%) 3D Printing
5 2 (3.85%) BYOD
5 2 (3.85%) EPoS
5 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.85%) NHS
6 1 (1.92%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.92%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) Linux
3 2 (3.85%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.92%) Rocky
4 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (21.15%) Customer Service
3 10 (19.23%) Validation
4 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
4 8 (15.38%) ITSM
4 8 (15.38%) Migration
4 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (13.46%) Agile
5 7 (13.46%) Change Management
5 7 (13.46%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (13.46%) Data Migration
5 7 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (13.46%) DevOps
5 7 (13.46%) ERP
5 7 (13.46%) Service Management
6 6 (11.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 6 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (11.54%) Software Engineering
7 5 (9.62%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) Python
2 5 (9.62%) C#
2 5 (9.62%) SQL
3 4 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) Bash
4 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.85%) X++
6 1 (1.92%) Clojure
6 1 (1.92%) Groovy
6 1 (1.92%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) A+ Certification
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) CCIE
4 1 (1.92%) CCNP
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) JNCIP
4 1 (1.92%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) COSHH
2 2 (3.85%) SLA
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) vSphere
4 1 (1.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) SCCM
2 2 (3.85%) Grafana
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) HAProxy
3 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.92%) Puppet
3 1 (1.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco
3 2 (3.85%) Infor
3 2 (3.85%) SAP
3 2 (3.85%) VMware
3 2 (3.85%) Workday
4 1 (1.92%) Coverity
4 1 (1.92%) Databricks
4 1 (1.92%) Dell
4 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.92%) F5
4 1 (1.92%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.92%) Juniper
4 1 (1.92%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.92%) Okta
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) Perforce
4 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds