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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 41 79 84
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.08% 26.42% 17.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.71% 28.94% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 18
10th Percentile £213 £296 £145
25th Percentile £281 £313 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £406 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -22.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £575
90th Percentile £589 £640 £800
East of England median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 34 60
10th Percentile - £14.99 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 -
Median hourly rate £15.28 £16.23 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +14.62% +3.66%
75th Percentile £16.00 £16.96 £15.12
90th Percentile £18.83 £21.46 £36.50
East of England median hourly rate £16.35 £16.23 £14.80
% change year-on-year +0.74% +9.66% -50.67%

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 299 273 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.81% 91.30% 84.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 143 154
10th Percentile £211 £296 £235
25th Percentile £335 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £479
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -1.36% +0.84%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £574
90th Percentile £675 £635 £684
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 44 184
10th Percentile £13.38 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £24.49 £21.46 £20.14
90th Percentile £34.92 £37.78 £36.55
East of England median hourly rate £20.52 £50.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -58.96% +34.23% +21.32%

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 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -3 36 £400 - 42
Peterborough -12 3 - - 12
Wisbech - 1 - - 3
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 (2.44%) Apache
1 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) Azure AKS
3 9 (21.95%) PaaS
3 9 (21.95%) Serverless
4 8 (19.51%) Azure Functions
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (12.20%) AWS
5 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) GCP
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) JMeter
1 2 (4.88%) Postman
1 2 (4.88%) Selenium
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Polish Language
4 1 (2.44%) Billing
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Local Government
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Project Officer
3 5 (12.20%) Project Support Officer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Support Officer
4 4 (9.76%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) IT Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Service Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Technical Services Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.88%) QA Leader
6 2 (4.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (36.59%) .NET
2 13 (31.71%) PyTorch
2 13 (31.71%) TensorFlow
3 10 (24.39%) RESTful
4 9 (21.95%) A2A Protocol
4 9 (21.95%) Model Context Protocol
5 8 (19.51%) Semantic Kernel
6 5 (12.20%) scikit-learn
7 3 (7.32%) pytest
8 2 (4.88%) Pandas
9 1 (2.44%) Node.js
9 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (41.46%) Cloud Native
2 9 (21.95%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.88%) NHS
4 1 (2.44%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.44%) CPLD
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.44%) FPGA
4 1 (2.44%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (2.44%) Verilog
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) AI
2 19 (46.34%) Machine Learning
3 17 (41.46%) Test Automation
4 16 (39.02%) Agile
4 16 (39.02%) LLM
4 16 (39.02%) Prompt Engineering
5 14 (34.15%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
7 12 (29.27%) Data Privacy
8 11 (26.83%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (26.83%) Data Science
9 10 (24.39%) API Management
9 10 (24.39%) Deep Learning
9 10 (24.39%) Scrum
10 9 (21.95%) Validation
11 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
11 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (17.07%) API Design
13 6 (14.63%) DevOps
13 6 (14.63%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 2 (4.88%) Korn
3 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.44%) SQL
3 1 (2.44%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (2.44%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 3 (7.32%) A+ Certification
2 3 (7.32%) MCSA
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) EU AI Act
2 12 (29.27%) NIST
3 7 (17.07%) QA
4 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) HAProxy
2 1 (2.44%) SCCM
2 1 (2.44%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 21 (51.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) Foundry
3 3 (7.32%) Citrix
3 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.44%) jetNEXUS
4 1 (2.44%) OpenAI