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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 43 88 55
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.23% 24.38% 11.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.91% 28.76% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 10
10th Percentile £290 £339 £120
25th Percentile £381 £400 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £381
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £601 £500 £539
90th Percentile £655 £593 £616
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £443
% change year-on-year +11.11% +1.69% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 59 43
10th Percentile - - £13.31
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £13.41
Median hourly rate £37.50 £16.23 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +131.05% +14.62% +3.66%
75th Percentile £43.75 £16.85 -
90th Percentile - £18.19 £74.50
East of England median hourly rate £17.30 £16.23 £20.25
% change year-on-year +6.59% -19.85% -59.50%

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 333 306 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.95% 84.76% 90.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 110 146
10th Percentile £301 £277 £216
25th Percentile £387 £340 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% -4.42% +1.60%
75th Percentile £622 £550 £570
90th Percentile £686 £601 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 83 187
10th Percentile £13.80 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.53 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £46.40 £31.53
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £27.67 £21.39
% change year-on-year -20.49% +29.39% -1.54%

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 November 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 November 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 November 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 +1 32 £475 +17.00% 48
Peterborough -6 8 - - 20
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) Apache
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) Azure AKS
3 9 (20.93%) GitHub
3 9 (20.93%) PaaS
3 9 (20.93%) Serverless
4 8 (18.60%) Azure Functions
4 8 (18.60%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (11.63%) AWS
5 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.63%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (6.98%) GCP
6 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.33%) npm
8 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (4.65%) HTTP
3 1 (2.33%) 802.11
3 1 (2.33%) Bluetooth
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) MQTT
3 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.33%) SSL
3 1 (2.33%) UWB
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) WAN
3 1 (2.33%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) JMeter
1 2 (4.65%) Postman
1 2 (4.65%) Selenium
2 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.33%) GitLab
2 1 (2.33%) JIRA
2 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (6.98%) Polish Language
3 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.65%) Finance
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (16.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 7 (16.28%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Senior
2 6 (13.95%) Software Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Junior
3 5 (11.63%) Junior Software Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Junior Support Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Software Support Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Support Specialist
4 4 (9.30%) Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) IT Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Service Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Technical Services Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) .NET
2 12 (27.91%) PyTorch
2 12 (27.91%) TensorFlow
3 11 (25.58%) RESTful
4 8 (18.60%) Semantic Kernel
5 5 (11.63%) JSON
5 5 (11.63%) scikit-learn
5 5 (11.63%) XML
6 3 (6.98%) pytest
7 2 (4.65%) Pandas
8 1 (2.33%) 802.1X
8 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.33%) Express.js
8 1 (2.33%) NgRx
8 1 (2.33%) Node.js
8 1 (2.33%) Playwright
8 1 (2.33%) React
8 1 (2.33%) REST
8 1 (2.33%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (39.53%) Cloud Native
2 9 (20.93%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.65%) NHS
4 1 (2.33%) CPLD
4 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.33%) FPGA
4 1 (2.33%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.33%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (55.81%) AI
2 20 (46.51%) Agile
3 19 (44.19%) Software Engineering
4 18 (41.86%) Machine Learning
5 17 (39.53%) Test Automation
6 15 (34.88%) LLM
6 15 (34.88%) Prompt Engineering
7 14 (32.56%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 12 (27.91%) Data Privacy
9 11 (25.58%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (25.58%) Data Science
10 10 (23.26%) API Management
10 10 (23.26%) Scrum
10 10 (23.26%) Validation
11 9 (20.93%) Deep Learning
12 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
13 7 (16.28%) API Design
13 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (16.28%) DevOps
14 6 (13.95%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (44.19%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) Java
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) C
4 1 (2.33%) C++
4 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.33%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (2.33%) Tcl
4 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) MCP
2 3 (6.98%) A+ Certification
2 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) MCSA
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.33%) CCIE
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) EU AI Act
2 12 (27.91%) NIST
3 7 (16.28%) QA
4 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Firmware
3 1 (2.33%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) SCCM
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (46.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.60%) Foundry
3 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 5 (11.63%) SAP
3 5 (11.63%) Workday
4 3 (6.98%) Citrix
4 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Cisco
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) IFS
5 1 (2.33%) Meraki
5 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto