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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 37 74 71
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.19% 23.87% 15.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.01% 27.92% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 20
10th Percentile £216 £313 £152
25th Percentile £284 £363 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £416 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -20.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £579 £525 £584
90th Percentile £610 £665 £800
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £446
% change year-on-year - +0.84% -10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 45 49
10th Percentile - - £13.29
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £13.41
Median hourly rate £23.05 £16.23 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +42.04% +14.62% +3.66%
75th Percentile £40.35 £16.85 -
90th Percentile £43.75 £21.46 £44.70
East of England median hourly rate £16.35 £16.23 £16.00
% change year-on-year +0.74% +1.44% -51.52%

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 308 265 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.85% 85.48% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 118 144
10th Percentile £213 £313 £200
25th Percentile £335 £402 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -2.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £559 £582
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
East of England median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.58% -4.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 58 172
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
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 £23.68 £21.46 -
90th Percentile £39.50 £28.93 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £20.27 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.10% +59.09% -

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +1 29 £400 -0.74% 55
Peterborough -10 5 - - 46
Wisbech - 1 - - 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 (2.70%) Apache
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 10 (27.03%) Azure AKS
3 9 (24.32%) PaaS
3 9 (24.32%) Serverless
4 8 (21.62%) Azure Functions
4 8 (21.62%) GitHub
4 8 (21.62%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.81%) AWS
7 3 (8.11%) GCP
7 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.41%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.70%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.70%) 802.11
2 1 (2.70%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) HTTP
2 1 (2.70%) MQTT
2 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.70%) SSL
2 1 (2.70%) UWB
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
2 1 (2.70%) WAN
2 1 (2.70%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) JMeter
1 2 (5.41%) Postman
1 2 (5.41%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Polish Language
3 2 (5.41%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.70%) Billing
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Developer
2 6 (16.22%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) IT Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Service Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Technical Services Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.41%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Junior Support Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) QA Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) .NET
2 12 (32.43%) PyTorch
2 12 (32.43%) TensorFlow
3 10 (27.03%) RESTful
4 8 (21.62%) Semantic Kernel
5 5 (13.51%) scikit-learn
6 3 (8.11%) pytest
7 2 (5.41%) JSON
7 2 (5.41%) Pandas
7 2 (5.41%) XML
8 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
8 1 (2.70%) Node.js
8 1 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (45.95%) Cloud Native
2 9 (24.32%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.41%) NHS
4 1 (2.70%) CPLD
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.70%) FPGA
4 1 (2.70%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) AI
2 18 (48.65%) Machine Learning
3 17 (45.95%) Agile
3 17 (45.95%) Test Automation
4 15 (40.54%) LLM
4 15 (40.54%) Prompt Engineering
4 15 (40.54%) Software Engineering
5 14 (37.84%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 12 (32.43%) Data Privacy
7 11 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (29.73%) Data Science
8 10 (27.03%) API Management
8 10 (27.03%) Scrum
9 9 (24.32%) Deep Learning
9 9 (24.32%) Validation
10 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
11 7 (18.92%) API Design
11 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (16.22%) DevOps
12 6 (16.22%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Java
2 2 (5.41%) Korn
2 2 (5.41%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) C
3 1 (2.70%) C++
3 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.70%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (2.70%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) MCP
2 3 (8.11%) A+ Certification
2 3 (8.11%) MCSA
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.70%) CCIE
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (35.14%) EU AI Act
2 12 (32.43%) NIST
3 7 (18.92%) QA
4 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Firmware
3 1 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Ansible
2 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.62%) Foundry
3 3 (8.11%) Citrix
3 3 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) Workday
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) IFS
5 1 (2.70%) Meraki
5 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto