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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 6 2
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 57 54 101
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 14.81% 14.75% 24.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.65% 16.41% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 17
10th Percentile £163 £240 £380
25th Percentile £201 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £570 £454
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +25.55% +6.82%
75th Percentile £533 £650 £583
90th Percentile £573 £668 £638
East of England median daily rate £438 £505 £450
% change year-on-year -13.37% +12.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 74
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.96 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.91 £14.99 £15.15
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.85 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +16.14% +18.81%
75th Percentile £22.18 £37.99 £16.85
90th Percentile £29.86 £43.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £23.18 £17.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +33.99% +6.59% -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 323 329 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 83.90% 89.89% 82.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 120 116
10th Percentile £185 £259 £249
25th Percentile £406 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £452
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +15.04% -4.84%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £557
90th Percentile £638 £700 £619
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -0.05% +11.17% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 98 109
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.80 £14.97
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £14.70 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £29.86 £21.50 £18.22
90th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £52.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £21.64 £29.17
% change year-on-year +119.50% -25.81% +47.25%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 £425 -25.44% 139
Peterborough -6 7 £193 -3.30% 21
Huntingdon -13 1 £625 -7.06% 4
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 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.26%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.51%) OrCAD
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (3.51%) Infor M3
1 2 (3.51%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (3.51%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.75%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.75%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) Azure
2 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.26%) GitHub
5 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.51%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.75%) AWS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.75%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.75%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) Network Security
1 4 (7.02%) VPN
1 4 (7.02%) Wireless
2 3 (5.26%) DNS
2 3 (5.26%) Ethernet
2 3 (5.26%) Firewall
3 2 (3.51%) DHCP
3 2 (3.51%) SSL
3 2 (3.51%) VLAN
4 1 (1.75%) BGP
4 1 (1.75%) Broadband
4 1 (1.75%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.75%) LAN
4 1 (1.75%) MPLS
4 1 (1.75%) OSPF
4 1 (1.75%) Softphone
4 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.75%) VoIP
4 1 (1.75%) WAN
4 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.77%) MySQL
2 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
3 4 (7.02%) Power BI
4 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.51%) Metadata
4 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.75%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.75%) SQLite
5 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Git
1 4 (7.02%) LabVIEW
2 3 (5.26%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.75%) Gerrit
3 1 (1.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) Ranorex
3 1 (1.75%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (59.65%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.54%) Manufacturing
4 8 (14.04%) Finance
5 7 (12.28%) Electronics
6 4 (7.02%) Advertising
6 4 (7.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.51%) Back Office
7 2 (3.51%) Hebrew Language
7 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.51%) Retail
7 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.75%) Billing
8 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (15.79%) Developer
2 5 (8.77%) Administrator
3 4 (7.02%) Senior
4 3 (5.26%) Analyst
4 3 (5.26%) Customer Service Administrator
4 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (5.26%) IT Support
4 3 (5.26%) Test Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Business Change Analyst
5 2 (3.51%) Change Analyst
5 2 (3.51%) EPoS Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) EPoS Field Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) IT Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Network Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Project Manager
5 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
5 2 (3.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) RESTful
2 4 (7.02%) Hibernate
2 4 (7.02%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.75%) Jolokia
4 1 (1.75%) LAMP
4 1 (1.75%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (1.75%) LDAP
4 1 (1.75%) Playwright
4 1 (1.75%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) SAML
4 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Life Science
2 7 (12.28%) Onboarding
2 7 (12.28%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.26%) 3D Printing
4 3 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.26%) CMDB
4 3 (5.26%) NHS
5 2 (3.51%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (3.51%) BYOD
5 2 (3.51%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.51%) EPoS
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Replication
6 1 (1.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Windows
2 3 (5.26%) Linux
3 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Rocky
4 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (19.30%) Customer Service
2 11 (19.30%) Validation
3 9 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (15.79%) ITSM
3 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (14.04%) CI/CD
4 8 (14.04%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (14.04%) Data Modelling
4 8 (14.04%) Migration
4 8 (14.04%) Service Management
5 7 (12.28%) Agile
5 7 (12.28%) Change Management
5 7 (12.28%) Data Migration
5 7 (12.28%) DevOps
5 7 (12.28%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (12.28%) ERP
6 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 6 (10.53%) Process Improvement
6 6 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) Python
2 5 (8.77%) C#
2 5 (8.77%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) Java
4 3 (5.26%) Bash
4 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.51%) X++
6 1 (1.75%) Clojure
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) A+ Certification
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) CCIE
4 1 (1.75%) CCNP
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) HNC
4 1 (1.75%) JNCIP
4 1 (1.75%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.26%) COSHH
3 2 (3.51%) SLA
4 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.75%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.51%) vSphere
4 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) SCCM
2 2 (3.51%) Grafana
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.75%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) HAProxy
3 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.75%) Puppet
3 1 (1.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.51%) Cisco
3 2 (3.51%) Infor
3 2 (3.51%) SAP
3 2 (3.51%) VMware
3 2 (3.51%) Workday
4 1 (1.75%) Coverity
4 1 (1.75%) Databricks
4 1 (1.75%) Dell
4 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.75%) F5
4 1 (1.75%) Infoblox
4 1 (1.75%) Juniper
4 1 (1.75%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.75%) Okta
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) Perforce
4 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds