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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 45 89 56
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 12.43% 24.05% 11.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.06% 29.08% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 10
10th Percentile £300 £360 £120
25th Percentile £391 £400 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £381
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% +18.03% -12.86%
75th Percentile £629 £525 £525
90th Percentile £671 £597 £616
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 65 43
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.00 £13.31
25th Percentile £17.43 £15.62 £13.41
Median hourly rate £30.11 £16.23 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year +85.49% +18.81% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £16.85 £14.16
90th Percentile - - £55.75
East of England median hourly rate £17.50 £16.23 £18.50
% change year-on-year +7.83% -12.27% -63.00%

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 320 306 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.40% 82.70% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 107 162
10th Percentile £311 £279 £213
25th Percentile £406 £345 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £564 £562
90th Percentile £700 £630 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 88 196
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £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 £23.00 £18.06 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £25.38
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -4.76%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +2 30 £475 +4.63% 78
Peterborough -4 11 - - 25
Huntingdon -5 1 £673 - 6
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:

Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 9 (20.00%) GitHub
3 9 (20.00%) PaaS
4 8 (17.78%) Azure Functions
4 8 (17.78%) GitHub Copilot
4 8 (17.78%) Serverless
5 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (8.89%) AWS
7 3 (6.67%) GCP
7 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.22%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (4.44%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) 802.11
3 1 (2.22%) Bluetooth
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) MQTT
3 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.22%) SSL
3 1 (2.22%) UWB
3 1 (2.22%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
3 1 (2.22%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.22%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JMeter
1 2 (4.44%) Postman
1 2 (4.44%) Selenium
2 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.22%) GitLab
2 1 (2.22%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Finance
2 3 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (6.67%) Polish Language
3 2 (4.44%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.44%) Spanish Language
4 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 7 (15.56%) Developer
1 7 (15.56%) Senior
2 6 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Junior
3 5 (11.11%) Junior Software Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Junior Support Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Software Support Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Support Specialist
4 4 (8.89%) Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Service Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Technical Services Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) .NET
2 12 (26.67%) PyTorch
2 12 (26.67%) TensorFlow
3 11 (24.44%) RESTful
4 8 (17.78%) Semantic Kernel
5 5 (11.11%) JSON
5 5 (11.11%) scikit-learn
5 5 (11.11%) XML
6 3 (6.67%) pytest
7 2 (4.44%) Pandas
8 1 (2.22%) 802.1X
8 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.22%) Express.js
8 1 (2.22%) NgRx
8 1 (2.22%) Playwright
8 1 (2.22%) REST
8 1 (2.22%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Cloud Native
2 9 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.44%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) AI
2 19 (42.22%) Agile
2 19 (42.22%) Software Engineering
3 17 (37.78%) Machine Learning
4 16 (35.56%) Test Automation
5 14 (31.11%) LLM
5 14 (31.11%) Prompt Engineering
5 14 (31.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 11 (24.44%) Data Privacy
6 11 (24.44%) Data Science
7 10 (22.22%) API Management
7 10 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (22.22%) Scrum
7 10 (22.22%) Validation
8 9 (20.00%) Deep Learning
9 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
10 7 (15.56%) API Design
10 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (15.56%) Customer Service
11 6 (13.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (37.78%) Python
2 5 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (2.22%) C
3 1 (2.22%) C++
3 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.22%) SQL
3 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) MCP
2 4 (8.89%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) A+ Certification
3 3 (6.67%) MCSA
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.22%) CCIE
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.89%) EU AI Act
2 12 (26.67%) NIST
3 7 (15.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) SCCM
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (48.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) Foundry
3 6 (13.33%) SAP
4 5 (11.11%) Oracle
4 5 (11.11%) Workday
5 3 (6.67%) Citrix
5 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) IBM
6 1 (2.22%) IFS
6 1 (2.22%) Meraki
6 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto