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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 42 55 114
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 11.17% 15.94% 26.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.00% 18.15% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 16
10th Percentile £163 £215 £356
25th Percentile £218 £356 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% +6.59% +25.71%
75th Percentile £528 £650 £638
90th Percentile £635 £674 £688
East of England median daily rate £438 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 91
10th Percentile - £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% - +18.81%
75th Percentile £19.58 £27.33 £16.85
90th Percentile £20.44 £43.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £20.51 £17.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year +17.20% +7.83% -27.06%

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 323 303 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 85.90% 87.83% 80.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 108 115
10th Percentile £183 £250 £225
25th Percentile £406 £395 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £508 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +12.78% -
75th Percentile £581 £625 £558
90th Percentile £626 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £442
% change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 92 140
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.26 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.63 £16.85
90th Percentile £44.00 £43.75 £38.18
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +92.43%

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 15 September 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
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 15 September 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 +6 26 £413 -29.79% 276
Peterborough -7 3 £192 +0.95% 34
Huntingdon -13 1 £625 -7.06% 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 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (4.76%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.38%) Infor M3
2 1 (2.38%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (2.38%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.76%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
6 1 (2.38%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) VPN
1 5 (11.90%) Wireless
2 4 (9.52%) Network Security
3 2 (4.76%) DHCP
3 2 (4.76%) DNS
3 2 (4.76%) Firewall
4 1 (2.38%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.38%) SSL
4 1 (2.38%) VLAN
4 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (11.90%) MySQL
2 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.14%) Power BI
4 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.38%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.38%) Metadata
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) SQLite
5 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.38%) Gerrit
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.38%) MSI
4 1 (2.38%) Ranorex
4 1 (2.38%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (59.52%) Social Skills
2 21 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.76%) Back Office
6 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) Retail
7 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (16.67%) Developer
2 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (9.52%) Senior
3 3 (7.14%) Analyst
3 3 (7.14%) Field Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Test Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Business Change Analyst
4 2 (4.76%) Change Analyst
4 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) EPoS Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) EPoS Field Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
4 2 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) RESTful
2 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
2 4 (9.52%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.38%) ADO
4 1 (2.38%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.38%) Flask
4 1 (2.38%) Jolokia
4 1 (2.38%) LAMP
4 1 (2.38%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (2.38%) LDAP
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.38%) Pandas
4 1 (2.38%) Playwright
4 1 (2.38%) PyArrow
4 1 (2.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.52%) Life Science
2 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.14%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.76%) BYOD
4 2 (4.76%) EPoS
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.38%) CMDB
5 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) PKI
5 1 (2.38%) Replication
5 1 (2.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Linux
3 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Rocky
4 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Customer Service
2 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (19.05%) Agile
3 8 (19.05%) Data Modelling
3 8 (19.05%) Migration
4 7 (16.67%) Change Management
4 7 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 7 (16.67%) DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) ITSM
4 7 (16.67%) Validation
5 6 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (14.29%) ETL
5 6 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (14.29%) Service Management
5 6 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
6 5 (11.90%) Informatics
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) Python
2 7 (16.67%) SQL
3 5 (11.90%) C#
4 4 (9.52%) Java
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.76%) X++
7 1 (2.38%) Clojure
7 1 (2.38%) Groovy
7 1 (2.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) A+ Certification
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.38%) PMP
4 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) SLA
3 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.76%) vSphere
3 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (4.76%) SCCM
2 1 (2.38%) Grafana
2 1 (2.38%) HAProxy
2 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.76%) Cisco
3 2 (4.76%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) Dell
3 2 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) VMware
3 2 (4.76%) Workday
4 1 (2.38%) Coverity
4 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.38%) HP
4 1 (2.38%) Infor
4 1 (2.38%) Juniper
4 1 (2.38%) Perforce