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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 36 73 109
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.94% 22.12% 25.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.59% 24.91% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 14
10th Percentile £155 £220 £354
25th Percentile £208 £296 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £558
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -23.77% +27.43%
75th Percentile £570 £599 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £708
East of England median daily rate £450 £471 £450
% change year-on-year -4.51% +4.72% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 86
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.73 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.14 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% +0.93% +9.81%
75th Percentile £18.13 £18.85 £16.85
90th Percentile £20.44 £43.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £19.89 £18.16 £15.00
% change year-on-year +9.50% +21.07% -38.99%

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 286 293 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.93% 88.79% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 125 116
10th Percentile £168 £205 £213
25th Percentile £361 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +9.83% -3.89%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £550
90th Percentile £672 £686 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 68 161
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.46 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.71 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +2.93% +11.93%
75th Percentile £18.50 £25.15 £21.46
90th Percentile £35.91 £60.00 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 0 22 £400 -11.11% 56
Huntingdon -5 1 £625 -7.06% 3
Peterborough -13 1 £192 -4.10% 18
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 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.89%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
5 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) VPN
1 5 (13.89%) Wireless
2 3 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) VLAN
3 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.11%) MySQL
2 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.33%) Power BI
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) JIRA
1 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) MSI
General
1 27 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Back Office
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Local Government
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (11.11%) Developer
1 4 (11.11%) Senior
2 3 (8.33%) Analyst
2 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (8.33%) Field Engineer
2 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (8.33%) Project Officer
2 3 (8.33%) Project Support Officer
2 3 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 3 (8.33%) Support Officer
3 2 (5.56%) Administrator
3 2 (5.56%) Break Fix Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Business Change Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Change Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Coordinator
3 2 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Field Hardware Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Hibernate
1 4 (11.11%) RESTful
1 4 (11.11%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) ADO
3 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.78%) Flask
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.78%) Pandas
3 1 (2.78%) Playwright
3 1 (2.78%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Life Science
1 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
2 2 (5.56%) BYOD
2 2 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) EPoS
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) PKI
3 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 7 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (19.44%) ETL
4 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (16.67%) ITSM
4 6 (16.67%) Service Management
5 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (13.89%) Data Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) Data Migration
5 5 (13.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 5 (13.89%) Informatics
5 5 (13.89%) Migration
5 5 (13.89%) Project Management
6 4 (11.11%) Biotechnology
6 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 4 (11.11%) Inventory Management
6 4 (11.11%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) SQL
3 4 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (5.56%) C#
4 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.56%) X++
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) A+ Certification
3 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMP
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) SLA
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 3 (8.33%) Dell
4 2 (5.56%) Databricks
4 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (2.78%) Juniper
5 1 (2.78%) SAP