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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 37 62 107
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 10.91% 18.45% 25.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.67% 20.88% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 15
10th Percentile £156 £230 £355
25th Percentile £164 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £521 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £664 £698
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 28 85
10th Percentile - £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.14 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -6.72% +18.81%
75th Percentile £19.58 £18.85 £16.85
90th Percentile £20.44 £43.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £20.44 £17.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year +16.80% +7.83% -32.86%

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 292 297 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.14% 88.39% 80.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 107 107
10th Percentile £168 £250 £215
25th Percentile £358 £389 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £442
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +18.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £576 £625 £550
90th Percentile £626 £700 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 84 138
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.12 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -0.71% +11.93%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £20.58
90th Percentile £38.18 £43.75 £48.23
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -25.00% +101.92%

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 1 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 1 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 +4 21 £325 -42.22% 196
Peterborough -9 3 £192 +0.95% 18
Huntingdon -7 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 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (8.11%) Power Automate
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
6 1 (2.70%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) VPN
1 5 (13.51%) Wireless
2 4 (10.81%) Network Security
3 2 (5.41%) DHCP
3 2 (5.41%) DNS
3 2 (5.41%) Firewall
4 1 (2.70%) VLAN
4 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.51%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.81%) MySQL
3 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.11%) Power BI
5 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
1 3 (8.11%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) MSI
2 1 (2.70%) Ranorex
2 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (67.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (51.35%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (5.41%) Back Office
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Developer
2 4 (10.81%) Field Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Administrator
4 2 (5.41%) Break Fix Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Business Change Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Change Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Coordinator
4 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Lead
4 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) RESTful
2 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
2 4 (10.81%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (8.11%) .NET
4 1 (2.70%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.70%) ADO
4 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.70%) Flask
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.70%) Pandas
4 1 (2.70%) Playwright
4 1 (2.70%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.81%) Life Science
2 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.11%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.41%) BYOD
4 2 (5.41%) EPoS
4 2 (5.41%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.70%) CMDB
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Customer Service
2 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
3 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
4 7 (18.92%) Agile
4 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (18.92%) ITSM
5 6 (16.22%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (16.22%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (16.22%) ETL
5 6 (16.22%) Service Management
6 5 (13.51%) Change Management
6 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
6 5 (13.51%) Data Engineering
6 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
6 5 (13.51%) Informatics
6 5 (13.51%) ITIL
6 5 (13.51%) Migration
6 5 (13.51%) Service Delivery
6 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
6 5 (13.51%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) Java
5 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.41%) Bash
6 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) A+ Certification
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.70%) PMP
4 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) SLA
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.41%) vSphere
3 1 (2.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 2 (5.41%) Databricks
3 2 (5.41%) Dell
3 2 (5.41%) HP
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.70%) Juniper
4 1 (2.70%) SAP