Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Problem Solving
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 22 17
Rank change year-on-year +14 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 15 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 14.71% 7.51% 7.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.52% 9.15% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 12
10th Percentile £411 £463 £211
25th Percentile £519 £541 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £739 £926 £700
90th Percentile £800 £964 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £450 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +31.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81 142 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 79.41% 82.08% 80.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 88 98
10th Percentile £425 £466 £359
25th Percentile £463 £547 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.14%
75th Percentile £670 £693 £675
90th Percentile £751 £972 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £41.28 £47.13 £23.18
25th Percentile £49.19 £57.81 £24.19
Median hourly rate £64.25 £70.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +124.00% -61.66%
75th Percentile £81.19 £73.75 £42.63
90th Percentile £90.23 - £54.55
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £34.59 £35.03 £48.72
% change year-on-year -1.27% -28.10% -17.66%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Cheltenham

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) npm
2 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) AMQP
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) tcpdump
2 2 (13.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (20.00%) ObjectStore
2 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (13.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 5 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Change Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Currency
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) CentOS
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
2 5 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) Data Extraction
5 2 (13.33%) Data Interpretation
5 2 (13.33%) Data Science
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) DV Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
1 5 (33.33%) Grafana
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle