Problem-Solving Contracts in Croydon

Problem Solving
South London > Croydon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 30 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -22
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 16 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 11.59% 4.12% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.94% 4.32% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile £251 £111 -
25th Percentile £374 £215 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £499 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +10.81% -21.16%
75th Percentile £516 £631 £465
90th Percentile £619 £713 -
South London median daily rate £406 £475 £588
% change year-on-year -14.47% -19.15% +30.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £17.00 - -
25th Percentile £17.19 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £62.68 £45.65
% change year-on-year -62.51% +37.32% +2.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 162 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 97.10% 95.29% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 130 129
10th Percentile £363 £450 £379
25th Percentile £431 £481 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £649 £638
90th Percentile £630 £725 £700
South London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £16.64 - -
25th Percentile £17.06 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile £30.23 - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £50.42 £45.65
% change year-on-year -53.39% +10.46% -2.88%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Croydon

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Route 53
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) Skype
1 1 (6.25%) SMTP
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Field Engineer
1 8 (50.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 8 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (6.25%) IT Support
3 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Junior
3 1 (6.25%) Junior IT Support
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Support Officer
3 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) Mustache
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) React
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Customer Service
2 8 (50.00%) Break/Fix
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 2 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
6 1 (6.25%) Office Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (6.25%) Service Design
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Ruby
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) OPNET
3 1 (6.25%) SCCM
3 1 (6.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Remedy
2 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
2 1 (6.25%) VMware