Problem-Solving Contracts in Devon

Problem Solving
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 9 32 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 8.41% 11.64% 10.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.57% 14.48% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 12
10th Percentile £145 £150 £125
25th Percentile £161 £156 £127
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £168 £288
Median % change year-on-year +94.03% -41.74% -56.86%
75th Percentile £424 £438 £465
90th Percentile £478 £546 £564
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £11.91 £41.26 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.13% - -
South West median hourly rate £38.56 £25.00 £56.29
% change year-on-year +54.25% -55.59% +12.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 94 221 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 87.85% 80.36% 82.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 154 124
10th Percentile £145 £150 £238
25th Percentile £153 £307 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year - -10.05% +15.96%
75th Percentile £525 £556 £600
90th Percentile £600 £600 £675
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 9
10th Percentile £26.40 £10.42 £39.60
25th Percentile £48.50 £13.86 £47.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -45.45% +161.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £73.00
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Devon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Devon

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Devon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Devon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Devon

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Exeter -1 3 £325 +8.33% 149
Plymouth - 3 £475 - 133
Paignton - 2 £160 - 1
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (11.11%) Figma
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Storybook
1 1 (11.11%) Vite
1 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Field Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Field Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) Redux
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (22.22%) Educational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile
1 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
1 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
1 2 (22.22%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) ERP
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
2 1 (11.11%) Kanban
2 1 (11.11%) Product Management
2 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
2 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) UX Design
2 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Apple
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk