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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 9 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 8.18% 10.93% 12.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 13.99% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 12
10th Percentile - £150 £125
25th Percentile £145 £154 £127
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £165 £288
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -42.61% -56.86%
75th Percentile £306 £419 £465
90th Percentile £478 £460 £564
South West median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £17.22 £29.78 -
25th Percentile £25.18 £33.57 -
Median hourly rate £38.46 £41.26 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% - -
75th Percentile £51.73 £50.07 -
90th Percentile £59.69 £54.53 -
South West median hourly rate £52.67 £25.00 £56.30
% change year-on-year +110.68% -55.60% +11.82%

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 95 193 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 86.36% 78.14% 81.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 128 97
10th Percentile - £147 £233
25th Percentile £145 £180 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £160 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% -8.60% +12.73%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £600
90th Percentile £600 £600 £680
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 34 8
10th Percentile £25.15 £10.42 £36.90
25th Percentile £26.40 £16.30 £46.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -42.86% +37.60%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.50 £72.50 £74.50
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -36.36% -8.33% +23.76%

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 30 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Devon

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Devon over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 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
Paignton - 5 £160 - 1
Plymouth - 4 £475 - 264
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Figma
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Storybook
1 1 (11.11%) Vite
1 1 (11.11%) webpack
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Electrical Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
1 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
1 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 5 (55.56%) Educational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
1 5 (55.56%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (11.11%) Kanban
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) UX Design
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) HND
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk