Problem-Solving Contracts in Dorset

Problem Solving
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 10 5 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 14 23 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 14.29% 13.94% 6.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.56% 16.31% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 2
10th Percentile £256 - £507
25th Percentile £304 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £175 £519
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -66.27% +29.69%
75th Percentile £488 £219 £533
90th Percentile £529 £298 £536
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 10
10th Percentile - £7.21 £53.23
25th Percentile - £13.00 -
Median hourly rate - £47.83 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year - -15.03% +11.73%
75th Percentile - £57.33 £68.81
90th Percentile - - £73.28
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
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 141 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 91.84% 85.45% 82.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 91 103
10th Percentile £203 £175 £160
25th Percentile £363 £175 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.82% +2.63%
75th Percentile £563 £630 £610
90th Percentile £675 £825 £638
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 35 36
10th Percentile £14.47 £11.87 £17.50
25th Percentile £14.99 £13.69 £48.86
Median hourly rate £21.63 £15.31 £56.29
Median % change year-on-year +41.25% -72.80% +5.28%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.49 £62.72
90th Percentile - £61.25 £70.77
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 Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Dorset

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Dorset

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Dorset

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Dorset

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset 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
Bournemouth -1 9 £425 +21.43% 22
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) InfoPath
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
1 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) CockroachDB
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Django Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Production Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) jQuery
2 5 (35.71%) AngularJS
2 5 (35.71%) CSS
2 5 (35.71%) HTML
3 4 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (7.14%) .NET
5 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
5 1 (7.14%) Django
5 1 (7.14%) JSON
5 1 (7.14%) Kafka
5 1 (7.14%) React
5 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Digital Media
3 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) CAD
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) ITSM
3 4 (28.57%) User Experience
3 4 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 4 (28.57%) Web Development
4 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Community of Practice
4 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 3 (21.43%) Operational Stability
4 3 (21.43%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Service Management
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) UX Design
5 2 (14.29%) API Design
5 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Sun