Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Problem Solving
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 255 237 210
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 11.30% 18.54% 14.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.45% 20.77% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 103 67
10th Percentile £154 £185 £220
25th Percentile £190 £238 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £582
90th Percentile £675 £681 £638
England median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 55 102
10th Percentile £15.99 £13.93 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.44 £17.50 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +16.80% +7.83% -27.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £31.20 £16.85
90th Percentile £70.00 £59.00 -
England median hourly rate £19.83 £18.96 £16.23
% change year-on-year +4.59% +16.82% -69.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,765 1,141 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.20% 89.28% 81.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 499 444
10th Percentile £190 £200 £213
25th Percentile £400 £377 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £446
Median % change year-on-year - +12.11% -10.80%
75th Percentile £594 £578 £550
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 297 404
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.74 £14.64
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.73% +100.66%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £69.63
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East of England over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 8 September 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +5 100 £400 -24.24% 178
Essex -4 42 £576 +44.00% 123
Cambridgeshire -2 38 £363 -34.09% 247
Norfolk -3 34 £200 -60.98% 64
Bedfordshire -8 26 £494 -1.20% 54
Suffolk -11 15 £718 +226.36% 51
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.75%) Confluence
2 7 (2.75%) WebLogic
2 7 (2.75%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) CMS
4 1 (0.39%) Mendix
Applications
1 14 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.96%) Windchill
4 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) Simulink
5 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Retail
3 2 (0.78%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.39%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.39%) Primavera
4 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.39%) SAP PS
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (11.37%) Azure
3 14 (5.49%) AWS
3 14 (5.49%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.10%) GCP
5 9 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.35%) Miro
7 5 (1.96%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.96%) SaaS
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Storage
8 3 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.18%) Serverless
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.78%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (0.78%) Figma
9 2 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.24%) VPN
2 19 (7.45%) Firewall
3 7 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.35%) Structured Cabling
4 6 (2.35%) Wireless
5 5 (1.96%) LAN
5 5 (1.96%) Network Security
6 4 (1.57%) DNS
6 4 (1.57%) WAN
7 2 (0.78%) DHCP
7 2 (0.78%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.78%) NAS
7 2 (0.78%) SAN
8 1 (0.39%) Broadband
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.39%) DMZ
8 1 (0.39%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.39%) Modbus
8 1 (0.39%) Profibus
8 1 (0.39%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.24%) Relational Database
2 11 (4.31%) Power BI
3 10 (3.92%) Metadata
4 8 (3.14%) Data Mining
4 8 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (1.96%) MySQL
6 5 (1.96%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.18%) Power Query
8 2 (0.78%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.78%) Tableau
9 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.39%) Big Data
9 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.39%) QlikView
9 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (4.71%) Git
2 10 (3.92%) JIRA
3 7 (2.75%) GitLab
4 5 (1.96%) Gradle
4 5 (1.96%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.39%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.39%) MSI
7 1 (0.39%) Ranorex
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 121 (47.45%) Social Skills
2 87 (34.12%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.33%) Finance
4 32 (12.55%) Manufacturing
5 20 (7.84%) Telecoms
6 16 (6.27%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.53%) Banking
10 8 (3.14%) Aerospace
10 8 (3.14%) Law
10 8 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (2.75%) Military
12 5 (1.96%) Automotive
12 5 (1.96%) Electronics
12 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.96%) Retail
13 4 (1.57%) Games
13 4 (1.57%) Local Government
14 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (11.37%) IT Support
2 25 (9.80%) Developer
3 19 (7.45%) Technical Support
4 17 (6.67%) Support Engineer
5 16 (6.27%) Analyst
5 16 (6.27%) Architect
5 16 (6.27%) Software Developer
6 15 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 15 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.49%) Lead
7 14 (5.49%) Senior
7 14 (5.49%) Software Engineer
8 13 (5.10%) IT Engineer
8 13 (5.10%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (5.10%) Java Software Developer
9 12 (4.71%) Consultant
9 12 (4.71%) Support Specialist
9 12 (4.71%) Technical Specialist
9 12 (4.71%) Technical Support Specialist
10 9 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.10%) ONVIF
2 8 (3.14%) CSS
3 7 (2.75%) Middleware
3 7 (2.75%) RESTful
4 6 (2.35%) REST
4 6 (2.35%) Spring
4 6 (2.35%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.57%) .NET
5 4 (1.57%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.57%) LDAP
5 4 (1.57%) SQLAlchemy
5 4 (1.57%) XML
6 3 (1.18%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.18%) HTML
6 3 (1.18%) Kafka
6 3 (1.18%) Node.js
6 3 (1.18%) React
7 2 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.78%) OAuth
7 2 (0.78%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (5.10%) Video\Live Streaming
5 10 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.53%) Driving Licence
7 8 (3.14%) Life Science
7 8 (3.14%) Reference Data
8 6 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.35%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.96%) Analogue Electronics
9 5 (1.96%) CMDB
9 5 (1.96%) NHS
9 5 (1.96%) PKI
10 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
11 3 (1.18%) FPGA
11 3 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (16.08%) Windows
2 15 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 9 (3.53%) Linux
4 6 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.18%) Unix
7 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.14%) Agile
2 49 (19.22%) Customer Service
3 37 (14.51%) CI/CD
4 31 (12.16%) DevOps
4 31 (12.16%) Software Engineering
4 31 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (9.80%) Data Modelling
6 25 (9.80%) Validation
7 24 (9.41%) ITIL
7 24 (9.41%) ITSM
8 21 (8.24%) Migration
9 20 (7.84%) Time Management
10 18 (7.06%) Test Automation
11 17 (6.67%) Asset Management
11 17 (6.67%) Data Migration
11 17 (6.67%) Mentoring
11 17 (6.67%) Project Management
12 16 (6.27%) Change Management
12 16 (6.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (16.47%) SQL
2 25 (9.80%) Java
3 21 (8.24%) Python
4 6 (2.35%) C#
5 5 (1.96%) Bash
5 5 (1.96%) C
5 5 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.18%) Ada
6 3 (1.18%) C++
7 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.78%) ProC
7 2 (0.78%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (0.78%) X++
8 1 (0.39%) Clojure
8 1 (0.39%) Cypher
8 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.43%) Degree
3 33 (12.94%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (6.67%) A+ Certification
6 15 (5.88%) CCNA
6 15 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (5.10%) MCSA
8 8 (3.14%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.35%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.57%) HNC
11 4 (1.57%) HND
11 4 (1.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.49%) QA
3 7 (2.75%) SLA
4 6 (2.35%) GDPR
5 5 (1.96%) GxP
5 5 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.18%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.18%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.78%) PMO
9 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.39%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) MISRA
9 1 (0.39%) NCSC
9 1 (0.39%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 14 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.14%) Docker
3 6 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.18%) vSphere
5 2 (0.78%) Firmware
5 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.53%) Ansible
2 6 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.18%) Functional Safety
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.78%) Grafana
4 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.78%) SCCM
4 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
5 1 (0.39%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 63 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.10%) SAP
2 13 (5.10%) ServiceNow
3 11 (4.31%) Oracle
4 7 (2.75%) JD Edwards
5 6 (2.35%) VMware
6 4 (1.57%) BMC
6 4 (1.57%) Cisco
6 4 (1.57%) Databricks
6 4 (1.57%) Dell
6 4 (1.57%) Remedy
7 3 (1.18%) EMC
7 3 (1.18%) HP
7 3 (1.18%) Motorola
8 2 (0.78%) Google
8 2 (0.78%) Informatica
8 2 (0.78%) Lauterbach
8 2 (0.78%) PTC
8 2 (0.78%) Splunk
9 1 (0.39%) Talend