Problem-Solving Contracts in the East of England

Problem Solving
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 247 253 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 12.96% 12.03% 10.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.97% 13.84% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 105 124
10th Percentile £183 £180 £135
25th Percentile £313 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £547
90th Percentile £675 £638 £632
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 79 74
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.80 £22.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% +62.96% -10.00%
75th Percentile £21.52 £61.25 £14.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.75 £15.75
England median hourly rate £17.50 £43.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -59.71% +117.15% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,650 1,828 2,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.57% 86.92% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 1,082 1,289
10th Percentile £225 £200 £185
25th Percentile £350 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 589 344 393
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.81 £13.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.44% +58.84% -7.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £36.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £57.90
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the East of England

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East of England.

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

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 18 April 2024.

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

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the East of England.

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

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024. 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
Cambridgeshire +1 93 £550 +15.79% 155
Hertfordshire -8 63 £400 -23.08% 110
Essex +5 41 £517 +56.19% 89
Bedfordshire 0 25 £388 -20.10% 32
Norfolk +7 15 £463 +156.94% 46
Suffolk +4 7 £550 -15.38% 38
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.21%) Apache
2 3 (1.21%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.21%) IIS
2 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) SAS
3 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) Luigi
Applications
1 61 (24.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (14.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (8.10%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.81%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.81%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.81%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.81%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.40%) DELMIA
3 1 (0.40%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.40%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.69%) Azure
2 18 (7.29%) AWS
2 18 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (6.88%) GCP
4 10 (4.05%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (2.02%) Google Sheets
6 4 (1.62%) OCI
7 3 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.21%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.21%) Azure AKS
7 3 (1.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (1.21%) SaaS
7 3 (1.21%) Serverless
8 2 (0.81%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.88%) Wi-Fi
2 16 (6.48%) VPN
3 15 (6.07%) Firewall
4 3 (1.21%) Network Security
4 3 (1.21%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.81%) H.323
5 2 (0.81%) HTTP
5 2 (0.81%) Internet
5 2 (0.81%) LAN
5 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.81%) WAN
5 2 (0.81%) Wireless
6 1 (0.40%) BGP
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.40%) OSPF
6 1 (0.40%) RTP
6 1 (0.40%) RTSP
6 1 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.05%) Power BI
2 8 (3.24%) Tableau
3 5 (2.02%) GIS
4 4 (1.62%) Big Data
4 4 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.21%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.81%) Looker
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.40%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.40%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.40%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (5.26%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (2.43%) JIRA
3 3 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) CMake
4 1 (0.40%) Git
4 1 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 129 (52.23%) Social Skills
2 68 (27.53%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (14.17%) Finance
4 9 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (3.24%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.83%) Manufacturing
6 7 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.43%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.43%) Banking
7 6 (2.43%) Marketing
7 6 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.43%) Retail
8 5 (2.02%) Back Office
8 5 (2.02%) Local Government
9 4 (1.62%) German Language
9 4 (1.62%) Law
10 3 (1.21%) Automotive
10 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 65 (26.32%) Analyst
2 44 (17.81%) Service Analyst
3 34 (13.77%) Service Desk Analyst
4 27 (10.93%) Customer Analyst
4 27 (10.93%) Customer Service Analyst
5 21 (8.50%) Architect
6 20 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.88%) Call Centre Analyst
8 14 (5.67%) Embedded Engineer
8 14 (5.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 14 (5.67%) Support Engineer
9 13 (5.26%) Administrator
9 13 (5.26%) C Software Engineer
9 13 (5.26%) Developer
10 11 (4.45%) Embedded C Engineer
10 11 (4.45%) Embedded C Software Engineer
10 11 (4.45%) Project Manager
10 11 (4.45%) Senior
11 10 (4.05%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
11 10 (4.05%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.29%) HTML
2 16 (6.48%) CSS
3 13 (5.26%) React
4 10 (4.05%) DirectX
4 10 (4.05%) OpenGL
4 10 (4.05%) OpenGL ES
4 10 (4.05%) Vulkan
5 4 (1.62%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.62%) REST
5 4 (1.62%) Visualforce
6 2 (0.81%) FFmpeg
6 2 (0.81%) Kafka
7 1 (0.40%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.40%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.40%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.40%) NumPy
7 1 (0.40%) Pandas
7 1 (0.40%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.40%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.05%) 3D Graphics
1 10 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (4.05%) Management Information System
1 10 (4.05%) Ray Tracing
2 6 (2.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (2.43%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.21%) Life Science
4 3 (1.21%) Mainframe
5 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.81%) BYOD
5 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (0.81%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (0.81%) iPad
5 2 (0.81%) iPhone
5 2 (0.81%) IVR
5 2 (0.81%) NHS
5 2 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.74%) Windows
2 11 (4.45%) Linux
3 4 (1.62%) Windows 10
3 4 (1.62%) Windows 7
4 3 (1.21%) Android
4 3 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.21%) Windows 8
5 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (36.03%) Customer Service
2 59 (23.89%) Service Delivery
3 58 (23.48%) Mathematics
4 52 (21.05%) Incident Management
5 39 (15.79%) ITIL
6 34 (13.77%) Agile
7 33 (13.36%) Software Engineering
8 25 (10.12%) DevOps
8 25 (10.12%) Migration
9 23 (9.31%) Project Management
10 22 (8.91%) Problem Management
11 21 (8.50%) Computer Science
12 19 (7.69%) CI/CD
13 18 (7.29%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (7.29%) Data Analysis
13 18 (7.29%) Identity Management
14 17 (6.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (6.48%) Validation
16 15 (6.07%) Decision-Making
17 12 (4.86%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.72%) C
2 22 (8.91%) C++
2 22 (8.91%) SQL
3 19 (7.69%) Java
4 16 (6.48%) Python
5 11 (4.45%) Embedded C
6 10 (4.05%) Embedded C++
6 10 (4.05%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.43%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.02%) R
9 4 (1.62%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.21%) Bash
10 3 (1.21%) C#
10 3 (1.21%) Groovy
11 2 (0.81%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.81%) VB
12 1 (0.40%) Ada
12 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (19.43%) Degree
2 21 (8.50%) MCP
3 20 (8.10%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.48%) Master's Degree
5 16 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (5.67%) MCSA
6 14 (5.67%) SC Cleared
7 13 (5.26%) A+ Certification
8 10 (4.05%) PhD
9 9 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (3.24%) CCNP
11 7 (2.83%) CCNA
12 5 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.21%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.21%) PMP
14 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.88%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.67%) SLA
3 7 (2.83%) QA
4 4 (1.62%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (2.43%) Kubernetes
1 6 (2.43%) SCCM
2 4 (1.62%) Terraform
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.81%) WSUS
4 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 82 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.29%) Google
2 18 (7.29%) SAP
3 15 (6.07%) Citrix
4 10 (4.05%) Cisco
4 10 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.24%) Oracle
6 5 (2.02%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.02%) VMware
7 4 (1.62%) NetApp
8 3 (1.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.81%) Hortonworks
9 2 (0.81%) McAfee
9 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.81%) Siemens
9 2 (0.81%) Talend
9 2 (0.81%) Teradata
9 2 (0.81%) Twitter