Problem-Solving Contracts in Edinburgh

Problem Solving
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 7 7 48
Rank change year-on-year 0 +41 -19
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 94 113 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 15.04% 13.87% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.82% 15.69% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 77 48
10th Percentile £150 £277 £266
25th Percentile £402 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +9.09% +13.24%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £556
90th Percentile £600 £634 £625
Scotland median daily rate £457 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.79% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 2
10th Percentile £20.51 £13.30 £21.30
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.10 £21.36
Median hourly rate £23.77 £17.00 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +39.81% -20.80% -54.81%
75th Percentile £28.38 £18.75 £21.57
90th Percentile £36.86 - £21.63
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £17.00 £18.88
% change year-on-year +29.41% -9.96% -60.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 9 (9.57%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.32%) Confluence
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.13%) Camunda
5 1 (1.06%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (4.26%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.06%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.09%) Azure
2 14 (14.89%) AWS
3 11 (11.70%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.64%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.38%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.32%) GCP
6 5 (5.32%) Power Automate
6 5 (5.32%) PowerApps
7 4 (4.26%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.13%) IaaS
9 2 (2.13%) OCI
9 2 (2.13%) PaaS
9 2 (2.13%) SaaS
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.06%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.51%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (4.26%) LAN
2 4 (4.26%) WAN
3 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.13%) MPLS
4 2 (2.13%) Network Security
4 2 (2.13%) SDH
5 1 (1.06%) ADSL
5 1 (1.06%) DNS
5 1 (1.06%) Firewall
5 1 (1.06%) HTTP
5 1 (1.06%) Internet
5 1 (1.06%) Intranet
5 1 (1.06%) IPsec
5 1 (1.06%) PSTN
5 1 (1.06%) SNA
5 1 (1.06%) SSL
5 1 (1.06%) VPN
5 1 (1.06%) Wireless
5 1 (1.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.57%) Power BI
2 5 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.32%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.13%) Big Data
3 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.06%) GIS
4 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.06%) OLAP
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.06%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) JIRA
2 3 (3.19%) Git
3 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (1.06%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.06%) TestRail
General
1 59 (62.77%) Social Skills
2 43 (45.74%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (27.66%) Finance
4 21 (22.34%) Public Sector
5 19 (20.21%) Banking
6 7 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Electronics
7 4 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Retail Banking
8 3 (3.19%) Retail
8 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Legal
9 1 (1.06%) Local Government
9 1 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (23.40%) Analyst
2 14 (14.89%) Business Analyst
3 13 (13.83%) Senior
4 10 (10.64%) Support Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Architect
6 7 (7.45%) Service Desk Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Developer
7 5 (5.32%) Exchange Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Exchange Support
7 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Service Desk Support
7 5 (5.32%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Windows Support Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) DBA
9 3 (3.19%) Consultant
9 3 (3.19%) Network Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.19%) Performance Manager
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.13%) LDAP
1 2 (2.13%) Middleware
1 2 (2.13%) PySpark
1 2 (2.13%) RESTful
1 2 (2.13%) Spring
1 2 (2.13%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.06%) EDI
2 1 (1.06%) Great Expectations
2 1 (1.06%) Java RMI
2 1 (1.06%) Node.js
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.06%) Pandas
2 1 (1.06%) REST
2 1 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Device Driver
2 6 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.26%) Replication
4 3 (3.19%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.19%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle Licensing
4 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.13%) SCADA
5 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.06%) Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) CMDB
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.06%) FPGA
6 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.64%) Windows
2 4 (4.26%) Linux
3 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.13%) AIX
4 2 (2.13%) Unix
4 2 (2.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.06%) Solaris
5 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.06%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.53%) Agile
2 16 (17.02%) ITIL
2 16 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (15.96%) Project Management
4 12 (12.77%) CRM
4 12 (12.77%) Customer Service
5 11 (11.70%) Customer Experience
5 11 (11.70%) Decision-Making
6 10 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (10.64%) Migration
6 10 (10.64%) Time Management
7 9 (9.57%) CI/CD
7 9 (9.57%) Mentoring
7 9 (9.57%) Task Automation
8 8 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (8.51%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (7.45%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (7.45%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (7.45%) Risk Management
10 6 (6.38%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.89%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.64%) SQL
3 6 (6.38%) Python
4 5 (5.32%) C#
4 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.19%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.13%) Bash
6 2 (2.13%) Java
6 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.06%) C
7 1 (1.06%) COBOL
7 1 (1.06%) Go
7 1 (1.06%) JCL
7 1 (1.06%) Perl
7 1 (1.06%) REXX
Qualifications
1 8 (8.51%) Degree
2 7 (7.45%) A+ Certification
2 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.19%) CISSP
5 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.13%) CEH
6 2 (2.13%) GCIH
6 2 (2.13%) HNC
6 2 (2.13%) OSCP
7 1 (1.06%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.06%) GCFA
7 1 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.06%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) QA
2 9 (9.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.19%) GDPR
5 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.13%) SLA
6 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.13%) Docker
3 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.19%) Ansible
2 3 (3.19%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.06%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.06%) Puppet
4 1 (1.06%) Terraform
4 1 (1.06%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 26 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.70%) Oracle
3 5 (5.32%) Citrix
4 4 (4.26%) Cisco
4 4 (4.26%) VMware
5 3 (3.19%) Nokia
5 3 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.13%) Google
6 2 (2.13%) IBM
6 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.13%) Teradata
7 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.06%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.06%) ICL
7 1 (1.06%) Meraki
7 1 (1.06%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.06%) Qualys
7 1 (1.06%) TSYS