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

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 -8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 95 99 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 15.08% 12.10% 6.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.73% 13.96% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 69 50
10th Percentile £150 £289 £276
25th Percentile £402 £415 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £466
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% +12.66% +9.65%
75th Percentile £547 £600 £569
90th Percentile £588 £634 £625
Scotland median daily rate £465 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.11% - +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 2
10th Percentile £20.02 £12.00 £21.30
25th Percentile £21.00 £13.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £22.88 £17.00 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +34.56% -20.80% -54.81%
75th Percentile £28.38 £17.50 £21.57
90th Percentile £39.43 £18.75 £21.63
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £16.67 £21.47
% change year-on-year +31.97% -22.34% -54.81%

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 604 709 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.87% 86.67% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 419 799
10th Percentile £240 £218 £242
25th Percentile £406 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% - -
75th Percentile £538 £572 £540
90th Percentile £609 £663 £618
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 31 8
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -10.69% -27.24%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £50.06 - £58.40
Scotland median hourly rate £19.90 £19.50 £15.99
% change year-on-year +2.05% +21.95% -57.28%

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 22 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 22 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 8 (8.42%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.26%) Confluence
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.11%) Camunda
6 1 (1.05%) Apache
6 1 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.79%) AWS
1 15 (15.79%) Azure
2 11 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.42%) Amazon S3
4 6 (6.32%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.21%) GCP
6 4 (4.21%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.11%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (2.11%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (2.11%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.11%) GitHub
8 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.11%) IaaS
8 2 (2.11%) OCI
8 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.42%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (4.21%) LAN
2 4 (4.21%) WAN
3 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.11%) MPLS
4 2 (2.11%) Network Security
4 2 (2.11%) SDH
5 1 (1.05%) 4G
5 1 (1.05%) DNS
5 1 (1.05%) Firewall
5 1 (1.05%) HTTP
5 1 (1.05%) Internet
5 1 (1.05%) Intranet
5 1 (1.05%) IPsec
5 1 (1.05%) PSTN
5 1 (1.05%) SNA
5 1 (1.05%) SSL
5 1 (1.05%) VPN
5 1 (1.05%) Wireless
5 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.37%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.26%) Power BI
2 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.11%) Big Data
3 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.05%) GIS
4 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.05%) Metadata
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.05%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.05%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 6 (6.32%) JIRA
2 3 (3.16%) Git
3 2 (2.11%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (2.11%) GitLab
3 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.05%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.05%) TestRail
General
1 56 (58.95%) Social Skills
2 41 (43.16%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (28.42%) Finance
4 20 (21.05%) Public Sector
5 19 (20.00%) Banking
6 5 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.26%) Retail Banking
7 4 (4.21%) Electronics
8 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Retail
8 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.11%) Digital Health
10 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Legal
10 1 (1.05%) Local Government
10 1 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (22.11%) Analyst
2 15 (15.79%) Senior
3 11 (11.58%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.47%) Support Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Architect
6 7 (7.37%) Service Desk Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Service Desk Support
7 5 (5.26%) Windows Support Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) DBA
8 4 (4.21%) Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Exchange Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Exchange Support
8 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Network Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.16%) Performance Manager
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.16%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.11%) LDAP
1 2 (2.11%) Middleware
1 2 (2.11%) PySpark
1 2 (2.11%) REST
1 2 (2.11%) RESTful
1 2 (2.11%) SOAP
1 2 (2.11%) Spring
1 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.05%) EDI
2 1 (1.05%) Great Expectations
2 1 (1.05%) Java RMI
2 1 (1.05%) Node.js
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.05%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Device Driver
2 6 (6.32%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.21%) Replication
4 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.16%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.16%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle Licensing
4 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) SCADA
6 1 (1.05%) Clustering
6 1 (1.05%) CMDB
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.05%) FPGA
6 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Windows
2 6 (6.32%) Linux
3 5 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.11%) AIX
5 2 (2.11%) Unix
5 2 (2.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.05%) Solaris
6 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.05%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.32%) Agile
2 16 (16.84%) ITIL
3 15 (15.79%) Project Management
4 13 (13.68%) Customer Service
5 12 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (11.58%) Customer Experience
6 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
6 11 (11.58%) Migration
7 10 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 10 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 10 (10.53%) Task Automation
8 9 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (9.47%) CRM
8 9 (9.47%) Time Management
9 8 (8.42%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (7.37%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (7.37%) Risk Management
10 7 (7.37%) Service Design
11 6 (6.32%) Data Modelling
11 6 (6.32%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (12.63%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.53%) SQL
3 6 (6.32%) Python
4 3 (3.16%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.11%) Bash
5 2 (2.11%) C#
5 2 (2.11%) Java
5 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.05%) C
6 1 (1.05%) COBOL
6 1 (1.05%) JCL
6 1 (1.05%) Perl
6 1 (1.05%) REXX
Qualifications
1 9 (9.47%) Degree
1 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (7.37%) A+ Certification
3 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.16%) CISSP
6 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.11%) CEH
7 2 (2.11%) GCIH
7 2 (2.11%) HNC
7 2 (2.11%) OSCP
8 1 (1.05%) ACCA
8 1 (1.05%) CISA
8 1 (1.05%) GCFA
8 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.05%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) QA
2 9 (9.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.21%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.11%) SLA
5 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.05%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.21%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.11%) Docker
3 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.16%) Ansible
2 3 (3.16%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (3.16%) Terraform
3 2 (2.11%) SCCM
3 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.05%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.05%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.05%) Puppet
4 1 (1.05%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 26 (27.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.68%) Oracle
3 4 (4.21%) Cisco
3 4 (4.21%) Citrix
3 4 (4.21%) VMware
4 3 (3.16%) Nokia
4 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.11%) Google
5 2 (2.11%) IBM
5 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.11%) Teradata
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.05%) Fujitsu
6 1 (1.05%) ICL
6 1 (1.05%) Meraki
6 1 (1.05%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.05%) Qualys
6 1 (1.05%) TSYS