Creative Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in England

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Creative Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 460 506
Rank change year-on-year -39 +46 +165
Contract jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 45 47 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 41
10th Percentile £153 £219 £350
25th Percentile £204 £359 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -6.76% +5.53%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £613
90th Percentile £645 £644 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £523
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.09% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £43.00 £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - +199.44% -64.98%
75th Percentile - - £14.96
90th Percentile - - £16.03
UK median hourly rate - £43.00 £14.36
% change year-on-year - +199.44% -64.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Creative 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Creative Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Creative Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Creative Problem-Solving

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Creative Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Creative Problem-Solving

Creative Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
London -5 22 £500 +3.73% 24
South East -10 9 £155 -70.48% 22
South West -6 8 £600 +133.17% 4
North of England -39 6 £525 +7.14% 15
Yorkshire -37 4 £525 -1.69% 2
North West -16 2 £600 +67.83% 12
Creative Problem-Solving
UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (17.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (15.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (13.33%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (2.22%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Figma
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.89%) Power Automate
3 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.89%) PowerApps
4 2 (4.44%) Azure
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) AWS
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) DNS
2 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 6 (13.33%) VPN
3 5 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (8.89%) FTP
4 4 (8.89%) HTTP
4 4 (8.89%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.22%) BGP
5 1 (2.22%) DHCP
5 1 (2.22%) EIGRP
5 1 (2.22%) HSRP
5 1 (2.22%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.22%) Internet
5 1 (2.22%) Network Security
5 1 (2.22%) NGFW
5 1 (2.22%) OSPF
5 1 (2.22%) SSL
5 1 (2.22%) VRRP
5 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.22%) MemSQL
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Finance
3 12 (26.67%) Banking
4 9 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (11.11%) Law
6 5 (11.11%) Legal
7 4 (8.89%) Advertising
7 4 (8.89%) Marketing
8 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (6.67%) Publishing
9 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
10 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 1 (2.22%) Retail
10 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Designer
2 7 (15.56%) Visual Designer
3 5 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Help Desk Officer
3 5 (11.11%) Help Desk Support
3 5 (11.11%) IT Support
3 5 (11.11%) Senior
3 5 (11.11%) Service Desk Officer
3 5 (11.11%) Service Desk Support
3 5 (11.11%) Support Officer
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Technical Support
4 4 (8.89%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Producer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) REST
2 4 (8.89%) SOAP
3 3 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (2.22%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
4 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Mobile App
2 5 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.67%) Graphic Design
3 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Motion Graphics
3 3 (6.67%) PMI
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) SCADA
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (8.89%) Unix
4 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (35.56%) Agile
3 13 (28.89%) Storytelling
4 9 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 7 (15.56%) Infographics
6 6 (13.33%) Business Strategy
6 6 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.33%) Creative Thinking
6 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (11.11%) CRM
7 5 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 5 (11.11%) ITIL
7 5 (11.11%) Preventative Maintenance
7 5 (11.11%) PRINCE2
7 5 (11.11%) Project Management
8 4 (8.89%) Analytics
8 4 (8.89%) Creative Strategy
8 4 (8.89%) SDLC
8 4 (8.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) Java
2 4 (8.89%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) R
4 1 (2.22%) Assembly Language
4 1 (2.22%) Korn
4 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.22%) REXX
4 1 (2.22%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.44%) CISSP
3 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.22%) CEH
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.22%) CISM
3 1 (2.22%) CISMP
3 1 (2.22%) CSSLP
3 1 (2.22%) GCIH
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) COBIT
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 5 (11.11%) Terminal Services
2 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Ansible
1 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Adobe
3 5 (11.11%) Citrix
3 5 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (2.22%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.22%) Arista
4 1 (2.22%) Aruba
4 1 (2.22%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.22%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.22%) F5
4 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Juniper
4 1 (2.22%) Mellanox
4 1 (2.22%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.22%) Zscaler