Creative Problem-Solving Contracts in England

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Creative Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 497 576
Rank change year-on-year +60 +79 +90
Contract jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 31 52 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 52
10th Percentile £192 £239 £225
25th Percentile £308 £378 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -40.33% +14.29% -5.23%
75th Percentile £520 £750 £628
90th Percentile £537 - £675
UK median daily rate £358 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -36.41% +7.24% -7.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £21.08
25th Percentile - - £27.78
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £39.56
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +39.03% -16.72%
75th Percentile - - £51.97
90th Percentile - - £59.04
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £39.56
% change year-on-year -21.82% +39.03% -16.72%

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 22,342 31,794 44,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.49% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,619 20,826 30,977
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 945 2,249 1,562
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.91 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.18 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -0.85% +50.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

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 11 May 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 +30 16 £316 -52.30% 177
Midlands - 7 £336 - 15
East Midlands - 6 £336 - 4
North of England - 4 £464 - 26
North West - 4 £464 - 19
South East +46 2 - - 57
South West +16 2 £506 +16.38% 11
East of England +25 1 £700 +12.00% 24
West Midlands - 1 - - 11
Creative Problem-Solving
UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) SAS
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) CATIA
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon Glacier
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon Kinesis
2 7 (22.58%) Amazon S3
2 7 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (22.58%) Serverless
3 4 (12.90%) Azure
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Network Security
2 4 (12.90%) BGP
2 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) OSPF
2 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (9.68%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) NetBeans
2 1 (3.23%) Selenium
2 1 (3.23%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Games
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) French Language
6 1 (3.23%) Automotive
6 1 (3.23%) Electronics
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Marketing
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Animator
3 4 (12.90%) Security Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Cloud Security Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Firewall Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Java Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Java Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Operational Security Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Operations Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Security Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) RESTful
2 7 (22.58%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (22.58%) Kafka
3 4 (12.90%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (6.45%) ZeroMQ
5 1 (3.23%) .NET
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.23%) CSS
5 1 (3.23%) Django
5 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.23%) Flask
5 1 (3.23%) HTML
5 1 (3.23%) LangChain
5 1 (3.23%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.23%) Next.js
5 1 (3.23%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Public Cloud
2 4 (12.90%) Animation
3 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
3 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.23%) IoT
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (38.71%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
4 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
4 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (22.58%) Budget Control
5 7 (22.58%) Contingency Planning
5 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven
5 7 (22.58%) Microservices
5 7 (22.58%) Project Planning
5 7 (22.58%) SDLC
5 7 (22.58%) Service Delivery
6 5 (16.13%) DevOps
6 5 (16.13%) Mathematics
7 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (12.90%) Game Development
8 3 (9.68%) Computer Science
8 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
8 3 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Java
2 5 (16.13%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) C++
3 3 (9.68%) SQL
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) C
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (12.90%) CCNP
2 4 (12.90%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (6.45%) CCSP
4 2 (6.45%) CISSP
4 2 (6.45%) GCIH
4 2 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
1 2 (6.45%) QA
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) IEC 61508
2 1 (3.23%) MISRA
2 1 (3.23%) MISRA C
2 1 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Fortinet
1 4 (12.90%) Meraki
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
1 4 (12.90%) Palo Alto
2 3 (9.68%) Zscaler
3 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) QNX
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Siemens
3 1 (3.23%) Workday