Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 27 November 2020

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 November 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Problem-Solving
UK > England
6 months to
27 Nov 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 34 29 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,736 4,374 5,843
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.62% 5.82% 6.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.51% 6.74% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 2,593 3,545
Median daily rate £450 £450 £450
10th Percentile £243 £200 £231
90th Percentile £650 £638 £643
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £438
% change year-on-year - +2.86% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 260 239
Median hourly rate £26.50 £21.42 £28.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +23.75% -24.86% +14.00%
10th Percentile £10.56 £12.75 £10.47
90th Percentile £55.38 £53.75 £51.00
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £23.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year +3.26% -21.37% +21.88%

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
England
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,661 64,930 83,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.24% 86.37% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,052 42,889 55,663
Median daily rate £475 £475 £475
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,021 2,030 2,135
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +45.83% +9.09% -4.93%
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.00 £11.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £53.75 £50.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +45.83% +9.09% -4.35%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 27 November 2020.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in England

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 27 November 2020.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in England

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 Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 27 November 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
London -10 879 £500 +5.26% 412
South East +4 257 £400 -6.21% 189
North of England -12 200 £400 -5.88% 265
Midlands +6 146 £380 -6.17% 162
North West +5 125 £356 -20.89% 149
West Midlands +6 111 £400 - 109
East of England +13 108 £425 -5.56% 120
South West +3 95 £465 +5.68% 95
Yorkshire -21 61 £425 +0.59% 85
East Midlands +1 34 £360 -10.00% 53
North East -14 14 £450 +36.36% 31
Problem-Solving
UK

For the 6 months to 27 November 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Problem-Solving also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region with a requirement for Problem-Solving.

1 656 (37.79%) Agile Software Development
2 640 (36.87%) Analytical Skills
3 391 (22.52%) Finance
4 360 (20.74%) SQL
5 294 (16.94%) Microsoft
6 284 (16.36%) Java
7 254 (14.63%) Azure
8 233 (13.42%) Scrum
9 223 (12.85%) Degree
9 223 (12.85%) Security Cleared
10 208 (11.98%) Windows
10 208 (11.98%) Linux
11 206 (11.87%) Python
12 205 (11.81%) DevOps
13 186 (10.71%) Git (software)
14 180 (10.37%) AWS
14 180 (10.37%) JavaScript
15 170 (9.79%) JIRA
16 165 (9.50%) SC Cleared
17 164 (9.45%) Banking
18 160 (9.22%) HTML
19 159 (9.16%) Project Management
20 158 (9.10%) Public Sector
21 157 (9.04%) Computer Science
22 155 (8.93%) Oracle
23 145 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management
23 145 (8.35%) TDD
24 144 (8.29%) Test Automation
25 139 (8.01%) Microservices
26 137 (7.89%) C#

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 94 (5.41%) Confluence
2 63 (3.63%) SharePoint
3 52 (3.00%) Apache
4 31 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.50%) WebLogic
6 22 (1.27%) JBoss
7 20 (1.15%) IIS
8 19 (1.09%) CMS
9 18 (1.04%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.86%) MS Exchange
10 15 (0.86%) SAS
11 12 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 12 (0.69%) WebSphere
12 10 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.52%) Moodle
14 8 (0.46%) Skype for Business
15 7 (0.40%) Appian
15 7 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
15 7 (0.40%) nginx
16 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 117 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 100 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (1.96%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.40%) InVision
8 6 (0.35%) Simulink
8 6 (0.35%) Sketch
9 5 (0.29%) Maya
10 4 (0.23%) Figma
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 3 (0.17%) Zeplin
12 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.058%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.058%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.058%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.058%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 11 (0.63%) Magento
4 9 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.23%) BASE24
7 4 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.17%) Endur
8 3 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
8 3 (0.17%) Shopify
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Retail
9 2 (0.12%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 254 (14.63%) Azure
2 180 (10.37%) AWS
3 85 (4.90%) Office 365
4 55 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 39 (2.25%) GCP
6 34 (1.96%) SaaS
7 32 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 29 (1.67%) PaaS
9 27 (1.56%) Amazon S3
10 25 (1.44%) GitHub
10 25 (1.44%) Serverless
11 19 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (0.81%) npm
14 12 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (0.69%) Azure Active Directory
14 12 (0.69%) Azure Functions
14 12 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (0.63%) G Suite
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.17%) Firewall
2 52 (3.00%) TCP/IP
3 43 (2.48%) DNS
4 39 (2.25%) DHCP
4 39 (2.25%) HTTP
5 30 (1.73%) Network Security
5 30 (1.73%) VPN
6 29 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (1.44%) LAN
8 23 (1.32%) SSL
9 22 (1.27%) WAN
10 20 (1.15%) IPv6
11 19 (1.09%) IPv4
11 19 (1.09%) VoIP
12 16 (0.92%) Skype
13 14 (0.81%) SNMP
13 14 (0.81%) VLAN
13 14 (0.81%) Wireless
14 13 (0.75%) Internet
15 12 (0.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 82 (4.72%) Relational Database
3 79 (4.55%) MySQL
4 73 (4.21%) NoSQL
5 59 (3.40%) Big Data
6 53 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (2.88%) Power BI
8 46 (2.65%) MongoDB
9 45 (2.59%) Hadoop
10 36 (2.07%) Oracle Database
11 31 (1.79%) Data Lake
11 31 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (1.56%) Apache Hive
13 25 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 24 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 24 (1.38%) Tableau
15 22 (1.27%) Pentaho
16 21 (1.21%) Impala
17 15 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (0.75%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 186 (10.71%) Git (software)
2 170 (9.79%) JIRA
3 123 (7.09%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.02%) Maven
5 25 (1.44%) Subversion
6 24 (1.38%) Selenium
7 21 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 21 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 21 (1.21%) Visual Studio
8 18 (1.04%) GitLab
8 18 (1.04%) Grunt
9 17 (0.98%) webpack
10 16 (0.92%) JUnit
10 16 (0.92%) Mocha
10 16 (0.92%) Visual Studio Team System
11 15 (0.86%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.86%) Jasmine
12 13 (0.75%) gulp
13 12 (0.69%) GDB
13 12 (0.69%) Gradle
General
1 391 (22.52%) Finance
2 164 (9.45%) Banking
3 158 (9.10%) Public Sector
4 72 (4.15%) Front Office
5 61 (3.51%) Investment Banking
5 61 (3.51%) Marketing
6 47 (2.71%) Telecoms
7 41 (2.36%) Legal
8 39 (2.25%) Retail
9 33 (1.90%) Manufacturing
10 21 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 15 (0.86%) Games
12 14 (0.81%) Electronics
12 14 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (0.75%) Local Government
14 10 (0.58%) Law
14 10 (0.58%) Retail Banking
15 9 (0.52%) Back Office
16 8 (0.46%) Advertising
17 6 (0.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 433 (24.94%) Developer
2 275 (15.84%) Analyst
3 114 (6.57%) Architect
4 111 (6.39%) Business Analyst
5 87 (5.01%) Java Developer
6 76 (4.38%) Senior Developer
7 57 (3.28%) Consultant
8 50 (2.88%) Project Manager
8 50 (2.88%) Software Engineer
9 40 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (2.07%) Support Analyst
11 35 (2.02%) Designer
11 35 (2.02%) Support Engineer
12 32 (1.84%) .NET Developer
12 32 (1.84%) Data Analyst
12 32 (1.84%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (1.73%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 30 (1.73%) Technical Analyst
14 29 (1.67%) Full Stack Developer
14 29 (1.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (9.22%) HTML
2 126 (7.26%) .NET
3 123 (7.09%) CSS
4 80 (4.61%) AngularJS
4 80 (4.61%) Web Services
5 73 (4.21%) REST
6 72 (4.15%) HTML5
6 72 (4.15%) Spring
7 67 (3.86%) Node.js
7 67 (3.86%) RESTful
8 60 (3.46%) Kafka
9 55 (3.17%) React
10 47 (2.71%) Middleware
11 46 (2.65%) XML
12 41 (2.36%) JSON
13 39 (2.25%) Spring Boot
14 37 (2.13%) jQuery
15 36 (2.07%) .NET Framework
16 34 (1.96%) .NET Core
17 30 (1.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 640 (36.87%) Analytical Skills
2 126 (7.26%) User Experience
3 95 (5.47%) Management Information System
3 95 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 35 (2.02%) Virtual Team
6 32 (1.84%) Algorithms
6 32 (1.84%) Data Centre
7 30 (1.73%) Derivative
8 28 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 27 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
10 26 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.32%) Device Driver
12 23 (1.32%) Market Risk
13 22 (1.27%) Fixed Income
14 21 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.09%) Clustering
16 18 (1.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 208 (11.98%) Linux
1 208 (11.98%) Windows
2 100 (5.76%) Unix
3 57 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 53 (3.05%) Windows 10
5 41 (2.36%) Android
6 32 (1.84%) Apple iOS
7 27 (1.56%) Windows 7
8 22 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (1.21%) Mac OS X
10 19 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.86%) Windows Server 2008
11 15 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.52%) CentOS
12 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.46%) AIX
13 8 (0.46%) Solaris
14 7 (0.40%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.29%) Windows XP
15 5 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (37.79%) Agile Software Development
2 233 (13.42%) Scrum
3 205 (11.81%) DevOps
4 159 (9.16%) Project Management
5 157 (9.04%) Computer Science
6 145 (8.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 145 (8.35%) TDD
7 144 (8.29%) Test Automation
8 139 (8.01%) Microservices
9 137 (7.89%) ITIL
10 130 (7.49%) Decision-Making
11 123 (7.09%) Software Engineering
12 120 (6.91%) Analytics
12 120 (6.91%) Data Modelling
13 117 (6.74%) Project Delivery
14 115 (6.62%) User Stories
15 114 (6.57%) Migration
16 113 (6.51%) Business Intelligence
17 112 (6.45%) SDLC
18 104 (5.99%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 360 (20.74%) SQL
2 284 (16.36%) Java
3 206 (11.87%) Python
4 180 (10.37%) JavaScript
5 137 (7.89%) C#
6 83 (4.78%) C
7 82 (4.72%) C++
8 74 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 48 (2.76%) Java 8
9 48 (2.76%) Shell Script
10 40 (2.30%) Scala
11 38 (2.19%) Perl
12 32 (1.84%) TypeScript
13 30 (1.73%) VB
14 28 (1.61%) PL/SQL
15 27 (1.56%) Bash Shell
16 22 (1.27%) PHP
16 22 (1.27%) R
16 22 (1.27%) VBA
17 21 (1.21%) ES6
Qualifications
1 223 (12.85%) Degree
1 223 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 165 (9.50%) SC Cleared
3 62 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (2.19%) Master's Degree
5 32 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.27%) CCNP
9 22 (1.27%) CISSP
10 19 (1.09%) DBS Check
11 17 (0.98%) CCNA
12 16 (0.92%) MCSE
13 15 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
14 13 (0.75%) ISEB
15 12 (0.69%) PMI Certification
16 11 (0.63%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.63%) MCP
17 10 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (7.09%) QA
2 54 (3.11%) SLA
3 37 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 29 (1.67%) PMO
5 24 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.27%) NIST
7 20 (1.15%) GDPR
8 12 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.69%) WCAG
9 9 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 9 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.35%) MiFID
12 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.23%) NCSC
13 4 (0.23%) PSD2
14 3 (0.17%) COBIT
15 2 (0.12%) DICOM
15 2 (0.12%) HL7
15 2 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 116 (6.68%) Active Directory
2 113 (6.51%) Docker
3 37 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.44%) HDFS
5 13 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.58%) vSphere
7 8 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (0.46%) NFS
8 7 (0.40%) XenApp
9 5 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.23%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.17%) Terminal Server
11 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.17%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 50 (2.88%) Ansible
3 40 (2.30%) Terraform
4 36 (2.07%) SCCM
5 27 (1.56%) Puppet
6 20 (1.15%) Opscode Chef
7 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.58%) Tivoli
9 9 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.46%) Netcool
11 7 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.40%) SCOM
12 6 (0.35%) CASB
12 6 (0.35%) Kibana
13 5 (0.29%) Grafana
13 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.29%) Netcool/OMNIbus
13 5 (0.29%) Netcool/Webtop
Vendors
1 294 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 155 (8.93%) Oracle
3 62 (3.57%) SAP
4 58 (3.34%) Cisco
5 50 (2.88%) Google
6 46 (2.65%) VMware
7 44 (2.53%) Databricks
8 39 (2.25%) Salesforce.com
9 36 (2.07%) Red Hat
10 32 (1.84%) Apple
11 31 (1.79%) IBM
12 30 (1.73%) Atlassian
13 29 (1.67%) HP
14 28 (1.61%) ServiceNow
14 28 (1.61%) Splunk
15 20 (1.15%) Informatica
16 18 (1.04%) Cloudera
17 17 (0.98%) Adobe
17 17 (0.98%) F5
18 15 (0.86%) Remedy