Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 September 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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 33 31 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,491 4,741 5,716
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.77% 5.87% 6.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 6.73% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 960 2,866 3,574
Median daily rate £450 £450 £450
10th Percentile £242 £213 £247
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £433
% change year-on-year - +4.05% +1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 240 249
Median hourly rate £34.98 £22.20 £23.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +57.55% -3.48% -7.04%
10th Percentile £11.36 £12.02 £11.15
90th Percentile £51.35 £53.75 £51.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £24.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +42.19% +4.35% -5.13%

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 22,440 70,396 81,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.83% 87.16% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,382 46,709 54,611
Median daily rate £475 £475 £467
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +1.71% +3.78%
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 2,011 2,218
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £20.90
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +40.00% +19.65% -11.05%
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.00 £11.18
90th Percentile £54.28 £53.75 £50.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.58 £20.50
% change year-on-year +42.42% +19.88% -14.58%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -9 739 £500 +2.56% 371
South East +10 240 £405 -7.16% 171
North of England -6 183 £375 -11.76% 210
North West +15 125 £356 -22.61% 108
Midlands +2 121 £400 - 140
East of England +9 94 £395 -12.22% 102
South West -4 88 £457 +1.49% 97
West Midlands -1 84 £413 +3.13% 87
Yorkshire -21 49 £450 +8.76% 78
East Midlands +6 37 £345 -8.00% 53
North East -7 9 £350 -2.78% 24
Problem-Solving
UK

For the 6 months to 25 September 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.

1 569 (38.16%) Agile Software Development
2 532 (35.68%) Analytical Skills
3 334 (22.40%) Finance
4 309 (20.72%) SQL
5 298 (19.99%) Microsoft
6 282 (18.91%) Java
7 248 (16.63%) Azure
8 212 (14.22%) Windows
9 211 (14.15%) Security Cleared
10 197 (13.21%) Degree
10 197 (13.21%) Linux
11 184 (12.34%) Python
12 172 (11.54%) Scrum
13 170 (11.40%) AWS
14 161 (10.80%) DevOps
15 160 (10.73%) ITIL
16 154 (10.33%) SC Cleared
17 151 (10.13%) Git (software)
18 150 (10.06%) JavaScript
19 146 (9.79%) HTML
20 140 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
21 139 (9.32%) Banking
22 134 (8.99%) TDD
23 132 (8.85%) Active Directory
23 132 (8.85%) Decision-Making
24 131 (8.79%) Microservices
25 128 (8.58%) Oracle
25 128 (8.58%) Public Sector
26 127 (8.52%) Test Automation
27 126 (8.45%) 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 74 (4.96%) Confluence
2 49 (3.29%) Apache
3 43 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 26 (1.74%) Tomcat
5 24 (1.61%) Apache Spark
6 22 (1.48%) MS Exchange
7 18 (1.21%) JBoss
8 14 (0.94%) CMS
9 13 (0.87%) Apache Solr
9 13 (0.87%) WebLogic
10 12 (0.80%) IIS
10 12 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 10 (0.67%) Skype for Business
12 9 (0.60%) Moodle
12 9 (0.60%) SAS
13 8 (0.54%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
15 5 (0.34%) nginx
16 4 (0.27%) Appian
16 4 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 113 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
2 96 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (2.21%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.01%) Sketch
5 15 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.40%) Maya
8 5 (0.34%) Figma
8 5 (0.34%) InVision
9 4 (0.27%) Simulink
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
10 2 (0.13%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.067%) CINEMA 4D
11 1 (0.067%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.067%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.067%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 13 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 11 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
3 8 (0.54%) Magento
4 7 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.34%) Sentinel
6 4 (0.27%) BASE24
6 4 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.27%) Hyperion Planning
6 4 (0.27%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.20%) Endur
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.20%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.13%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
Cloud Services
1 248 (16.63%) Azure
2 170 (11.40%) AWS
3 94 (6.30%) Office 365
4 53 (3.55%) SaaS
5 44 (2.95%) Power Platform
6 34 (2.28%) PaaS
7 23 (1.54%) Amazon S3
7 23 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (1.54%) GCP
7 23 (1.54%) Serverless
8 22 (1.48%) GitHub
9 16 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (0.94%) IaaS
12 13 (0.87%) Azure Active Directory
12 13 (0.87%) npm
13 11 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (0.67%) Azure Functions
15 9 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.43%) DNS
2 57 (3.82%) Firewall
3 43 (2.88%) DHCP
3 43 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 42 (2.82%) HTTP
5 31 (2.08%) LAN
6 30 (2.01%) Network Security
6 30 (2.01%) WAN
7 28 (1.88%) VPN
7 28 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (1.68%) SSL
9 20 (1.34%) Wireless
10 19 (1.27%) VoIP
11 18 (1.21%) Skype
11 18 (1.21%) VLAN
12 16 (1.07%) Internet
12 16 (1.07%) IPv4
12 16 (1.07%) IPv6
13 13 (0.87%) MPLS
13 13 (0.87%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 73 (4.90%) Relational Database
3 65 (4.36%) MySQL
4 57 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 55 (3.69%) Big Data
6 51 (3.42%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
8 44 (2.95%) Power BI
9 38 (2.55%) Hadoop
10 31 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
11 30 (2.01%) Oracle Database
12 28 (1.88%) Data Lake
13 27 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 26 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 23 (1.54%) Apache Hive
16 20 (1.34%) SQL Server 2016
17 14 (0.94%) Impala
17 14 (0.94%) RDBMS
17 14 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 13 (0.87%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 151 (10.13%) Git (software)
2 116 (7.78%) JIRA
3 104 (6.98%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.35%) Maven
5 29 (1.95%) Selenium
6 27 (1.81%) Mockito
7 26 (1.74%) Subversion
8 23 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 19 (1.27%) Visual Studio
10 15 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 14 (0.94%) Ant
11 14 (0.94%) Grunt
11 14 (0.94%) Mocha
11 14 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.87%) JUnit
12 13 (0.87%) Visual Studio Team System
13 12 (0.80%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.80%) Jasmine
14 11 (0.74%) gulp
14 11 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 334 (22.40%) Finance
2 139 (9.32%) Banking
3 128 (8.58%) Public Sector
4 74 (4.96%) Front Office
5 59 (3.96%) Investment Banking
6 57 (3.82%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.62%) Marketing
8 36 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.08%) Legal
10 21 (1.41%) Electronics
11 20 (1.34%) Retail
12 11 (0.74%) Law
12 11 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.67%) Games
14 9 (0.60%) Back Office
14 9 (0.60%) Local Government
15 8 (0.54%) Advertising
15 8 (0.54%) Billing
15 8 (0.54%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 403 (27.03%) Developer
2 236 (15.83%) Analyst
3 104 (6.98%) Java Developer
4 94 (6.30%) Architect
5 90 (6.04%) Business Analyst
6 54 (3.62%) Senior Developer
7 41 (2.75%) Designer
8 40 (2.68%) Project Manager
9 38 (2.55%) Support Engineer
10 35 (2.35%) Consultant
11 32 (2.15%) Software Engineer
12 31 (2.08%) Data Engineer
13 30 (2.01%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (1.88%) Solutions Architect
15 27 (1.81%) Azure Developer
16 26 (1.74%) C# Developer
16 26 (1.74%) Python Developer
17 25 (1.68%) .NET Developer
17 25 (1.68%) Support Analyst
18 24 (1.61%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (9.79%) HTML
2 116 (7.78%) .NET
3 109 (7.31%) CSS
4 72 (4.83%) Web Services
5 70 (4.69%) AngularJS
6 64 (4.29%) HTML5
7 63 (4.23%) Node.js
8 54 (3.62%) REST
9 51 (3.42%) Spring
10 50 (3.35%) RESTful
11 45 (3.02%) React
12 43 (2.88%) Kafka
13 40 (2.68%) Middleware
13 40 (2.68%) XML
14 36 (2.41%) jQuery
15 34 (2.28%) JSON
16 30 (2.01%) .NET Framework
17 29 (1.95%) .NET Core
18 27 (1.81%) Redux
18 27 (1.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 532 (35.68%) Analytical Skills
2 92 (6.17%) Management Information System
2 92 (6.17%) User Experience
3 88 (5.90%) Self-Motivation
4 38 (2.55%) Data Centre
4 38 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 33 (2.21%) Algorithms
6 27 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 26 (1.74%) Derivative
8 24 (1.61%) Fixed Income
8 24 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.48%) Public Cloud
9 22 (1.48%) Social Media
10 21 (1.41%) Device Driver
10 21 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 20 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.07%) Market Risk
12 16 (1.07%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.94%) NHS
14 13 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 212 (14.22%) Windows
2 197 (13.21%) Linux
3 90 (6.04%) Unix
4 64 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 61 (4.09%) Windows 10
6 40 (2.68%) Mac OS X
7 35 (2.35%) Android
8 30 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 29 (1.95%) Windows 7
10 26 (1.74%) Apple iOS
11 25 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
12 18 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 18 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.47%) CentOS
15 6 (0.40%) Windows XP
16 5 (0.34%) AIX
16 5 (0.34%) Windows 8
17 4 (0.27%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (38.16%) Agile Software Development
2 172 (11.54%) Scrum
3 161 (10.80%) DevOps
4 160 (10.73%) ITIL
5 140 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 134 (8.99%) TDD
7 132 (8.85%) Decision-Making
8 131 (8.79%) Microservices
9 127 (8.52%) Test Automation
10 126 (8.45%) Computer Science
11 122 (8.18%) Project Management
12 105 (7.04%) Continuous Integration
13 104 (6.98%) Migration
14 95 (6.37%) Project Delivery
15 94 (6.30%) Analytics
15 94 (6.30%) Software Engineering
16 90 (6.04%) Business Intelligence
17 89 (5.97%) BDD
18 88 (5.90%) Change Management
19 85 (5.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 309 (20.72%) SQL
2 282 (18.91%) Java
3 184 (12.34%) Python
4 150 (10.06%) JavaScript
5 126 (8.45%) C#
6 70 (4.69%) C++
6 70 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 67 (4.49%) C
8 63 (4.23%) Java 8
9 37 (2.48%) Shell Script
10 32 (2.15%) Perl
11 29 (1.95%) Scala
12 23 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 23 (1.54%) VB
13 22 (1.48%) VBA
14 20 (1.34%) R
15 18 (1.21%) PL/SQL
16 16 (1.07%) Bash Shell
16 16 (1.07%) PHP
17 13 (0.87%) ES6
Qualifications
1 211 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 197 (13.21%) Degree
3 154 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 40 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 31 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (1.95%) CISSP
8 27 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 21 (1.41%) DBS Check
11 20 (1.34%) CCNP
12 19 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (1.14%) CCNA
14 15 (1.01%) ISEB
15 14 (0.94%) MCSE
16 12 (0.80%) GIAC
16 12 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
16 12 (0.80%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.67%) SANS
18 9 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (6.10%) QA
2 38 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (2.55%) SLA
3 33 (2.21%) GDPR
4 29 (1.95%) NIST
5 24 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.21%) PMO
7 16 (1.07%) WCAG
8 15 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 8 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 7 (0.47%) COBIT
13 6 (0.40%) MiFID
13 6 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.27%) EMIR
14 4 (0.27%) NCSC
15 2 (0.13%) AICPA
16 1 (0.067%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 132 (8.85%) Active Directory
2 114 (7.65%) Docker
3 38 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.21%) HDFS
5 11 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
6 10 (0.67%) NFS
7 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.54%) vSphere
9 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.40%) XenApp
10 5 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
10 5 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.13%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.13%) RACF
12 2 (0.13%) vCloud
12 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 72 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.62%) Ansible
3 31 (2.08%) SCCM
4 26 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (1.74%) Opscode Chef
5 24 (1.61%) Puppet
6 20 (1.34%) Terraform
7 9 (0.60%) Netcool
8 8 (0.54%) SCOM
9 7 (0.47%) Tivoli
10 6 (0.40%) CASB
10 6 (0.40%) Netcool/OMNIbus
10 6 (0.40%) vMotion
11 5 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.27%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (0.27%) Netcool/Webtop
13 3 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 298 (19.99%) Microsoft
2 128 (8.58%) Oracle
3 54 (3.62%) Cisco
3 54 (3.62%) SAP
4 47 (3.15%) VMware
5 46 (3.09%) Databricks
6 39 (2.62%) Google
7 33 (2.21%) Red Hat
8 32 (2.15%) HP
8 32 (2.15%) Splunk
9 31 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.88%) IBM
11 25 (1.68%) Apple
12 24 (1.61%) Tableau
13 20 (1.34%) Informatica
14 18 (1.21%) Citrix
15 17 (1.14%) Adobe
15 17 (1.14%) StreamSets
16 16 (1.07%) Salesforce.com
17 15 (1.01%) CheckPoint