Problem-Solving Contracts in Essex

Problem Solving
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 27 37 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 33.75% 16.67% 13.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 35.53% 20.56% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 20
10th Percentile £315 £105 £105
25th Percentile £318 £394 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £534 £336
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% +59.17% -37.29%
75th Percentile £431 £600 £509
90th Percentile £476 £675 £583
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - -
75th Percentile £17.81 £20.25 -
90th Percentile £25.13 - -
East of England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £22.00
% change year-on-year +9.66% -32.73% +62.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 180 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.00% 81.08% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 95 125
10th Percentile £227 £250 £191
25th Percentile £315 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £622
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Essex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Essex

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Essex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Essex

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 1 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
Basildon +5 10 £321 -44.11% 84
Brentwood +7 4 £425 - 7
Epping 0 4 - -
Tilbury - 3 - - 1
Problem-Solving
East of England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (14.81%) Apache
1 4 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) GCP
1 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
2 3 (11.11%) dbt
2 3 (11.11%) GitHub
2 3 (11.11%) Vertex AI
3 1 (3.70%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) BigQuery
2 4 (14.81%) Tableau
3 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) Looker
4 1 (3.70%) Metadata
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) TestRail
3 2 (7.41%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (51.85%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Front Office
5 1 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Implementation Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Support Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Implementation Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Support
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Support Manager
3 3 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) First Line Help Desk Support
3 3 (11.11%) Help Desk Assistant
3 3 (11.11%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Support Assistant
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Report Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
1 4 (14.81%) PySpark
1 4 (14.81%) React
2 3 (11.11%) Kafka
2 3 (11.11%) NumPy
2 3 (11.11%) Pandas
2 3 (11.11%) POSIX
3 1 (3.70%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) Spring
3 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Device Driver
3 2 (7.41%) FPGA
3 2 (7.41%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
1 5 (18.52%) Code Quality
1 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
1 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
1 5 (18.52%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (14.81%) Analytics
2 4 (14.81%) Data Engineering
2 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (14.81%) Data Security
2 4 (14.81%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
2 4 (14.81%) System Testing
2 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
2 4 (14.81%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (14.81%) User Stories
2 4 (14.81%) Visualisation
3 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 3 (11.11%) Data Management
3 3 (11.11%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) C
4 2 (7.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
2 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.81%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) MiFID
4 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Firmware
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Xilinx
3 1 (3.70%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) SAP