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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 30 39 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 34.09% 17.41% 14.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 35.71% 21.08% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 23
10th Percentile £315 £121 £121
25th Percentile £318 £300 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% +6.80% -
75th Percentile £425 £599 £579
90th Percentile £438 £671 £589
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £13.20 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -
75th Percentile £13.75 £17.05 -
90th Percentile £21.88 £18.97 -
East of England median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% -36.17% +74.07%

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 84 185 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.45% 82.59% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 94 136
10th Percentile £187 £194 £212
25th Percentile £315 £300 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £476 £551 £553
90th Percentile £500 £600 £641
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 52 17
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.59 £23.29
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.93 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.25 £44.53
Median % change year-on-year -43.23% +28.57% +60.79%
75th Percentile £48.30 £80.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £144.00 - £72.56
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% +81.82% +41.94%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +4 12 £321 -41.57% 262
Epping 0 5 - - 1
Tilbury - 5 - -
Brentwood +5 4 £425 - 3
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 6 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (13.33%) Apache
3 3 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) dbt
1 5 (16.67%) GCP
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.00%) GitHub
3 3 (10.00%) Vertex AI
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.67%) Serverless
4 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) BigQuery
1 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
1 4 (13.33%) Tableau
2 3 (10.00%) Looker
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) TestRail
3 1 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Front Office
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
1 5 (16.67%) First Line Help Desk Support
1 5 (16.67%) Help Desk Assistant
1 5 (16.67%) Help Desk Support
1 5 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
1 5 (16.67%) Support Assistant
1 5 (16.67%) Support Manager
1 5 (16.67%) Technical Implementation Manager
1 5 (16.67%) Technical Manager
1 5 (16.67%) Technical Support
1 5 (16.67%) Technical Support Manager
2 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Report Specialist
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
1 4 (13.33%) PySpark
1 4 (13.33%) React
2 3 (10.00%) Kafka
2 3 (10.00%) NumPy
2 3 (10.00%) Pandas
2 3 (10.00%) POSIX
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) Spring
3 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Device Driver
3 1 (3.33%) FPGA
3 1 (3.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
2 6 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (16.67%) System Testing
3 5 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 4 (13.33%) Analytics
4 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
4 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
4 4 (13.33%) Data Security
4 4 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (13.33%) ETL
4 4 (13.33%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Java
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) C
4 2 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.33%) GDPR
2 4 (13.33%) QA
3 3 (10.00%) MiFID
4 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
1 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) StreamSets
3 1 (3.33%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Xilinx