Problem-Solving Contracts in Gloucestershire

Problem Solving
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 40 72 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 15.56% 16.40% 9.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.62% 19.35% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 25 28
10th Percentile £215 £289 £200
25th Percentile £319 £481 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +23.08% -1.52%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £578
90th Percentile £683 £706 £721
South West median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £34.15 £15.70 £72.75
25th Percentile £46.19 £18.92 £76.13
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +121.31% -60.90% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £52.67 £25.00 £56.30
% change year-on-year +110.68% -55.60% +15.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 227 372 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.33% 84.74% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 222 250
10th Percentile £223 £363 £313
25th Percentile £381 £458 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +5.85%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £650
90th Percentile £748 £725 £726
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 33 44
10th Percentile £26.19 £14.30 £35.00
25th Percentile £31.96 £21.00 £50.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £40.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -47.02% +133.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £83.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.30 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.55% -8.33% +27.66%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Gloucestershire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Gloucestershire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Gloucestershire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Gloucestershire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Gloucestershire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Gloucester +1 21 £425 -33.35% 30
Filton +2 4 £300 - 5
Cheltenham -7 3 £683 +24.09% 45
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 11 (27.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (15.00%) Confluence
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.50%) CMS
4 1 (2.50%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.50%) AWS
5 3 (7.50%) SaaS
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub
7 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) VPN
2 3 (7.50%) DNS
3 2 (5.00%) DHCP
3 2 (5.00%) LAN
3 2 (5.00%) SAN
3 2 (5.00%) VLAN
3 2 (5.00%) WAN
4 1 (2.50%) BGP
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.50%) Firewall
4 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.50%) VoIP
4 1 (2.50%) Wireless
4 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.50%) MS Access
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (7.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.50%) Selenium
3 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (72.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Local Government
4 3 (7.50%) Legal
4 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Lead
4 3 (7.50%) Product Lead
4 3 (7.50%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) SAP Data Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (5.00%) Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Procurement Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Procurement Project Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Node.js
1 2 (5.00%) React
1 2 (5.00%) RESTful
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 5 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.00%) iPad
2 4 (10.00%) iPhone
3 2 (5.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (17.50%) Agile
3 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (15.00%) ERP
3 6 (15.00%) ITIL
3 6 (15.00%) Project Management
4 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 5 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 5 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 5 (12.50%) Scrum
4 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
5 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (10.00%) DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) Inventory Management
5 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.00%) Python
2 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (5.00%) Go
3 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.50%) C++
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.50%) VB
4 1 (2.50%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.50%) VB6
4 1 (2.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (7.50%) Degree
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.00%) MCSE
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.50%) CCNA
7 1 (2.50%) CCNP
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.50%) IIBA
7 1 (2.50%) ISEB
7 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) QA
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.00%) Docker
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) NetApp OnCommand
5 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.50%) vMotion
5 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) SAP
3 6 (15.00%) Ariba
4 4 (10.00%) McAfee
4 4 (10.00%) VMware
5 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.00%) Veeam
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle
7 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow