Problem-Solving Contracts in Guildford

Problem Solving
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Guildford 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 2 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 17 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Guildford 36.96% 2.35% 14.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 37.78% 3.08% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £314 - £410
25th Percentile £418 £155 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £160 £520
Median % change year-on-year +209.38% -69.23% +10.05%
75th Percentile £581 £165 £540
90th Percentile £588 - £600
Surrey median daily rate £450 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -12.20% -2.38% +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £24.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £30.75 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -50.00% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 65 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 97.83% 76.47% 80.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 53 42
10th Percentile £250 £363 £263
25th Percentile £400 £475 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% -1.44% +9.47%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £644
90th Percentile £588 £763 £788
Surrey median daily rate £456 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.75% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 0
10th Percentile £24.00 - -
25th Percentile - £11.71 -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £12.43 -
Median % change year-on-year +125.35% - -
75th Percentile - £13.14 -
90th Percentile £30.75 £18.75 -
Surrey median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -33.33% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Guildford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Guildford

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Guildford

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Guildford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Guildford

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Softphone
2 2 (11.76%) LAN
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) WAN
2 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (29.41%) IT Support
3 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 2 (11.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support Technician
5 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 2 (11.76%) IT Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) IT Support Technician
5 2 (11.76%) IT Technician
5 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) Jest
1 1 (5.88%) React
1 1 (5.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) Customer Service
2 7 (41.18%) Service Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
3 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
3 3 (17.65%) Ticket Management
4 2 (11.76%) Desktop Virtualisation
5 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.88%) Compliance Management
5 1 (5.88%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 1 (5.88%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (5.88%) Data Science
5 1 (5.88%) Front End Development
5 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
5 1 (5.88%) Risk and Compliance Management
5 1 (5.88%) Security Operations
5 1 (5.88%) Service Management
5 1 (5.88%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
1 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (11.76%) A+ Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) MCSE
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) CSIRT
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) VMware