Problem-Solving Contracts in Hereford

Problem Solving
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hereford 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 2 22 15
Rank change year-on-year +20 -7 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hereford 40.00% 2.33% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 50.00% 2.33% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £245 - -
25th Percentile £294 £525 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +30.95% -14.29%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £430
90th Percentile £445 - -
Herefordshire median daily rate £450 £475 £420
% change year-on-year -5.26% +13.10% -10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8 43 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 80.00% 100.00% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 25 20
10th Percentile £261 £522 £502
25th Percentile £334 £538 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -15.38% +38.67%
75th Percentile £472 £698 £700
90th Percentile £511 £850 £775
Herefordshire median daily rate £700 £550 £629
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.52% +30.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £18.51 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -62.98% - -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Hereford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hereford

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Hereford

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Hereford

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Hereford

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cabling Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) NOC Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) RHCE
2 1 (25.00%) RHCSA
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware