Problem-Solving Contracts in Ipswich

Problem Solving
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 6 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 7 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 20.00% 5.26% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 31.82% 6.25% 9.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - £556 £559
25th Percentile £200 £566 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -9.62% +82.46%
75th Percentile - £616 £688
90th Percentile £691 £629 £800
Suffolk median daily rate £220 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -60.00% -15.38% +220.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 32 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 62.86% 84.21% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 95
10th Percentile £156 £105 £400
25th Percentile £200 £185 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -32.14% +43.59%
75th Percentile £519 £488 -
90th Percentile £600 £575 £745
Suffolk median daily rate £250 £465 £650
% change year-on-year -46.24% -28.46% +33.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.38 £16.23
25th Percentile - £22.94 £16.95
Median hourly rate £70.00 £29.25 £18.28
Median % change year-on-year +139.32% +60.01% -26.88%
75th Percentile - £35.94 £19.48
90th Percentile - £39.73 £20.13
Suffolk median hourly rate £70.00 £29.25 £15.50
% change year-on-year +139.32% +88.71% -3.13%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Ipswich

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Ipswich

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Ipswich

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Ipswich

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Business Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support
2 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Business Case
2 2 (28.57%) Business Process Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) logstash
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft