Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Problem Solving
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 3 14
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 54 51 38
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 6.91% 22.08% 11.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 23.61% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 30
10th Percentile £185 £185 £232
25th Percentile £385 £313 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £350 £424
Median % change year-on-year +38.14% -17.40% -7.88%
75th Percentile £544 £423 £495
90th Percentile £560 £522 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £486 £355 £420
% change year-on-year +36.76% -15.48% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £17.50 £14.83 £23.88
25th Percentile £21.55 £15.12 £27.81
Median hourly rate £38.72 £16.56 £33.08
Median % change year-on-year +133.82% -49.94% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £18.00 £37.06
90th Percentile - £19.25 £37.62
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £33.08
% change year-on-year +172.68% -57.08% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 624 216 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.90% 93.51% 85.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 147 209
10th Percentile £328 £257 £254
25th Percentile £450 £353 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £550
90th Percentile £638 £660 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £456
% change year-on-year +16.67% -1.37% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 8
10th Percentile - £14.39 £17.17
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -36.44% +99.32%
75th Percentile £18.32 £18.00 £36.19
90th Percentile £43.75 £23.83 £37.12
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +7.21% -44.55% +83.52%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.41%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (1.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.85%) SAP R/3
1 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) Azure
2 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.41%) dbt
4 3 (5.56%) AWS
4 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.70%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 5 (9.26%) Firewall
3 4 (7.41%) VLAN
4 2 (3.70%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (3.70%) Wireless
5 1 (1.85%) Internet
5 1 (1.85%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.85%) MySQL
1 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
1 2 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Selenium
2 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 27 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Finance
3 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.26%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (7.41%) Retail
6 3 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Senior
2 6 (11.11%) Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Business Analyst
3 5 (9.26%) Service Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Automation Specialist
4 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Developer
4 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (7.41%) Service Transition Manager
4 4 (7.41%) Transition Manager
5 3 (5.56%) Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) IT Administrator
6 2 (3.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) REST
1 7 (12.96%) SOAP
2 4 (7.41%) PySpark
3 3 (5.56%) Middleware
4 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.70%) JSON
4 2 (3.70%) Web Services
4 2 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (1.85%) OAuth
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
1 4 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (7.41%) Life Science
1 4 (7.41%) Operational Technology
1 4 (7.41%) SCADA
1 4 (7.41%) Virtual Team
2 3 (5.56%) CMDB
2 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.70%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Clustering
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Replication
4 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Windows
2 6 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.85%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) Agile
2 13 (24.07%) ITIL
3 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (18.52%) Decision-Making
5 9 (16.67%) SDLC
6 8 (14.81%) DevOps
6 8 (14.81%) ITSM
7 6 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (11.11%) Analytics
7 6 (11.11%) Business Analysis
7 6 (11.11%) ETL
7 6 (11.11%) Incident Response
7 6 (11.11%) Scrum
7 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 6 (11.11%) Validation
8 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
8 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.26%) Customer Service
8 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (9.26%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) PowerShell
2 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.26%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) SQL
4 1 (1.85%) Bash
4 1 (1.85%) C#
4 1 (1.85%) Java
4 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 19 (35.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) Degree
4 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.70%) A+ Certification
5 2 (3.70%) CBAP
5 2 (3.70%) ISEB
5 2 (3.70%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) QA
2 6 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 4 (7.41%) GxP
3 4 (7.41%) SLA
4 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (1.85%) GRC
5 1 (1.85%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Terraform
2 3 (5.56%) SCCM
3 2 (3.70%) SCOM
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 9 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 6 (11.11%) VMware
3 4 (7.41%) Databricks
3 4 (7.41%) Rockwell
4 1 (1.85%) IBM
4 1 (1.85%) MapR
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) Tanium