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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 4 18
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 59 38 34
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 8.74% 20.54% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.28% 21.97% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 32 25
10th Percentile £183 £185 £190
25th Percentile £356 £209 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £355 £450
Median % change year-on-year +40.85% -21.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £560 £444 £500
90th Percentile £638 £550 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £368 £425
% change year-on-year +36.05% -13.53% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £12.82
Median % change year-on-year - +48.21% +28.20%
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £12.82
% change year-on-year - +10.76% +28.20%

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 523 173 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 77.48% 93.51% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 135 263
10th Percentile £313 £286 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +1.56% +1.05%
75th Percentile £599 £594 £594
90th Percentile £640 £650 £720
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +4.95% +5.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 3 25
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.70 £15.85
25th Percentile - £16.38 £17.64
Median hourly rate £16.35 £19.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -18.16% +132.15%
75th Percentile £18.32 £37.13 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £47.10 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +150.00%

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 17 April 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
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 (6.78%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.69%) SAP R/3
2 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.42%) Azure
2 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.17%) AWS
4 4 (6.78%) dbt
5 3 (5.08%) Collibra
5 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.39%) GCP
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.69%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.69%) OCI
7 1 (1.69%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.78%) DNS
3 2 (3.39%) SAN
3 2 (3.39%) Wireless
4 1 (1.69%) Firewall
4 1 (1.69%) Internet
4 1 (1.69%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.39%) Metadata
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.39%) Power BI
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.69%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
2 2 (3.39%) Selenium
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (3.39%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.69%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) GitLab
3 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.69%) JUnit
3 1 (1.69%) Storybook
General
1 30 (50.85%) Social Skills
2 21 (35.59%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Retail
6 3 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Law
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Analyst
2 10 (16.95%) Senior
3 6 (10.17%) Developer
4 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Oracle Specialist
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Business Change Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Business Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Change Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Governance Analyst
6 3 (5.08%) Tester
7 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (6.78%) PySpark
1 4 (6.78%) REST
2 3 (5.08%) SOAP
3 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.39%) JSON
3 2 (3.39%) Playwright
3 2 (3.39%) Web Services
3 2 (3.39%) XML
4 1 (1.69%) CSS
4 1 (1.69%) HTML
4 1 (1.69%) OAuth
4 1 (1.69%) React
4 1 (1.69%) Spring
4 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.69%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.78%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (6.78%) Cyberattack
3 4 (6.78%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.08%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.69%) Clustering
6 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Windows
2 7 (11.86%) Linux
3 2 (3.39%) Debian
3 2 (3.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) Agile
2 11 (18.64%) ETL
3 10 (16.95%) DevOps
4 9 (15.25%) Incident Response
5 7 (11.86%) Customer Service
5 7 (11.86%) Migration
5 7 (11.86%) Project Management
5 7 (11.86%) Security Operations
5 7 (11.86%) Workflow
6 6 (10.17%) CI/CD
6 6 (10.17%) Logistics
6 6 (10.17%) Risk Management
6 6 (10.17%) Test Automation
7 5 (8.47%) Analytics
7 5 (8.47%) Change Management
7 5 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (8.47%) Data Governance
7 5 (8.47%) Decision-Making
7 5 (8.47%) RBAC
7 5 (8.47%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.56%) SQL
2 6 (10.17%) Python
3 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.78%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.39%) C#
5 2 (3.39%) Java
5 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) Bash
6 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (40.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (37.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.95%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) Degree
5 3 (5.08%) APMG
6 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.39%) PMP
7 1 (1.69%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CBAP
7 1 (1.69%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.69%) ISEB
7 1 (1.69%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) QA
2 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.78%) SLA
4 3 (5.08%) GDPR
5 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.69%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) SCCM
2 4 (6.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Databricks
3 5 (8.47%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.78%) Oracle
4 4 (6.78%) Splunk
5 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.39%) VMware
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) MapR
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) Tanium