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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 3 15
Rank change year-on-year -21 +12 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 55 48 33
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 7.27% 24.87% 9.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.18% 26.37% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 39 21
10th Percentile £185 £185 £212
25th Percentile £380 £296 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £465
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% -24.73% +3.33%
75th Percentile £548 £420 £550
90th Percentile £598 £486 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £486 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +38.71% -22.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £14.83 £15.35
25th Percentile - £15.12 £19.14
Median hourly rate £17.50 £16.56 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -36.91% -
75th Percentile - £18.00 £31.69
90th Percentile - £19.25 £34.72
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £14.20 £26.25
% change year-on-year +23.24% -45.90% -

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 599 182 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.13% 94.30% 84.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 124 213
10th Percentile £357 £210 £250
25th Percentile £456 £328 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £474
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.14% -5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 19
10th Percentile - £14.39 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.05 £15.12 £16.75
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -12.18% +42.11%
75th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £33.37
90th Percentile £18.32 £23.83 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.21% -39.00% +52.44%

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 2 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
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 2 (3.64%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.82%) SAP R/3
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.73%) Azure
2 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.91%) dbt
4 4 (7.27%) AWS
5 3 (5.45%) GCP
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.64%) Google App Engine
7 1 (1.82%) Collibra
7 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.64%) DNS
2 2 (3.64%) Wireless
3 1 (1.82%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) Internet
3 1 (1.82%) LAN
3 1 (1.82%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.82%) Metadata
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Git
1 2 (3.64%) GitLab
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) JUnit
2 1 (1.82%) Selenium
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.82%) Storybook
2 1 (1.82%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (52.73%) Social Skills
2 24 (43.64%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Retail
6 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Automotive
7 1 (1.82%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) Senior
2 6 (10.91%) Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) Data Engineer
2 6 (10.91%) Senior Data Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Developer
3 5 (9.09%) Service Manager
4 4 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Service Transition Manager
4 4 (7.27%) Transition Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Deployment Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Lead
5 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) REST
1 7 (12.73%) SOAP
2 6 (10.91%) PySpark
3 3 (5.45%) Middleware
4 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.64%) JSON
4 2 (3.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.64%) Web Services
4 2 (3.64%) XML
5 1 (1.82%) CSS
5 1 (1.82%) HTML
5 1 (1.82%) OAuth
5 1 (1.82%) Playwright
5 1 (1.82%) React
5 1 (1.82%) Spring
5 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.82%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (7.27%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.45%) CMDB
3 3 (5.45%) Driving Licence
3 3 (5.45%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.64%) Cyberattack
4 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Replication
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.36%) Windows
2 4 (7.27%) Linux
3 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Agile
2 12 (21.82%) ITIL
3 9 (16.36%) Decision-Making
3 9 (16.36%) DevOps
3 9 (16.36%) ETL
4 8 (14.55%) Analytics
4 8 (14.55%) Incident Response
4 8 (14.55%) ITSM
5 7 (12.73%) Data Engineering
6 6 (10.91%) CI/CD
6 6 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (10.91%) Scrum
6 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
7 5 (9.09%) CAD
7 5 (9.09%) Customer Service
7 5 (9.09%) E-Commerce
7 5 (9.09%) Migration
7 5 (9.09%) Project Management
7 5 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) JavaScript
2 8 (14.55%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
3 7 (12.73%) SQL
4 2 (3.64%) Java
4 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.82%) Bash
5 1 (1.82%) C#
5 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (41.82%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) Degree
5 2 (3.64%) A+ Certification
5 2 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.82%) CBAP
6 1 (1.82%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.82%) ISEB
6 1 (1.82%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.82%) PMP
6 1 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.73%) QA
3 4 (7.27%) SLA
4 2 (3.64%) GDPR
4 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.82%) GRC
5 1 (1.82%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) SCCM
1 4 (7.27%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) SCOM
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.91%) Databricks
4 2 (3.64%) Oracle
4 2 (3.64%) Splunk
4 2 (3.64%) VMware
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) MapR
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Tanium