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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 58 36 50
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 14.39% 17.06% 9.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.74% 18.75% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 26 35
10th Percentile £185 £195 £169
25th Percentile £359 £353 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £430 £411
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +4.62% -17.80%
75th Percentile £560 £519 £479
90th Percentile £638 £594 £500
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £468 £440 £417
% change year-on-year +6.36% +5.47% -18.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £15.35 £12.82
Median % change year-on-year - +19.73% +28.20%
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £15.35 £12.82
% change year-on-year - +19.73% +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 327 192 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 81.14% 91.00% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 144 353
10th Percentile £230 £250 £279
25th Percentile £363 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £599 £600
90th Percentile £638 £656 £742
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £472 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.70% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 28
10th Percentile £15.69 £12.67 £15.85
25th Percentile £22.98 £13.68 £17.91
Median hourly rate £29.61 £15.35 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year +92.90% -34.63% +23.59%
75th Percentile £32.81 £17.03 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £18.03 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.15 £35.60 £23.48
% change year-on-year -29.35% +51.60% +38.13%

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 1 February 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 3 (5.17%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (5.17%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle Assets
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle Payables
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 3 (5.17%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (5.17%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (5.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.52%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) AWS
2 4 (6.90%) SaaS
3 3 (5.17%) Collibra
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.17%) OCI
3 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.45%) dbt
4 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.45%) GCP
4 2 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.72%) Kontent
5 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 4 (6.90%) DNS
3 2 (3.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Data Lake
1 5 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.45%) Metadata
4 2 (3.45%) Power BI
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.72%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.45%) Selenium
3 2 (3.45%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.72%) Git
4 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) JUnit
4 1 (1.72%) Storybook
General
1 33 (56.90%) Social Skills
2 22 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (22.41%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.62%) Banking
6 4 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Law
8 1 (1.72%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Analyst
2 10 (17.24%) Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) Oracle Specialist
5 4 (6.90%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Business Change Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Business Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Change Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Governance Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Technical Project Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Tester
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (6.90%) REST
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (5.17%) SOAP
4 2 (3.45%) .NET
4 2 (3.45%) CSS
4 2 (3.45%) HTML
4 2 (3.45%) Playwright
4 2 (3.45%) PySpark
4 2 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) Blazor
5 1 (1.72%) JSON
5 1 (1.72%) React
5 1 (1.72%) Spring
5 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.72%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (6.90%) Cyberattack
2 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
1 8 (13.79%) Windows
2 2 (3.45%) Debian
2 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
2 2 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) Agile
2 12 (20.69%) ETL
3 9 (15.52%) Waterfall
4 7 (12.07%) ERP
4 7 (12.07%) Root Cause Analysis
4 7 (12.07%) Security Operations
5 6 (10.34%) Analytics
5 6 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (10.34%) Customer Service
5 6 (10.34%) Data Integration
5 6 (10.34%) ITIL
5 6 (10.34%) Migration
5 6 (10.34%) Project Management
5 6 (10.34%) Workflow
6 5 (8.62%) Data Governance
6 5 (8.62%) Decision-Making
6 5 (8.62%) High Availability
6 5 (8.62%) Incident Response
6 5 (8.62%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) SQL
2 6 (10.34%) PL/SQL
2 6 (10.34%) Python
3 4 (6.90%) C#
3 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.45%) Java
5 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 21 (36.21%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.97%) DV Cleared
4 7 (12.07%) Degree
5 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.17%) APMG
7 2 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.72%) CBAP
8 1 (1.72%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.72%) ISEB
8 1 (1.72%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.72%) PMP
8 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) SLA
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.90%) QA
4 3 (5.17%) GDPR
5 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) SCCM
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Oracle
2 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) Splunk
4 4 (6.90%) Databricks
4 4 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.45%) Informatica
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.45%) VMware
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Tanium
6 1 (1.72%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.72%) webMethods