Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Problem Solving
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 32 20 27
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 17.88% 20.41% 15.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.05% 25.32% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 19
10th Percentile £261 £166 £129
25th Percentile £409 £288 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £365
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +36.99% -14.12%
75th Percentile £509 £638 £538
90th Percentile £675 £695 £660
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -11.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £37.77 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £89.63 - £24.91
75th Percentile - - £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £26.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year -20.35% -27.27% +12.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 79 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 84.92% 80.61% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 49 112
10th Percentile £206 £228 £150
25th Percentile £313 £406 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £603 £653 £648
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £516
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 13
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.96 £18.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.41 £25.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +36.52% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £52.50 £32.32
90th Percentile £85.65 £61.50 £46.00
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -50.00% -18.18% +28.87%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

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

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford +1 21 £413 +3.77% 42
Thame - 1 £425 -
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
3 2 (6.25%) WordPress
4 1 (3.13%) IIS
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) Lucidchart
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.13%) Pulumi
6 1 (3.13%) ShareGate
6 1 (3.13%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) DNS
2 7 (21.88%) DHCP
2 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
3 5 (15.63%) Firewall
3 5 (15.63%) VPN
4 4 (12.50%) Wireless
5 2 (6.25%) VLAN
6 1 (3.13%) BGP
6 1 (3.13%) Intranet
6 1 (3.13%) IPv6
6 1 (3.13%) LAN
6 1 (3.13%) OSPF
6 1 (3.13%) WAN
6 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.25%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (65.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
5 6 (18.75%) Finance
6 3 (9.38%) Aerospace
7 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (6.25%) Local Government
8 1 (3.13%) Legal
8 1 (3.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 3 (9.38%) Analyst
2 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Senior
2 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Accountant
3 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Developer
3 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Financial Accountant
3 2 (6.25%) Head of IT
3 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Senior Accountant
3 2 (6.25%) Senior Systems Accountant
3 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Service Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Django
1 1 (3.13%) FastAPI
1 1 (3.13%) Flask
1 1 (3.13%) JSON
1 1 (3.13%) OAuth
1 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
1 1 (3.13%) OpenID
1 1 (3.13%) REST
1 1 (3.13%) RESTful
1 1 (3.13%) Swagger
1 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Life Science
1 7 (21.88%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Mac OS
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (25.00%) Project Management
3 8 (25.00%) Time Management
4 7 (21.88%) Migration
5 6 (18.75%) Service Management
6 5 (15.63%) Business Strategy
6 5 (15.63%) Change Management
6 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
6 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
6 5 (15.63%) ITIL
6 5 (15.63%) Process Improvement
6 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (15.63%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
7 4 (12.50%) DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) ITSM
7 4 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) A+ Certification
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.25%) CCAB
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) PMBOK
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Argo
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 4 (12.50%) Cisco
2 4 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) UiPath
5 1 (3.13%) Xero