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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 28 36 23
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 8.92% 31.58% 10.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.24% 35.29% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 11
10th Percentile £190 £171 £131
25th Percentile £450 £278 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £400 £365
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.59% -18.89%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £481
90th Percentile £555 £650 £506
South East median daily rate £493 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -1.50% +4.28% -7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 10
10th Percentile £29.72 - -
25th Percentile £43.81 £13.08 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.54 £14.08 £14.79
Median % change year-on-year +237.76% -4.83% -47.48%
75th Percentile £51.27 £19.01 £18.75
90th Percentile £53.14 £21.37 £49.38
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £19.38
% change year-on-year +72.69% -2.86% -66.30%

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 249 102 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 79.30% 89.47% 79.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 60 106
10th Percentile £225 £187 £150
25th Percentile £334 £250 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £500
90th Percentile £638 £689 £611
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -0.05% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 38
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £19.33 £21.93 £13.12
Median hourly rate £27.69 £25.23 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% +29.36% -27.99%
75th Percentile £51.27 £41.83 £29.38
90th Percentile £53.75 £46.30 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £26.34 £47.50
% change year-on-year +99.35% -44.56% -5.00%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -13 4 £480 +28.00% 17
Bicester - 4 £540 - 4
Kidlington - 2 £150 - 6
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
3 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) SAP GTS
1 4 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (14.29%) SAP SD
1 4 (14.29%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) IaaS
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) BGP
1 3 (10.71%) DHCP
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
1 3 (10.71%) IPv4
1 3 (10.71%) IPv6
1 3 (10.71%) LAN
1 3 (10.71%) Network Security
1 3 (10.71%) OSPF
1 3 (10.71%) WAN
1 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (10.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
1 2 (7.14%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Automotive
3 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (14.29%) Consultant
1 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
1 4 (14.29%) SAP SD Consultant
1 4 (14.29%) Senior
1 4 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) ERP Specialist
3 1 (3.57%) IAM Specialist
3 1 (3.57%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
3 1 (3.57%) Identity Management Analyst
3 1 (3.57%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (3.57%) Security Specialist
3 1 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Technical Manager
3 1 (3.57%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (3.57%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) LDAP
2 1 (3.57%) OAuth
2 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.57%) OpenID
2 1 (3.57%) PySpark
2 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.57%) SAML
2 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) SCADA
3 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Windows
3 6 (21.43%) Unix
4 4 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) ITSM
2 6 (21.43%) Change Control
2 6 (21.43%) ITIL
2 6 (21.43%) Runbook
2 6 (21.43%) SIEM
3 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
3 5 (17.86%) Migration
3 5 (17.86%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (14.29%) Cutover Planning
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
4 4 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 4 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 4 (14.29%) Logistics
4 4 (14.29%) Order to Cash
4 4 (14.29%) Presales
4 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 4 (14.29%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.57%) Bicep
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) CESG Certified Professional
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CISM
4 1 (3.57%) CISSP
4 1 (3.57%) CRISC
4 1 (3.57%) GIAC
4 1 (3.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) BeyondTrust
2 5 (17.86%) CyberArk
3 4 (14.29%) SAP
4 3 (10.71%) Fortinet
4 3 (10.71%) Infoblox
5 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.57%) Databricks
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) Xero