Problem-Solving Contracts in Oxfordshire

Problem Solving
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 13 19
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 25 24 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 10.96% 9.72% 6.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.51% 10.81% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 15
10th Percentile £137 £284 £178
25th Percentile £161 £403 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £450 £317
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +41.82% -26.38%
75th Percentile £502 £581 £570
90th Percentile £538 £761 £645
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.00 £26.08 -
Median hourly rate £14.79 £28.16 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.48% - -
75th Percentile £18.75 £30.24 -
90th Percentile £49.38 - -
South East median hourly rate £19.38 £56.99 £44.11
% change year-on-year -66.00% +29.18% +148.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 185 222 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 81.14% 89.88% 82.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 143 185
10th Percentile £150 £263 £169
25th Percentile £263 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +3.45%
75th Percentile £525 £559 £575
90th Percentile £623 £666 £660
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 6
10th Percentile £12.20 £22.10 £14.09
25th Percentile £13.12 £25.95 £17.42
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.00 £18.71
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +38.96% -58.42%
75th Percentile £29.38 £32.30 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.00 £52.90 £34.38
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +4 9 £438 -4.11% 38
Kidlington -1 5 £172 -61.87% 2
Banbury - 2 £525 - 10
Abingdon -4 1 - - 8
Bicester - 1 £525 - 6
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Sage X3
2 1 (4.00%) Epicor Tropos
2 1 (4.00%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Internet
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) Wireless
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (8.00%) DHCP
3 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) SAN
3 2 (8.00%) WAN
4 1 (4.00%) InfiniBand
4 1 (4.00%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) OLAP
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.00%) Police
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Administrator
3 4 (16.00%) Service Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) 1st Line Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (8.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) First Line Help Desk Support
4 2 (8.00%) Help Desk Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (8.00%) Help Desk Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Support
4 2 (8.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Information Officer
5 1 (4.00%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) CCTV
2 2 (8.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.00%) Smartphone
3 1 (4.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Android
3 2 (8.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (24.00%) ITIL
2 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (16.00%) ERP
3 4 (16.00%) Migration
3 4 (16.00%) Project Management
3 4 (16.00%) Time Management
3 4 (16.00%) Validation
4 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (8.00%) Agile
5 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.00%) Coaching
5 2 (8.00%) Customer Experience
5 2 (8.00%) ETL
5 2 (8.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (8.00%) Logistics
5 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.00%) People Management
5 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Perl
2 1 (4.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.00%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) NFS
2 1 (4.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) SCCM
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.00%) PaperCut
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) CFEngine
3 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Aruba
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco
2 2 (8.00%) HP
2 2 (8.00%) Nimble Storage
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.00%) Sage
2 2 (8.00%) Veeam
2 2 (8.00%) VMware
2 2 (8.00%) WatchGuard
3 1 (4.00%) Facebook
3 1 (4.00%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow