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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 39 26 28
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 24.68% 18.31% 13.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.86% 23.42% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 23
10th Percentile £158 £160 £178
25th Percentile £170 £180 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% -2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £466 £488 £650
90th Percentile £556 £578 £695
South East median daily rate £461 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -5.63% +8.61% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 - £32.32
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £29.25 £51.96
% change year-on-year -35.66% -43.71% +94.39%

All Process and 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 140 111 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 88.61% 78.17% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 75 132
10th Percentile £175 £210 £180
25th Percentile £243 £344 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% - -
75th Percentile £550 £531 £600
90th Percentile £608 £638 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.83% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 13
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.99 £25.05
25th Percentile £19.37 £22.50 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.99 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -19.59% +61.60%
75th Percentile £25.68 £67.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £87.64 £83.25 -
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £51.76
% change year-on-year -64.40% +12.39% +39.40%

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 30 October 2025.

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
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 30 October 2025. 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 27 £300 +15.38% 36
Witney - 3 £160 -
Carterton - 2 £153 - 1
Abingdon +1 1 - - 7
Banbury 0 1 £200 -52.94% 4
Thame - 1 £425 - 1
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 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) IIS
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (7.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
2 5 (12.82%) AWS
3 4 (10.26%) PowerApps
4 3 (7.69%) Azure
4 3 (7.69%) Lucidchart
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.56%) Pulumi
6 1 (2.56%) ShareGate
6 1 (2.56%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) DNS
1 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
1 5 (12.82%) VPN
2 4 (10.26%) DHCP
2 4 (10.26%) Firewall
2 4 (10.26%) Wireless
3 1 (2.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Finance
4 9 (23.08%) Manufacturing
5 4 (10.26%) Local Government
6 3 (7.69%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Analyst
1 7 (17.95%) Support Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) IT Support
2 5 (12.82%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Accountant
3 4 (10.26%) Business Support Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Business Systems Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Deskside Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Deskside Support
3 4 (10.26%) Deskside Support Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Desktop Support
3 4 (10.26%) Financial Accountant
3 4 (10.26%) IT Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.26%) Senior Accountant
3 4 (10.26%) Senior Systems Accountant
3 4 (10.26%) Support Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Systems Accountant
3 4 (10.26%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Django
1 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
1 1 (2.56%) Flask
1 1 (2.56%) JSON
1 1 (2.56%) OAuth
1 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
1 1 (2.56%) OpenAPI
1 1 (2.56%) OpenID
1 1 (2.56%) REST
1 1 (2.56%) RESTful
1 1 (2.56%) Swagger
1 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Life Science
1 9 (23.08%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Windows
2 5 (12.82%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (30.77%) Agile
2 12 (30.77%) Time Management
3 11 (28.21%) Process Improvement
4 10 (25.64%) Migration
5 9 (23.08%) Customer Service
6 8 (20.51%) Performance Monitoring
7 7 (17.95%) Change Management
7 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
7 7 (17.95%) Project Management
7 7 (17.95%) Strategic Thinking
8 6 (15.38%) Analytics
8 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
8 6 (15.38%) Service Delivery
8 6 (15.38%) Workflow
9 5 (12.82%) Business Strategy
9 5 (12.82%) ITIL
9 5 (12.82%) Project Delivery
9 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) Python
2 1 (2.56%) Bash
2 1 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Degree
2 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) A+ Certification
4 4 (10.26%) CCAB
4 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.82%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.13%) NIST
3 2 (5.13%) PMBOK
3 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
1 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Argo
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) SAP
3 4 (10.26%) CheckPoint
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco
3 4 (10.26%) Liquidlogic
3 4 (10.26%) Palo Alto
3 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) UiPath