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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 25 28 25
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 8.42% 26.67% 10.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.55% 30.77% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 14
10th Percentile £185 £235 £137
25th Percentile £413 £360 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £401
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +24.61% -10.83%
75th Percentile £497 - £502
90th Percentile £558 £675 £538
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.26%
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 £31.25 £18.82 £19.38
% change year-on-year +66.05% -2.86% -66.00%

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 237 91 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 79.80% 86.67% 80.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 54 117
10th Percentile £203 £250 £150
25th Percentile £315 £353 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +17.65% -8.36%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £506
90th Percentile £638 £696 £600
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.10% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 9 39
10th Percentile £14.35 £13.08 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.79 £20.85 £13.23
Median hourly rate £26.44 £27.76 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +42.36% -25.00%
75th Percentile £51.27 £46.30 £32.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £46.54 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -8 5 £453 +20.67% 17
Kidlington - 2 £150 - 3
Bicester - 1 £540 - 3
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 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) WordPress
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP GTS
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.00%) SAP SD
1 1 (4.00%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
1 3 (12.00%) GitHub
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) DHCP
1 6 (24.00%) DNS
2 4 (16.00%) BGP
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) IPv6
2 4 (16.00%) LAN
2 4 (16.00%) OSPF
2 4 (16.00%) WAN
2 4 (16.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (12.00%) IPv4
3 3 (12.00%) Network Security
3 3 (12.00%) Wireless
4 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Automotive
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
2 3 (12.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Head of IT
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) ERP Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) IAM Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Identity Management Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Kafka
1 1 (4.00%) LDAP
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.00%) OpenID
1 1 (4.00%) PySpark
1 1 (4.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (4.00%) SAML
1 1 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.00%) Unix
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) ITSM
1 6 (24.00%) Runbook
2 5 (20.00%) Change Control
2 5 (20.00%) ITIL
2 5 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 5 (20.00%) SIEM
3 4 (16.00%) DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Agile
4 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (12.00%) Project Management
4 3 (12.00%) Server Management
4 3 (12.00%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (8.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (8.00%) Scrum
5 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (28.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (24.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (44.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) BeyondTrust
2 5 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 4 (16.00%) Fortinet
3 4 (16.00%) Infoblox
4 2 (8.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (4.00%) Xero