Problem-Solving Contracts in Oxfordshire

Problem Solving
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 36 23 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 28.80% 9.16% 11.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 32.43% 11.86% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 20
10th Percentile £155 £148 £250
25th Percentile £160 £160 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £281 £260 £429
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -39.36% +82.45%
75th Percentile £397 £488 £497
90th Percentile £500 - £641
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.08 £13.00 £26.08
Median hourly rate £14.08 £13.23 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year +6.39% -53.02% -
75th Percentile £19.01 £24.28 £30.24
90th Percentile £21.37 £50.63 -
South East median hourly rate £17.43 £21.50 £58.05
% change year-on-year -18.92% -62.96% +22.20%

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 111 194 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 88.80% 77.29% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 128 132
10th Percentile £178 £173 £215
25th Percentile £250 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% - -
75th Percentile £547 £500 £575
90th Percentile £688 £623 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 17
10th Percentile £13.66 £11.80 £24.00
25th Percentile £20.36 £13.00 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.23 £19.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +29.36% -39.63% +72.63%
75th Percentile £46.30 £29.75 £50.00
90th Percentile - £65.00 £51.50
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £52.10
% change year-on-year -49.77% -8.29% +131.56%

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 25 June 2025.

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
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 25 June 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 +4 21 £360 +3.23% 45
Witney - 3 £160 - 7
Abingdon +5 2 - - 12
Carterton - 2 £153 - 1
Banbury - 1 £200 - 4
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 6 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.78%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 9 (25.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 6 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) Azure
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 2 (5.56%) GCP
4 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DHCP
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
1 1 (2.78%) Internet
1 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.78%) IP Telephony
1 1 (2.78%) LAN
1 1 (2.78%) MPLS
1 1 (2.78%) NAS
1 1 (2.78%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.78%) SAN
1 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.78%) Skype
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.78%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.78%) VPN
1 1 (2.78%) WAN
1 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) Big Data
2 1 (2.78%) MySQL
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Eclipse
General
1 25 (69.44%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (22.22%) Finance
5 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Automotive
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Analyst
1 7 (19.44%) IT Support
1 7 (19.44%) Support Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) SAP Manager
2 6 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Business IT Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Business Support Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Business Systems Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Support
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Support Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Deskside Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Deskside Support
4 4 (11.11%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (11.11%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) CSS
1 1 (2.78%) HTML
1 1 (2.78%) JSP
1 1 (2.78%) XML
1 1 (2.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Life Science
1 9 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (13.89%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
2 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (33.33%) Migration
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
3 11 (30.56%) Time Management
4 10 (27.78%) Customer Service
5 9 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
5 9 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 8 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
7 7 (19.44%) Asset Management
8 6 (16.67%) Analytics
8 6 (16.67%) Service Delivery
9 5 (13.89%) Application Security
9 5 (13.89%) Change Control
9 5 (13.89%) Change Management
9 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (13.89%) Performance Metrics
9 5 (13.89%) Performance Monitoring
9 5 (13.89%) Proactive Maintenance
9 5 (13.89%) Proactive Monitoring
9 5 (13.89%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) SQL
2 3 (8.33%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) C++
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.11%) PMBOK
3 3 (8.33%) QA
4 2 (5.56%) GDPR
4 2 (5.56%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) vSphere
2 1 (2.78%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) SAP
3 5 (13.89%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) Citrix
4 1 (2.78%) F5
4 1 (2.78%) VMware