Problem-Solving Contracts in Plymouth

Problem Solving
Devon > Plymouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Plymouth 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Plymouth 9.76% - 11.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.43% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £423 - £121
25th Percentile £438 - £125
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £130
75th Percentile £513 - £143
90th Percentile £528 - £297
Devon median daily rate £160 £165 £288
% change year-on-year -3.03% -42.61% -56.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £17.22 - -
25th Percentile £25.18 - -
Median hourly rate £38.46 - -
75th Percentile £51.73 - -
90th Percentile £59.69 - -
Devon median hourly rate £38.46 £41.26 -
% change year-on-year -6.79% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Plymouth

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 Plymouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35 45 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Plymouth 85.37% 66.18% 68.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 17
10th Percentile £153 £57 £122
25th Percentile £276 £173 £128
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £506 £600 £475
90th Percentile £530 £729 £541
Devon median daily rate £160 £425 £465
% change year-on-year -62.35% -8.60% +12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 4
10th Percentile £25.15 £10.42 -
25th Percentile £47.54 £37.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +245.02%
75th Percentile £68.13 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - £80.50
Devon median hourly rate £62.50 £30.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +108.33% -42.86% +37.60%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Plymouth

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Plymouth

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Plymouth

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Plymouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Plymouth

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Plymouth

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Plymouth over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Plymouth

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Plymouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Storybook
1 1 (25.00%) Vite
1 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Electrical Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) HND
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk