Problem-Solving Contracts in Reading

Problem Solving
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 14 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 189 110 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 16.34% 10.87% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.19% 12.24% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 74 54
10th Percentile £205 £363 £159
25th Percentile £213 £402 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £525 £461
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% +13.82% +14.95%
75th Percentile £638 £612 £634
90th Percentile £688 £675 £640
Berkshire median daily rate £507 £525 £469
% change year-on-year -3.52% +12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile - £30.46 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £48.40 -
Median hourly rate £58.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% - -
75th Percentile £61.60 - -
90th Percentile - £75.22 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £54.56 £80.40
% change year-on-year +11.80% -32.14% +689.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,039 899 1,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.80% 88.83% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 599 811
10th Percentile £213 £363 £246
25th Percentile £420 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 22 8
10th Percentile £16.30 £45.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.21 £55.91 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +133.93% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.59 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.07 £58.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year +2.25% +179.76% -0.24%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Reading over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Reading

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Reading over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Reading

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (1.06%) CMS
1 2 (1.06%) Confluence
1 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 33 (17.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.06%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.06%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (5.82%) Oracle EBS R12
1 11 (5.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (3.17%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (2.65%) Maximo
3 5 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.12%) Teamcenter
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.53%) Magento
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle AGIS
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.16%) Azure
2 22 (11.64%) Snowflake
3 15 (7.94%) AWS
4 14 (7.41%) OCI
5 7 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.06%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.06%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.53%) PaaS
7 1 (0.53%) SaaS
7 1 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.11%) Firewall
2 19 (10.05%) LAN
3 14 (7.41%) DHCP
3 14 (7.41%) DNS
3 14 (7.41%) SAN
4 7 (3.70%) 5G
5 6 (3.17%) 3G
5 6 (3.17%) 4G
5 6 (3.17%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (2.65%) WAN
7 2 (1.06%) Intranet
7 2 (1.06%) Network Security
8 1 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.53%) Junos
8 1 (0.53%) MPLS
8 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.53%) SSL
8 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.70%) Tableau
2 5 (2.65%) Oracle Database
2 5 (2.65%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.06%) Power BI
4 2 (1.06%) Power Query
5 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (17.46%) Jenkins
2 26 (13.76%) Selenium
3 25 (13.23%) Cucumber
4 24 (12.70%) REST Assured
4 24 (12.70%) SonarQube
5 16 (8.47%) JIRA
6 13 (6.88%) GitLab
7 11 (5.82%) Git
8 9 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (3.70%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.53%) CMake
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 124 (65.61%) Social Skills
2 91 (48.15%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.93%) Organisational Skills
4 30 (15.87%) Finance
5 23 (12.17%) Telecoms
6 21 (11.11%) Law
7 19 (10.05%) Legal
8 13 (6.88%) Police
9 7 (3.70%) Retail
10 5 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.65%) Marketing
11 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.12%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.59%) Banking
12 3 (1.59%) Billing
12 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (21.69%) Analyst
2 28 (14.81%) Senior
3 27 (14.29%) Consultant
4 23 (12.17%) Lead
5 19 (10.05%) Support Engineer
6 17 (8.99%) Developer
6 17 (8.99%) Java Engineer
7 16 (8.47%) Desktop Engineer
7 16 (8.47%) Desktop Support
7 16 (8.47%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 16 (8.47%) Hardware Engineer
8 15 (7.94%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
8 15 (7.94%) Functional Consultant
9 14 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (6.88%) Oracle Consultant
10 13 (6.88%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 10 (5.29%) Data Analyst
11 10 (5.29%) Storage Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Architect
12 8 (4.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.76%) REST
2 25 (13.23%) Java EE
3 12 (6.35%) ARM Templates
4 10 (5.29%) .NET
4 10 (5.29%) ASP.NET
5 6 (3.17%) HTML
5 6 (3.17%) SAP Basis
6 5 (2.65%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (2.12%) CSS
7 4 (2.12%) Itk
8 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (1.06%) Flash
8 2 (1.06%) Web Services
9 1 (0.53%) Kafka
9 1 (0.53%) Mustache
9 1 (0.53%) Node.js
9 1 (0.53%) React
9 1 (0.53%) Spring
9 1 (0.53%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.87%) Driving Licence
2 16 (8.47%) Credit Risk
3 14 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.06%) Social Media
5 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.53%) Life Science
6 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.53%) NHS
6 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 54 (28.57%) Windows
2 44 (23.28%) Windows 10
3 30 (15.87%) Windows 7
4 18 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 17 (8.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (8.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (7.94%) Linux
7 14 (7.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (7.41%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.10%) Decision-Making
2 48 (25.40%) ITIL
3 37 (19.58%) DevOps
4 33 (17.46%) Customer Service
5 32 (16.93%) Project Management
6 31 (16.40%) Technical Leadership
7 27 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (13.76%) Test Automation
9 25 (13.23%) Analytics
9 25 (13.23%) Software Architecture
10 24 (12.70%) Software Engineering
11 23 (12.17%) Actionable Insight
12 19 (10.05%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (10.05%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (9.52%) Agile
14 17 (8.99%) Service Delivery
14 17 (8.99%) Software Testing
15 16 (8.47%) Dashboard Development
16 15 (7.94%) Customer Requirements
16 15 (7.94%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.76%) Java
2 23 (12.17%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.23%) C#
4 7 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.59%) Python
6 2 (1.06%) C++
7 1 (0.53%) Bash
7 1 (0.53%) C
7 1 (0.53%) F#
7 1 (0.53%) PHP
7 1 (0.53%) SQL
7 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (47.09%) Security Cleared
2 56 (29.63%) Degree
3 51 (26.98%) DV Cleared
4 47 (24.87%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.41%) CCNA
5 14 (7.41%) CCNP
5 14 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) HP ASE
7 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.53%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.65%) QA
2 2 (1.06%) PMO
3 1 (0.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) HL7
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.53%) ITGC
3 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (7.94%) Active Directory
1 15 (7.94%) Firmware
1 15 (7.94%) Hyper-V
1 15 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (6.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (23.81%) SCCM
2 32 (16.93%) Ansible
3 15 (7.94%) SCOM
4 14 (7.41%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (7.41%) NetBackup
4 14 (7.41%) vCenter Server
4 14 (7.41%) WSUS
5 13 (6.88%) Kubernetes
5 13 (6.88%) Terraform
6 12 (6.35%) Docker Swarm
6 12 (6.35%) Podman
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 44 (23.28%) HP
3 36 (19.05%) Oracle
4 24 (12.70%) Alteryx
5 18 (9.52%) Juniper
6 17 (8.99%) Cisco
7 15 (7.94%) Palo Alto
7 15 (7.94%) VMware
8 14 (7.41%) 3PAR
8 14 (7.41%) Dell
8 14 (7.41%) EMC
8 14 (7.41%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (7.41%) Symantec
8 14 (7.41%) Veeam
9 6 (3.17%) SAP
10 3 (1.59%) OpenText
11 2 (1.06%) IBM
11 2 (1.06%) Workday
12 1 (0.53%) Kenna
12 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow