Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Salisbury

Problem Solving
Wiltshire > Salisbury

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Salisbury requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 10 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 6 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Salisbury 15.79% 13.46% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.43% 14.00% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £390 £205 £378
25th Percentile £563 £281 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +148.28% -19.44% -37.33%
75th Percentile £994 £369 £500
90th Percentile £1,020 £381 £523
Wiltshire median daily rate £700 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +43.59% -11.36% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Salisbury

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 Salisbury.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28 50 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salisbury 73.68% 96.15% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 38 78
10th Percentile £482 £204 £300
25th Percentile £567 £228 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £673 £363 £505
Median % change year-on-year +85.52% -28.22% -11.56%
75th Percentile £856 £501 £611
90th Percentile £941 £575 £679
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Salisbury

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Salisbury.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Salisbury

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Salisbury

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salisbury citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salisbury citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Salisbury

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Salisbury over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Salisbury

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salisbury 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:

General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Legal
4 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Records Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) AI
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Coaching
1 4 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
1 4 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics
1 4 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Management
1 4 (66.67%) Data Science
1 4 (66.67%) Data Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) Storytelling
1 4 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
1 4 (66.67%) Thought Leadership
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware