Problem-Solving Contracts in the South East

Problem Solving
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 602 612 653
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 11.07% 10.95% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.13% 12.28% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 416 390
10th Percentile £205 £243 £205
25th Percentile £313 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £619 £610 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 40 30
10th Percentile £11.80 £25.69 £11.32
25th Percentile £13.05 £50.54 £19.90
Median hourly rate £19.38 £57.50 £44.86
Median % change year-on-year -66.30% +28.17% +138.95%
75th Percentile £59.50 £68.13 £54.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £68.12
England median hourly rate £17.00 £50.00 £23.39
% change year-on-year -66.00% +113.77% +17.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,584 4,983 6,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.28% 89.17% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,667 3,471 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £228
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 213 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.05
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South East

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +4 346 £465 -11.18% 376
Berkshire +5 280 £501 -4.67% 151
Hampshire -5 130 £554 +3.50% 205
Surrey +10 58 £513 -2.38% 123
Buckinghamshire 0 44 £450 -10.00% 117
West Sussex +6 33 £412 -0.48% 47
Oxfordshire +7 22 £365 -18.89% 110
Middlesex - 13 £275 - 5
Kent +4 10 £516 +14.72% 65
East Sussex +1 9 £313 -51.92% 31
Home Counties +4 2 £475 +7.04%
Sussex - 1 £600 - 2
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (1.83%) Confluence
1 11 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.83%) SAS
4 3 (0.50%) Appian
4 3 (0.50%) CMS
5 2 (0.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.33%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.17%) Moodle
6 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 64 (10.63%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.50%) SPSS
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.17%) Stata
Business Applications
1 11 (1.83%) Oracle EBS R12
1 11 (1.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.33%) Teamcenter
4 6 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.83%) Maximo
5 5 (0.83%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.17%) Magento
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle AGIS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.17%) Relativity
8 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.17%) SAP LE
8 1 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 92 (15.28%) Azure
2 37 (6.15%) AWS
3 24 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (3.65%) Snowflake
5 17 (2.82%) OCI
6 15 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (2.16%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.33%) Entra ID
8 8 (1.33%) PaaS
8 8 (1.33%) SaaS
9 6 (1.00%) GCP
9 6 (1.00%) PowerApps
10 5 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.83%) IaaS
10 5 (0.83%) Smartsheet
11 4 (0.66%) Serverless
11 4 (0.66%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.98%) LAN
2 33 (5.48%) Firewall
3 27 (4.49%) DHCP
4 25 (4.15%) DNS
5 21 (3.49%) SAN
6 20 (3.32%) WAN
7 19 (3.16%) Network Security
8 11 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (1.50%) Wireless
11 8 (1.33%) 5G
11 8 (1.33%) 802.11
11 8 (1.33%) Internet
11 8 (1.33%) VPN
12 7 (1.16%) 3G
12 7 (1.16%) 4G
13 6 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
14 5 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
15 4 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.65%) Tableau
2 20 (3.32%) SQL Server
3 17 (2.82%) Oracle Database
4 12 (1.99%) Power BI
5 10 (1.66%) SAP HANA
6 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.66%) Big Data
7 4 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.66%) Power Query
8 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.50%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.50%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.50%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.33%) MySQL
9 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.17%) IDMS
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 48 (7.97%) Jenkins
2 33 (5.48%) JIRA
3 29 (4.82%) Selenium
4 28 (4.65%) Git
5 26 (4.32%) Cucumber
6 25 (4.15%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.99%) REST Assured
8 15 (2.49%) GitLab
9 14 (2.33%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.50%) Postman
13 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.17%) JUnit
14 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
14 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
14 1 (0.17%) Maven
14 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.17%) TestNG
14 1 (0.17%) Travis CI
General
1 361 (59.97%) Social Skills
2 245 (40.70%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (10.96%) Finance
4 46 (7.64%) Organisational Skills
5 39 (6.48%) Telecoms
6 32 (5.32%) Legal
7 30 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 27 (4.49%) Law
9 23 (3.82%) Marketing
10 22 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (2.82%) Retail
12 16 (2.66%) Police
13 13 (2.16%) Manufacturing
13 13 (2.16%) Military
14 12 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.33%) Billing
17 6 (1.00%) Aerospace
17 6 (1.00%) Banking
18 5 (0.83%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 99 (16.45%) Analyst
2 58 (9.63%) Architect
3 57 (9.47%) Developer
4 52 (8.64%) Senior
5 41 (6.81%) Consultant
6 37 (6.15%) Lead
7 35 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
8 32 (5.32%) Support Engineer
9 29 (4.82%) IT Support
10 26 (4.32%) Java Architect
11 24 (3.99%) Administrator
12 23 (3.82%) Java Solutions Architect
13 22 (3.65%) Project Manager
13 22 (3.65%) Software Engineer
14 21 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.49%) Network Engineer
15 20 (3.32%) Desktop Support
16 19 (3.16%) 1st Line Support
16 19 (3.16%) Business Analyst
16 19 (3.16%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.15%) REST
2 28 (4.65%) .NET
3 25 (4.15%) Java EE
4 22 (3.65%) ASP.NET
5 14 (2.33%) HTML
6 12 (1.99%) ARM Templates
6 12 (1.99%) CSS
7 11 (1.83%) SAP Basis
8 9 (1.50%) Web Services
9 8 (1.33%) 802.1X
9 8 (1.33%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.33%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (1.33%) Itk
9 8 (1.33%) SAP Fiori
10 5 (0.83%) PyTorch
10 5 (0.83%) TensorFlow
11 4 (0.66%) React
11 4 (0.66%) SOAP
12 3 (0.50%) EDI
12 3 (0.50%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.31%) Driving Licence
2 33 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 27 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 20 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.16%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.66%) Credit Risk
7 10 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.50%) Life Science
9 6 (1.00%) NHS
9 6 (1.00%) PKI
10 5 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.83%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.66%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.66%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.50%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.50%) CCTV
12 3 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.50%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.50%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 119 (19.77%) Windows
2 59 (9.80%) Windows 10
3 48 (7.97%) Linux
4 38 (6.31%) Windows Server
5 33 (5.48%) Windows 7
6 28 (4.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (4.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (3.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.33%) Windows XP
10 13 (2.16%) Unix
11 10 (1.66%) Android
12 8 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.83%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (0.33%) Solaris
15 2 (0.33%) VMS
16 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.17%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (15.28%) Decision-Making
2 88 (14.62%) Agile
3 82 (13.62%) Project Management
4 73 (12.13%) Customer Service
5 71 (11.79%) ITIL
6 68 (11.30%) DevOps
7 51 (8.47%) Service Delivery
8 50 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (7.48%) Software Engineering
10 43 (7.14%) Analytics
11 41 (6.81%) Migration
11 41 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (6.48%) Computer Science
13 35 (5.81%) Test Automation
14 33 (5.48%) Change Management
15 31 (5.15%) Continuous Integration
15 31 (5.15%) Scrum
15 31 (5.15%) Translating Business Requirements
16 30 (4.98%) Software Architecture
17 29 (4.82%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 56 (9.30%) Java
2 50 (8.31%) PowerShell
3 37 (6.15%) C#
4 35 (5.81%) SQL
5 29 (4.82%) Python
6 21 (3.49%) C
6 21 (3.49%) C++
6 21 (3.49%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.16%) Bash
7 13 (2.16%) Perl
8 8 (1.33%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.33%) Tcl
9 7 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.16%) ProC
10 4 (0.66%) F#
10 4 (0.66%) PHP
10 4 (0.66%) R
10 4 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.50%) ABAP
12 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 216 (35.88%) Security Cleared
2 148 (24.58%) Degree
3 108 (17.94%) SC Cleared
4 98 (16.28%) DV Cleared
5 28 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (4.32%) CCNP
7 25 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.65%) Master's Degree
9 19 (3.16%) CCNA
10 7 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.83%) CCSA
12 5 (0.83%) JNCIA
12 5 (0.83%) PhD
12 5 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.66%) VCAP
14 3 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.81%) SLA
2 23 (3.82%) QA
3 11 (1.83%) PMO
4 9 (1.50%) GDPR
5 4 (0.66%) HL7
6 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.33%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.33%) GxP
8 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.17%) ITGC
System Software
1 46 (7.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.82%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.16%) Docker
5 17 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (2.66%) Firmware
7 15 (2.49%) vSphere
8 12 (1.99%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.66%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.66%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) NFS
10 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (9.30%) SCCM
2 43 (7.14%) Ansible
3 19 (3.16%) Kubernetes
4 16 (2.66%) NetBackup
4 16 (2.66%) SCOM
4 16 (2.66%) vCenter Server
4 16 (2.66%) WSUS
5 15 (2.49%) Terraform
6 14 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (1.99%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (1.99%) Podman
8 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.50%) MOM
10 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.33%) Grafana
10 2 (0.33%) Nessus
10 2 (0.33%) Netcool
10 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.33%) vRealize
10 2 (0.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 135 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 60 (9.97%) Oracle
3 50 (8.31%) VMware
4 49 (8.14%) HP
5 35 (5.81%) Cisco
6 26 (4.32%) Juniper
7 24 (3.99%) Alteryx
8 23 (3.82%) Palo Alto
8 23 (3.82%) SAP
9 17 (2.82%) Dell
10 16 (2.66%) Extreme Networks
11 15 (2.49%) 3PAR
11 15 (2.49%) EMC
12 14 (2.33%) ServiceNow
12 14 (2.33%) Symantec
12 14 (2.33%) Veeam
13 9 (1.50%) CheckPoint
14 7 (1.16%) IBM
14 7 (1.16%) OneTrust
15 6 (1.00%) Adobe