Problem-Solving Contracts in the South West

Problem Solving
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +20 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 340 222 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.78% 6.26% 6.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.95% 6.99% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 160 103
10th Percentile £173 £200 £305
25th Percentile £303 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £659 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £721 £684
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 20 35
10th Percentile £12.50 £30.10 £41.59
25th Percentile £14.54 £50.91 £43.46
Median hourly rate £25.00 £56.29 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.59% +11.47% +9.78%
75th Percentile £47.47 £73.61 £57.10
90th Percentile £57.41 £78.00 £63.60
England median hourly rate £17.50 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -65.00% +150.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,626 3,178 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.26% 89.57% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 2,329 2,324
10th Percentile £216 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £590
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 329 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £15.44 £20.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +12.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.95
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Wiltshire +29 91 £475 -17.39% 57
Gloucestershire +12 75 £588 +46.88% 75
Bristol +18 64 £513 +1.49% 169
Devon +7 32 £168 -58.13% 72
Somerset +11 31 £413 -34.00% 121
Dorset +14 23 £175 -66.67% 46
Cornwall - 11 £150 - 14
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (5.88%) Confluence
2 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.18%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.18%) nginx
5 3 (0.88%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.59%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.29%) Apache
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 35 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (9.12%) Spreadsheet
4 25 (7.35%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.29%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.76%) SAP HCM
2 6 (1.76%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.88%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 3 (0.88%) Shopify
5 1 (0.29%) CA PPM
5 1 (0.29%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.29%) Primavera
5 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 30 (8.82%) Azure
2 24 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (6.18%) AWS
4 9 (2.65%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.06%) Entra ID
5 7 (2.06%) SuccessFactors
6 5 (1.47%) GCP
6 5 (1.47%) PaaS
7 3 (0.88%) BigCommerce
7 3 (0.88%) SaaS
8 2 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (0.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.59%) IaaS
8 2 (0.59%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.29%) Azure Service Fabric
9 1 (0.29%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.29%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.24%) Firewall
2 12 (3.53%) DNS
3 11 (3.24%) WAN
4 8 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.06%) LAN
5 7 (2.06%) Network Security
6 6 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.76%) VoIP
7 5 (1.47%) SDH
8 4 (1.18%) DHCP
8 4 (1.18%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.18%) IPsec
8 4 (1.18%) Junos
8 4 (1.18%) SAN
8 4 (1.18%) Skype
8 4 (1.18%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (1.18%) Wireless
9 3 (0.88%) Internet
9 3 (0.88%) PBX
10 2 (0.59%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.65%) Power BI
2 8 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.06%) MySQL
4 5 (1.47%) Metadata
5 4 (1.18%) Couchbase
5 4 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.59%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.59%) Tableau
7 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.29%) Big Data
7 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.29%) Flink
7 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 52 (15.29%) JIRA
2 21 (6.18%) Jenkins
3 20 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 20 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 12 (3.53%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.59%) Git
5 2 (0.59%) JMeter
5 2 (0.59%) JUnit
5 2 (0.59%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.29%) git-flow
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 195 (57.35%) Social Skills
2 150 (44.12%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (13.82%) Finance
4 34 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 31 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 28 (8.24%) Telecoms
7 27 (7.94%) Aerospace
8 15 (4.41%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.82%) Legal
10 12 (3.53%) Police
11 11 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.94%) Military
13 9 (2.65%) Marketing
14 8 (2.35%) Retail
15 7 (2.06%) Electronics
16 5 (1.47%) Aeronautics
17 3 (0.88%) Advertising
17 3 (0.88%) Digital Economy
17 3 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (15.29%) Analyst
2 45 (13.24%) Developer
3 35 (10.29%) Lead
4 29 (8.53%) Service Analyst
4 29 (8.53%) Service Desk Analyst
4 29 (8.53%) Support Engineer
5 24 (7.06%) Project Leader
5 24 (7.06%) Technical Support
6 23 (6.76%) Architect
7 22 (6.47%) Network Engineer
8 16 (4.71%) Project Manager
8 16 (4.71%) Support Specialist
9 14 (4.12%) IT Support
10 13 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (3.82%) Senior
10 13 (3.82%) Technical Engineer
10 13 (3.82%) Technical Support Engineer
11 12 (3.53%) Data Analyst
11 12 (3.53%) Desktop Engineer
11 12 (3.53%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.76%) .NET
2 21 (6.18%) .NET Core
3 19 (5.59%) React
4 15 (4.41%) AngularJS
5 12 (3.53%) Spring
6 5 (1.47%) JSON
7 4 (1.18%) CSS
7 4 (1.18%) HTML
7 4 (1.18%) LEMP Stack
7 4 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.18%) YAML
8 3 (0.88%) Kafka
8 3 (0.88%) REST
8 3 (0.88%) VML
9 2 (0.59%) Django
9 2 (0.59%) Node.js
9 2 (0.59%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.29%) CSS3
10 1 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.18%) Data Centre
1 21 (6.18%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.53%) Private Cloud
4 7 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.47%) CMDB
6 5 (1.47%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.18%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.88%) Blackberry
8 3 (0.88%) Blog
8 3 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (0.88%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.59%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.94%) Windows
2 29 (8.53%) Linux
3 12 (3.53%) Windows 10
4 11 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.18%) Android
5 4 (1.18%) CentOS
5 4 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.18%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (26.47%) Agile
2 84 (24.71%) Project Management
3 58 (17.06%) ITIL
4 48 (14.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 37 (10.88%) Data Management
7 34 (10.00%) PRINCE2
7 34 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 32 (9.41%) Commercial Awareness
8 32 (9.41%) OO
8 32 (9.41%) OOP
9 30 (8.82%) Project Planning
10 27 (7.94%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 27 (7.94%) Decision-Making
11 26 (7.65%) Configuration Management
11 26 (7.65%) Workshop Facilitation
12 24 (7.06%) CI/CD
12 24 (7.06%) Migration
12 24 (7.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 23 (6.76%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (14.41%) Python
2 28 (8.24%) PowerShell
3 22 (6.47%) SQL
4 17 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.71%) C
5 16 (4.71%) Java
6 6 (1.76%) PHP
7 3 (0.88%) C#
8 2 (0.59%) C++
8 2 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.59%) Perl
8 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.59%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.29%) Bash
9 1 (0.29%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.29%) ProC
9 1 (0.29%) RPG
9 1 (0.29%) Ruby
9 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 185 (54.41%) Security Cleared
2 122 (35.88%) SC Cleared
3 82 (24.12%) DV Cleared
4 49 (14.41%) Degree
5 25 (7.35%) APMP
6 20 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (4.12%) CCNP
10 11 (3.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 10 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 7 (2.06%) CCNA
12 7 (2.06%) HND
12 7 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (1.76%) JNCIA
14 5 (1.47%) CISSP
14 5 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
16 3 (0.88%) MCSE
16 3 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (14.71%) SLA
2 31 (9.12%) PMO
3 21 (6.18%) QA
4 8 (2.35%) NIST
5 7 (2.06%) GDPR
6 6 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.47%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.18%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.29%) GRC
10 1 (0.29%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.29%) RMADS
10 1 (0.29%) SEPA
10 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.29%) TARGET2
System Software
1 35 (10.29%) Active Directory
2 26 (7.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.82%) vSphere
4 3 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.29%) Docker
6 1 (0.29%) Firmware
6 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 24 (7.06%) Ansible
2 21 (6.18%) SCCM
3 20 (5.88%) PowerCLI
4 13 (3.82%) vCenter Server
5 8 (2.35%) Terraform
6 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.76%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.59%) MOM
8 2 (0.59%) OPNET
8 2 (0.59%) SCOM
9 1 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.29%) Puppet
9 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.29%) vRealize
9 1 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 83 (24.41%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.24%) VMware
3 25 (7.35%) Dell
4 21 (6.18%) HP
4 21 (6.18%) SAP
5 20 (5.88%) Atlassian
5 20 (5.88%) Cisco
6 12 (3.53%) Juniper
7 10 (2.94%) Google
7 10 (2.94%) Nokia
8 9 (2.65%) IBM
9 8 (2.35%) Splunk
10 6 (1.76%) BT
11 5 (1.47%) Oracle
12 4 (1.18%) Avaya
12 4 (1.18%) Ciena
12 4 (1.18%) Citrix
12 4 (1.18%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.18%) Remedy