Problem-Solving Contracts in Suffolk

Problem Solving
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 16 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 22.22% 11.76% 11.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.09% 15.38% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 12
10th Percentile - £190 £405
25th Percentile £200 £211 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £428 £625
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% -31.60% +208.64%
75th Percentile £525 £647 £650
90th Percentile £600 £700 £785
East of England median daily rate £477 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -4.63% +8.11% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 39 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 76.39% 76.47% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 103
10th Percentile £200 £105 £375
25th Percentile £218 £178 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -30.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £441 £575 £700
90th Percentile £519 £650 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - £11.25 £13.30
25th Percentile - £13.35 £13.56
Median hourly rate £46.18 £15.80 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +192.28% +5.33% -26.83%
75th Percentile - £46.06 £18.28
90th Percentile - £64.00 £19.65
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% +81.82% +41.94%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Suffolk

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Suffolk

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Suffolk over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Suffolk

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Suffolk

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Leiston 0 8 £210 +20.00%
Ipswich 0 6 £550 -12.00% 17
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £450 - 1
Problem-Solving
East of England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 8 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Legal
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Support Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Desktop Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Desktop Support
2 9 (56.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Business Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) CSS3
1 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
1 1 (6.25%) Express.js
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) HTML5
1 1 (6.25%) jQuery
1 1 (6.25%) NgRx
1 1 (6.25%) RxJS
1 1 (6.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) iPad
1 7 (43.75%) iPhone
1 7 (43.75%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Antivirus Management
1 7 (43.75%) Customer Service
1 7 (43.75%) Inventory Management
1 7 (43.75%) ITIL
1 7 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
1 7 (43.75%) Time Management
2 2 (12.50%) Business Case
2 2 (12.50%) Business Process Analysis
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Migration
2 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
2 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (6.25%) Agile
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
3 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (6.25%) Line Management
3 1 (6.25%) Scrum
3 1 (6.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) McAfee