Problem-Solving Contracts in Swindon

Problem Solving
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 20 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 20.41% 13.82% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.47% 18.48% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £301 £252 £494
25th Percentile £463 £458 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -28.57% +43.59%
75th Percentile £600 - £784
90th Percentile £614 £530 £818
Wiltshire median daily rate £600 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate - £14.54 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 92 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 90.82% 74.80% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 160
10th Percentile £311 £139 £359
25th Percentile £413 £263 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -11.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £605
90th Percentile £650 £623 £696
Wiltshire median daily rate £563 £545 £575
% change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
% change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Swindon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Swindon

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Swindon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Swindon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Swindon

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Datadog
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Gatling
1 1 (5.00%) JMeter
1 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 12 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Administrator
1 6 (30.00%) Security Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Service Owner
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) ERP Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Deskside Support
4 1 (5.00%) Deskside Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Risk Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (30.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) EMV
4 1 (5.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) zOS
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Security Auditing
1 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (25.00%) Security Management
2 5 (25.00%) Transition Management
3 4 (20.00%) Change Management
3 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (20.00%) ERP
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) Business Process Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) COBOL
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) CISSP
1 6 (30.00%) IBM Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) MCP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 8583
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) RACF
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle
2 6 (30.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) New Relic
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk