Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Problem Solving
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 4 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 7 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 7.37% 14.71% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.86% 17.24% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
10th Percentile £293 £339 £451
25th Percentile £381 £423 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.46% -9.95%
75th Percentile £584 £460 £533
90th Percentile £651 £546 £543
Wiltshire median daily rate £688 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +41.03% -11.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £14.36
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.50 - £14.36
% change year-on-year - - -73.89%

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 79 87 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 83.16% 85.29% 83.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 94
10th Percentile £180 £213 £363
25th Percentile £320 £383 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £559 £629
90th Percentile £730 £660 £688
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.21%
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £23.25 £12.79 £50.00
% change year-on-year +81.78% -74.42% -18.70%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Swindon

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Swindon over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Swindon

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Problem-Solving

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

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Salesforce Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) OpenID
1 2 (28.57%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (14.29%) PMI
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Collection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
3 1 (14.29%) SOLID
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (28.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) VMware