Creative Problem-Solving Contracts in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Creative Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 423 469
Rank change year-on-year +65 +46 -44
Contract jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 30 24 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 28
10th Percentile £264 £210 £409
25th Percentile £420 £478 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +35.79%
75th Percentile £653 £553 £686
90th Percentile £681 £588 £750
UK median daily rate £563 £525 £558
% change year-on-year +7.24% -5.83% +23.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £21.08 -
25th Percentile - £27.78 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.56 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.03% -16.72% +15.85%
75th Percentile - £51.97 £48.75
90th Percentile - £59.04 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £39.56 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.03% -16.72% -1.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Creative 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Creative Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Creative Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South West +44 27 £435 -20.91% 18
South East +14 1 - - 25
East of England +6 1 £625 +184.09% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 - 1
Creative Problem-Solving
UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft Project
1 24 (80.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.33%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
1 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Internet
Development Applications
1 25 (83.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 27 (90.00%) Finance
1 27 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (86.67%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (80.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (80.00%) Lead
1 24 (80.00%) Project Leader
2 2 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (3.33%) Analyst
3 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (3.33%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (3.33%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (3.33%) Senior
3 1 (3.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (3.33%) Technical Support
3 1 (3.33%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) .NET
1 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (90.00%) Agile
3 25 (83.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 24 (80.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 24 (80.00%) Data Management
4 24 (80.00%) PRINCE2
4 24 (80.00%) Project Delivery
4 24 (80.00%) Project Management
4 24 (80.00%) Project Planning
4 24 (80.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 24 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.33%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.33%) Microservices
6 1 (3.33%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (3.33%) Process Improvement
6 1 (3.33%) Qualitative Research
6 1 (3.33%) SDLC
6 1 (3.33%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) C#
1 1 (3.33%) Python
1 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 24 (80.00%) APMP
2 24 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (80.00%) PMO
2 1 (3.33%) SEPA
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) TARGET2
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Qualtrics