Problem-Solving Contracts in the UK excluding London

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 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,423 2,313 2,510
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.72% 9.67% 8.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.84% 10.81% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 1,419 1,448
10th Percentile £200 £202 £190
25th Percentile £325 £357 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +8.70% +8.24%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £680 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 205 232
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.01 £13.70 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £38.35 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -60.89% +112.38% +0.32%
75th Percentile £31.13 £61.25 £46.11
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £55.74
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £47.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year -64.21% +131.71% +8.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £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 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £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 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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

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

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

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

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

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 Problem-Solving within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 East 0 630 £475 -9.52% 936
North of England +9 592 £493 -1.40% 1,032
South West +20 339 £500 -4.76% 549
North West +10 313 £493 +9.56% 559
Midlands -1 306 £450 -6.25% 789
Yorkshire +8 247 £475 -13.64% 358
East of England +4 244 £500 +11.11% 503
Scotland +11 234 £475 - 253
West Midlands -1 200 £500 -4.76% 470
East Midlands +3 102 £350 - 319
Wales +5 62 £500 -4.76% 134
North East +27 34 £575 +84.44% 130
Northern Ireland +6 23 £386 +61.78% 57
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 6
Problem-Solving
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 53 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 50 (2.06%) Confluence
3 37 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 10 (0.41%) Apache
5 10 (0.41%) CMS
6 9 (0.37%) nginx
7 8 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.21%) SAS
8 5 (0.21%) WordPress
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.17%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.12%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 218 (9.00%) Microsoft Office
2 183 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 92 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.94%) Spreadsheet
5 45 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.37%) Acrobat
8 5 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.21%) Simulink
9 4 (0.17%) Sketch
9 4 (0.17%) SPSS
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.12%) Blender
10 3 (0.12%) InVision
10 3 (0.12%) Maya
11 2 (0.083%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.083%) InfoPath
11 2 (0.083%) Trello
12 1 (0.041%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 41 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.37%) SAP HCM
5 9 (0.37%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.37%) SAP PM
6 8 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.33%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.29%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) Maximo
9 5 (0.21%) Odoo
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.21%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 310 (12.79%) Azure
2 174 (7.18%) AWS
3 160 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
4 102 (4.21%) Power Platform
5 57 (2.35%) GCP
6 46 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
7 44 (1.82%) Snowflake
8 36 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (1.49%) OCI
9 35 (1.44%) SaaS
10 26 (1.07%) Entra ID
11 23 (0.95%) PowerApps
12 21 (0.87%) PaaS
13 20 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
14 19 (0.78%) GitHub
15 17 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (0.70%) Serverless
16 16 (0.66%) IaaS
17 15 (0.62%) Power Automate
18 11 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 139 (5.74%) Firewall
2 90 (3.71%) LAN
3 80 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
4 71 (2.93%) WAN
5 65 (2.68%) VPN
6 57 (2.35%) DNS
7 54 (2.23%) Network Security
8 45 (1.86%) DHCP
9 44 (1.82%) SAN
10 29 (1.20%) Wireless
11 28 (1.16%) Internet
12 26 (1.07%) TCP/IP
13 18 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
14 16 (0.66%) OSPF
14 16 (0.66%) VoIP
15 15 (0.62%) 5G
16 14 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (0.54%) HTTP
18 12 (0.50%) 4G
18 12 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (3.43%) Power BI
2 55 (2.27%) Tableau
3 44 (1.82%) SQL Server
4 40 (1.65%) Oracle Database
5 34 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 29 (1.20%) Data Lake
7 24 (0.99%) NoSQL
8 23 (0.95%) Metadata
9 22 (0.91%) Big Data
10 21 (0.87%) MySQL
11 14 (0.58%) Data Mining
12 13 (0.54%) GIS
12 13 (0.54%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (0.45%) SAP HANA
14 10 (0.41%) Power Query
15 9 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 158 (6.52%) JIRA
2 103 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 76 (3.14%) Git
4 37 (1.53%) Selenium
5 31 (1.28%) Cucumber
5 31 (1.28%) SonarQube
6 30 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
7 29 (1.20%) GitLab
8 26 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 25 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 24 (0.99%) REST Assured
11 17 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
11 17 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (0.50%) Maven
14 10 (0.41%) Gradle
15 8 (0.33%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.33%) JMeter
15 8 (0.33%) Travis CI
16 7 (0.29%) JUnit
General
1 1,442 (59.51%) Social Skills
2 946 (39.04%) Analytical Skills
3 323 (13.33%) Finance
4 210 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 120 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
6 97 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 87 (3.59%) Telecoms
8 84 (3.47%) Legal
9 81 (3.34%) Manufacturing
10 71 (2.93%) Marketing
11 66 (2.72%) Banking
12 46 (1.90%) Aerospace
12 46 (1.90%) Retail
13 45 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
14 43 (1.77%) Law
15 34 (1.40%) Police
16 32 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
17 31 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
19 25 (1.03%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 405 (16.71%) Analyst
2 236 (9.74%) Developer
3 180 (7.43%) Architect
4 165 (6.81%) Senior
5 138 (5.70%) Lead
6 127 (5.24%) Consultant
7 122 (5.04%) Service Analyst
8 119 (4.91%) Support Engineer
9 118 (4.87%) Project Manager
10 103 (4.25%) Service Desk Analyst
11 87 (3.59%) Business Analyst
11 87 (3.59%) IT Engineer
11 87 (3.59%) IT Support
12 79 (3.26%) Network Engineer
13 77 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
14 69 (2.85%) Service Desk Agent
15 62 (2.56%) Administrator
15 62 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 60 (2.48%) Data Analyst
17 53 (2.19%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (3.14%) .NET
2 59 (2.43%) REST
3 57 (2.35%) HTML
4 55 (2.27%) CSS
4 55 (2.27%) React
5 37 (1.53%) AngularJS
6 33 (1.36%) Spring
7 29 (1.20%) JSON
8 25 (1.03%) .NET Core
8 25 (1.03%) Java EE
8 25 (1.03%) Kafka
9 24 (0.99%) Web Services
10 23 (0.95%) ASP.NET
11 19 (0.78%) XML
12 17 (0.70%) RESTful
13 15 (0.62%) Middleware
14 14 (0.58%) YAML
15 13 (0.54%) OpenGL
15 13 (0.54%) OpenGL ES
15 13 (0.54%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 123 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 101 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 92 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 80 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 70 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 60 (2.48%) Driving Licence
7 47 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 39 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.20%) CMDB
10 25 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 24 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 23 (0.95%) Credit Risk
12 23 (0.95%) NHS
13 21 (0.87%) Onboarding
14 16 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (0.66%) Operational Technology
15 15 (0.62%) Life Science
15 15 (0.62%) Smartphone
16 14 (0.58%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 361 (14.90%) Windows
2 157 (6.48%) Windows 10
3 149 (6.15%) Linux
4 80 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 53 (2.19%) Windows 7
6 47 (1.94%) Unix
7 39 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 38 (1.57%) Android
9 34 (1.40%) Apple iOS
10 32 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
12 23 (0.95%) Mac OS
13 18 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (0.62%) Windows XP
15 8 (0.33%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.29%) CentOS
17 5 (0.21%) AIX
17 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
18 3 (0.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (17.75%) Agile
2 388 (16.01%) Customer Service
3 361 (14.90%) Project Management
4 279 (11.51%) ITIL
5 265 (10.94%) Decision-Making
6 225 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 215 (8.87%) DevOps
8 204 (8.42%) Migration
9 197 (8.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 196 (8.09%) Computer Science
11 177 (7.30%) Service Delivery
12 141 (5.82%) Change Management
13 137 (5.65%) Analytics
14 130 (5.37%) Project Delivery
15 121 (4.99%) Service Management
15 121 (4.99%) Time Management
16 120 (4.95%) Incident Management
17 118 (4.87%) CI/CD
18 113 (4.66%) Business Intelligence
19 112 (4.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 191 (7.88%) SQL
2 185 (7.64%) Python
3 140 (5.78%) Java
4 119 (4.91%) PowerShell
5 88 (3.63%) JavaScript
6 76 (3.14%) C
7 66 (2.72%) C#
8 54 (2.23%) C++
9 48 (1.98%) Bash
10 29 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 27 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 26 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 20 (0.83%) PHP
14 19 (0.78%) Perl
15 13 (0.54%) ABAP
15 13 (0.54%) Ruby
15 13 (0.54%) Tcl
16 12 (0.50%) Go
17 11 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 595 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 479 (19.77%) Degree
3 387 (15.97%) SC Cleared
4 197 (8.13%) DV Cleared
5 140 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 88 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
7 61 (2.52%) CCNP
8 60 (2.48%) CCNA
8 60 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 57 (2.35%) Master's Degree
10 41 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (1.49%) A+ Certification
12 30 (1.24%) HND
12 30 (1.24%) PMP
13 25 (1.03%) APMP
13 25 (1.03%) HNC
14 24 (0.99%) CISSP
14 24 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
14 24 (0.99%) PMI Certification
15 21 (0.87%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (7.35%) SLA
2 126 (5.20%) QA
3 57 (2.35%) PMO
4 55 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 41 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 35 (1.44%) GDPR
7 18 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.50%) NIST
10 8 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.29%) GxP
11 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.21%) GAMP
13 4 (0.17%) HL7
14 3 (0.12%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.12%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 178 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 125 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (2.43%) Docker
4 52 (2.15%) Hyper-V
5 35 (1.44%) vSphere
6 28 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (1.11%) Firmware
8 17 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.50%) KVM
10 10 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 4 (0.17%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.12%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.12%) HDFS
14 3 (0.12%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.12%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 111 (4.58%) SCCM
2 102 (4.21%) Ansible
3 65 (2.68%) Kubernetes
4 60 (2.48%) Terraform
5 47 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (1.77%) vCenter Server
7 20 (0.83%) PowerCLI
8 18 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
8 18 (0.74%) NetBackup
8 18 (0.74%) SCOM
8 18 (0.74%) WSUS
9 15 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.50%) Podman
12 11 (0.45%) Grafana
12 11 (0.45%) Puppet
13 10 (0.41%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
15 8 (0.33%) Kibana
15 8 (0.33%) logstash
Vendors
1 581 (23.98%) Microsoft
2 135 (5.57%) VMware
3 127 (5.24%) Oracle
4 119 (4.91%) SAP
5 101 (4.17%) Cisco
6 82 (3.38%) HP
7 72 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.39%) Dell
9 51 (2.10%) Juniper
10 50 (2.06%) Citrix
11 45 (1.86%) Google
12 40 (1.65%) Splunk
13 36 (1.49%) Salesforce
14 34 (1.40%) Palo Alto
15 33 (1.36%) Alteryx
16 30 (1.24%) Adobe
16 30 (1.24%) Atlassian
17 28 (1.16%) IBM
18 25 (1.03%) Apple
19 20 (0.83%) CheckPoint