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

6 months to
9 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 2,373 2,307 2,458
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.59% 9.83% 8.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.72% 10.98% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 1,417 1,425
10th Percentile £200 £204 £187
25th Percentile £325 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £551
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 206 225
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.78 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £40.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.77% +123.86% -
75th Percentile £31.13 £61.25 £46.25
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £55.80
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £48.40 £23.00
% change year-on-year -65.91% +110.43% +18.10%

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 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
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 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 0 615 £480 -8.67% 936
North of England +9 575 £492 -1.70% 1,050
South West +19 338 £500 -6.54% 508
Midlands -1 308 £450 -5.26% 777
North West +10 296 £493 +9.56% 592
Yorkshire +8 246 £475 -13.64% 343
East of England +4 238 £500 +11.11% 515
Scotland +11 221 £475 - 250
West Midlands -3 199 £488 -2.50% 470
East Midlands +5 105 £350 - 308
Wales +7 60 £450 -14.29% 125
North East +23 35 £575 +84.44% 128
Northern Ireland +2 22 £435 +82.20% 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 52 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 49 (2.06%) Confluence
3 35 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.42%) CMS
5 9 (0.38%) nginx
6 8 (0.34%) Apache
7 7 (0.29%) 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 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.13%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 203 (8.55%) Microsoft Office
2 183 (7.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 91 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.98%) Spreadsheet
5 45 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.38%) Acrobat
6 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.25%) Maya
9 5 (0.21%) Simulink
10 4 (0.17%) SPSS
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.13%) Blender
11 3 (0.13%) Sketch
12 2 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.084%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.084%) InfoPath
12 2 (0.084%) InVision
12 2 (0.084%) Trello
12 2 (0.084%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 45 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.38%) SAP HCM
5 9 (0.38%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.38%) SAP PM
6 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) Maximo
9 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.21%) Odoo
9 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 292 (12.31%) Azure
2 167 (7.04%) AWS
3 150 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
4 105 (4.42%) Power Platform
5 57 (2.40%) GCP
6 46 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
7 43 (1.81%) Snowflake
8 34 (1.43%) OCI
8 34 (1.43%) SaaS
9 33 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (1.05%) Entra ID
11 23 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 20 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
13 19 (0.80%) PaaS
14 17 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (0.67%) GitHub
15 16 (0.67%) Serverless
16 15 (0.63%) IaaS
16 15 (0.63%) Power Automate
17 11 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 135 (5.69%) Firewall
2 89 (3.75%) LAN
3 79 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
4 70 (2.95%) WAN
5 62 (2.61%) VPN
6 59 (2.49%) DNS
7 51 (2.15%) Network Security
8 47 (1.98%) DHCP
9 44 (1.85%) SAN
10 29 (1.22%) Wireless
11 28 (1.18%) Internet
12 26 (1.10%) TCP/IP
13 17 (0.72%) OSPF
14 16 (0.67%) 5G
15 15 (0.63%) VoIP
16 14 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (0.59%) Remote Desktop
17 13 (0.55%) VLAN
18 12 (0.51%) 4G
19 11 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (3.62%) Power BI
2 56 (2.36%) Tableau
3 46 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 41 (1.73%) Oracle Database
5 32 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 29 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.88%) Big Data
8 21 (0.88%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.84%) Metadata
9 20 (0.84%) MySQL
10 13 (0.55%) SAP HANA
11 12 (0.51%) Data Mining
11 12 (0.51%) GIS
11 12 (0.51%) Hadoop
12 11 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (0.42%) Power Query
14 8 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
14 8 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 152 (6.41%) JIRA
2 100 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 75 (3.16%) Git
4 38 (1.60%) Selenium
5 31 (1.31%) Cucumber
5 31 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 29 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
7 27 (1.14%) GitLab
8 26 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 25 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 24 (1.01%) REST Assured
11 17 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
11 17 (0.72%) Visual Studio
12 13 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (0.51%) Maven
14 10 (0.42%) Gradle
15 8 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 8 (0.34%) JMeter
15 8 (0.34%) Travis CI
16 7 (0.29%) JUnit
General
1 1,398 (58.91%) Social Skills
2 926 (39.02%) Analytical Skills
3 321 (13.53%) Finance
4 197 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 119 (5.01%) Organisational Skills
6 95 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 83 (3.50%) Legal
8 79 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 79 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 71 (2.99%) Marketing
10 67 (2.82%) Banking
11 46 (1.94%) Aerospace
12 44 (1.85%) Law
13 43 (1.81%) Retail
14 38 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
15 32 (1.35%) Police
16 29 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
18 25 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 393 (16.56%) Analyst
2 232 (9.78%) Developer
3 172 (7.25%) Architect
4 166 (7.00%) Senior
5 133 (5.60%) Lead
6 128 (5.39%) Consultant
7 115 (4.85%) Service Analyst
8 114 (4.80%) Support Engineer
9 111 (4.68%) Project Manager
10 98 (4.13%) Service Desk Analyst
11 87 (3.67%) IT Support
12 85 (3.58%) IT Engineer
13 82 (3.46%) Business Analyst
14 81 (3.41%) Network Engineer
15 75 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
16 65 (2.74%) Service Desk Agent
17 63 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 62 (2.61%) Administrator
19 58 (2.44%) Data Analyst
20 53 (2.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (3.29%) .NET
2 58 (2.44%) HTML
2 58 (2.44%) REST
3 56 (2.36%) CSS
4 53 (2.23%) React
5 36 (1.52%) AngularJS
6 31 (1.31%) Spring
7 29 (1.22%) JSON
8 27 (1.14%) Web Services
9 26 (1.10%) .NET Core
9 26 (1.10%) Kafka
10 25 (1.05%) Java EE
11 24 (1.01%) ASP.NET
12 18 (0.76%) XML
13 17 (0.72%) RESTful
14 15 (0.63%) Middleware
14 15 (0.63%) YAML
15 13 (0.55%) DirectX
15 13 (0.55%) OpenGL
15 13 (0.55%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 118 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 97 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
3 91 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 81 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 68 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 57 (2.40%) Driving Licence
7 46 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 39 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.10%) CMDB
10 23 (0.97%) Algorithms
10 23 (0.97%) Credit Risk
11 22 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (0.93%) NHS
11 22 (0.93%) Onboarding
12 16 (0.67%) Life Science
12 16 (0.67%) Mobile App
12 16 (0.67%) Operational Technology
13 15 (0.63%) PKI
14 14 (0.59%) Smartphone
15 12 (0.51%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 349 (14.71%) Windows
2 152 (6.41%) Windows 10
3 148 (6.24%) Linux
4 81 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 51 (2.15%) Windows 7
6 47 (1.98%) Unix
7 40 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 38 (1.60%) Android
9 35 (1.47%) Apple iOS
10 33 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 23 (0.97%) Mac OS
13 17 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (0.63%) Windows XP
15 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.29%) CentOS
17 5 (0.21%) AIX
17 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
18 4 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (17.40%) Agile
2 378 (15.93%) Customer Service
3 350 (14.75%) Project Management
4 269 (11.34%) ITIL
5 265 (11.17%) Decision-Making
6 223 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 209 (8.81%) DevOps
8 200 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 196 (8.26%) Migration
10 187 (7.88%) Computer Science
11 177 (7.46%) Service Delivery
12 135 (5.69%) Change Management
13 133 (5.60%) Analytics
14 129 (5.44%) Project Delivery
15 123 (5.18%) Time Management
16 118 (4.97%) Service Management
17 117 (4.93%) Incident Management
18 112 (4.72%) CI/CD
18 112 (4.72%) Software Engineering
19 111 (4.68%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 192 (8.09%) SQL
2 181 (7.63%) Python
3 141 (5.94%) Java
4 119 (5.01%) PowerShell
5 86 (3.62%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.03%) C
7 67 (2.82%) C#
8 51 (2.15%) C++
9 48 (2.02%) Bash
10 29 (1.22%) TypeScript
11 27 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 26 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 19 (0.80%) PHP
14 18 (0.76%) Perl
15 13 (0.55%) Tcl
16 12 (0.51%) Ruby
17 11 (0.46%) ABAP
17 11 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 11 (0.46%) Go
17 11 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 582 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 460 (19.38%) Degree
3 376 (15.84%) SC Cleared
4 194 (8.18%) DV Cleared
5 135 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 88 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
7 61 (2.57%) CCNP
8 60 (2.53%) CCNA
9 56 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 56 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 33 (1.39%) A+ Certification
12 30 (1.26%) HND
13 27 (1.14%) PMP
14 25 (1.05%) APMP
14 25 (1.05%) HNC
15 23 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
16 21 (0.88%) PMI Certification
17 20 (0.84%) CISSP
17 20 (0.84%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (7.33%) SLA
2 120 (5.06%) QA
3 59 (2.49%) PMO
4 52 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 40 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 36 (1.52%) GDPR
7 19 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.51%) NIST
9 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.29%) GxP
10 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.21%) GAMP
11 5 (0.21%) HL7
12 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.13%) IASME
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 173 (7.29%) Active Directory
2 127 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (2.36%) Docker
4 53 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 35 (1.47%) vSphere
6 29 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (1.14%) Firmware
8 17 (0.72%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.51%) KVM
10 11 (0.46%) 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 (0.13%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.13%) HDFS
14 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 108 (4.55%) SCCM
2 101 (4.26%) Ansible
3 61 (2.57%) Kubernetes
4 59 (2.49%) Terraform
5 47 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 43 (1.81%) vCenter Server
7 20 (0.84%) PowerCLI
8 18 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
8 18 (0.76%) NetBackup
8 18 (0.76%) SCOM
8 18 (0.76%) WSUS
9 15 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (0.51%) Podman
12 11 (0.46%) Grafana
13 10 (0.42%) Puppet
14 9 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.38%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.34%) Kibana
15 8 (0.34%) logstash
Vendors
1 562 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 137 (5.77%) VMware
3 125 (5.27%) Oracle
4 116 (4.89%) SAP
5 100 (4.21%) Cisco
6 80 (3.37%) HP
7 65 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.40%) Dell
9 52 (2.19%) Juniper
10 49 (2.06%) Citrix
11 47 (1.98%) Google
12 38 (1.60%) Splunk
13 36 (1.52%) Salesforce
14 34 (1.43%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.31%) Alteryx
16 28 (1.18%) IBM
17 26 (1.10%) Atlassian
18 25 (1.05%) Apple
19 23 (0.97%) Adobe
20 19 (0.80%) CheckPoint