Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Uxbridge

Problem Solving
Hillingdon > Uxbridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Uxbridge requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Uxbridge 21.88% 12.50% 15.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.58% 14.29% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £480
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.36%
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £582 - -
Hillingdon median daily rate £375 £338 £378
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.60% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.25 - -
Median hourly rate £44.50 - -
75th Percentile £46.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hillingdon median hourly rate £44.50 - £17.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Uxbridge

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 Uxbridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Uxbridge 96.88% 87.50% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £312 £424 £195
25th Percentile £363 £426 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £687 £439 £473
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% -7.20% -2.07%
75th Percentile £716 £513 £573
90th Percentile £720 £625 £600
Hillingdon median daily rate £450 £450 £438
% change year-on-year - +2.86% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £16.83 - -
25th Percentile £21.06 - -
Median hourly rate £29.25 - £30.16
Median % change year-on-year - - -55.65%
75th Percentile £38.56 - -
90th Percentile £43.48 - -
Hillingdon median hourly rate £21.46 £100.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -78.54% +471.43% -61.11%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Uxbridge

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Uxbridge

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Uxbridge

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

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

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Uxbridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Uxbridge over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Uxbridge

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Uxbridge

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

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

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (14.29%) SAP EWM
2 1 (14.29%) SAP IBP
2 1 (14.29%) SAP PP
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Travel Management
2 1 (14.29%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
1 2 (28.57%) SonarCloud
2 1 (14.29%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
1 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) Snyk
1 2 (28.57%) Storybook
1 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Italian Language
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Management Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Production Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Playwright
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
2 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
2 2 (28.57%) Next.js
2 2 (28.57%) pytest
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (14.29%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Monorepo
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Production Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
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