Problem-Solving Contracts in Wiltshire

Problem Solving
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 18 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 82 92 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 18.26% 9.75% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.30% 11.83% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 71 41
10th Percentile £463 £263 £413
25th Percentile £532 £315 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +5.77%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £695 - £775
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £14.54 -
South West median hourly rate £38.56 £25.00 £56.29
% change year-on-year +54.25% -55.59% +12.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Wiltshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Wiltshire.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Wiltshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Wiltshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Wiltshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Corsham +2 24 £600 +13.21% 9
Swindon +2 20 £555 +11.00% 28
Salisbury - 19 £601 - 8
Chippenham - 4 £604 - 14
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 11 (13.41%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.22%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) BASE24
1 2 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.10%) SaaS
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (4.88%) PaaS
3 3 (3.66%) AWS
4 2 (2.44%) Azure
4 2 (2.44%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.22%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.22%) Datadog
5 1 (1.22%) GCP
5 1 (1.22%) GitHub
5 1 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) PBX
1 4 (4.88%) VoIP
2 2 (2.44%) ATM
2 2 (2.44%) DHCP
2 2 (2.44%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) Skype
3 1 (1.22%) Extranet
3 1 (1.22%) Firewall
3 1 (1.22%) Intranet
3 1 (1.22%) LAN
3 1 (1.22%) SMTP
3 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.22%) Metadata
2 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.22%) MySQL
2 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.22%) Power BI
2 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Bitbucket
2 11 (13.41%) Git
2 11 (13.41%) JIRA
3 9 (10.98%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.22%) Gatling
4 1 (1.22%) JMeter
4 1 (1.22%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.22%) VersaTest
General
1 41 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (47.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.20%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.66%) Military
7 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (13.41%) Capacity Manager
2 10 (12.20%) Availability Manager
2 10 (12.20%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 8 (9.76%) Analyst
4 7 (8.54%) Report Analyst
4 7 (8.54%) Service Analyst
5 6 (7.32%) Administrator
5 6 (7.32%) Developer
5 6 (7.32%) Security Administrator
6 5 (6.10%) Architect
6 5 (6.10%) Configuration Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Lead
7 4 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Service Owner
7 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow Developer
8 3 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.41%) REST
1 11 (13.41%) SOAP
2 7 (8.54%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.22%) .NET
3 1 (1.22%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.22%) Node.js
3 1 (1.22%) React
3 1 (1.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.73%) Management Information System
2 7 (8.54%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.88%) Blackberry
3 4 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.44%) CMDB
4 2 (2.44%) EMV
4 2 (2.44%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (2.44%) PKI
5 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.63%) Linux
1 12 (14.63%) Windows
2 11 (13.41%) Windows Server
3 6 (7.32%) zOS
4 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.24%) Service Management
2 28 (34.15%) ITIL
3 24 (29.27%) Agile
4 17 (20.73%) Configuration Management
5 15 (18.29%) Validation
6 12 (14.63%) Deployment Automation
6 12 (14.63%) Mentoring
6 12 (14.63%) NsoIT
6 12 (14.63%) System Testing
7 11 (13.41%) Capacity Planning
7 11 (13.41%) Data Analysis
7 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (13.41%) Planning and Forecasting
7 11 (13.41%) Problem Management
7 11 (13.41%) Quality Management
7 11 (13.41%) Reverse Engineering
7 11 (13.41%) Statistics
7 11 (13.41%) Time Management
8 10 (12.20%) Capacity Management
8 10 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.29%) Python
2 14 (17.07%) PowerShell
3 13 (15.85%) Bash
4 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.88%) SQL
5 2 (2.44%) COBOL
6 1 (1.22%) C
6 1 (1.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 55 (67.07%) Security Cleared
2 48 (58.54%) SC Cleared
3 23 (28.05%) ITIL Certification
4 15 (18.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (17.07%) CCNP
5 14 (17.07%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (12.20%) DV Cleared
6 10 (12.20%) OCA
6 10 (12.20%) Oracle Certification
6 10 (12.20%) RHCA
6 10 (12.20%) RHCE
7 7 (8.54%) Degree
8 6 (7.32%) CISSP
8 6 (7.32%) IBM Certification
9 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.22%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.22%) MCSE
10 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) QA
2 2 (2.44%) SLA
3 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.22%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (21.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.32%) RACF
3 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.22%) Docker
4 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) Ansible
1 11 (13.41%) Progress Chef
1 11 (13.41%) Puppet
1 11 (13.41%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.22%) OPNET
3 1 (1.22%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.22%) SCCM
3 1 (1.22%) SCOM
3 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (23.17%) VMware
2 17 (20.73%) Oracle
3 16 (19.51%) Cisco
4 9 (10.98%) Atlassian
5 7 (8.54%) Microsoft
6 6 (7.32%) IBM
6 6 (7.32%) Juniper
7 5 (6.10%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.88%) Avaya
8 4 (4.88%) Ericsson
8 4 (4.88%) F5
8 4 (4.88%) Nokia
8 4 (4.88%) Palo Alto
8 4 (4.88%) Ribbon
9 3 (3.66%) HP
10 2 (2.44%) Remedy
11 1 (1.22%) BMC
11 1 (1.22%) Google
11 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 1 (1.22%) Splunk