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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 18 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 +31 -13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 75 94 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 16.82% 9.67% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.52% 11.60% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 73 40
10th Percentile £470 £263 £461
25th Percentile £563 £315 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -19.15% +11.90%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £703
90th Percentile £689 - £726
South West median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £14.03 -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £14.54 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.75% - -
75th Percentile £23.75 £17.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £52.67 £25.00 £56.30
% change year-on-year +110.68% -55.60% +15.48%

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 405 810 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 90.81% 83.33% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 597 819
10th Percentile £308 £321 £400
25th Percentile £479 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +8.49%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 10
10th Percentile £18.73 £12.00 £60.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.79 £61.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £14.54 £70.25
Median % change year-on-year +54.75% -79.30% +28.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £26.51 £39.00 £90.00
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.55% -8.33% +27.66%

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 31 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 31 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 22 £600 +14.29% 5
Salisbury - 19 £601 - 6
Swindon -3 13 £555 +21.31% 20
Chippenham +3 4 £604 - 11
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 9 (12.00%) Confluence
2 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) BASE24
2 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.67%) SaaS
2 4 (5.33%) AWS
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.33%) PaaS
3 3 (4.00%) Azure
3 3 (4.00%) GCP
3 3 (4.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.67%) GitHub
4 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.33%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.33%) Pulumi
5 1 (1.33%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) PBX
1 4 (5.33%) VoIP
2 2 (2.67%) ATM
2 2 (2.67%) DHCP
2 2 (2.67%) DNS
2 2 (2.67%) Skype
3 1 (1.33%) Extranet
3 1 (1.33%) Firewall
3 1 (1.33%) Intranet
3 1 (1.33%) LAN
3 1 (1.33%) SMTP
3 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.67%) NonStop SQL
1 2 (2.67%) Power BI
2 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.33%) Metadata
2 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Bitbucket
1 11 (14.67%) Git
2 10 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.33%) JIRA
3 3 (4.00%) Selenium
4 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.33%) Appium
5 1 (1.33%) Gatling
5 1 (1.33%) GitLab
5 1 (1.33%) JMeter
5 1 (1.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.33%) Snyk
5 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.33%) TestRail
5 1 (1.33%) VersaTest
General
1 39 (52.00%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (49.33%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (12.00%) Finance
5 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.00%) Military
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (14.67%) Capacity Manager
2 10 (13.33%) Availability Manager
2 10 (13.33%) Capacity and Availability Manager
3 9 (12.00%) Analyst
4 7 (9.33%) Report Analyst
4 7 (9.33%) Service Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Administrator
5 6 (8.00%) Developer
5 6 (8.00%) Security Administrator
6 4 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Configuration Manager
6 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow Developer
7 3 (4.00%) Architect
7 3 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Lead
7 3 (4.00%) QA Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) REST
1 11 (14.67%) SOAP
2 2 (2.67%) Playwright
3 1 (1.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 7 (9.33%) Mainframe
3 4 (5.33%) Blackberry
3 4 (5.33%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.67%) EMV
4 2 (2.67%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (2.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.33%) CMDB
5 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.00%) Windows
2 11 (14.67%) Linux
2 11 (14.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.00%) zOS
4 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.00%) Service Management
2 27 (36.00%) ITIL
3 22 (29.33%) Agile
4 15 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 15 (20.00%) Validation
5 12 (16.00%) System Testing
6 11 (14.67%) Capacity Planning
6 11 (14.67%) Deployment Automation
6 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (14.67%) Mentoring
6 11 (14.67%) NsoIT
6 11 (14.67%) Problem Management
6 11 (14.67%) Quality Management
6 11 (14.67%) Reverse Engineering
6 11 (14.67%) Statistics
6 11 (14.67%) Time Management
7 10 (13.33%) Availability Management
7 10 (13.33%) Capacity Management
7 10 (13.33%) Planning and Forecasting
8 9 (12.00%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.00%) Python
2 13 (17.33%) Bash
2 13 (17.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.33%) SQL
5 2 (2.67%) COBOL
6 1 (1.33%) C
6 1 (1.33%) C++
6 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.33%) Groovy
6 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 49 (65.33%) SC Cleared
3 22 (29.33%) ITIL Certification
4 15 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 14 (18.67%) CCNP
5 14 (18.67%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (13.33%) OCA
6 10 (13.33%) Oracle Certification
6 10 (13.33%) RHCA
6 10 (13.33%) RHCE
7 9 (12.00%) DV Cleared
8 6 (8.00%) CISSP
8 6 (8.00%) IBM Certification
9 3 (4.00%) Degree
9 3 (4.00%) ISTQB
10 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.33%) A+ Certification
11 1 (1.33%) MCP
11 1 (1.33%) MCSA
11 1 (1.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) SLA
3 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (21.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.00%) RACF
3 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.67%) Docker
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) Ansible
2 11 (14.67%) Progress Chef
2 11 (14.67%) Puppet
3 10 (13.33%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.00%) Terraform
5 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.33%) Grafana
5 1 (1.33%) OPNET
5 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) SCCM
5 1 (1.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (21.33%) Cisco
1 16 (21.33%) VMware
2 10 (13.33%) Oracle
3 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.33%) Atlassian
5 6 (8.00%) IBM
5 6 (8.00%) Juniper
6 4 (5.33%) Avaya
6 4 (5.33%) Ericsson
6 4 (5.33%) F5
6 4 (5.33%) Nokia
6 4 (5.33%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.33%) Ribbon
6 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.00%) HP
8 1 (1.33%) Google
8 1 (1.33%) New Relic
8 1 (1.33%) Remedy
8 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.33%) Workday