Problem-Solving Contracts in Wokingham

Problem Solving
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wokingham 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 3 14 5
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 51 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 28.81% 8.57% 25.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 30.91% 8.82% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 3 9
10th Percentile £350 - £286
25th Percentile £435 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £563
90th Percentile £675 £560 £608
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +3.28% -7.14% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 165 68 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 93.22% 97.14% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 55 40
10th Percentile £350 £310 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £675 £680 £754
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.13
Median hourly rate £14.30 - £27.25
75th Percentile - - £28.38
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Wokingham

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Wokingham

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Wokingham

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Wokingham

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 3 (5.88%) Confluence
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.92%) Apache
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) Azure
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.84%) AWS
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.88%) Figma
4 3 (5.88%) GCP
4 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.92%) SaaS
6 1 (1.96%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) DHCP
1 7 (13.73%) DNS
2 5 (9.80%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.88%) Firewall
4 2 (3.92%) FTP
4 2 (3.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.92%) SMTP
4 2 (3.92%) Telnet
4 2 (3.92%) Unified Communications
4 2 (3.92%) VoIP
5 1 (1.96%) BGP
5 1 (1.96%) Network Security
5 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.92%) Big Data
2 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.96%) Power BI
3 1 (1.96%) Power Query
3 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) JIRA
2 5 (9.80%) Selenium
3 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.96%) Billing
4 1 (1.96%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (13.73%) Architect
2 6 (11.76%) Lead
3 5 (9.80%) SIEM Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Developer
4 4 (7.84%) Security Architect
4 4 (7.84%) Tester
5 3 (5.88%) Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Applications Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.92%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Technical Leader
6 2 (3.92%) Voice Architect
7 1 (1.96%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (1.96%) Data Centre Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) Security Auditor
7 1 (1.96%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (1.96%) UI/UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) REST
2 5 (9.80%) JSON
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Axis
3 2 (3.92%) NumPy
3 2 (3.92%) Pandas
3 2 (3.92%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.96%) .NET
4 1 (1.96%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.96%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (1.96%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.96%) Prophet
4 1 (1.96%) React
4 1 (1.96%) RESTful
4 1 (1.96%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.96%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Algorithms
1 9 (17.65%) Onboarding
2 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.80%) CSOC
3 5 (9.80%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.84%) SCADA
5 2 (3.92%) CMDB
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) PKI
5 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.96%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (27.45%) Windows
2 9 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 8 (15.69%) Linux
4 4 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (15.69%) Agile
2 8 (15.69%) Data Modelling
2 8 (15.69%) Incident Response
3 7 (13.73%) Data Collection
3 7 (13.73%) Exploratory Testing
3 7 (13.73%) ITIL
3 7 (13.73%) Mathematics
3 7 (13.73%) Optimization Problems
3 7 (13.73%) Scenario Testing
3 7 (13.73%) SIEM
3 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
4 6 (11.76%) Process Improvement
4 6 (11.76%) Security Operations
4 6 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (9.80%) Design Patterns
5 5 (9.80%) DevSecOps
5 5 (9.80%) Functional Testing
5 5 (9.80%) High Availability
5 5 (9.80%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.84%) Perl
5 4 (7.84%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.88%) C#
7 2 (3.92%) Bicep
7 2 (3.92%) Ruby
8 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.96%) R
8 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.96%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.49%) SC Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) Degree
3 6 (11.76%) GIAC
3 6 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 5 (9.80%) CISSP
5 3 (5.88%) CCNP
5 3 (5.88%) CEH
5 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.92%) CISM
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.96%) CCIE
7 1 (1.96%) CCSK
7 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 6 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.92%) GDPR
4 2 (3.92%) NIST
5 1 (1.96%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.96%) NCSC
5 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) NFS
3 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) NetBackup
2 3 (5.88%) Terraform
3 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.96%) Ansible
4 1 (1.96%) CASB
4 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) VMware
3 4 (7.84%) 3PAR
3 4 (7.84%) Dell
3 4 (7.84%) HP
3 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.84%) Veritas
4 3 (5.88%) CyberArk
4 3 (5.88%) Google
4 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) BMC
5 1 (1.96%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.96%) Intel
5 1 (1.96%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.96%) Remedy