Creative Problem-Solving Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Creative Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Creative 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 284 326 450
Rank change year-on-year +42 +124 +121
Contract jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 20 19 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 12
10th Percentile - £356 £358
25th Percentile £308 £440 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £337 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -38.73% -0.45% -7.92%
75th Percentile £428 £750 £650
90th Percentile £537 - £673
UK median daily rate £358 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -34.91% +4.76% -5.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Creative 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Creative Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Creative Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Creative Problem-Solving trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Creative Problem-Solving.

Creative Problem-Solving daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Creative Problem-Solving daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (20.00%) Serverless
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Network Security
2 4 (20.00%) BGP
2 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 4 (20.00%) OSPF
2 4 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (15.00%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Games
3 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) French Language
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Animator
2 4 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Firewall Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Java Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Operational Security Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Operations Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Security Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (20.00%) Kafka
1 4 (20.00%) RESTful
1 4 (20.00%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Animation
1 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Budget Control
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
3 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (20.00%) Game Development
3 4 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (20.00%) Microservices
3 4 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 4 (20.00%) SDLC
3 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) C++
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (20.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (10.00%) CCSP
3 2 (10.00%) CISSP
3 2 (10.00%) GCIH
3 2 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (20.00%) Meraki
1 4 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco