Problem-Solving Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Problem Solving
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1,546 1,470 1,991
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.38% 10.01% 8.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.76% 11.48% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 986 1,346
10th Percentile £314 £300 £315
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £643
90th Percentile £738 £700 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 53 77
10th Percentile £14.03 £11.00 £21.60
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.88 £40.25
Median hourly rate £35.74 £22.56 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.42% -65.29% +149.14%
75th Percentile £64.69 £43.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.01 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £21.65 £16.23 £51.50
% change year-on-year +33.36% -68.49% +106.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 9,224 12,802 21,352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.77% 87.21% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,250 8,610 15,077
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 551 508
10th Percentile £13.40 £15.17 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.09 £25.50 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.93 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Problem-Solving
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

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 Problem-Solving.

Problem-Solving daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Problem-Solving hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Problem-Solving hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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 46 (2.98%) Confluence
2 40 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.97%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.58%) Apache
5 9 (0.58%) CMS
5 9 (0.58%) Oracle Coherence
6 8 (0.52%) GemFire
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.26%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.26%) JBoss
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 4 (0.26%) SAS
9 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.19%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.19%) IIS
10 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 85 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.52%) Trello
7 3 (0.19%) Sketch
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Revit
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.065%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (2.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
5 7 (0.45%) Shopify
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.32%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.32%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 4 (0.26%) CA PPM
8 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle HRMS
8 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.26%) SAP PLM
8 4 (0.26%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 316 (20.44%) Azure
2 281 (18.18%) AWS
3 99 (6.40%) Power Platform
4 90 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (5.11%) GCP
6 66 (4.27%) Serverless
7 65 (4.20%) GitHub
8 55 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
9 53 (3.43%) SaaS
10 51 (3.30%) Amazon S3
10 51 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (2.78%) Entra ID
12 37 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
13 33 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
14 30 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (1.62%) Snowflake
17 19 (1.23%) Power Automate
18 18 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.30%) Firewall
2 33 (2.13%) Network Security
3 30 (1.94%) DNS
4 26 (1.68%) VPN
5 20 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.23%) Wireless
7 17 (1.10%) DHCP
8 15 (0.97%) BGP
9 14 (0.91%) OSPF
10 13 (0.84%) WAN
11 12 (0.78%) HTTP
11 12 (0.78%) LAN
12 11 (0.71%) Internet
12 11 (0.71%) MPLS
13 6 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.32%) Broadband
14 5 (0.32%) SAN
14 5 (0.32%) SSL
14 5 (0.32%) VoIP
14 5 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.05%) Power BI
2 66 (4.27%) Relational Database
3 63 (4.08%) MongoDB
4 56 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 51 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
7 48 (3.10%) DB2
8 32 (2.07%) Redis
9 31 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (1.88%) NoSQL
11 22 (1.42%) Oracle Database
11 22 (1.42%) Tableau
12 20 (1.29%) DynamoDB
13 18 (1.16%) Big Data
14 16 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 16 (1.03%) MySQL
15 13 (0.84%) Metadata
16 12 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (0.71%) Hadoop
17 11 (0.71%) Looker
Development Applications
1 103 (6.66%) JIRA
2 102 (6.60%) Git
3 72 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 50 (3.23%) JUnit
5 34 (2.20%) GitLab
6 23 (1.49%) Selenium
7 19 (1.23%) JMeter
8 15 (0.97%) Postman
9 13 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 12 (0.78%) Cypress.io
10 12 (0.78%) Maven
10 12 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 10 (0.65%) CircleCI
12 9 (0.58%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.52%) Gatling
13 8 (0.52%) QARun
13 8 (0.52%) WinRunner
14 7 (0.45%) LoadRunner
14 7 (0.45%) Snyk
14 7 (0.45%) Xcode
General
1 910 (58.86%) Social Skills
2 621 (40.17%) Analytical Skills
3 411 (26.58%) Finance
4 169 (10.93%) Banking
5 136 (8.80%) Public Sector
6 86 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 55 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
8 52 (3.36%) Marketing
9 47 (3.04%) Manufacturing
10 46 (2.98%) Retail
10 46 (2.98%) Telecoms
11 43 (2.78%) Front Office
12 39 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
15 30 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
16 23 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.42%) Legal
18 20 (1.29%) Financial Institution
19 18 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 308 (19.92%) Developer
2 200 (12.94%) Analyst
3 159 (10.28%) Senior
4 141 (9.12%) Architect
5 117 (7.57%) Lead
6 101 (6.53%) Consultant
7 95 (6.14%) Java Developer
8 91 (5.89%) Business Analyst
9 67 (4.33%) Project Manager
10 50 (3.23%) Senior Developer
11 37 (2.39%) Data Engineer
12 35 (2.26%) Data Analyst
13 34 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
14 33 (2.13%) Network Engineer
15 32 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (1.88%) SAP Consultant
17 28 (1.81%) Full-Stack Developer
17 28 (1.81%) Support Engineer
18 27 (1.75%) Investment Banking Java Developer
18 27 (1.75%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.14%) Kafka
2 75 (4.85%) Spring
3 73 (4.72%) React
4 58 (3.75%) CSS
5 57 (3.69%) REST
6 56 (3.62%) .NET
7 55 (3.56%) AngularJS
8 54 (3.49%) RESTful
9 50 (3.23%) HTML
10 37 (2.39%) Web Services
11 33 (2.13%) JMS
12 31 (2.01%) Node.js
13 27 (1.75%) OAuth
14 24 (1.55%) Middleware
15 23 (1.49%) SOAP
16 22 (1.42%) ActiveMQ
17 21 (1.36%) OpenID
18 20 (1.29%) SAML
19 19 (1.23%) LDAP
20 18 (1.16%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.92%) Data Structures
2 62 (4.01%) Management Information System
2 62 (4.01%) Product Ownership
3 45 (2.91%) Equities
4 39 (2.52%) Cloud Native
5 34 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 32 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
6 32 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 31 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 29 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 27 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.36%) Derivative
12 18 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 17 (1.10%) Fixed Income
14 14 (0.91%) Life Science
14 14 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 134 (8.67%) Linux
2 99 (6.40%) Windows
3 29 (1.88%) Unix
3 29 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.49%) Android
4 23 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.32%) zOS
9 3 (0.19%) AIX
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.13%) SUSE
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.065%) Debian
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (31.95%) Agile
2 261 (16.88%) DevOps
3 217 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 203 (13.13%) CI/CD
5 184 (11.90%) Project Management
6 155 (10.03%) Migration
7 151 (9.77%) Computer Science
8 150 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (9.12%) Decision-Making
10 129 (8.34%) Analytics
11 120 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
12 112 (7.24%) Scrum
13 109 (7.05%) Test Automation
14 106 (6.86%) Containerisation
15 100 (6.47%) Artificial Intelligence
15 100 (6.47%) SDLC
16 96 (6.21%) Collaborative Working
17 94 (6.08%) Change Management
18 89 (5.76%) Microservices
19 88 (5.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 308 (19.92%) Python
2 296 (19.15%) SQL
3 194 (12.55%) Java
4 113 (7.31%) JavaScript
5 89 (5.76%) C#
6 75 (4.85%) PowerShell
7 53 (3.43%) Bash
8 48 (3.10%) Shell Script
8 48 (3.10%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.49%) Scala
10 21 (1.36%) C++
10 21 (1.36%) PHP
11 20 (1.29%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.84%) ABAP
12 13 (0.84%) Apex Code
12 13 (0.84%) Go
13 10 (0.65%) Perl
13 10 (0.65%) Ruby
14 9 (0.58%) Groovy
14 9 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 248 (16.04%) Degree
2 219 (14.17%) Security Cleared
3 185 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 95 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.04%) AWS Certification
6 37 (2.39%) CISSP
7 33 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 33 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (1.88%) PMI Certification
9 27 (1.75%) Master's Degree
10 25 (1.62%) PMP
11 23 (1.49%) CCNP
11 23 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
12 21 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.23%) Azure Certification
14 19 (1.23%) CISM
15 12 (0.78%) CCNA
15 12 (0.78%) DV Cleared
16 8 (0.52%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (6.86%) QA
2 70 (4.53%) Data Quality
3 53 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 47 (3.04%) GDPR
5 25 (1.62%) PMO
6 24 (1.55%) SLA
7 21 (1.36%) NIST
8 20 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.78%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
11 9 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.45%) Basel II
14 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.39%) WCAG
15 5 (0.32%) GxP
15 5 (0.32%) MiFID
16 4 (0.26%) GRC
16 4 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 105 (6.79%) Docker
2 72 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.52%) GridGain
6 7 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.26%) Firmware
8 4 (0.26%) RACF
8 4 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.26%) vSphere
9 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.13%) NFS
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.065%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 116 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 87 (5.63%) Terraform
3 69 (4.46%) Ansible
4 32 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (1.94%) Grafana
6 24 (1.55%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.91%) Puppet
8 13 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.52%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (0.32%) Packer
12 5 (0.32%) Perfmon
12 5 (0.32%) SCCM
12 5 (0.32%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 4 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.26%) Istio
13 4 (0.26%) Kibana
13 4 (0.26%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 226 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 113 (7.31%) Oracle
3 105 (6.79%) SAP
4 55 (3.56%) ServiceNow
5 43 (2.78%) Google
5 43 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 43 (2.78%) Sybase
6 35 (2.26%) Cisco
7 32 (2.07%) Databricks
8 28 (1.81%) VMware
9 25 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 25 (1.62%) Splunk
10 24 (1.55%) IBM
11 21 (1.36%) Workday
12 19 (1.23%) CyberArk
13 12 (0.78%) Zscaler
14 11 (0.71%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.65%) Adobe
15 10 (0.65%) Juniper
16 9 (0.58%) Citrix