Problem-Solving Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Problem Solving
South East > Buckinghamshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 14 19
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 45 100 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.45% 11.86% 9.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.42% 12.59% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 86 54
10th Percentile £175 £254 £181
25th Percentile £355 £361 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £493
90th Percentile £625 £740 £555
South East median daily rate £475 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -8.65% +9.47% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £9.50 £10.00
Median hourly rate £12.82 £10.00 £11.36
Median % change year-on-year +28.20% -11.97% -
75th Percentile - £10.50 £12.05
90th Percentile - - £13.07
South East median hourly rate £19.38 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -66.30% +27.78% +132.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 394 794 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 82.77% 94.19% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 642 580
10th Percentile £251 £278 £225
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% - +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £563
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 42
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.18 £10.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £11.19 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.00 £13.75 £11.78
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +16.77% -9.28%
75th Percentile £28.75 £16.69 £13.56
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.93 £24.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Buckinghamshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Milton Keynes -3 35 £460 -0.01% 71
Buckingham - 1 £418 - 3
High Wycombe - 1 - - 11
Marlow - 1 £500 - 1
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.67%) Appian
2 3 (6.67%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) PaaS
2 4 (8.89%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (6.67%) AWS
3 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.44%) Azure API Management
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.44%) Serverless
4 2 (4.44%) Slack
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.22%) dbt
5 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) DHCP
1 4 (8.89%) DNS
2 3 (6.67%) VPN
3 2 (4.44%) VSAN
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.22%) Firewall
4 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (6.67%) Power BI
1 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.44%) Power Query
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) Postman
3 2 (4.44%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
General
1 25 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 16 (35.56%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Retail
4 4 (8.89%) Marketing
5 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Finance
6 2 (4.44%) Military
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Automotive
7 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Analyst
2 6 (13.33%) Coordinator
3 4 (8.89%) Business Analyst
3 4 (8.89%) Developer
3 4 (8.89%) Service Analyst
3 4 (8.89%) Technical Coordinator
3 4 (8.89%) Technical Support
4 3 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Security Operations Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) C# Developer
5 2 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Developer
5 2 (4.44%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Test Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (4.44%) Loki
1 2 (4.44%) OpenAPI
1 2 (4.44%) Swagger
2 1 (2.22%) ADO
2 1 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) PKI
2 3 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) NHS
4 1 (2.22%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Windows
2 5 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Agile
2 9 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 7 (15.56%) ITIL
3 7 (15.56%) Migration
4 6 (13.33%) Data Analysis
4 6 (13.33%) Release Management
5 5 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 5 (11.11%) Defect Management
5 5 (11.11%) DevOps
5 5 (11.11%) Process Improvement
5 5 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 4 (8.89%) B2B
6 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
6 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (8.89%) Data Modelling
6 4 (8.89%) Project Management
6 4 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (8.89%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) SQL
2 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.89%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) Bash
3 2 (4.44%) C#
3 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 14 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 12 (26.67%) DV Cleared
4 8 (17.78%) Degree
5 3 (6.67%) ISEB
6 2 (4.44%) VCAP
6 2 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.22%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) BitLocker
2 2 (4.44%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Argo
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Kustomize
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.44%) SCCM
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.67%) Splunk
4 2 (4.44%) Apple
4 2 (4.44%) HP
4 2 (4.44%) McAfee
4 2 (4.44%) MobileIron
4 2 (4.44%) VMware
5 1 (2.22%) Adobe
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Informatica