Problem-Solving Contracts in Devon

Problem Solving
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 20 27
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 32 16 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 13.01% 7.17% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.08% 8.04% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 3
10th Percentile £186 £131 £303
25th Percentile £197 £300 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £556
90th Percentile - £581 £568
South West median daily rate £478 £554 £550
% change year-on-year -13.77% +0.68% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £21.64 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -60.65% +22.56%
South West median hourly rate £28.00 £62.50 £56.32
% change year-on-year -55.20% +10.98% +12.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 199 199 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 80.89% 89.24% 86.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 157 137
10th Percentile £330 £350 £235
25th Percentile £406 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £532
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +8.05% +13.23%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £674
90th Percentile £685 £700 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 9
10th Percentile £38.25 £17.41 £11.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.99 £12.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £42.50 £52.50
90th Percentile - £62.38 £53.20
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +36.84%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Devon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Devon

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Devon over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Devon

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Devon

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Exeter +6 14 £538 +26.47% 17
Plymouth -4 9 £195 -48.00% 9
Problem-Solving
South West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) VLAN
1 2 (6.25%) VPN
1 2 (6.25%) Wireless
2 1 (3.13%) NAS
2 1 (3.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 21 (65.63%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Legal
3 4 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Police
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) IT Support
3 6 (18.75%) Support Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Test Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Test Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) IT Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) IT Operations Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Operational Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Operations Support Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.25%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) IT Support Specialist
6 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Support Specialist
6 2 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (3.13%) Flask
2 1 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Hackathon
1 2 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
1 4 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Agile
2 7 (21.88%) BDD
2 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
2 7 (21.88%) Software Testing
2 7 (21.88%) TDD
2 7 (21.88%) Test Management
2 7 (21.88%) Test Strategy
3 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
3 6 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
3 6 (18.75%) Performance Testing
3 6 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
3 6 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 4 (12.50%) Hardware Maintenance
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) Change Management
5 3 (9.38%) Data Science
5 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
6 2 (6.25%) Design Thinking
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) CCNA
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.13%) CCNP
6 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (3.13%) Postgraduate
6 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Grafana
1 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Splunk
1 4 (12.50%) Tanium
2 2 (6.25%) Aruba
2 2 (6.25%) EMC
2 2 (6.25%) NetApp
3 1 (3.13%) Dell
3 1 (3.13%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Veeam
3 1 (3.13%) VMware