Problem-Solving Contracts in Edinburgh

Problem Solving
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 31 25
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 107 84 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.30% 7.11% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.48% 7.56% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 59 101
10th Percentile £240 £169 £160
25th Percentile £415 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +14.72% +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £538
90th Percentile £634 £590 £615
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 4
10th Percentile £12.00 £21.30 £26.41
25th Percentile £13.38 £21.36 £39.16
Median hourly rate £17.00 £21.47 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% -54.81% -
75th Percentile £18.38 £21.57 £50.50
90th Percentile £18.75 £21.63 £53.65
Scotland median hourly rate £16.67 £21.47 £47.50
% change year-on-year -22.34% -54.81% +265.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 1,111 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.94% 93.99% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 775 1,224
10th Percentile £215 £225 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £570
90th Percentile £655 £605 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Edinburgh

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 9 (8.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.95%) AWS
2 12 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (9.35%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.48%) Azure
4 8 (7.48%) OCI
5 7 (6.54%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (6.54%) Power Automate
5 7 (6.54%) PowerApps
6 6 (5.61%) GCP
6 6 (5.61%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.61%) SaaS
7 3 (2.80%) Adverity
7 3 (2.80%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (2.80%) Google Sheets
7 3 (2.80%) Sprout Social
8 2 (1.87%) PaaS
9 1 (0.93%) Figma
9 1 (0.93%) IBM Blueworks
9 1 (0.93%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) Firewall
2 8 (7.48%) SAN
3 4 (3.74%) VSAN
4 3 (2.80%) Internet
4 3 (2.80%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.87%) IPsec
5 2 (1.87%) VPN
6 1 (0.93%) BGP
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.93%) IPv4
6 1 (0.93%) IPv6
6 1 (0.93%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) Metadata
1 10 (9.35%) Oracle Database
2 6 (5.61%) Power BI
3 4 (3.74%) Big Data
4 3 (2.80%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.80%) Tableau
5 2 (1.87%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (10.28%) Oracle APEX
2 10 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.41%) Gradle
4 7 (6.54%) Maven
5 6 (5.61%) Git
6 5 (4.67%) JIRA
7 3 (2.80%) JMeter
7 3 (2.80%) LoadRunner
7 3 (2.80%) Selenium
8 2 (1.87%) JUnit
General
1 55 (51.40%) Analytical Skills
2 49 (45.79%) Social Skills
3 32 (29.91%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.28%) Finance
5 6 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.67%) Banking
7 4 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Publishing
8 2 (1.87%) German Language
8 2 (1.87%) Legal
8 2 (1.87%) Marketing
8 2 (1.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) French Language
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (12.15%) Senior
2 11 (10.28%) Analyst
3 10 (9.35%) Developer
3 10 (9.35%) IT Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Designer
4 8 (7.48%) Field Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Field Service Engineer
5 6 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.61%) Project Manager
5 6 (5.61%) Site Manager
5 6 (5.61%) Site Reliability Manager
6 5 (4.67%) Consultant
7 4 (3.74%) Architect
7 4 (3.74%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Coordinator
7 4 (3.74%) Lead
7 4 (3.74%) Service Designer
8 3 (2.80%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (2.80%) Social Media Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) CSS
1 6 (5.61%) HTML
2 5 (4.67%) RESTful
3 4 (3.74%) React
4 3 (2.80%) .NET
4 3 (2.80%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (2.80%) Kafka
4 3 (2.80%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.80%) Spring
4 3 (2.80%) Spring Batch
4 3 (2.80%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.80%) Web Services
4 3 (2.80%) XML
5 2 (1.87%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (1.87%) Dagger
5 2 (1.87%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.87%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.87%) Retrofit
6 1 (0.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.08%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (4.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.67%) PKI
4 4 (3.74%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.80%) Social Media
6 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.87%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.87%) Tandem
7 1 (0.93%) BYOD
7 1 (0.93%) iPad
7 1 (0.93%) iPhone
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.02%) Windows
2 7 (6.54%) Linux
3 6 (5.61%) Unix
4 3 (2.80%) Android
4 3 (2.80%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Solaris
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.69%) Computer Science
2 19 (17.76%) Migration
3 14 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (11.21%) Agile
4 12 (11.21%) Analytics
4 12 (11.21%) Customer Service
4 12 (11.21%) Performance Tuning
5 11 (10.28%) Change Management
6 10 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (8.41%) SQL Optimisation
8 8 (7.48%) Data Management
9 7 (6.54%) Break/Fix
9 7 (6.54%) Data Protection
9 7 (6.54%) DevOps
9 7 (6.54%) ERP
9 7 (6.54%) Security Testing
10 6 (5.61%) Application Security
10 6 (5.61%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.95%) SQL
2 13 (12.15%) Python
3 11 (10.28%) PL/SQL
4 6 (5.61%) Bash
4 6 (5.61%) Groovy
4 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.61%) Ruby
4 6 (5.61%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.74%) Java
5 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.87%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (24.30%) Degree
2 19 (17.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (12.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (9.35%) MCSE
5 9 (8.41%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (7.48%) A+ Certification
6 8 (7.48%) CCNA
6 8 (7.48%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.80%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.80%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.93%) CCNP
10 1 (0.93%) CCSA
10 1 (0.93%) CCSE
10 1 (0.93%) HND
10 1 (0.93%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.28%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.87%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.87%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.93%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.61%) Active Directory
1 6 (5.61%) Docker
1 6 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.74%) vSphere
3 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) Firmware
4 1 (0.93%) KVM
Systems Management
1 11 (10.28%) Terraform
2 10 (9.35%) Ansible
3 7 (6.54%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.74%) vCenter Server
4 4 (3.74%) VxRail
5 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (19.63%) Oracle
2 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.21%) Dell
4 6 (5.61%) VMware
5 4 (3.74%) Cisco
5 4 (3.74%) Google
5 4 (3.74%) Nintex
6 3 (2.80%) Brandwatch
6 3 (2.80%) Facebook
6 3 (2.80%) Hootsuite
6 3 (2.80%) Instagram
6 3 (2.80%) Twitter
6 3 (2.80%) YouTube
7 2 (1.87%) HP
7 2 (1.87%) Okta
7 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.93%) Citrix
8 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.93%) Samsung