Creative Problem-Solving Contracts in England

Creative Problem-Solving
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Creative Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 578 665
Rank change year-on-year +99 +87 -85
Contract jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 52 68 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 53 72
10th Percentile £239 £225 £329
25th Percentile £378 £419 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £675
90th Percentile - £675 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £528 £563
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.22% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £21.08 -
25th Percentile - £27.78 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £39.56 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.03% -16.72% -13.64%
75th Percentile - £51.97 £48.75
90th Percentile - £59.04 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £39.56 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.03% -16.72% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Creative 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in England

Creative Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
South West +29 27 £435 -20.91% 11
London +82 21 £663 +25.89% 50
South East +15 1 - - 31
East of England +8 1 £625 +184.09% 4
Creative Problem-Solving
UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (13.46%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (48.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (48.08%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (46.15%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (46.15%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.85%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (3.85%) InDesign
3 2 (3.85%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.92%) InVision
4 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.92%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) Azure
2 8 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (1.92%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.92%) Figma
4 1 (1.92%) GitHub
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.92%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.92%) SaaS
4 1 (1.92%) Serverless
4 1 (1.92%) ShareGate
4 1 (1.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (1.92%) Network Security
2 1 (1.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.92%) Big Data
2 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.92%) MS Access
2 1 (1.92%) Power BI
2 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Navigator
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) Grunt
2 1 (1.92%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.92%) Subversion
2 1 (1.92%) Toad
2 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (65.38%) Social Skills
2 31 (59.62%) Finance
3 30 (57.69%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Marketing
6 4 (7.69%) Advertising
7 2 (3.85%) Front Office
7 2 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.92%) Automotive
8 1 (1.92%) Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.92%) French Language
8 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.92%) Law
8 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (46.15%) Lead
1 24 (46.15%) Project Leader
2 6 (11.54%) Product Owner
3 5 (9.62%) Analyst
3 5 (9.62%) Developer
4 4 (7.69%) Digital Product Owner
4 4 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (3.85%) Architect
5 2 (3.85%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.85%) Consultant
5 2 (3.85%) Data Analyst
5 2 (3.85%) Designer
5 2 (3.85%) Senior Designer
6 1 (1.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (1.92%) Business Manager
6 1 (1.92%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (1.92%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 1 (1.92%) Principal Architect
6 1 (1.92%) Senior Architect
6 1 (1.92%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) HTML
1 6 (11.54%) React
2 4 (7.69%) CSS
2 4 (7.69%) GeoPandas
2 4 (7.69%) TensorFlow
3 2 (3.85%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) HTML5
3 2 (3.85%) jQuery
3 2 (3.85%) Matplotlib
3 2 (3.85%) Node.js
3 2 (3.85%) NumPy
3 2 (3.85%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.85%) RESTful
3 2 (3.85%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.92%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.92%) Framer.js
4 1 (1.92%) Redux
4 1 (1.92%) Sass
4 1 (1.92%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.92%) Animation
3 1 (1.92%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (1.92%) Life Science
3 1 (1.92%) Social Media
3 1 (1.92%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (1.92%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (69.23%) Agile
3 30 (57.69%) Workshop Facilitation
4 25 (48.08%) Project Management
4 25 (48.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (46.15%) Commercial Awareness
5 24 (46.15%) Data Management
5 24 (46.15%) PRINCE2
5 24 (46.15%) Project Delivery
5 24 (46.15%) Project Planning
5 24 (46.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 9 (17.31%) DevOps
7 8 (15.38%) Workflow
8 7 (13.46%) Business Case
9 6 (11.54%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 6 (11.54%) Backlog Refinement
9 6 (11.54%) Product Backlog
9 6 (11.54%) Product Requirements
9 6 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (11.54%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
2 6 (11.54%) SQL
3 4 (7.69%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) R
4 2 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
5 1 (1.92%) C++
5 1 (1.92%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (46.15%) APMP
2 24 (46.15%) DV Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) MBA
5 1 (1.92%) PhD
5 1 (1.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (46.15%) PMO
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) SEPA
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) TARGET2
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (51.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) ESRI
3 2 (3.85%) Adobe
4 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow