Problem-Solving Contracts in Milton Keynes

Problem Solving
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 16 16 19
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 34 79 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 8.54% 10.70% 9.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.15% 11.24% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 65 52
10th Percentile £223 £290 £161
25th Percentile £397 £370 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £489
90th Percentile £625 £675 £555
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.33% -5.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £14.54 - £11.50
25th Percentile £17.12 £9.50 £11.71
Median hourly rate £21.41 £10.00 £12.05
Median % change year-on-year +114.10% -17.01% -
75th Percentile £25.71 £10.50 £12.90
90th Percentile £28.28 - £13.41
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £21.41 £10.00 £12.05
% change year-on-year +114.10% -17.01% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 335 703 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 84.17% 95.26% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 566 551
10th Percentile £280 £313 £235
25th Percentile £400 £407 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £665 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £474 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.69% +2.63% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 37
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.31 £10.54
25th Percentile £17.64 £11.54 £10.77
Median hourly rate £23.22 £13.57 £11.36
Median % change year-on-year +71.08% +19.45% -12.48%
75th Percentile £30.00 £16.16 £13.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.71 £17.10
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £25.00 £13.57 £12.18
% change year-on-year +84.23% +11.41% -6.31%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Milton Keynes

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (11.76%) Confluence
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) Appian
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (8.82%) PaaS
3 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.88%) dbt
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.88%) Slack
5 1 (2.94%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DHCP
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) VSAN
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) VPN
3 1 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.88%) Big Data
2 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.88%) Power Query
2 2 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Postman
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Marketing
3 4 (11.76%) Retail
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Military
6 1 (2.94%) Automotive
6 1 (2.94%) Finance
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Analyst
1 6 (17.65%) Coordinator
2 4 (11.76%) Senior
2 4 (11.76%) Technical Coordinator
2 4 (11.76%) Technical Support
3 3 (8.82%) Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Data Modeller
4 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Service Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Fluent Bit
1 2 (5.88%) Loki
1 2 (5.88%) Snowpark
2 1 (2.94%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) PKI
2 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Agile
2 7 (20.59%) ITIL
2 7 (20.59%) Problem Management
3 6 (17.65%) Release Management
4 5 (14.71%) Data Modelling
4 5 (14.71%) Process Improvement
5 4 (11.76%) B2B
5 4 (11.76%) B2C
5 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.76%) Defect Management
5 4 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 4 (11.76%) Migration
5 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.82%) Customer Service
6 3 (8.82%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (8.82%) DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (8.82%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.65%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) Bash
4 2 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (29.41%) DV Cleared
4 8 (23.53%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) VCAP
5 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.94%) ACSP
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.88%) vSphere
3 1 (2.94%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) Argo
2 2 (5.88%) Grafana
2 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Kustomize
2 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.88%) Apple
3 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) HP
4 1 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (2.94%) McAfee
4 1 (2.94%) MobileIron