Problem-Solving Contracts in the Thames Valley

Problem Solving
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 10 20
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 346 324 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.26% 11.51% 8.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.22% 12.64% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 226 182
10th Percentile £205 £300 £191
25th Percentile £235 £400 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £554
90th Percentile £665 £688 £640
South East median daily rate £475 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -8.65% +9.47% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 4
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.60 £11.57
25th Percentile £14.50 £31.66 £11.88
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.48 £12.78
Median % change year-on-year -17.44% +302.97% +25.37%
75th Percentile £61.60 £63.14 £30.41
90th Percentile - £67.54 £60.41
South East median hourly rate £19.38 £57.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -66.30% +21.05% +138.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,564 3,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.09% 91.12% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,770 2,157
10th Percentile £213 £320 £227
25th Percentile £370 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.99% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +1.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 64 87
10th Percentile £14.17 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.13 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.05 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +200.29% -19.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.42
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the Thames Valley

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 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
Berkshire +5 278 £513 -2.38% 142
Buckinghamshire -1 45 £450 -10.00% 107
Oxfordshire +8 23 £365 -18.89% 107
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.02%) Confluence
2 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.16%) SAS
3 4 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.87%) Appian
5 2 (0.58%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) Moodle
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 58 (16.76%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.16%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.87%) SPSS
5 2 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.58%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (3.18%) Oracle EBS R12
1 11 (3.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.31%) Teamcenter
4 6 (1.73%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.45%) Maximo
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.29%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.29%) Magento
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle AGIS
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.29%) PeopleSoft HRMS
7 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (16.18%) Azure
2 23 (6.65%) Snowflake
3 18 (5.20%) AWS
4 14 (4.05%) OCI
5 10 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.31%) Power Platform
7 6 (1.73%) PaaS
8 5 (1.45%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.87%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.87%) SaaS
10 3 (0.87%) Serverless
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (0.58%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.58%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.38%) Firewall
2 21 (6.07%) LAN
3 20 (5.78%) DHCP
3 20 (5.78%) DNS
4 15 (4.34%) SAN
5 10 (2.89%) WAN
6 8 (2.31%) 5G
7 7 (2.02%) 3G
7 7 (2.02%) 4G
8 6 (1.73%) Radio Access Network
9 5 (1.45%) Network Security
10 4 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.16%) Internet
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.87%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.87%) VPN
12 2 (0.58%) Intranet
12 2 (0.58%) VSAN
12 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.38%) Tableau
2 12 (3.47%) Oracle Database
3 10 (2.89%) SAP HANA
4 8 (2.31%) Power BI
5 7 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.16%) Power Query
8 3 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.29%) Big Data
9 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.29%) OLAP
9 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.29%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (10.40%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.51%) JIRA
2 26 (7.51%) Selenium
3 25 (7.23%) Cucumber
3 25 (7.23%) SonarQube
4 24 (6.94%) REST Assured
5 15 (4.34%) Git
6 13 (3.76%) GitLab
7 9 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (2.02%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.87%) Postman
9 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.29%) CMake
10 1 (0.29%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.29%) Maven
10 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
General
1 207 (59.83%) Social Skills
2 137 (39.60%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (11.27%) Finance
4 36 (10.40%) Organisational Skills
5 35 (10.12%) Telecoms
6 25 (7.23%) Legal
7 21 (6.07%) Law
7 21 (6.07%) Marketing
7 21 (6.07%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (3.76%) Police
9 13 (3.76%) Retail
10 7 (2.02%) Military
11 5 (1.45%) Banking
11 5 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.87%) Billing
13 1 (0.29%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 76 (21.97%) Analyst
2 39 (11.27%) Senior
3 37 (10.69%) Consultant
4 24 (6.94%) Lead
5 23 (6.65%) Developer
5 23 (6.65%) Support Engineer
6 18 (5.20%) 1st Line Support
6 18 (5.20%) Data Analyst
7 17 (4.91%) Java Engineer
8 16 (4.62%) Administrator
8 16 (4.62%) Desktop Engineer
8 16 (4.62%) Desktop Support
8 16 (4.62%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 16 (4.62%) Functional Consultant
8 16 (4.62%) Hardware Engineer
9 15 (4.34%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
9 15 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.34%) Project Manager
10 14 (4.05%) Business Analyst
11 13 (3.76%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.51%) REST
2 25 (7.23%) Java EE
3 12 (3.47%) ARM Templates
4 11 (3.18%) SAP Basis
5 10 (2.89%) .NET
5 10 (2.89%) ASP.NET
6 8 (2.31%) Itk
7 7 (2.02%) HTML
7 7 (2.02%) SAP Fiori
8 5 (1.45%) CSS
9 4 (1.16%) Web Services
10 3 (0.87%) D3.js
10 3 (0.87%) EDI
11 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (0.58%) Flash
11 2 (0.58%) Fluent Bit
11 2 (0.58%) Loki
11 2 (0.58%) React
11 2 (0.58%) Swagger
11 2 (0.58%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.96%) Driving Licence
2 18 (5.20%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.62%) Credit Risk
4 10 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.73%) Life Science
6 5 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.45%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.45%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.16%) PKI
8 3 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.87%) CCTV
8 3 (0.87%) NHS
8 3 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.87%) SCADA
8 3 (0.87%) Social Media
9 2 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.58%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (22.54%) Windows
2 48 (13.87%) Windows 10
3 31 (8.96%) Windows 7
4 25 (7.23%) Linux
4 25 (7.23%) Windows Server
5 24 (6.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (6.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (4.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (4.05%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.58%) Solaris
9 2 (0.58%) VMS
10 1 (0.29%) Android
10 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.29%) Unix
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (19.36%) Decision-Making
2 65 (18.79%) ITIL
3 48 (13.87%) DevOps
3 48 (13.87%) Project Management
4 46 (13.29%) Agile
4 46 (13.29%) Customer Service
5 43 (12.43%) Service Delivery
6 33 (9.54%) Analytics
7 32 (9.25%) Technical Leadership
8 30 (8.67%) Change Management
9 29 (8.38%) Test Automation
10 28 (8.09%) Continuous Integration
11 27 (7.80%) Software Engineering
12 25 (7.23%) Actionable Insight
12 25 (7.23%) Software Architecture
13 24 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (6.94%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (5.49%) Migration
14 19 (5.49%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.09%) Java
1 28 (8.09%) PowerShell
2 18 (5.20%) SQL
3 14 (4.05%) Python
4 12 (3.47%) C#
5 9 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.02%) C++
7 6 (1.73%) C
8 4 (1.16%) R
9 3 (0.87%) Bash
9 3 (0.87%) F#
10 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.58%) PHP
11 1 (0.29%) Perl
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 131 (37.86%) Security Cleared
2 87 (25.14%) Degree
3 71 (20.52%) DV Cleared
3 71 (20.52%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.91%) CCNA
4 17 (4.91%) CCNP
4 17 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.87%) A+ Certification
7 3 (0.87%) ISEB
7 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.58%) MBA
8 2 (0.58%) VCAP
8 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.29%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.80%) SLA
2 13 (3.76%) QA
3 9 (2.60%) GDPR
4 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.58%) HL7
4 2 (0.58%) PMO
5 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) ITGC
5 1 (0.29%) NIST
5 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (7.23%) Active Directory
1 25 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (4.91%) Docker
3 16 (4.62%) Firmware
4 15 (4.34%) Hyper-V
5 14 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.31%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.58%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.58%) KVM
7 2 (0.58%) vSphere
8 1 (0.29%) NFS
8 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (13.87%) SCCM
2 37 (10.69%) Ansible
3 19 (5.49%) Kubernetes
4 16 (4.62%) SCOM
5 15 (4.34%) NetBackup
5 15 (4.34%) Terraform
6 14 (4.05%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (4.05%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.05%) WSUS
7 12 (3.47%) Docker Swarm
7 12 (3.47%) Podman
8 2 (0.58%) Argo
8 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.58%) Grafana
8 2 (0.58%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.29%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 104 (30.06%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.58%) HP
3 43 (12.43%) Oracle
4 25 (7.23%) VMware
5 24 (6.94%) Alteryx
6 23 (6.65%) Cisco
7 20 (5.78%) Juniper
8 18 (5.20%) Palo Alto
9 15 (4.34%) 3PAR
10 14 (4.05%) Dell
10 14 (4.05%) EMC
10 14 (4.05%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (4.05%) Symantec
10 14 (4.05%) Veeam
11 11 (3.18%) SAP
12 8 (2.31%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.73%) OneTrust
14 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
15 4 (1.16%) CheckPoint
15 4 (1.16%) Workday