Problem-Solving Contracts in the UK excluding London

Problem Solving
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 13 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 2,373 2,321 2,446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.59% 9.93% 8.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.72% 11.10% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 1,423 1,428
10th Percentile £200 £204 £185
25th Percentile £323 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +8.70% +8.24%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.38% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 203 223
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.85 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £40.59 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.05% +125.50% -
75th Percentile £31.22 £61.25 £46.21
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £55.82
UK median hourly rate £16.50 £48.40 £21.75
% change year-on-year -65.91% +122.53% +8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the UK excluding London

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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 East 0 615 £475 -9.52% 974
North of England +9 577 £493 -1.40% 1,052
South West +17 335 £500 -7.41% 530
Midlands -1 307 £450 -5.26% 798
North West +10 295 £493 +9.56% 589
Yorkshire +8 248 £475 -13.64% 340
East of England +4 238 £500 +8.11% 508
Scotland +11 223 £475 - 257
West Midlands -2 198 £500 - 491
East Midlands +6 105 £350 - 308
Wales +6 60 £450 -13.98% 119
North East +24 35 £575 +84.44% 136
Northern Ireland +3 22 £435 +82.20% 53
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 7
Problem-Solving
UK

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 52 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 51 (2.15%) Confluence
3 35 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.42%) CMS
5 9 (0.38%) nginx
6 8 (0.34%) Apache
7 7 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.21%) SAS
8 5 (0.21%) WordPress
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.17%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.13%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 203 (8.55%) Microsoft Office
2 183 (7.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 91 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (1.98%) Spreadsheet
5 45 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.38%) Acrobat
6 9 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.29%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.25%) Maya
9 5 (0.21%) Simulink
10 4 (0.17%) SPSS
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.13%) Blender
12 2 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.084%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.084%) InfoPath
12 2 (0.084%) InVision
12 2 (0.084%) Sketch
12 2 (0.084%) Trello
12 2 (0.084%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 45 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
4 12 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.38%) SAP HCM
5 9 (0.38%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.38%) SAP PM
6 8 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.34%) Teamcenter
7 7 (0.29%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.29%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 6 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.21%) Maximo
9 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.21%) Odoo
9 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.21%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 295 (12.43%) Azure
2 170 (7.16%) AWS
3 151 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
4 105 (4.42%) Power Platform
5 59 (2.49%) GCP
6 47 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
7 43 (1.81%) Snowflake
8 34 (1.43%) OCI
8 34 (1.43%) SaaS
9 33 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (1.05%) Entra ID
11 23 (0.97%) PowerApps
12 20 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
13 19 (0.80%) PaaS
14 18 (0.76%) GitHub
15 17 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (0.67%) Serverless
17 15 (0.63%) IaaS
17 15 (0.63%) Power Automate
18 11 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 137 (5.77%) Firewall
2 89 (3.75%) LAN
3 79 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
4 70 (2.95%) WAN
5 64 (2.70%) VPN
6 61 (2.57%) DNS
7 49 (2.06%) Network Security
8 47 (1.98%) DHCP
9 44 (1.85%) SAN
10 29 (1.22%) Wireless
11 28 (1.18%) Internet
11 28 (1.18%) TCP/IP
12 17 (0.72%) OSPF
13 16 (0.67%) 5G
14 15 (0.63%) VoIP
15 14 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (0.59%) Remote Desktop
16 13 (0.55%) HTTP
16 13 (0.55%) VLAN
17 12 (0.51%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (3.62%) Power BI
2 56 (2.36%) Tableau
3 46 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 41 (1.73%) Oracle Database
5 33 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (1.35%) Data Lake
7 28 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 22 (0.93%) Big Data
9 21 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 20 (0.84%) Metadata
10 20 (0.84%) MySQL
11 13 (0.55%) SAP HANA
12 12 (0.51%) Data Mining
13 11 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (0.46%) Hadoop
14 10 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.42%) GIS
14 10 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (0.42%) Power Query
15 8 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 155 (6.53%) JIRA
2 103 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.24%) Git
4 38 (1.60%) Selenium
5 31 (1.31%) Cucumber
5 31 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 29 (1.22%) GitLab
6 29 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
7 28 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 25 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 24 (1.01%) REST Assured
10 17 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
10 17 (0.72%) Visual Studio
11 13 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
12 12 (0.51%) Maven
13 10 (0.42%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.42%) Gradle
13 10 (0.42%) Travis CI
14 8 (0.34%) JMeter
15 7 (0.29%) JUnit
General
1 1,398 (58.91%) Social Skills
2 930 (39.19%) Analytical Skills
3 322 (13.57%) Finance
4 197 (8.30%) Public Sector
5 119 (5.01%) Organisational Skills
6 95 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 83 (3.50%) Legal
8 79 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 78 (3.29%) Manufacturing
10 72 (3.03%) Marketing
11 67 (2.82%) Banking
12 46 (1.94%) Aerospace
13 44 (1.85%) Law
13 44 (1.85%) Retail
14 38 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
15 32 (1.35%) Police
16 29 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
18 25 (1.05%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 392 (16.52%) Analyst
2 230 (9.69%) Developer
3 174 (7.33%) Architect
4 165 (6.95%) Senior
5 133 (5.60%) Lead
6 128 (5.39%) Consultant
7 114 (4.80%) Service Analyst
7 114 (4.80%) Support Engineer
8 111 (4.68%) Project Manager
9 97 (4.09%) Service Desk Analyst
10 87 (3.67%) IT Support
11 85 (3.58%) IT Engineer
12 81 (3.41%) Business Analyst
12 81 (3.41%) Network Engineer
13 75 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
14 65 (2.74%) Service Desk Agent
15 63 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 62 (2.61%) Administrator
17 58 (2.44%) Data Analyst
18 53 (2.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (3.29%) .NET
2 57 (2.40%) HTML
2 57 (2.40%) REST
3 55 (2.32%) CSS
4 51 (2.15%) React
5 34 (1.43%) AngularJS
6 31 (1.31%) Spring
7 30 (1.26%) JSON
8 27 (1.14%) Web Services
9 26 (1.10%) .NET Core
10 25 (1.05%) Java EE
10 25 (1.05%) Kafka
11 24 (1.01%) ASP.NET
12 19 (0.80%) XML
13 17 (0.72%) RESTful
13 17 (0.72%) YAML
14 15 (0.63%) Middleware
15 13 (0.55%) DirectX
15 13 (0.55%) OpenGL
15 13 (0.55%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 117 (4.93%) Management Information System
2 96 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
3 91 (3.83%) Product Ownership
4 82 (3.46%) Data Centre
5 67 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 58 (2.44%) Driving Licence
7 46 (1.94%) Virtual Team
8 40 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.10%) CMDB
10 23 (0.97%) Algorithms
10 23 (0.97%) Credit Risk
11 22 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (0.93%) NHS
11 22 (0.93%) Onboarding
12 16 (0.67%) Life Science
12 16 (0.67%) Mobile App
12 16 (0.67%) Operational Technology
12 16 (0.67%) PKI
13 14 (0.59%) Data Structures
13 14 (0.59%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 351 (14.79%) Windows
2 153 (6.45%) Windows 10
3 148 (6.24%) Linux
4 81 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 51 (2.15%) Windows 7
6 48 (2.02%) Unix
7 40 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 38 (1.60%) Android
9 35 (1.47%) Apple iOS
10 33 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
11 31 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 23 (0.97%) Mac OS
13 17 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 15 (0.63%) Windows XP
15 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
16 7 (0.29%) CentOS
17 5 (0.21%) AIX
17 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.21%) Windows 8
18 4 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (17.40%) Agile
2 377 (15.89%) Customer Service
3 351 (14.79%) Project Management
4 269 (11.34%) ITIL
5 263 (11.08%) Decision-Making
6 225 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 211 (8.89%) DevOps
8 203 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 196 (8.26%) Migration
10 185 (7.80%) Computer Science
11 175 (7.37%) Service Delivery
12 137 (5.77%) Change Management
13 133 (5.60%) Analytics
14 129 (5.44%) Project Delivery
15 123 (5.18%) Time Management
16 119 (5.01%) Service Management
17 116 (4.89%) Incident Management
18 114 (4.80%) CI/CD
19 111 (4.68%) Business Intelligence
19 111 (4.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 191 (8.05%) SQL
2 183 (7.71%) Python
3 141 (5.94%) Java
4 122 (5.14%) PowerShell
5 85 (3.58%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.03%) C
7 67 (2.82%) C#
8 51 (2.15%) C++
9 50 (2.11%) Bash
10 29 (1.22%) TypeScript
11 27 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 27 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 19 (0.80%) PHP
13 18 (0.76%) Perl
14 13 (0.55%) Tcl
15 12 (0.51%) Ruby
16 11 (0.46%) ABAP
16 11 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 11 (0.46%) Go
16 11 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 579 (24.40%) Security Cleared
2 459 (19.34%) Degree
3 377 (15.89%) SC Cleared
4 192 (8.09%) DV Cleared
5 133 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 88 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
7 61 (2.57%) CCNP
8 60 (2.53%) CCNA
9 57 (2.40%) Master's Degree
10 56 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (1.39%) A+ Certification
13 30 (1.26%) HND
14 27 (1.14%) PMP
15 25 (1.05%) APMP
15 25 (1.05%) HNC
16 23 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.88%) PMI Certification
18 20 (0.84%) CISSP
19 19 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (7.33%) SLA
2 120 (5.06%) QA
3 59 (2.49%) PMO
4 52 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 41 (1.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 36 (1.52%) GDPR
7 19 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.51%) NIST
9 8 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.34%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.29%) GxP
10 7 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.21%) GAMP
11 5 (0.21%) HL7
12 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.13%) IASME
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.13%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 174 (7.33%) Active Directory
2 128 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (2.44%) Docker
4 53 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 35 (1.47%) vSphere
6 29 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (1.14%) Firmware
8 17 (0.72%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.51%) KVM
10 11 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
12 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 4 (0.17%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.17%) VMware Server
14 3 (0.13%) HDFS
14 3 (0.13%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.13%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 109 (4.59%) SCCM
2 104 (4.38%) Ansible
3 62 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 62 (2.61%) Terraform
4 47 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (1.81%) vCenter Server
6 20 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
6 20 (0.84%) PowerCLI
7 18 (0.76%) NetBackup
7 18 (0.76%) SCOM
7 18 (0.76%) WSUS
8 15 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (0.55%) Grafana
9 13 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.51%) Podman
10 12 (0.51%) Puppet
11 11 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.42%) Kibana
12 10 (0.42%) logstash
13 9 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 562 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 138 (5.82%) VMware
3 124 (5.23%) Oracle
4 115 (4.85%) SAP
5 100 (4.21%) Cisco
6 80 (3.37%) HP
7 66 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.40%) Dell
9 52 (2.19%) Juniper
10 49 (2.06%) Citrix
11 47 (1.98%) Google
12 40 (1.69%) Splunk
13 36 (1.52%) Salesforce
14 34 (1.43%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.31%) Alteryx
16 29 (1.22%) IBM
17 26 (1.10%) Atlassian
18 25 (1.05%) Apple
19 22 (0.93%) Adobe
20 19 (0.80%) CheckPoint