Creative Problem-Solving Contracts

Creative Problem-Solving
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 625 689
Rank change year-on-year +93 +64 -42
Contract jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 55 81 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 56 81
10th Percentile £264 £225 £379
25th Percentile £400 £423 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% -4.63% +22.33%
75th Percentile £750 £625 £725
90th Percentile - £675 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +40.66%
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% -1.04%
75th Percentile - £51.97 £48.75
90th Percentile - £59.04 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £39.56 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.03% -16.72% +15.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the UK

Creative Problem-Solving
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +96 52 £600 +14.29% 141
UK excluding London +72 30 £569 +8.33% 115
South West +31 27 £435 -20.91% 12
London +63 21 £663 +27.10% 48
Work from Home +105 18 £600 -2.04% 143
South East +15 1 - - 29
East of England +11 1 £625 +184.09% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 - 2

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.73%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (45.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 25 (45.45%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (43.64%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (43.64%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (3.64%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (3.64%) InDesign
3 2 (3.64%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.82%) InVision
4 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.82%) Sketch
4 1 (1.82%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.36%) Azure
2 8 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.64%) AWS
3 2 (3.64%) Figma
4 1 (1.82%) ChatGPT
4 1 (1.82%) GitHub
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.82%) SaaS
4 1 (1.82%) Serverless
4 1 (1.82%) ShareGate
4 1 (1.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) HTTP
2 1 (1.82%) Internet
2 1 (1.82%) Network Security
2 1 (1.82%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.82%) Big Data
2 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.82%) MS Access
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Navigator
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (47.27%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) Grunt
2 1 (1.82%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.82%) Subversion
2 1 (1.82%) Toad
2 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (67.27%) Social Skills
2 32 (58.18%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (58.18%) Finance
3 26 (47.27%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Marketing
5 4 (7.27%) Advertising
6 2 (3.64%) Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Front Office
6 2 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.82%) Automotive
7 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.82%) French Language
7 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Lead
1 24 (43.64%) Project Leader
2 6 (10.91%) Product Owner
3 5 (9.09%) Analyst
3 5 (9.09%) Developer
4 4 (7.27%) Digital Product Owner
4 4 (7.27%) Senior
5 3 (5.45%) Designer
6 2 (3.64%) Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Designer
7 1 (1.82%) .NET Developer
7 1 (1.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (1.82%) Business Manager
7 1 (1.82%) IT Project Manager
7 1 (1.82%) Security Architect
7 1 (1.82%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (1.82%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) HTML
1 6 (10.91%) React
2 4 (7.27%) CSS
2 4 (7.27%) GeoPandas
2 4 (7.27%) TensorFlow
3 2 (3.64%) .NET
3 2 (3.64%) HTML5
3 2 (3.64%) jQuery
3 2 (3.64%) Matplotlib
3 2 (3.64%) Node.js
3 2 (3.64%) NumPy
3 2 (3.64%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.64%) RESTful
3 2 (3.64%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.82%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.82%) Framer.js
4 1 (1.82%) Redux
4 1 (1.82%) Sass
4 1 (1.82%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.82%) Animation
3 1 (1.82%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (1.82%) Life Science
3 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.82%) Social Media
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (1.82%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (69.09%) Agile
3 31 (56.36%) Workshop Facilitation
4 26 (47.27%) Project Management
5 25 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (43.64%) Commercial Awareness
6 24 (43.64%) Data Management
6 24 (43.64%) PRINCE2
6 24 (43.64%) Project Delivery
6 24 (43.64%) Project Planning
6 24 (43.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 9 (16.36%) DevOps
8 8 (14.55%) Workflow
9 7 (12.73%) Business Case
10 6 (10.91%) Acceptance Criteria
10 6 (10.91%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 6 (10.91%) Backlog Refinement
10 6 (10.91%) Product Backlog
10 6 (10.91%) Product Requirements
10 6 (10.91%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.91%) SQL
3 4 (7.27%) Python
3 4 (7.27%) R
4 2 (3.64%) C#
5 1 (1.82%) Bash
5 1 (1.82%) C++
5 1 (1.82%) Java
5 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (47.27%) Security Cleared
2 24 (43.64%) APMP
2 24 (43.64%) DV Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.82%) MBA
6 1 (1.82%) PhD
6 1 (1.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (43.64%) PMO
2 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.82%) SEPA
2 1 (1.82%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) TARGET2
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (49.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) ESRI
3 3 (5.45%) Adobe
4 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow