Problem-Solving Contracts in the South West

Problem Solving
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 26 36
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 334 215 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.20% 6.35% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.43% 7.13% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 148 93
10th Percentile £174 £200 £301
25th Percentile £309 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +6.80% +18.05%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £588
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.66% -0.94% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 20 33
10th Percentile £12.50 £48.05 £33.20
25th Percentile £14.54 £53.14 £42.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £56.30 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year -55.59% +12.14% +0.40%
75th Percentile £33.00 £75.62 £56.70
90th Percentile £52.58 £78.00 £63.60
England median hourly rate £16.23 £52.40 £23.54
% change year-on-year -69.03% +122.57% +30.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,686 3,015 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.07% 89.10% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,172 2,330
10th Percentile £238 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 317 205
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.40 £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £69.36
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the South West

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Wiltshire +29 95 £470 -20.00% 71
Gloucestershire +12 70 £588 +23.68% 87
Bristol +14 68 £525 -8.70% 158
Somerset +8 31 £500 -20.00% 108
Devon +1 25 £165 -45.00% 72
Dorset +16 23 £175 -66.67% 45
Cornwall +5 11 £150 -40.00% 18
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 21 (6.29%) Confluence
2 4 (1.20%) Apache Solr
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.20%) nginx
2 4 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 36 (10.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (9.58%) Spreadsheet
4 26 (7.78%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.50%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.50%) SAP HCM
2 5 (1.50%) SAP HR
2 5 (1.50%) SAP Payroll
3 4 (1.20%) Shopify
3 4 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.30%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.30%) Primavera
6 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 26 (7.78%) Azure
2 21 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (5.39%) AWS
4 10 (2.99%) SuccessFactors
5 8 (2.40%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.80%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.80%) GCP
6 6 (1.80%) PaaS
7 4 (1.20%) SaaS
8 3 (0.90%) BigCommerce
9 2 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.60%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.60%) Slack
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Service Fabric
10 1 (0.30%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.78%) Firewall
2 9 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (2.40%) DNS
3 8 (2.40%) WAN
4 7 (2.10%) VoIP
5 6 (1.80%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.50%) LAN
6 5 (1.50%) SDH
6 5 (1.50%) Wireless
7 4 (1.20%) DHCP
7 4 (1.20%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.20%) IPsec
7 4 (1.20%) Junos
7 4 (1.20%) PBX
7 4 (1.20%) SAN
7 4 (1.20%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.90%) Internet
8 3 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.40%) Power BI
2 7 (2.10%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.50%) Metadata
3 5 (1.50%) MySQL
4 4 (1.20%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.60%) Tableau
7 1 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.30%) Big Data
7 1 (0.30%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.30%) Flink
7 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 53 (15.87%) JIRA
2 22 (6.59%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 19 (5.69%) Bitbucket
4 12 (3.59%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (1.20%) Git
5 4 (1.20%) JMeter
5 4 (1.20%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.60%) JUnit
6 2 (0.60%) Selenium
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
General
1 195 (58.38%) Social Skills
2 144 (43.11%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (15.87%) Finance
4 34 (10.18%) Presentation Skills
5 33 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 29 (8.68%) Aerospace
7 28 (8.38%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.79%) Manufacturing
9 14 (4.19%) Legal
9 14 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.29%) Marketing
10 11 (3.29%) Police
11 9 (2.69%) Military
12 8 (2.40%) Retail
13 6 (1.80%) Banking
13 6 (1.80%) Electronics
14 5 (1.50%) Aeronautics
15 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 50 (14.97%) Analyst
2 34 (10.18%) Developer
3 32 (9.58%) Lead
4 28 (8.38%) Service Analyst
4 28 (8.38%) Service Desk Analyst
5 26 (7.78%) Network Engineer
6 25 (7.49%) Architect
6 25 (7.49%) Support Engineer
7 24 (7.19%) Project Leader
7 24 (7.19%) Technical Support
8 16 (4.79%) Senior
9 15 (4.49%) Support Specialist
10 13 (3.89%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.89%) Technical Engineer
10 13 (3.89%) Technical Support Engineer
11 12 (3.59%) Consultant
11 12 (3.59%) Desktop Engineer
11 12 (3.59%) Field Engineer
12 11 (3.29%) Data Analyst
12 11 (3.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.29%) .NET
2 19 (5.69%) .NET Core
3 8 (2.40%) React
4 7 (2.10%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.50%) Spring
6 4 (1.20%) JSON
6 4 (1.20%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.20%) YAML
7 3 (0.90%) VML
8 2 (0.60%) Django
8 2 (0.60%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (0.60%) Loki
8 2 (0.60%) REST
8 2 (0.60%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.30%) Flask
9 1 (0.30%) Kafka
9 1 (0.30%) React Native
9 1 (0.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.89%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.89%) Private Cloud
5 12 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.80%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.20%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.20%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.20%) CMDB
8 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.90%) Blog
9 3 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.87%) Windows
2 30 (8.98%) Linux
3 10 (2.99%) Windows 10
3 10 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.20%) CentOS
4 4 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.20%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.60%) Android
5 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (24.85%) Agile
2 76 (22.75%) Project Management
3 50 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
4 49 (14.67%) ITIL
5 41 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (11.98%) Project Delivery
7 38 (11.38%) Commercial Awareness
7 38 (11.38%) Data Management
8 36 (10.78%) Project Planning
9 30 (8.98%) PRINCE2
10 28 (8.38%) CI/CD
11 27 (8.08%) Configuration Management
11 27 (8.08%) Creative Problem-Solving
12 26 (7.78%) OO
12 26 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
13 25 (7.49%) OOP
14 24 (7.19%) Migration
14 24 (7.19%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 23 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
16 21 (6.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (11.98%) Python
2 27 (8.08%) PowerShell
3 19 (5.69%) SQL
4 9 (2.69%) C
5 7 (2.10%) Java
5 7 (2.10%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.20%) PHP
7 3 (0.90%) Bash
7 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.60%) C++
8 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.60%) Perl
8 2 (0.60%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.30%) C#
9 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.30%) ProC
9 1 (0.30%) Ruby
9 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 165 (49.40%) Security Cleared
2 106 (31.74%) SC Cleared
3 76 (22.75%) DV Cleared
4 46 (13.77%) Degree
5 25 (7.49%) APMP
6 22 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (3.29%) CCNP
9 11 (3.29%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (2.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 8 (2.40%) HND
12 6 (1.80%) JNCIA
12 6 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (1.50%) CIPD
14 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 3 (0.90%) CCNA
15 3 (0.90%) CISSP
15 3 (0.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (14.37%) SLA
2 31 (9.28%) PMO
3 12 (3.59%) QA
4 8 (2.40%) NIST
5 7 (2.10%) GDPR
6 6 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.50%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.20%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.30%) GRC
10 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.30%) SEPA
10 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) TARGET2
System Software
1 31 (9.28%) Active Directory
2 23 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.89%) vSphere
4 5 (1.50%) Docker
5 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 25 (7.49%) Ansible
2 19 (5.69%) PowerCLI
3 18 (5.39%) SCCM
4 13 (3.89%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.69%) Terraform
6 8 (2.40%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.20%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
9 2 (0.60%) Grafana
9 2 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.60%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.60%) MOM
9 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.30%) OPNET
10 1 (0.30%) SCOM
10 1 (0.30%) vRealize
10 1 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 78 (23.35%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.49%) VMware
3 24 (7.19%) Dell
4 23 (6.89%) SAP
5 20 (5.99%) HP
6 19 (5.69%) Atlassian
6 19 (5.69%) Cisco
7 13 (3.89%) Juniper
8 11 (3.29%) Google
8 11 (3.29%) Nokia
9 8 (2.40%) IBM
10 7 (2.10%) F5
10 7 (2.10%) Splunk
11 6 (1.80%) BT
11 6 (1.80%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.50%) Avaya
12 5 (1.50%) Oracle
12 5 (1.50%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.20%) Ciena
13 4 (1.20%) Databricks