Problem-Solving Contracts in the North of England

Problem Solving
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 578 474 537
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 12.32% 8.30% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.37% 9.15% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 240 305
10th Percentile £251 £299 £200
25th Percentile £373 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £549
90th Percentile £647 £650 £632
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 18 69
10th Percentile - £15.43 £11.04
25th Percentile £10.95 £23.15 £11.75
Median hourly rate £13.50 £40.30 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -66.50% +115.48% +13.33%
75th Percentile £26.39 £55.64 £35.56
90th Percentile £60.56 £67.68 £50.91
England median hourly rate £17.50 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -65.00% +150.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the North of England

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +10 297 £493 +9.56% 596
Yorkshire +8 248 £475 -13.64% 358
North East +25 35 £575 +84.44% 133
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 9 (1.56%) Confluence
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.69%) IBM Notes
4 4 (0.69%) WordPress
5 3 (0.52%) Apache
5 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.52%) CMS
5 3 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.52%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.35%) Mule
7 1 (0.17%) CICS
7 1 (0.17%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 61 (10.55%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.52%) Blender
7 3 (0.52%) Maya
7 3 (0.52%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 20 (3.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (2.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.21%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.87%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.17%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.17%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 63 (10.90%) Azure
2 56 (9.69%) AWS
3 32 (5.54%) Power Platform
4 29 (5.02%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (4.50%) GCP
5 26 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.25%) Snowflake
7 10 (1.73%) GitHub
7 10 (1.73%) PowerApps
8 8 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.04%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (1.04%) Apigee
10 6 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.04%) Kong
10 6 (1.04%) SaaS
10 6 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.19%) Wi-Fi
2 29 (5.02%) LAN
3 23 (3.98%) WAN
4 22 (3.81%) Firewall
5 21 (3.63%) VPN
6 16 (2.77%) DNS
7 14 (2.42%) OSPF
8 13 (2.25%) TCP/IP
9 10 (1.73%) DHCP
10 9 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
11 8 (1.38%) Wireless
12 7 (1.21%) BGP
12 7 (1.21%) Ethernet
12 7 (1.21%) HTTP
12 7 (1.21%) Network Security
12 7 (1.21%) VLAN
12 7 (1.21%) Wireless Security
13 6 (1.04%) Internet
13 6 (1.04%) SSL
14 5 (0.87%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.67%) Power BI
2 22 (3.81%) Data Lake
3 16 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.73%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.38%) Tableau
7 7 (1.21%) Big Data
7 7 (1.21%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.04%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.87%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.69%) Metadata
11 3 (0.52%) Bigtable
11 3 (0.52%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.52%) Cloud Spanner
11 3 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.52%) GIS
11 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (4.50%) Git
2 22 (3.81%) JIRA
3 16 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.56%) GitLab
5 7 (1.21%) Travis CI
6 6 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (1.04%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.04%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.69%) Selenium
9 3 (0.52%) JMeter
9 3 (0.52%) XCUITest
10 2 (0.35%) Appium
10 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.35%) Liquibase
10 2 (0.35%) Log4j
10 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 337 (58.30%) Social Skills
2 199 (34.43%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (10.21%) Finance
4 55 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 26 (4.50%) Manufacturing
6 24 (4.15%) Banking
7 23 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.11%) Marketing
9 12 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.08%) Legal
10 11 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.87%) Law
13 5 (0.87%) Retail
14 4 (0.69%) Local Government
15 3 (0.52%) Games
15 3 (0.52%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (14.71%) Analyst
2 67 (11.59%) Service Desk Agent
3 55 (9.52%) Developer
4 36 (6.23%) Business Analyst
5 35 (6.06%) Consultant
6 32 (5.54%) Senior
7 29 (5.02%) Architect
8 25 (4.33%) Lead
9 24 (4.15%) IT Support
10 22 (3.81%) Network Engineer
10 22 (3.81%) Service Analyst
11 20 (3.46%) IT Engineer
11 20 (3.46%) Service Desk Analyst
12 18 (3.11%) Project Manager
13 16 (2.77%) IT Technician
13 16 (2.77%) Support Engineer
14 14 (2.42%) Capacity Manager
14 14 (2.42%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 14 (2.42%) Problem Manager
15 12 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.25%) Kafka
2 11 (1.90%) CSS
2 11 (1.90%) HTML
3 9 (1.56%) .NET
4 8 (1.38%) JSON
5 7 (1.21%) Web Services
6 6 (1.04%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.04%) XML
6 6 (1.04%) YAML
7 5 (0.87%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.87%) REST
8 4 (0.69%) LDAP
9 3 (0.52%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.52%) Apache Beam
9 3 (0.52%) Gherkin
9 3 (0.52%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.52%) React Native
9 3 (0.52%) RESTful
9 3 (0.52%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.40%) Management Information System
2 28 (4.84%) Virtual Team
3 18 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.42%) CMDB
7 13 (2.25%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.08%) NHS
9 9 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 7 (1.21%) Driving Licence
12 5 (0.87%) Life Science
13 4 (0.69%) Clustering
13 4 (0.69%) e-Learning
13 4 (0.69%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.69%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.52%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 89 (15.40%) Windows
2 55 (9.52%) Windows 10
3 21 (3.63%) Linux
4 12 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.38%) Android
5 8 (1.38%) Windows 7
6 5 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.69%) Unix
7 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.52%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.52%) zOS
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.17%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (21.80%) Customer Service
2 98 (16.96%) Agile
3 76 (13.15%) Project Management
4 62 (10.73%) Decision-Making
5 59 (10.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 58 (10.03%) DevOps
6 58 (10.03%) Service Management
7 55 (9.52%) ITIL
7 55 (9.52%) Mentoring
8 47 (8.13%) Time Management
9 45 (7.79%) CI/CD
9 45 (7.79%) Migration
10 43 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (7.27%) Quality Management
12 40 (6.92%) Statistics
13 37 (6.40%) Problem Management
14 35 (6.06%) Data Modelling
15 34 (5.88%) Business Intelligence
16 33 (5.71%) Computer Science
17 32 (5.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (7.96%) Python
2 45 (7.79%) SQL
3 27 (4.67%) JavaScript
4 22 (3.81%) Bash
5 21 (3.63%) Java
6 19 (3.29%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.56%) Go
8 8 (1.38%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.21%) C#
10 6 (1.04%) Scala
11 5 (0.87%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.87%) Ruby
11 5 (0.87%) VBA
12 4 (0.69%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.52%) ABAP
13 3 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.52%) Groovy
13 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.35%) C++
14 2 (0.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 93 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 80 (13.84%) Degree
3 78 (13.49%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (3.11%) CCNA
7 14 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.04%) CCNP
9 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.87%) A+ Certification
10 5 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.69%) CBAP
11 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (0.69%) PMP
11 4 (0.69%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (10.55%) SLA
2 36 (6.23%) QA
3 26 (4.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 24 (4.15%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.73%) GDPR
5 10 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.04%) GxP
7 5 (0.87%) GAMP
7 5 (0.87%) PMO
8 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.52%) IASME
8 3 (0.52%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.52%) NIST
8 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.35%) COREP
10 1 (0.17%) FINREP
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 25 (4.33%) Docker
4 18 (3.11%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.21%) KVM
5 7 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.21%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.35%) HDFS
7 2 (0.35%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.17%) ACF2
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) RACF
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (4.33%) Terraform
2 24 (4.15%) Ansible
2 24 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 12 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.56%) Grafana
4 9 (1.56%) SCCM
5 8 (1.38%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.38%) Puppet
6 7 (1.21%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (1.04%) HP Fortify
7 6 (1.04%) Kibana
7 6 (1.04%) logstash
7 6 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.52%) Autotask
9 3 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.35%) CFEngine
10 2 (0.35%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 133 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.88%) VMware
3 28 (4.84%) SAP
4 25 (4.33%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.63%) Citrix
6 16 (2.77%) Cisco
7 14 (2.42%) Splunk
8 13 (2.25%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.08%) Juniper
9 12 (2.08%) Meraki
10 11 (1.90%) 3Com
10 11 (1.90%) Aruba
10 11 (1.90%) Brocade
10 11 (1.90%) Databricks
11 9 (1.56%) Google
12 8 (1.38%) IBM
13 7 (1.21%) Oracle
13 7 (1.21%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.04%) Solace
15 4 (0.69%) Hootsuite