Problem-Solving Contracts in the North West

Problem Solving
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 314 241 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 11.36% 7.50% 7.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.17% 8.28% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 123 174
10th Percentile £312 £257 £200
25th Percentile £381 £371 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% - +9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £653 £650 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 17 58
10th Percentile - £11.90 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.22 £12.02
Median hourly rate £11.20 £27.50 £19.62
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +40.15% +15.43%
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £52.78 £60.24 £50.98
England median hourly rate £17.50 £43.86 £20.00
% change year-on-year -60.10% +119.30% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the North West

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester +10 161 £500 +11.11% 268
Cumbria +9 73 £493 -7.42% 30
Cheshire -1 52 £525 +17.98% 129
Merseyside +16 16 £260 -50.48% 73
Lancashire -5 5 £783 +59.63% 65
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.27%) IBM Notes
4 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.96%) CMS
4 3 (0.96%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.64%) Apache
5 2 (0.64%) Confluence
5 2 (0.64%) Mule
6 1 (0.32%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 43 (13.69%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (6.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.96%) SAP EWM
2 3 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.96%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.32%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.32%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.29%) AWS
1 48 (15.29%) Azure
2 22 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
4 15 (4.78%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.50%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (2.23%) GCP
7 6 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.91%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (1.91%) Serverless
8 5 (1.59%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.59%) SaaS
9 4 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.27%) GitHub
9 4 (1.27%) PaaS
10 3 (0.96%) Contentstack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.10%) VPN
2 13 (4.14%) OSPF
3 11 (3.50%) LAN
3 11 (3.50%) WAN
4 9 (2.87%) Firewall
5 8 (2.55%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.55%) Wireless
6 7 (2.23%) DSL
6 7 (2.23%) Ethernet
6 7 (2.23%) Network Security
6 7 (2.23%) Wireless Security
7 6 (1.91%) BGP
7 6 (1.91%) VLAN
8 4 (1.27%) MPLS
9 3 (0.96%) DHCP
9 3 (0.96%) DNS
9 3 (0.96%) Intranet
9 3 (0.96%) VoIP
9 3 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.78%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.18%) Power BI
4 7 (2.23%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (1.91%) DynamoDB
6 5 (1.59%) Big Data
6 5 (1.59%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.27%) Tableau
8 3 (0.96%) Metadata
8 3 (0.96%) MySQL
8 3 (0.96%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.32%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.32%) Presto
10 1 (0.32%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (7.01%) JIRA
2 15 (4.78%) Git
3 13 (4.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.91%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.27%) GitLab
6 2 (0.64%) Appium
6 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.64%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.64%) Log4j
6 2 (0.64%) Selenium
6 2 (0.64%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.32%) Travis CI
General
1 191 (60.83%) Social Skills
2 109 (34.71%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.24%) Finance
5 12 (3.82%) Banking
5 12 (3.82%) Marketing
6 11 (3.50%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.18%) Legal
8 9 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.27%) Law
12 4 (1.27%) Local Government
12 4 (1.27%) Retail
13 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Electronics
14 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.64%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 53 (16.88%) Analyst
2 31 (9.87%) Service Desk Agent
3 25 (7.96%) Consultant
4 24 (7.64%) Developer
5 20 (6.37%) Senior
6 19 (6.05%) Architect
7 17 (5.41%) Service Analyst
8 16 (5.10%) Service Desk Analyst
9 14 (4.46%) Capacity Manager
9 14 (4.46%) Problem Manager
10 13 (4.14%) Business Analyst
10 13 (4.14%) Network Engineer
11 12 (3.82%) Availability Manager
11 12 (3.82%) Capacity and Availability Manager
11 12 (3.82%) IT Support
12 11 (3.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 11 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.50%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.18%) Project Manager
14 9 (2.87%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.91%) CSS
1 6 (1.91%) HTML
2 5 (1.59%) .NET
3 3 (0.96%) Node.js
3 3 (0.96%) React Native
4 2 (0.64%) Hibernate
4 2 (0.64%) Kafka
4 2 (0.64%) Middleware
4 2 (0.64%) PySpark
4 2 (0.64%) pytest
4 2 (0.64%) REST
4 2 (0.64%) RESTful
4 2 (0.64%) Spring
4 2 (0.64%) Web Services
4 2 (0.64%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (0.32%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.32%) Django
5 1 (0.32%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.32%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.32%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.51%) Virtual Team
2 28 (8.92%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.14%) CMDB
3 13 (4.14%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.55%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.91%) NHS
7 5 (1.59%) Life Science
8 4 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.96%) Clustering
9 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.96%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.64%) Derivative
10 2 (0.64%) Robotics
10 2 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 65 (20.70%) Windows
2 39 (12.42%) Windows 10
3 19 (6.05%) Linux
4 9 (2.87%) Unix
5 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (24.84%) Customer Service
2 53 (16.88%) Mentoring
3 44 (14.01%) Time Management
4 43 (13.69%) Service Management
5 42 (13.38%) Quality Management
6 40 (12.74%) Decision-Making
6 40 (12.74%) Statistics
7 38 (12.10%) Agile
8 37 (11.78%) Problem Management
9 32 (10.19%) ITIL
10 30 (9.55%) DevOps
11 29 (9.24%) Migration
12 26 (8.28%) Project Management
13 25 (7.96%) CI/CD
13 25 (7.96%) Virtual Team Management
14 19 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (6.05%) CRM
14 19 (6.05%) Project Delivery
15 18 (5.73%) Capacity Management
15 18 (5.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (9.55%) SQL
2 23 (7.32%) Python
3 13 (4.14%) Bash
4 10 (3.18%) Java
4 10 (3.18%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.23%) Go
5 7 (2.23%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.23%) Ruby
6 3 (0.96%) C#
7 2 (0.64%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.32%) ABAP
8 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.32%) C
8 1 (0.32%) C++
8 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.32%) Scala
8 1 (0.32%) X++
Qualifications
1 88 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 79 (25.16%) SC Cleared
3 39 (12.42%) Degree
4 14 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.50%) CCNA
6 8 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.27%) CCNP
8 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.96%) CCIE
9 3 (0.96%) VCAP
10 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.38%) SLA
2 26 (8.28%) Disclosure Scotland
3 18 (5.73%) QA
4 16 (5.10%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.91%) GxP
7 5 (1.59%) GAMP
7 5 (1.59%) GDPR
8 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.96%) IASME
8 3 (0.96%) ISO 22301
8 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.96%) NIST
8 3 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.64%) COREP
10 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.32%) FINREP
10 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.14%) Docker
4 12 (3.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Firmware
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (4.78%) Terraform
2 14 (4.46%) Ansible
2 14 (4.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.23%) CFEngine
4 7 (2.23%) PowerBroker
4 7 (2.23%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.23%) Puppet
4 7 (2.23%) SCCM
5 6 (1.91%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.96%) Autotask
6 3 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.64%) Nagios
7 2 (0.64%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 75 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.37%) VMware
3 11 (3.50%) SAP
4 9 (2.87%) Databricks
4 9 (2.87%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.55%) Splunk
6 7 (2.23%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.23%) Citrix
6 7 (2.23%) SolarWinds
7 6 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.59%) Pega
9 4 (1.27%) Lotus
9 4 (1.27%) Oracle
9 4 (1.27%) Teradata
10 3 (0.96%) Apple
10 3 (0.96%) Cisco
10 3 (0.96%) Datto
10 3 (0.96%) Google
10 3 (0.96%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (0.64%) Perfecto Mobile