Problem-Solving Contracts in Sheffield

Problem Solving
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 12 21 20
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 46 34 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 12.14% 7.57% 9.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.14% 7.93% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 28
10th Percentile £400 £475 £274
25th Percentile £425 £500 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £575
90th Percentile £716 £650 £600
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -10.48% +23.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £25.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 350 429 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.35% 95.55% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 296 287
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £474 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.91% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.49
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -28.13% +18.06%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.57
90th Percentile - £34.35 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
% change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +38.83%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Sheffield

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (15.22%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.52%) Jupyter
2 3 (6.52%) nginx
3 1 (2.17%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Adobe XD
1 2 (4.35%) InVision
1 2 (4.35%) Sketch
1 2 (4.35%) Zeplin
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) GCP
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Azure
4 6 (13.04%) Apigee
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub
4 6 (13.04%) Kong
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.52%) CloudBees
5 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (6.52%) Vertex AI
6 2 (4.35%) Figma
6 2 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) Firewall
2 6 (13.04%) DNS
2 6 (13.04%) HTTP
2 6 (13.04%) SSL
2 6 (13.04%) TCP/IP
2 6 (13.04%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (6.52%) Bigtable
3 3 (6.52%) ClickHouse
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.35%) Metadata
4 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.39%) JIRA
3 7 (15.22%) Git
4 6 (13.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (13.04%) CircleCI
4 6 (13.04%) GitLab
4 6 (13.04%) Travis CI
5 2 (4.35%) Axure RP
General
1 27 (58.70%) Social Skills
2 18 (39.13%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Finance
4 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Marketing
8 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) Architect
2 6 (13.04%) Lead
3 5 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Senior
4 4 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Developer
4 4 (8.70%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365 Trainer
5 3 (6.52%) GCP Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Trainer
6 2 (4.35%) Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Banking Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Business IT Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) Kafka
2 6 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (13.04%) JSON
2 6 (13.04%) XML
2 6 (13.04%) YAML
3 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Beam
3 3 (6.52%) CSS
3 3 (6.52%) HTML
3 3 (6.52%) Keycloak
3 3 (6.52%) LDAP
4 1 (2.17%) JWT
4 1 (2.17%) Node.js
4 1 (2.17%) OAuth
4 1 (2.17%) OpenID
4 1 (2.17%) RESTful
4 1 (2.17%) Spring
4 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.70%) e-Learning
4 3 (6.52%) CMDB
4 3 (6.52%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.52%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (19.57%) Linux
2 6 (13.04%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Agile
1 21 (45.65%) DevOps
2 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
3 14 (30.43%) ITSM
4 12 (26.09%) Use Case
5 11 (23.91%) Change Management
5 11 (23.91%) ITIL
6 10 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (19.57%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
7 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (19.57%) Project Management
7 9 (19.57%) Scrum
8 8 (17.39%) Data Modelling
8 8 (17.39%) Service Management
8 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (15.22%) CRM
10 6 (13.04%) Data Architecture
10 6 (13.04%) Risk Management
10 6 (13.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (32.61%) Python
2 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
3 8 (17.39%) Java
4 6 (13.04%) Bash
4 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.52%) Go
5 3 (6.52%) Groovy
5 3 (6.52%) Ruby
5 3 (6.52%) Scala
6 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) PMO
3 2 (4.35%) WCAG
4 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.17%) GRC
4 1 (2.17%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.17%) ACF2
3 1 (2.17%) RACF
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Ansible
2 9 (19.57%) Grafana
2 9 (19.57%) Terraform
3 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
4 6 (13.04%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (13.04%) Kibana
4 6 (13.04%) logstash
4 6 (13.04%) Progress Chef
4 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 6 (13.04%) Puppet
5 3 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.17%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) ServiceNow
2 6 (13.04%) IBM
2 6 (13.04%) Solace
2 6 (13.04%) Splunk
3 4 (8.70%) Google
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.35%) Adobe
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle