Problem-Solving Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Problem Solving
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 29 31
Rank change year-on-year +26 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 37 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 15.48% 6.37% 4.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.70% 7.02% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 13
10th Percentile £410 £105 £170
25th Percentile £450 £215 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £312 £470
Median % change year-on-year +64.39% -33.67% +29.83%
75th Percentile £588 £338 £538
90th Percentile £590 £518 £590
North East median daily rate £533 £312 £455
% change year-on-year +70.54% -31.37% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £11.30 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £11.50 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £11.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 209 242 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.45% 90.64% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 183 281
10th Percentile £330 £313 £200
25th Percentile £396 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £638 £749 £688
North East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 12
10th Percentile £11.50 - £10.53
25th Percentile £12.13 - £12.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £16.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £17.31
90th Percentile £68.75 - £18.63
North East median hourly rate £19.50 £39.34 £16.50
% change year-on-year -50.43% +138.42% +29.41%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Tyne and Wear

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 11 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +19 22 £500 +60.64% 65
South Shields - 6 - - 4
Sunderland 0 5 £725 +123.08% 7
Gateshead - 1 £450 - 16
Problem-Solving
North East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Trello
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) 5G
1 8 (21.62%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (5.41%) BGP
2 2 (5.41%) EIGRP
2 2 (5.41%) MPLS
2 2 (5.41%) OSPF
3 1 (2.70%) DHCP
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) HTTP
3 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) Selenium
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
4 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Games
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) IT Support
1 6 (16.22%) IT Support Technician
1 6 (16.22%) IT Technician
1 6 (16.22%) Support Technician
2 4 (10.81%) Designer
2 4 (10.81%) Technical Design Authority
2 4 (10.81%) Technical Designer
3 3 (8.11%) Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) DBA
4 2 (5.41%) Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Management Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Network Operations Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.41%) QA Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Service Management Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) .NET
1 1 (2.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Clustering
2 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (2.70%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
1 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (29.73%) Agile
3 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (21.62%) Computer Science
4 8 (21.62%) Network Architecture
4 8 (21.62%) Network Design
4 8 (21.62%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
6 6 (16.22%) Project Management
6 6 (16.22%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (16.22%) Sprint Retrospective
7 5 (13.51%) SFIA
8 4 (10.81%) Kanban
8 4 (10.81%) Scrum
8 4 (10.81%) Sprint Review
9 3 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (8.11%) ITIL
9 3 (8.11%) Migration
9 3 (8.11%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (8.11%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.11%) Java
1 3 (8.11%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Degree
2 8 (21.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) CCNA
3 2 (5.41%) CCNP
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.41%) JNCIA
3 2 (5.41%) JNCIS
3 2 (5.41%) MCSE
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) PMO
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco
3 2 (5.41%) Juniper
3 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Citrix
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) VMware