Problem-Solving Contracts in the West Midlands

Problem Solving
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 11 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 198 325 342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.29% 13.66% 9.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.24% 15.42% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 204 248
10th Percentile £263 £286 £176
25th Percentile £380 £424 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +22.22%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £551
90th Percentile £650 £684 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £14.29 £10.96 £14.35
25th Percentile £15.13 £13.03 £15.25
Median hourly rate £42.00 £18.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.09% +19.32% -13.89%
75th Percentile £56.25 £22.56 £18.60
90th Percentile £72.50 £47.36 £22.44
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,107 3,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.53% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,446 2,363
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the West Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham -2 78 £450 -10.00% 135
Warwickshire +5 44 £600 +14.29% 63
Staffordshire +1 12 £450 -10.00% 72
Coventry +1 11 £525 +9.38% 39
Shropshire -7 11 £117 -78.33% 32
Worcestershire +2 8 £550 +22.22% 34
Herefordshire -6 1 £400 -4.76% 9
Solihull -25 1 - - 15
Dudley - 1 £375 - 4
Walsall - 1 £325 - 6
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.02%) CMS
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.01%) Confluence
3 2 (1.01%) Drupal
3 2 (1.01%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.01%) Trello
4 1 (0.51%) Simulink
4 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Odoo
2 3 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.01%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.01%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.01%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.01%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.51%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 34 (17.17%) Azure
2 16 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (8.08%) Power Platform
3 8 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (4.04%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (3.03%) Azure App Service
5 5 (2.53%) Azure AKS
6 4 (2.02%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.02%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.52%) dbt
7 3 (1.52%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.01%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.01%) PaaS
8 2 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.01%) Serverless
9 1 (0.51%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.60%) Network Security
2 12 (6.06%) Firewall
3 6 (3.03%) VPN
4 5 (2.53%) WAN
4 5 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (2.02%) LAN
5 4 (2.02%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (2.02%) VoIP
6 3 (1.52%) VLAN
7 2 (1.01%) DHCP
7 2 (1.01%) DNS
7 2 (1.01%) Internet
7 2 (1.01%) SAN
8 1 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.51%) SDH
8 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.51%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.06%) Power BI
2 11 (5.56%) Data Mining
3 8 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.53%) GIS
4 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.02%) QGIS
6 3 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.52%) Metadata
6 3 (1.52%) Tableau
7 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.01%) OLAP
7 2 (1.01%) OLTP
7 2 (1.01%) Power Query
7 2 (1.01%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (6.57%) JIRA
2 5 (2.53%) Git
3 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.01%) Appium
4 2 (1.01%) kappa
4 2 (1.01%) UI Automator
4 2 (1.01%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.51%) Ant
5 1 (0.51%) Gradle
5 1 (0.51%) JUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Maven
5 1 (0.51%) NUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 133 (67.17%) Social Skills
2 96 (48.48%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (12.63%) Finance
4 20 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.54%) Banking
7 6 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.52%) Law
10 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Retail
11 2 (1.01%) Automotive
11 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.01%) Marketing
11 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.51%) Electronics
12 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (14.14%) Analyst
2 23 (11.62%) Developer
3 20 (10.10%) Senior
4 18 (9.09%) Architect
5 17 (8.59%) Project Manager
6 15 (7.58%) Consultant
7 11 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 9 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (4.04%) Lead
10 7 (3.54%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.54%) Programmer
10 7 (3.54%) SOC Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) AML Project Manager
11 6 (3.03%) C Programmer
11 6 (3.03%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Support Engineer
12 5 (2.53%) Angular Developer
12 5 (2.53%) Technical Analyst
13 4 (2.02%) IT Engineer
13 4 (2.02%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.56%) .NET
2 8 (4.04%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.03%) Middleware
3 6 (3.03%) RESTful
4 5 (2.53%) ADO
5 4 (2.02%) React
5 4 (2.02%) Spring
6 3 (1.52%) CSS
6 3 (1.52%) Flask
6 3 (1.52%) HTML
6 3 (1.52%) Pandas
6 3 (1.52%) Web Services
7 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.01%) JSON
7 2 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.01%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.01%) XML
8 1 (0.51%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.51%) Blazor
8 1 (0.51%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.07%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.05%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.05%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (5.05%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.03%) Operational Technology
7 6 (3.03%) SCADA
8 4 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.02%) Clustering
8 4 (2.02%) CMDB
8 4 (2.02%) PACS
8 4 (2.02%) PMI
8 4 (2.02%) Social Media
8 4 (2.02%) Taxonomies
8 4 (2.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.59%) Windows
2 8 (4.04%) Linux
3 7 (3.54%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.03%) Unix
5 5 (2.53%) Mac OS
5 5 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.01%) Android
8 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.51%) CentOS
9 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (19.70%) Computer Science
2 37 (18.69%) Agile
3 32 (16.16%) Project Management
4 31 (15.66%) Decision-Making
5 24 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (11.11%) Analytics
6 22 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 19 (9.60%) ITIL
8 16 (8.08%) Project Delivery
9 15 (7.58%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (7.58%) Incident Response
9 15 (7.58%) Roadmaps
9 15 (7.58%) User Experience
10 14 (7.07%) SIEM
10 14 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (6.06%) DevOps
11 12 (6.06%) Security Operations
12 11 (5.56%) Actionable Insight
12 11 (5.56%) Analytical Thinking
12 11 (5.56%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.11%) SQL
2 15 (7.58%) Python
3 9 (4.55%) C#
4 8 (4.04%) C
5 6 (3.03%) Java
5 6 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.53%) Bicep
7 4 (2.02%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.01%) C++
9 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.01%) Swift
9 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.51%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 52 (26.26%) Degree
2 32 (16.16%) Security Cleared
3 28 (14.14%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.06%) CISSP
5 12 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (4.04%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.53%) CCNP
8 5 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.53%) PMP
9 4 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.02%) CCIE
9 4 (2.02%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.02%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.01%) BC Cleared
10 2 (1.01%) CASP
10 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.01%) GCED
10 2 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.57%) QA
2 7 (3.54%) SLA
3 6 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.51%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.51%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.51%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.53%) SCCM
3 3 (1.52%) Autotask
3 3 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.01%) Kibana
4 2 (1.01%) logstash
5 1 (0.51%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.04%) SAP
3 7 (3.54%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.03%) VMware
5 5 (2.53%) Apple
5 5 (2.53%) BMC
5 5 (2.53%) Splunk
6 4 (2.02%) Cisco
6 4 (2.02%) Ericsson
6 4 (2.02%) ESRI
6 4 (2.02%) Greenplum
6 4 (2.02%) Mapinfo
6 4 (2.02%) Pega
7 3 (1.52%) Datto
8 2 (1.01%) Citrix
8 2 (1.01%) Informatica
8 2 (1.01%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.01%) TippingPoint
8 2 (1.01%) Trend Micro