Problem-Solving Contracts in Yorkshire

Problem Solving
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 4 12 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 253 214 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.09% 9.33% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.45% 10.27% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 101 113
10th Percentile £180 £350 £214
25th Percentile £320 £475 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +25.00% -2.22%
75th Percentile £544 £600 £531
90th Percentile £641 £650 £575
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 16
10th Percentile £11.75 £16.80 £9.70
25th Percentile - £25.50 £10.99
Median hourly rate £15.00 £40.00 £17.43
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% +129.56% +19.64%
75th Percentile £18.75 £55.00 £18.70
90th Percentile £55.15 £64.00 £29.00
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
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,450 2,084 2,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.46% 90.89% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,376 1,758
10th Percentile £263 £286 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 63 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £22.00 £21.47 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.50
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +9 178 £485 -11.82% 174
South Yorkshire +10 54 £470 -10.48% 92
North Yorkshire +10 16 £130 -76.15% 39
East Yorkshire +2 4 £500 +6.38% 27
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (2.77%) Confluence
2 5 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.58%) WordPress
4 3 (1.19%) ArcGIS
4 3 (1.19%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.19%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) CICS
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.79%) Blender
4 2 (0.79%) InVision
4 2 (0.79%) Maya
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.79%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.79%) Sketch
4 2 (0.79%) Zeplin
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.77%) SAP PM
3 5 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.32%) Azure
1 16 (6.32%) GCP
2 15 (5.93%) AWS
2 15 (5.93%) Power Platform
3 12 (4.74%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (3.16%) PowerApps
5 6 (2.37%) Apigee
5 6 (2.37%) GitHub
5 6 (2.37%) Kong
5 6 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.58%) MailChimp
8 3 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.19%) CloudBees
8 3 (1.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (1.19%) Vertex AI
9 2 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.79%) Figma
9 2 (0.79%) OCI
9 2 (0.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.49%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (6.72%) LAN
3 15 (5.93%) Firewall
4 13 (5.14%) DNS
5 12 (4.74%) WAN
6 9 (3.56%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (2.77%) DHCP
8 6 (2.37%) HTTP
8 6 (2.37%) SSL
8 6 (2.37%) TCP/IP
8 6 (2.37%) VPN
9 5 (1.98%) Internet
9 5 (1.98%) SAN
10 1 (0.40%) Broadband
10 1 (0.40%) PSTN
10 1 (0.40%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.93%) Power BI
2 8 (3.16%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.77%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.58%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.58%) Tableau
6 3 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.19%) Bigtable
6 3 (1.19%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.19%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.19%) GIS
6 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.79%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.79%) Big Data
7 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.95%) Git
2 9 (3.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.56%) JIRA
3 6 (2.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (2.37%) CircleCI
3 6 (2.37%) GitLab
3 6 (2.37%) Travis CI
4 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.19%) JMeter
4 3 (1.19%) XCUITest
5 2 (0.79%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) Postman
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 153 (60.47%) Social Skills
2 86 (33.99%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.44%) Finance
4 25 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.14%) Banking
6 12 (4.74%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.58%) Health Technology
7 4 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.19%) Marketing
9 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.79%) Games
9 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.40%) Billing
10 1 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (16.21%) Service Desk Agent
2 37 (14.62%) Analyst
3 31 (12.25%) Developer
4 28 (11.07%) Business Analyst
5 22 (8.70%) Lead
6 13 (5.14%) Senior
7 12 (4.74%) IT Engineer
8 9 (3.56%) Consultant
9 8 (3.16%) Architect
9 8 (3.16%) Network Engineer
9 8 (3.16%) SAP Analyst
9 8 (3.16%) SAP Business Analyst
9 8 (3.16%) Service Analyst
9 8 (3.16%) ServiceNow Developer
10 7 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.77%) IT Technician
11 6 (2.37%) Data Centre Engineer
11 6 (2.37%) IT Support
11 6 (2.37%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.37%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.35%) Kafka
2 8 (3.16%) JSON
3 6 (2.37%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (2.37%) HTML
3 6 (2.37%) Web Services
3 6 (2.37%) XML
3 6 (2.37%) YAML
4 5 (1.98%) REST
5 4 (1.58%) CSS
5 4 (1.58%) LDAP
6 3 (1.19%) .NET
6 3 (1.19%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.19%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.19%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.19%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.19%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.19%) Laravel
7 2 (0.79%) Node.js
7 2 (0.79%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.95%) Algorithms
1 10 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (3.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (3.56%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.77%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.37%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.37%) NHS
5 6 (2.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.58%) CMDB
6 4 (1.58%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.58%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.19%) Smart Meter
8 2 (0.79%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.79%) iPhone
8 2 (0.79%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.46%) Windows
2 14 (5.53%) Windows 10
3 9 (3.56%) Linux
4 8 (3.16%) Android
5 7 (2.77%) Windows 7
6 6 (2.37%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.58%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.19%) zOS
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (22.92%) Agile
2 51 (20.16%) Customer Service
3 42 (16.60%) Project Management
4 33 (13.04%) DevOps
5 28 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (10.28%) Service Delivery
7 25 (9.88%) CI/CD
7 25 (9.88%) User Stories
8 24 (9.49%) ITIL
9 21 (8.30%) ITSM
10 20 (7.91%) Change Management
10 20 (7.91%) Scrum
10 20 (7.91%) Test Automation
11 19 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (7.51%) Requirements Gathering
12 18 (7.11%) Break/Fix
12 18 (7.11%) Business Analysis
12 18 (7.11%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (5.93%) Data Modelling
13 15 (5.93%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.28%) Python
2 20 (7.91%) JavaScript
3 14 (5.53%) SQL
4 12 (4.74%) Java
5 9 (3.56%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.77%) Bash
7 6 (2.37%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.98%) Scala
9 3 (1.19%) C#
9 3 (1.19%) Go
9 3 (1.19%) Groovy
9 3 (1.19%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.19%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.19%) PHP
9 3 (1.19%) Ruby
9 3 (1.19%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.19%) VBA
10 2 (0.79%) ABAP
10 2 (0.79%) JCL
11 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (11.86%) Degree
2 9 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.77%) CCNA
3 7 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (2.77%) Network+ Certification
3 7 (2.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (1.98%) A+ Certification
4 5 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (1.98%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.58%) CBAP
5 4 (1.58%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.79%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) CCSA
7 1 (0.40%) CISM
7 1 (0.40%) CISSP
7 1 (0.40%) Dell Certification
7 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.88%) SLA
2 22 (8.70%) QA
3 6 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.19%) GDPR
4 3 (1.19%) PMO
5 2 (0.79%) WCAG
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (5.14%) Active Directory
1 13 (5.14%) Docker
1 13 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.77%) KVM
2 7 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (2.77%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (2.77%) VMware Workstation
3 5 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.79%) HDFS
5 2 (0.79%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.40%) ACF2
6 1 (0.40%) RACF
Systems Management
1 15 (5.93%) Ansible
2 12 (4.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.95%) Terraform
4 9 (3.56%) Grafana
5 7 (2.77%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.37%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (2.37%) Kibana
6 6 (2.37%) logstash
6 6 (2.37%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.37%) Puppet
7 4 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.40%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 62 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.51%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.72%) SAP
4 13 (5.14%) Citrix
4 13 (5.14%) VMware
5 12 (4.74%) Cisco
6 11 (4.35%) 3Com
6 11 (4.35%) Aruba
6 11 (4.35%) Brocade
6 11 (4.35%) Juniper
6 11 (4.35%) Meraki
7 8 (3.16%) IBM
8 6 (2.37%) Solace
8 6 (2.37%) Splunk
9 4 (1.58%) Adobe
9 4 (1.58%) Brio
9 4 (1.58%) Google
9 4 (1.58%) Hootsuite
9 4 (1.58%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.19%) ESRI