Problem-Solving Contracts in Belfast

Problem Solving
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 46 20 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 31.29% 16.13% 11.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 34.07% 21.98% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 11 10
10th Percentile £180 £210 £156
25th Percentile £279 £263 £167
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £338 £239
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +41.36% -24.80%
75th Percentile £498 £477 £363
90th Percentile £583 £569 £427
County Antrim median daily rate £350 £338 £239
% change year-on-year +3.70% +41.36% -24.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 6
10th Percentile £29.63 - £13.55
25th Percentile £31.31 - £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £12.25 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year +187.76% -22.22% +54.11%
75th Percentile £44.34 - £17.17
90th Percentile £49.12 - £17.91
County Antrim median hourly rate £35.25 £12.25 £15.75
% change year-on-year +187.76% -22.22% +54.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 91 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 91.84% 73.39% 81.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 69
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £345 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £515
90th Percentile £625 £663 £638
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -18.00% +25.00% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 14
10th Percentile £22.50 - £13.40
25th Percentile £23.76 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £32.13 £12.62 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +154.56% -17.25% +34.24%
75th Percentile £58.85 £14.78 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £19.19 £18.12
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.59 £14.19 £15.25
% change year-on-year +87.45% -6.98% -3.11%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Belfast

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Belfast

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Belfast

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Belfast

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Belfast

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Belfast

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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 1 (2.17%) Anypoint
1 1 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.17%) Mule
Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.17%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (2.17%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.70%) OpenShift
2 2 (4.35%) AWS
2 2 (4.35%) OCI
2 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.17%) Azure
3 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.17%) GCP
3 1 (2.17%) GitHub
3 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.17%) Serverless
3 1 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) ATM
2 1 (2.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
1 4 (8.70%) Tableau
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.17%) GIS
3 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.17%) HBase
3 1 (2.17%) Metadata
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) UniData
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (69.57%) Finance
2 28 (60.87%) Social Skills
3 24 (52.17%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (19.57%) Banking
5 7 (15.22%) Front Office
6 4 (8.70%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.52%) Legal
8 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.35%) General Ledger
8 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 2 (4.35%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Business Analyst
4 7 (15.22%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Java Software Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Data Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) EPoS Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) EPoS Field Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Field Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) IT Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Applications Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) Web Services
2 7 (15.22%) JSON
2 7 (15.22%) React
2 7 (15.22%) RESTful
2 7 (15.22%) XML
3 6 (13.04%) AngularJS
3 6 (13.04%) Apache Avro
4 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.52%) REST
5 3 (6.52%) SOAP
6 2 (4.35%) Kafka
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (4.35%) Spring
7 1 (2.17%) JMS
7 1 (2.17%) JWT
7 1 (2.17%) OAuth
7 1 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.17%) RAML
7 1 (2.17%) SAML
7 1 (2.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Derivative
2 11 (23.91%) Equities
3 9 (19.57%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (8.70%) EPoS
4 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
5 3 (6.52%) Fixed Income
5 3 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.17%) Reference Data
7 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Agile
2 9 (19.57%) CI/CD
2 9 (19.57%) Clean Code
2 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (19.57%) User Experience
3 8 (17.39%) DevOps
4 7 (15.22%) Code Quality
4 7 (15.22%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
4 7 (15.22%) Project Management
5 6 (13.04%) Data Governance
5 6 (13.04%) Decision-Making
5 6 (13.04%) Process Improvement
6 5 (10.87%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (10.87%) Migration
7 4 (8.70%) Business Analysis
7 4 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.70%) ETL
7 4 (8.70%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) SQL
2 7 (15.22%) Java
3 5 (10.87%) Python
4 3 (6.52%) Scala
5 2 (4.35%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) VBA
6 1 (2.17%) DataWeave
6 1 (2.17%) R
6 1 (2.17%) UniBasic
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) MiFID
3 1 (2.17%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.35%) SCCM
3 1 (2.17%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) Ab Initio
3 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.17%) Qualtrics
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.17%) TIBCO