Problem-Solving Contracts in Bradford

Problem Solving
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bradford 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 20 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bradford 54.05% 32.00% 8.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 55.56% 38.10% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 6
10th Percentile £537 £318 £469
25th Percentile £573 £363 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £490 £575
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -14.78% +55.41%
75th Percentile £618 £588 £600
90th Percentile £634 £660 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% -12.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.14 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £15.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +47.60% -50.00% +72.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 42 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 97.30% 84.00% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 66
10th Percentile £305 £300 £331
25th Percentile £421 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £609 £569 £626
90th Percentile £634 £651 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.14 - £15.44
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.37%
75th Percentile - - £21.73
90th Percentile - - £28.94
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -25.00% -3.74%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Bradford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Bradford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bradford

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Bradford

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bradford 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (5.00%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) GIS
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (55.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (55.00%) Police
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Analyst
2 11 (55.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (10.00%) SAP Manager
4 2 (10.00%) SAP Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) CRM Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) CRM Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) GIS Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) GIS Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Celery
1 2 (10.00%) Django
1 2 (10.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (10.00%) Flask
1 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (10.00%) gRPC
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
1 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (10.00%) RESTful
1 2 (10.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Decision-Making
1 11 (55.00%) Information Security
1 11 (55.00%) Performance Measurement
1 11 (55.00%) Service Management
2 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) ERP
3 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (10.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 2 (10.00%) Budget Management
4 2 (10.00%) Business Case
4 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (10.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (10.00%) Microservices
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) CBAP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) ESRI
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft