Creative Problem-Solving Contracts in the East Midlands

Creative Problem-Solving
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Creative Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Creative Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £192 - -
25th Percentile £308 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £336 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £537 - -
England median daily rate £358 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -40.33% +14.29% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Creative 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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 499 606 894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.48% 78.70% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 412 688
10th Percentile £211 £200 £206
25th Percentile £322 £272 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £419 £455
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -8.02% +3.41%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £575
90th Percentile £590 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 55 56
10th Percentile - £11.24 £11.80
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £17.00 £20.65
Median % change year-on-year +10.69% -17.69% +3.26%
75th Percentile £24.78 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £37.21 £35.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%

Creative Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Creative Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Creative Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Creative Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Problem-Solving within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 3 £537 - 1
Leicestershire - 2 £316 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 £75 - 1
Creative Problem-Solving
England

Creative Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) NetBeans
General
1 3 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Animator
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Architect
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Java Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (16.67%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Animation
3 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (16.67%) IoT
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Budget Control
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Project Planning
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Game Development
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) IEC 61508
1 1 (16.67%) MISRA
1 1 (16.67%) MISRA C
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) QNX