Problem-Solving Contracts in the East Midlands

Problem Solving
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 4 5 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 73 104 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.62% 13.45% 11.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.80% 17.25% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 70 91
10th Percentile £185 £223 £122
25th Percentile £228 £258 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £525 £585 £469
90th Percentile £554 £653 £613
England median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.41% -2.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 16
10th Percentile £14.94 £11.15 £10.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £11.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate £19.00 £13.50 £15.85
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -14.83% +67.02%
75th Percentile £23.56 £19.00 £21.68
90th Percentile £44.38 £29.65 £24.88
England median hourly rate £21.90 £17.50 £45.68
% change year-on-year +25.14% -61.69% +128.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the East Midlands

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 Problem-Solving within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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 +1 27 £363 -27.50% 70
Derbyshire +5 18 £200 -25.65% 147
Nottinghamshire 0 18 £475 +35.71% 123
Leicestershire -8 6 £344 +29.91% 95
Lincolnshire -1 2 - - 48
Problem-Solving
England

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.37%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.37%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.37%) Fusion 360
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.37%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.74%) Exstream
2 2 (2.74%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.70%) Azure
2 9 (12.33%) AWS
3 6 (8.22%) Serverless
4 5 (6.85%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (6.85%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.85%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (6.85%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.48%) SaaS
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.74%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.74%) GCP
7 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.37%) Google App Engine
8 1 (1.37%) IaaS
8 1 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.37%) BGP
2 1 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.37%) DHCP
2 1 (1.37%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) LAN
2 1 (1.37%) WAN
2 1 (1.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.74%) Big Data
2 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.74%) Power BI
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.37%) GIS
3 1 (1.37%) HBase
3 1 (1.37%) Impala
3 1 (1.37%) Power Query
3 1 (1.37%) QGIS
3 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.74%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.74%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) JIRA
2 2 (2.74%) NetBeans
2 2 (2.74%) Selenium
General
1 40 (54.79%) Social Skills
2 20 (27.40%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.70%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Finance
5 6 (8.22%) Banking
6 4 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Marketing
7 3 (4.11%) Retail
8 2 (2.74%) Automotive
8 2 (2.74%) Games
8 2 (2.74%) Local Government
9 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (12.33%) Analyst
2 8 (10.96%) Architect
3 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.48%) Business Analyst
4 4 (5.48%) Consultant
4 4 (5.48%) Lead
4 4 (5.48%) Senior
5 3 (4.11%) Data Engineer
5 3 (4.11%) Developer
5 3 (4.11%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (4.11%) Junior
5 3 (4.11%) Product Owner
5 3 (4.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Break Fix Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) IT Support
6 2 (2.74%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.74%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (2.74%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (2.74%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) Kafka
2 4 (5.48%) RESTful
3 3 (4.11%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (2.74%) DOM
4 2 (2.74%) HTML
4 2 (2.74%) jQuery
4 2 (2.74%) POSIX
4 2 (2.74%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (1.37%) .NET
5 1 (1.37%) Akka
5 1 (1.37%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.37%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.37%) OAuth
5 1 (1.37%) OpenID
5 1 (1.37%) Play Framework
5 1 (1.37%) REST
5 1 (1.37%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.37%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.11%) EPoS
2 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.11%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.74%) Animation
3 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.37%) Derivative
4 1 (1.37%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) IoT
4 1 (1.37%) Lidar
4 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Linux
3 3 (4.11%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.74%) Android
5 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.14%) Agile
2 13 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (15.07%) Decision-Making
4 9 (12.33%) Service Delivery
4 9 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (10.96%) Break/Fix
5 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
5 8 (10.96%) Migration
5 8 (10.96%) Project Management
6 7 (9.59%) Data Analysis
6 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
6 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (8.22%) Analytics
7 6 (8.22%) CI/CD
7 6 (8.22%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.22%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (8.22%) DevOps
7 6 (8.22%) Software Engineering
7 6 (8.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.44%) Java
2 6 (8.22%) Python
2 6 (8.22%) SQL
3 3 (4.11%) Bash
3 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.11%) Scala
4 2 (2.74%) C
4 2 (2.74%) C#
4 2 (2.74%) C++
5 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (17.81%) Degree
2 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.37%) ACSP
6 1 (1.37%) CCIE
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.70%) QA
2 6 (8.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.11%) GDPR
4 2 (2.74%) MISRA
4 2 (2.74%) MISRA C
4 2 (2.74%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.37%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.37%) PMO
5 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.48%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.48%) SCCM
3 3 (4.11%) AirWatch
4 2 (2.74%) Terraform
5 1 (1.37%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.37%) Podman
5 1 (1.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.74%) Google
2 2 (2.74%) OpenText
2 2 (2.74%) QNX
2 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.74%) Siemens
2 2 (2.74%) VMware
3 1 (1.37%) Apple
3 1 (1.37%) Autodesk
3 1 (1.37%) Cisco
3 1 (1.37%) Databricks
3 1 (1.37%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.37%) SAP