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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 103 101 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 17.20% 12.78% 12.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.58% 16.40% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 71 101
10th Percentile £197 £254 £122
25th Percentile £273 £261 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% - -12.17%
75th Percentile £472 £570 £500
90th Percentile £539 £622 £613
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 14
10th Percentile £15.12 £11.15 £10.89
25th Percentile £15.25 £11.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate £21.39 £13.50 £18.65
Median % change year-on-year +58.44% -27.61% +93.97%
75th Percentile £22.20 £16.25 £23.24
90th Percentile £23.75 £20.95 £46.30
England median hourly rate £21.39 £16.23 £50.75
% change year-on-year +31.79% -68.02% +111.46%

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 526 616 881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 87.81% 77.97% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 424 687
10th Percentile £237 £200 £223
25th Percentile £333 £275 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £418 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -12.00% +7.95%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £588
90th Percentile £588 £622 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 55 48
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.24 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.22 £12.73 £16.34
Median hourly rate £17.87 £16.63 £23.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% -28.47% +16.25%
75th Percentile £22.20 £24.20 £51.50
90th Percentile £35.62 £35.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 55 £358 -28.40% 329
Nottinghamshire 0 19 £500 +42.86% 346
Derbyshire +10 18 £200 -25.65% 542
Leicestershire -6 7 £316 +18.35% 306
Lincolnshire +1 2 - - 276
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 (2.91%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (1.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.97%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.97%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.97%) Fusion 360
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.97%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.97%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.94%) Exstream
2 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.94%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.97%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.33%) AWS
2 18 (17.48%) Azure
3 14 (13.59%) GCP
4 8 (7.77%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.80%) Serverless
6 6 (5.83%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (5.83%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.83%) SaaS
7 5 (4.85%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (1.94%) Azure API Management
10 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.97%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.97%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.97%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (2.91%) HTTP
2 3 (2.91%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.91%) SSL
3 2 (1.94%) Firewall
4 1 (0.97%) BGP
4 1 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.97%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.97%) DHCP
4 1 (0.97%) DNS
4 1 (0.97%) LAN
4 1 (0.97%) WAN
4 1 (0.97%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.91%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.91%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.91%) Power BI
4 2 (1.94%) Big Data
4 2 (1.94%) MySQL
4 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.97%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.97%) GIS
5 1 (0.97%) HBase
5 1 (0.97%) Impala
5 1 (0.97%) QGIS
5 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (13.59%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.83%) Cucumber
2 6 (5.83%) Selenium
3 5 (4.85%) Git
4 2 (1.94%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.94%) JIRA
4 2 (1.94%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (60.19%) Social Skills
2 33 (32.04%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (13.59%) Banking
4 10 (9.71%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (8.74%) Finance
6 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Retail
8 2 (1.94%) Games
8 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.94%) Local Government
8 2 (1.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.97%) Automotive
9 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Law
9 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (10.68%) Analyst
2 10 (9.71%) Architect
3 8 (7.77%) Developer
4 6 (5.83%) Business Analyst
4 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
4 6 (5.83%) IT Support
4 6 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.85%) Automation Tester
5 5 (4.85%) Consultant
5 5 (4.85%) Tester
6 4 (3.88%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (3.88%) Digital Product Owner
6 4 (3.88%) Lead
6 4 (3.88%) Product Owner
6 4 (3.88%) Support Officer
7 3 (2.91%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 3 (2.91%) Identity Management Engineer
7 3 (2.91%) Junior
7 3 (2.91%) Senior
7 3 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) LDAP
2 10 (9.71%) HTML
2 10 (9.71%) Spring
3 8 (7.77%) OAuth
3 8 (7.77%) OpenID
3 8 (7.77%) SAML
4 7 (6.80%) Hibernate
4 7 (6.80%) REST
4 7 (6.80%) RESTful
5 6 (5.83%) jQuery
5 6 (5.83%) Kafka
6 5 (4.85%) CSS
6 5 (4.85%) DOM
7 4 (3.88%) .NET
7 4 (3.88%) Web Services
8 3 (2.91%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.91%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.91%) JPA
8 3 (2.91%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (2.91%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.74%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.91%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.91%) EPoS
3 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.91%) Security Posture
3 3 (2.91%) State Machine
4 2 (1.94%) Animation
4 2 (1.94%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.97%) Derivative
5 1 (0.97%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) IoT
5 1 (0.97%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Windows
2 5 (4.85%) Linux
3 4 (3.88%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.94%) Android
5 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (29.13%) Agile
2 19 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (16.50%) Project Management
4 15 (14.56%) Decision-Making
5 13 (12.62%) CI/CD
5 13 (12.62%) Containerisation
6 12 (11.65%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (9.71%) Analytics
7 10 (9.71%) SDLC
7 10 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (8.74%) Data Analysis
8 9 (8.74%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (7.77%) Mentoring
9 8 (7.77%) Project Delivery
9 8 (7.77%) Scrum
9 8 (7.77%) Service Delivery
9 8 (7.77%) Test Automation
9 8 (7.77%) Workflow
10 7 (6.80%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.10%) Java
2 19 (18.45%) SQL
3 11 (10.68%) Python
4 7 (6.80%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.85%) C#
6 3 (2.91%) Bash
6 3 (2.91%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.91%) Scala
7 2 (1.94%) C
7 2 (1.94%) C++
7 2 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.94%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.97%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.97%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (16.50%) Degree
2 11 (10.68%) SC Cleared
2 11 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.97%) ACSP
6 1 (0.97%) CCIE
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.97%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.62%) QA
2 9 (8.74%) GDPR
3 8 (7.77%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.85%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.94%) MISRA
5 2 (1.94%) MISRA C
5 2 (1.94%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.97%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.97%) NIST
6 1 (0.97%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (12.62%) Docker
2 9 (8.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.80%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 4 (3.88%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (3.88%) SCCM
5 3 (2.91%) AirWatch
6 2 (1.94%) Terraform
7 1 (0.97%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.97%) Podman
7 1 (0.97%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.77%) IBM
3 7 (6.80%) Ping Identity
4 5 (4.85%) Oracle
5 2 (1.94%) Google
5 2 (1.94%) OpenText
5 2 (1.94%) QNX
5 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.94%) SAP
5 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.94%) Siemens
5 2 (1.94%) VMware
6 1 (0.97%) Apple
6 1 (0.97%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.97%) Avaya
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco
6 1 (0.97%) Databricks
6 1 (0.97%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.97%) Genesys
6 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft