Problem-Solving Contracts in Halifax

Problem Solving
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Halifax 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 7 2 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Halifax 5.26% 33.33% 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 33.33% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £330 £595
Median % change year-on-year +55.30% -44.54% -
75th Percentile £519 £434 £613
90th Percentile - £496 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +3.09% -11.82% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 9 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 94.74% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 21
10th Percentile £493 - £449
25th Percentile £500 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £330 £550
Median % change year-on-year +55.30% -40.00% +37.50%
75th Percentile £550 £434 £588
90th Percentile £575 £496 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Halifax

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Halifax

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Halifax

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Halifax

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNA
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM