Problem-Solving Contracts in Leeds

Problem Solving
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Problem-Solving skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 16 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 83 98 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 10.52% 7.40% 5.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.12% 8.13% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 63 56
10th Percentile £255 £413 £250
25th Percentile £370 £485 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £622 £538
90th Percentile £600 £700 £550
West Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -11.82% +15.79% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £19.65
25th Percentile £11.75 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £13.50 £70.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.71% +154.55% +58.50%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £29.00
90th Percentile - - £29.15
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £70.00 £17.43
% change year-on-year -78.57% +301.72% -10.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Problem-Solving is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 685 1,206 1,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.82% 91.09% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 868 1,055
10th Percentile £300 £386 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 19
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.13 £17.95
25th Percentile £12.15 £17.43 £20.56
Median hourly rate £12.30 £44.53 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -72.38% +97.50% +7.36%
75th Percentile £12.53 £68.44 £28.00
90th Percentile £15.24 £70.00 £28.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -53.59% +50.00% -19.54%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Leeds

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Leeds

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Leeds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Leeds

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Leeds

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (2.41%) Apache
1 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
2 7 (8.43%) AWS
2 7 (8.43%) Azure
2 7 (8.43%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (7.23%) PowerApps
4 3 (3.61%) GCP
5 2 (2.41%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.20%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.20%) Serverless
6 1 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (7.23%) LAN
3 5 (6.02%) Firewall
3 5 (6.02%) Internet
3 5 (6.02%) SAN
4 2 (2.41%) DHCP
4 2 (2.41%) DNS
4 2 (2.41%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.20%) Broadband
5 1 (1.20%) PSTN
5 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) Power BI
2 4 (4.82%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.41%) Apache Hive
4 2 (2.41%) Big Data
4 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.41%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.41%) Spark SQL
4 2 (2.41%) Tableau
5 1 (1.20%) Ingres
5 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.20%) Power Query
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Cucumber
1 3 (3.61%) Git
1 3 (3.61%) JMeter
1 3 (3.61%) XCUITest
2 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.20%) Postman
2 1 (1.20%) Selenium
2 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (61.45%) Social Skills
2 35 (42.17%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (18.07%) Finance
4 10 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.43%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.82%) Banking
7 4 (4.82%) Health Technology
8 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.41%) Retail
10 1 (1.20%) Billing
10 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Developer
2 15 (18.07%) Analyst
3 12 (14.46%) Lead
4 11 (13.25%) Business Analyst
5 7 (8.43%) Senior
6 6 (7.23%) IT Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) ServiceNow Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Automation Tester
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Tester
8 4 (4.82%) IT Support
8 4 (4.82%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Automation Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Product Lead
10 2 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.41%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) Web Services
2 3 (3.61%) .NET
2 3 (3.61%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.61%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.41%) JSON
3 2 (2.41%) Kafka
3 2 (2.41%) REST
4 1 (1.20%) CSS
4 1 (1.20%) LDAP
4 1 (1.20%) Node.js
4 1 (1.20%) PySpark
4 1 (1.20%) React
4 1 (1.20%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.20%) SAML
4 1 (1.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.23%) NHS
3 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.20%) CMDB
5 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.20%) Genomics
5 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) mHealth
5 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.20%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Windows
2 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.61%) Android
3 3 (3.61%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.41%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.92%) Project Management
2 23 (27.71%) Agile
3 16 (19.28%) Customer Service
3 16 (19.28%) Test Automation
4 13 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (12.05%) CI/CD
5 10 (12.05%) Software Architecture
6 9 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (10.84%) Project Planning
7 8 (9.64%) ITIL
7 8 (9.64%) User Stories
8 7 (8.43%) ITSM
8 7 (8.43%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (7.23%) Customer Insight
9 6 (7.23%) Decarbonisation
9 6 (7.23%) ERP
9 6 (7.23%) GAP Analysis
9 6 (7.23%) Supply Chain Management
9 6 (7.23%) Workshop Facilitation
10 5 (6.02%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.25%) JavaScript
1 11 (13.25%) Python
2 8 (9.64%) SQL
3 6 (7.23%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.82%) Java
5 3 (3.61%) C#
5 3 (3.61%) Kotlin
5 3 (3.61%) MATLAB
5 3 (3.61%) VB.NET
5 3 (3.61%) VBA
6 2 (2.41%) ABAP
6 2 (2.41%) Scala
7 1 (1.20%) Bash
7 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.20%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) Degree
2 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.20%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.20%) CCNA
4 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.20%) CISM
4 1 (1.20%) CISSP
4 1 (1.20%) Dell Certification
4 1 (1.20%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) PMO
3 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.82%) Docker
3 3 (3.61%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.41%) HDFS
4 2 (2.41%) KVM
4 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.41%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) VMware
3 6 (7.23%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.82%) Brio
5 3 (3.61%) SAP
6 2 (2.41%) Ariba
7 1 (1.20%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.20%) Concur
7 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.20%) Databricks
7 1 (1.20%) Dell
7 1 (1.20%) HP
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle
7 1 (1.20%) Thycotic
7 1 (1.20%) Toshiba
7 1 (1.20%) Xerox