Problem-Solving Contracts in Leeds

Problem Solving
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 3 7 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +19
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 93 84 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 20.00% 10.51% 7.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.73% 12.14% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 57 64
10th Percentile £220 £255 £413
25th Percentile £343 £363 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -10.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £620
90th Percentile £600 £600 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +3.09% -11.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +203.70% -80.71% +154.55%
75th Percentile £102.00 £15.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £15.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +47.60% -78.57% +301.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
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 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 1 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Hourly rate histogram 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 12 (12.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (7.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (4.30%) Confluence
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.08%) Apache
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.08%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.08%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.08%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.83%) GCP
2 10 (10.75%) AWS
2 10 (10.75%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.60%) Azure
4 6 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.23%) Google Compute Engine
5 3 (3.23%) Serverless
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.15%) Lucidchart
6 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.08%) Asana
7 1 (1.08%) npm
7 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.98%) DNS
2 2 (2.15%) IMAP
2 2 (2.15%) Network Security
2 2 (2.15%) POP3
2 2 (2.15%) SMTP
3 1 (1.08%) Internet
3 1 (1.08%) Intranet
3 1 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.05%) Oracle Database
2 9 (9.68%) Power BI
3 7 (7.53%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.45%) Flink
5 4 (4.30%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.30%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.30%) Tableau
6 3 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.23%) Power Query
7 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.08%) Big Data
8 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.08%) Looker
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Git
2 5 (5.38%) JIRA
3 3 (3.23%) Selenium
4 1 (1.08%) Babel
4 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 54 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.20%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.53%) Finance
5 6 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.38%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.30%) Banking
8 3 (3.23%) Health Technology
8 3 (3.23%) Legal
9 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Games
10 1 (1.08%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (12.90%) Analyst
1 12 (12.90%) Developer
2 10 (10.75%) Architect
3 9 (9.68%) Lead
4 8 (8.60%) Engineering Specialist
4 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 6 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) Senior
6 5 (5.38%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.30%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (4.30%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.30%) Scala Developer
7 4 (4.30%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.30%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) GCP Architect
8 3 (3.23%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) Kafka
1 7 (7.53%) React
2 6 (6.45%) Apache Beam
2 6 (6.45%) Spark Streaming
3 5 (5.38%) JDBC
4 4 (4.30%) Akka
4 4 (4.30%) CSS
5 3 (3.23%) Play Framework
6 2 (2.15%) .NET
6 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.15%) HTML
6 2 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (2.15%) Playwright
6 2 (2.15%) REST
6 2 (2.15%) RESTful
6 2 (2.15%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (1.08%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.08%) JWT
7 1 (1.08%) Next.js
7 1 (1.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (7.53%) NHS
3 3 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.08%) iPhone
5 1 (1.08%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.08%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.35%) Linux
1 18 (19.35%) Windows
2 14 (15.05%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.15%) Unix
4 1 (1.08%) Android
4 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.78%) Agile
2 16 (17.20%) Microservices
3 15 (16.13%) CI/CD
3 15 (16.13%) Decision-Making
3 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (13.98%) DevOps
5 13 (13.98%) Security Management
6 12 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (12.90%) SOA
7 10 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (10.75%) ITIL
7 10 (10.75%) Server Management
8 9 (9.68%) Change Management
8 9 (9.68%) Project Management
8 9 (9.68%) Scrum
8 9 (9.68%) Visualisation
9 8 (8.60%) Analytics
9 8 (8.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.43%) SQL
2 14 (15.05%) Bash
2 14 (15.05%) Perl
2 14 (15.05%) Python
3 13 (13.98%) PL/SQL
4 11 (11.83%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.53%) Scala
6 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.23%) C#
7 3 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.15%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.15%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.08%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.05%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.60%) Degree
5 4 (4.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.08%) CBAP
6 1 (1.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.08%) MBA
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) PMO
2 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.15%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (17.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (7.53%) Terraform
2 4 (4.30%) Kibana
3 2 (2.15%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (2.15%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.08%) Ansible
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 15 (16.13%) Oracle
2 14 (15.05%) Cisco
3 5 (5.38%) Google
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.30%) SAP
4 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.23%) Brio
5 3 (3.23%) Databricks
5 3 (3.23%) Dell
5 3 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.15%) Splunk
6 2 (2.15%) Veritas
7 1 (1.08%) Ariba
7 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.08%) Citrix
7 1 (1.08%) Workday