Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Problem Solving
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 6 3
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 2 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 4.08% 22.92% 23.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 27.50% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 10
10th Percentile - £331 £238
25th Percentile £503 £463 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £663 £345
Median % change year-on-year -23.77% +92.03% -26.40%
75th Percentile £508 £772 -
90th Percentile - £788 £391
East Midlands median daily rate £375 £453 £400
% change year-on-year -17.13% +13.13% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 40 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 73.47% 83.33% 78.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 32
10th Percentile £282 £214 £253
25th Percentile £422 £413 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +31.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £524 £758 £700
90th Percentile £555 £801 £760
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £490
% change year-on-year -8.89% -8.16% +5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 2
10th Percentile £18.58 £16.02 £17.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.40 £17.62
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +50.83% +9.50%
75th Percentile - £40.32 £20.19
90th Percentile £34.65 £41.48 £20.38
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
% change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Lincolnshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Lincoln -2 1 £505 +102.00% 15
Brigg - 1 - -
Problem-Solving
East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Demand Forecasting
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks