Problem-Solving Contracts in Manchester

Problem Solving
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 12 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 153 154 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 16.22% 10.59% 7.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.46% 12.29% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 94 70
10th Percentile £283 £313 £308
25th Percentile £400 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £650
90th Percentile £703 £654 £790
North West median daily rate £485 £488 £481
% change year-on-year -0.62% +1.35% +1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £14.77 £30.95 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.77 £57.50 £16.83
Median hourly rate £45.55 £60.00 £19.08
Median % change year-on-year -24.08% +214.42% +51.57%
75th Percentile £70.63 £68.88 £54.80
90th Percentile £71.75 £81.55 £70.75
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £11.20 £27.50
% change year-on-year +156.81% -59.29% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 829 1,253 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.91% 86.18% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 822 1,194
10th Percentile £306 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £689 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £453 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.43% -1.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 79 51
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.50 £14.65
25th Percentile £20.39 £14.13 £16.85
Median hourly rate £49.99 £26.52 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.51% +17.87% +23.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £82.78 £75.80 £66.00
North West median hourly rate £30.88 £30.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year +2.93% -1.77% +26.72%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Manchester

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Bolton +2 9 £185 -64.76% 128
Salford +3 6 £625 +31.58% 27
Stockport 0 5 £500 -9.09% 85
Oldham +4 4 - - 7
Wigan - 3 £375 - 9
Altrincham - 1 - - 54
Bury - 1 - - 39
Problem-Solving
North West

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 16 (10.46%) IBM Domino
2 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.27%) Confluence
4 4 (2.61%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.61%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.61%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.65%) CICS
Applications
1 13 (8.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.61%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.96%) SAP EWM
4 2 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.31%) Maximo
4 2 (1.31%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.65%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.65%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 29 (18.95%) Azure
2 20 (13.07%) AWS
2 20 (13.07%) Power Platform
3 12 (7.84%) GCP
4 10 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.92%) PowerApps
6 5 (3.27%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.27%) IaaS
7 4 (2.61%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.61%) GitHub
7 4 (2.61%) IBM Cloud
7 4 (2.61%) npm
7 4 (2.61%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.96%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.96%) Google Sheets
8 3 (1.96%) SaaS
8 3 (1.96%) Serverless
9 2 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.84%) Firewall
1 12 (7.84%) Network Security
2 8 (5.23%) VPN
3 6 (3.92%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.27%) DNS
4 5 (3.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (3.27%) WAN
5 4 (2.61%) Calico
5 4 (2.61%) DHCP
6 3 (1.96%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.31%) BGP
7 2 (1.31%) DWDM
7 2 (1.31%) EIGRP
7 2 (1.31%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.31%) OSPF
8 1 (0.65%) IPsec
8 1 (0.65%) LAN
8 1 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.80%) Power BI
2 14 (9.15%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.84%) Tableau
4 5 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.61%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.61%) MySQL
6 3 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.31%) Airbyte
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.31%) Big Data
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.65%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.65%) HBase
8 1 (0.65%) Metadata
8 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.65%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (8.50%) JIRA
2 10 (6.54%) GitLab
3 9 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.23%) Git
5 5 (3.27%) Maven
6 3 (1.96%) Hudson
7 2 (1.31%) JUnit
8 1 (0.65%) Ant
8 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.65%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.65%) ERwin
8 1 (0.65%) Gradle
8 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.65%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.65%) NUnit
8 1 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.65%) Selenium
8 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 81 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (17.65%) Finance
4 15 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.15%) Banking
6 8 (5.23%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.58%) Retail
8 6 (3.92%) Legal
8 6 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.27%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.61%) French Language
10 4 (2.61%) Marketing
11 2 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.31%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.65%) Automotive
12 1 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (22.88%) Analyst
2 15 (9.80%) Developer
2 15 (9.80%) Senior
3 13 (8.50%) Consultant
4 11 (7.19%) Lead
5 10 (6.54%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.88%) Coordinator
7 8 (5.23%) CRM Coordinator
7 8 (5.23%) Migration Engineer
7 8 (5.23%) Technical Coordinator
8 7 (4.58%) Architect
8 7 (4.58%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (3.92%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) Data Migration Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Data Consultant
10 5 (3.27%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (3.27%) IT Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) IT Support
10 5 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.92%) HTML
2 5 (3.27%) .NET
2 5 (3.27%) React
3 4 (2.61%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.61%) CSS
3 4 (2.61%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.96%) REST
4 3 (1.96%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.31%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.31%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.31%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.31%) RxJS
5 2 (1.31%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.31%) Spring
5 2 (1.31%) Swing
6 1 (0.65%) Ajax
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (0.65%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.65%) JSON
6 1 (0.65%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (3.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.61%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.31%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.31%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.31%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.31%) Replication
6 1 (0.65%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.65%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.11%) Windows
2 7 (4.58%) Linux
3 5 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.61%) Android
4 4 (2.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Unix
5 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (19.61%) Analytics
2 28 (18.30%) Agile
3 27 (17.65%) Project Management
4 23 (15.03%) Decision-Making
5 20 (13.07%) Change Management
6 19 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 17 (11.11%) Migration
8 16 (10.46%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (9.80%) Data Management
10 14 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (9.15%) DevOps
10 14 (9.15%) Project Delivery
11 13 (8.50%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (7.84%) Data Migration
12 12 (7.84%) ETL
12 12 (7.84%) Strategic Thinking
13 11 (7.19%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 11 (7.19%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 25 (16.34%) SQL
2 18 (11.76%) Python
3 8 (5.23%) PL/SQL
4 7 (4.58%) JavaScript
4 7 (4.58%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 5 (3.27%) C#
6 5 (3.27%) Java
6 5 (3.27%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.31%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.65%) JCL
8 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (13.73%) Degree
2 11 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.27%) CCNA
5 5 (3.27%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.27%) PMP
6 4 (2.61%) A+ Certification
6 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.61%) CCNP
6 4 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.31%) GCIA
7 2 (1.31%) GCIH
7 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.61%) QA
4 2 (1.31%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) COBIT
5 1 (0.65%) GDPR
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.54%) Docker
2 6 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.27%) vSphere
4 2 (1.31%) Firmware
5 1 (0.65%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 12 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.92%) Terraform
3 4 (2.61%) Istio
4 2 (1.31%) Ansible
5 1 (0.65%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.15%) SAP
3 13 (8.50%) Oracle
4 9 (5.88%) Google
5 8 (5.23%) IBM
6 7 (4.58%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.27%) VMware
8 4 (2.61%) Cisco
8 4 (2.61%) Meraki
9 3 (1.96%) Splunk
10 2 (1.31%) Kronos
11 1 (0.65%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.65%) BMC
11 1 (0.65%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.65%) Concur
11 1 (0.65%) F5
11 1 (0.65%) Informatica
11 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.65%) Remedy