Problem-Solving Contracts in Manchester

Problem Solving
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 21 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 140 125 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 9.70% 7.13% 6.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.25% 7.88% 7.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 60 109
10th Percentile £313 £275 £149
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% -0.57%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £573
90th Percentile £656 £651 £650
North West median daily rate £488 £480 £458
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.92% +14.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile £30.95 £13.85 £10.48
25th Percentile £57.50 £15.63 £11.36
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.66 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year +221.50% +49.30% -1.42%
75th Percentile £68.88 £32.39 £17.12
90th Percentile £81.55 £52.56 £30.25
North West median hourly rate £11.20 £34.05 £25.00
% change year-on-year -67.12% +36.18% +71.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,244 1,587 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.15% 90.58% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 1,164 1,823
10th Percentile £325 £319 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 53 52
10th Percentile £12.47 £15.73 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.66 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% +17.07%
75th Percentile £60.94 £40.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.10 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £32.88 £23.39
% change year-on-year -17.88% +40.56% +29.12%

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 5 June 2024.

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 5 June 2024.

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 5 June 2024. 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
Salford +3 1 £475 - 12
Stockport 0 1 £550 - 22
Bolton 0 1 £525 - 20
Oldham - 1 £400 - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 £325 - 2
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 4 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.14%) CMS
2 3 (2.14%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.43%) Confluence
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) LiveLink
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.71%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.14%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.43%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.71%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.71%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.43%) Azure
2 26 (18.57%) AWS
3 10 (7.14%) Snowflake
4 8 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.29%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (2.86%) Serverless
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.14%) Contentstack
8 3 (2.14%) GCP
8 3 (2.14%) OCI
8 3 (2.14%) PaaS
8 3 (2.14%) SaaS
9 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.14%) LAN
1 10 (7.14%) VPN
1 10 (7.14%) WAN
2 8 (5.71%) OSPF
3 7 (5.00%) Ethernet
3 7 (5.00%) Wireless
3 7 (5.00%) Wireless Security
4 6 (4.29%) Network Security
5 5 (3.57%) Firewall
6 4 (2.86%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.86%) VLAN
7 3 (2.14%) DHCP
7 3 (2.14%) DNS
7 3 (2.14%) Intranet
7 3 (2.14%) VoIP
7 3 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.43%) Internet
9 1 (0.71%) 2G
9 1 (0.71%) 3G
9 1 (0.71%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) Data Lake
2 9 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.29%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
4 5 (3.57%) Tableau
5 4 (2.86%) Power BI
6 3 (2.14%) MySQL
6 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.43%) Big Data
7 2 (1.43%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.71%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.71%) OLAP
8 1 (0.71%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.71%) Presto
8 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Git
2 6 (4.29%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.86%) JIRA
4 3 (2.14%) GitLab
4 3 (2.14%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.43%) Appium
5 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.43%) Selenium
6 1 (0.71%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.71%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.71%) MSI
6 1 (0.71%) Travis CI
General
1 89 (63.57%) Social Skills
2 42 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.57%) Legal
4 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.86%) Banking
5 4 (2.86%) Finance
6 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.14%) Law
6 3 (2.14%) Marketing
6 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.14%) Retail
7 2 (1.43%) Electronics
8 1 (0.71%) French Language
8 1 (0.71%) German Language
8 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (19.29%) Service Desk Agent
2 19 (13.57%) Developer
3 16 (11.43%) Senior
4 14 (10.00%) Analyst
5 11 (7.86%) Architect
6 10 (7.14%) Consultant
7 8 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (5.71%) Network Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) Business Analyst
9 5 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (2.86%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 4 (2.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (2.86%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (2.86%) Data Modeller
10 4 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.29%) CSS
1 6 (4.29%) HTML
2 5 (3.57%) .NET
3 2 (1.43%) Node.js
3 2 (1.43%) PySpark
3 2 (1.43%) pytest
3 2 (1.43%) Spring
3 2 (1.43%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.71%) Django
4 1 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.71%) Middleware
4 1 (0.71%) RESTful
4 1 (0.71%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.71%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.14%) Clustering
4 3 (2.14%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.14%) NHS
5 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.43%) CMDB
5 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.43%) Derivative
5 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.43%) Robotics
6 1 (0.71%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.71%) IoT
6 1 (0.71%) Replication
6 1 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.00%) Windows
2 9 (6.43%) Linux
3 5 (3.57%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.14%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.71%) VMS
6 1 (0.71%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 19 (13.57%) DevOps
3 17 (12.14%) Agile
4 15 (10.71%) CI/CD
5 12 (8.57%) Project Management
6 11 (7.86%) Data Modelling
7 10 (7.14%) Design Patterns
8 9 (6.43%) Containerisation
8 9 (6.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (6.43%) Data Integration
8 9 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (5.71%) Business Analysis
9 8 (5.71%) Computer Science
10 7 (5.00%) Analytics
10 7 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (5.00%) Data Governance
10 7 (5.00%) IT Strategy
10 7 (5.00%) ITIL
10 7 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.43%) SQL
2 19 (13.57%) Python
3 11 (7.86%) Bash
4 10 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.29%) Go
5 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.57%) Java
7 3 (2.14%) C#
8 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.71%) Bicep
8 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.71%) VB
8 1 (0.71%) X++
Qualifications
1 19 (13.57%) Degree
2 17 (12.14%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.14%) CCNA
4 10 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.43%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CCSA
9 1 (0.71%) CCSE
9 1 (0.71%) CISSP
9 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.71%) GIAC
9 1 (0.71%) MCTS
9 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (20.00%) SLA
2 11 (7.86%) QA
3 9 (6.43%) Data Quality
4 7 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.14%) GDPR
5 3 (2.14%) IASME
5 3 (2.14%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.71%) COREP
6 1 (0.71%) GxP
6 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (8.57%) Docker
3 10 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.71%) Firmware
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (10.00%) Terraform
2 13 (9.29%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.00%) Ansible
4 6 (4.29%) HP Fortify
4 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.57%) SCCM
6 3 (2.14%) Autotask
6 3 (2.14%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.43%) Nagios
7 2 (1.43%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.71%) Nessus
8 1 (0.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.00%) VMware
3 10 (7.14%) SAP
4 8 (5.71%) Splunk
5 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.14%) Apple
6 3 (2.14%) Databricks
6 3 (2.14%) Datto
6 3 (2.14%) Oracle
6 3 (2.14%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.43%) Cisco
7 2 (1.43%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.71%) Carbon Black
8 1 (0.71%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.71%) Google
8 1 (0.71%) Instagram
8 1 (0.71%) Okta
8 1 (0.71%) Pega
8 1 (0.71%) Symantec
8 1 (0.71%) Teradata