Problem-Solving Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem Solving
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 12 12 41
Rank change year-on-year 0 +29 -13
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 26 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 11.66% 7.62% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.76% 9.04% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 8
10th Percentile £264 £455 £105
25th Percentile £360 £481 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £533 £311
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +71.43% -37.88%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £361
90th Percentile £580 £590 £553
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £440 £533 £310
% change year-on-year -17.37% +71.77% -38.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £18.48 - -
25th Percentile £24.06 - -
Median hourly rate £34.25 £11.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +211.36% - -
75th Percentile £43.56 - -
90th Percentile £48.63 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £14.07 £11.50 -
% change year-on-year +22.35% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 177 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.75% 84.29% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 89 243
10th Percentile £225 £335 £352
25th Percentile £358 £400 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £650
90th Percentile £629 £650 £740
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 18 0
10th Percentile £21.05 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £30.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £51.35 £68.75 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Newcastle upon Tyne

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) LabWindows
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Google Workspace
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Figma
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.85%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Big Data
1 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) ERwin
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
1 2 (7.69%) PowerDesigner
1 2 (7.69%) REST Assured
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) JUnit
2 1 (3.85%) LabVIEW
2 1 (3.85%) Postman
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (46.15%) Public Sector
3 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Military
5 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (11.54%) Marketing
6 2 (7.69%) Electronics
6 2 (7.69%) Finance
6 2 (7.69%) Legal
6 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
6 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.85%) Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) Lead
2 3 (11.54%) Scala Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Service Analyst
2 3 (11.54%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (7.69%) Data Modeller
3 2 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Designer
3 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Product Designer
3 2 (7.69%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.85%) ABAP Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (3.85%) QA Tester
4 1 (3.85%) SAP Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Akka
2 2 (7.69%) Play Framework
3 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.85%) pytest
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Smartphone
2 2 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) FPGA
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) PMI
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Mac OS
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
2 7 (26.92%) Decision-Making
2 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (11.54%) BDD
3 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
3 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
3 3 (11.54%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (11.54%) ITIL
3 3 (11.54%) Product Management
3 3 (11.54%) Programme Management
3 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
3 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
3 3 (11.54%) User Stories
3 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
4 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Functional Programming
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Scala
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) ABAP
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) Bicep
3 1 (3.85%) C
3 1 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kibana
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) SCCM
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) SAP
2 3 (11.54%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) Sage
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce