Problem-Solving Contracts in Norfolk

Problem Solving
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Norfolk 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 12 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Norfolk 26.67% 18.18% 17.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.57% 25.64% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 11
10th Percentile £200 £481 £150
25th Percentile £388 £513 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £345
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +52.17% +130.00%
75th Percentile - £538 -
90th Percentile £458 £544 £475
East of England median daily rate £477 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -4.63% +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £15.41 £14.15 £14.21
25th Percentile £18.04 £14.38 £14.53
Median hourly rate £22.63 £15.63 £15.57
Median % change year-on-year +44.80% +0.39% -
75th Percentile £27.01 £17.06 £16.10
90th Percentile £29.53 £17.18 £16.12
East of England median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% -36.17% +74.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42 39 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 93.33% 70.91% 84.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 54
10th Percentile £200 £150 £120
25th Percentile £270 £208 £182
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £270
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +38.89% +40.33%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £388
90th Percentile £548 - £475
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 9
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.93 £11.93
25th Percentile £14.68 £13.60 £16.13
Median hourly rate £15.80 £15.63 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -25.63% -22.13%
75th Percentile £21.41 £19.50 £21.52
90th Percentile £25.44 £26.25 £24.68
East of England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% +81.82% +41.94%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Norfolk

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Norfolk

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Norfolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Norfolk over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Norfolk

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Norfolk

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in Norfolk

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in Norfolk over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Norfolk

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

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 Norfolk region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Norwich -2 9 £450 -14.29% 30
Great Yarmouth - 1 £200 - 1
King's Lynn - 1 - - 1
Problem-Solving
East of England

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

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Technician
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Alpine.js
1 5 (41.67%) CSS
1 5 (41.67%) Laravel
1 5 (41.67%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Design Patterns
2 5 (41.67%) Microservices
2 5 (41.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (16.67%) Database Security
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Data Management
4 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.33%) Database Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (8.33%) RBAC
4 1 (8.33%) Security Management
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) PHP
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Altiris