Problem-Solving Contracts in the North East

Problem Solving
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 4 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 37 41 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 12.17% 13.18% 6.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.35% 16.47% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 13
10th Percentile £223 £450 £121
25th Percentile £342 £491 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £311
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +80.72% -32.70%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £450
90th Percentile £573 £931 £560
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.45 -
25th Percentile £13.18 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% - -
75th Percentile £36.31 £16.94 -
90th Percentile £54.24 £44.73 -
England median hourly rate £21.39 £16.23 £50.75
% change year-on-year +31.79% -68.02% +111.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 249 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.28% 80.06% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 112 249
10th Percentile £216 £263 £241
25th Percentile £355 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £559 £590 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 48 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.74
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.97 £34.98
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £39.34
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -52.97% +138.42%
75th Percentile £33.40 £48.75 £43.07
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 £44.94
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Problem-Solving in the North East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Problem-Solving in the North East

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Tyne and Wear -6 30 £430 -19.25% 421
Durham +1 3 £540 -13.60% 24
Northumberland 0 1 - - 6
Problem-Solving
England

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 (2.70%) CMS
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) Trello
2 1 (2.70%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) LabWindows
1 1 (2.70%) SAP PP
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.70%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) Figma
3 2 (5.41%) GitHub
3 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.70%) Kong
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
1 2 (5.41%) GitLab
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
1 2 (5.41%) REST Assured
1 2 (5.41%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) JUnit
2 1 (2.70%) LabVIEW
2 1 (2.70%) Postman
General
1 24 (64.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Finance
5 3 (8.11%) Marketing
6 2 (5.41%) Electronics
6 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.41%) Legal
6 2 (5.41%) Local Government
6 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (10.81%) Designer
1 4 (10.81%) Developer
1 4 (10.81%) Product Designer
2 3 (8.11%) Lead
2 3 (8.11%) Product Manager
3 2 (5.41%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (5.41%) Consultant
3 2 (5.41%) Deployment Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
3 2 (5.41%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (5.41%) SAP Developer
3 2 (5.41%) Scala Developer
3 2 (5.41%) Senior
3 2 (5.41%) Support Officer
3 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Akka
1 2 (5.41%) Play Framework
1 2 (5.41%) REST
2 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.70%) GatsbyJS
2 1 (2.70%) HTML
2 1 (2.70%) JSON
2 1 (2.70%) Next.js
2 1 (2.70%) Node.js
2 1 (2.70%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.70%) Playwright
2 1 (2.70%) pytest
2 1 (2.70%) React
2 1 (2.70%) RESTful
2 1 (2.70%) Swagger
2 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.41%) PMI
2 2 (5.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.70%) FPGA
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.03%) Agile
1 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
2 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making
3 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
4 4 (10.81%) Customer Service
4 4 (10.81%) Design Thinking
4 4 (10.81%) Product Management
4 4 (10.81%) Wireframes
5 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (8.11%) BDD
5 3 (8.11%) Data Protection
5 3 (8.11%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.11%) Product Requirements
5 3 (8.11%) Programme Management
5 3 (8.11%) Project Management
5 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
5 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (8.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) ABAP
1 2 (5.41%) Python
1 2 (5.41%) Scala
2 1 (2.70%) Bash
2 1 (2.70%) Bicep
2 1 (2.70%) C
2 1 (2.70%) Java
2 1 (2.70%) SQL
2 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) Degree
3 5 (13.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) DBS Check
4 2 (5.41%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.41%) MCP
4 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.70%) APMG
5 1 (2.70%) CCNA
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.70%) PMP
5 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Kibana
1 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.41%) SCCM
1 2 (5.41%) Terraform
2 1 (2.70%) Ansible
2 1 (2.70%) Grafana
2 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) SAP
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.41%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) Sage
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) VMware