Self-Motivation Contracts in the North of England

Self-Motivation
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation 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 130 133 143
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -28
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 36 52 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.09% 1.09% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.57% 3.99% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 36
10th Percentile £306 £333 £251
25th Percentile £372 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £529
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +0.71% +24.41%
75th Percentile £639 £629 £628
90th Percentile £663 £678 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.15% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 9
10th Percentile £20.33 £11.79 £12.95
25th Percentile £25.13 £18.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +12.31% +59.66%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.25 £48.98
90th Percentile £46.53 - £49.95
England median hourly rate £26.81 £62.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -57.10% +150.00% -3.85%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Self-Motivation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Self-Motivation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in the North of England

Self-Motivation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Self-Motivation in the North of England

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Self-Motivation in the North of England

Self-Motivation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Self-Motivation in the North of England

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Self-Motivation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Self-Motivation in the North of England

Self-Motivation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Motivation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +10 18 £600 +20.00% 139
North West -1 17 £475 -13.64% 220
North East - 1 - - 45
Self-Motivation
England

Self-Motivation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (2.78%) CMS
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.78%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.78%) SAP MM
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) GitHub
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) SMTP
2 2 (5.56%) WAN
3 1 (2.78%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) Intranet
3 1 (2.78%) IPsec
3 1 (2.78%) LAN
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Bugzilla
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
1 1 (2.78%) Selenium
1 1 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Retail
3 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Automotive
4 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 6 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.33%) Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.78%) Marketing
8 1 (2.78%) Military
8 1 (2.78%) Publishing
8 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (13.89%) Senior
2 3 (8.33%) Architect
2 3 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (5.56%) Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Developer
3 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Support Analyst
3 2 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (2.78%) React Developer
4 1 (2.78%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (2.78%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Test Automation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) LDAP
2 1 (2.78%) Node.js
2 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Augmented Reality
1 5 (13.89%) e-Learning
1 5 (13.89%) Podcast
1 5 (13.89%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (5.56%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.78%) PMI
3 1 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.00%) Project Management
3 6 (16.67%) Benchmarking
3 6 (16.67%) Business Case
3 6 (16.67%) Coaching
3 6 (16.67%) ITSM
3 6 (16.67%) SIEM
4 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (13.89%) Supplier Management
5 4 (11.11%) Agile
5 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
5 4 (11.11%) DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 3 (8.33%) Time Management
7 2 (5.56%) Computer Science
7 2 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.33%) Python
2 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) CCA
2 2 (5.56%) CISM
2 2 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (2.78%) CCNA
3 1 (2.78%) CCNP
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) NIST
2 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) GRC
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) NCSC
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
3 1 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (2.78%) Centrify
3 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
3 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) Meraki
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.78%) Thycotic