Self-Motivation Contract Job Trends 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 3 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 122 129
Rank change year-on-year -29 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 34 45 69
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.84% 1.09% 1.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.37% 3.76% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 31
10th Percentile £279 £175 £175
25th Percentile £418 £213 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £225 £500
Median % change year-on-year +106.11% -55.00% -
75th Percentile £539 £585 £556
90th Percentile £600 £638 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £523
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.09% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £15.00 £36.38 £18.14
25th Percentile £15.63 £36.56 £21.36
Median hourly rate £29.00 £38.75 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.16% +21.09% +62.52%
75th Percentile £70.15 £41.56 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £42.13 £39.90
England median hourly rate £26.18 £70.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -62.60% +115.38% -18.75%

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 1,434 1,196 1,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 35.36% 28.98% 28.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 657 960
10th Percentile £300 £213 £256
25th Percentile £381 £380 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 51 56
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.15 £15.66
25th Percentile £17.60 £15.36 £17.24
Median hourly rate £30.32 £24.18 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.37% -22.00% +49.18%
75th Percentile £54.38 £46.18 £47.66
90th Percentile £69.29 £63.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £46.18
% change year-on-year -47.69% +24.19% +79.62%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Self-Motivation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Self-Motivation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Self-Motivation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Self-Motivation

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 3 October 2025.

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

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Self-Motivation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Self-Motivation

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -27 17 £465 +106.67% 58
North West -22 14 £425 +88.89% 124
North East - 3 £450 - 21
Self-Motivation
England

Self-Motivation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.88%) Simulink
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.94%) GitHub
3 1 (2.94%) SaaS
3 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
1 3 (8.82%) Impala
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Liquibase
2 2 (5.88%) Postman
3 1 (2.94%) Appium
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Aeronautics
4 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Military
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Project Manager
2 5 (14.71%) Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Technical Manager
3 4 (11.76%) Planning Manager
4 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Design Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Development Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Maximo Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Data Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Tester
6 1 (2.94%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Designer
6 1 (2.94%) Project Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Middleware
1 1 (2.94%) OpenAPI
1 1 (2.94%) REST
1 1 (2.94%) Swagger
1 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
1 2 (5.88%) Smart Energy
1 2 (5.88%) Smart Meter
2 1 (2.94%) Acoustics
2 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (17.65%) Conflict Management
3 6 (17.65%) Time Management
4 5 (14.71%) Agile
5 4 (11.76%) Business Strategy
5 4 (11.76%) Change Management
5 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.76%) Dependency Management
6 3 (8.82%) Analytics
6 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (8.82%) Data Analytics
6 3 (8.82%) Decision Tree
6 3 (8.82%) DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) Logistic Regression
6 3 (8.82%) Performance Analysis
6 3 (8.82%) Project Management
6 3 (8.82%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (8.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) Python
2 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 3 (8.82%) R
4 2 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.88%) IBM
3 2 (5.88%) MathWorks
3 2 (5.88%) Sage
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) Xero
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow