Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Problem Solving
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 5 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 +6
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 4 20 3
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 4.44% 17.86% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 24.39% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £188 £192
25th Percentile £425 £246 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £320
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -6.25% -32.63%
75th Percentile £475 £325 £415
90th Percentile - £485 £466
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -1.03% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £11.09 -
25th Percentile £18.35 £12.35 -
Median hourly rate £18.80 £14.57 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.02% - -
75th Percentile £19.24 £16.67 -
90th Percentile - £17.85 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.80 £18.39 £17.06
% change year-on-year +2.19% +7.84% -1.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74 82 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 82.22% 73.21% 71.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 82
10th Percentile £120 £188 £182
25th Percentile £153 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £351 £440
Median % change year-on-year +3.42% -20.34% +3.53%
75th Percentile £491 £550 £500
90th Percentile £628 £648 £609
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.33% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 5
10th Percentile £17.11 £11.45 -
25th Percentile - £13.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% -20.45% +9.32%
75th Percentile - £18.69 -
90th Percentile £39.02 £18.73 £35.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £21.00 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.40% -3.02% +3.12%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Harrogate - 2 £450 - 5
Middlesbrough -1 1 - - 7
Problem-Solving
Yorkshire

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) ICT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Automated Trading
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Market Making
2 1 (25.00%) Order Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Software Licensing
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) MarketAxess
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Tradeweb
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam