Problem-Solving Contracts in Northampton

Problem Solving
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 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 4 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 26 19 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 21.14% 14.96% 16.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 22.61% 15.83% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 19
10th Percentile £188 £285 £212
25th Percentile £316 £383 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £577 £270
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% +113.70% -40.00%
75th Percentile £500 £622 £370
90th Percentile £535 £636 £400
Northamptonshire median daily rate £363 £500 £328
% change year-on-year -27.50% +52.67% -22.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 115 120 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.50% 94.49% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 91 89
10th Percentile £262 £325 £163
25th Percentile £356 £356 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £460 £375
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +22.67% -18.48%
75th Percentile £475 £595 £500
90th Percentile £529 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.58% +7.56%
75th Percentile £15.25 - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Northampton

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Northampton

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northampton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Northampton

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Northampton

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Amazon Kinesis
1 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
1 5 (19.23%) AWS
1 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (19.23%) Serverless
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
2 3 (11.54%) SaaS
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Google App Engine
4 1 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (7.69%) Big Data
2 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.85%) HBase
3 1 (3.85%) Impala
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Digital Product Owner
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Product Owner
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Java Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Junior
4 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Scala Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.85%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) Kafka
2 4 (15.38%) RESTful
3 3 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (7.69%) DOM
4 2 (7.69%) HTML
4 2 (7.69%) jQuery
5 1 (3.85%) Akka
5 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (3.85%) Middleware
5 1 (3.85%) Play Framework
5 1 (3.85%) REST
5 1 (3.85%) SOAP
5 1 (3.85%) Visualforce
5 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) EPoS
2 3 (11.54%) Public Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
2 6 (23.08%) Service Delivery
2 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (19.23%) Analytics
3 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
3 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
3 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (19.23%) Migration
3 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 3 (11.54%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (11.54%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (11.54%) Business Process Modelling
5 3 (11.54%) Compliance Management
5 3 (11.54%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.54%) Inventory Management
5 3 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) Scala
3 2 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) AirWatch
1 3 (11.54%) Jamf Pro
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (11.54%) SCCM
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft