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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 56 28 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 26.17% 14.81% 12.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 27.59% 16.09% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 22 12
10th Percentile £217 £356 £231
25th Percentile £308 £412 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £555 £360
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +54.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £440 £617 £378
90th Percentile £525 £622 £400
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 £500 £350
% change year-on-year -28.40% +42.86% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.39 - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 - £24.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.73%

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 203 174 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.86% 92.06% 84.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 140 80
10th Percentile £260 £355 £189
25th Percentile £332 £373 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £448 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% +11.88% -13.98%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £500
90th Percentile £500 £620 £609
Northamptonshire median daily rate £391 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -12.25% +11.25% -13.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £16.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% +18.53%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +68.93%

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 5 June 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 3 (5.36%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.93%) AWS
2 13 (23.21%) GCP
3 9 (16.07%) Azure
4 6 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
4 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (10.71%) Serverless
5 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.14%) SaaS
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.79%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.79%) Google App Engine
8 1 (1.79%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) HTTP
1 3 (5.36%) HTTPS
1 3 (5.36%) SSL
2 1 (1.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.36%) DynamoDB
1 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.57%) Big Data
2 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.57%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.79%) HBase
3 1 (1.79%) Impala
3 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (26.79%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 7 (12.50%) Selenium
3 3 (5.36%) Git
General
1 36 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (23.21%) Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Finance
6 2 (3.57%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (14.29%) Architect
2 6 (10.71%) Automation Tester
2 6 (10.71%) Tester
3 5 (8.93%) Analyst
3 5 (8.93%) Developer
3 5 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.14%) Digital Product Owner
4 4 (7.14%) IT Support
4 4 (7.14%) Product Owner
4 4 (7.14%) Support Officer
5 3 (5.36%) Consultant
5 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Identity Management Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Junior
5 3 (5.36%) Lead
6 2 (3.57%) Junior Tester
6 2 (3.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.43%) LDAP
2 11 (19.64%) HTML
3 10 (17.86%) Spring
4 8 (14.29%) REST
5 7 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 7 (12.50%) jQuery
5 7 (12.50%) OAuth
5 7 (12.50%) OpenID
5 7 (12.50%) RESTful
5 7 (12.50%) SAML
6 6 (10.71%) DOM
6 6 (10.71%) Kafka
7 5 (8.93%) CSS
8 4 (7.14%) Web Services
9 3 (5.36%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
9 3 (5.36%) JPA
9 3 (5.36%) React
9 3 (5.36%) Spring Batch
9 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.36%) EPoS
4 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.36%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.36%) State Machine
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Agile
2 13 (23.21%) Identity Access Management
3 12 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 12 (21.43%) Containerisation
3 12 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (17.86%) Project Management
5 9 (16.07%) SDLC
6 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 8 (14.29%) Scrum
7 7 (12.50%) Microservices
7 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.71%) Analytics
8 6 (10.71%) Clean Code
8 6 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.71%) Service Delivery
8 6 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (10.71%) Visualisation
9 5 (8.93%) Migration
9 5 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (48.21%) Java
2 13 (23.21%) SQL
3 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.14%) Python
5 3 (5.36%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.36%) Scala
6 2 (3.57%) C#
6 2 (3.57%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) GDPR
2 5 (8.93%) HIPAA
3 4 (7.14%) QA
4 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.79%) NIST
6 1 (1.79%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 7 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (12.50%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (5.36%) AirWatch
3 3 (5.36%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (5.36%) SCCM
4 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) IBM
2 7 (12.50%) Ping Identity
3 5 (8.93%) Oracle
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.79%) SAP