Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Problem Solving
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 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 6 4 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -15
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 58 35 8
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 22.22% 20.00% 4.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 24.07% 21.88% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 27 6
10th Percentile £350 £327 £169
25th Percentile £360 £356 £192
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £388 £313
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% +24.00% -22.84%
75th Percentile £447 £483 £423
90th Percentile £475 £615 £481
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +0.50% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.20 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.34 £17.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -3.91% -38.18% +133.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 160 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 92.34% 91.43% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 123 110
10th Percentile £311 £315 £219
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £403 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.12% -17.01% +8.99%
75th Percentile £474 £525 £534
90th Percentile £550 £619 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £444 £475
% change year-on-year -5.41% -6.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 16
10th Percentile - - £14.04
25th Percentile - £23.10 £19.88
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +172.00%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Northamptonshire

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -2 55 £405 +4.52% 53
Wellingborough - 1 - - 1
Problem-Solving
East Midlands

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 6 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.17%) Apache
2 3 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.14%) AWS
2 10 (17.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 10 (17.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 7 (12.07%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) Azure
5 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub
6 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.17%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.17%) Power Automate
6 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.17%) PowerApps
6 3 (5.17%) Serverless
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (10.34%) Metadata
2 4 (6.90%) Big Data
3 3 (5.17%) Aerospike
3 3 (5.17%) Apache Hive
3 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
3 3 (5.17%) HBase
3 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.17%) GitLab
4 2 (3.45%) Grunt
4 2 (3.45%) gulp
4 2 (3.45%) webpack
5 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.72%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
5 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 35 (60.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (27.59%) Finance
4 10 (17.24%) Marketing
5 7 (12.07%) Banking
6 5 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Retail
9 1 (1.72%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Analyst
2 10 (17.24%) Architect
2 10 (17.24%) Developer
3 9 (15.52%) Salesforce Architect
4 8 (13.79%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) IT Support
5 5 (8.62%) Payments Analyst
5 5 (8.62%) Payments Business Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Hadoop Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Identity Management Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (5.17%) IT Technician
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
7 3 (5.17%) Scala Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) REST
2 12 (20.69%) Middleware
3 11 (18.97%) SOAP
4 10 (17.24%) Kafka
4 10 (17.24%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (17.24%) Visualforce
5 4 (6.90%) Hibernate
5 4 (6.90%) Spring
6 3 (5.17%) HTML
6 3 (5.17%) LDAP
6 3 (5.17%) Node.js
6 3 (5.17%) OAuth
6 3 (5.17%) OpenID
6 3 (5.17%) pytest
6 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.17%) RESTful
6 3 (5.17%) SAML
7 2 (3.45%) CSS
7 2 (3.45%) CSS3
7 2 (3.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (22.41%) Product Ownership
2 9 (15.52%) Management Information System
3 6 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.17%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.45%) PMI
6 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Windows
1 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) Agile
2 16 (27.59%) Data Governance
3 14 (24.14%) Roadmaps
4 13 (22.41%) Data Modelling
4 13 (22.41%) Mentoring
5 12 (20.69%) Data Security
5 12 (20.69%) Migration
5 12 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (18.97%) Scrum
7 10 (17.24%) Architecture Roadmap
7 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 10 (17.24%) Data Engineering
7 10 (17.24%) Data Flow Diagram
7 10 (17.24%) Data Management
7 10 (17.24%) Data Migration
7 10 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (17.24%) Integration Patterns
7 10 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
7 10 (17.24%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (15.52%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) SQL
2 10 (17.24%) Apex Code
3 9 (15.52%) Java
3 9 (15.52%) Python
4 3 (5.17%) Scala
5 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.72%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (8.62%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.45%) CBAP
3 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.86%) Data Quality
2 14 (24.14%) GDPR
3 10 (17.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (8.62%) PCI DSS
5 3 (5.17%) HIPAA
5 3 (5.17%) PSD2
6 2 (3.45%) ISO 20022
6 2 (3.45%) ISO 8583
6 2 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) HDFS
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (5.17%) Oozie
1 3 (5.17%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.24%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.90%) Databricks
4 3 (5.17%) IBM
4 3 (5.17%) Informatica
4 3 (5.17%) Ping Identity
4 3 (5.17%) Talend
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) VMware
5 1 (1.72%) Workday